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 7 August 2017

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
09:00 Opening remarks
Opening remarks
09:00 - 09:10
Contributions

09:00 Opening remarks - John Beacom (Ohio State University)
09:10
09:10 - 12:10
Contributions

09:10 Challenges of particle physics theory - Nima Arkani-Hamed (IAS)

09:40 Galactic cosmic ray sources: a multimessenger view - Julia Tjus

10:40 Indirect Searches for Dark Matter - UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

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

11:40 Hidden-sector dark matter - Kathryn Zurek (LBNL)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

14:00 High-Energy Gamma-Rays from the Milky Way: Three-Dimensional Spatial Models for the Cosmic-Ray and Radiation Field Densities - Troy Porter (Stanford University)

14:15 Propagation of TeV-energy cosmic rays using stochastic differential equations in CRPropa3.1 - Lukas Merten (Ruhr-University Bochum)

14:30 Multi-wavelength Signatures of Cosmic Rays in the Milky Way - Elena Orlando (Stanford University)

14:45 Solar Modulation studies with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))

15:00 Cosmic ray propagation around the Sun - Mike Kroll (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

15:15 Observation of the Moon and Sun with HAWC - Mehr Un Nisa (University of Rochester)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

14:00 Observing the Polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background with SPIDER - Alexandra Rahlin (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

14:15 A New Limit on CMB Circular Polarization from SPIDER - Johanna Nagy (Case Western Reserve University)

14:30 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)

14:45 Measuring the Cosmic Microwave Background B-mode Polarization with the POLARBEAR Experiment - NEIL GOECKNER-WALD (University of California Berkeley)

15:00 High Accuracy Calibration Sources for Cosmic Microwave Background Polarimeters: POLOCALC - Federico Nati (University of Pennsylvania)

15:15 Status and Recent Results from the BICEP Suite of Experiments at the South Pole - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

14:00 Diverse Galactic Rotation Curves and Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Hai-Bo Yu (University of California, Riverside)

14:15 Can Self-interacting Dark Matter Solve the 'Diversity Problem' in Galactic Rotation Curves? - Anna Kwa (UC Irvine)

14:30 Constraining Self-Interacting Dark Matter through Equal Mass Galaxy Cluster Mergers - Stacy Kim (Ohio State University)

14:45 SIMPs with Vector Mediators - Alexander Natale (Korea Institute for Advanced Study)

15:00 Enabling Forbidden Dark Matter - Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:15 Chiral Effective Theory of Dark Matter Direct Detection - Joachim Brod (TU Dortmund)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

14:00 Very High Energy Astrophysics with VERITAS - Gareth Hughes (Harvard-Smithsonian CFA)

14:15 Highlights from MAGIC - Konstancja Satalecka (DESY Zeuthen, Germany)

14:45 An energy cutoff in the TeV gamma ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A - Emma de Ona Wilhelmi (CSIC-IEEC)

15:00 A First Look at the Very Highest-Energy Gamma-Ray Sky from HAWC - Kelly Malone (Pennsylvania State University)

15:15 Search for PeV Photons with IceTop and IceCube - Zachary Griffith (IceCube Collaboration, University of Wisconsin - Madison)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

14:00 Observing supernova neutrinos to late times - Shirley Li (The Ohio State University)

14:15 Neutrino flavour conversions near the supernova core - Francesco Capozzi (The Ohio State University)

14:30 Neutrino astronomy: Measuring the size of the Sun's core - Jonathan Davis (King's College London)

14:45 Muon-induced spallation backgrounds in DUNE - Guanying Zhu (The Ohio State University)

15:00 Showering Muons in Super Kamiokande - Scott Locke (University of California, Irvine)

15:15 Astrophysics with the NOvA neutrino experiment - Matthew Strait (University of Minnesota)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Oak Room
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

16:00 Latest results from AMS on the Space Station - Melanie Heil (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))

16:30 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))

16:45 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))

17:00 Cosmic-Ray Lithium Production at a Type Ia Supernova Following a Nova Eruption - Norita Kawanaka (Kyoto University)

17:15 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)

17:30 Properties of Elementary Particle Flux Ratios in Primary Cosmic Rays - Yuan-Hann Chang (National Central University (TW))

17:45 Cosmic ray driven winds in the Galactic environment and the cosmic ray spectrum - Sarah Recchia
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

16:00 Cosmology with the HETDEX survey - Donghui Jeong (The Pennsylvania State University)

16:30 CMB Foregrounds: Problems, Parameterizations, and Progress - James Colin Hill (Columbia University)

16:45 CMB Polarization B-mode Delensing with SPTpol and Herschel - W.L. Kimmy Wu (UC Berkeley)

17:00 Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha Forest - David Weinberg (Ohio State University)

17:15 Cosmological Results from BOSS and eBOSS - Ashley Ross (Ohio State University)

17:30 Emulating galaxy clustering and galaxy-galaxy lensing into the deeply nonlinear regime - Ben Wibking (Ohio State University)

17:45 Extremely Efficient Cosmological Perturbation Theory with FAST-PT - Xiao Fang (The Ohio State University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

16:00 Flavoured Dark Matter in Dark Minimal Flavour Violation - Simon Kast (Karlsruhe Institute for Technology)

16:15 Enhancing Dark Matter Annihilation Rates with Dark Bremsstrahlung - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

16:30 Dark Forces in the Sky: Signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs - Nicole Bell (University of Melbourne)

16:45 Dark Matter Models for the Galactic Center Excess - Miguel Escudero (IFIC-University of Valencia)

17:00 Sharp spectral features from light dark matter decay via gravity portals - Sebastian Ingenhütt

17:15 Cooling sterile neutrino dark matter - Stefan Vogl

17:30 Phase Method for the evaluation of Sommerfeld Enhancement - Hiren Patel (UMass Amherst)

17:45 Au Genesis From Cogenesis: Heavy Asymmetric Dark Matter Makes Gold - Joseph Andrew Bramante
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

16:00 Measurement of low energy ionization signals from Compton scattering in a CCD dark matter detector - Karthik Ramanathan (University of Chicago)

16:15 The LDMX Experiment - Joshua Hiltbrand (University of Minnesota (US))

16:30 The DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB - Ryan Thomas (University of Chicago)

16:45 Recent Results and Current Status of SuperCDMS - Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)

17:00 MiniBooNE Dark Matter Search - Ranjan Dharmapalan (Argonne National Laboratory)

17:15 Scintillating Bubble Chamber for Dark Matter and CEνNS Detection - Jianjie Zhang (Northwestern University)

17:30 Recent results from the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Jordan Myslik (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

16:00 Supernova Remnant Studies with Fermi LAT - John Hewitt (University of North Florida)

16:30 Multi-year observations of the Galactic Center region with the MAGIC telescopes - Ievgen Vovk

16:45 Evidence Against a Dark Matter Explanation of the Galactic Center Excess - Oscar Macias (Virginia Tech)

17:00 Characterizing the population of pulsars in the Galactic bulge with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - mattia di mauro (Stanford University)

17:15 The Galactic-Center excess and 511 keV Bulge emission: two sides of the same coin? - Richard Bartels (University of Amsterdam)

17:30 Free

17:45 Free
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday 8 August 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:00
Contributions

09:00 Neutrinos in the Era of Multimessenger Astronomy - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

09:30 Radio Detection of the Highest Energy Neutrinos - Abigail Vieregg (University of Chicago)

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

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

11:30 Connections to Compact Dark Matter - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

14:00 Massive neutrinos in cosmology - Massimiliano Lattanzi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14:30 Interacting neutrinos in cosmology: exact description and constraints - Isabel M. Oldengott (Bielefeld University)

14:45 Constraints on secret interactions among sterile neutrinos from Planck 2015 data - Francesco Forastieri (University of Ferrara)

15:00 Neutrinos with CMB and CMB lensing - Alexander van Engelen

15:15 Cosmological searches for a non-cold dark matter component - Miguel Escudero (IFIC-University of Valencia)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

14:00 Testing Cold Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing of AGN - Anna Nierenberg

14:15 Searching for dark disks using Gaia - KATELIN SCHUTZ (UC Berkeley)

14:30 Dwarf Galaxy Population of a Nearby Star-Forming Galaxy and Implications for Dark Matter - Alexandra Davis (Ohio State University)

14:45 Searching for ultra-faint galaxies in three years of data from the Dark Energy Survey - Keith Bechtol (LSST)

15:00 Black Mergers, Quiet Kilonovae, and r-Process Afterglow Donuts From Dark Matter - Yu-Dai Tsai (Cornell University)

15:15 Dark Fires in the Sky: Model-Independent Dark Matter Detection via Kinetic Heating of Neutron Stars - Nirmal Raj
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

14:00 Unexpectedly bright: high energy emission from mixed morphology SNRs - Katie Auchettl

14:30 Complexities of a Mid-Life Crush: A Study of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Vela X - Patrick Slane

15:00 Studies of pulsar wind nebulae in TeV gamma-rays with H.E.S.S. - Yves Gallant (LUPM, CNRS/IN2P3, U. de Montpellier)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

14:00 The Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden

14:15 Are Starburst Galaxies Proton Calorimeters? - Xilu Wang (University of Illinois)

14:30 The Multiwavelength Properties of Arp 220 - Tova Yoast-Hull (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)

14:45 A hadronic origin of the high-energy gamma rays from LMC - Qingwen Tang (Nanchang University & CCAPP)

15:00 Connecting Superluminous Supernovae, Gamma-ray Bursts, and Fast Radio Bursts to the Birth of Millisecond Magnetars - Ben Margalit (Columbia University)

15:15 RoboPol: Revealing the connection between gamma-ray activity in blazars and optopolarimetric rotations - Ioannis Myserlis (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

14:00 Prompt neutrinos from heavy flavors - Mary Hall Reno

14:30 New Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University)

14:45 Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos: A New Neutrino Floor for Dark Matter Searches - Kenny Chun Yu Ng (Weizmann Institute of Science)

15:00 Search for Solar Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University)

15:15 High energy neutrinos from the Sun - Carlos Arguelles (MIT)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Oak Room
16:00
16:00 - 18:15
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

16:00 LUX, and the Combatting of the WIMP Lamppost Effect - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany)

16:15 The Next-Generation Dark Matter Project, LUX-ZEPLIN - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany, SUNY)

16:30 First result of XENON1T - Lin Qing (Columbia University)

16:45 Dark matter search results from the PandaX-II experiment - Yong Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

17:00 Direct dark matter search with the CRESST-III experiment - Andrea Münster (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

17:15 Dark matter searches with the PICO bubble chambers - Scott Fallows (University of Alberta)

17:45 Search for hidden-photon Dark Matter with FUNK - Ralph Richard Engel (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

16:00 New insights on particle acceleration at non-relativistic shocks - Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago)

16:30 Fermi Acceleration in Relativistic Shocks - Donald Ellison

16:45 Particle acceleration at pulsar-wind termination shocks - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

17:00 Pulsars with MAGIC - Jezabel Rodriguez Garcia (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)

17:15 The Sun as a new laboratory for cosmic rays, gamma rays, neutrinos, and dark matter - Bei Zhou (CCAPP, OSU)

17:30 VERITAS Observations of Galactic Binary Systems - Payel Kar (University of Utah, VERITAS Collaboration)

17:45 Finale of a Quartet: Hints on Supernova Formation - Xiao Fang (The Ohio State University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

16:00 Gamma-ray and optical polarimetric monitoring of GeV bright blazars - Ryosuke Itoh (Tokyo Institute of technology)

16:15 Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS): A New Catalog of Blazar Candidates - Yasuyuki Tanaka (Hiroshima University)

16:30 Challenges in reconciling observations and theory of the brightest high-energy flare ever of 3C 279 - Eugenio Bottacini (University of Padova)

16:45 Flat-Spectrum Radio-Quasars with H.E.S.S. II - Matteo Cerruti (CNRS, LPNHE)

17:00 High-Energy Gamma Rays and Neutrinos from Nearby Radio Galaxies - Carlos Blanco (University of Chiago, Department of Physics)

17:15 The Compton Spectrometer and Imager: Results from the 2016 Super-Pressure Balloon Campaign - John Tomsick

17:30 Spectral and Temporal Behaviour of Mrk 501 in Gamma Rays - Nachiketa Chakraborty (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

16:00 Measurement of neutrino events above 1 TeV with contained vertices in IceCube - Nancy Wandkowsky (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:15 High Energy Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Measurement Using Neutrino-induced Cascades Observed in 4 Years of IceCube Data - Hans Niederhausen (Stony Brook University)

16:30 Searches for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube - Mike Richman

16:45 A new search for multi-flavour PeV neutrinos with IceCube - Lu Lu (Chiba University)

17:00 Improving the angular resolution in IceCube cascade reconstruction - Tianlu Yuan (UW Madison)

17:15 A new IceCube starting track event selection and realtime stream - Sarah Mancina (University of Wisconsin -- Madison)

17:30 IceCube Search for Galactic Neutrino Sources using the HAWC 2HWC Catalog - Joshua Wood (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

16:00 New Direct Detection Signals from Dark Matter Bound States - Yue Zhang

16:15 Capture and Decay of Electroweak WIMPonium - Patrick Fitzpatrick (Center For Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:30 The LHC Dark Matter Working Group - Antonio Boveia (Ohio State University)

16:45 Search for long-lived particles at CMS - Brian Francis (Ohio State University (US))

17:00 Search for low mass dijet resonances at CMS - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:15 Rare, Exotic, and Invisible Higgs Decays at CMS - Ben Kreis (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

17:30 Global Fits of the MSSM with GAMBIT - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

17:45 Collider and Indirect Singatures of Non-Minimal Dark Matter sectors - Linda Carpenter (Ohio State University)
Wednesday 9 August 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:18
Contributions

09:00 Fast Radio Bursts and CHIME - Victoria Kaspi (McGill University)

09:30 The new era of galactic cosmic rays - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawai'i at Manoa (US))

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

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

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

11:48 Dark Energy Survey Year 1 Cosmology Results - Elisabeth Krause (Stanford)
12:18 Lunch
Lunch
12:18 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

14:00 Precision Measurement of 3He-to-4He ratio in Cosmic Rays with the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on the International Space Station - Francesca Giovacchini (CIEMAT (SPAIN))

14:15 Evidence for Stochastic Acceleration of Secondary Antiprotons by Supernova Remnants - ILIAS CHOLIS (Johns Hopkins University)

14:30 Impact of Cosmic Ray Transport on Galactic Winds - Ryan Farber (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

14:45 Secondary production of cosmic ray anti-deuteron and anti-Helium3 - Ryosuke Sato (Weizmann Institute of Science)

15:00 Nearby Pulsars and The Cosmic Ray Positron Excess - DAN HOOPER (Fermilab)

15:15 CALET : Summary of the First Two-Year on Orbit - Yoichi Asaoka (Waseda University (JP))
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

14:00 Sensitivity of cosmological data to the neutrino mass hierarchy - Martina Gerbino

14:15 Cosmological Observables Beyond Linear Gravity - Tom Giblin (Kenyon College)

14:30 Primordial non-Gaussianity and statistical anisotropy - Saroj Adhikari (University of Michigan)

14:45 CLUMPY: A public code for γ-ray and ν signals from Dark Matter structures - Moritz Hütten (DESY/Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

15:00 Dark Matter Imprints of Heavy Long-Lived Particles - Bibhushan Shakya (Cincinnati/Michigan)

15:15 Searching for the Darkest Galaxies: Covering the Entire Southern Sky with DECam - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab) Keith Bechtol (LSST)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

14:00 Improving the search for extragalactic dark matter using N-body simulations - Nicholas Rodd (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

14:15 A search for dark matter annihilation in nearby galaxy groups - Siddharth Mishra Sharma (Princeton University)

14:30 Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation in Milky Way Satellite Galaxies - Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab) Keith Bechtol (LSST) Andrea Albert (Los Alamos National Lab)

14:45 Sommerfeld-Enhanced J-Factors For Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies - Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii)

15:00 Investigating what the Milky Way's dwarfs have to tell us about the Galactic Center extended excess - Ryan Keeley (UC, Irvine)

15:15 Searching for dark matter annihilation in Galactic substructure with photon statistics - Laura Chang (Princeton University)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

14:00 EBL constraints using TeV blazars observed with the MAGIC telescopes - Gaia Vanzo (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

14:15 Determining the Intergalactic Photon Densities from Deep Galaxy Surveys and the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe - Floyd Stecker (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

14:30 Time dependence of AGN pair echo, and halo emission as a probe of weak extragalactic magnetic fields - Foteini Oikonomou (Penn State University)

14:45 Searches for Angular Extension in High Latitude Fermi-LAT Sources - Manuel Meyer (Stanford University)

15:00 Probing extragalactic magnetic fields with the gamma-ray spectrum of PG 1553+113 - Matthias Lorentz (IRFU - CEA Saclay)

15:15 Probing faint gamma-ray point sources in the inner Milky Way using PCAT - Tansu Daylan (Harvard University)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

14:00 Astronomy's "Next Big Thing:" What can we expect from direct gravitational-wave observations? - Szabolcs Marka (Columbia University in the City of New York)

14:30 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)

14:45 Gravitational waves from bubble dynamics: Beyond the Envelope - Masahiro Takimoto (Weizmann Institute of Science)

15:00 Neutron star mergers and multi-messenger astronomy - Daniel Siegel
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Oak Room
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

16:00 Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

16:15 Recent results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Tareq AbuZayyad (University of Utah)

16:30 The cosmic ray flux spectrum above 300 PeV of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alan Coleman (Penn State University)

16:45 First results from the full-scale prototype for the Fluorescence detector Array of Single-pixel Telescopes - John Farmer (University of Chicago)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

16:00 Science with the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey - Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:30 Maximizing Information-Extraction from Next-Generation Surveys - Zachary Slepian (LBNL)

16:45 Failures of homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in Extended Quasi-Dilaton Massive Gravity - Saurabh Kumar (Case Western Reserve University)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

16:00 LD2DM scenario as an explanation of the AMS-02 positron excess - Jatan Buch (Brown University)

16:15 Zero-Range Effective Field Theory for Resonant Wino Dark Matter - Evan Johnson (Ohio State University)

16:30 Thermal Dark Matter Below an MeV - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

16:45 Indirect Detection of Neutrino Portal Dark Matter - Barmak Shams Es Haghi (University of Pittsburgh)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

16:00 SkyFACT: a novel analysis of Fermi diffuse gamma-ray data - Francesca Calore (LAPTh, CNRS)

16:15 Measuring High-Energy Gamma-Ray Spectra with HAWC - Samuel Marinelli (Michigan State University)

16:30 A Hadronic Model of the Fermi Bubbles: Galactic Cosmic-Rays in a Breeze - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

16:45 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)
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

16:00 The Present and Future of Real-Time Alerts from AMON - James DeLaunay (Penn State)

16:15 Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts - Donglian Xu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:30 An FRB in a bottle? : A multi-wavelengh approach - Kazumi Kashiyama

16:45 Seeking the sources of high-energy neutrinos with Swift - Azadeh Keivani
18:00

18:00 - 22:00
Thursday 10 August 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:06
Contributions

09:00 High-energy x-rays - Fiona Harrison

09:30 High-energy emission from compact astrophysical objects - Emma de Ona Wilhelmi (CSIC-IEEC)

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

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

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

11:48 Resolving High Energy Universe Using Strong Gravitational Lensing - Anna Barnacka (Harvard University)
12:06 Lunch
Lunch
12:06 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

14:00 Radio detection of cosmic rays - achievements and opportunities - Tim Huege (KIT)

14:30 Results of the TREND experiment - Olivier Martineau (CNRS)

14:45 Observations of the Very Local Interstellar Medium with the IBEX and Voyager Spacecraft - Eric Zirnstein (Princeton University)

15:00 Completing and Improving the TeV Cosmic-ray Sky with HAWC - Daniel Fiorino (University of Maryland College Park)

15:15 A search for cosmic-ray proton anisotropy with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

14:00 Blazar Halo Morphology as a Probe of Helical Intergalactic Magnetic Fields - Andrew Long (University of Chicago)

14:15 Weak lensing science with the WFIRST high-latitude survey - Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

14:30 Probing Dark Energy with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) - Richard Shaw (University of British Columbia)

14:45 Cosmological Tests with Type Ia Supernovae - Daniel Shafer (Johns Hopkins University)

15:00 Sample variance in the local measurements of the Hubble constant - Hao-Yi Wu
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

14:00 Empirical Determination of Dark Matter Velocity Distribution Using Metal Poor Stars - Lina Necib (MIT)

14:15 On the applicability of Eddington's inversion methods to direct dark matter searches - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

14:30 Astrophysical distribution of dark matter and direct detection implications - Nassim Bozorgnia (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

14:45 Reverse Direct Detection: Cosmic Ray Tests of Light Dark Matter Elastic Scattering - Christopher Cappiello (The Ohio State University)

15:00 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)

15:15 Hunting for WIMPs, how low should we go? - Aaron Pierce (University of Michigan)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

14:00 Cherenkov Telescope Array: The Next Generation Gamma-ray Observatory - A. Nepomuk Otte

14:15 Overview and current status of the ALPACA experiment - Takashi SAKO (Yachay Tech University)

14:30 All-Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) - A discovery mission for the MeV gamma-ray band - Jeremy Perkins (NASA/GSFC)

14:45 Ex Luna Scienta: The Lunar Occultation Explorer (LOX) - Richard Miller (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

15:00 Fermi's view of the gamma-ray sky above 10 GeV - Pablo Saz Parkinson (The University of Hong Kong)

15:15 Free
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

14:00 High-energy neutrino interactions: first cross section measurements at TeV and above - Mauricio Bustamante (Ohio State University)

14:15 New physics searches with the TeV scale neutrinos - Carlos Arguelles (MIT)

14:30 Imaging Galactic Dark Matter with IceCube High-Energy Cosmic Neutrinos - Ali Kheirandish

14:45 Searching for Planck Scale Physics with High Energy Neutrinos - Floyd Stecker (NASA/GSFC)

15:00 Constraining the Flavor Structure of Lorentz Violation Hamiltonian with the Measurement of Astrophysical Neutrino Flavor Compositions - Wei-Hao Lai (National Chiao-Tung University)

15:15 Hidden neutrino interactions with dark energy: Effects on oscillation probabilities and tests with high-energy neutrinos - Niki Klop (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Oak Room
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

16:00 ABRACADABRA: A novel approach to detecting axion dark matter - Benjamin Safdi (massachusetts institute of technology)

16:15 The Axion Dark Matter Experiment - William Wester

16:30 Axion and ALP Dark Matter Search with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and mini-IAXO - Julia Katharina Vogel (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))

16:45 The Axion Resonant InterAction Detection Experiment (ARIADNE) - Justin Shortino

17:00 A Fresh Look at Axions: Using NuSTAR Solar Observations in Search for Dark Matter - Jaime Ruz Armendariz (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US))

17:15 Emission of Photons and Relativistic Axions from Axion Stars - Abhishek Mohapatra (The Ohio State University)

17:30 Signatures of dark-matter sub-structure in axion direct detection experiments - Joshua Foster (University of Michigan)

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

16:00 Symmetric Achromatic Variability: A New and Totally Unexpected Phenomenon - Anthony Readhead (Caltech)

16:30 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)

16:45 Identifying Short, Extreme Blazar Flares with the HAWC Real-Time Flare Monitor - Thomas Weisgarber

17:00 The AMEGO View of MeV AGNs - Tonia Venters (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

17:15 Multi-Wavelength Correlations and AGN as Possible Particle Accelerators - John Gallagher

17:30 Astrophysics with Novel Observables - Nachiketa Chakraborty (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

17:45 The magnetic reconnection model for blazar emission - Dimitrios Giannios (Purdue University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

16:00 Galactic Sources with HAWC - Petra Huentemeyer (Michigan Tech)

16:30 VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of TeV gamma-ray sources from the second HAWC catalog - Nahee Park (University of Chicago)

16:45 Follow-up VERITAS and NuSTAR observations of Galactic HAWC gamma-ray sources - Michelle Hui (NASA/MSFC)

17:00 A novel maximum likelihood method for VERITAS analysis - Tom Brantseg (Iowa State University)

17:15 Observation of the Cygnus Region using HAWC data - Binita Hona (Michigan Technological University (for the HAWC collaboration))

17:30 Searching for Gamma-Ray Signal from Giant Molecular Clouds with HAWC - Hugo Ayala (Pennsylvania State University)

17:45 Primordial Black Holes and Gamma Ray Emission near pulsars with HAWC - James Thomas Linnemann (Michigan State University (US))
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

16:00 Interpretations of Astrophysics Neutrino Data - Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ)

16:15 Multi-PeV Signals from a New Astrophysical Neutrino Flux Beyond the Glashow Resonance - Ranjan Laha (Stanford University)

16:30 How bright can the brightest neutrino source be? - Shin'ichiro Ando (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

16:45 High-Energy Neutrinos from Supernovae - Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

17:00 Diffuse and point-source neutrino emission from Type IIn supernovae - Maria Petropoulou (Purdue University)

17:15 Difficulties of Star-forming Galaxies as the Source of IceCube Neutrinos - Takahiro Sudoh (the University of Tokyo)

17:30 The Galactic Contribution to IceCube's Astrophysical Neutrino Flux - Peter Denton (Niels Bohr International Academy)

17:45 TBD
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

16:00 Testable Baryogenesis and Leptonic CP Violation in Seesaw Models - Jordi Salvado (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, University of Valencia)

16:15 Leptogenesis from a First-Order Lepton-Number Breaking Phase Transition - Andrew Long (University of Chicago)

16:30 The MATHUSLA detector: exploring the Lifetime Frontier and Cosmic Ray Physics - David Curtin (University of Maryland)

16:45 A Radiative Neutrino Mass Model with SIMP Dark Matter - Takashi Toma (Technical University of Munich)

17:00 Searching for Sterile Neutrinos at J-PARC with JSNS$^2$ - Johnathon Jordan (University of Michigan)

17:15 Probing Fuzzy Dark Matter in Neutrino Experiments - Vedran Brdar (JGU Mainz)

17:30 Understanding neutron yield from neutrino interactions with ANNIE - Emrah Tiras (Iowa State University) Matthew Wetstein (Iowa State University )

17:45 Deep Learning and MicroBooNE to Investigate the MiniBooNE Excess - Jarrett Moon (MIT)
Friday 11 August 2017
09:00
09:00 - 12:12
Contributions

09:00 TeV frontier in particle astrophysics - Hitoshi Murayama (University of California Berkeley (US))

09:30 Gamma-Ray and Radio Emission from Star-Forming Galaxies - todd thompson

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

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

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

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

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

12:12 - 12:22

12:22 Lunch
Lunch
12:22 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

14:00 Full Sky Indirect Detection: Challenges and Strategies - Sheldon Campbell (University of California, Irvine)

14:15 Searching for Dark Matter in M31 with HAWC - Andrea Albert (Los Alamos National Lab)

14:30 Dark Matter Searches using Dwarf Galaxies with HAWC - Tolga Yapici (University of Rochester)

14:45 Galactic Dark Matter substructure searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) - Moritz Hütten (DESY/Humboldt-Universität Berlin)

15:00 Multi-wavelength Approach to Indirect Dark Matter Searches with RX-DMFIT - Alex McDaniel

15:15 The GAPS Experiment for Cosmic-ray Antinuclei Signatures of Dark Matter - Kerstin Perez (MIT)
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

14:00 Cosmological electromagnetic cascades as probe of the Universe - Thomas Fitoussi (IRAP (Toulouse - France))

14:15 AMEGO as supernova alarms: alert, probe and diagnosis of Type Ia explosions - Xilu Wang (University of Illinois)

14:30 Gamma-rays and Neutrinos from Efficient Cosmic-Ray Acceleration in Young Supernovae - Vikram Dwarkadas (Univ of Chicago)

14:45 Evaluating the Gamma-Ray Emission from SN 1987A, the Closest Visible Supernova to us in the last 300 years - Vikram Dwarkadas (Univ of Chicago)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

14:00 Searching for optical counterparts for IceCube neutrinos using the Dark Energy Camera - Keith Bechtol (LSST)

14:30 Time-domain astronomy with the Fermi GBM - Michelle Hui (NASA/MSFC)

14:45 Searching for Counterparts to Cosmic Neutrinos Using the Fermi LAT Satellite - Colin Turley (Penn State)

15:00 The MAGIC multi-messenger program - Konstancja Satalecka (DESY Zeuthen, Germany)

15:15 VHE Gamma Rays and Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: VERITAS Status and Strategies for CTA - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

14:00 Deep Sea Neutrino Telescopes: Latest Results from ANTARES and Perspectives for KM3NeT - Daan van Eijk (WIPAC)

14:30 Status of IceCube-Gen2 - Tianlu Yuan (UW Madison)

14:45 The ANITA Experiment After Four Flights - Cosmin Deaconu (UChicago)

15:00 Low-power radio frequency amplification module with dynamic tunable notch filters for the Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) - Oindree Banerjee (Ohio State University)

15:15 The Fourth Flight of the ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) - Andrew Ludwig (University of Chicago)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

14:00 The milliQan Experiment - Chris Hill (Ohio State University (US))

14:15 Strongly Interacting Dark Matter at Fixed-Target Experiments - Asher Berlin (University of Chicago)

14:30 v Hopes for New Physics: Probing Weakly Coupled States at Neutrino Detectors - Yu-Dai Tsai (Cornell University)

14:45 GPS Timing Synchronization: Characterization and Spatial Correlation - Rob Halliday (Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics)

15:00 Measuring gravitational effects on antimatter in space - Giovanni Maria Piacentino (University of Molise, INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

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

15:00 Cosmic-Ray Mass Spectrometry and Starburst Galaxies - Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

15:15 On the Anisotropy of the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays - Markus Ahlers (Niels Bohr International Academy, Niels Bohr Institute)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Oak Room
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Macedonian Room
Contributions

16:00 TeV-PeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy and Local Interstellar Turbulence - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

16:15 High-energy cosmic ray nuclei from tidal disruption events: origin, survival, and implications - B. Theodore Zhang (Penn State University, Peking University)

16:30 Ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray hot spots? - Daniel Pfeffer (Johns Hopkins University)

16:45 Impact of the Turbulent Galactic Magnetic Field on the Arrival Distributions of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays - Michael Sutherland

17:00 PHAESTOS: Using Galactic Magnetic Tomography to Backtrack UHECRs through the Milky Way - Vasiliki Pavlidou

17:15 Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from local radio galaxies - Björn Eichmann (Ruhr-University Bochum)

17:30 Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei from Radio Galaxies: Recycling Galactic Cosmic Rays through Shear Acceleration - Shigeo Kimura

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Small Theater
Contributions

16:00 General Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from the Cosmic Microwave Background - Chih-Liang Wu (MIT)

16:15 Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter: Constraints from the Milky Way - Emma Storm (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

16:30 Supernova 1987A Constraints on Low-Mass Hidden Sectors - Jae Hyeok Chang (YITP, Stony Brook)

16:45 Dark matter velocity spectroscopy - Ranjan Laha (Stanford University)

17:00 AMEGO: Dark Matter Prospects - Manuel Meyer (Stanford University)

17:15 Impact of Galactic subhalos on indirect dark matter searches with cosmic-ray antiprotons - Martin Stref (Montpellier University)

17:30 Free

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Corinthian Room
Contributions

16:00 Neutrinos from TeV blazars - Matteo Cerruti (CNRS, LPNHE)

16:15 Cosmic rays and neutrinos from blazars with nuclei injection - Xavier Rodrigues (DESY Zeuthen)

16:30 Exploring the connection between Gamma-Ray Bursts, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Nuclei and neutrinos - Daniel Biehl (DESY)

16:45 Black hole jets in clusters of galaxies as common origins of high-energy cosmic particles - Ke Fang (University of Maryland)

17:00 The All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) - Christopher Kochanek (Dept. of Astronomy, The Ohio State University)

17:30 Free

17:45 Free
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Athenian Room
Contributions

16:00 The Askaryan Radio Array: Current Status and Future Plans - Brian Clark (Ohio State University)

16:15 Towards Space Probes of Astrophysical and Cosmogenic Neutrinos - Angela V. Olinto (The University of Chicago)

16:45 Progress in In Situ UHE Neutrino Detectors: Joint Studies on Simulation and Ice - Carl Pfendner

17:00 The ARIANNA Neutrino Detector - Christopher Persichilli (University of California, Irvine)

17:15 GRAND - the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection - Anne Zilles (Institut d'Astrophysik de Paris)

17:30 Trinity: An experiment to detect cosmogenic neutrinos with the Earth skimming technique - A. Nepomuk Otte

17:45 Radio Detection of Neutrino-Induced Tau Lepton Air Showers at Altitude - Stephanie Wissel (Cal Poly)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Spartan Room
Contributions

16:00 Light scalar at the high energy and intensity frontiers - Yongchao Zhang

16:15 Overview of dark matter & exotics searches and prospects at the ATLAS experiment - Wendy Taylor (York University (CA))

16:45 Searches for dark matter beyond mono-jets at the ATLAS experiment - Rui Wang (Argonne National Laboratory (US))

17:00 Searches for supersymmetric dark matter candidates and long-lived particles with the ATLAS experiment - Edoardo Maria Farina (Universita e INFN, Pavia (IT))

17:15 Searches for BSM Higgs bosons at ATLAS, including rare and invisible decays - Gustavo Otero Y Garzon (Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR))

17:45 Free