2026 CAU-IBS Beyond the Standard Model Workshop

from Sunday, June 7, 2026 (12:00 PM) to Thursday, June 11, 2026 (6:00 PM)
Chung-Ang University

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 7, 2026
Jun 8, 2026
Jun 9, 2026
Jun 10, 2026
Jun 11, 2026
AM
9:30 AM
Cosmo (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Predicting the dark matter - baryon abundance ratio - Anson Hook (University of Maryland)  
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Cosmo (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Cepheid as a dark matter detector - Prof. Hyung Do Kim (Seoul National University)  
11:30 AM Can pre-inflationary axions form miniclusters? - Heejoo Kim (KIAS)  
9:30 AM
Flavor / Dark matter (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Searching for new physics using rare lepton transitions - Jure Zupan (University of Cincinnati)  
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Flavor / Dark matter (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM New Physics Searches at BESIII - Dr Liang Sun (Wuhan University (CN))  
11:30 AM Search for dark sector particles and other highlights from Belle II - Prof. Youngjoon Kwon (Yonsei University)  
9:30 AM
Axion / dark matter / GW (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Axiogenesis and Kinetic Misalignment with Dissipation from Dark Magnetic Monopoles - Raymond Co (Indiana University)  
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Cosmo (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Shock Waves from Single-Field Low-Scale Inflation - WEN YIN  
11:30 AM de Sitter information paradox: Random state models and CMB probes - Sung Hoon Jung (Seoul National University)  
9:30 AM
Dark matter (until 10:30 AM)
9:30 AM Revisiting Minimal Dark Matter Models - Koichi Hamaguchi (University of Tokyo)  
10:30 AM
Coffee break (until 11:00 AM)
11:00 AM
Dark matter (until 12:00 PM)
11:00 AM Direct detection of sub-eV dark matter with torsion balance experiments - Dr Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)  
11:30 AM Invisible Higgs interaction at the muon collider - Dr Kyu Jung Bae (Institute for Basic Science)  
PM
1:30 PM
Registration (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Dark matter (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM Probing low reheating temperature with dark age 21cm signal - Ki-Young Choi (Sungkyunkwan University (KR))  
2:30 PM Scalar portal verifiable light dark matter and correlated gravitational wave signatures - Erdenebulgan Lkhagvadorj (Sungkyunkwan University (KR))  
2:45 PM Primordial Black Hole Hotspots Beyond Flat Spacetime - Jong-Hyun Yoon (Chungnam National University)  
3:00 PM B-Modes Beyond Inflation: Causal Tensor Sources in the Early Universe - Kylar Greene (University of New Mexico)  
3:15 PM
Coffee break (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM
Dark matter (until 5:15 PM)
3:45 PM Circumstellar Medium of Supernovae as New Probes for Feebly-Interacting Particles - Seokhoon Yun (Kyungpook National University)  
4:15 PM Neutron Portal and Dark Matter-Baryon Coincidence: from UV Completion to Phenomenology - Sudhakantha Girmohanta  
4:30 PM On the Low-Energy Behavior of Dynamical Gauge Couplings - Michael Shamma (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
4:45 PM Peccei Quinn genesis - Jun-Ho Song (Chung-Ang University)  
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Cosmo (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM Micro Black Holes may be Dark Matter of the Universe - Misao Sasaki  
2:30 PM TBA - Jinn-Ouk Gong  
3:00 PM Kinetic Isocurvature Perturbation - Chang Sub SHIN (Chungnam National University)  
3:30 PM
Coffee break (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
Neutrino / Dark matter (until 5:30 PM)
4:00 PM Overview of matter creation double beta decay experiments - Prof. Yeongduk Kim (Institute for Basic Science (IBS), South Korea)  
4:30 PM Semi-visible Jets as a Hidden-Sector Signature at the LHC - Chang-Seong Moon (Kyungpook National University (KR))  
5:00 PM Long-Lived Heavy Neutrinos from Neutrinophilic Charged Higgs at the HL-LHC - Prasenjit Sanyal (Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics)  
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Axion / dark matter / GW (until 3:15 PM)
2:00 PM Global Structure, Non-Invertible PQ Symmetry, and the DFSZ Domain Wall Problem - Sungwoo Hong  
2:30 PM A particle on a ring or: how I learned to stop worrying and love theta-vacua - Ryosuke Sato  
3:00 PM Holographic Origins of the QCD Vacuum Angle and Axion - Dr Taewook Youn (Cornell University)  
3:15 PM
Coffee break (until 3:45 PM)
3:45 PM
Axion / dark matter / GW (until 5:30 PM)
3:45 PM Probing the QCD Axion: Current Limits and Future Directions - Dr SungWoo Youn (Institute for Basic Science)  
4:15 PM New Physics at the Pulsar Timing Array Frontier - Kai Schmitz  
4:45 PM Status of GLIMPSE and Dark-Matter Mass from Angular Scanning - Prof. Jong-Chul Park (Chungnam National University (KR))  
5:15 PM Self-Resonant Dark Matter and its Z4 realization - Seong-Sik Kim (Chungnam National University)  
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
GW / Dark energy / PBH (until 3:30 PM)
2:00 PM What have we learned from 10 years of GW observations? - Hyung Mok Lee (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)  
2:30 PM PowerFull: fully relativistic full-shape galaxy two-point statistics for primordial non-Gaussianity and dark energy - Dr Donghui Jeong (The Pennsylvania State University)  
3:00 PM PBH DM and signals - Prof. Seong Chan Park (Yonsei University)  
3:30 PM
Coffee break (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM
GW / Dark energy / PBH (until 5:15 PM)
4:00 PM Quantum Gravity from Weyl conformal geometry - Dumitru Ghilencea (Horia Hulubei National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (RO))  
4:30 PM Weyl gauge symmetry at LIGO - Vlad-Mihai Mandric (IFIN-HH)  
4:45 PM Relativistic-like behavior of ALPs with non-relativistic momenta - Yuma Narita (Tohoku Univ.)  
5:00 PM Electromagnetic Signatures of Dark Matter in the Terrestrial Environment - Atsushi Taruya (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics / Korea Institute for Advanced Study)  
6:30 PM
Banquet - Hwangtojeong (until 8:30 PM)
12:00 PM
Lunch (until 2:00 PM)
2:00 PM
Dark matter / neutrino / collider (until 3:00 PM)
2:00 PM Quantum Sensing Radiative Decays of Neutrinos and Dark Matter Particles - Prof. Myeonghun Park (Seoultech)  
2:30 PM Infrared Freeze-In of Magnetic Dipole Dark Matter - Jae Hyeok Chang (Seoul National University)  
3:00 PM
Coffee break (until 3:30 PM)
3:30 PM
Neutrino / Dark matter (until 4:30 PM)
3:30 PM Search for Beyond Standard Model Physics with Reactor-Based CEvNS Search in NEON experiment - Gyunho Yu (Institute for Basic Science)  
4:00 PM Charged lepton flavor violation with light dark matter and muonium invisible decay - Mr Sahabub Jahedi (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati)  
4:15 PM $A_4$ symmetry combined with a type-II seesaw mechanism for neutrino mass generation - Ranjeet Kumar (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)