30 August 2026 to 4 September 2026
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Scientific program

Plenary and parallel sessions will cover the following topics:

• Cosmic ray physics
• Gamma-ray & Neutrino astronomy
• Cosmology
• Dark matter searches (direct/indirect)
• Gravitational waves
• Particle physics connections

List of Plenary Speakers

Name Affiliation Topic
Sylvia Biscoveanu Princeton University Gravitational-wave astronomy
Teresa Bister Radboud University Nijmegen UHECR origin with B-field configuration
Antonella Castellina INFN, Torino Measurements of UHECRs and multimessenger aspects
Shion Chen Kyoto University Quantum sensor & wave-like dark matter detection
Motoko Fujiwara University of Toyama Standard and non-standard WIMP paradigms
Diego Gotz CEA Paris-Saclay SVOM mission, GRB and rapid follow-ups
Gonzalo Herrera Harvard University & MIT CR+neutrino+DM modeling and observation
Alexander Kusenko UCLA Primordial black holes
Bing Liu PMO, CAS LHASSO result oriented Galactic gamma-ray emission
Ruoyu Liu Nanjing University Galactic sources of high-energy messengers
Yuan Liu NAOC, CAS Multimessenger transient with X-ray
Lu Lu UW-Madison An overview of the field of neutrino astrophysics and its role in multi-messenger astrophysics
Maria Petropoulou Univ. of Athens Modeling of high-energy sources, AGN jets
Elena Pinetti Flatiron Institute Phenomenological interpretation of DM
Tina Pollman Univ. of Amsterdam Direct DM detection
Katherine Rawlins Univ. of Alaska Anchorage Galactic CR measurements around the knee
Fuminobu Takahashi Tohoku University Axion cosmology, inflation
Tomislav Terzic University of Rijeka VHE Gamma-ray astrophysics
John Tomsick UC Berkeley Future overview of MeV astronomy
Naomi Tsuji ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo Campaigns targeting Galactic PeVatron candidates
Tejaswi Venumadhav UC Santa Barbara Gravitational wave independent of LIGO
Angela Zegarelli Ruhr-University Bochum Multimessenger phenomenology for SNe