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, September 7, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Tuesday, September 8, 2026 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 7, 2026

9:20 AM Opening
Opening
9:20 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: Lecture Hall
9:30 AM Session 1
9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

9:30 AM Dwarf Galaxies as Laboratories for Dark Matter Astrophysics and Particle Physics - Kohei Hayashi

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

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

11:15 AM Extreme Astrophysical Laboratories for New Physics: From Black Holes to Quantum Sensors - Volodymyr Takhistov (Kavli IPMU)

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

12:00 PM - 12:05 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
1:00 PM Session 2
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:00 PM Propagation of cosmic rays, including 511 keV science - Ellis Owen

1:30 PM Galactic center 511 keV emission with current and future observations - Hiroki Yoneda (Kyoto University)

2:00 PM MeV Majoron Dark Matter from a Discrete Z_N Gauge Symmetry and Prospects for COSI - Subaru Fujisawa

2:15 PM Gamma-Ray Signatures of Thermal Misalignment Dark Matter - Hiroki Takahashi

2:30 PM Sommerfeld enhancement in an electroweakly interacting spin-1 dark matter model - Tomohiro Abe
2:45 PM Coffee
Coffee
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall

3:00 PM Session 3: ICRR seminar by Bing Liu (ICRR 6F large seminar room)
ICRR seminar by Bing Liu (ICRR 6F large seminar room)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
9:15 AM Session 4
9:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

9:15 AM When Gravitational Waves Meet Radio Waves: A Multimessenger Hunt for Dark Matter - Enrico Schiappacasse

9:45 AM Searching for Dark Matter Portals at the LHC Intensity Frontier with FASER - Tomohiro Inada

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

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

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

11:45 AM Contribution of dark matter annihilation to the diffusive extragalactic gamma-ray background - Junling Chen
1:00 PM Session 5
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

1:00 PM Projected Sensitivity of COSI to MeV Gamma-Ray Signatures from Diverse Dark Matter Candidate - Yu Watanabe

1:30 PM Quantum sensing application on wave-like dark matter and high-frequency gravitational wave searches - Shion Chen

2:00 PM Enhanced Dark Matter Quantum Sensing via Geometric Phase - Xiaolin Ma

2:15 PM Listening to Inflationary Hidden-Photon Relics with Rydberg Atoms - Jie Sheng

2:30 PM Beyond the Minimal Pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone Dark Matter - Koji Tsumura
3:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
3:30 PM Session 6: APEC seminar
APEC seminar
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Lecture Hall
Contributions

3:30 PM Direct detection of dark Matter in the form of primordial black holes - Alexander Kusenko