Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection
28 May 2015, 08:00
→
1 Jun 2015, 18:00
Israel
Ha Goshrim, Israel
Ha Goshrim, Israel
Thursday 28 May
Thu 28 May
Fri 29 May
Sat 30 May
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Trip
Friday 29 May
Thu 28 May
Fri 29 May
Sat 30 May
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Overview
Convener
:
Tomer Volansky
(
Tel Aviv University (IL)
)
1
Welcome
2
New Directions in Searching for DM beyond the WIMP
Speaker
:
Maxim Pospelov
(
Perimeter Institute
)
Slides
3
Theory Overview for beyond WIMP
Speaker
:
Kathryn Zurek
(
LBNL
)
Slides
Coffee Break
Structure Formation and Self-Interactions
Convener
:
Tomer Volansky
(
Tel Aviv University (IL)
)
4
Self-interacting dark matter: Astrophysics
Speaker
:
Sean Tulin
(
York University
)
Slides
5
Structure Formation in the LCDM Cosmology: Successes and Challenges
Speaker
:
Dekel Avishai
(
Hebrew University
)
Slides
6
Discussion
Speaker
:
Kathryn Zurek
(
LBNL
)
Lunch Break
Structure Formation and Self-Interactions
Convener
:
Jeremy Mardon
(
Stanford
)
7
Evidence for Dark Matter Self-Interactions via Collisionless Shocks in Cluster Mergers
Speaker
:
Martti Raidal
(
University of Tartu
)
Slides
8
Self-interacting dark matter: Models and Signatures
Speaker
:
Hai-Bo Yu
(
UC Riverside
)
Slides
9
Double-Disk Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Andrey Katz
(
University of Geneva and CERN
)
Slides
Coffee Break
Models
Convener
:
Oren Slone
(
TAU
)
10
Models of Self-Interacting and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Tim Tait
(
UC Irvine
)
Slides
11
Models of Light DM
Speaker
:
Josh Ruderman
(
NYU
)
Slides
12
A Cosmological Solution to the Hierarchy Problem
Speaker
:
David Kaplan
(
Johns Hopkins
)
13
Discussion
Speaker
:
Maxim Pospelov
(
Perimeter
)
Saturday 30 May
Thu 28 May
Fri 29 May
Sat 30 May
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
Convener
:
Rouven Essig
(
Stony Brook
)
14
Introduction to DD and Searching for Light DM in Noble Liquids
Speaker
:
Ranny Budnik
(
Weizmann
)
Slides
15
Light DM at LUX
Speaker
:
Aaron Manalaysay
(
UC Davis
)
Slides
16
Semi-conductor probes of sub-GeV Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Tien-Tien Yu
(
Stony Brook
)
Slides
Coffee Break
Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter
Convener
:
Rouven Essig
(
Stony Brook
)
17
Light DM at (Super)CDMS
Speakers
:
Jodi Cooley
(
SMU
)
,
Matt Pyle
(
UC Berkeley
)
Slides
18
Light DM at DAMIC
Speaker
:
Javier Tiffenberg
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
19
Discussion
Speaker
:
Enactali Figueroa-Feliciano
Lunch Break
Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas
Convener
:
Peter Sorensen
(
LBNL
)
20
Using XENON100 to Probe DM-Induced Electronic Recoils
Speaker
:
Rafael Lang
(
Purdue University
)
Slides
21
Using Molecules to probe sub-GeV Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Oren Slone
(
Tel-Aviv University
)
Slides
22
Searches for Millicharged Particles
Speaker
:
Eder IZAGUIRRE
(
Perimeter
)
Slides
Coffee Break
Detection of Light Dark Matter: New Ideas
Convener
:
Peter Sorensen
(
LBNL
)
23
Halo-Independent DD Analyses without Mass Assumptions
Speaker
:
Patrick Fox
(
Fermilab
)
Slides
24
Searching for Light Hidden Sectors with Electron Beams
Speaker
:
Gordan Krnjaic
(
Perimeter
)
Slides
25
Discussion
Speaker
:
Michele Papucci
(
LBNL
)
Workshop Dinner
Sunday 31 May
Thu 28 May
Fri 29 May
Sat 30 May
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Trip
Axions & Hidden Photons
Convener
:
Yael Shadmi
(
Technion
)
26
Dark Photon Dark Matter: Theory and Constraints
Speaker
:
Josef Pradler
(
Austrian Academy of Sciences
)
Slides
27
New Avenues to Search for Hidden Photons
Speaker
:
Jeremy Mardon
(
Stanford
)
Slides
28
Solar WISPS
Speaker
:
Javier Redondo
(
Max Planck
)
Slides
29
Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter
Speaker
:
Yang Bai
(
University of Wisconsin-Madison
)
Slides
Discussion over Beer
Monday 1 June
Thu 28 May
Fri 29 May
Sat 30 May
Sun 31 May
Mon 1 Jun
Indirect Detection
Convener
:
Alessandro Strumia
(
Pisa
)
30
Indirect Detection: a Status Update on Anomalies
Speaker
:
Tracy Slatyer
(
MIT
)
Slides
31
Selected Fermi Results
Speaker
:
Simona Murgia
(
UC Irvine
)
32
Exploring Contributions of Unresolved Point Sources to the GeV Excess
Speaker
:
Mariangela Lisanti
(
Princeton
)
33
New Limits on Dark Matter Scenarios from Neutrino Telescopes
Speaker
:
Alejandro Ibarra
(
TUM
)
34
Discussion
Speaker
:
Marco Cirelli
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