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UCLA Dark Matter 2018

from Wednesday, 21 February 2018 (07:00) to Friday, 23 February 2018 (23:30)
UCLA Faculty Center

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
21 Feb 2018
22 Feb 2018
23 Feb 2018
AM
07:30 --- Continental breakfast ---
08:00
Session 1 - Alexander Kusenko (until 10:00) ()
08:00 James Bullock (UCI): Structure formation simulations - Prof. James Bullock (UCI)   ()
08:30 Edward Wright (UCLA): Cosmic Backgrounds - Prof. Edward Wright (UCLA)   ()
09:00 Elisabeth Krause (Caltech): Dark energy - Dr Elisabeth Krause (Caltech)   ()
09:30 Tommaso Treu (UCLA): Probing dark matter with strong gravitational lensing - Prof. Tommaso Treu (UCLA)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Session 2 - Edward Wright (UCLA) (until 12:30) ()
10:30 Simona Murgia (UCI): Dark Matter indirect detection with gamma rays. - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)   ()
11:00 Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea): Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University)   ()
11:30 James Buckley (Washington U in St Louis): Search for dark matter with ACT's - James Buckley (Washington U. Saint Louis)   ()
12:00 Christoph Weniger (GRAPPA, Amsterdam): Indirect dark matter searches with charged cosmic rays and sub-GeV photons - Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)   ()
07:00 --- Continental breakfast ---
07:30
Session 5 - Laura Sales (UC Riverside) (until 09:18) ()
07:30 Anna Nierenberg (UCI): The nature of dark matter with narrow-line lensing - Dr Anna Nierenberg (UCI)   ()
07:50 Marcel Pawlowski (UCI): Phase-space structures in satellite galaxy systems - Marcel Pawlowski (University of California Irvine)   ()
08:10 Simeon Bird (UC Riverside): Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? - Simeon Bird (UC Riverside)   ()
08:30 Michael Boylan-Kolchin (U of Texas, Austin): Testing Dark Matter Models with Dwarf Galaxies - Mike Boylan-Kolchin (U. of Texas at Austin)   ()
08:50 Katherine Freese (U Michigan): Dark Stars - Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)   ()
09:04 Daniele Gaggero (GRAPPA, Amsterdam): Primordial black holes as Dark Matter candidates? - Daniele Gaggero   ()
09:18
Session 6 - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine) (until 09:55) ()
09:18 Dan Hooper (Fermilab): Pulsars and the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess - dan hooper   ()
09:38 Tim Linden (Ohio State): Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden (U)   ()
09:55 --- Coffee break ---
10:25
Session 6 - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine) (until 11:07) ()
10:25 Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology): The FERMI excess investigated over the whole gamma-ray sky - Wim De Boer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))   ()
10:39 Martin Winkler (NORDITA): Hunting for WIMPs with Charged Cosmic Rays - Martin Winkler (Nordita)   ()
10:53 Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC): GAPS - Hunting for Dark Matter with Cosmic-ray Antimatter - Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)   ()
11:09
Session 7 - Katherine Freese (University of Michigan) (until 12:33) ()
11:09 Alexander Dolgov (NSU and ITEP, Moscow): Massive Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter - Alexander Dolgov (NSU)   ()
11:23 Howard Baer (U. of Oklahoma): Prospects for WIMP and axion detection in SUSY with radiatively-driven naturalness - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)   ()
11:37 Peiwen Wu (Korea Inst. for Advanced Study): Heavy Quark Flavored Scalar Dark Matter - Peiwen Wu (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))   ()
11:51 Samuel Witte (U. of Valencia): Unified Halo-Independent Formalism for Direct Detection Experiments - Samuel Witte (IFIC, University of Valencia)   ()
12:05 Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah): The halo-independent approach as a problem of moments - Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)   ()
12:19 Dmitri Nanopoulos (TAMU): Starobinsky-like inflation, supercosmology and neutrini masses in no-scale flipped SU(5) - Dimitri Nanopoulos (University of Texas (US))   ()
07:30 --- Continental breakfast ---
08:00
Session 12 - Rene Ong (UCLA) (until 10:00) ()
08:00 Kaixuan Ni (UCSD): Analyzing the XENON1T Dark Matter Search Data - Kaixuan Ni   ()
08:15 Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong U.): PandaX status and prospects - Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)   ()
08:30 Christina Ignarra (SLAC): Overview and New Results from the LUX Experiment - Christina Ignarra (SLAC)   ()
08:45 Jingke Xu (LLNL): A search for annual and diurnal rate modulations in the LUX experiment - Jingke Xu   ()
09:00 Peter Meyers (Princeton U): Darkside Latest Results - Peter Meyers (Princeton University)   ()
09:15 Vincenzo Caracciolo (LNGS, INFN): Dark Matter Investigation by DAMA/LIBRA - Vincenzo Caracciolo (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)   ()
09:30 Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT)): Results from the EDELWEISS-III Dark Matter search, prospects for EDELWEISS-LT and beyond - Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))   ()
09:45 Holger Kluck (HEPHY, Vienna): Search for low-mass dark matter with the CRESST-III experiment - Holger Kluck (HEPHY)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Session 13 - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University) (until 12:30) ()
10:30 Robert Calkins (SMU): Sub-GeV mass dark matter with the SuperCDMS experiment - Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)   ()
10:45 Ken Clark (SNOLAB): The PICO Experiment - Ken Clark (SNOLAB)   ()
11:00 Status of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search - Shawn Westerdale (Carleton University)   ()
11:15 Christian Regenfus (ETH Zurich): Status Report of The ArDM Project - Christian Regenfus (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))   ()
11:30 Alvaro Chavarria (U. of Washington): First results from the full CCD array of DAMIC at SNOLAB - Prof. Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)   ()
11:45 Reina Maruyama (Yale U.): COSINE-100 - Reina Maruyama   ()
12:00 Marisa Sarsa (U. of Zaragoza, Spain): Testing DAMA/LIBRA result with ANAIS-112 experiment - Prof. Marisa Sarsa (University of Zaragoza)   ()
12:15 Burkhant Suerfu (Princeton U.): Status of the SABRE NaI(Tl) Dark Matter Experiment - Burkhant Suerfu (Princeton University)   ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Session 3 - Tommaso Treu (UCLA) (until 15:30) ()
13:30 Tien-Tien Yu (CERN): New Ideas for sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)   ()
14:00 Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley): Direct detection without noble gases and the low mass dark matter search frontier - Bernard SADOULET (University of California, Berkeley)   ()
14:30 Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton): Direct dark matter detection with noble gases - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)   ()
15:00 Elena Aprile (Columbia): The XENON Dark Matter Search Program: Status and Prospects - Elena Aprile (Columbia)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Session 4 - Elena Aprile (Columbia) (until 18:30) ()
16:00 Tim Tait (UCI): Dark Messages from Accelerators - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)   ()
16:30 Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef/LPTHE, Paris): Dark matter particle candidates - Kalliopi Petraki (University of Melbourne)   ()
17:00 Anne Green (Nottingham): Primordial Black Holes as dark matter - Anne Green   ()
17:30 Peter Graham (Stanford): Experimental searches of axions and axion-like particles - Peter Graham   ()
18:00 Kevork Abazajian (UCI): Dark matter sterile neutrinos - Kevork N. Abazajian   ()
18:30
Poster Session (until 19:00) ()
18:30 Irene Bolognino (INFN- Milano): Direct search of Dark Matter through the SABRE experiment - Dr Irene Bolognino (Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Milano - INFN Sezione di Milano)   ()
18:31 Jae Hyeok Chang (Stonybrook): Supernova 1987A Constraints on Low-Mass Dark Sectors - Jae Hyeok Chang (YITP, Stony Brook)   ()
18:32 Estella Barbosa de Souza (Yale U.): COSINE-100 simulation and background assessment - Estella Barbosa de Souza (Yale U.)   ()
18:33 Omar Moreno (SLAC): The Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)   ()
18:34 Seongjin In (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea): Solar Atmospheric Neutrino Searches with IceCube Neutrino Telescope - Seongjin In (Sungkyunkwan University)   ()
18:35 Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M U. ): Dark Matter Relics and Scalar Tensor Theories - Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)   ()
18:36 Christopher Michael Karwin (UCI): Evidence for Extended Gamma-ray Emission Toward the Outer Halo of M31 from Fermi-LAT Observations - Christopher Michael Karwin   ()
18:37 Jung-Tsung Li (UCSD): Neutrino Burst-Generated Gravitational Radiation From Collapsing Supermassive Stars - Jung-Tsung Li   ()
18:38 Brandon Melcher (Syracuse): Concentrated Dark Matter: Enhanced Small-scale Structure from Co-Decaying Dark Matter. - Brandon Melcher   ()
18:39 Alissa Monte (UMass Amherst): Analysis of Alpha Events in DarkSide-50 - Alissa Monte   ()
18:40 Hee Jung Kim (KAIST): Self-heating dark matter via the semi-annihilation - Mr Hee Jung Kim (KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology))   ()
18:41 Quynh Lah Nguyen (Notre Dame): Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter from small scale structure - Quynh Lan Nguyen   ()
18:42 Kris Pardo (Princeton): Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Dark Matter Emulators - Kris Pardo   ()
18:43 Tao Ren (UC Riverside): Diversity and Uniformity of Rotation Curves from Self-interacting Dark Matter Framework - Tao Ren (UC Riverside)   ()
18:44 Ben Schlitzer (UC Davis): The Argon Response to Ionization and Scintillation Experiment - Ben Schlitzer   ()
18:45 Gizem Sengor (Syracuse): An effective field theory approach to preheating - Gizem Segnor   ()
18:46 Mukul Sholapurkar (Stony Brook): Neutrino Backgrounds for the Direct-Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Mukul Sholapurkar (Stony Brook University)   ()
18:47 William Thompson (Yale): Monitoring System and Data Stability of COSINE-100 - William Thompson (Yale University)   ()
18:48 Xinran Li (Princeton): Study on CMOS imaging detector for the search of neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay in ${}^{82}\mathrm{Se}$ - Xinran Li (Princeton University)   ()
18:49 Thomas Thorpe (University of Hawaii): A Prototype Directional Dark Matter Detector - Thomas Thorpe   ()
18:50 Jennifer Rittenhouse West (UCI): The Cosmological Fate of SU(3)_C x U(1)_EM (based on https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04534) - Jennifer Rittenhouse West   ()
18:51 Ziping Ye (University of Houston): Neutrino Detection in DarkSide-20k - Ziping Ye   ()
18:52 Jingqiang Ye (UC San Diego): XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment - Jingqiang Ye   ()
18:53 Chiara Pancaldo Salemi (MIT): ABRACADABRA, A Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter - Chiara Salemi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)   ()
18:54 Jagjit Singh Sidhu (CASE): Novel Macroscopic Dark Matter (Macro) Detection Schemes - Jagjit Singh Sidhu (CWRU)   ()
18:55 Jamin Rager (UNC): An Update on the Bosonic Dark Matter Search with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Jamin Rager (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)   ()
18:56 Field Rose Rogers (MIT): Searching for Antinucleon Signatures of Dark Matter in Cosmic Rays with GAPS - Field Rose Rogers (Yale University (US))   ()
18:57 Daniel Gilman (UCLA): Probing dark matter with flux ratios from multiply imaged quasars - Daniel Gilman (UCLA)   ()
18:58 Christopher Kelso (U of North Florida): Directly detecting Isospin-Violating Dark Matter - Christopher Kelso (U of North Florida)   ()
19:00 --- Reception ---
12:35 --- Lunch ---
13:35
Session 8 - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma) (until 14:40) ()
13:35 Matteo Cremonesi (Fermilab): Dark matter searches at the LHC - Matteo Cremonesi (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))   ()
13:55 Peter Lewis (University of Hawaii): Dark Sector Physics with Belle II - Peter Lewis (University of Hawaii)   ()
14:12 Daniel Snowden-Iff (Occidental College): BDX-DRIFT: A low-energy, low-background, directional search for light dark matter at accelerators - Daniel Snowden-Ifft   ()
14:26 Andrew Spray (CTPU, Inst. for Basic Science, Korea): Prospective Searches for Electroweak Dark Matter at CLIC - Andrew Spray (CoEPP, University of Melbourne)   ()
14:42
Session 9 - Graham Giovanetti (Princeton University) (until 15:51) ()
14:42 Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory): The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX): Overview & Recent Results - Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)   ()
15:02 Jonghee Yoo (KAIST): Axion Dark Matter Search - Prof. JONGHEE YOO (KAIST)   ()
15:22 Alexander Millar (MPI Munich): Dielectric haloscopes: a new way to search for axion dark matter - Alexander Millar (Max Planck Institute for Phyiscs)   ()
15:37 Luca Visinelli (Stockholm University and Nordita): Axions in cosmology and astrophysics - Dr Luca Visinelli (Stockholm University and Nordita)   ()
15:51 --- Coffee break ---
16:20
Session 9 - Graham Giovanetti (Princeton University) Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida) (until 17:30) ()
16:20 Enrico Schiappacasse (Institute of Cosmology - Tufts University): Axion Dark Matter Clump - Mr Enrico Schiappacasse (Institute of Cosmology - Tufts University)   ()
16:34 Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia): Cosmological axion field and quark nugget dark matter model - Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)   ()
16:48 Miguel Daal (UCSB): Light Bosonic Dark Dark Matter Search Using Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) - Miguel Daal (UCSB)   ()
17:02 Yevgeny Stadnik (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz): New Laboratory and Astrophysical Probes for Low-Mass Dark Matter and Dark Bosons - Yevgeny Stadnik (University of New South Wales)   ()
17:16 Arran Phipps (Stanford University): Dark Matter Radio - arran phipps (Stanford University)   ()
17:30
Session 10 - Katherine Freese (University of Michigan) (until 18:56) ()
17:32 Lina Necib (Caltech): Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution - Lina Necib (MIT)   ()
17:46 Riccardo Catena (Chalmers U. of Technology, Sweden): Determining dark matter particle properties with direct detection experiments - Riccardo Catena (SISSA)   ()
18:00 Patrick Stengel (Stockholm): Dark Matter and QCD-Charged Mediators in the Quasi-Degenerate Regim - Patrick Stengel   ()
18:14 Paul Shapiro (U of Texas at Austin): Cosmology in a Universe with Complex Scalar-Field Dark Matter - Paul Shapiro (The University of Texas at Austin)   ()
18:28 Tanja Rindler-Daller (U of Vienna): Growth of perturbations in a Universe with complex scalar-field dark matter - Dr Tanja Rindler-Daller (Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan)   ()
18:42 Sebastian Baum (Stockholm U. and Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden): Thermal dark matter and the Higgs - Sebastian Baum (Stockholm University and Oskar Klein Centre)   ()
19:30 --- Conference banquet ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:30
Session 14 - Reina Maruyama (until 15:00) ()
13:30 Peter F. Smith (UCLA): The HUNTER experiment: proposed detection of keV-range sterile neutrinos by energy-momentum reconstruction of atomic K-capture - PETER F SMITH (UCLA)   ()
13:45 Philippe Gros (Queen's U., Kingston, Canada): NEWS-G: search for low-mass WIMPS with Spherical Proportional Counters - Philippe Gros (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)   ()
14:00 Tien-Tien Yu (CERN): Exploring the sub-GeV Dark Matter Frontier with SENSEI - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)   ()
14:15 Joshua Berger (U. of Wisconsin-Madison): Searching for Boosted Dark Dark Matter in Large Volume Neutrino Detectors - Joshua Berger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)   ()
14:30 Gulden Othman (U. of North Carolina-Chapel HIll): Low-Mass WIMP Search Using the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Gulden Othman (University Of North Carolina)   ()
14:45 Omar Moreno (SLAC): First Results from the Heavy Photon Search - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)   ()
15:00
Session 15 - Jeff martoff (Temple University) (until 16:00) ()
15:00 Alessandro Razeto (LNGS, INFN, Italy): SiPM at cryogenic temperature for dark matter - Dr Alessandro Razeto (LNGS, INFN, Italy)   ()
15:15 Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab): Status of the LZ construction project - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)   ()
15:30 Sally Shaw (UCSB): The LZ Outer Detector - Dr Sally Shaw (UCSB)   ()
15:45 Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian U. in Krakow): Low-background techniques in direct dark matter searches - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30
Session 16 - Marisa Sarsa (until 17:30) ()
16:30 Paolo Agnes (Houston U): Measurement of liquid argon response to nuclear and electronic recoils with the ARIS experiment - paolo agnes (University of Houston)   ()
16:45 Juijen (Ryan) Wang (U of New Mexico): Triplet Lifetime Measurement in Gaseous Argon using MiniCLEAN Detector - Dr Juijen (Ryan) Wang (University of New Mexico)   ()
17:00 Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (LBNL): Determination of Backgrounds for the LUX Experiment - Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)   ()
17:15 Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale/LBNL): Characterization of high voltage behavior in noble liquids with XeBrA - Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale/LBNL)   ()
17:30
Session 17 - Daniel Snowden-Ifft (until 19:00) ()
17:30 Giuliana Fiorillo (U. di Napoli, INFN): Darkside-20k and the future Liquid Argon Dark Matter program - Giuliana Fiorillo (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))   ()
17:45 Jim Dobson (CERN): Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment - James Edward Young Dobson   ()
18:00 Luca Grandi (U. Chicago): XENONnT on the horizon - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago)   ()
18:15 Ben M Loer (PNNL): Prospects for Low Mass WIMP Searches with SuperCDMS - Ben Loer (PNNL)   ()
18:30 Manfred Lindner(MPI for Nuclear Phys. Heidelberg): DARWIN - towards the ultimate dark matter detector - Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)   ()
18:45 Sven Vahsen (U. of Hawaii): Status of the CYGNUS Directional Dark Matter Detector Project - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))   ()
19:00
Session 18 - Hanguo Wang (UCLA) (until 19:45) ()
19:00 Andrew Renshaw (U. of Houston): URANIA and ARIA, Low radioactivity Argon for rare event searches - Andrew Renshaw (U. of Houston)   ()
19:15 Aldo Ianni (Director, Canfranc): Dark Matter program at the LSC and synergy between DULs - Aldo Ianni (Canfranc)   ()
19:30 Nigel Smith (Director, SNOLAB): Development of Deep Underground Facilities - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)   ()
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