Dark Matter to Low Energy Neutrinos: Theory and Experimental Discussion

6 Feb 2017, 09:00 → 7 Feb 2017, 17:00 America/Puerto_Rico

Monday 6 February

1 Introduction to PIRE, COFI and purpose of meeting

Speakers: Prof. Jose Nieves (University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus), Mayda Velasco (Northwestern University (US))

10:30 Coffee Break

2 Theory: Overview sterile neutrinos as dark matter candidate

Speaker: Prof. Kevork N. Abazajian

Abazajian_COFI_Feb2017.pdf

12:00 Lunch Break

3 Detecting low energy nuclear recoils from dark matter and neutrinos with CCDs

Speaker: juan estrada (fermilab)

4 Experiments and Instrumentation R&D: Liquid detectors for neutrino and dark matter detection

Speaker: C Eric Dahl (Northwestern University)

14:45 Coffee Break

5 Constraining Dark Matter with Strong Gravitational Lensing

Speaker: Martin Makler (CBPF)

6 “Theory: nu coherent scattering and low energy neutrino oscillation

Speaker: Andre De Gouvea (Northwestern University)

PIRE_NU_2017.pdf

PIRE_PR_2017.pdf

Tuesday 7 February

7 Theory: dark matter models from the astro theory point of view

Speaker: Kevork N. Abazajian

Abazajian_COFI_Dark_Matter.pdf

10:00 Coffee Break

8 Cryogenic Semiconductor Detectors for Dark Matter searches

Speaker: Prof. Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Northwestern University)

COFI_PIRE_2017_Figueroa.pdf

11:30 Lunch Break

9 Directional Detection of Dark Matter: negative ion/optical readout R&D

Speaker: Gianluca Cavoto (Sapienza Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))

PIRE_WS_Feb2017.pdf

10 Directional Dark Matter Detection in High Pressure Xe

Speaker: Steve Magill (Argonne National Laboratory)

PIRE_TSG.pdf

14:15 Coffee Break

11 Galaxy Evolution and Dark Matter

Speaker: Thiago Goncalves (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

PIRE_TSG.pdf

12 Simulation and computer modeling for cosmology

Speaker: Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory)

cofi_astro_projects.pdf

habib_hacc_cofi_2017.pdf