Name: Dark Interactions 2022
Start: 2022-11-14T12:00:00-05:00
End: 2022-11-16T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Online

Dark Interactions 2022

from Monday, 14 November 2022 (12:00) to Wednesday, 16 November 2022 (19:00)

Monday, 14 November 2022

12:20 Welcome Address

12:20 - 12:30
12:30 Session I
12:30 - 13:30
Contributions

12:30 Dark Matter as General Thermal Relics - Yue Zhang (Carleton University)

13:00 Hunting for Dark Matter - Jacques Pienaar (University of Chicago)
13:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
13:30 - 13:45
13:45 Session II
13:45 - 14:45
Contributions

13:45 Signatures and Detection Prospects for sub-GeV Dark Matter with Superfluid Helium - Yining You (University of Florida)

14:00 Fast Moving Dark Matter Interacting with Electrons at Direct Detection Experiments - Haider Alhazmi

14:15 Direct Detection of sub-GeV Hadrophilic Dark Matter - Robert McGehee

14:30 Extending Dark Matter Search Down to Sub-GeV Mass Range - Shao-Feng Ge (TDLI-SJTU)
14:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:45 - 15:30
15:30 Session III
15:30 - 16:45
Contributions

15:30 Overview on Ultraheavy Dark Matter - Nirmal Raj (TRIUMF)

16:00 Constraints on the nature of dark matter from quadruply-imaged quasars - Daniel Gilman

16:15 Identifying the fundamental nature of dark matter in the cosmic large-scale structure - Keir Rogers

16:30 Dark Matter from a Conformal Dark Sector - Gowri Kurup (University of Oxford)
16:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:00
17:00 Session IV
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Mechanical quantum sensing for dark matter: heavy, light, and ultra-light - Daniel Carney (Berkeley National Lab)

17:30 New Constraints on the Profiles and Masses of Dark Matter and Cosmic Neutrinos through Precision Astrometry and Quantum Sensors - Yu-Dai Tsai (University of California, Irvine)

17:45 Stepped Dark Sectors and Cosmological Tensions - Melissa Joseph
Tuesday, 15 November 2022
12:20 Session I
12:20 - 13:35
Contributions

12:20 Cosmic Probes of the Dark Sector - Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (University of New Hampshire)

12:50 Gravitational wave radiation as a probe of dark sectors - Andrew Long (Rice University)

13:20 Motivations for a Large Self-Interacting Dark Matter Cross Section from Milky Way Satellites - Maya Silverman
13:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
13:35 - 13:50
13:50 Session II
13:50 - 15:25
Contributions

13:50 Long-Lived Particle Searches at the Large Hadron Collider - Matthias Danninger (Simon Fraser University (CA))

14:20 Overview of New physics searches at the Forward Physics Facility - Sebastian Trojanowski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

14:50 FASER at the LHC - Tobias Boeckh

15:10 Status of millIQan Run 3 Detector - Hualin Mei (Univ. of California Santa Barbara (US))
15:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:30
16:35 Session III
16:35 - 17:50
Contributions

16:35 Bounds on Long-lived Dark Matter Mediators from Neutron Stars - Thông Nguyễn Trần Quang

16:50 Thermal Misalignment of Ultralight dark matter - Mudit Rai

17:05 Bounds on ultralight bosons from the Event Horizon Telescope observation of Sgr A$^*$ - Priyank Parashari (Indian Institute of Science)

17:20 Faint light of old neutron stars from dark matter capture and detectability at the James Webb Space Telescope - Shiuli Chatterjee

17:35 A search for dark matter using sub-PeV $\gamma$-rays observed by Tibet AS$_{\gamma}$ - Akash Kumar Saha
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
12:20 Session I
12:20 - 13:35
Contributions

12:20 Recent Advances in Machine Learning for High Energy Physics - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))

12:50 CURTAINs for your sliding window - Debajyoti Sengupta (Universite de Geneve (CH))

13:05 Search for invisible Higgs bosons with interpretation for dark matter at the LHC using the ATLAS detector - Mohamed Zaazoua (Universite Mohammed V (MA))

13:20 Search for new spin-1 boson using ATLAS detector data - Xola Mapekula (University of Johannesburg (ZA))
13:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
13:35 - 13:50
13:50 Session II
13:50 - 14:50
Contributions

13:50 Pulsar Timing Arrays: The Next Window to Open on the Gravitational-Wave Universe - Chiara Mingarelli (University of Connecticut)

14:20 Opening up window of post-inflationary QCD axion - LINGFENG LI (Brown U.)

14:35 Massive Neutrinos, Light Relics, and Ultra-Light Axions in the Halo Bias - Nicholas DePorzio
14:50 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
14:50 - 15:35
15:35 Session III
15:35 - 16:35
Contributions

15:35 Searching for New Physics with Neutrino Experiments - Asli Abdullahi

16:05 Probing Neutrino Portal Dark Matter: From Colliders to Supernovae - Douglas Tuckler

16:20 Opportunities for Axion Searches at Beam Dumps and Stopped-Pion Facilities - Adrian Thompson
16:35 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:35 - 16:50
16:50 Session IV
16:50 - 17:50
Contributions

16:50 Do dark matter and neutrinos talk to each other? - Carlos A. Argüelles-Delgado (Harvard University)

17:20 Neutrinos from the Sun as a discovery tool for dark matter - electron scattering - Tarak Nath Maity (Indian Institute of Science)

17:35 Non-standard neutrino interactions in light mediator models at reactor experiments - Ankur Verma