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)
Texas A&M University Mitchell Institute (Hawking Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
May 27, 2026
May 28, 2026
May 29, 2026
May 30, 2026
AM
8:50 AM Welcome - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)  
9:00 AM
Wednesday Morning -Dr Deepak Sathyan (until 10:40 AM)
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 (until 11:10 AM)
11:10 AM
Wednesday Morning - Shirley Li (UC Irvine) (until 12:50 PM)
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 - Dr Mudit Jain  
9:00 AM
Thursday Morning - Isabelle Goldstein (Texas A&M University) (until 10:40 AM)
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 (until 11:10 AM)
11:10 AM
Thursday Morning - Aparajitha Karthikeyan (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas A&M University) (until 12:50 PM)
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 - Dr 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)  
9:00 AM
Friday Morning - Andrew Long (Rice University) (until 10:40 AM)
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 (until 11:10 AM)
11:10 AM
Friday Morning - Jason Kumar (until 12:50 PM)
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 - Prof. 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)  
9:00 AM
Saturday Morning -Prof. Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin) (until 10:40 AM)
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 - Dr Juehang Qin  
10:40 AM
Coffee Break (until 11:10 AM)
11:10 AM
Saturday Morning - Peisi Huang (until 12:25 PM)
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  
PM
12:50 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
Wednesday Afternoon - Aashwin Basnet (Texas A & M University (US)) (until 4:10 PM)
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 (until 4:50 PM)
4:50 PM
Wednesday Afternoon - dorival Gonçalves (Oklahoma State University) (until 6:05 PM)
4:50 PM Electromagnetic Dirac Cogenesis - Dr Arnab Dasgupta (PITT-PACC)  
5:15 PM Reviving WIMP dark matter with temperature-dependent couplings - Dr Debasish Borah (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)  
5:40 PM Physics Reach and the Status of DUNE - Prof. Jae Yu (University of Texas at Arlington (US))  
6:30 PM
Wednesday Evening Reception (until 8:30 PM)
12:50 PM
Lunch (until 2:20 PM)
2:20 PM
Thursday Afternoon - Ian Lewis (The University of Kansas) (until 4:00 PM)
2:20 PM Exploring the Neutrino Sky With TAMBO - Prof. 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 (until 4:30 PM)
4:30 PM
Thursday Afternoon - Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University) (until 5:45 PM)
4:30 PM i-incidental N-naturalness - Brian Thomas Batell  
4:55 PM Fun with Gravitational Particle Production in Standard and Non-Standard Cosmologies - Prof. Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)  
5:20 PM Gravity’s Gift: Baryons from the Big Bang - Andrew Long (Rice University)  
6:00 PM
Excursion (until 11:00 PM)
12:50 PM
Lunch (until 2:30 PM)
2:30 PM
Friday Afternoon - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University) (until 4:10 PM)
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 (until 4:50 PM)
4:50 PM
Friday Afternoon - Nikita Blinov (York University) (until 6:05 PM)
4:50 PM General Chiral Couplings and the X17 - Dr 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 (until 8:00 PM) (Penrose Plaza)
12:25 PM Closing - Kevin Kelly (Texas A&M University)