Name: Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2026
Start: 2026-05-27T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-05-30T22:40:00-05:00
Location: Texas A&M University Mitchell Institute

Mitchell Conference on Collider, Dark Matter, and Neutrino Physics 2026

from Wednesday, May 27, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, May 30, 2026 (10:40 PM)

Monday, May 25, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
8:50 AM Welcome - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)
Welcome
- Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
9:00 AM Wednesday Morning: Wednesday Morning 1
Wednesday Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutrino-Dark Matter Interactions: From EFT to UV Completions - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University)

9:25 AM Quantum Information Science and the S-matrix - Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)

9:50 AM Quantum Observables and Higher-Order effects in $h \to VV^*$ Decays - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)

10:15 AM Electromagnetic properties of neutrions: magnetic moments and neturino polarizibility - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)
10:40 AM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
11:10 AM Wednesday Morning: Wednesday Morning 2
Wednesday Morning 2
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

11:10 AM Quantum uncertainty and the expansion of the universe - Savvas Koushiappas

11:35 AM Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter from Accretion During Early Matter Domination - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)

12:00 PM Neutrino BSM: The good, the bad, and the unlikely - Ian Shoemaker (Virginia Tech)

12:25 PM The String Axiverse Under Pressure: Calabi-Yau Geometry Meets Experimental Data - Mudit Jain
12:50 PM Lunch

12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
2:30 PM Wednesday Afternoon: Wednesday Afternoon 1
Wednesday Afternoon 1
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

2:30 PM Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)

2:55 PM Searching for axinos and displaced vertices with the ATLAS detector - Benjamin John Rosser (University of Chicago (US))

3:20 PM Di-Higgs searches at the LHC - Rachel Jordan Hyneman (University of Arizona (US))

3:45 PM Expanding Discovery Potential through Novel Trigger Strategies at the Energy Frontier - Kiley Elizabeth Kennedy (Princeton University (US))
4:10 PM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
4:50 PM Wednesday Afternoon: Wednesday Afternoon 2
Wednesday Afternoon 2
4:50 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

4:50 PM Electromagnetic Dirac Cogenesis - Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC)

5:15 PM Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings - Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

5:40 PM Physics Reach and the Status of DUNE - Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))
6:30 PM Wednesday Evening Reception: Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Thursday, May 28, 2026
9:00 AM Thursday Morning: Thursday Morning 1
Thursday Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM A likelihood analysis for gamma-ray background models - Jason Kumar

9:25 AM The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurements - Sukanya Chakrabarti

9:50 AM Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way with Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)

10:15 AM The Large Magellanic Cloud and dark matter direct detection across mass scales - Nassim Bozorgnia
10:40 AM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
11:10 AM Thursday Morning: Thursday Morning 2
Thursday Morning 2
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

11:10 AM The Dark Side of the Muon - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon (US))

11:35 AM Neutrino Physics at a Muon Collider - Zahra Khajeh Tabrizi

12:00 PM Neutrinos in Muon Collisions - Innes Bigaran (Fermilab and Northwestern University)

12:25 PM New interpretations of the cosmological preference for a negative neutrino mass - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
12:50 PM Lunch: Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:20 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
2:20 PM Thursday Afternoon: Thursday Afternoon 1
Thursday Afternoon 1
2:20 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

2:20 PM Exploring the Neutrino Sky With TAMBO - Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)

2:45 PM Leveraging EFTs to look for new physics in the electroweak sector at the LHC - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US))

3:10 PM Bump hunting with Energy Correlators - Lorenzo Ricci

3:35 PM Shedding light on dark matter with mono-Higgs signature - Shivani Lomte (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))
4:00 PM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
4:30 PM Thursday Afternoon: Thursday Afternoon 2
Thursday Afternoon 2
4:30 PM - 5:45 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM i-incidental N-naturalness - Brian Thomas Batell

4:55 PM Fun with Gravitational Particle Production in Standard and Non-Standard Cosmologies - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

5:20 PM Gravity’s Gift: Baryons from the Big Bang - Andrew Long (Rice University)
6:00 PM Excursion: Excursion
Excursion
6:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Friday, May 29, 2026
9:00 AM Friday Morning: Friday Morning 1
Friday Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Fractionally Charged Particles at the Energy Frontier - Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)

9:25 AM Millicharged Particle Searches at the LHC with the MilliQan Experiment - Dariush Garvin Imani (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))

9:50 AM Data-Driven Predictions for Dark Sector Particle Production - Nikita Blinov (York University)

10:15 AM Jeff Dror Talk
10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
11:10 AM Friday Morning: Friday Morning 2
Friday Morning 2
11:10 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

11:10 AM Improved supernova bounds on CP-even scalars from production and decay - Gustavo Marques-Tavares (University of Utah)

11:35 AM Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

12:00 PM Neutron Star Eclipses as Axion Laboratories - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))

12:25 PM Discovering Isolated Neutron Stars with the Vera Rubin Observatory - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)
12:50 PM Lunch: Lunch
Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
2:30 PM Friday Afternoon: Friday Afternoon 1
Friday Afternoon 1
2:30 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

2:30 PM The future of lepton flavor - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University (US))

2:55 PM Antineutrino Signals of Ultralight Vector Dark Matter - Asher Berlin (Fermilab)

3:20 PM Open system approach to neutrinos propagating in an ultralight scalar background - Gustavo Alves

3:45 PM Signatures of not-so-cold dark matter - Adrienne Erickcek
4:10 PM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:10 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
4:50 PM Friday Afternoon: Friday Afternoon 2
Friday Afternoon 2
4:50 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

4:50 PM General Chiral Couplings and the X17 - Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)

5:15 PM Composite Ultralight Scalars, Fifth Forces, and Atomic Clocks - Zackaria Chacko (University of Maryland, College Park)

5:40 PM Novel Signals from a Couple of Portals - Can Kilic
6:30 PM Conference Dinner: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Penrose Plaza
Saturday, May 30, 2026
9:00 AM Saturday Morning: Saturday Morning 1
Saturday Morning 1
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM Signatures of Composite Quarks and Leptons - Benoit Assi (Fermilab)

9:25 AM Machine Learning Does It and Does It Better: Unearthing Primordial Dark-Matter Velocities from the Matter Power Spectrum - Brooks Thomas

9:50 AM Dark Matter During First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang

10:15 AM Searching for Ultraheavy Dark Matter with Magnetically Levitated Sensors - Juehang Qin
10:40 AM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
11:10 AM Saturday Morning: Saturday Morning 2
Saturday Morning 2
11:10 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium
Contributions

11:10 AM Light KK Gravitons from Extended Warped Extra Dimensions at DUNE - Ankur Verma (University of South Dakota)

11:35 AM Atmospheric CP Violation Probes - Stephan Meighen-Berger (University of Iowa)

12:00 PM Kaon Factories and Vectors Coupled to Non-conserved Currents - Adrian Thompson
12:25 PM Closing - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)
Closing
- Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)
12:25 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Hawking Auditorium