Last update: March 20, 2014, 1:34pm PDT.

Wednesday February 26, 2014, 10:00-3:30: Overview Talks (David B. Cline, Chair)

• 10:00-10:30: LambdaCDM cosmology: successes, challenges, and opportunities for progress: Joel Primack, UC Santa Cruz
• 10:30-11:00: Comparison of dark matter direct detection results, both positive and negative: Richard Gaitskell, Brown University
• 11:00-11:30: Search for dark matter with Fermi: Elliott Bloom, KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford University
• 11:30-12:00: Search for dark matter with AMS: Bruna Bertucci, Università degli Studi di Perugia and INFN
• 12:00-1:00: Lunch, Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom Salon A (3rd floor room 306)
• 1:00-1:30: Complementarity of searches for dark matter at colliders, via indirect detection and direct searches: Tim Tait, UC Irvine
• 1:30-2:00: The Dark Energy Survey: Keith Bechtol, University of Chicago
• 2:00-2:30: SUSY dark matter and the LHC: Leszek Roszkowski, University of Sheffield/National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw
• 2:30-3:00: Search for dark matter with XENON: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
• 3:00-3:15: Coffee break

3:15-7:00pm, Tests of Inflation (Dimitri Nanopoulos, Chair)

• 3:15-3:45: Planck and inflation: Olivier Doré, JPL/Caltech
• 3:45-4:15: Natural inflation after the Planck satellite: Katherine Freese, University of Michigan
• 4:15-4:45: A no-scale framework for Sub-Planckian physics: Dimitri Nanopoulos, Texas A&M University

4:45-7:00pm: Update on Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and New Methods to Detect Dark Matter (David Caldwell, Chair)

• 4:45-5:05: Galaxy clustering as a dark energy probe: Yun Wang, University of Oklahoma
• 5:05-5:25: DarkSide-50: performance and results from the first atmospheric argon run: Luca Grandi, University of Chicago
• 5:25-6:00: The GAPS experiment to detect anti-Deuterium: Chuck Hailey, Columbia
• 6:00-6:25: Searches for dark matter and new physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Matthew Wood, SLAC/Stanford
• 6:05-6:30: Indirect detection of dark matter -- experimental progress and prospects: James Buckley, Washington University in St. Louis

7:00-8:00pm: Reception, Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom Salon A (3rd floor room 306)

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Thursday February 27, 2014, 8:00-9:40am: Indirect Detection of Dark Matter: Fermi-LAT, ACTs, etc. (Elliott Bloom, Chair)

• 8:00-8:25: Fermi Milky Way dwarf galaxy measurements and strong dark matter limits: Alex Drlica-Wagner, Fermilab
• 8:25-8:50: Fermi narrow line search and status of the 130 GeV line: Andrea Albert, SLAC-KIPAC
• 8:50-9:10: The lattening of the concentration-mass relation towards low halo masses and its implications for the annihilation signal boost: Miguel Sanchez-Conde, KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford University
• 9:10-9:35: Fermi’s galactic center results: Simona Murgia, UC Irvine
• 9:35-9:50: The indirect detection of dark matter at the galactic center: Tim Linden, University of Chicago
• 9:50-10:05: Anomalous gamma-rays from the Galactic Center and Inner Galaxy, interpreted as annihilating dark matter: Dan Hooper, Fermilab
• 10:05-10:25: Dark matter interpretations of extended gamma ray emission from the galactic center: Shunsaku Horiuchi, UC Irvine
• 10:25-10:40: Dark matter, the galactic center and Fermi bubbles not from the galactic center: Wim de Boer, KIT, Karlsruhe
• 10:40-10:55: Coffee break

10:55am-12:00pm: Search for Axions (Pierre Sikivie, Chair)

• 10:55-11:15: New ways to search for axion dark matter: Peter W. Graham, Stanford University
• 11:15-11:35: ADMX: An ultra-sensitive search for dark-matter axions: Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington
• 11:35-11:50: The current status of ADMX-HF: Gianpaolo Carosi, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• 11:50-12:10: Mainly axion cold dark matter from natural SUSY: Howard Baer, University of Oklahoma
• 12:10-12:30: Axions and the galactic angular momentum distribution: Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida
• 12:30-12:45: Search for Axion-like particle signatures in gamma-ray spectra: Manuel Meyer, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University
• 12:45-1:30: Lunch, Carnesale Commons, Palisades Room

1:30-4:00pm: Search for sterile neutrino and astrophysical dark matter (George Fuller, Chair)

• 1:30-1:55: The AMS-02 cosmic ray spectra, implications on dark matter, local pulsar and supernova remnant sources: Ilias Cholis, Fermilab
• 1:55-2:15: Dark matter halos from primordial black holes: Michael Hawkins, University of Edinburgh
• 2:15-2:35: Primordial black hole dark matter, motivation and new limits from the Kepler Satellite: Kim Griest, UC San Diego
• 2:35-2:55: Sterile neutrino dark matter: George Fuller, UC San Diego
• 2:55-3:15: Dark sectors searches at BABAR: Bertrand Echenard, Caltech
• 3:15-3:35: The heavy photon search experiment: Per Hansson Adrian, SLAC
• 3:35-3:55: Coffee break

3:55-6:45pm: Dark Matter Theory (Katherine Freese, Chair)

• 3:55-4:25: The nuclear physics of dark matter scattering: Wick Haxton, UC Berkeley
• 4:25-4:45: Low mass WIMPs: Graciela Gelmini, UCLA
• 4:45-5:05: Electroweak cogenesis: Yue Zhang, Caltech
• 5:05-5:25: Simplified models of mixed dark matter: David Sanford, Caltech
• 5:25-5:45: Light dark matter: motivation, theory, ongoing search: Alexander Kusenko, UCLA
• 5:45-6:05: The impact of a 126 GeV Higgs on the neutralino mass: Conny Beskidt, KIT, IEKP, Karlsruhe
• 6:05-6:25: Standard model anatomy of WIMP dark matter direct detection and WIMP-nucleon scattering with heavy WIMP effective theory: Richard Hill, University of Chicago
• 6:25-6:45: Status of self-interacting dark matter and warm dark matter at the scale of dwarf galaxies: Jesús Zavala Franco, Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen
• 6:45-7:05: Identifying dark matter interaction with Mono-X searches: Yuhsin Tsai, UC Davis

7:45-9:00pm: Banquet, UCLA Faculty Center, California Room

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Friday February 28, 2014, 8:00-12:00pm: Direct searches for dark matter and new labs

Low mass WIMPs (Bernard Sadoulet, Chair)

• 8:00-8:15: DAMIC: Javier Tiffenberg, Fermilab
• 8:15-8:30: Recent status of the CDEX experiment: Qian Yue, Tsinghua University
• 8:30-8:45: Detecting sub-GeV dark matter through electron recoil: Jeremy Mardon, Stanford University
• 8:45-9:00: Recent results: The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search II (CDMS II): Peter Redl, Stanford
• 9:00-9:15: Results from SuperCDMS: Lauren Hsu, Fermilab
• 9:15-9:25: Coffee break

Massive WIMPs (David Caldwell, Chair)

• 9:25-9:45: Results of the first underground run of the LUX dark matter experiment: Carmen Carmona, UC Santa Barbara
• 9:45-10:00: Update on the COUPP60 detector: Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab
• 10:00-10:15: The DarkSide-50 detector and its cryogenics: Yury Suvorov, UCLA
• 10:15-10:30: ArDM: the first ton-scale double phase argon Time Projection Chamber for dark matter searches: Roberto Santorelli, CIEMAT - Madrid
• 10:30-10:45: Beyond the discovery phase: multi-tonne scale WIMP detector experiments: Jayden Newstead, Arizona State University
• 10:45-11:00: The DarkSide-G2 experiment at LNGS: Emilija Pantic, UC Davis/UCLA

Upcoming detectors and calibration (Hanguo Wang, Chair)

• 11:00-11:15: PICO-2L: A bubble chamber to search for light WIMPs: Russell Neilson, University of Chicago
• 11:15-11:30: DEAP-3600: Fabrice Retiere, TRIUMF
• 11:30-11:45: New dark matter detector using DNA for nanometer tracking: Alejandro Lopez, University of Michigan
• 11:45-12:00: SABRE - a new NaI(Tl) dark matter experiment: Jingke Xu, Princeton University
• 12:00-12:15: Neutron Calibration of the XENON100 Detector - Modelling Footprints of the WIMP: Marc Weber, MPIK
• 12:15-12:30: The origins and distributions of the backgrounds in the LUX dark matter experiment: Simon Fiorucci, Brown University
• 12:30-12:45: Calibration of the LUX dark matter detector: James Verbus, Brown University
• 12:45-1:00: NEST: Modeling the underlying physics of nobles: Matthew Szydagis, UC Davis (Original Powerpoint file with animation)
• 1:00-1:15: SCENE results for liquid Argon: Field dependence of scintillation and ionization from nuclear recoils: Charles Huajie Cao (Princeton, on behalf of the SCENE Collaboration)
• 1:15-2:15: Lunch, Covel Commons, Grand Horizon Ballroom Salon A (3rd floor room 306)

New laboratories and methods session I (Blas Cabrera, Chair)

• 2:15-2:30: LUX-Zeplin: Harry Nelson, UC Santa Barbara
• 2:30-2:45: XMASS experiment - status and results: Ko Abe, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
• 2:45-3:00: DM-ICE: Walter Pettus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 3:00-3:15: Directional recoil identification from tracks (DRIFT) experiment: Daniel Snowden-Ifft, Occidental
• 3:15-3:30: The DRIFT-III directional detector and progress in construction of the new Boulby Underground Laboratory: Neil Spooner, University of Sheffield

New very large detectors (Cristiano Galbiati, Chair)

• 3:30-3:45: SuperCDMS SNOLAB: Ben Loer, Fermilab
• 3:45-4:00: DARWIN: Giuliana Fiorillo, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" and INFN
• 4:00-4:15: Current status of the PandaX at the Jinping Underground Lab in China: Xiangdong Ji, University of Maryland/Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 4:15-4:30: The multi-ton XENON program at the Gran Sasso Laboratory: Guillaume Plante, Columbia
• 4:30-4:45: Coffee break

New laboratories and methods session II (Rene Ong, Chair)

• 4:45-5:00: The recent status and prospects of China Jinping Underground Laboratory: Qian Yue, Tsinghua University
• 5:00-5:15: Recent results of the solid xenon detector R & D at Fermilab: Jonghee Yoo, Fermilab
• 5:15-5:30: Recent progress from the DMTPC directional dark matter experiment: Cosmin Deaconu, MIT
• 5:30-5:45: XMASS, present and future development: Shigetaka Moriyama, University of Tokyo
• 5:45-6:00: A search for low-mass WIMPs with MALBEK: J.F. Wilkerson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/ORNL
• 6:00-6:15: The EDELWEISS-III experiment: Gilles Gerbier, IRFU-CEA Saclay
• 6:15-6:30: Latest developments in PMTs for low temperature operation: Yuji Hotta, Hamamatsu Photonics USA

6:30-7:30: Panel on the future of the Dark Matter search: discussion topics (Frank Calaprice, Chair)

Panel participants: Elliott Bloom (KIPAC-SLAC, Stanford University), Katherine Freese (University of Michigan), Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University), Richard Gaitskell (Brown University), Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley), Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida), Elena Aprile (Columbia University)

• What is the evidence that the dark matter of the galaxy is particles and not just normal (but dark) matter (a lot of black holes or smaller cold baryonic clumps), or is it just a MOND-inspired type of new gravitational force?
How should the hints of low mass dark matter influence the future of direct detection experiments? Should we be in a rush to build multi-ton detectors for high mass?
• If the 2014 - 2015 LHC run fails to find a dark matter signal, does this change the strategy for direct dark matter detection or indirect detection experiments?
• If SUSY is not found at the LHC, how can direct and indirect detection experiments be most useful in further restricting the possible phase space? Does the discovery of low mass dark matter exclude SUSY? How about the discovery of axions as the bulk of dark matter? Does the Higgs boson mass tell us anything about the WIMP mass?

Close of meeting

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