The 14th KIAS Workshop, jointly held with the 6th AEI Workshop

from Sunday, 27 September 2026 (18:00) to Saturday, 3 October 2026 (12:30)
KIAS

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 Sept 2026
29 Sept 2026
30 Sept 2026
1 Oct 2026
2 Oct 2026
3 Oct 2026
AM
08:30
Registration (until 09:20)
09:20
Greetings (until 09:30)
09:30
S1 - Jae Hyeok Chang (Seoul National University) (until 10:30)
09:30 Dark Matter During Phase Transitions - Peisi Huang  
10:00 The Sound of the QCD Phase Transition: Gravitational Waves from Newborn Neutron Stars - Jiheon Lee (KIAS)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
S2 -Prof. Jörn Andreas Kersten (until 12:00)
11:00 Is Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter crying for GeV Heavy Neutral Leptons? - Yannis Georis  
11:30 Strongly Coupled Sectors in Inflation - Dr Chen Yang  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
S5 - Peisi Huang (until 10:30)
09:30 A Natural Dark Matter–Dark Energy Interaction from Axion–Monopole Dynamics - Hengameh Bagherian (University of Chicago)  
10:00 Physics Informed Machine Learning: Dark Matter and Galactic Dynamics - Sung Hak Lim (IBS CTPU-PTC)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
S6 - Sung Hak Lim (IBS CTPU-PTC) (until 12:00)
11:00 "Effectively" Limiting Light Dark Matter with Loops - Melissa Diamond  
11:30 Cavendish Searches for Millicharged Particles - Zachary Bogorad (Fermilab)  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
S9 -Dr Taewook Youn (Harvard University) (until 10:30)
09:30 The theta angles of the Standard Model - Rodrigo Alonso De Pablo  
10:00 Solving the strong CP problem with massless grand-color quarks - Dr Ravneet Bedi (KAIST)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
S10 - Hualin Mei (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (CN)) (until 12:00)
11:00 LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Constraints on Cosmological Phase Transitions - Prof. Jörn Andreas Kersten  
11:30 Effects of Non-Instantaneous Thermalization on Gravitational Waves during Reheating - Tenta Tsuji (KEK Theory Center)  
11:45 High Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection with Superconducting Qubit - Heechan Yi (Yonsei University)  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
S11 - Jinn-Ouk Gong (until 10:30)
09:30 Quantum and Quantum-informed Machine Learning for Jet Physics at the LHC - Mr Aritra Bal (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
10:00 Dark Matter Inelastic Scattering with Nuclei - Oleg Titov (TDLI)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
S12 - Wenyuan Ai (until 12:00)
11:00 JUNO Recent Results - Iwan Morton-Blake (Tsung-Dao Lee Institute / Shanghai Jiao Tong University)  
11:30 Probe of Solar Neutrino Magnetic Moments through Spin–Flavor Precession: Resonance Structure and Antineutrino Appearance - Prof. Seodong Shin (Jeonbuk National University)  
08:30 --- Coffee ---
09:30
S15 - Eung Jin Chun (until 10:30)
09:30 Leptogenesis Determined By Low Energy Parameters - Xiao-Gang He  
10:00 Chart of dynamics in single-field inflation - Jinn-Ouk Gong  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
S16 - Seung J. Lee (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) (until 12:30)
11:00 Tensor-Network Simulations of Hamiltonian Lattice Gauge Theories: Truncation and Scattering - Peter Roland Majcen (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)  
11:30 Do Cosmic String Segments Emit Gravitational Waves? - Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU)  
12:00 Assessing the Naturalness of the Reheating Temperature Based on Leptogenesis - Shotaro Ieyasu  
12:15 False Learning in Sparse Parity: From Reversed Updates to Resonant Barriers - Sungjung Kim  
09:30 --- Discussion ---
PM
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
S3 - Rodrigo Alonso De Pablo (until 15:30)
14:00 Stochastic Tsunamis: Diffuse Scalar Background from Black Hole Formation - Dr ARTURO DE GIORGI  
14:30 Instanton processes at colliders - VALENTIN,V KHOZE  
15:00 How a gravitational wave background affects particle processes - Wenyuan Ai  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
S4 - VALENTIN,V KHOZE (until 17:30)
16:00 Revisiting wormhole-induced global symmetry breaking - Dr Kiyoharu Kawana (KIAS)  
16:30 Amnesia in the Axion Misalignment Landscape - Kierthika Chathirathas  
17:00 Revisiting Instanton Effects in the Broken Phase - Takafumi Aoki (ICRR, The University of Tokyo)  
17:15 Yukawa Unification in Renormalizable SU(5) GUT with Froggatt-Nielsen Mechanism - Ko Hirooka (ICRR, the University of Tokyo)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
S7 -Prof. Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI-SJTU) (until 15:30)
14:00 MeV-Scale Dark Matter Candidates in the Seesaw Scenario - Dr Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)  
14:30 The Majoron Cosmological Window - Daniel Naredo (KIT)  
15:00 Baryogenesis via the CKM Matrix with Minimal Flavor Violation - Kevin Langhoff  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
S8 -Dr Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU) (until 17:30)
16:00 Neutrino RG Running vs CP Phases in Oscillation Experiments - Prof. Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI-SJTU)  
16:30 Testing new — reasonable as well as crazy — forces with atoms, ions and astrophysics - Joerg Jaeckel (Institut fuer theoretische Physik, Heidelberg University)  
17:00 MeV Majoron Dark Matter from a Discrete Z_N Gauge Symmetry and Prospects for COSI - Subaru Fujisawa (Kavli IPMU)  
17:15 Global Structures in Spontaneously Broken Gauge Theories - Youngho Go (KAIST)  
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
S13 -Prof. Seodong Shin (Jeonbuk National University) (until 15:30)
14:00 Primordial Black Hole Formation and Reformation - Mr Philip Lu (KIAS)  
14:30 Quantum Clausius Relation in an Inflationary Universe - JungHwan Lee (Seoul National University)  
15:00 Particle transport in electroweak baryogenesis: from field theory to Boltzmann - Yushi Mura  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
S14 - Satoshi Shirai (Kavli IPMU) (until 17:30)
16:00 Enhancing the Charged Higgs Decay to Bottom and Charm Quarks - Alfredo Aranda  
16:30 Science with LLM -- Role of Small LLMs - Prof. Mihoko Nojiri (Theory Center, IPNS, KEK)  
17:00 Cosmic Strings in Multi-Step Symmetry Breaking - Yaxuan Wen  
17:15 Variable stars as a dark matter detector - Jaeyoung Park (Seoul National University)  
17:30 --- Banquet ---
12:30
Closing (until 12:40)