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8:30 AM
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Opening Remarks: Keith Earle, Chair of the Physics Department
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8:45 AM
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Opening Remarks: Satyendra Kumar, Vice-President of Research
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9:00 AM
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Introduction to Dark Matter
- Dr
Matt Bellis
(Siena College)
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10:30 AM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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10:45 AM
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Supersymmetry
- Dr
JiJi Fan
(Brown University)
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8:30 AM
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Dark Matter in the Milky Way
- Dr
Heidi Newberg
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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10:00 AM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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10:15 AM
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Neutrinos
- Dr
Ethan Brown
(RPI)
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11:45 AM
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--- Lunch ---
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8:30 AM
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Indirect Dark Matter Searches
- Dr
Tracy Slatyer
(MIT)
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10:00 AM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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10:15 AM
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Statistical Methods used in Dark Matter
- Dr
Alex Himmel
(Fermilab)
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11:45 AM
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Roundtable Discussions
- Dr
Tracy Slatyer
(MIT) Dr
Alex Himmel
(Fermilab)
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8:30 AM
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Cosmic Microwave Background
- Dr
Mike Zemcov
(Rochester Institute of Technology)
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10:00 AM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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10:15 AM
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Axions
- Dr
Lindley Winslow
(MIT)
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11:45 AM
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8:30 AM
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Dark Matter at the LHC
- Dr
Gabriella Sciolla
(Brandeis University)
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10:00 AM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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10:15 AM
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Dark Energy
- Dr
Neelima Sehgal
(Stony Brook University )
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11:45 AM
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12:15 PM
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1:15 PM
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Large Scale Structure Formation
- Dr
Jia Liu
(Princeton University)
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2:45 PM
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Roundtable Discussions
- Dr
Matt Bellis
(Siena College) Dr
JiJi Fan
(Brown University) Dr
Jia Liu
(Princeton University)
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3:15 PM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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3:30 PM
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Measurement of Background Gamma Flux in the Davis Cavern for the LZ Experiment
- Mr
Luke Korley
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3:45 PM
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Gravitational-wave ringdown echoes from black holes in massive gravity
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Ruifeng Dong
(State University of New York at Buffalo)
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4:00 PM
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Reconstructing Double Neutron Scatters in XENON1T
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Leaf Swordy
(Xenon ar RPI)
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4:15 PM
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Searching for signatures of dark matter using TeV gamma rays from the Sun with HAWC
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Mehr Un Nisa
(University of Rochester)
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4:30 PM
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The LZ Trigger
- Ms
Christina Loniewski
(University of Rochester)
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12:45 PM
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Direct Detection of Dark Matter
- Dr
Matthew Szydagis
(University at Albany)
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2:15 PM
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Roundtable Discussions
- Dr
Heidi Newberg
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Dr
Mike Zemcov
(Rochester Institute of Technology) Dr
Matthew Szydagis
(University at Albany, SUNY)
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2:45 PM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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3:00 PM
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Radon Screening for the LZ Dark Matter Experiment
- Mr
John Amstrong
(University of Maryland)
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3:15 PM
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Development of Cryogenic Thermal Detectors for Sub-GeV Dark Matter
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Harold Pinckney
(University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
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3:30 PM
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Study of radon reduction in gases for rare event search experiments
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M. Arthurs
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3:45 PM
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The Noble Element Scintillation Technique Version 2.0 (NESTv2.0)
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Gregory Rischbieter
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4:00 PM
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The XENONnT Time Projection Chamber
- Mrs
arianna rocchetti
(uni-freiburg)
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4:15 PM
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Internal Calibration Source Injection in Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chambers
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Christopher Nedlik
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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4:30 PM
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Electron Trains in LXe TPCs
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Amanda Depoian
(Purdue University)
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4:45 PM
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Mitigating Single-Electron Backgrounds in Liquid Xenon TPCs
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Abigail Kopec
(Purdue University)
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12:15 PM
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--- Lunch ---
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1:15 PM
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Machine Learning for Classification and Data Analysis in XENON1T
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Matthew Bernstein
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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1:30 PM
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Dark Matter search activity at the University of Montreal
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Nikolai Starinski
(University of Montreal)
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1:45 PM
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Superheated Droplet Geyser Based on Water
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Anthony Ellis
(SUNY Albany)
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2:00 PM
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Snowball Chamber: A Super-cooled Approach to Dark Matter Detection
- Mr
Corwin Knight
(UAlbany)
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2:15 PM
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Calculating the rotation curve due to visible matter in the Milky Way Galaxy
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Yufan Qie
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2:30 PM
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Developing a search for annual modulation of various elements in atmospheric aerosols
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Cassandra Billings
(Siena College)
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2:45 PM
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--- Lab Tours ---
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12:45 PM
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Non-SUSY Dark Matter
- Dr
Joel Giedt
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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2:15 PM
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Roundtable Discussions
- Dr
Mike Zemcov
(RIT) Dr
Joel Giedt
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Dr
Lindley Winslow
(MIT)
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2:45 PM
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--- Coffee Break ---
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3:00 PM
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HAYSTAC Dark Matter Axion Experiment
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Cady van Assendelft
(Yale University)
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3:15 PM
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Extra Dimensions in High-Mass Diphoton Spectrum at 13 TeV
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Cilicia Uzziel Perez
(The University of Alabama)
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3:30 PM
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Search for Millicharged Particles using an Optical Trap
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Sumita Ghosh
(Yale University)
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3:45 PM
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Calibration of the XENON1T experiment at low energies using a Kr83m source
- Ms
Chloé Therreau
(CNRS)
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4:00 PM
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Demonstrating Parts Per Quadrillion Sensitivity of Krypton in Xenon gas
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John Silk
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4:15 PM
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Krypton Ingress Surveillance of LUX-ZEPLIN Prototype Cylinder
- Mr
Nat Swanson
(University of Maryland)
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4:30 PM
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Performance and Results of the COSINE-100 Experiment
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Estella Barbosa de Souza
(Yale University)
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4:45 PM
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Studying the presence of krypton-85 in the DarkSide detector
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Matthew Downing
(University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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12:45 PM
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Roundtable Discussions
- Dr
Neelima Sehgal
(Stonybrook University) Dr
Gabriella Sciolla
(Brandeis University)
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1:15 PM
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Detector design for the precise measurement of scintillation light in liquid xenon
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Andrew Fucarino
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
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1:30 PM
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222Rn-related background in nEXO
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Sara Feyzbakhsh
(UMass Amherst)
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1:45 PM
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Angular Resolution of a Solid State 0vbb-Decay Detector
- Mr
Kelly Odgers
(RPI)
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2:00 PM
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DAMIC - Dark Matter In CCD: Looking for Dark Matter with CCDs
- Mr
Joao Da Rocha
(LPNHE)
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2:15 PM
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Closing Remarks: Susanna Fessler, Associate Dean of Arts and Science
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