Name: PPC 2025: XVIII International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology
Start: 2025-06-23T07:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-06-27T18:15:00-06:00
Location: SpringHill Suites Conference Center Deadwood

PPC 2025: XVIII International Conference on Interconnections between Particle Physics and Cosmology

from Monday, June 23, 2025 (7:00 AM) to Friday, June 27, 2025 (6:15 PM)

Monday, June 23, 2025 ¶

7:30 AM Registration
Registration
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Lobby
9:00 AM Monday AM - Plenary
Monday AM - Plenary
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome and Sanford Underground Research Facility Overview - Mike Headley (SDSTA/SURF)

9:30 AM Plenary: Dark Matter Astrophysics - Nassim Bozorgnia (University of Alberta)

10:00 AM Plenary: Recent Results from the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope - Soebur Razzaque (University of Johannesburg)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
11:30 AM Monday AM - Plenary
Monday AM - Plenary
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

11:30 AM Plenary Talk: Recent Cosmological Results from DESI - James Rohlf

12:00 PM Plenary: Recent Results from the PandaX Experiment and Future Plans - Junting Huang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
1:30 PM Monday PM: Plenary + Contributed
Monday PM: Plenary + Contributed
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

1:30 PM Contributed Talk: The Mu2e Experiment for Charged Lepton Flavor Violation Search at Fermilab - Sridhar Tripathy (UC Davis)

2:00 PM Contributed Talk: Electroweak Triplet Contributions to SO(10) Leptogenesis - Chee Sheng Fong (Universidade Federal do ABC)

2:30 PM Contributed Talk: Updated Status of the DAMA Annual Modulation Dark Matter Anomaly - Jonathan Cornell (Weber State University)

3:00 PM Plenary: The Search for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay by LEGEND-200: First Results - Aparajita Mazumdar (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
3:30 PM Reception/Social
Reception/Social
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
Tuesday, June 24, 2025 ¶
8:30 AM Tuesday AM: Plenary
Tuesday AM: Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

8:30 AM Plenary: Bridging Macroscopic and Microscopic Worlds: from Black Holes to Quantum Sensors - Voloymyr Takhistov (QUP, KEK)

9:00 AM Plenary: CMB Tensions (From an ACT Perspective) - Neelima Sehgal (Stony Brook University)

9:30 AM Plenary: The SNO+ Experiment - Tereza Kroupova (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 AM Plenary: The Capture of Dark Matter in Stars - Nicole Bell (The University of Melbourne)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
11:00 AM Tuesday AM: Plenary
Tuesday AM: Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

11:00 AM Plenary Talk: Neutrino Portals to New Physics Across Energy Scales - Matheus Hostert (Harvard University)

11:30 AM Plenary: Dark Matter Signals in the Gamma-Ray Sky - Elena Pinetti (Fermilab)

12:00 PM Plenary: The Cosmological Mystery of Neutrino Masses - Zach Weiner
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
1:30 PM Tuesday PM: Plenary + Contributed
Tuesday PM: Plenary + Contributed
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

1:30 PM Plenary Talk: Status of the COHERENT experiment - Daniel Pershey (Duke University)

2:00 PM Contributed Talk: Ab Initio Nuclear Calculations for Dark Matter-Nucleus and Neutrino- Nucleus Scattering - Baishan Hu (Texas A&M University)

2:30 PM Contributed Talk: "Effectively" Expanding Dark Matter Searches with Hadronic Loops - Melissa Diamond (Queens University)
3:00 PM Coffee & Break
Coffee & Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
3:30 PM Tuesday PM: Contributed
Tuesday PM: Contributed
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

3:30 PM Contributed Talk: The Accelerator Neutrino Neutron Interaction Experiment (ANNIE) - Jingbo Wang (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology)

4:00 PM Contributed Talk: Upscattering Inelastic Dark Matter in the Earth - Christopher Cappiello

4:30 PM Contributed Talk: Toward Extracting the Scattering Phase Shift from Integrated Correlation Functions in LQCD - Peng Guo

5:00 PM Contributed Talk: Speaker Not Available - End for the Day at 5:00p.m.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025 ¶
8:30 AM Wednesday AM: Plenary
Wednesday AM: Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

8:30 AM Plenary: Cosmic Concordance Across Scales - Vera Gluscevic

9:00 AM Plenary: Dark Matter and Dark Sector Searches in the First KM3NeT Data - Sara Rebecca Gozzini (IFIC, CSIC-UV)

9:30 AM Plenary: IceCube - The Experiment, Its Data and Science - Xinhua Bai (SDSMT)

10:00 AM Plenary: Sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection with Neutrino Observatories - Rebecca Leane (SLAC)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
11:00 AM Wednesday AM: Plenary
Wednesday AM: Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

11:00 AM Plenary Talk: Opportunities for large-scale dark matter detection - Jayden Newstead (University of Melbourne)

11:30 AM Plenary: The Moving Target: Direct Detection in the Light Dark Matter Landscape - Robert McGehee (University of Minnesota)

12:00 PM Plenary: Probing New Physics with Neutrinos in Direct Detection Experiments - Valentina De Romeri (IFIC (CSIC/UV))
12:30 PM Group Photo and Lunch
Group Photo and Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
1:30 PM Wednesday PM: Contributed
Wednesday PM: Contributed
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

1:30 PM Contributed Talk: Gamma-Ray and Gravitational Wave Signals of Inelastic Higgs Portal Dark Matter - Subhojit Roy (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:00 PM Contributed Talk: Probing Cosmic Neutrinos and Free-Streaming Radiation with the CMB - Gabriele Montefalcone (University of Texas at Austin)

2:30 PM Contributed Talk: Neutrino Physics and BSM Searches at Fraser - Roshan Mammen Abraham (University of California Irvine (US))
3:00 PM Coffee & Break
Coffee & Break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
3:30 PM Wednesday PM: Contributed
Wednesday PM: Contributed
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

3:30 PM Contributed Talk: Speaker Not Available - End at 3:30PM
Thursday, June 26, 2025 ¶

7:40 AM Thursday Activities: APPROVED UNDERGROUND TOUR PARTICIPANTS will be picked up from the SpringHill Suites lobby and shuttled at 8:30 a.m. sharp to the Sanford Lab Visitor Center for safety training and preparations for the tour.
Thursday Activities: APPROVED UNDERGROUND TOUR PARTICIPANTS will be picked up from the SpringHill Suites lobby and shuttled at 8:30 a.m. sharp to the Sanford Lab Visitor Center for safety training and preparations for the tour.
7:40 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I

8:00 AM Thursday Activities: BLACK HILLS TOUR participants (fee $40) will have a free morning and then will be picked up at 12:00 p.m. from the lobby of The SpringHill Suites for the BLACK HILLS TOUR and provided a box lunch.
Thursday Activities: BLACK HILLS TOUR participants (fee $40) will have a free morning and then will be picked up at 12:00 p.m. from the lobby of The SpringHill Suites for the BLACK HILLS TOUR and provided a box lunch.
8:00 AM - 8:20 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
8:30 AM Thursday All Day: SURF Excursion
Thursday All Day: SURF Excursion
8:30 AM - 5:10 PM
Contributions

9:40 AM SURF Cultural Overview - Rochelle Zens (SDSTA/SURF)

10:15 AM (More) SURF Overview - Jaret Heise (SDSTA/SURF)
11:30 AM *Box Lunch pick up in SpringHill Suites lobby for everyone NOT going on underground tour
*Box Lunch pick up in SpringHill Suites lobby for everyone NOT going on underground tour
11:30 AM - 11:55 AM
Room: Lobby

12:00 PM Thursday Excursion: Black Hills Tour
Thursday Excursion: Black Hills Tour
12:00 PM - 5:30 PM

3:45 PM Adjourn and Depart for Hotel
Adjourn and Depart for Hotel
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM

6:00 PM Evening Banquet
Evening Banquet
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
Friday, June 27, 2025 ¶
8:30 AM Friday AM: Plenary
Friday AM: Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

8:30 AM Plenary: Physics Reach and the Status of DUNE - Jaehoon Yu (University of Texas at Arlington)

9:00 AM Plenary: Dark Matter Searches in Neutrino Experiments - Doojin Kim (University of South Dakota)

9:30 AM Plenary: Probing Dark Matter with White Dwarfs and Jupiter - Stephan Meighen-Berger (The University of Melbourne)

10:00 AM Plenary: Neutrino Models - Bhupal Dev (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
11:00 AM Friday AM: Plenary
Friday AM: Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

11:00 AM Plenary Talk: Title TBD - Alexei Safonov

11:30 AM Plenary: Is the Cosmic Neutrino Background Within Reach of Future Neutrino Telescopes? - Gonzalo Herrera (Virginia Tech)

12:00 PM Plenary: The LSND and MiniBooNE anomalies after recent MicroBooNE results - Rajesh Gandhi (Harish Chandra Research Institute)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room II
1:30 PM Friday PM: Contributed
Friday PM: Contributed
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt I and Charleston (lower level)
Contributions

1:30 PM Contributed Talk: When the Sun Points the Way: Probing Solar NSI at Directional Detectors - Nityasa Mishra (Texas A&M university)

2:00 PM Contributed Talk: Self Consistent Thermal Resummation: A Case Study of the Phase Transition in 2HDM - Subhojit Roy (Argonne National Laboratory)

2:30 PM Contributed Talk: Detecting Exotic Particle Interaction in 137Cs Decay Through Photon-Magnetic Field Coupling - Gunjanben Akbari (Ms.)
3:00 PM Break
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
3:15 PM Friday PM: Plenary + Contributed
Friday PM: Plenary + Contributed
3:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I
Contributions

3:15 PM Contributed Talk: Probing Heavy Axions in Astrophysical Objects - Takuya Okawa (Washington University in St. Louis)

3:45 PM Contributed Talk: The Theory of Mystery Unifying Quantum and Cosmic Worlds - Md Najiur Rahman

4:15 PM Plenary Talk: The Secret Life of WIMP and FIMP dark-matter- Beyond Visible Dimensions - Dipan Sengupta (University of New South Wales)

4:45 PM Parallel Talk: Title TBD - Vladimir Pastushenko

4:45 PM Parallel Talk: Title TBD - Satya Seshavatharam Utpala Venkata

4:45 PM Parallel Talk: Discovering Axion-like Particles (ALPs) Using CMB as a Backlight - Harsh Mehta
5:30 PM Due to circumstances the conference will end Friday at 4:45 p.m. (No conference activities on Saturday, June 28) - The airport shuttle will still run at original scheduled times on Saturday
Due to circumstances the conference will end Friday at 4:45 p.m. (No conference activities on Saturday, June 28) - The airport shuttle will still run at original scheduled times on Saturday
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Roosevelt Room I