Name: TeV Particle Astrophysics 2017 (TeVPA 2017)
Start: 2017-08-06T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2017-08-11T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Monday, August 7, 2017

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Opening remarks
Opening remarks
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening remarks - John Beacom (Ohio State University)
9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

9:10 AM Challenges of particle physics theory - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

9:40 AM Galactic cosmic ray sources: a multimessenger view - Julia Tjus

10:40 AM Indirect Searches for Dark Matter - UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

11:10 AM PandaX Dark Matter Search - Xiangdong Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University/University of Maryland)

11:40 AM Hidden-sector dark matter - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM High-Energy Gamma-Rays from the Milky Way: Three-Dimensional Spatial Models for the Cosmic-Ray and Radiation Field Densities - Troy Porter (Stanford University)

2:15 PM Propagation of TeV-energy cosmic rays using stochastic differential equations in CRPropa3.1 - Lukas Merten (Ruhr-University Bochum)

2:30 PM Multi-wavelength Signatures of Cosmic Rays in the Milky Way - Elena Orlando (Stanford University)

2:45 PM Solar Modulation studies with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))

3:00 PM Cosmic ray propagation around the Sun - Mike Kroll (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

3:15 PM Observation of the Moon and Sun with HAWC - Mehr Un Nisa (University of Rochester)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Observing the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPIDER - Alexandra Rahlin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

2:15 PM A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER - Johanna Nagy (Case Western Reserve University)

2:30 PM SPT-3G: A new instrument on the South Pole Telescope - Daniel Dutcher (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, University of Chicago & Department of Physics, University of Chicago)

2:45 PM Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Polarization with the POLARBEAR Experiment - NEIL GOECKNER-WALD (University of California Berkeley)

3:00 PM High Accuracy Calibration Sources for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeters: POLOCALC - Federico Nati (University of Pennsylvania)

3:15 PM Status and Recent Results from the BICEP Suite of Experiments at the South Pole - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

2:00 PM Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves and Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside)

2:15 PM Can Self-interacting Dark Matter Solve the 'Diversity Problem' in Galactic Rotation Curves? - Anna Kwa (UC Irvine)

2:30 PM Constraining Self-Interacting Dark Matter through Equal Mass Galaxy Cluster Mergers - Stacy Kim (Ohio State University)

2:45 PM SIMPs with Vector Mediators - Alexander Natale (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

3:00 PM Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter - Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

3:15 PM Chiral Effective Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection - Joachim Brod (TU Dortmund)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Very High Energy Astrophysics with VERITAS - Gareth Hughes (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA)

2:15 PM Highlights from MAGIC - Konstancja Satalecka (DESY Zeuthen, Germany)

2:45 PM An energy cutoff in the TeV gamma ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A - Emma de Ona Wilhelmi (CSIC-IEEC)

3:00 PM A First Look at the Very Highest-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky from HAWC - Kelly Malone (Pennsylvania State University)

3:15 PM Search for PeV Photons with IceTop and IceCube - Zachary Griffith (IceCube Collaboration, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Observing supernova neutrinos to late times - Shirley Li (The Ohio State University)

2:15 PM Neutrino flavour conversions near the supernova core - Francesco Capozzi (The Ohio State University)

2:30 PM Neutrino astronomy: Measuring the size of the Sun's core - Jonathan Davis (King's College London)

2:45 PM Muon-induced spallation backgrounds in DUNE - Guanying Zhu (The Ohio State University)

3:00 PM Showering Muons in Super Kamiokande - Scott Locke (University of California, Irvine)

3:15 PM Astrophysics with the NOvA neutrino experiment - Matthew Strait (University of Minnesota)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Oak Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Latest results from AMS on the Space Station - Melanie Heil (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

4:30 PM Antiproton Flux and Antiproton-to-Proton Flux Ratio in Primary Cosmic Rays Measured with AMS on the Space Station - Andreas Bachlechner (Rheinisch-Westfaelische Tech. Hoch. (DE))

4:45 PM Precision Measurement of the Combined Electron and Positron Flux in Primary Cosmic Rays with AMS on the ISS - Matteo Duranti (Universita e INFN, Perugia (IT))

5:00 PM Cosmic-Ray Lithium Production at a Type Ia Supernova Following a Nova Eruption - Norita Kawanaka (Kyoto University)

5:15 PM Measurement of anisotropies in cosmic ray arrival directions with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Jorge Casaus (Centro de Investigaciones Energéti cas Medioambientales y Tecno)

5:30 PM Properties of Elementary Particle Flux Ratios in Primary Cosmic Rays - Yuan-Hann Chang (National Central University (TW))

5:45 PM Cosmic ray driven winds in the Galactic environment and the cosmic ray spectrum - Sarah Recchia
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Cosmology with the HETDEX survey - Donghui Jeong (The Pennsylvania State University)

4:30 PM CMB Foregrounds: Problems, Parameterizations, and Progress - James Colin Hill (Columbia University)

4:45 PM CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel - W.L. Kimmy Wu (UC Berkeley)

5:00 PM Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha Forest - David Weinberg (Ohio State University)

5:15 PM Cosmological Results from BOSS and eBOSS - Ashley Ross (Ohio State University)

5:30 PM Emulating galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing into the deeply nonlinear regime - Ben Wibking (Ohio State University)

5:45 PM Extremely Efficient Cosmological Perturbation Theory with FAST-PT - Xiao Fang (The Ohio State University)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Flavoured Dark Matter in Dark Minimal Flavour Violation - Simon Kast (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

4:15 PM Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation Rates with Dark Bremsstrahlung - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

4:30 PM Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

4:45 PM Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Excess - Miguel Escudero (IFIC-University of Valencia)

5:00 PM Sharp spectral features from light dark matter decay via gravity portals - Sebastian Ingenhütt

5:15 PM Cooling sterile neutrino dark matter - Stefan Vogl

5:30 PM Phase Method for the evaluation of Sommerfeld Enhancement - Hiren Patel (UMass Amherst)

5:45 PM Au Genesis From Cogenesis: Heavy Asymmetric Dark Matter Makes Gold - Joseph Andrew Bramante
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

4:00 PM Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a CCD dark matter detector - Karthik Ramanathan (University of Chicago)

4:15 PM The LDMX Experiment - Joshua Hiltbrand (University of Minnesota (US))

4:30 PM The DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB - Ryan Thomas (University of Chicago)

4:45 PM Recent Results and Current Status of SuperCDMS - Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)

5:00 PM MiniBooNE Dark Matter Search - Ranjan Dharmapalan (Argonne National Laboratory)

5:15 PM Scintillating Bubble Chamber for Dark Matter and CEνNS Detection - Jianjie Zhang (Northwestern University)

5:30 PM Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Jordan Myslik (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Supernova Remnant Studies with Fermi LAT - John Hewitt (University of North Florida)

4:30 PM Multi-year observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC telescopes - Ievgen Vovk

4:45 PM Evidence Against a Dark Matter Explanation of the Galactic Center Excess - Oscar Macias (Virginia Tech)

5:00 PM Characterizing the population of pulsars in the Galactic bulge with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - mattia di mauro (Stanford University)

5:15 PM The Galactic-Center excess and 511 keV Bulge emission: two sides of the same coin? - Richard Bartels (University of Amsterdam)

5:30 PM Free

5:45 PM Free
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Tuesday, August 8, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Neutrinos in the Era of Multimessenger Astronomy - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

9:30 AM Radio Detection of the Highest Energy Neutrinos - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)

10:30 AM Neutrino Astronomy - Fast Forward - Marek Kowalski (HU Berlin and DESY)

11:00 AM Very high-energy emission from transients - Raffaella Margutti

11:30 AM Connections to Compact Dark Matter - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Massive neutrinos in cosmology - Massimiliano Lattanzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

2:30 PM Interacting neutrinos in cosmology: exact description and constraints - Isabel M. Oldengott (Bielefeld University)

2:45 PM Constraints on secret interactions among sterile neutrinos from Planck 2015 data - Francesco Forastieri (University of Ferrara)

3:00 PM Neutrinos with CMB and CMB lensing - Alexander van Engelen

3:15 PM Cosmological searches for a non-cold dark matter component - Miguel Escudero (IFIC-University of Valencia)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

2:00 PM Testing Cold Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing of AGN - Anna Nierenberg

2:15 PM Searching for dark disks using Gaia - KATELIN SCHUTZ (UC Berkeley)

2:30 PM Dwarf Galaxy Population of a Nearby Star-Forming Galaxy and Implications for Dark Matter - Alexandra Davis (Ohio State University)

2:45 PM Searching for ultra-faint galaxies in three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey - Keith Bechtol (LSST)

3:00 PM Black Mergers, Quiet Kilonovae, and r-Process Afterglow Donuts From Dark Matter - Yu-Dai Tsai (Cornell University)

3:15 PM Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars - Nirmal Raj
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Unexpectedly bright: high energy emission from mixed morphology SNRs - Katie Auchettl

2:30 PM Complexities of a Mid-Life Crush: A Study of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Vela X - Patrick Slane

3:00 PM Studies of pulsar wind nebulae in TeV gamma-rays with H.E.S.S. - Yves Gallant (LUPM, CNRS/IN2P3, U. de Montpellier)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM The Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden

2:15 PM Are Starburst Galaxies Proton Calorimeters? - Xilu Wang (University of Illinois)

2:30 PM The Multiwavelength Properties of Arp 220 - Tova Yoast-Hull (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

2:45 PM A hadronic origin of the high-energy gamma rays from LMC - Qingwen Tang (Nanchang University & CCAPP)

3:00 PM Connecting Superluminous Supernovae, Gamma-ray Bursts, and Fast Radio Bursts to the Birth of Millisecond Magnetars - Ben Margalit (Columbia University)

3:15 PM RoboPol: Revealing the connection between gamma-ray activity in blazars and optopolarimetric rotations - Ioannis Myserlis (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Prompt neutrinos from heavy flavors - Mary Hall Reno

2:30 PM New Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University)

2:45 PM Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos: A New Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Searches - Kenny Chun Yu Ng (Weizmann Institute of Science)

3:00 PM Search for Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University)

3:15 PM High energy neutrinos from the Sun - Carlos Arguelles (MIT)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Oak Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

4:00 PM LUX, and the Combatting of the WIMP Lamppost Effect - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany)

4:15 PM The Next-Generation Dark Matter Project, LUX-ZEPLIN - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany, SUNY)

4:30 PM First result of XENON1T - Lin Qing (Columbia University)

4:45 PM Dark matter search results from the PandaX-II experiment - Yong Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

5:00 PM Direct dark matter search with the CRESST-III experiment - Andrea Münster (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

5:15 PM Dark matter searches with the PICO bubble chambers - Scott Fallows (University of Alberta)

5:45 PM Search for hidden-photon Dark Matter with FUNK - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM New insights on particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks - Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago)

4:30 PM Fermi Acceleration in Relativistic Shocks - Donald Ellison

4:45 PM Particle acceleration at pulsar-wind termination shocks - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

5:00 PM Pulsars with MAGIC - Jezabel Rodriguez Garcia (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

5:15 PM The Sun as a new laboratory for cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos, and dark matter - Bei Zhou (CCAPP, OSU)

5:30 PM VERITAS Observations of Galactic Binary Systems - Payel Kar (University of Utah, VERITAS Collaboration)

5:45 PM Finale of a Quartet: Hints on Supernova Formation - Xiao Fang (The Ohio State University)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Gamma-ray and optical polarimetric monitoring of GeV bright blazars - Ryosuke Itoh (Tokyo Institute of technology)

4:15 PM Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS): A New Catalog of Blazar Candidates - Yasuyuki Tanaka (Hiroshima University)

4:30 PM Challenges in reconciling observations and theory of the brightest high-energy flare ever of 3C 279 - Eugenio Bottacini (University of Padova)

4:45 PM Flat-Spectrum Radio-Quasars with H.E.S.S. II - Matteo Cerruti (CNRS, LPNHE)

5:00 PM High-Energy Gamma Rays and Neutrinos from Nearby Radio Galaxies - Carlos Blanco (University of Chiago, Department of Physics)

5:15 PM The Compton Spectrometer and Imager: Results from the 2016 Super-Pressure Balloon Campaign - John Tomsick

5:30 PM Spectral and Temporal Behaviour of Mrk 501 in Gamma Rays - Nachiketa Chakraborty (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Measurement of neutrino events above 1 TeV with contained vertices in IceCube - Nancy Wandkowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

4:15 PM High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Measurement Using Neutrino-induced Cascades Observed in 4 Years of IceCube Data - Hans Niederhausen (Stony Brook University)

4:30 PM Searches for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube - Mike Richman

4:45 PM A new search for multi-flavour PeV neutrinos with IceCube - Lu Lu (Chiba University)

5:00 PM Improving the angular resolution in IceCube cascade reconstruction - Tianlu Yuan (UW Madison)

5:15 PM A new IceCube starting track event selection and realtime stream - Sarah Mancina (University of Wisconsin -- Madison)

5:30 PM IceCube Search for Galactic Neutrino Sources using the HAWC 2HWC Catalog - Joshua Wood (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

4:00 PM New Direct Detection Signals from Dark Matter Bound States - Yue Zhang

4:15 PM Capture and Decay of Electroweak WIMPonium - Patrick Fitzpatrick (Center For Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

4:30 PM The LHC Dark Matter Working Group - Antonio Boveia (Ohio State University)

4:45 PM Search for long-lived particles at CMS - Brian Francis (Ohio State University (US))

5:00 PM Search for low mass dijet resonances at CMS - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:15 PM Rare, Exotic, and Invisible Higgs Decays at CMS - Ben Kreis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

5:30 PM Global Fits of the MSSM with GAMBIT - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

5:45 PM Collider and Indirect Singatures of Non-Minimal Dark Matter sectors - Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:18 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Fast Radio Bursts and CHIME - Victoria Kaspi (McGill University)

9:30 AM The new era of galactic cosmic rays - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))

10:30 AM Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays - Ralph Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

11:00 AM Cosmological magnetic fields and particle acceleration in the laboratory - Gianluca Gregori (University of Oxford)

11:30 AM Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray anomalies and their interpretations - Daniele Gaggero

11:48 AM Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Cosmology Results - Elisabeth Krause (Stanford)
12:18 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:18 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Precision Measurement of 3He-to-4He ratio in Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Francesca Giovacchini (CIEMAT (SPAIN))

2:15 PM Evidence for Stochastic Acceleration of Secondary Antiprotons by Supernova Remnants - ILIAS CHOLIS (Johns Hopkins University)

2:30 PM Impact of Cosmic Ray Transport on Galactic Winds - Ryan Farber (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

2:45 PM Secondary production of cosmic ray anti-deuteron and anti-Helium3 - Ryosuke Sato (Weizmann Institute of Science)

3:00 PM Nearby Pulsars and The Cosmic Ray Positron Excess - DAN HOOPER (Fermilab)

3:15 PM CALET : Summary of the First Two-Year on Orbit - Yoichi Asaoka (Waseda University (JP))
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Sensitivity of cosmological data to the neutrino mass hierarchy - Martina Gerbino

2:15 PM Cosmological Observables Beyond Linear Gravity - Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)

2:30 PM Primordial non-Gaussianity and statistical anisotropy - Saroj Adhikari (University of Michigan)

2:45 PM CLUMPY: A public code for γ-ray and ν signals from Dark Matter structures - Moritz Hütten (DESY/Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

3:00 PM Dark Matter Imprints of Heavy Long-Lived Particles - Bibhushan Shakya (Cincinnati/Michigan)

3:15 PM Searching for the Darkest Galaxies: Covering the Entire Southern Sky with DECam - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab) Keith Bechtol (LSST)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

2:00 PM Improving the search for extragalactic dark matter using N-body simulations - Nicholas Rodd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

2:15 PM A search for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups - Siddharth Mishra Sharma (Princeton University)

2:30 PM Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Milky Way Satellite Galaxies - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab) Keith Bechtol (LSST) Andrea Albert (Los Alamos National Lab)

2:45 PM Sommerfeld-Enhanced J-Factors For Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies - Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

3:00 PM Investigating what the Milky Way's dwarfs have to tell us about the Galactic Center extended excess - Ryan Keeley (UC, Irvine)

3:15 PM Searching for dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure with photon statistics - Laura Chang (Princeton University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM EBL constraints using TeV blazars observed with the MAGIC telescopes - Gaia Vanzo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

2:15 PM Determining the Intergalactic Photon Densities from Deep Galaxy Surveys and the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe - Floyd Stecker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

2:30 PM Time dependence of AGN pair echo, and halo emission as a probe of weak extragalactic magnetic fields - Foteini Oikonomou (Penn State University)

2:45 PM Searches for Angular Extension in High Latitude Fermi-LAT Sources - Manuel Meyer (Stanford University)

3:00 PM Probing extragalactic magnetic fields with the gamma-ray spectrum of PG 1553+113 - Matthias Lorentz (IRFU - CEA Saclay)

3:15 PM Probing faint gamma-ray point sources in the inner Milky Way using PCAT - Tansu Daylan (Harvard University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Astronomy's "Next Big Thing:" What can we expect from direct gravitational-wave observations? - Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University in the City of New York)

2:30 PM A "nu" look at gravitational waves: The black hole birth rate from neutrinos combined with the merger rate from LIGO - Jonathan Davis (King's College London)

2:45 PM Gravitational waves from bubble dynamics: Beyond the Envelope - Masahiro Takimoto (Weizmann Institute of Science)

3:00 PM Neutron star mergers and multi-messenger astronomy - Daniel Siegel
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Oak Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

4:15 PM Recent results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Tareq AbuZayyad (University of Utah)

4:30 PM The cosmic ray flux spectrum above 300 PeV of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alan Coleman (Penn State University)

4:45 PM First results from the full-scale prototype for the Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes - John Farmer (University of Chicago)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Science with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey - Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

4:30 PM Maximizing Information-Extraction from Next-Generation Surveys - Zachary Slepian (LBNL)

4:45 PM Failures of homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in Extended Quasi-Dilaton Massive Gravity - Saurabh Kumar (Case Western Reserve University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

4:00 PM LD2DM scenario as an explanation of the AMS-02 positron excess - Jatan Buch (Brown University)

4:15 PM Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter - Evan Johnson (Ohio State University)

4:30 PM Thermal Dark Matter Below an MeV - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

4:45 PM Indirect Detection of Neutrino Portal Dark Matter - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Pittsburgh)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM SkyFACT: a novel analysis of Fermi diffuse gamma-ray data - Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

4:15 PM Measuring High-Energy Gamma-Ray Spectra with HAWC - Samuel Marinelli (Michigan State University)

4:30 PM A Hadronic Model of the Fermi Bubbles: Galactic Cosmic-Rays in a Breeze - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

4:45 PM Radio and Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Wind, Magnetic Field, and Cosmic Rays along the minor axis of the starburst M82 - Benjamin Buckman (The Ohio State University)
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM The Present and Future of Real-Time Alerts from AMON - James DeLaunay (Penn State)

4:15 PM Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts - Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

4:30 PM An FRB in a bottle? : A multi-wavelengh approach - Kazumi Kashiyama

4:45 PM Seeking the sources of high-energy neutrinos with Swift - Azadeh Keivani
6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Thursday, August 10, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:06 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM High-energy x-rays - Fiona Harrison

9:30 AM High-energy emission from compact astrophysical objects - Emma de Ona Wilhelmi (CSIC-IEEC)

10:30 AM The Multi-TeV Northern sky seen with HAWC - Miguel Mostafa (Penn State University)

11:00 AM The Search of Dark Matter in the Gamma Ray Sky - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton Univetsity)

11:30 AM Recent Updates on the 3.5 keV Line - Esra Bulbul

11:48 AM Resolving High Energy Universe Using Strong Gravitational Lensing - Anna Barnacka (Harvard University)
12:06 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:06 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Radio detection of cosmic rays - achievements and opportunities - Tim Huege (KIT)

2:30 PM Results of the TREND experiment - Olivier Martineau (CNRS)

2:45 PM Observations of the Very Local Interstellar Medium with the IBEX and Voyager Spacecraft - Eric Zirnstein (Princeton University)

3:00 PM Completing and Improving the TeV Cosmic-ray Sky with HAWC - Daniel Fiorino (University of Maryland College Park)

3:15 PM A search for cosmic-ray proton anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Blazar Halo Morphology as a Probe of Helical Intergalactic Magnetic Fields - Andrew Long (University of Chicago)

2:15 PM Weak lensing science with the WFIRST high-latitude survey - Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

2:30 PM Probing Dark Energy with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) - Richard Shaw (University of British Columbia)

2:45 PM Cosmological Tests with Type Ia Supernovae - Daniel Shafer (Johns Hopkins University)

3:00 PM Sample variance in the local measurements of the Hubble constant - Hao-Yi Wu
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

2:00 PM Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocity Distribution Using Metal Poor Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)

2:15 PM On the applicability of Eddington's inversion methods to direct dark matter searches - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

2:30 PM Astrophysical distribution of dark matter and direct detection implications - Nassim Bozorgnia (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

2:45 PM Reverse Direct Detection: Cosmic Ray Tests of Light Dark Matter Elastic Scattering - Christopher Cappiello (The Ohio State University)

3:00 PM Determinations of Properties of Low-Mass WIMPs from Direct Dark Matter Detection Experiments with Non-negligible Threshold Energy - Chung-Lin SHAN (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

3:15 PM Hunting for WIMPs, how low should we go? - Aaron Pierce (University of Michigan)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Next Generation Gamma-ray Observatory - A. Nepomuk Otte

2:15 PM Overview and current status of the ALPACA experiment - Takashi SAKO (Yachay Tech University)

2:30 PM All-Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) - A discovery mission for the MeV gamma-ray band - Jeremy Perkins (NASA/GSFC)

2:45 PM Ex Luna Scienta: The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) - Richard Miller (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

3:00 PM Fermi's view of the gamma-ray sky above 10 GeV - Pablo Saz Parkinson (The University of Hong Kong)

3:15 PM Free
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM High-energy neutrino interactions: first cross section measurements at TeV and above - Mauricio Bustamante (Ohio State University)

2:15 PM New physics searches with the TeV scale neutrinos - Carlos Arguelles (MIT)

2:30 PM Imaging Galactic Dark Matter with IceCube High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos - Ali Kheirandish

2:45 PM Searching for Planck Scale Physics with High Energy Neutrinos - Floyd Stecker (NASA/GSFC)

3:00 PM Constraining the Flavor Structure of Lorentz Violation Hamiltonian with the Measurement of Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Compositions - Wei-Hao Lai (National Chiao-Tung University)

3:15 PM Hidden neutrino interactions with dark energy: Effects on oscillation probabilities and tests with high-energy neutrinos - Niki Klop (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Oak Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

4:00 PM ABRACADABRA: A novel approach to detecting axion dark matter - Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology)

4:15 PM The Axion Dark Matter Experiment - William Wester

4:30 PM Axion and ALP Dark Matter Search with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and mini-IAXO - Julia Katharina Vogel (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))

4:45 PM The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) - Justin Shortino

5:00 PM A Fresh Look at Axions: Using NuSTAR Solar Observations in Search for Dark Matter - Jaime Ruz Armendariz (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))

5:15 PM Emission of Photons and Relativistic Axions from Axion Stars - Abhishek Mohapatra (The Ohio State University)

5:30 PM Signatures of dark-matter sub-structure in axion direct detection experiments - Joshua Foster (University of Michigan)

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Symmetric Achromatic Variability: A New and Totally Unexpected Phenomenon - Anthony Readhead (Caltech)

4:30 PM F-GAMMA program: high-cadence, multi-wavelength radio monitoring as a probe of the physical conditions and variability processes in AGN jets - Ioannis Myserlis (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

4:45 PM Identifying Short, Extreme Blazar Flares with the HAWC Real-Time Flare Monitor - Thomas Weisgarber

5:00 PM The AMEGO View of MeV AGNs - Tonia Venters (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

5:15 PM Multi-Wavelength Correlations and AGN as Possible Particle Accelerators - John Gallagher

5:30 PM Astrophysics with Novel Observables - Nachiketa Chakraborty (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

5:45 PM The magnetic reconnection model for blazar emission - Dimitrios Giannios (Purdue University)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Galactic Sources with HAWC - Petra Huentemeyer (Michigan Tech)

4:30 PM VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of TeV gamma-ray sources from the second HAWC catalog - Nahee Park (University of Chicago)

4:45 PM Follow-up VERITAS and NuSTAR observations of Galactic HAWC gamma-ray sources - Michelle Hui (NASA/MSFC)

5:00 PM A novel maximum likelihood method for VERITAS analysis - Tom Brantseg (Iowa State University)

5:15 PM Observation of the Cygnus Region using HAWC data - Binita Hona (Michigan Technological University (for the HAWC collaboration))

5:30 PM Searching for Gamma-Ray Signal from Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC - Hugo Ayala (Pennsylvania State University)

5:45 PM Primordial Black Holes and Gamma Ray Emission near pulsars with HAWC - James Thomas Linnemann (Michigan State University (US))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Interpretations of Astrophysics Neutrino Data - Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ)

4:15 PM Multi-PeV Signals from a New Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Beyond the Glashow Resonance - Ranjan Laha (Stanford University)

4:30 PM How bright can the brightest neutrino source be? - Shin'ichiro Ando (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

4:45 PM High-Energy Neutrinos from Supernovae - Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

5:00 PM Diffuse and point-source neutrino emission from Type IIn supernovae - Maria Petropoulou (Purdue University)

5:15 PM Difficulties of Star-forming Galaxies as the Source of IceCube Neutrinos - Takahiro Sudoh (the University of Tokyo)

5:30 PM The Galactic Contribution to IceCube's Astrophysical Neutrino Flux - Peter Denton (Niels Bohr International Academy)

5:45 PM TBD
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Testable Baryogenesis and Leptonic CP Violation in Seesaw Models - Jordi Salvado (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, University of Valencia)

4:15 PM Leptogenesis from a First-Order Lepton-Number Breaking Phase Transition - Andrew Long (University of Chicago)

4:30 PM The MATHUSLA detector: exploring the Lifetime Frontier and Cosmic Ray Physics - David Curtin (University of Maryland)

4:45 PM A Radiative Neutrino Mass Model with SIMP Dark Matter - Takashi Toma (Technical University of Munich)

5:00 PM Searching for Sterile Neutrinos at J-PARC with JSNS$^2$ - Johnathon Jordan (University of Michigan)

5:15 PM Probing Fuzzy Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments - Vedran Brdar (JGU Mainz)

5:30 PM Understanding neutron yield from neutrino interactions with ANNIE - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University) Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University )

5:45 PM Deep Learning and MicroBooNE to Investigate the MiniBooNE Excess - Jarrett Moon (MIT)
Friday, August 11, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:12 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM TeV frontier in particle astrophysics - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))

9:30 AM Gamma-Ray and Radio Emission from Star-Forming Galaxies - todd thompson

10:30 AM Follow the roars and chirps: characterizing compact object mergers with gravitational wave, electromagnetic and multi-messenger radiation - Samaya Nissanke (Radboud University)

11:00 AM Small but mighty: Dark matter substructures - Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine (Harvard University)

11:18 AM Measurements of the Local Value of the Hubble Constant - Daniel Scolnic

11:36 AM Observations of Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae with VERITAS - Amanda Weinstein (Iowa State University)

11:54 AM DAMPE and its first year in orbit - Stephan Zimmer (Universite de Geneve (CH))
12:12 PM

12:12 PM - 12:22 PM

12:22 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:22 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

2:00 PM Full Sky Indirect Detection: Challenges and Strategies - Sheldon Campbell (University of California, Irvine)

2:15 PM Searching for Dark Matter in M31 with HAWC - Andrea Albert (Los Alamos National Lab)

2:30 PM Dark Matter Searches using Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC - Tolga Yapici (University of Rochester)

2:45 PM Galactic Dark Matter substructure searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) - Moritz Hütten (DESY/Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

3:00 PM Multi-wavelength Approach to Indirect Dark Matter Searches with RX-DMFIT - Alex McDaniel

3:15 PM The GAPS Experiment for Cosmic-ray Antinuclei Signatures of Dark Matter - Kerstin Perez (MIT)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmological electromagnetic cascades as probe of the Universe - Thomas Fitoussi (IRAP (Toulouse - France))

2:15 PM AMEGO as supernova alarms: alert, probe and diagnosis of Type Ia explosions - Xilu Wang (University of Illinois)

2:30 PM Gamma-rays and Neutrinos from Efficient Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Young Supernovae - Vikram Dwarkadas (Univ of Chicago)

2:45 PM Evaluating the Gamma-Ray Emission from SN 1987A, the Closest Visible Supernova to us in the last 300 years - Vikram Dwarkadas (Univ of Chicago)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Searching for optical counterparts for IceCube neutrinos using the Dark Energy Camera - Keith Bechtol (LSST)

2:30 PM Time-domain astronomy with the Fermi GBM - Michelle Hui (NASA/MSFC)

2:45 PM Searching for Counterparts to Cosmic Neutrinos Using the Fermi LAT Satellite - Colin Turley (Penn State)

3:00 PM The MAGIC multi-messenger program - Konstancja Satalecka (DESY Zeuthen, Germany)

3:15 PM VHE Gamma Rays and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: VERITAS Status and Strategies for CTA - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

2:00 PM Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes: Latest Results from ANTARES and Perspectives for KM3NeT - Daan van Eijk (WIPAC)

2:30 PM Status of IceCube-Gen2 - Tianlu Yuan (UW Madison)

2:45 PM The ANITA Experiment After Four Flights - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago)

3:00 PM Low-power radio frequency amplification module with dynamic tunable notch filters for the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) - Oindree Banerjee (Ohio State University)

3:15 PM The Fourth Flight of the ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) - Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

2:00 PM The milliQan Experiment - Chris Hill (Ohio State University (US))

2:15 PM Strongly Interacting Dark Matter at Fixed-Target Experiments - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

2:30 PM v Hopes for New Physics: Probing Weakly Coupled States at Neutrino Detectors - Yu-Dai Tsai (Cornell University)

2:45 PM GPS Timing Synchronization: Characterization and Spatial Correlation - Rob Halliday (Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics)

3:00 PM Measuring gravitational effects on antimatter in space - Giovanni Maria Piacentino (University of Molise, INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

3:15 PM Free
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

3:00 PM Cosmic-Ray Mass Spectrometry and Starburst Galaxies - Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

3:15 PM On the Anisotropy of the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays - Markus Ahlers (Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Oak Room
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM TeV-PeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy and Local Interstellar Turbulence - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

4:15 PM High-energy cosmic ray nuclei from tidal disruption events: origin, survival, and implications - B. Theodore Zhang (Penn State University, Peking University)

4:30 PM Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray hot spots? - Daniel Pfeffer (Johns Hopkins University)

4:45 PM Impact of the Turbulent Galactic Magnetic Field on the Arrival Distributions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays - Michael Sutherland

5:00 PM PHAESTOS: Using Galactic Magnetic Tomography to Backtrack UHECRs through the Milky Way - Vasiliki Pavlidou

5:15 PM Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from local radio galaxies - Björn Eichmann (Ruhr-University Bochum)

5:30 PM Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei from Radio Galaxies: Recycling Galactic Cosmic Rays through Shear Acceleration - Shigeo Kimura

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

4:00 PM General Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from the Cosmic Microwave Background - Chih-Liang Wu (MIT)

4:15 PM Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: Constraints from the Milky Way - Emma Storm (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

4:30 PM Supernova 1987A Constraints on Low-Mass Hidden Sectors - Jae Hyeok Chang (YITP, Stony Brook)

4:45 PM Dark matter velocity spectroscopy - Ranjan Laha (Stanford University)

5:00 PM AMEGO: Dark Matter Prospects - Manuel Meyer (Stanford University)

5:15 PM Impact of Galactic subhalos on indirect dark matter searches with cosmic-ray antiprotons - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

5:30 PM Free

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Neutrinos from TeV blazars - Matteo Cerruti (CNRS, LPNHE)

4:15 PM Cosmic rays and neutrinos from blazars with nuclei injection - Xavier Rodrigues (DESY Zeuthen)

4:30 PM Exploring the connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei and neutrinos - Daniel Biehl (DESY)

4:45 PM Black hole jets in clusters of galaxies as common origins of high-energy cosmic particles - Ke Fang (University of Maryland)

5:00 PM The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) - Christopher Kochanek (Dept. of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

5:30 PM Free

5:45 PM Free
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

4:00 PM The Askaryan Radio Array: Current Status and Future Plans - Brian Clark (Ohio State University)

4:15 PM Towards Space Probes of Astrophysical and Cosmogenic Neutrinos - Angela V. Olinto (The University of Chicago)

4:45 PM Progress in In Situ UHE Neutrino Detectors: Joint Studies on Simulation and Ice - Carl Pfendner

5:00 PM The ARIANNA Neutrino Detector - Christopher Persichilli (University of California, Irvine)

5:15 PM GRAND - the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection - Anne Zilles (Institut d'Astrophysik de Paris)

5:30 PM Trinity: An experiment to detect cosmogenic neutrinos with the Earth skimming technique - A. Nepomuk Otte

5:45 PM Radio Detection of Neutrino-Induced Tau Lepton Air Showers at Altitude - Stephanie Wissel (Cal Poly)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

4:00 PM Light scalar at the high energy and intensity frontiers - Yongchao Zhang

4:15 PM Overview of dark matter & exotics searches and prospects at the ATLAS experiment - Wendy Taylor (York University (CA))

4:45 PM Searches for dark matter beyond mono-jets at the ATLAS experiment - Rui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

5:00 PM Searches for supersymmetric dark matter candidates and long-lived particles with the ATLAS experiment - Edoardo Maria Farina (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))

5:15 PM Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at ATLAS, including rare and invisible decays - Gustavo Otero Y Garzon (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

5:45 PM Free