Name: Aspen 2013 - Closing in on Dark Matter
Start: 2013-01-28T16:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-02-03T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Aspen Center for Physics

Aspen 2013 - Closing in on Dark Matter

from Monday, 28 January 2013 (16:00) to Sunday, 3 February 2013 (12:00)

Monday, 28 January 2013

17:00 Registration

17:00 - 19:00
Room: Flug Forum
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
08:00 Overview
08:00 - 09:35
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Welcome - Jodi Cooley

08:05 Direct Detection - Patrick Decowski

08:35 Indirect Detection - Dan Hooper

09:05 Theory and Phenomenology - Bhaskar Dutta
09:35 Break
Break
09:35 - 09:55
Room: Flug Forum
09:55 Direct Detection: 1
1
09:55 - 11:10
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:55 XENON - Emilija Pantic

10:20 SuperCDMS - Jeter Hall
11:10 Break
Break
11:10 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Theory-Pheno: 1
1
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Complementarity of Searches for Dark Matter - Tim Tait

16:55 On the annual modulations in direct-detection experiments and the DAMA results - Itay Yavin

17:20 Importance of upgraded energy reconstruction for direct dark matter searches with liquid xenon detectors - Peter Sorensen
17:45 Break
Break
17:45 - 18:15
Room: Flug Forum
18:15 Indirect Detection: 1
1
18:15 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

18:15 The Density & Velocity Structure of Dark Matter Halos - Risa Wechsler

18:40 Astrophysical simulations with baryons - Justin Read

19:05 Current and future insights on dark matter particle properties through strong gravitational lensing observations - Leonidas Moustakas
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
08:00 Direct Detection: 2
2
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Neutrino Backgrounds to Large Scale Dark Matter Detectors - Tali Figueroa

08:25 LUX - Rick Gaitskell

08:50 XENON 1T - Rafeal Lang
09:15 Break
Break
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Flug Forum
09:45 Indirect Detection: 2
2
09:45 - 11:50
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:45 Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi LAT - Alex Drlica-Wagner

10:10 Searches for TeV-scale dark matter - Sasha Belikov

10:35 Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation at the Galactic Center - Tim Linden

11:00 Joint dataset analysis and dark matter constraints from dwarf galaxies - Savvas Koushiappas

11:25 Cold Dark Matter vs Galactic Dynamics - Matthew Walker
11:50 Break
Break
11:50 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum

16:30 Physics Cafe

16:30 - 17:30
17:30 Public Lecture
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Searching for Dark Matter - Jim Peebles
Thursday, 31 January 2013
08:00 Direct Detection: 3
3
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 DAMA/LIBRA - Periluigi Belli

08:25 KIMS - Youngduk Kim

08:50 DM-ICE - Reina Maruyama
09:15 Break
Break
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Flug Forum
09:45 Indirect Detection: 3
3
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:45 XMASS - Kazuyoshi Kobayashi

10:10 Fermi-LAT Line Search, Systematic Issues and the 130GeV Feature - Eric Charles

10:35 Are the Fermi lines real? - Daniel Whiteson
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Theory-Pheno: 3
3
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 The Search for Dark Matter Debris - Mariangela Lisanti

16:55 Flavored Dark Matter: Direct Detection and Collider Signals - Zacharia Chacko

17:20 Dark Dynamics in Theory Space and Their Signals in Anomaly Space - Neal Weiner
17:45 Break
Break
17:45 - 18:15
Room: Flug Forum
18:15 Indirect Detection: 4
4
18:15 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

18:15 IceCube + Neutrino Searches - Carsten Rott

18:40 HAWC - John Pretz

19:05 AMS-02 - Andrei Kounine
19:30 Conference Dinner

19:30 - 21:00
Friday, 1 February 2013
08:00 Direct Detection: 4
4
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 Axion Overview - David Tanner

08:25 ADMX - Gianpaolo Carosi

08:50 CAST - Jaime Ruz Armendariz
09:15 Break
Break
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Flug Forum
09:45 Theory-Pheno: 4
4
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:45 Probing dark matter streams with direct detection experiments - Aravind Natarajan

10:10 Beyond Collisionless Dark Matter - Hai-bo Yu

10:35 Beyond CDM: The Cosmology of Atomic Dark Matter - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Theory-Pheno: 5
5
16:30 - 17:45
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 An Unexpected Journey: The Implications of the Detection of Continuum Energy Gamma-rays Consistent with Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center - Kevork Abazajian

16:55 Bubbles And Bumps: Disentangling Two Spectral Components In The Fermi Bubbles - Tracy Slatyer

17:20 Aspects of Iso-spin violating dark matter - Danny Marfatia
17:45 Break
Break
17:45 - 18:15
Room: Flug Forum
18:15 Indirect Detection: 5
5
18:15 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

18:15 Light dark matter: motivation, theory, ongoing search - Alex Kusenko

18:40 Local Dark Matter Density - Jo Bovy

19:05 Tidal streams - Raymond Carlberg
Saturday, 2 February 2013
08:00 Direct Detection: 5
5
08:00 - 09:15
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:00 COUPP - Russell Neilson

08:25 PandaX - Scott Stephenson

08:50 DM-TPC - James Battat
09:15 Break
Break
09:15 - 09:45
Room: Flug Forum
09:45 Indirect Detection: 6
6
09:45 - 11:00
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:45 The Quest for Dark Matter Signals and the gamma-ray sky: the low energy window - Aldo Morselli

10:10 CTA - Matthew Wood

10:35 Dark Matter Search Perspectives with Gamma-400 - Alex Moiseev
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 16:30
Room: Flug Forum
16:30 Theory-Pheno: 6
6
16:30 - 17:55
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

16:30 Axion, WIMP and collider search complementarity - Howie Baer

16:55 Dark Matter at Colliders - Lian-Tao Wang

17:20 ATLAS - Daniel Whiteson
17:55 Break
Break
17:55 - 18:15
Room: Flug Forum
18:15 Direct Detection: 6
6
18:15 - 19:30
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

18:15 DEAP/CLEAN - Kimberly Palladino

18:40 Future with Liquid Noble Detectors - Dan McKinsey

19:05 Future with Solid State Devices - Richard Schnee
Sunday, 3 February 2013
08:30 Collider
08:30 - 09:50
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

08:30 Axions and Radio Telescopes - Peter Quinn

08:50 Dark matter searches at CMS - Tai Sakuma

09:25 Search for dark matter and dark forces at BaBar - Bertrand Echenard
09:50 Closing
09:50 - 10:40
Room: Flug Forum
Contributions

09:50 Conference Highlights and Summary - Bernard Sadoulet