The 5th workshop on Symmetry and Structure of the Universe (SSU 2026 Busan)
from
Sunday, 23 August 2026 (09:00)
to
Thursday, 27 August 2026 (21:50)
Monday, 17 August 2026
Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Wednesday, 19 August 2026
Thursday, 20 August 2026
Friday, 21 August 2026
Saturday, 22 August 2026
Sunday, 23 August 2026
17:30
Discussion
17:30 - 19:00
Monday, 24 August 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:20
09:20
Opening Remarks
09:20 - 09:30
09:30
S1
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions
09:30
Looking for light dark states with taus and/or time
-
Patrick Fox
(
Fermilab
)
10:10
Gravitational Wave for New Physics
-
Yue Zhao
(
HKUST
)
10:50
Searching for ultralight bosons with compact stars
-
Tanmay Kumar Poddar
(
IPPP, Durham University
)
11:30
Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 13:30
13:30
S2
13:30 - 14:50
Contributions
13:30
Reconstructing the Dark Matter Equation of State with Compact Object Inspirals
-
Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia
(
Institute for Basic Science CTPU-CGA
)
14:10
A Natural Dark Matter–Dark Energy Interaction from Axion–Monopole Dynamics
-
Huangyu Xiao
14:50
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:20
15:20
S3
15:20 - 17:00
Contributions
15:20
Cornering axions with astrophysical transients
-
Edoardo Vitagliano
(
Max Planck Institute for Physics
)
16:00
CSM for BSM
-
Chui-Fan Kong
(
IBS-CTPU-PTC
)
16:40
Core-Collapse Supernova Cooling in the Dark Z Model
-
Ju Hyeong Kang
(
Pusan National University
)
17:00
Panel Discussion 1
17:00 - 18:00
Tuesday, 25 August 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
09:30
S4
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions
09:30
Minicharged Particles from Quantum Consistency and Number Theory
-
Fuminobu Takahashi
(
Tohoku University
)
10:10
Beyond Delta m^2: Absolute Mass Sensitivity in Neutrino Oscillations
-
Andre de Gouvea
(
Northwestern University
)
10:50
Exploring Leptogenesis in the Era of First Order Electroweak Phase Transition
-
Arunansu Sil
(
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
)
11:30
Group photo
11:30 - 11:40
11:40
Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 13:30
13:30
S5
13:30 - 14:50
Contributions
13:30
Closing in on Vector Portals to Dark Matter
-
Patrick Foldenauer
(
IFT UAM-CSIC Madrid
)
14:10
A General Perspective on Boosted Dark Matter from Semi-annihilation
-
Seongsik Kim
(
Chungnam National University
)
14:50
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:20
15:20
S6
15:20 - 17:00
Contributions
15:20
The Search for Light Dark Matter
-
Tanner Trickle
(
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
)
16:00
Quantum Entanglement and Bell Nonlocality for two-qubit system at Colliders
-
Dong Woo Kang
(
Yonsei University
)
16:40
Analysis of Fermi-LAT data for cascade annihilation of dark matter
-
SangHwan Kim
(
Yonsei University
)
17:00
Panel Discussion 2
17:00 - 18:00
18:00
Banquet
Banquet
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 26 August 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
09:30
S7
09:30 - 11:30
Contributions
09:30
Suppressing Extra-Dimensional Axion Isocurvature Dynamically
-
Gongjun Choi
(
University of Minnesota
)
10:10
What Does Cosmology Actually Measure? The FFAT Symmetry and Cosmological Concordance
-
Kylar Greene
(
Seoul National University
)
10:50
Can pre-inflationary axions form miniclusters?
-
Heejoo Kim
(
KIAS
)
11:30
Group photo
11:30 - 11:40
11:40
Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 13:30
13:30
S8
13:30 - 14:50
Contributions
13:30
Isocurvature Induced Gravitational Waves at Pulsar Timing Arrays
-
Peizhi Du
(
University of Science and Technology of China
)
14:10
Quest for a Consistent Phase Transition Explanation of the PTA Signal
-
Sudhakantha Girmohanta
(
Institute for Basic Science, CTPU-PTC, Korea
)
14:50
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:50 - 15:20
15:20
S9
15:20 - 17:00
Contributions
15:20
Revisiting QCD-induced little inflation scenario
-
Tae Hyun Jung
(
IBS CTPU
)
16:00
One mass function to fit them all
-
Yeji Park
(
IBS-CTPU-PTC
)
16:40
BSM Tau Neutrino Appearance at DUNE-PRISM
-
Min-Gwa Park
(
Northwestern University
)
17:00
Panel Discussion 3
17:00 - 18:00
Thursday, 27 August 2026
08:30
Morning Coffee
Morning Coffee
08:30 - 09:30
09:30
S10
09:30 - 11:10
Contributions
09:30
Inclusive vs exclusive $b\to s \mu\mu$: probing nonperturbative effects
-
Enrico Lunghi
(
Indiana University
)
10:10
On the Consistency of Dynamical Gauge Couplings
-
Michael Shamma
(
Korea Institute for Advanced Study
)
10:50
Photon axion enhancement around PBH
-
Junghoon Joh
(
SungKyunKwan University
)
11:10
Closing Remakrs
11:10 - 11:20