Name: 1st General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)
Start: 2023-09-05T08:15:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-08T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Centro Polifunzionale Studenti (ex Palazzo delle Poste e Telegrafi), Bari (Italy).

1st General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

from Tuesday, 5 September 2023 (08:15) to Friday, 8 September 2023 (19:00)

Monday, 4 September 2023
Tuesday, 5 September 2023

08:15

08:15 - 09:00
Room: Aula Leogrande

09:00

09:00 - 09:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

09:30 Stellar Probes of Feebly Interacting Particles, Circa 2023 - Edoardo Vitagliano

10:10 Axion Star Explosions and the Reionization History of the Universe - Miguel Escudero (CERN)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

11:20 Axion Clouds around Pulsars - Samuel Witte (University of Barcelona)

12:00 Dark Matter in the Milky Way: shortcoming & dynamical tests - María Benito Castano (Tartu Observatory)
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

14:30 Report on WG3 Activities - Andrea Caputo (CERN)

15:00 Discussion
15:30
15:30 - 16:50
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

15:30 String theory realisations of early dark energy - Ratul Mahanta (Bologna University)

15:50 Axionic Festina Lente - Gerben Venken (Heidelberg ITP)

16:10 Testing BSM Physics with Gravitational Waves - Gonzalo Villa (DAMTP - University of Cambridge)

16:30 Low-scale leptogenesis with low-energy leptonic CP-violation - Alessandro Granelli (Bologna University)
WG2+WG3
WG2+WG3
15:30 - 16:50
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

15:30 QCD axion and density effects in stars - Stefan Stelzl (EPFL( Lausanne))

15:50 Radio Signatures of axion-like particles - Guenter Sigl (Universität Hamburg)

16:10 Primordial Black Holes and micro-lensing - Mimoza Hafizi (Tirana University)

16:30 Large scale structure data and DM fifth force - Salvatore Bottaro (Tel Aviv University)
16:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:50 - 17:20

17:20

17:20 - 18:20
Room: Aula De Trizio
WG2+WG3
WG2+WG3
17:20 - 18:20
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

17:20 Light bosons, superradiance and associated observables - Caner Unal (Ben-Gurion)

17:40 Birefringence in CMB anisotropies due to cosmological pseudoscalar fields - Matteo Galaverni (Vatican Observatory & INAF/OAS Bologna)

18:00 Photon to axion conversion during Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Manuel Masip (University of Granada)
Wednesday, 6 September 2023
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

09:30 Axion minivoids - Ciaran O'Hare (University of Sydney)

10:10 High-energy photons, magnetic fields and WISP searches - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

11:20 Formation of ultralight dark matter solar halos - Marco Gorghetto (Weizmann Institute)

12:00 Probing ultralight and degenerate dark matter with galactic dynamics - Diego Blas (Barcelona, Autonoma Univ.)
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

14:30 Report on WG2 Activities - Edoardo Vitagliano

15:00 Discussion
15:30 WG2+WG3
WG2+WG3
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

15:30 Cosmological defects - Simone Blasi (Vrije University)

15:50 Cosmic strings - Amelia Drew (Cambridge University)

16:10 Lattice simulations and axion properties: news from TWEXT - Maria Paola Lombardo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

15:30 Observation of anomalies supporting the existence of the new particle X17 - Attila Krasznahorkay (CERN)

15:50 Search for ALPS at LHC - Michele Gallinaro

16:10 Search for topological defect dark matter with a global network of optical magnetometers (GNOME) - Daniel Gavilán Martín (JJohannes Gutenberg-University Mainz)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
Thursday, 7 September 2023
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

09:30 Out of the dark: WISPs in String Theory and the Early Universe - Joe Conlon (Oxford University)

10:10 Uncovering axion and BSM CP violations with EDMs - Kiwoon Choi (IBS)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

11:20 Prospects to scrutinise or smash SM*A*S*H - Andreas Ringwald (DESY)

12:00 Flavour in ALP effective field theories - Sophie Renner (University of Glasgow)
14:30
14:30 - 15:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

14:30 Report on WG1 Activities - Michele Cicoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:00 Discussion
15:30
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

15:30 Natural coordinates and consistency conditions for two-field models of inflation in fundamental theories of gravity and matter - Clain Lazaroiu (UNED-Madrid and IFIN-HH Bucharest)

15:50 Dark photon dark matter from inflation - Lorenzo Ubaldi

16:10 Inflationary Schwinger dark matter production - Mar Bastero-Gil (Granada Univ.)
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

15:30 Probing the Dark Sector with NA64 and POKER at CERN SPS - Luca Marsicano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:50 Search for WISPs with gravitational-wave detectors - Lorenzo Pierini (INFN Roma)

16:10 High energy resolution x-ray detectors for IAXO: advantages in pre- and post-discovery phases - Loredana gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00
17:00 Discussion on Dissemination and Outreach
Discussion on Dissemination and Outreach
17:00 - 17:45
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

17:00 Report on WG5 activities and discussion - Loredana Gastaldo
18:00 Public talk
Public talk
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

18:00 Alla scoperta dell'universo invisibile: materia oscura, onde gravitazionali e buchi neri - Andrea Caputo
Friday, 8 September 2023
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

09:00 Axion searches at DESY - Todd Kozlowski (DESY)

09:40 CAST and more than CAST; A Dark Sector Probe for 20+ Years - Serkant Cetin (Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkiye)
10:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:10
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

10:50 Searching for new light particles with PADME and fixed target experiments - Venelin Kozhuharov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:30 Status of the VMB@CERN experiment - Stepan Kunc (TUL Liberec)
12:10
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

12:10 Report on WG4 activities - Marin Karuza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:40 Discussion
13:10
13:10 - 13:30
Room: Aula Leogrande
Contributions

13:10 Conclusions - Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
14:30
14:30 - 16:30
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

14:30 CA21106 Introduction - Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:50 WG 1 report - Ilaria Brivio

15:10 WG2 report - Edoardo Vitagliano

15:30 WG3 report - Andrea Caputo

15:50 WG 4 report - Marin Karuza (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:10 WG5 report - Loredana gastaldo (Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, Heidelberg University)
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 16:50
16:50
16:50 - 19:00
Room: Aula De Trizio
Contributions

16:50 ECI Committee Report - Pierluca Carenza

17:05 Grant Awarding Coordinator report - Venelin Kozhuharov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:20 Report from Gender and Diversity Advisor - Deniz Sunar Cerci

17:40 Draft of W&B Plan 2024 - Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)