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Closing In on Thermal Relics with Indirect, Direct, and Collider Searches for Dark Matter

from Monday, 20 July 2026 (09:00) to Wednesday, 22 July 2026 (19:00)
CERN (4/3-006)

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20 Jul 2026
21 Jul 2026
22 Jul 2026
AM
09:00
Plenary - Cari Cesarotti (until 10:30)
09:00 Opening - Cari Cesarotti  
09:30 Electroweak Dark Matter: Multiplets, Masses, and Searches - Dr Diego Redigolo (CERN-INFN Florence)  
10:00 Indirect Detection of Thermal Electroweak Dark Matter - Linda Xu (SLAC/Stanford)  
10:30
COFFEE (until 11:15) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
11:15
Plenary (until 12:15)
11:15 CTAO status - Masahiro Teshima (Max Planck Institute for Physics)  
11:45 Indirect WIMP detection: a multiwavelength perspective - Francesca Calore (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))  
09:00
Plenary (until 10:30)
09:00 Enhancing the sensitivity of future indirect dark matter searches: a path towards thermal relics - Daniel Kerszberg (LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3)  
09:30 The Search for Thermal Relic Dark Matter with VERITAS and Dark100 - Elisa Pueschel  
10:00 Probing WIMP Dark Matter in the Galactic Center with CTAO-North LST-1 and LSTs - Dr Shotaro Abe (ICRR, UTokyo)  
10:30
COFFEE (until 11:15) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
11:15
Plenary (until 12:15)
11:15 Rich Phenomenology from Composite WIMPs - Graham Douglas Kribs (University of Oregon (US))  
11:45 Detecting Higgsinos on Earth - Harikrishnan Ramani  
09:00
Plenary (until 10:00)
09:00 GAPS: A New Era of Cosmic Antinuclei Measurements - Kerstin Perez  
09:30 Searching for dark matter with LHAASO - Prof. Kenny Ng (Department of Physics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)  
10:00
COFFEE (until 10:30) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
10:30
Plenary (until 11:30)
10:30 Thermal relics and the Galactic Centre Excess: From the current status to the CTAO era - Christopher Eckner (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))  
11:00 Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) – A New Era in Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy and Indirect Dark Matter Searches - Ivana Batkovic (CTAO)  
11:30
Discussion (until 12:30)
PM
12:20
Lunch (until 13:50)
13:45
Flash Talks (until 15:15)
13:45 Flavour as a Guide to Thermal Dark Matter - Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basel)  
13:54 Semi-analytic Inference of Dwarf Galaxy Densities and Implications for Dark Matter Searches - Kailash Raman (University of California, Berkeley)  
14:03 Neutron stars can shine a light on elusive lepton-flavor-violating dark matter - Jaime Hoefken Zink  
14:12 Indirect Detection: Extending MeV Dark Matter Bounds With COSI - Ms Robin Anthony-Petersen (Space Sciences Laboratory,7GaussWay,University of California,Berkeley CA94720-7450, USA)  
14:21 Effective Field Theory Analyses of LZ Dark Matter Search Data - Prof. Sergey Burdin (University of Liverpool (GB))  
14:30 Set the Night on FIRE: Building an Empirical Local Dark Matter Velocity Distribution - Xiuyuan Zhang  
14:39 Electroweak corrections to the freeze-out of Minimal Dark Matter - Mateusz Duch (University of Pisa)  
14:48 TRIDENT's prospects for thermal relics - Dr Andrew Cheek (TDLI, SJTU)  
14:57 Lessons from Secluded Supersymmetric Dark WIMPs - Bibhushan Shakya  
15:06 Dark Secrets of Baryons: Illuminating Dark Matter-Baryon Interactions with JWST - Dr Ranjan Laha (Indian Institute of science (IN))  
15:15
Photo session (until 15:20)
15:20
COFFEE (until 16:00) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
16:00
Plenary (until 17:00)
16:00 Nonperturbative modifications of TeV WIMP annihilation - Martin Beneke (Technische Universitaet Muenchen (DE))  
16:30 Minimal Baryogenesis induced Asymmetric Dark Matter - Miguel Escudero Abenza (CERN)  
18:30
Welcome Drink (until 19:30)
12:15
Lunch (until 14:00)
14:00
Flash Talks (until 15:30)
14:00 Dark Particles and Bright Bursts: Future Stories from the Gamma-Ray Sky with GALAXIS - Orion Ning (University of California, Berkeley)  
14:09 Cosmic-Ray Signatures of Annihilating and Semi-Annihilating Dark Matter via One-Step Cascades - Tommaso Sassi (Università di Padova, INFN Padova)  
14:18 Theoretical Predictions for the Inner Dark Matter Distribution in the Milky Way Informed by Simulations - Abd El Aziz Hussein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
14:27 Linking Leptogenesis and Asymmetric Dark Matter - Henry McKenna (University of Liverpool)  
14:36 Results from the LZ Direct detection experiment - Knut Moraa  
14:45 Direct detection with archaeological Pb - Nahuel Ferreiro Iachellini (University of Milano-Bicocca)  
14:54 Recent Dark Matter Search Results from XENONnT - Shengchao Li (Westlake University)  
15:03 Dark Matter in Composite Higgs - Andrea Di Lecce  
15:12 Cornered But Alive: GeV-scale Thermal Dark Matter From Dark Photons - David Alonso-González (IFT (UAM-CSIC))  
15:21 The 20 GeV gamma-ray excess is not from dark matter - Joshua Foster (University of Wisconsin)  
15:30
COFFEE (until 16:15) (500/1-201 - Mezzanine)
16:15
Plenary (until 16:45)
16:15 Theory and Machine Learning for Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Lina Necib (MIT)  
16:45
Plenary (until 17:15)
16:45 WIMPs at (Future) Colliders - Roberto Franceschini (Rome 3 U.)  
17:15
Discussion (until 18:15)
19:30
Informal Dinner (until 20:30)
12:30
Closing Remarks (until 12:40)