PIKIMO 20

Saturday, 25 April 2026 - 03:00


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Apr 2026
AM
08:15 --- Breakfast ---
08:50
Welcome -Dr Itamar Allali (University of Notre Dame) (until 09:00)
09:00
Morning Contributed Talks -Dr Seth Koren (until 10:00)
09:00 Determination of the strong coupling constant from the new CTEQ-TEA global QCD analysis - Kirtimaan Ajaykant Mohan  
09:15 Higgs decays to four leptons to $\mathcal{O}(1/\Lambda^4)$ in SMEFT - Mario Flores-Hernández (University of Notre Dame)  
09:30 Constraining Exotic Baryon Decays Through Energy Loss Limits in Pulsar Binary Timing - Stanford Broadwater (University of Kentucky)  
09:45 Hunting for New Physics with Tau Decays - Sohini Pal (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA)  
10:00 --- Morning Coffee 1 ---
10:15
Keynote -Prof. Adam Martin (University of Notre Dame (US)) (until 11:00)
10:15 Geometry and Amplitudes in the SMEFT - Prof. Rachel Houtz (University of Florida)  
11:00 --- Morning Coffee 2 ---
11:30
Morning Contributed Talks -Dr Fengwei Yang (until 12:45)
11:30 Computing bubble wall velocity from entropy - Isaac Wang  
11:45 Constraining Dark First-Order Phase Transitions with CMB and Structure Formation Observations - Daven Wei Ren Ho  
12:00 Stochastic gravitational wave from cosmic string with non-standard cosmology - Taegyu Lee (Indiana University)  
12:15 Spectator Composes a Gravitational Canon - Yunjia Bao (University of Chicago)  
12:30 Dissipative inflation in the CMB - Santiago Agui Salcedo (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)  
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Keynote -Prof. Antonio Delgado (University of Notre Dame) (until 14:45)
14:00 AI-Driven Material Discovery for Next-Generation Directional Dark Matter Detectors - Prof. Carlos Blanco (Penn State)  
14:45 --- Afternoon Coffee 1 ---
15:00
Afternoon Contributed Talks - Daven Wei Ren Ho (until 16:15)
15:00 Reshaping the Neutrino Fog: Evaluating WIMP-Xenon Scattering via Exact Shell-Model Response Functions - Julian Rovner (University of Cincinnati)  
15:15 A UVLF-Based Reassessment of Sub-keV Warm Dark Matter - Nicolas Lam  
15:30 Singlet Doublet Model Outside of Chemical Equilibrium - Alexander Takla  
15:45 Searching for Ultralight Scalar Dark Matter with Clocks in Low Earth Orbit - Dawid Brzeminski  
16:00 New Searches for Dark Sectors via Deep Inelastic Scattering at the EIC - Justin Cammarota (University of Kentucky)  
16:15 --- Afternoon Coffee 2 ---
16:45
Afternoon Contributed Talks - Mario Flores-Hernandez (until 18:00)
16:45 Cosmological Aspects of Axion-Monopole Interactions - Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago)  
17:00 The W-Gluon Portal - Katherine Schwind (The Ohio State University)  
17:15 Mixed ’t Hooft anomalies in asymptotically and anomaly-free SU(N) chiral gauge theories for arbitrarily large N - Kort Beck (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)  
17:30 Hadronic Violation in 2HDM - Daniil Volkov