Astrophysical probes of dark sectors using gamma-ray observations

from Monday, 28 September 2026 (09:15) to Friday, 2 October 2026 (19:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 Sept 2026
29 Sept 2026
30 Sept 2026
1 Oct 2026
2 Oct 2026
AM
09:15
Gammas (until 10:45)
09:15 Welcome - Jorge Martin Camalich (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)  
09:30 Introduction to Cherenkov telescopes at the Canary Islands Observatories - Alicia Lopez-Oramas  
10:00 Observational review of the TeV domain - Dr Daniela Hadasch (ICE-CSIC)  
10:30 High-energy signatures of superradiance in Sgr A* - Ms Cristina Fernández-Suárez (UAM-IFT)  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Gammas (until 12:45)
11:30 EW multiplets and WIMP model building - Dr Paolo Panci (Universita & INFN Pisa (IT))  
12:00 Dark matter model building in the CTAO era - Farinaldo Queiroz  
12:30 Is the spherical profile enough for gamma-ray dark matter indirect searches? - Mrs Margherita Scuderi (LPTHE-CNRS)  
09:15
Multimessenger (until 10:45)
09:15 Indirect Dark Matter Searches with Space-Based Cosmic-Ray Experiments - Miguel Angel Velasco Frutos (CIEMAT - Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas Medioambientales y Tec. (ES))  
09:45 Cosmic-Ray transport at the crossroads of multi-messenger astronomy and Dark Matter searches - Daniele Gaggero (Pisa University)  
10:15 Detection of cosmic-ray up-scattered dark matter - Filippo Sala  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Multimessenger (until 12:45)
11:30 Antimatter in Cosmic Rays and connection with the dark Universe - Prof. Fiorenza Donato (Torino University)  
12:00 Status of antinuclei CRs - Philip Von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii at Manoa)  
12:30 Efficient PINN Models of Cosmic Rays - Eric Putney  
09:15
Gammas (until 10:45)
09:15 Observational review of the GeV domain - Deirdre HORAN  
09:45 Status of the Galactic center excess - Tracy Slatyer  
10:15 Gamma-ray source count distribution as a probe of the Galactic Center Excess - Sri Sankari Alias Sowmiya Balan  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Gammas (until 12:30)
11:30 Consistency of the Galactic Center Excess with cosmological and laboratory observations via leptophilic dark matter in U(1)Li−Lj models - Jordan Koechler (INFN Turin)  
12:00 Joint Spatial–Spectral Gaussian Process Modeling of the Galactic Center Excess - Mr Sam Cheng-Tse Huang (Rutgers University)  
12:15 Dark matter constraints from Fermi-LAT unidentified sources - Fernando Valenciano  
09:15
Multimessenger (until 10:45)
09:15 Multi-wavelength probes of the Fermi GeV - Francesca Calore (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))  
09:45 The MeV Diffuse Gamma-Ray Sky: Challenges and Open Questions - Pedro De la Torre Luque (Institute of theoretical physics (IFT-UAM))  
10:15 Opening the MeV Window - Milena Crnogorcevic Milena Crnogorcevic  
10:45 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Multimessenger (until 12:45)
11:30 New ideas in the probe of sub-GeV dark matter - Josef Pradler (University of Vienna & Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
12:00 Extragalactic Synchrotron Emission from Astrophysical Sources and Dark Matter Annihilation/Decay - Javier Reynoso (University of Turin)  
12:30 Search for axion-induced x-ray emission from the nuclear star cluster - Ruben Zatini (IAC -Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)  
08:30 --- Optional Excursion La Palma ---
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Gammas (until 16:50)
14:30 Observational review of the multi-TeV to PeV domain - Sergio Hernández Cadena (Tsung Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)  
15:00 Axion-photon conversion tested by broadband gamma-ray observations spanning from MeV to PeV emitted by the Crab Nebula and distant blazars - Kazunori Kohri  
15:30 Multimessenger signatures from high-energy electromagnetic cascades - Arman Esmaili (PUC-Rio)  
16:00 In-situ axion-conversion of a gamma-ray burst - Theo Abounnasr--Martins  
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Gammas (until 16:15)
14:30 Gamma-ray analyses with implicit-likelihood methods - Christopher Eckner (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))  
15:00 Machine learning for detection of extended Galactic and extragalactic sources on the gamma-ray domain - Judit Pérez-Romero (Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology / University of Nova Gorica)  
15:30 Revising Indirect Dark Matter Constraints with Updated Astrophysical J-Factor Priors - Giacomo D'Amico (Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE))  
16:00 Multi-Tracer Cross-Correlations of the Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky Using Gravitational Tracers of Large-Scale Structure - Mr Bhashin Thakore (University of Turin / University of Amsterdam)  
12:45 --- Excursion to Teide Observatory ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Multimessenger (until 15:30)
14:30 Neutrino astronomy in the multi-messenger era and its prospect for the search for dark sector physics - Dr SERGIO PALOMARES-RUIZ (IFIC (CSIC - UV))  
15:00 Constrains to sub-GeV dark matter interactions with galactic neutrino observations - Jorge Terol Calvo (Inst. Astrophys. of Canary Islands (ES))  
15:30
Round-table dicsussion (until 16:30)
15:30 Round-table discussion - Dr Gabrijela Zaharijas (University of Nova Gorica) Dr Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde (IFT UAM/CSIC)