Name: IDM 2018
Start: 2018-07-22T16:00:00-04:00
End: 2018-07-27T18:30:00-04:00
Location: MacMillian

IDM 2018

from Sunday, 22 July 2018 (16:00) to Friday, 27 July 2018 (18:30)

Monday, 16 July 2018
Tuesday, 17 July 2018
Wednesday, 18 July 2018
Thursday, 19 July 2018
Friday, 20 July 2018
Saturday, 21 July 2018
Sunday, 22 July 2018

18:00 Reception Drinks + Registration (345 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912)
Reception Drinks + Registration (345 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912)
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Ground Floor Lobby See https://www.brown.edu/conference/IDM2018/conference-events for directions, or use 345 Brook Street, Providence, RI 02912 in your maps app.

Monday, 23 July 2018

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 117
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 117
Contributions

08:30 Welcome to IDM and Brown University - Richard Gaitskell (Brown University)

08:50 Dark Matter Phenomenology - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

09:15 CMB Constraints on Dark Matter - UNKNOWN UNKNOWN

09:40 Dark matter in disequilibrium and its implications for direct detection - Lina Necib (Caltech)

10:05 Dark Matter neatly explains anomalous Primordial 7Li Abundance - Glennys Farrar (New York Univ.)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 117
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 117
Contributions

11:00 Reaching Beyond the Standard Scenarios: From Strongly Coupled Dark Sectors and Thermal Freezeout to Cosmological Phase Transitions and the Lifetime Frontier - Keith Dienes (University of Arizona)

11:25 Cosmological signatures of decaying dark matter - Vivian Poulin

11:50 Probing the nature of dark matter with gravitational lensing - Daniel Gilman (UCLA) DANIEL GILMAN

12:15 Neutrino Backgrounds at Dark Matter Detectors - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M)

12:40 The COHERENT collaboration and its first observation of CE$\nu$NS - Ivan Tolstukhin (Indiana University)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 117
Contributions

14:00 Doping LXe TPCs with helium for light dark matter - Hugh Lippincott (FNAL)

14:20 SuperCDMS Detector Performance and Early Science from CUTE - Tsuguo Aramaki (Columbia University) Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)

14:40 Electron Recoil Bubble Nucleation in PICO Bubble Chambers - Daniel Baxter (Northwestern University)

15:00 Potassium and Dark Matter: the KDK Experiment - Philippe Di Stefano (Queen's University)

15:20 ER/NR Discrimination in Liquid Xenon with the LUX Experiment - Vetri Velan (University of California, Berkeley)

15:40 Dark Matter Model or Mass: Benchmark-Free Forecasting for Future Detectors - Thomas Edwards (University of Amsterdam)
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 A Particle Physicist's Perspective on the EDGES Anomaly - Samuel McDermott (FNAL)

14:20 Searching for Decaying Particles with Line Intensity Mapping - Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski (JHU)

14:40 21-cm Implications for Dark Matter: Introduction - Gregory Ridgway (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:00 21-cm Implications for Dark Matter: Results - Hongwan Liu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:20 Estimating the local dark matter content using Gaia DR2 - Jatan Buch (Brown University)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 117
16:30
16:30 - 18:10
Room: 117
Contributions

16:30 Dark matter annual modulation with SABRE - Lindsey Bignell

16:50 The PTOLEMY-G experiment for light dark matter direct detection - Alfredo Davide Ferella (Stockholm University)

17:10 HeRALD: direct detection with superfluid 4He - Scott Hertel

17:30 Testing DAMA/LIBRA result with ANAIS-112 experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)

17:50 Search for low mass dark matter at DUNE - Animesh Chatterjee (University of Texas Arlington)
16:30 - 18:10
Contributions

16:30 Limits on Dark Matter with masses <~ GeV. - Glennys Farrar (New York Univ.)

16:50 Exposing Dark Sector with Future Z-Factories - Xiaoping Wang (Argonne National Lab)

17:10 Long-lived particles at the LHC: catching them in time - Jia Liu (University of Chicago)

17:30 Searches for Dark Matter Mediators at CMS - David Yu (Brown University (US))

17:50 Lines, Boxes, and Energy Duality: Deciphering Astrophysical and Cosmological Imprints of Extended Dark Sectors - Brooks Thomas (Lafayette College)
18:15 Shuttle from MacMillan to Museum
Shuttle from MacMillan to Museum
18:15 - 18:30
Room: 117

18:30 Museum of Art (RISD) - cocktails, hors d'oeuvres (224 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903)
Museum of Art (RISD) - cocktails, hors d'oeuvres (224 Benefit Street, Providence, RI 02903)
18:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, 24 July 2018

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 117
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 117
Contributions

08:30 Low-mass WIMP searches with EDELWEISS - Jules Gascon (Universite Lyon 1)

08:55 Recent PandaX-II Results on Dark Matter Search and PandaX-4T Upgrade Status - Yong Yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

09:20 Status of the LZ dark matter search - Carter Hall (University of Maryland)

09:45 Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC)

10:05 Status and Projected Sensitivity for SuperCDMS SNOLAB - Richard Schnee (South Dakota School of Mines & Technology)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 117
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: 117
Contributions

11:00 DarkSide latest results and the future liquid argon dark matter program - Graham Giovanetti (Princeton University)

11:25 Status of the DEAP-3600 dark matter search - Marcin Kuzniak

11:50 Updated Dark Matter Search Results from the PICO-60 Bubble Chamber - Russell Neilson (Drexel University)

12:15 One year of XENON1T - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago)

12:40 XENONnT - The next step in XENON Dark Matter Search - Uwe Oberlack (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 13:55
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 117
Contributions

14:00 The future PICO programme - Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

14:20 A combined energy scale for WIMP searches in liquid argon with the DarkSide-50 detector - Luca Pagani (UC Davis)

14:40 DARWIN – The Ultimate WIMP Detector - Fabian Kuger (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

15:00 Sub-GeV Dark Matter Results from a Single Electron-Hole-Pair SuperCDMS Detector - Noah Kurinsky (SLAC/Stanford)

15:20 Results on sub-GeV dark matter direct detection with LUX Run 3 data by using Bremsstrahlung and Migdal-effect signal - Junsong Lin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:40 The Spin-independent analysis of one tonne-year of XENON1T data - Knut Morå
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Looking for ultra light axion-like particles in the CMB - Vivian Poulin

14:20 Generalised dark matter and diminishing the low CMB multipole tension - Tanvi Karwal (Johns Hopkins University)

14:40 Sexaquark and other uds-quark Dark Matter - Glennys Farrar (NYU)

15:00 Atomic Aspects of Light Dark Matter Searches - Cheng-Pang Liu (National Dong Hwa University)

15:20 Complementarity for Dark Sector Bound States - Yotam Soreq (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:40 Probing Velocity Dependent Self Intereacting Dark Matter with Neutrino Telescopes. - Ivone Albuquerque (University of Sao Paulo)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 117
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 117
Contributions

16:30 Background analysis in a one tonne-year dark matter search of XENON1T - Fei Gao (Columbia University)

16:50 First results of high voltage breakdown studies with XeBrA - Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale/LBNL)

17:10 Simulations for the LUX-ZEPLIN Experiment - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Sheffield University)

17:30 Production and high voltage testing of the LZ detector grids - RACHEL MANNINO (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:50 Measurements of electron extraction efficiency and low-energy electron recoil response in a two-phase xenon time projection chamber - Ethan Bernard (University of California, Berkeley Physics Dept.)

18:10 Phase 2 Upgrades for the HAYSTAC Axion Experiment - Kelly Backes (Yale University)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Dark Matter Axion Condensates: Stability and Astrophysical Properties - Enrico Schiappacasse (Institute of Cosmology - Tufts University)

16:50 Early- and Late-Time Scattering of Dark Matter and Baryons in Cosmology - Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins University)

17:10 Complete CMB Constraints for Millicharged Dark Matter - Daniel Pfeffer

17:30 Inhomogeneous initial conditions and the start of inflation - Patrick Fitzpatrick (Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

17:50 Dark decay of the neutron - Jonathan Cornell (McGill University)

18:10 Dark matter and WIMPy baryogenesis in Scotogenic Model - Sin Kyu Kang (Seoul-Tech)
18:30 --- Free Time --- (You deserve it)
--- Free Time --- (You deserve it)
18:30 - 19:45

19:55 Shuttle from MacMillan to Ladd Observatory
Shuttle from MacMillan to Ladd Observatory
19:55 - 20:00

20:00 LADD Observatory - Pizza and Drinks (210 Doyle St, Providence, RI 02906)
LADD Observatory - Pizza and Drinks (210 Doyle St, Providence, RI 02906)
20:00 - 22:00
Wednesday, 25 July 2018

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 117
08:30
08:30 - 11:15
Room: 117
Contributions

08:30 Understanding eV-threshold calorimeters for SuperCDMS - Alan Robinson (Université de Montréal)

08:55 SnowBall Chamber: Supercooled Water for Low-Mass Dark Matter - Matthew Szydagis (University at Albany)

09:20 Recent Analysis Efforts of the LUX Collaboration - Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:05 Direct dark matter search with CDEX at CJPL - Ma Hao (Tsinghua University)

10:30 Nigel Smith (Executive Director, SNOLAB): Development of Deep Underground Facilities - Nigel Smith (SNOLAB)
11:15 Lunch is provided in boxes at MacMillan / NOT at Sharpe Refectory
Lunch is provided in boxes at MacMillan / NOT at Sharpe Refectory
11:15 - 11:30
Room: 117

11:30 Shuttle to Ferry (from MacMillan to Boat)
Shuttle to Ferry (from MacMillan to Boat)
11:30 - 11:45
Room: 117

12:00 Ferry to Newport (Departs from 25 India Street, Providence, RI 02903)
Ferry to Newport (Departs from 25 India Street, Providence, RI 02903)
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Sightseeing in Newport, Rhode Island (Please see the events page on web site http://idm2018.brown.edu for details of where to visit)
Sightseeing in Newport, Rhode Island (Please see the events page on web site http://idm2018.brown.edu for details of where to visit)
13:00 - 18:00

18:00 Buses from Newport (6 pm leaving from 39 America's Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840) take you back to Brown
Buses from Newport (6 pm leaving from 39 America's Cup Avenue, Newport, RI 02840) take you back to Brown
18:00 - 18:40
Room: 117

19:00 Lobster Banquet on the College Green
Lobster Banquet on the College Green
19:00 - 21:00
Room: 117
Thursday, 26 July 2018

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 117
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 117
Contributions

08:30 Dark Cosmology: Searching for Dark Matter in the Dark Ages using the Global 21-cm Spectrum - Jack Burns (University of Colorado Boulder)

08:55 The EDGES result: An update and future plans - Alan Rogers (M.I.T. Haystack Observatory)

09:20 21 cm Dark Matter Theory - Anastasia Fialkov

09:45 Interferometric 21cm and Dark Matter - Aaron Ewall-Wice

10:05 Black-hole (and other) dark matter - Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins University)
10:30 CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH & Coffee Break
CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH & Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 117
11:00
11:00 - 13:05
Room: 117
Contributions

11:00 The Status of Interpretations of the Galactic Center Excess - dan hooper

11:25 Axions Theory - Ben Safdi

11:50 First Results from the ADMX-G2 Axion Search - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:15 A Search for Axion Dark Matter with the HAYSTAC Experiment - Danielle Speller (Yale University)

12:40 Aspects of Dark Matter Axion Clumps - Mark Hertzberg (Tufts University)
13:05 Lunch at Sharpe Refectory
Lunch at Sharpe Refectory
13:05 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 117
Contributions

14:00 Detector Stability of COSINE-100 - William Thompson (Yale University)

14:20 Rare-event searches using the Majorana Demonstrator - Wenqin Xu (University of South Dakota)

14:40 Development of Cryogenic Thermal Detectors for Sub-GeV Dark Matter - H Douglas Pinckney (Northwestern University)

15:00 COSINUS: Probing the DAMA/LIBRA claim with NaI-based cryogenic detectors - Karoline Schaeffner (GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute)

15:20 DANAE – A new attempt to search for Dark Matter with DEPFET-RNDR detectors - Holger Kluck (HEPHY & TU Wien)
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 The Stochastic Axion Scenario - adam scherlis (Stanford University)

14:20 Cosmological adiabatic conversion between QCD axion and ALP - Fuminobu Takahashi (Tohoku University)

14:40 Non-relativistic effective field theory of scalar field and longevity of condensates - Masaki Yamada (Tufts University)

15:00 Dark Matter-Baryon Scattering in Global 21cm Signal - Chih-Liang Wu (MIT)

15:20 Early dark energy and the Hubble tension - Tanvi Karwal (Johns Hopkins University)

15:40 Duration of classicality of the axion dark matter condensate - Ariel Arza (University of Florida)
16:00 Coffee Break (Visit to Brown LZ Fabrication Cleanroom leaves MacMillan at start of break)
Coffee Break (Visit to Brown LZ Fabrication Cleanroom leaves MacMillan at start of break)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 117
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 117
Contributions

16:30 The Noble Element Simulation Technique (NEST) Version 2.0 - Greg Rischbieter (University at Albany)

16:50 Two Distinct Components of the Delayed Single Electron Noise in Liquid Xenon Emission Detectors - Katayun Kamdin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:10 Neutron production in radioactive processes relevant to underground experiments - Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield)

17:30 A category of extremely-fast events (EFEs) in pPCGe detectors used in CDEX - Litao Yang (Tsinghua University)

17:50 Low background Counting Facilities at SNOLAB: Current and Future - Chris Jillings (SNOLAB)

18:10 First Evidence for Radon Daughter Solubility in Liquid Xenon - Katayun Kamdin (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars - Tim Linden

16:55 MADMAX: A new way to search for QCD Axion Dark Matter with a Dielectric Haloscope - Stefan Knirck (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany)

17:20 The Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment - Matthew Lawson (Stockholm University)

17:45 Future prospects for axion haloscopes: Multiple cavities and really strong magnets - David Tanner
18:30 Free Time all evening (You really deserved it this time...)
Free Time all evening (You really deserved it this time...)
18:30 - 21:30
Room: 117
Friday, 27 July 2018

08:00 Breakfast and Registration
Breakfast and Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: 117
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Room: 117
Contributions

08:30 Review on directional direct dark matter search with gaseous detectors - Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)

08:50 CYGNUS - a multi-latitude directional WIMP experiment - Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

09:10 Directional Search for Dark Matter Using Nuclear Emulsion - Atsuhiro Umemoto (Nagoya)

09:30 Recent results from the COSINE-100 experiment - Jay Hyun Jo (Yale University)

09:50 Status and plans for the DAMIC experiment at SNOLAB and Modane - Grayson Rich (University of Chicago)

10:10 Direct search for light dark matter with the CRESST-III experiment - Florian Reindl (HEPHY & TU Vienna)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: 117
11:00
11:00 - 13:05
Room: 117
Contributions

11:00 Baryonic Effects on the Distribution of Dark Matter - Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

11:25 The Galactic Center Excess in Gamma Rays - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)

11:50 Simulations of Structure Formation in CDM and Beyond - Mark Vogelsberger

12:15 Searching for Dark Matter at the Cosmic Dawn - Julian Munoz Bermejo (Johns Hopkins University)

12:40 Probing the nature of dark matter with the CMB - Yacine Ali-Haimoud (New York University)
13:05 Lunch at Sharpe Refectory
Lunch at Sharpe Refectory
13:05 - 13:40
Room: 117

13:45 UPDATE: COOLING OK - WE ARE STAYING IN MACMILLAN
UPDATE: COOLING OK - WE ARE STAYING IN MACMILLAN
13:45 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 117
Contributions

14:00 Dark Photon Searches with SuperCDMS Technology - Belina von Krosigk (University of British Columbia)

14:20 Directional Dark Matter search with optical readouts and the CYGNO project - Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

14:40 NEWS-G Light dark matter searches with a Spherical Proportional Counter - Ioannis Katsioulas (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))

15:00 Status of the TREX-DM experiment at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Susana Cebrian (Universidad de Zaragoza)

15:20 NEWAGE - Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University)
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 GAPS: Cosmic-ray antinuclei for dark matter searches - Kerstin Perez (MIT)

14:20 Dwarf galaxies J-factors without priors: a frequentist Jeans analysis consistent with indirect Dark Matter searches - Andrea Chiappo (oskar klein center, stockholm university)

14:40 Effects of Dark Matter Distribution Uncertainties on Milky Way Satellite Galaxy Dark Matter Searches - Mei-Yu Wang (Carnegie Mellon University)

15:00 Point Sources at the Galactic Center - Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

15:20 Multiwavelength analysis of annihilating dark matter as the origin of the gamma-ray emission from M31 - Alex McDaniel (University of California, Santa Cruz)

15:40 Astrophysical vs. dark matter interpretations of gamma-ray observations in dwarf galaxies - Alex Geringer-Sameth (Imperial College London)
16:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 117
16:30
16:30 - 18:00
Room: 117
Contributions

16:30 Modelling of electromagnetic backgrounds in the CRESST experiment - Holger Kluck (HEPHY & TU Wien)

16:50 Material Informatics for Dark Matter Detection - Alfredo Ferella (Stockholm University) Jan Conrad (Stockholm University) Bart Olsthoorn (Nordita)

17:10 Measurement of Background Gamma Flux in the Davis Cavern for the LZ Experiment - Luke Korley

17:30 Background Assessment of the COSINE-100 Experiment - Estella Barbosa de Souza (Yale University)
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 GeV-Scale Thermal WIMPs: Not Even Slightly Dead - Rebecca Leane (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:50 The Impact of antiproton and antimatter nuclei measurements on dark matter searches - ILIAS CHOLIS (Johns Hopkins University)
18:00 CONFERENCE HAS ENDED (Time Off)
CONFERENCE HAS ENDED (Time Off)
18:00 - 18:20
Room: 117