Name: 4th General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)
Start: 2026-06-22T08:05:00+03:00
End: 2026-06-25T21:00:00+03:00
Location: Corfu (Greece)

4th General Meeting of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

from Monday, 22 June 2026 (08:05) to Thursday, 25 June 2026 (21:00)

Monday, 22 June 2026

08:30 Registration

08:30 - 09:15
Room: Mon Repos Palace

09:15 Welcome to CA21106 General Meeting

09:15 - 09:35
Room: Vadi H Campus - Conference Room
09:35 WG3 (Astrophysics)
09:35 - 10:55
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

09:35 Status, challenges and promises of MeV gamma-ray astrophysics - Francesca Calore

10:15 Cosmic Gravitational Waves and PBH: a Gateway to Early Universe - Ninetta Saviano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
10:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:55 - 11:15
Room: Mon Repos Palace
11:15 WG3 (Astrophysics)
11:15 - 13:15
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

11:15 WISP production in compact objects - Damiano Fiorillo

11:55 The Equation of State of Dense Matter for Neutron Stars and Related Astrophysical Phenomena - Ignazio Bombaci

12:35 Radio signals from axion stars - Guenter Sigl (Universität Hamburg)
14:40 Round Table
14:40 - 15:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

14:40 Report on WG3 Activities

15:10 Discussion
15:40 WG3 (Astrophysics)
15:40 - 16:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

15:40 A new method to constrain axion-electron coupling with globular cluster - Thomas Levasseaur

16:00 Detecting light axions from supernovae in nearby galaxies - Francesca Lecce

16:20 Stochastic galactic supernova flux of MeV particles: direct detection - Marina Cermeño Gavilán (Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT (UAM/CSIC)))
WG4 (Experimental Searches)
15:40 - 16:40
Contributions

15:40 Streaming dark matter signatures from space and locally - Konstantin Zioutas

16:00 On the axion signal and characteristics that could be produced in black holes and detected on Earth - Daniel Gavilán Martín (Helmholtz Institute Mainz/JGU)

16:20 Cross-sensing in ultralight DM searches - Sreemanti Chakraborti (IPPP, Durham University)
16:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:40 - 17:00
Room: Mon Repos Palace
17:00 WG3 (Astrophysics)
17:00 - 18:20
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

17:20 Light bosons from cold isolated NSs - Alessandro Lella

17:40 GALactic AXion Instrument for Supernova (GALAXIS) - joshua benabou (University of California, Berkeley / Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

18:00 Probing axion-electron and axion-nucleon couplings with NuSTAR solar observations - Tiziano Zanzarella
Tuesday, 23 June 2026
09:30 WG2 (Cosmology)
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

09:30 Axions and warm inflation - Kim Berghaus

10:10 Looking for gravitational waves with orbital dynamics - Diego Blas Temiño
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: Mon Repos Palace
11:20 WG2 (Cosmology)
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

11:20 Non-perturbative QCD inputs for axion phenomenology: status and perspectives - Claudio Bonanno

12:00 Fundamental physics with intergalactic matter - Matteo Viel
14:10 Round Table
14:10 - 15:10
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

14:10 Report on WG2 Activities

14:40 Discussion
15:10 WG1 (Theory)
15:10 - 16:10
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

15:10 Gravitational Constraints on Fibre Inflation - Alexander Westphal

15:30 Phenomenology of Closed String Hidden Photons - Luca Caraffi

15:50 The structure of multiple axion solutions and their emergence from flavour deconstruction - Marta Fuentes Zamoro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
WG2-3 (Astro-Cosmo)
15:10 - 16:10
Contributions

15:10 The RES-NOVA capability to search for axion particles - Nahuel Ferreiro lachellini

15:30 Axion-Like Electrophilic Portal for Pion Dark Matter - Jiheng Guo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:50 Fermionic Dark Matter and Electron-Capture Supernovae: Pathways to Low-Mass Neutron Stars - Vishal Parmar (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
16:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
16:40 WG1 (Theory)
16:40 - 17:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

16:40 Spectator axions in multifield inflation - Francisco Pedro

17:00 Axiverse Lampposts - David Cyncynates

17:20 Cosmic birefringence from a stiff axion-like field - Andrea Minotti
WG2-3 (Astro-Cosmo)
16:40 - 17:40
Contributions

16:40 Crowdsourcing Gravitational Waves from Superradiance: Black Holes as Extreme Axion Laboratories - Orion Ning (University of California, Berkeley)

17:00 Decoherence and effective dynamics in Axion Domain Wall Networks - Amedeo Maria Favitta (Università degli Studi di Palermo)

17:20 Beyond thermal approximations: precise cosmological bounds on Axion-Like Particles - Luca Caloni (University of Ferrara)
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
09:30 WG1 (Theory)
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

09:30 Horizons in string compactifications - Flavio Tonioni

10:10 The Majoron: Neutrino Masses, Dark Matter and the Baryon Asymmetry - Xavier Ponce Diaz (University of Basel)
10:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:50 - 11:20
Room: Mon Repos Palace
11:20 WG1 (Theory)
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

11:20 Multiple axions: Strong CP, Dark Matter and how to count them - Pablo Quílez

12:00 Superstring Phases in the Early Universe and Gravitational Waves - Noelia Sánchez González
14:10 Round Table
14:10 - 15:10
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

14:10 Report on WG1 Activities

14:40 Discussion
15:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:10 - 15:30
Room: Mon Repos Palace
15:30 Round Table
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

15:30 Report on WG4 Activities

16:00 Discussion
16:30 Open discussion on the Action

16:30 - 17:30
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Thursday, 25 June 2026
09:45 WG4 (Experimental Searches)
09:45 - 11:25
Contributions

09:45 High frequency GW, ALPS and WISP searches - Aldo Ejlli (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

10:25 DELight Experiment - Belina Von Krosigk
11:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:25 - 11:45
Room: Mon Repos Palace
11:45 WG4 (Experimental Searches)
11:45 - 13:05
Contributions

11:45 Avalanche Terahertz Photon Detection in a Rydberg Tweezer Array - Chris Nill

12:25 QUAX Experiment - Giuseppe Ruoso (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
13:05 Conclusions
13:05 - 13:25
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

13:05 Conclusions - Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
14:30 Management Committee Meeting
14:30 - 16:45
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

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

14:50 WG 1 report

15:10 WG2 report

15:30 WG3 report

15:50 WG 4 report

16:10 WG5 report
16:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:45 - 17:05
Room: Mon Repos Palace
17:05 Management Committee Meeting
17:05 - 18:15
Room: Mon Repos Palace
Contributions

17:05 Grant Awarding Coordinator report - Venelin Kozhuharov

17:20 ECI Committee Report

17:35 Report from Gender and Diversity Advisor - Deniz Sunar Cerci

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