2nd World Summit on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe

from Monday 25 June 2018 (08:00) to Friday 29 June 2018 (22:15)
Guadeloupe islands

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Jun 2018
26 Jun 2018
27 Jun 2018
28 Jun 2018
29 Jun 2018
AM
08:00
Registration (until 09:00)
09:00
Welcome (until 10:20)
09:00 Welcome: Deputy Chairman of the Guadeloupe Regional Council - Ms Marie-Luce Penchard Mr Ary Chalus  
09:15 Welcome: President of University of Antilles - Prof. Eustase Janky  
09:30 Review on departments activities in faculty of sciences - Prof. Alain Pietrus  
09:45 Welcome and practical informations - Dr Betty Calpas  
10:00 Questions to be addressed at this conference - Prof. Pierre Petroff  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:45
Session 1 : The cosmos as a particle detector (until 17:05)
10:45 The Planck experiment status and prospects - François Bouchet (IAP Paris)  
11:20 Supernovae status and prospects - Mickael Rigault (IPNL Lyon)  
11:55 Weak lensing status and prospects - Danielle Leonard  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30 Galaxy Clustering and BAO status and prospects - Bruce Hoeneisen (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
14:05 Gravitational Waves status and prospects - Laura Cadonati  
14:50 --- Coffee break ---
15:20 Gamma rays signature of dark matter in the CTA era - Aldo Morselli (INFN)  
15:55 Interplay between Cosmology, Particle Physics and Astrophysics - Aaron Vincent (Imperial College London)  
16:30 Multi-messengers astronomy status and prospects - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)  
08:00
Session 2: Dark Matter (until 17:25)
08:00 Dark Matter a critical review (Theory) - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)  
08:35 Dark Matter and Higgs physics - Ian Moss  
09:10 Direct DM searches status and prospects - Prof. Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
09:45 Indirect DM Searches status and prospects - Eric Charles (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:50 DM searches at ATLAS status and prospects - Mario Martinez Perez  
11:25 DM searches at CMS status and prospects - Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (MIT)  
12:00 CMS Searches for Dark Matter with Heavy Quarks or Jets - Tommaso Dorigo  
12:35 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Unravelling the mystery of dark mater annual modulation - Davide d’Angelo  
14:35 Most recent results from XENON1T dark matter detector - Marcello Messina (NYU-AD)  
15:10 The DM puzzle: Are WIMPS still alive ? - Gilles Gerbier  
15:55 --- Coffee break ---
16:25 Round table: Dark matter or something else? - Moderated by Gilles Gerbier and Kazuhiko Hara  
08:00
Session 2: Dark Matter (until 09:35)
08:00 Probing New Parameter Space in Dark Matter Detection - Christoforos Kouvaris  
08:25 Search for Ultra-low Mass Dark Matter - Laurent Chevalier  
09:00 DM and extra dimension - Christophe Royon  
09:35
Session 3: Neutrino Cosmology (until 15:20)
09:35 B-physics anomalies, Lepton Universality Violation and Cosmology - Diego Guadagnoli  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Leptonic CP Violation and matter-antimatter in the Universe - Serguey Petcov  
11:15 Constraints on neutrino masses from cosmological observations - Bruce Hoeneisen  
11:45 Neutrino detectors status and prospects - Mark Messier (IU)  
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:45 Multimessenger astrophysics: the ultra high-energy picture with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Stephane Coutu  
14:20 ANDES project - Xavier Bertou (CNEA/CONICET)  
14:50 Neutrino telescope: IceCube results and prospects - Prof. Juan Antonio Aguilar Sanchez (Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
08:45
Session3: Dark Energy (until 17:20)
08:45 Evidence for accelerated expansion of the Universe: current observations - Tim Eifler  
09:30 Large scale structure of the Universe and future experiments for Dark Energy - Anne Ealet  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Dark Energy and Tachyons, and Cosmic Ray Showers - Mike Albrow  
11:15 Concordance model and tension in the Hubble constant - Adam Riess  
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 On the tension between LSS and CMB - Marian Douspis  
14:40 Is expansion simulated by the structure of the Universe? - Thomas Buchert  
15:25 Dark energy Acceleration of the Universe with Variable Gravitational Mass - Nick Gorkavyi  
16:05 --- Coffee break ---
16:35 Reverse Engineering of the Universe - Andrei Linde  
08:00
Session 4 (until 15:00)
08:00 Exploring fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves - Archil Kobakhidze  
08:45 Primordial Black holes - Juan Garcia-Bellido  
09:30 Supergravity and Cosmology - Renata Kallosh  
10:15 --- Coffee break ---
10:45 Eternally inflating multiverse and many worlds in quantum mechanics: same concept? - Yasunori Nomura  
11:25 Testing the Quantum Coherent Behavior of Gravity - Sougato Bose  
12:05 --- Lunch break ---
14:00 Quantum Insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Francesca Vidotto  
14:30 The dark side of gravity and the acceleration of the Universe - Frederic Henry-Couannier  
PM
18:30
Welcome cocktail (until 21:00)
18:30
Popular Science Lectures 1 (in French) (until 20:30)
18:30 L’Histoire de l’Univers Reconstituée - François Bouchet  
19:30 Question/Reponse  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Young physicist (until 17:05)
15:50 The Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Germán Gómez-Vergas  
16:20 ATLAS search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson - Wei Wang  
16:35 ATLAS search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion - Vincent Kitali  
16:50 CMS CT-PPS physics results and prospects - Justin Williams  
19:00
Conference dinner (until 22:30)
18:30
Popular Science Lectures 2 (in French) (until 20:30)
18:30 L’Univers est-il une illusion? - François Bouchet  
19:30 Question/Reponse  
15:00 --- Coffee break ---
15:30
Concluding remarks (until 17:10)
15:30 Dark Matter - Eric Charles  
16:00 Dark Energy - Tim Eifler  
16:30 Cosmology (Neutrino, Gravity and Black Holes) - Yasunori Nomura