UCLA Dark Matter 2012 agenda
Last update: March 6, 2012. Talks are being uploaded to this website in PDF format.
Early afternoon session Wed. February 22, 1pm - 4pm: Overview talks
- Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz): ΛCDM -- triumphs and tribulations (16.6 MB)
- Elliott Bloom (SLAC): Using the Fermi large area telescope to search for dark matter via indirect detection: an overview (5.9 MB)
- Rick Gaitskell (Brown Univ.): Overview of experimental direct dark matter search (20.1 MB)
- Stefan Schael (RWTH Aachen Univ.): Status of the AMS-02 experiment on the ISS (23.4 MB)
- Paolo Gondolo (Univ. of Utah): Theory of low mass WIMPs (25.7 MB)
- Katherine Freese (Univ. of Michigan): Dark stars (7.8 MB)
- Coffee break
Late afternoon session 4:15 - 7:25pm: Dark energy and the equation of state
- Lisa Randall (Harvard): New models of dark matter (3.6 MB)
- Mirko Boezio (INFN Trieste): Dark matter indirect search in five years of PAMELA in orbit (2.6 MB)
- Neelima Sehgal (Princeton): Understanding dark energy using the cosmic microwave background (11.3 MB)
- Etienne Pointecouteau (IRAP): Constraints on dark matter from the mass distribution in clusters of galaxies (3.4 MB)
- Gregory Tarlé (Univ. of Michigan): Big Baryon Spectroscopic Survey (BigBOSS) (4.3 MB)
- Doug Spolyar (FNAL): An overview of dark stars (19.9 MB)
- Chris Burns (Carnegie Observatories): Using type Ia supernovae to shed light on dark energy
- Aaron Roodman (SLAC): Review of the Dark Energy Survey (25.6 MB)
- Ina Sarcevic (Univ. of Arizona): Limits on self-interacting dark matter (4.5 MB)
- Reception 7:30 - 8:30pm
Evening session 8:30 - 11:00pm: Results of indirect search for dark matter, continued
- Carsten Rott (Ohio State Univ/CCAPP): New approaches in dark matter searches with neutrino telescopes (2.4 MB)
- Amol Upadhye (ANL): How dark is dark energy? The GammeV-CHASE search for photon-coupled chameleon dark energy (.83 MB)
- Jeremy Mardon (Stanford): Direct detection of MeV to GeV mass dark matter (2.6 MB)
- Chung Kao (Univ. of Oklahoma): Implications of LHC Higgs searches for the neutralino dark matter (.75 MB)
- Tonatiuh Matos (Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN): The status of the scalar field dark matter model (5 MB)
- Marc Moniez (Laboratoire de l'accelerateur lineaire, Universite d'Orsay): Search for turbulent hidden gas through interstellar scintillation
- Marieangela Lisanti (Princeton): Direct detection of dark matter debris flows (7.4 MB)
- Luis Urena (Univ. of Guanajuato): Galaxy halos from cosmological Bose-Einstein condensates (3.9 MB)
- Josef Pradler (Perimeter Institute): Statistical tests of noise and harmony in dark matter modulation signals (5.1 MB)
Early morning session Thursday February 23, 8:30 - 10:55am: Search for dark matter at the LHC and theory
- Valeri Andreev (UCLA): The search for missing energy events at the LHC and implications for dark matter search (Atlas and CMS) (7.4 MB)
- Dimitri Nanopoulos (Texas A/&M University): The race for supersymmetric dark matter at XENON 100 and the LHC -- stringy correlations from no-scale F-SU(5) (3 MB)
- Osamu Seto (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Light sneutrino dark matter in the NMSSM (1.1 MB)
- Howard Baer (Univ. of Oklahoma): Mixed axion/LSP dark matter (10.1 MB)
- Ian Shoemaker (LANL): Unitarity and monojet bounds on models of dark matter (4.4 MB)
- Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology): LHC and direct dark matter detection (2.1 MB)
- Mani Tripathi (UC Davis): Recent results from a search for dark matter production in the CMS experiment (1.5 MB)
- Coffee break
Late morning session, 11:10am - 1pm: Theory of dark matter in the universe, astrophysical parameters, dark stars
- Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins): How massive are the least massive galaxies?
- Matthew Walker (Harvard): Dwarf galaxies as tests of cold dark matter (20.1 MB)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA): Dark matter and neutrino masses
- George Fuller (UC San Diego): Sterile neutrinos - dilution, dark radiation, BBN, and dark matter
- Aravind Natarajan (Carnegie Mellon Univ.): Bounds on dark matter from CMB observations
- Annika Peter (UC Irvine): Galactic archaeology with direct-detection experiments (1.7 MB)
- Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde (KIPAC/SLAC): Nearby dwarf galaxies, local galaxy clusters and the role of halo substructure (6.2 MB)
- Lunch
Afternoon session Thursday February 23, 2:00 - 5:00pm: Results of indirect search for dark matter, high energy electrons, positrons, d
- Ami Katz (Boston Univ.): Model-independent framework for analyzing direct detection experiments
- Pierre Sikivie (Univ. of Florida): Bose-Einstein condensation of dark matter axions (4.3 MB)
- Philip von Doetinchem (UC Berkeley): The search for anti-deuterons with GAPS (19.7 MB)
- Gianpaolo Carosi (LLNL): Hunting the dark matter axion (and other exotic creatures) with the ADMX experiment (17.4 MB)
- Savvas M. Koushiappas (Brown Univ.): Exclusion of canonical WIMPs using a joint analysis of Fermi-LAT data from dwarf galaxies
- Alex Drlica-Wagner (Stanford): Search for dark matter substructure with the Fermi-LAT (6.7 MB)
- Simona Murgia (SLAC): Galactic Center measurements with Fermi (4.6 MB)
- Miguel A. Sanchez-Conde (KIPAC/SLAC): The Fermi/LAT Extragalactic diffuse background and its dark matter interpretation (17.9 MB)
- Pat Scott (McGill Univ.): Probing the early universe and inflation with indirect detection (17.4 MB)
- Coffee break
Late afternoon session 5:15 - 8:30pm: Direct search for dark matter (I), low mass WIMPs
- Graciela Gelmini (UCLA): Fits to light WIMPs (12.8 MB)
- Kfir Blum (IAS): DAMA vs. the annually modulated muon background
- Pierluigi Belli (INFN): Dark matter annual modulation results by DAMA/LIBRA (18 MB)
- Juan Collar (Univ. of Chicago): CoGeNT (21.3 MB)
- Jean-Come Lanfranchi (Technical University, Munich): CRESST (15.7 MB)
- Neil Weiner (New York Univ.): WIMP signals and limits without astrophysics
- Dan Hooper (FNAL): Indirect evidence for light WIMPs (14.1 MB)
- Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech): Constraints on dark matter models from a Fermi LAT search for cosmic-ray electrons from the Sun (5 MB)
- Banquet 8:30pm
Early morning session Friday February 24, 8:00 - 10:40am: Direct search for dark matter, session II: existing detectors, direct dark matter search results
- Henrique Araujo (Imperial College, London): Final results from ZEPLIN-III (2.9 MB)
- Paul Scovell (UCLA): XENON100 (4.6 MB)
- G. Adam Cox (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology): The EDELWEISS DM search from phase 2 to phase 3 (8.3 MB)
- Reina Maruyama (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison): DM-Ice: status and update (2.3 MB)
- Christopher Savage (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University): Global SUSY fits with IceCube (1.9 MB)
- Bruno Serfass (UC Berkeley): Status and recent results of the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (CDMS) experiment (8.3 MB)
- Chris Kelso (Univ. of Chicago): Toward a consistent picture for CRESST, CoGeNT, and DAMA (.76 MB)
- Marek Kos (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory): Simulation of cosmogenic and radioactive backgrounds for the CoGeNT (3.8 MB)
- Coffee break
Late morning session Friday February 24, 10:55am - 12:25pm: Near term direct and indirect detectors
- Elena Aprile (Columbia): XENON1T (9.8 MB)
- Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (MIT): The SuperCDMS experimental program (16.4 MB)
- Ethan Bernard (Yale Univ.): The LUX dark matter detector (64.8 MB)
- Jeter Hall (FNAL): COUPP updates
- Lunch
Early afternoon session Friday February 24, 1:00 - 2:30pm: Update on new detectors, concepts, and construction and design
- Andrew Hime (LANL): CLEAN detection of dark matter (17.9 MB)
- Frank Calaprice (Princeton Univ.): Underground Argon - a new resource for dark matter research
- Luca Grandi (Princeton): The DARKSIDE of dark matter (36.9 MB)
- Maurik Holtrop (Univ. of New Hampshire): The heavy photon search at JLab (5.7 MB)
- Jonghee Yoo (Fermilab): R and D for a solid Xenon detector (9.7 MB)
- Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental): Spin-dependent limits from DRIFT-IId and plans for scale up (14.6 MB)
- Coffee break
Mid-afternoon session 2:45 - 5:15pm: Future dark matter detectors at the ton scale
- Katsushi Arisaka (UCLA): MAX (6.4 MB)
- Frederic Mayet (LPSC Grenoble): Directional detection of galactic dark matter (1.2 MB)
- Gregory Tarlé (Univ. of Michigan): PandaX, a LXe dark matter detector at the Jinping Underground Lab (2.4 MB)
- Jocelyn Monroe (MIT): DMTPC directional dark matter experiment (15.3 MB)
- David Nygren (LBNL, for the NEXT Collaboration): Simultaneous searches for WIMP dark matter and 0-ν β β decay at the ton-scale with a high-pressure Xenon gas electroluminescent TPC
- Laura Baudis (Univ. of Zurich): DARWIN: dark matter WIMP search with noble liquids (11.4 MB)
- Bob Jacobsen (UC Berkeley): The LZ Program (6.5 MB)
- Jonghee Yoo (Fermilab): Dark matter background study using the neutrino beam at Fermilab (10.5 MB)
Late afternoon session 5:15 - 7:40pm: The future of new laboratories underground and new indirect search plans
- René Laureijs (ESA): The Euclid mission: mapping the geometry of the dark universe
- Nigel Smith (SNOLAB): Developments in deep underground facilities (11.6 MB)
- Kevin Lesko (LBNL): Sanford Underground Research Facility – plans, progress, and prospects (4.2 MB)
- End of symposium