Tentative Program
March 10-14, 2025
University of Utah
Jump to a Day: Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
The No Stone Unturned 2025 program includes scientific talks, focused discussions, and social events, as well as unstructured time for informal discussion and collaboration.
| Scientific Talks | Discussions | Social Program | Breaks/Unstructured |
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Monday
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome Remarks | |
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| 9:30 - 9:55 | Zackaria Chacko | General form of Effective Operators from Hidden Sectors |
| 9:55 - 10:20 | Pouya Asadi | On Direct Detection of the Most Minimal Confining Dark Sector |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Graham Kribs | Strongly-coupled dark matter and long-lived particles |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Shufang Su | Charged Higgses Uncovered |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Aurora Ireland | Observable CMB B-Modes from Cosmological Phase Transitions |
| 12:05 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Rebecca Leane | TBA |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Jason Kumar | Relating Stellar and Dark Matter Halo Parameters |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Break | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Wei Xue | Stability of Superconducting Strings |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | Fengwei Yang | Vorton Dark Matter |
| 3:40 - 6:00 | Free Time | |
| 5:30 - 7:30 | Welcome Reception | Location |
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Tuesday
| 9:30 - 9:55 | Julien Lavalle | Early building of dark matter spikes around primordial black holes |
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| 9:55 - 10:20 | Mustafa Amin | Warm White Noise — Small Scale Structure in Particle & Wave Dark Matter |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Martin Schmaltz | Particle models for suppression of growth at low redshift |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine | Distances and Clocks in a discordant Universe |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Tim Tait | Hints for New Physics from Big Bang Nucleosynthesis? |
| 12:05 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Marcela Carena | TBA |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Asher Berlin | Cavendish Tests of Millicharged Relics |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Break | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Julie Pagès | An infinity in the field anomalous dimension |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | Anindita Maiti | A Wilsonian RG framework for Regression Tasks in Machine Learning |
| 3:40 - 4:10 | Break | |
| 4:10 - 4:35 | Ameen Ismail | Crunchy Critical Natural Higgs |
| 4:35 - 5:00 | Hai-Bo Yu | Halo Gravothermal Collapse and Its Astrophysical Signals |
Wednesday
| 9:30 - 9:55 | Carlos Wagner | TBA |
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| 9:55 - 10:20 | Simona Murgia | TBA |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Nicholas Rodd | Discovering Dark Matter at CTAO |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Nassim Bozorgnia | Impact of galactic dark matter on annihilation signals from satellites |
| 11:40 - 5:00 | Free Afternoon for Skiing/Sightseeing | |
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Thursday
| 9:30 - 9:55 | Peter Graham | Probing Small-Scale Structure in Dark Matter with Dynamical Heating |
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| 9:55 - 10:20 | Arushi Bodas | Seeing highly anisotropic gravitational wave backgrounds from the early universe |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break (Workshop Photo) | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Tao Han | TBA |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Spencer Chang | General BSM Searches Using On-shell Amplitudes |
| 11:40 - 11:50 | Short Break | |
| 11:50 - 12:30 | Local Students & Postdocs | Microtalks |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Catered Lunch and Discussion | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Bhaskar Dutta | Light DM: New possibilities |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Amalia Madden | Broadband phonon production from axion absorption |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Break | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Itay Bloch | Hunting Dark Matter with Quantum Magnetometers |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | Anson Hook | Predicting dark matter - baryon abundance ratio |
| 3:40 - 4:05 | Markus Luty | Matching EFT to LHC |
| 4:05 - 6:00 | Free Time | |
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Workshop Dinner | Location |
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Friday
| 9:30 - 9:55 | Yuhsin Tsai | CMB Imprints of Cosmological Phase Transitions |
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| 9:55 - 10:20 | Barmak Shams Es Haghi | Dark Matter/Radiation Freeze-in from Warm Inflation |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | |
| 10:50 - 11:15 | Zoltan Ligeti | Majorana phases beyond neutrinoless double beta decay |
| 11:15 - 11:40 | Brian Batell | Right-Handed Neutrino Masses from the Electroweak Scale |
| 11:40 - 12:05 | Chris Kelso | TBA |
| 12:05 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 1:55 | Keith Dienes | Stasis, Stasis, Stasis: The Universe on Pause |
| 1:55 - 2:20 | Brooks Thomas | TBA |
| 2:20 - 2:50 | Break | |
| 2:50 - 3:15 | Tao Xu | Atomic Cooling Halos from Decaying Dark Matter |
| 3:15 - 3:40 | Jeff Dror | The Fluctuating Spacetime of Dark Matter |
| 3:40 - 4:20 | Break | |
| 4:20 - 5:00 | Discussion | Topic |
| 5:00 - 5:15 | Summary / Workshop Adjourns | |