Light Dark World 2018
December 17 - 21, 2018
KAIST, Daejeon, Korea
Light Dark World 2018 is the third meeting of the Light Dark World International Forum. It will be held on December 17 - 21, 2018 at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in Daejeon, South Korea.
Light Dark World 2018 will continue the successful past meetings, Light Dark World 2016 and Light Dark World 2017, and bring together global experts from experiment and theory to discuss recent advances in the field of light new particles beyond the Standard Model, as well as develop new opportunities to study new light hypothetical particles, including light gauge bosons, light dark matter, axions and axion-like particles, sterile neutrinos and more.
http://indico.cern.ch/e/LDW2018
[Notice]
- All talks are invitation only, but anyone (physicists or physics students) is welcomed to attend the forum after the registration (no registration fee).
- [Important!] Recently, we changed our hotel to "Hotel ICC", which is supposed to be a more comfortable one. A bus will be arranged between KAIST (forum venue) and Hotel ICC.
- Bus schedule from Hotel ICC to KAIST: (Mon/Tue/Wed: 9AM, Thu/Fri: 9:30AM)
- Bus schedule from KAIST to Hotel ICC: (Mon/Tue/Wed: Soon after the meeting, Thu/Fri: 5PM)
- [Lunches] You can have a lunch at the cafeteria or restaurants nearby. (Map is here.) Tables for the speakers and faculty members will be reserved at the Faculty Club on Monday and Tuesday.
- [Photo Time on Tuesday] We will have a group photo in the Tuesday morning coffee break (around 11:40AM).
- [Forum Dinner (Gyejeol Bapsang) on Tuesday evening] Everyone is welcomed. Please inform the registration desk at the forum venue if you want to join (fee: KRW 10,000 except for the speakers). You might need to come to the restaurant by public transportation.
- [Excursion (Donghaksa Temple) on Wednesday afternoon] Everyone is welcomed. Please inform the registration desk at the forum venue if you want to join (fee: KRW 20,000). Also please prepare a very warm coat, gloves, and good shoes. Sandwiches will be served for the lunch to the participants.
- [Free discussions and collaboration on Thursday and Friday] We will have completely freestyle discussions and collaborations at and around the Auditorium.
- Some photos taken during the forum and excursion are available now.
Confirmed Invited Speakers: Wolfgang Altmannshofer (UC Santa Cruz) : The status of flavor anomalies Dipanwita Banerjee (UIUC) : The NA64 Experiment at the CERN SPS Kimberly Boddy (Johns Hopkins) : Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Physics Eung Jin Chun (KIAS) : Flavorful axion phenomenology Patrick deNiverville (IBS) : The dark axion portal at the intensity frontier Jinn-Ouk Gong (KASI) : Primordial black holes and small-scale constraints Stefania Gori (UC Santa Cruz) : Dark Matter models at the SeaQuest experiment Koichi Hamaguchi (Tokyo) : A Limit on Axion from the Cooling Neutron Star in Cassiopeia A Dan Hooper (Fermilab) : The WIMP is Dead! Long Live the WIMP! Alejandro Ibarra (TUM) : Sharp spectral features from light dark matter decay Ahmed Ismail (Pittsburgh) : Light hadrophilic scalars Yeongduk Kim (IBS) : Double Beta Decay Experiments Pyungwon Ko (KIAS) : Particle physics models for interacting dark matter-dark radiation and tensions in H0 and sigma8 Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang) : Imprints of reheating on low-energy physics Hyun Su Lee (IBS) : COSINE-100 dark matter search experiment Andrew Long (Rice) : Light dark matter from topological defects Seong Chan Park (Yonsei) : Timing information for Long-Lived Particle and light dark matter Sushant Raut (IBS) : Long-range interactions in neutrino oscillations Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan) : Science prospects and status of the JSNS2 Experiment Marianna Safronova (Delaware) : Probing new physics with atomic clocks Yannis Semertzidis (KAIST/IBS) : A comprehensive approach to axion research Wen Yin (KAIST) : Low scale inflation and constraints on axions Tien-Tien Yu (Oregon) : Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter
Organizing Committee:
Brian Batell (Pittsburgh) co-chair
Patrick deNiverville (IBS)
Ahmed Ismail (Pittsburgh)
Pyungwon Ko (KIAS)
Hye-Sung Lee (KAIST) co-chair
Sponsored partly by:
KAIST Advanced Institute for Science-X (KAIX) program
Title photo is from NASA (http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/) with a slight enhancement effect.
