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Colloquiums

  1. 2025.11, Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter, @ University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu.

Seminars

  1. 2026.07, Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs, @ University of Salerno, Fisciano.
  2. 2026.07, Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs, @ Bethe Center for Theoretical Physics (BCTP) & University of Bonn, Bonn.
  3. 2026.07, Time-domain axion searches with magnetic white dwarfs, @ Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) & University of Lisbon, Lisboa.
  4. 2025.11, Dark matter and nonminimal couplings to gravity: From gravitational lensing to gravitational waves, @ International Young Scholar Forum, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou.
  5. 2025.11, Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter, @ Southwest University, Chongqing.
  6. 2025.11, Dark matter and nonminimal couplings to gravity: From gravitational lensing to gravitational waves, @ Silk Road International Symposium, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an.
  7. 2025.06, Ultralight dark matter: From small-scale structure to dynamic neutrino mass, @ Scuola Superiore Meridionale & University of Naples Federico II, Napoli.
  8. 2025.06, Ultralight dark matter: From small-scale structure to dynamic neutrino mass [pdf], @ University of Salerno, Fisciano.
  9. 2024.11, Nonminimally gravitating ultralight dark matter, @ Fudan University, Shanghai.
  10. 2024.09, Solitons in ultralight dark matter, @ University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei.
  11. 2023.06, Unveiling the nature of wave dark matter, @ KEK Theory Center, Tsukuba (Remote).
  12. 2023.03, Constraining axion interactions from neutron star cooling, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.
  13. 2022.11, Nonminimally coupled dark photon dark matter, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.
  14. 2022.04, Dark photon substructure and formation of vector solitons, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.
  15. 2021.10, Polarized vector oscillons, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.
  16. 2021.04, Beyond Schroedinger-Poisson: Nonrelativistic effective field theory for scalar dark matter, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.
  17. 2020.04, Classical decay rates of oscillons, @ AU Seminar, Rice University, Houston.

Conferences, symposiums, and workshops

Invited talks:

  1. 2026.06, Magnetic white dwarfs as time-domain axion laboratories, @ Astro Postdoc Symposium, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai.
  2. 2026.01, Dark matter and nonminimal couplings to gravity: From gravitational lensing to gravitational waves [pdf], @ COSPA’26, Universidad San Sebastián, Santiago.
  3. 2024.12, Solitons in ultralight dark matter, @ Winter Mini-Symposium, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai.
  4. 2022.06, A singularity problem for interacting massive vectors, @ TASI, University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), Boulder.

Contributed talks:

  1. 2026.07, Time-domain axion searchers with magnetic white dwarfs, @ GGI workshop: Exploring New Frontiers in Cosmology, Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics, Firenze.
  2. 2026.04, Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter, @ 4th TOPAC, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), Chengdu.
  3. 2026.04, Soliton mergers and radio transients: A new window on dark photon dark matter, @ 18th Symposium on Frontier Issues in the Interdisciplinary Field of Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, Guilin.
  4. 2025.09, Constraining dark photon dark matter with radio silence from soliton mergers around supermassive black holes, @ Postdoctoral Frontier Symposium in Physics and Astronomy, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute (TDLI), Shanghai.
  5. 2025.08, Dark photon dark matter from flattened axion potentials [pdf], @ TAUP2025, Xichang.
  6. 2025.06, Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments, @ Dark Matter 2025, Santander.
  7. 2025.05, Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments, @ PLANCK 2025, Padova.
  8. 2025.05, Testing the dark origin of neutrino masses with oscillation experiments, @ Dark Matter and Neutrinos, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris.
  9. 2023.10, Neutron star cooling with symmetry-violating axions, @ TACOS, Rice University, Houston.
  10. 2023.05, Phenomenology of wavelike vector dark matter nonminimally coupled to gravity, @ Phenomenology Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh.
  11. 2021.08, Gravitational effects on oscillon lifetimes, @ COSMO’21, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), Champaign (Remote).
  12. 2021.04, Gravitational effects on oscillon lifetimes, @ TSAPS Conference, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi (Remote).
  13. 2020.11, Classical decay rates of oscillons, @ TSAPS Conference, University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington), Arlington.

Posters:

  1. 2024.05, Neutron star cooling with lepton-flavor-violating axions [pdf] (best poster award), @ 2nd TOPAC, Southeast University, Nanjing.

Media

  1. 2026.04, Demagnifying Gravitational Lenses Open a New Window to Probe Dark Matter Structures and Nonminimal Couplings to Gravity [Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & Shanghai Jiao Tong University News].
  2. 2025.08, Neutrino masses are not likely to originate from interactions with dark matter, study finds [Phys.org].
  3. 2025.07/08, Can Dark Matter Explain Neutrino Mass? TDLI Team Presents Contradictory Evidence [Tsung-Dao Lee Institute & Shanghai Jiao Tong University News].

Outreach

  1. 2025.01, Pop science video: Why is our space 3-dimensional? (Won Bronze Award of 2024 Popular Science Works Competition at ShanghaiTech University; credits to the student team at ShanghaiTech); click here for my original article.
  2. 2022.06, A fun talk about making photomosaic [pdf], @ TASI, University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder), Boulder.