Name: Next Frontiers in Magnetic Monopole Searches
Start: 2026-09-11T16:00:00+08:00
End: 2026-09-14T16:00:00+08:00
Location: Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

Next Frontiers in Magnetic Monopole Searches

from Friday, 11 September 2026 (16:00) to Monday, 14 September 2026 (16:00)

Monday, 7 September 2026
Tuesday, 8 September 2026
Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Friday, 11 September 2026

17:30 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
17:30 - 20:00
Saturday, 12 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 09:45
Contributions

09:00 Welcome remarks from the EPD director - Liangjian Wen (高能所)

09:10 Logisitics - LOC

09:20 Overview and goals - Igor Ostrovskiy

09:35 Group photo
09:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:45 - 10:15
10:15
10:15 - 11:45
Contributions

10:15 Review of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray observations with extensive air shower experiments - Toshihiro Fujii (Osaka Metropolitan University)

10:45 High energy neutrino telescopes in water and ice - Anna Obertacke (Stockholm University)

11:15 Subliminal monopole search results with time-based trigger selection approach using the NOvA far detector data - Alexander Antoshkin (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

11:30 A Mass-Speed relation Framework for Relativistic Magnetic Monopole Searches - Michele Doro (University of Padova)
11:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
11:45 - 13:10
13:10
13:10 - 15:20
Contributions

13:10 Theory overview of low-mass monopoles - Nikolaos Mavromatos (Nat. Tech. U. Athens and King's College London)

13:50 Next frontiers for magnetic monopole searches - Oliver Gould (University of Nottingham)

14:20 Monopoles and Cosmological Magnetic Fields - Takeshi Kobayashi (SISSA)

14:50 Self-Consistent Parker Bound on Magnetic Monopoles - Chen Zhang (Northeastern University (China))

15:05 Cosmological Implications of the Slingshot Effect - Maximilian Bachmaier (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)
15:20 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:20 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 17:10
Contributions

15:40 Status and Prospects of MANDATE - Igor Ostrovskiy

16:10 Nuclear track detectors for magnetic monopole searches in large area experiments - maurizio spurio (University of Bologna and INFN)

16:40 Automated microscopy and the prospects for the MANDATE experiment - Andrey Alexandrov (INFN-Napoli)
17:10

17:10 - 17:40

18:00

18:00 - 20:30
Sunday, 13 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Space-based searches: MMs and other HIPs - Yi Jia (高能所)

09:30 Introduction to the LHAASO Experiment and Results Highlights - Shoushan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

10:00 CRPropa 3.3: A Unified Multimessenger Framework for SM Physics and Beyond - Andrey Saveliev (Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University)

10:15 Simulation of arrival directions of low-mass magnetic monopoles with CRPropa: comparison with UHECRs data and implications for next-generation monopole searches - Ala'a AL-Zetoun (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Peiwen Mi
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 10:50
10:50
10:50 - 12:35
Contributions

10:50 Cosmological Implications of GUT Monopoles - Ye-Ling Zhou (Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study)

11:20 Non-inflationary solution to monopole problem - Perri Daniele (University of Warsaw)

11:50 Cosmological Constraints on Magnetic Monopoles as Accelerating Dark Matter - Krzysztof Szafrański (Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw)

12:05 Reliable Mass Bounds for Magnetic Monopoles via Resummation - Emanuela Musumeci (University of Alabama)

12:20 Topological Stabilization via Higgs and Z-boson Repulsions in Electroweak Monopole-Antimonopole Pairs - Dan Zhu (Institute of Modern Physics, Huizhou)
12:35 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:35 - 13:35

13:35

13:35 - 20:05

Monday, 14 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Monopoles production by dual Schwinger process - Arttu Rajantie (Imperial College London)

09:30 Searching for Strangelets and Macro-SQM Candidates from Neutron Stars, Binary Mergers, and Gamma‑Ray Bursts: Multimessenger Constraints and Direct‑Detection Prospects - Chitta Ranjan Das (The Bogoliubov Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, International intergovernmental scientific research organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 6 Joliot-Curie St, Dubna, Moscow Region, Russia, 141980)

10:00 A Simple Formalism for Treating Quantum Solitons - Jarah Evslin (Institute of Modern Physics, Lanzhou)

10:15 Revisiting of Dynamics of Fermions near Magnetic Monopoles and Callan-Rubakov Effect - Kimyeong Lee (BIMSA)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Cosmic MM searches with SCEP - Qing Lin (University of Science and Technology of China)

11:30 Magnetic Monopole and HIP Searches with TPCs: First Experience from ALICE - Mesut Arslandok (Yale Univesity)

12:00 Silicon Photomultiplier - an Optical Sensor for High Energy Physics and Astrophysics - Valeri Saveliev (BFU)
12:15 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 - 13:45
13:45
13:45 - 14:15
Contributions

13:45 Towards MANDATE CDR

14:10 Summary&Farewell