Name: The 5th workshop on Symmetry and Structure of the Universe (SSU 2026 Busan)
Start: 2026-08-23T09:00:00+09:00
End: 2026-08-27T21:50:00+09:00
Location: No location set

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

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