TeV Particle Astrophysics 2013

from Monday, August 26, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, August 29, 2013 (7:30 PM)
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Aug 26, 2013
Aug 27, 2013
Aug 28, 2013
Aug 29, 2013
AM
7:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:30 AM
Plenary (until 10:30 AM) (Auditorium)
8:30 AM Results from IceCube - Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
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9:00 AM Latest news on ANTARES and KM3NeT Observatories - Alexandre Creusot (APC, France)  
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9:30 AM Radio detection of cosmic rays with LOFAR - Stijn Buitink  
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10:00 AM The interplay of cosmic rays and gamma rays - Daniel Castro (MIT)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary (until 12:30 PM) (Auditorium)
11:00 AM Probing the Very High Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - David Williams (UCSC)  
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11:30 AM A Non-Thermal View of the Galactic Center - Roland Crocker (Monash University)  
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12:00 PM Observations of Fermi bubbles and Evidence for Past Activities in the Galactic Center - Meng Su (MIT)  
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7:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:30 AM
Plenary (until 10:30 AM) (Auditorium)
8:30 AM Auger - Markus Roth (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)  
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9:00 AM Results from the Telesope Array Experiment - Charles Jui  
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9:30 AM What can we learn about the ultra-high energy cosmic-ray origin from the present results by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory? - Shigeru Yoshida (Chiba University)  
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10:00 AM Radio Askaryan Neutrino Telescopes - Amy CONNOLLY  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary (until 12:30 PM) (Auditorium)
11:00 AM Recent results from the AMS-02 experiment - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawaii)  
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11:30 AM CREAM - Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)  
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12:00 PM Probing Galactic Cosmic Ray Origins with the SuperTIGER Long-Duration Balloon Instrument - John Mitchell (NASA)  
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7:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:30 AM
Plenary (until 10:30 AM) (Auditorium)
8:30 AM Galactic GeV overview - Terri Brandt (NASA)  
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9:00 AM Galactic TeV overview - Emma De Ona Wilhelmi (ICE, Spain)  
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9:30 AM Extragalactic gamma-ray overview - Yoshiyuki Inoue (SLAC)  
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10:00 AM The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary (until 12:30 PM) (Auditorium)
11:00 AM Cosmic ray propagation - Troy Porter (Stanford University)  
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11:30 AM Indirect detection of dark matter: gamma-ray overview I - Robert Johnson (UC Santa Cruz)  
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12:00 PM Indirect detection of dark matter: gamma-ray overview II - Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)  
7:00 AM --- Breakfast ---
8:30 AM
Plenary (until 10:30 AM) (Auditorium)
8:30 AM Recent Results from the LHC - David Berge (CERN)  
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9:00 AM Collider implications for dark matter - Roni Harnik (Fermilab)  
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9:30 AM What do we learn from the recent cosmic-ray positron measurements? - Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science)  
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10:00 AM Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter - Stefano Profumo (UCSC)  
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10:30 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 AM
Plenary (until 12:30 PM) (Auditorium)
11:00 AM Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Hints, Exclusions, and Future - Enectali Figueroa (MIT)  
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11:30 AM Direct detection with noble liquids - Dan McKinsey (Yale University)  
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12:00 PM Direct detection in China - Kaixuan Ni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)  
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PM
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM
High-energy neutrino - Elisa Resconi (Technische Universität München) Kara Hoffman (University of Maryland) (until 4:00 PM) (Huntington)
2:00 PM Searches for Point and Extended Sources of Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector - Jake Feintzeig  
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2:24 PM Search for Neutrinos form Gamma-Ray Bursts with ANTARES - Julia Schmid  
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2:48 PM Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma Ray Bursts with IceCube - Mike Richman  
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3:12 PM Search for correlation of high-energy starting events in IceCube with GRBs - Ignacio Taboada  
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3:36 PM Neutrino-Induced Cascades with IceCube - Joanna Kiryluk   (Huntington)
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2:00 PM
Multi-wavelength studies of Galactic sources - Tesla Jeltema (UCSC) Meng Su (MIT) Greg Dobler (UCSB) (until 4:00 PM) (Auditorium)
2:00 PM VERITAS Galactic Physics - Farzaneh Sheidaei  
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2:24 PM The TeV Gamma-ray Milky Way as seen by H.E.S.S. - Christoph Deil  
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2:48 PM TeV and GeV emitting supernova remnants: radio observations - Denis Leahy  
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3:12 PM Dark matter Bremsstrahlung gamma ray signatures - Gabrijela Zaharijas  
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3:36 PM Pulsar-wind Nebulae as a Dominant Population of Galactic VHE Sources - Blagoy Rangelov  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation - Igor Moskalenko (Stanford) Rene Ong (UCLA) Mirko Boezio (INFN Trieste) (until 6:30 PM) (Auditorium)
4:30 PM Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere - Jack Jokipii  
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4:54 PM Heliospheric modulation of CRs - Pavol Bobik  
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5:18 PM Constraints on Galactic Cosmic-Ray Origins from Elemental and Isotopic Composition Measurements - Walter Binns  
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5:42 PM Measuring Antimatter over Antarctica: Results from the BESS-Polar Program - John Mitchell Akira Yamamoto  
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6:06 PM The PAMELA Experiment: Seven Years of Cosmic Rays Investigation - Mirko Boezio  
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4:30 PM
High-energy neutrino - Kara Hoffman (University of Maryland) Elisa Resconi (Technische Universität München) (until 6:30 PM)
4:30 PM Analysis of the High-Energy Starting Events in IceCube - Claudio Kopper  
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4:54 PM Demystifying the PeV Cascades in IceCube: Less (Energy) is More (Events) - Ranjan Laha  
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5:18 PM Performance of the ARIANNA Neutrino Telescope - Corey Reed  
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5:42 PM Reconstructing Askaryan Electric Fields in ARIANNA - Jordan Hanson  
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6:06 PM PRIDE – Passive Radio Ice Depth Experiment - An Instrument to Measure Outer Planet Lunar Ice Depths from Orbit using Neutrinos - Tim Miller  
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6:30 PM --- Reception ---
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation - Mirko Boezio (INFN Trieste) Igor Moskalenko (Stanford) Rene Ong (UCLA) (until 4:00 PM) (Auditorium)
2:00 PM Propagation of cosmic rays - Vladimir Ptuskin  
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2:24 PM Brief review of ATIC results on nuclei and electrons - John Wefel  
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2:48 PM Cosmic Rays with VERITAS - David Staszak  
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3:12 PM Cosmic Ray Studies with MAGIC - Sara Rebecca Gozzini  
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3:36 PM PeV Cosmic Rays measured by IceCube/IceTop - Serap Tilav  
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2:00 PM
Ultra-high-energy messengers - Markus Ahlers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech) (until 4:00 PM) (Huntington)
2:00 PM Extreme Energy Particles with JEM-EUSO - Angela Olinto  
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2:30 PM Measuring Potential Noise Backgrounds for the Telescope Array Radar (TARA) near Long Ridge, UT - Jordan Hanson  
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3:00 PM The development of remote receiver stations for TARA - Samridha Kunwar  
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3:30 PM Anisotropy studies with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Miguel Mostafa  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
Particle physics - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) Xiaojun Bi (IHEP, China) Enectali Figueroa (MIT) Roni Harnik (Fermilab) Xiaojun Bi (IHEP, China) Enectali Figueroa (MIT) Roni Harnik (Fermilab) Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) (until 5:42 PM) (Auditorium)
4:30 PM Electroweak Cogenesis - Yue Zhang  
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4:54 PM Self-interacting dark matter in a non-abelian hidden sector - Boddy Kimberly  
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5:18 PM Particle Physics Implications and Constraints on Dark Matter Interpretations of the CDMS Signal - Alexander Wijangco  
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4:30 PM
Ultra-high-energy messengers - Markus Ahlers (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech) (until 6:30 PM) (Huntington)
4:30 PM Mass composition studies with Pierre Auger Observatory - Alessio Porcelli  
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5:00 PM Measurements of the muon content of air showers and search for ultra-high energy neutrinos and photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ines Valino  
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5:30 PM Probing cosmic-ray origin with the cosmogenic neutrino searches with IceCube - Aya Ishihara  
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6:00 PM Neutrino transport in accretion disks - Ye-Fei Yuan (Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation - Mirko Boezio (INFN Trieste) Igor Moskalenko (Stanford) Rene Ong (UCLA) (until 4:00 PM) (Auditorium)
2:00 PM Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) status report - Stephane Coutu  
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2:24 PM The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) for High Energy Astroparticle Physics on the International Space Station - Shoji Torii  
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2:48 PM The DAMPE Space Mission - Xin Wu  
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3:12 PM Cosmic ray physics with the GAMMA-400 experiment - Paolo Cumani  
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3:36 PM Results From the pGAPS Test Flight - Isaac Mognet  
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2:00 PM
Indirect searches for dark matter - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University) Tracy Slatyer (MIT) (until 4:00 PM) (Huntington)
2:00 PM The VERITAS Dark Matter Program - Benjamin Zitzer  
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2:20 PM Constraints on dark matter annihilation and decay in the Milky Way halo - Gabrijela Zaharijas  
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2:40 PM Dark Matter constraints from Fermi-LAT inner Galaxy measurements - German Gomez Vargas Miguel SANCHEZ-CONDE  
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3:00 PM The 135 GeV Fermi Line and MiDM/RayDM at the LHC - Brian Shuve  
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3:20 PM Indirect Search for Light Dark Matter with X-rays - Michael Loewenstein  
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3:40 PM Analysis of dark matter and astrophysical interpretations for excess extended gamma ray emission in Galactic center - Nicolas Canac  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
High-energy gamma rays - Brenda Dingus (LANL) Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin, Madison) (until 6:30 PM) (Auditorium)
4:30 PM The Impact of Gamma-ray Halos on the Angular Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background - Tonia Venters  
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4:54 PM The measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe from gamma-ray attenuation - Alberto Dominguez  
5:18 PM Constraining emission models with observations of the highest-energy gamma rays from the exceptional GRB 130427A - Taylor Aune  
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5:42 PM Search for high energy emission from GRBs with the HAWC Observatory - Dmitry Zaborov  
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6:06 PM Multi-Wavelength Study of HESS J1809-193: Suzaku and Chandra Observations of the North-East Extension - Blagoy Rangelov  
4:30 PM
Indirect searches for dark matter - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University) Tracy Slatyer (MIT) (until 6:30 PM) (Huntington)
4:30 PM Indirect WIMP Searches with Super-Kamiokande - Michael Smy  
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4:50 PM The Effective Theory of Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Mathieu Cliche  
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5:10 PM Cold dark matter halo concentrations and their implications for substructure annihilation boosts - Miguel Sanchez-Conde  
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5:30 PM The TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy from Local Dark Matter Annihilation - Patrick Harding  
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5:50 PM Resolving small-scale Dark Matter structures using multi-source Indirect Detection - Kenny Chun Yu Ng  
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6:10 PM Gamma-ray Probes of Dark Matter Halo Substructure - Sheldon Campbell  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch Break ---
2:00 PM
High-energy gamma rays - Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Brenda Dingus (LANL) (until 4:00 PM) (Auditorium)
2:00 PM The Fermi bubbles: foreground subtraction and energy spectrum - Dmitry Malyshev  
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2:24 PM Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert  
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2:48 PM A GeV Gamma-Ray Spectral Feature in the Inner Galaxy - Tracy Slatyer  
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3:12 PM Disentangling Hadronic and Leptonic Cascade Scenarios from the Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Emission of Hard-spectrum Blazars - Hajime Takami  
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3:36 PM Neutron-Proton-Conversion Acceleration at Subphotospheres of Relativistic Outflows - Kazumi Kashiyama  
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2:00 PM
Particle physics - Xiaojun Bi (IHEP, China) Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) Enectali Figueroa (MIT) Roni Harnik (Fermilab) (until 4:00 PM) (Huntington)
2:00 PM Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) - Surjeet Rajendran  
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2:24 PM Astrophysics-independent analysis of direct detection data - Paolo Gondolo  
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2:48 PM Direct Detection of Self-interacting Dark Matter - Hai-bo Yu  
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3:12 PM First results on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 by the GERDA experiment - Grzegorz Zuzel  
3:36 PM The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation - Mariangela Lisanti  
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4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM
High-energy gamma rays - Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Brenda Dingus (LANL) (until 6:30 PM) (Auditorium)
4:30 PM Relativistic MHD Simulations of Ponyting Flux-Driven Jets - Xiaoyue Guan  
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4:54 PM The Gamma-ray Spectrum of PKS 1424+240, the Most Distant TeV Source - David Williams  
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5:18 PM Multi-Messenger Tests of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers  
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5:42 PM Secondary photons and neutrinos from distant blazars and the intergalactic magnetic fields - Warren Essey  
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6:06 PM Long-term Optical Study of Extragalactic TeV sources - Omar Kurtanidze  
4:30 PM
Particle physics - Xiaojun Bi (IHEP, China) Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton) Enectali Figueroa (MIT) Roni Harnik (Fermilab) (until 6:30 PM) (Huntington)
4:30 PM Baryogenesis for WIMPs - Yanou Cui  
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4:54 PM Imprints of Non-thermal Wino dark matter on Small-Scale Structure - Ayuki Kamada  
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5:18 PM Kinetic Decoupling of Dark Matter in Effective Theories - William SHEPHERD  
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5:42 PM Implementing Simplified Models in the Search for Dark Matter - Anthony Difranzo  
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6:06 PM Prospects and Blind Spots for Neutralino Dark Matter - David Pinner  
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