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

from Wednesday, 27 May 2026 (08:00) to Saturday, 30 May 2026 (22:40)
Texas A&M University Mitchell Institute (Hawking Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
27 May 2026
28 May 2026
29 May 2026
30 May 2026
AM
08:50 Welcome - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)  
09:00
Wednesday Morning -Dr Deepak Sathyan (until 10:40)
09:00 Neutrino-Dark Matter Interactions: From EFT to UV Completions - Ks Babu (Oklahoma State University)  
09:25 Quantum Information Science and the S-matrix - Kuver Sinha (University of Oklahoma)  
09:50 Quantum Observables and Higher-Order effects in $h \to VV^*$ Decays - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University)  
10:15 Electromagnetic properties of neutrions: magnetic moments and neturino polarizibility - Anil Thapa (Colorado State University)  
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10)
11:10
Wednesday Morning - Shirley Li (UC Irvine) (until 12:50)
11:10 Quantum uncertainty and the expansion of the universe - Savvas Koushiappas  
11:35 Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter from Accretion During Early Matter Domination - Rouzbeh Allahverdi (University of New Mexico)  
12:00 Neutrino BSM: The good, the bad, and the unlikely - Ian Shoemaker (Virginia Tech)  
12:25 The String Axiverse Under Pressure: Calabi-Yau Geometry Meets Experimental Data - Dr Mudit Jain  
09:00
Thursday Morning - Isabelle Goldstein (Texas A&M University) (until 10:40)
09:00 A likelihood analysis for gamma-ray background models - Jason Kumar  
09:25 The Precision Frontier of Dark Matter Constraints from Direct Acceleration Measurements - Sukanya Chakrabarti  
09:50 Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way with Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)  
10:15 The Large Magellanic Cloud and dark matter direct detection across mass scales - Nassim Bozorgnia  
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10)
11:10
Thursday Morning - Aparajitha Karthikeyan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University) (until 12:50)
11:10 The Dark Side of the Muon - Tien-Tien Yu (University of Oregon (US))  
11:35 Neutrino Physics at a Muon Collider - Zahra Khajeh Tabrizi  
12:00 Neutrinos in Muon Collisions - Dr Innes Bigaran (Fermilab and Northwestern University)  
12:25 New interpretations of the cosmological preference for a negative neutrino mass - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)  
09:00
Friday Morning - Andrew Long (Rice University) (until 10:40)
09:00 Fractionally Charged Particles at the Energy Frontier - Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame)  
09:25 Millicharged Particle Searches at the LHC with the MilliQan Experiment - Dariush Garvin Imani (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))  
09:50 Data-Driven Predictions for Dark Sector Particle Production - Nikita Blinov (York University)  
10:15 Jeff Dror Talk  
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10)
11:10
Friday Morning - Jason Kumar (until 12:50)
11:10 Improved supernova bounds on CP-even scalars from production and decay - Gustavo Marques-Tavares (University of Utah)  
11:35 Searching for Ultralight Dark Matter with Pulsar Timing - Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)  
12:00 Neutron Star Eclipses as Axion Laboratories - Vedran Brdar (Oklahoma State University (US))  
12:25 Discovering Isolated Neutron Stars with the Vera Rubin Observatory - Shirley Li (UC Irvine)  
09:00
Saturday Morning -Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin) (until 10:40)
09:00 Signatures of Composite Quarks and Leptons - Benoit Assi (Fermilab)  
09:25 Machine Learning Does It and Does It Better: Unearthing Primordial Dark-Matter Velocities from the Matter Power Spectrum - Brooks Thomas  
09:50 Dark Matter During First-Order Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang  
10:15 Searching for Ultraheavy Dark Matter with Magnetically Levitated Sensors - Dr Juehang Qin  
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10)
11:10
Saturday Morning - Peisi Huang (until 12:25)
11:10 Light KK Gravitons from Extended Warped Extra Dimensions at DUNE - Ankur Verma (University of South Dakota)  
11:35 Atmospheric CP Violation Probes - Stephan Meighen-Berger (University of Iowa)  
12:00 Kaon Factories and Vectors Coupled to Non-conserved Currents - Adrian Thompson  
PM
12:50
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
Wednesday Afternoon - Aashwin Basnet (Texas A & M University (US)) (until 16:10)
14:30 Electroweak Restoration: SMEFT and HEFT - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas)  
14:55 Searching for axinos and displaced vertices with the ATLAS detector - Benjamin John Rosser (University of Chicago (US))  
15:20 Di-Higgs searches at the LHC - Rachel Jordan Hyneman (University of Arizona (US))  
15:45 Expanding Discovery Potential through Novel Trigger Strategies at the Energy Frontier - Kiley Elizabeth Kennedy (Princeton University (US))  
16:10
Coffee Break (until 16:50)
16:50
Wednesday Afternoon - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University) (until 18:05)
16:50 Electromagnetic Dirac Cogenesis - Dr Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC)  
17:15 Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings - Dr Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)  
17:40 Physics Reach and the Status of DUNE - Prof. Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
18:30
Wednesday Evening Reception (until 20:30)
12:50
Lunch (until 14:20)
14:20
Thursday Afternoon - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas) (until 16:00)
14:20 Exploring the Neutrino Sky With TAMBO - Prof. Carlos Arguelles Delgado (Harvard University)  
14:45 Leveraging EFTs to look for new physics in the electroweak sector at the LHC - Saptaparna Bhattacharya (Southern Methodist University (US))  
15:10 Bump hunting with Energy Correlators - Lorenzo Ricci  
15:35 Shedding light on dark matter with mono-Higgs signature - Shivani Lomte (University of Wisconsin Madison (US))  
16:00
Coffee Break (until 16:30)
16:30
Thursday Afternoon - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University) (until 17:45)
16:30 i-incidental N-naturalness - Brian Thomas Batell  
16:55 Fun with Gravitational Particle Production in Standard and Non-Standard Cosmologies - Prof. Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)  
17:20 Gravity’s Gift: Baryons from the Big Bang - Andrew Long (Rice University)  
18:00
Excursion (until 23:00)
12:50
Lunch (until 14:30)
14:30
Friday Afternoon - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 16:10)
14:30 The future of lepton flavor - Julia Gehrlein (Colorado State University (US))  
14:55 Antineutrino Signals of Ultralight Vector Dark Matter - Asher Berlin (Fermilab)  
15:20 Open system approach to neutrinos propagating in an ultralight scalar background - Gustavo Alves  
15:45 Signatures of not-so-cold dark matter - Adrienne Erickcek  
16:10
Coffee Break (until 16:50)
16:50
Friday Afternoon - Nikita Blinov (York University) (until 18:05)
16:50 General Chiral Couplings and the X17 - Dr Toni Makela (University of California, Irvine)  
17:15 Composite Ultralight Scalars, Fifth Forces, and Atomic Clocks - Zackaria Chacko (University of Maryland, College Park)  
17:40 Novel Signals from a Couple of Portals - Can Kilic  
18:30
Conference Dinner (until 20:00) (Penrose Plaza)
12:25 Closing - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)