RIKEN-IBS Joint Workshop on Mathematical Approaches to Nature: from High-energy Physics to Biology

Session

Day 1 Early afternoon

10 Dec 2025, 14:00

Seminar Room B440 (IBS Center for Theoretical Physics of the Universe)

Description

Chair: Boris Betancourt Kamenetskaia

14. Igniting the universe: How reheating bridged Inflation and the Hot Big Bang

Dr Siyao Li (IBS)

10/12/2025, 14:00

Invited speaker

The very beginning of our universe is believed to be a rapid and silent expansion, called Inflation, during which the universe stayed cold, empty, and dark without heat or light. However, before the familiar hot and dense universe (the Hot Big Bang) begins, something extraordinary had to happen: the universe needs to get ignition. This brief but turbulent transition, known as reheating,...

12. Role of particle physics in dark matter indirect searches

Dr Adil Jueid (IBS)

10/12/2025, 14:45

Invited speaker