PIKIMO 20

Session

Keynote

25 Apr 2026, 10:15

Conveners

Keynote

• Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame (US))

Keynote

• Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame)

21. Geometry and Amplitudes in the SMEFT

Prof. Rachel Houtz (University of Florida)

25/04/2026, 10:15

Effective field theories contain redundancies associated with field redefinitions, which can make even simple calculations unnecessarily complicated. A useful way to organize these redundancies is to view them geometrically, treating field redefinitions as coordinate transformations. In this talk, I will describe how this perspective can be used in practice, focusing on a shortcut to...

22. AI-Driven Material Discovery for Next-Generation Directional Dark Matter Detectors

Prof. Carlos Blanco (Penn State)

25/04/2026, 14:00

The systematic discovery of optimal sub-GeV dark matter targets, such as anisotropic molecular crystals and nanomaterials, is bottlenecked by the computational cost of evaluating complex many-body scattering form factors. In this talk, I will present a novel machine learning framework designed to overcome this barrier by high-throughput screening through the vastness of material space. I will...