4th Training School of COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106)

17 Jun 2026, 08:15 → 20 Jun 2026, 23:20 Europe/Athens

Mon Repos Palace (Corfu (Greece))

Alessandro Mirizzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), George Zoupanos, Konstantinos Anagnostopoulos

Axions and other very weakly interacting slim (m<GeV) particles (WISPs) are easily accommodated in several extensions of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Searches for WISPs are strongly motivated by our attempts to understand the nature of the dark matter and puzzling astrophysical and particle physics observations. 

 The aim of the COST Action COSMIC WISPers (CA21106) is to coordinate and support WISPs searches in a synergic way at the boundary between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. 

 

The COST Action CA21106 4th Training School will be held in Corfu' (Greece). The goal is to start training a generation of young scientists in the interdisciplinary expertise on WISPs, ranging from theoretical and experimental  approaches to multi-messenger astroparticle physics and cosmology. For this purpose, the Training School will offer lectures from experts on different aspects of WISPs physics. The School is aimed at PhD students, as well as early-career postdocs.

 

Wednesday 17 June

08:15 → 09:15 Registration

09:15 → 09:30 Welcome to CA21106 Training School

09:30 → 11:00 WG1 (Theory)

09:30 Inflation and Dark Energy from WISPs

Speaker: Susha Louise Parameswaran (University of Liverpool)

MG_Axion-COST-Istanbul.pdf

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:00 WG1 (Theory)

11:30 Inflation and Dark Energy from WISPs

Speaker: Susha Louise Parameswaran (University of Liverpool)

Konstantin_Zioutas-COST_1stSEPT2024.pptx

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:00 WG1 (Theory)

14:30 WG1 Tutorial

Speaker: Flavio Tonioni

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 17:00 Discussion

17:00 → 18:00 Student's talks

17:00 Axion or Torsion?

Speaker: Theo Abounnasr Martins

17:10 Multimessenger Astronomy Beyond the Standard Model: New Window from Quantum Sensors

Speaker: Jason Arakawa

17:20 Neutrino Oscillations and Ultra Light Dark Matter

Speaker: Martina Beccaria (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17:30 Gravitationally produced Dark Matter in the Early Universe

Speaker: Giuliana Cagnina

17:40 Constraining exotic high-z reionization histories with Gaussian processes and the Cosmic Microwave Background

Speaker: Hanyu Cheng

17:50 Fractionally charged particles of the Standard Model

Speaker: Despoina Dimakou

Thursday 18 June

09:00 → 10:30 WG4 (Experiments)

09:00 Tabletop searches for the axion

Speaker: Prof. Deniz Aybas

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WG4 (Experiments)

11:00 Tabletop searches for the axion

Speaker: Prof. Deniz Aybas

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 WG4 (Experiments)

14:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Silvana Abi Mershed

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Discussion

16:30 → 17:40 Student's talks

16:30 Discovering the Stringy Axiverse via Fifth Forces

Speaker: Alexander Eberhart

16:40 Models and constraints of pseudo Goldstone Dark matter detection

Speaker: Sarah Farzand

16:50 Nonthermal Nuclear Injections as Stellar Production Mechanisms for Weakly Interacting Light Particles

Speaker: Víctor Fonoll

17:00 Axion dynamics in spin-1/2 quantum plasmas

Speaker: Henrique Goncalves

17:10 Probing the Sub-GeV Dark Photons via Neutrino-Electron Scattering in Direct Detection Experiments

Speaker: Gursel KAZIL

17:20 Constraining Pseudo Nambu–Goldstone Bosons from Cosmic Strings with Cosmological Observables

Speaker: Antonios Kyriazis

17:30 On the potential of pseudo-scalar dark energy

Speaker: Yunzhi Wu

Friday 19 June

09:00 → 10:30 WG2 (Dark matter & Cosmology)

09:00 Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WG2 (Dark matter & Cosmology)

11:00 Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 WG2 (Dark matter & Cosmology)

14:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Javier Redondo (Universidad de Zaragoza)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Discussion

16:30 → 18:20 Student's talks

16:30 Polarimetric Microlensing as a Probe of Axion Dark Matter

Speaker: Marsida Laze

16:40 Detecting light axions from supernovae in nearby galaxies

Speaker: Francesca Lecce (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

16:50 Matter- and magnetically-driven flavor conversion of neutrinos in magnetorotational collapses

Speaker: Marco Manno

17:00 Let’s save High Quality Axion Models!

Speaker: Camilla Mupo

17:10 Measuring vacuum magnetic birefringence with levitating magnets rotating at high frequency

Speaker: Ryan Netrval

17:20 Gravitational waves from a dilaton induced first order QCD phase transition

Speaker: Charalampos Nikolis

17:30 Do neutrinos dream in 5D?

Speaker: Dhruv Pasari

17:40 Stringy Quintessence: a dynamical and Bayesian analysis of the axio-dilaton scenario

Speaker: Mario Ramos Hamud

17:50 QCD Axion Detection with Stripped Envelope Supernovae

Speaker: Francisco Rodriguez Candon (Universidad de Zaragoza / TU Dortmund)

Saturday 20 June

09:00 → 10:30 WG3 (Astrophysics)

09:00 Searching for ALPs with telescopes

Speaker: Elisa Todarello

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 WG3 (Astrophysics)

11:00 Searching for ALPs with telescopes

Speaker: Elisa Todarello

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 WG3 (Astrophysics)

14:00 Tutorial

Speaker: Jorge Terol Calvo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 16:30 Discussion

16:30 → 17:30 Student's talks

16:30 Exploring the $m_a> f_a$ region for Lepto-philic ALPs

Speaker: Samuel Rosende

16:40 4D Fuzzy Gravity on a Covariant Noncommutative Space and Unification with Internal Interactions

Speaker: Stelios Stefas

16:50 Axions and early matter dominated eras

Speaker: Noelia Sánchez González

17:00 NuSTAR constraints on axion-electron coupling

Speaker: Tiziano Zanzarella

17:10 Inflation from a generalized exponential plateau: towards extra suppressed tensor-to-scalar ratios

Speaker: Gerasimos Kouniatalis

17:20 Probe exotic energy injection from dark sectors through cosmic reionization

Speaker: Ziwen Yin