Axions in Seoul
from
Monday, 27 July 2026 (08:00)
to
Thursday, 30 July 2026 (19:00)
Monday, 27 July 2026
08:00
Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:20
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
09:20
Opening: Greetings
Greetings
09:20 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
09:20
Greetings
-
Kiwoon Choi
(
IBS CTPU-PTC
)
09:30
S1
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
09:30
Axion Theory and Model Building
-
Luca Di Luzio
(
INFN Padova
)
10:20
Extra-Dimensional Axions
-
Matt Reece
(
Harvard University
)
11:10
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
11:40
S2
11:40 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
11:40
Composite Axions
-
Tony Gherghetta
(
University of Minnesota
)
12:30
Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
14:30
S3
14:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
14:30
Axions and Generalized Symmetries
-
Sungwoo Hong
(
KAIST
)
15:20
Non-invertible Chiral Symmetry and Axions
-
Gongjun Choi
(
University of Minnesota
)
16:00
Break
Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
16:30
S4
16:30 - 17:50
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
16:30
Testing the Heterotic String and F-Theory with Axions
-
Mario Reig
(
CERN
)
17:10
Axion Quality in Warped Extra-Dimension
-
Chang Sub Shin
(
Institute for Basic Science
)
17:50
Reception
Reception
17:50 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Tuesday, 28 July 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
09:30
S5
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
09:30
Axion (Wave) Dark Matter
-
Hyungjin Kim
(
Institute of Theoretical Physics, CEA-Saclay
)
10:20
Post Inflationary Axion Cosmology
-
Giovanni Villadoro
(
ICTP
)
11:10
Lunch
Lunch
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
13:10
S6
13:10 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
13:10
Astrophysical Probes of Axions
-
Seokhoon Yun
(
Kyungpook National University
)
14:00
S7
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
14:00
Domain Walls and their Gravitational Waves
-
Fabrizio Rompineve
(
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona & IFAE
)
14:40
Axion Stars: Mass Functions, Constraints, and Signals
-
Jae Hyeok Chang
(
Seoul National University
)
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
15:50
S8
15:50 - 17:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
15:50
Axion Rotation as the Icing on the Cosmic Cake
-
Raymond Co
(
Indiana University
)
16:30
Axion Superradiance in Neutron Stars and Stellar Medium Effect
-
Hyeonseok Seong
(
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
)
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
09:30
S9
09:30 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
09:30
Overview on Axion Search Experiments
-
SungWoo Youn
(
Institute for Basic Science / Dark Matter Axion Group
)
10:20
Collider Searches for Axions and ALPs
-
Jure Zupan
(
University of Cincinnati
)
11:10
Lunch
Lunch
11:10 - 13:10
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
13:10
S10
13:10 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
13:10
Flavor Phenomenology of Axions
-
Robert Ziegler
(
KIT
)
14:00
S11
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
14:00
Revisiting Axion Dark Matter with Nonliear Transition : Caveats and Implications
-
Wen Yin
(
Tokyo Metropolitan University
)
14:40
Parametric Resonance Production of QCD Axion Dark Matter
-
Qiaoli Yang
(
Jinan University
)
15:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
15:50
S12
15:50 - 16:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
15:50
Indirect Signals of QCD Axion in Nuclear and Atomic Electric Dipole Moments
-
Sang Hui Im
(
Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
)
16:30
2nd Photo Session & Discussion
2nd Photo Session & Discussion
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
17:30
Banquet
Banquet
17:30 - 19:00
Room: Conference Hall
Thursday, 30 July 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
09:30
KimFest 1
09:30 - 10:20
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
09:30
Building IBS-CAPP at KAIST: From an Idea to a World-Leading Axion Program
-
Yannis K. Semertizidis
(
KAIST
)
10:20
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
10:50
KimFest 2
10:50 - 12:20
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)
Contributions
10:50
Encounters with Jihn E. Kim
-
Hans P. Nilles
(
University of Bonn
)
11:20
Quality of accidental axion in Pati-Salam unification with a ℤ₄ᴿ × ℤ₅ symmetry
-
Stuart A. Raby
(
The Ohio State University
)
11:50
Axions and SUSY: the (long) journey to naturalness with Jihn E. Kim
-
Antonio Masiero
(
University of Padova / INFN Padova
)
12:20
Conclusion & Lunch
Conclusion & Lunch
12:20 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium 101, Building 28 (College of Natural Sciences Large Lecture Hall)