Name: High Precision Experiments for Light Dark Matter
Start: 2026-09-07T11:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-09-09T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Physics Department Durham

High Precision Experiments for Light Dark Matter

from Monday, 7 September 2026 (11:30) to Wednesday, 9 September 2026 (20:00)

Monday, 7 September 2026

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Coffee area
13:00 Talks: Session 1
Session 1
13:00 - 16:00
Room: PH30
Contributions

13:00 ADMX, QSHS and novel resonant techniques - Ed Daw

14:00 Searching for (imperfect) axions around spherical objects with precision - Gilad Perez

15:00 Precision Platforms for Short Time and Range Dark Matter - Surjeet Rajendran
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Talks: Session 2
Session 2
16:30 - 18:30
Room: PH30
Contributions

16:30 Challenges and opportunities in searching for quadratically coupled dark matter - Clare Burrage

17:30 Deep Science at Boulby Underground Laboratory - Status, future plans and opportunities - Sean Paling
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
09:00 Talks: Session 3
Session 3
09:00 - 11:00
Room: PH30
Contributions

09:00 Testing fundamental physics by levitated mechanics - Hendrik Ulbricht

10:00 Advanding Axion and High Frequency Gravitational Wave Searches at LNF - Claudio Gatti (INFN LNF)
11:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Talks: Session 4
Session 4
11:30 - 12:30
Room: PH30
Contributions

11:30 Probing ultralight dark matter with precision atomic and optical experiments - Yevgeny Stadnik
12:30 lunch
lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Coffee area
14:00 Talks: Session 5
Session 5
14:00 - 16:00
Room: PH30
Contributions

14:00 TBA - Sebastian Ellis (King's College London)

15:00 High-sensitivity search for neutron to mirror-neutron oscillations at the PSI UCN source - Geza Zsigmond
16:00 coffee
coffee
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Talks: Session 6
Session 6
16:30 - 18:35
Contributions

16:30 On the sensitivity of a 229 Thorium clock to (quadratic) light dark matter - Konstantin Springmann (Weizmann Institute)

17:15 Ultralight dark matter haloes in galaxies - Kateryna Korshynska (PTB Braunschweig/TU Braunschweig)

17:45 Testing Antimatter Couplings with (Matter-)Spectroscopy - Lucas Puetter (ITP, Heidelberg University)
19:00 Conference dinner

19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
09:30 Talks: Session 7
Session 7
09:30 - 11:30
Room: PH30
Contributions

09:30 Bounds on the strength of a spin-independent fifth force: Current reach of hydrogen and helium spectroscopy - Robert Potvliege (Durham University, Physics Department)

10:30 Experimental considerations in searches for new physics with cold atoms - Matthew Jones (Durham)
11:30 coffee break
coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 Talks: Session 8
Session 8
12:00 - 13:00
Room: PH30
Contributions

12:00 RADES axion searches with quantum-enhanced haloscopes - David Díez Ibáñez
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Coffee area

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