Beyond WIMPs: From Theory to Detection

from Thursday 28 May 2015 (08:00) to Monday 1 June 2015 (18:00)
Ha Goshrim, Israel

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
28 May 2015
29 May 2015
30 May 2015
31 May 2015
1 Jun 2015
AM
08:00
Trip (until 18:00) ()
09:00
Overview - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Welcome   ()
09:10 New Directions in Searching for DM beyond the WIMP - Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter Institute)   ()
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09:50 Theory Overview for beyond WIMP - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)   ()
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10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:00) ()
11:00
Structure Formation and Self-Interactions - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University (IL)) (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Self-interacting dark matter: Astrophysics - Sean Tulin (York University)   ()
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11:30 Structure Formation in the LCDM Cosmology: Successes and Challenges - Dekel Avishai (Hebrew University)   ()
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12:00 Discussion - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)   ()
09:00
Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter - Rouven Essig (Stony Brook) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Introduction to DD and Searching for Light DM in Noble Liquids - Ranny Budnik (Weizmann)   ()
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09:30 Light DM at LUX - Aaron Manalaysay (UC Davis)   ()
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10:00 Semi-conductor probes of sub-GeV Dark Matter - Tien-Tien Yu (Stony Brook)   ()
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10:30
Coffee Break (until 11:00) ()
11:00
Direct Detection of Light Dark Matter - Rouven Essig (Stony Brook) (until 12:40) ()
11:00 Light DM at (Super)CDMS - Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley) Jodi Cooley (SMU)   ()
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11:40 Light DM at DAMIC - Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab)   ()
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12:10 Discussion - Enactali Figueroa-Feliciano   ()
07:30
Trip (until 15:00) ()
09:00
Indirect Detection - Alessandro Strumia (Pisa) (until 11:30) ()
09:00 Indirect Detection: a Status Update on Anomalies - Tracy Slatyer (MIT)   ()
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09:30 Selected Fermi Results - Simona Murgia (UC Irvine)   ()
10:00 Exploring Contributions of Unresolved Point Sources to the GeV Excess - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton)   ()
10:30 New Limits on Dark Matter Scenarios from Neutrino Telescopes - Alejandro Ibarra (TUM)   ()
11:00 Discussion - Marco Cirelli   ()
PM
12:30
Lunch Break (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Structure Formation and Self-Interactions - Jeremy Mardon (Stanford) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 Evidence for Dark Matter Self-Interactions via Collisionless Shocks in Cluster Mergers - Martti Raidal (University of Tartu)   ()
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15:00 Self-interacting dark matter: Models and Signatures - Hai-Bo Yu (UC Riverside)   ()
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15:30 Double-Disk Dark Matter - Andrey Katz (University of Geneva and CERN)   ()
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16:00
Coffee Break (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Models - Oren Slone (TAU) (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Models of Self-Interacting and Strongly Interacting Dark Matter - Tim Tait (UC Irvine)   ()
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17:00 Models of Light DM - Josh Ruderman (NYU)   ()
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17:30 A Cosmological Solution to the Hierarchy Problem - David Kaplan (Johns Hopkins)   ()
18:00 Discussion - Maxim Pospelov (Perimeter)   ()
12:40
Lunch Break (until 14:30) ()
14:30
Detection of Light Dark Matter - Peter Sorensen (LBNL) (until 16:00) ()
14:30 Using XENON100 to Probe DM-Induced Electronic Recoils - Rafael Lang (Purdue University)   ()
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15:00 Using Molecules to probe sub-GeV Dark Matter - Oren Slone (Tel-Aviv University)   ()
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15:30 Searches for Millicharged Particles - Eder IZAGUIRRE (Perimeter)   ()
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16:00
Coffee Break (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Detection of Light Dark Matter - Peter Sorensen (LBNL) (until 18:30) ()
16:30 Halo-Independent DD Analyses without Mass Assumptions - Patrick Fox (Fermilab)   ()
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17:00 Searching for Light Hidden Sectors with Electron Beams - Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter)   ()
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17:30 Discussion - Michele Papucci (LBNL)   ()
20:15
Workshop Dinner (until 23:00) ()
16:00
Axions & Hidden Photons - Yael Shadmi (Technion) (until 18:00) ()
16:00 Dark Photon Dark Matter: Theory and Constraints - Josef Pradler (Austrian Academy of Sciences)   ()
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16:30 New Avenues to Search for Hidden Photons - Jeremy Mardon (Stanford)   ()
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17:00 Solar WISPS - Javier Redondo (Max Planck)   ()
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17:30 Gravitational Interactions of Matter and Dark Matter - Yang Bai (University of Wisconsin-Madison)   ()
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21:00
Discussion over Beer (until 22:30) ()
12:00
Back to Tel-Aviv (until 16:00) ()