Name: Dark Matter and Gamma-Ray Astronomy: An Intersection of Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Start: 2026-09-07T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-09-08T18:00:00+09:00
Location: Kavli IPMU

Dark Matter and Gamma-Ray Astronomy: An Intersection of Astrophysics and Particle Physics

from Monday, 7 September 2026 (09:00) to Tuesday, 8 September 2026 (18:00)

Monday, 7 September 2026

09:20 Opening
Opening
09:20 - 09:30
Room: Lecture Hall
09:30 Session 1
09:30 - 12:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:30 Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories for Dark Matter Astrophysics and Particle Physics - Kohei Hayashi

10:00 Probing Dark Matter via Indirect Detection with VERITAS - Donggeun Tak

10:45 Search for Line-Like Gamma-Ray Signals from Dark Matter in the Galactic Center with CTAO LST-1 - Shotaro Abe

11:15 TBD - Volodymyr Takhistov (Kavli IPMU)

11:45 Event Level Searches for New Physics with IACTs: Ultra short gamma-ray bursts - Matthew Lundy
12:00 Photo

12:00 - 12:05
Room: Lecture Hall
13:00 Session 2
13:00 - 14:45
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:00 Propagation of cosmic rays, including 511 keV science - Ellis Owen

13:30 TBD - Hiroki Yoneda (Kyoto University)

14:00 MeV Majoron Dark Matter from a Discrete Z_N Gauge Symmetry and Prospects for COSI - Subaru Fujisawa

14:15 Gamma-Ray Signatures of Thermal Misalignment Dark Matter - Hiroki Takahashi

14:30 Sommerfeld enhancement in an electroweakly interacting spin-1 dark matter model - Tomohiro Abe
14:45 Coffee
Coffee
14:45 - 15:00
Room: Lecture Hall

15:00 Session 3: ICRR seminar by Bing Liu (ICRR 6F large seminar room)
ICRR seminar by Bing Liu (ICRR 6F large seminar room)
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
09:15 Session 4
09:15 - 12:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

09:15 When Gravitational Waves Meet Radio Waves: A Multimessenger Hunt for Dark Matter - Enrico Schiappacasse

09:45 Searching for Dark Matter Portals at the LHC Intensity Frontier with FASER - Tomohiro Inada

10:15 Soft Collinear Effective Theory for heavy dark matter annihilation: spin-0, 1/2, and 1 - Motoko Fujiwara

11:00 MeV-scale Dark Matter Candidates in the Seesaw Scenarios - Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU)

11:30 Fermionic Dark Matter from Milky Way and Beyond - Aqsa Yasmin

11:45 Contribution of dark matter annihilation to the diffusive extragalactic gamma-ray background - Junling Chen
13:00 Session 5
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

13:00 Projected Sensitivity of COSI to MeV Gamma-Ray Signatures from Diverse Dark Matter Candidate - Yu Watanabe

13:30 Quantum sensing application on wave-like dark matter and high-frequency gravitational wave searches - Shion Chen

14:00 Enhanced Dark Matter Quantum Sensing via Geometric Phase - Xiaolin Ma

14:15 Listening to Inflationary Hidden-Photon Relics with Rydberg Atoms - Jie Sheng

14:30 Beyond the Minimal Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter - Koji Tsumura
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Lecture Hall
15:30 Session 6: APEC seminar
APEC seminar
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

15:30 Direct detection of dark Matter in the form of primordial black holes - Alexander Kusenko