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

from Monday, June 25, 2018 (8:00 AM) to Friday, June 29, 2018 (10:15 PM)
Guadeloupe islands

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 25, 2018
Jun 26, 2018
Jun 27, 2018
Jun 28, 2018
Jun 29, 2018
AM
8:00 AM
Registration (until 9:00 AM)
9:00 AM
Welcome (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome: Deputy Chairman of the Guadeloupe Regional Council - Ms Marie-Luce Penchard Mr Ary Chalus  
9:15 AM Welcome: President of University of Antilles - Prof. Eustase Janky  
9:30 AM Review on departments activities in faculty of sciences - Prof. Alain Pietrus  
9:45 AM Welcome and practical informations - Dr Betty Calpas  
10:00 AM Questions to be addressed at this conference - Prof. Pierre Petroff  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM
Session 1 : The cosmos as a particle detector (until 5:05 PM)
10:45 AM The Planck experiment status and prospects - François Bouchet (IAP Paris)  
11:20 AM Supernovae status and prospects - Mickael Rigault (IPNL Lyon)  
11:55 AM Weak lensing status and prospects - Danielle Leonard  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:30 PM Galaxy Clustering and BAO status and prospects - Bruce Hoeneisen (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
2:05 PM Gravitational Waves status and prospects - Laura Cadonati  
2:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:20 PM Gamma rays signature of dark matter in the CTA era - Aldo Morselli (INFN)  
3:55 PM Interplay between Cosmology, Particle Physics and Astrophysics - Aaron Vincent (Imperial College London)  
4:30 PM Multi-messengers astronomy status and prospects - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)  
8:00 AM
Session 2: Dark Matter (until 5:25 PM)
8:00 AM Dark Matter a critical review (Theory) - Marcela Carena (Fermilab)  
8:35 AM Dark Matter and Higgs physics - Ian Moss  
9:10 AM Direct DM searches status and prospects - Prof. Alexander Belyaev (University of Southampton & Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)  
9:45 AM Indirect DM Searches status and prospects - Eric Charles (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:20 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:50 AM DM searches at ATLAS status and prospects - Mario Martinez Perez  
11:25 AM DM searches at CMS status and prospects - Guillelmo Gomez-Ceballos (MIT)  
12:00 PM CMS Searches for Dark Matter with Heavy Quarks or Jets - Tommaso Dorigo  
12:35 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM Unravelling the mystery of dark mater annual modulation - Davide d’Angelo  
2:35 PM Most recent results from XENON1T dark matter detector - Marcello Messina (NYU-AD)  
3:10 PM The DM puzzle: Are WIMPS still alive ? - Gilles Gerbier  
3:55 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:25 PM Round table: Dark matter or something else? - Moderated by Gilles Gerbier and Kazuhiko Hara  
8:00 AM
Session 2: Dark Matter (until 9:35 AM)
8:00 AM Probing New Parameter Space in Dark Matter Detection - Christoforos Kouvaris  
8:25 AM Search for Ultra-low Mass Dark Matter - Laurent Chevalier  
9:00 AM DM and extra dimension - Christophe Royon  
9:35 AM
Session 3: Neutrino Cosmology (until 3:20 PM)
9:35 AM B-physics anomalies, Lepton Universality Violation and Cosmology - Diego Guadagnoli  
10:10 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:40 AM Leptonic CP Violation and matter-antimatter in the Universe - Serguey Petcov  
11:15 AM Constraints on neutrino masses from cosmological observations - Bruce Hoeneisen  
11:45 AM Neutrino detectors status and prospects - Mark Messier (IU)  
12:30 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:45 PM Multimessenger astrophysics: the ultra high-energy picture with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Stephane Coutu  
2:20 PM ANDES project - Xavier Bertou (CNEA/CONICET)  
2:50 PM Neutrino telescope: IceCube results and prospects - Prof. Juan Antonio Aguilar Sanchez (Université Libre de Bruxelles)  
8:45 AM
Session3: Dark Energy (until 5:20 PM)
8:45 AM Evidence for accelerated expansion of the Universe: current observations - Tim Eifler  
9:30 AM Large scale structure of the Universe and future experiments for Dark Energy - Anne Ealet  
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM Dark Energy and Tachyons, and Cosmic Ray Showers - Mike Albrow  
11:15 AM Concordance model and tension in the Hubble constant - Adam Riess  
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM On the tension between LSS and CMB - Marian Douspis  
2:40 PM Is expansion simulated by the structure of the Universe? - Thomas Buchert  
3:25 PM Dark energy Acceleration of the Universe with Variable Gravitational Mass - Nick Gorkavyi  
4:05 PM --- Coffee break ---
4:35 PM Reverse Engineering of the Universe - Andrei Linde  
8:00 AM
Session 4 (until 3:00 PM)
8:00 AM Exploring fundamental Physics with Gravitational Waves - Archil Kobakhidze  
8:45 AM Primordial Black holes - Juan Garcia-Bellido  
9:30 AM Supergravity and Cosmology - Renata Kallosh  
10:15 AM --- Coffee break ---
10:45 AM Eternally inflating multiverse and many worlds in quantum mechanics: same concept? - Yasunori Nomura  
11:25 AM Testing the Quantum Coherent Behavior of Gravity - Sougato Bose  
12:05 PM --- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM Quantum Insights on Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter - Francesca Vidotto  
2:30 PM The dark side of gravity and the acceleration of the Universe - Frederic Henry-Couannier  
PM
6:30 PM
Welcome cocktail (until 9:00 PM)
6:30 PM
Popular Science Lectures 1 (in French) (until 8:30 PM)
6:30 PM L’Histoire de l’Univers Reconstituée - François Bouchet  
7:30 PM Question/Reponse  
3:20 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:50 PM
Young physicist (until 5:05 PM)
3:50 PM The Key Science Projects of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Germán Gómez-Vergas  
4:20 PM ATLAS search for dark matter produced in association with a hadronically decaying vector boson - Wei Wang  
4:35 PM ATLAS search for an invisibly decaying Higgs boson produced via vector boson fusion - Vincent Kitali  
4:50 PM CMS CT-PPS physics results and prospects - Justin Williams  
7:00 PM
Conference dinner (until 10:30 PM)
6:30 PM
Popular Science Lectures 2 (in French) (until 8:30 PM)
6:30 PM L’Univers est-il une illusion? - François Bouchet  
7:30 PM Question/Reponse  
3:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:30 PM
Concluding remarks (until 5:10 PM)
3:30 PM Dark Matter - Eric Charles  
4:00 PM Dark Energy - Tim Eifler  
4:30 PM Cosmology (Neutrino, Gravity and Black Holes) - Yasunori Nomura