42nd SLAC Summer Institute

from Monday 4 August 2014 (08:30) to Friday 15 August 2014 (21:45)
SLAC (Kavli Auditorium)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Aug 2014
5 Aug 2014
6 Aug 2014
7 Aug 2014
8 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014
12 Aug 2014
13 Aug 2014
14 Aug 2014
15 Aug 2014
AM
08:30 --- Registration and Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Dark Matter and Why We Believe in it ? - Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Cosmology Basics (I) - Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Cosmology Basics (II) - Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)   (Kavli Auditorium)
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Cosmology Basics (III) - Dr Scott Dodelson (fermilab)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Particle Dark Matter (I) - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Search for Dark Matter at the LHC (I) - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Particle Dark Matter (II) - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)   (Kavli Auditorium)
10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Search for Dark Matter at the LHC (II) - Daniel Whiteson (University of California Irvine (US))   (Kavli Auditorium)
11:45 Particle Dark Matter (III) - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)   (Kavli Auditorium)
08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Structure Formation (I) - Prof. Tom Abel (SLAC)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter (I) - Louis Strigari (Indianna University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Overview - Prof. Dan Akerib (SLAC)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Structure Formation (II) - Prof. Tom Abel (SLAC)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Astrophysical Constraints on Dark Matter (II) - Louis Strigari (Indiana University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Noble Liquid - Prof. Dan Akerib (SLAC)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter (I) - Simona Vegetti (MPA Garching)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Solid State - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (I) - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech)   (Kavli Auditorium)
galaxy evolution sim movie
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Lensing Constraints on Dark Matter (II) - Simona Vegetti (MPA Garching)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Low Background Techniques - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Indirect Detection of Dark Matter (II) - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Dark Matter in the CMB - Tracy Slatyer (MIT)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Axions: Theory - Michael Dine (UC Santa Cruz)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Axions: Experiments - Leslie Rosenberg (University of Washington)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Dark Matter in the Milky Way - Jo Bovy (IAS)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Dark Sectors - Natalia Toro (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 Dark Photon Searches - Mathew Graham (SLAC)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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08:30 --- Light Refreshments ---
09:00
Lectures (until 12:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
09:00 Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters - Marusa Bradac (UC Davis)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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10:00 --- Morning Break ---
10:30 Complementarity of Dark Matter - Tim Tait (University of California, Irvine)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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11:45 The Road Ahead - Neal Weiner (NYU)   (Kavli Auditorium)
PM
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference I (until 17:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Results from EXO - Igor Ostrovskiy (Stanford University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:15 Results from T2K - Prof. Eric D. Zimmerman (University of Colorado)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Results from LHCb - Matthew John Charles (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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16:35 Searches for Dark Matter and Other Results from the B-Factories - Frank Porter (Caltech)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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18:00 --- Reception ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:50) (ROB Redwood Room)
14:45 Q & A   (ROB Redwood Room)
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Project kick-off   (ROB Redwood Room)
18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference II (until 17:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Physics of the Higgs Boson at the LHC - Jim Olsen (Princeton University (US))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:15 Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model at the LHC - Mark Stephen Cooke (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Directional Detection of Dark Matter with DRIFT - Dinesh Loomba (University of New Mexico)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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16:35 Results from Cosmic Ray Experiments - Prof. Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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18:00 --- Poster Social ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:50) (Redwood Room)
14:45 Q & A   (Redwood Room)
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Project work   (Redwood Room)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Special Topic Session (until 18:35) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Particle Fever: The Movie   (Kavli Auditorium)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference III (until 17:45) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Results from the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope - Miguel Sanchez-Conde (SLAC/Stanford)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:15 Results from IceCube - Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:45 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:05 Anomalies in the Indirect Detection of Dark Matter - Dr Dan Hooper (fermilab)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Discussions (until 17:45) (ROB Redwood Room)
14:45 Q & A   (ROB Redwood Room)
16:00 --- Afternoon Break ---
16:30 Projects   (ROB Redwood Room)
18:00 --- Poster Social ---
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:45
Topical Conference IV (until 17:05) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:45 Results from DES - Tesla Jeltema (University of California, Santa Cruz)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:15 Results from BOSS - Florian Beutler (LBNL)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:45 Polarization in the CMB - Prof. Chao-Lin Kuo (SLAC/Stanford)   (Kavli Auditorium)
16:15 --- Afternoon Break ---
17:30 Soccer   (Arillaga Recreation Center)
12:45 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Project Presentations (until 18:00) (Kavli Auditorium)
14:00 Team 1a: Direct detection below neutrino floor - Adam Davis (University of Cincinnati (US))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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14:18 Team 1b: Direct detection below neutrino floor - Jayden Newstead (Arizona State University) Dan Jardin (Southern Methodist University) Alden Fan (UCLA)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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14:36 Team 3: Devise prediction using Dark Sky simulation - Andrew Scacco (UC Davis) Devon Powell (Stanford)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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14:54 Team 5: DM signal vs astrophysical sources - Anna Kwa (UC Irvine) Helen Poon (Max Planck Institut fur Kernphysik) Mathieu Boudaud (LAPTh)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:12 Team 8: How to detect invisible Higgs decays - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:30 Team 10: LHC missing Et excess => DM signal ? - Cristian Ignacio Pena Herrera (California Institute of Technology (US)) Sebastian Liem (NIKHEF (NL))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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15:48 Team 11: Direct detection down to 100 MeV - Nadine Foerster (KIT) Geertje Heuermann (KIT)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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16:06 --- Afternoon break ---
16:24 Team 13: Maximum mass of DM particle - William Jay (University of Colorado) Elwin Martin (UCLA)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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16:42 Team 16: How to tell if axion is 20% of DM signal ? - Ignacio Izaguirre (MPP) Dustin Lorshbough (Univ of Texas, Austin) Daniel Egana (Rutgers University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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17:00 Team 17: Observations to distinguish CDM from other models - Stephen Portillo (Harvard University)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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17:18 Team 19: How to distinguish decaying and stable DM ? - Rebecca Carney (University of Edinburgh (GB)) Siim Tolk (NIKHEF (NL)) Lene Bryngemark (Lund University (SE))   (Kavli Auditorium)
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17:36 Team 20: Constrain density slope in the Milkyway - Hamish Silverwood (University of Amsterdam) Anjali Tripathi (Harvard University) Zachary Slepian (H) Weishi Li (Ohio State U)   (Kavli Auditorium)
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18:00 --- Dinner ---
12:45 --- - Adjourn - ---