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Sterile neutrinos as Dark Matter

• Oleg Ruchayskiy

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Dark Matter in the Galaxy

• Michael Kuhlen (University of California, Berkeley)

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Hunting for Dark Matter at Colliders

• Roni Harnik (Fermilab)

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CERN-TH Colloquium - Dark matter annihilation and the CMB

• Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard University)

Room: TH Theory Conference Room The existence of dark matter has been hypothesized for decades, based on its gravitational effects on galaxies and galaxy clusters, and more recently, by measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy. Even though its gravitational effects are hardly subtle, astrophysicists continue to search in vain for any non-gravitational signs of dark matter. In the case of weakly interacting massive particle (WIMP) models, the most promising signals come from ongoing annihilation or decay of WIMPs to Standard Model particles. I will briefly review the possible astrophysical consequences of WIMP annihilation, and then concentrate on the most rigorous constraint from astrophysics: the effect of WIMP annihilation on the ionization history of the Universe, as recorded in the CMB. I will present our latest work on a robust, model-independent way of parameterizing these constraints, and show expected bounds from the Planck satellite.

Asymmetric DM and DM connection to baryogenesis

• Mads Frandsen (Oxford University)
• Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)

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Astrophysical uncertainties on Dark Matter Direct Detection results

• Anne Green (Nottingham)

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Asymmetric Minimal Dark Matter

• Eung Jin Chun (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

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Electroweak Baryogenesis and Dark matter with an approximate R-symmetry

• Piyush Kumar (University of Michigan)

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Sharp gamma-ray features and indirect detection

• Christoph Weniger (MPI for Physics, Munich, Germany)

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Isospin-violating Dark Matter

• Felix Kahlhoefer (University of Oxford)

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Axions as Dark Matter

• Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida)

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CERN-TH Colloquium: Status report on IceCube

• Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

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CERN Colloquium: 'The Cosmological Standard Model and Its Implications for Beyond the Standard Model of Particle Physics'

• Edward (Rocky) Kolb (University of Chicago)

Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium While the cosmological standard model has many notable successes, it assumes 95% of the mass-energy density of the universe is dark and of unknown nature, and there was an early stage of inflationary expansion driven by physics far beyond the range of the particle physics standard model. In the colloquium I will discuss potential particle-physics implications of the standard cosmological model.

Aspects of Dark Matter at colliders

• mihoko nojiri (KEK)

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Relic density, cosmology and collider data

• Alexandre Arbey (Universite Claude Bernard-Lyon I)

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The pulsar contribution to the gamma-ray background

• Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)

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Dark Matter in Very Low-Mass Stars

• Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

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SuSy after EPS 2011

• Alessandro Strumia (Pisa)

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