Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter

from Monday, 23 September 2019 (09:30) to Friday, 27 September 2019 (17:30)
GGI, Florence (Aula A)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
23 Sept 2019
24 Sept 2019
25 Sept 2019
26 Sept 2019
27 Sept 2019
AM
09:30
Registration (until 09:50) (Aula A)
09:50
Conference Opening (until 10:00) (Aula A)
09:50 Welcome to GGI - Stefania De Curtis   (Aula A)
10:00
Dark Matter Models (until 13:00) (Aula A)
10:00 Models of light dark matter and detection - Hyun Min Lee   (Aula A)
10:30 Dark photon production of dark matter - Thomas Hambye   (Aula A)
11:00 Heavy thermal dark matter - Hyungjin Kim   (Aula A)
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
12:00 Thermal-Dynamic Dark Matter: Finite Temperature Effects in the Early Universe - Michael Baker   (Aula A)
12:30 Dark Matter Production and Sub-Structure in Non-Standard Cosmologies - Nikita Blinov   (Aula A)
10:00
Indirect Searches (until 13:00) (Aula A)
10:00 Searches for dark matter with gamma rays - Francesca Calore   (Aula A)
10:30 Searches for dark matter with charged cosmic rays - Marco Cirelli   (Aula A)
11:00 Constraining Dark Matter during the Cosmic Dawn - Sarah Schon   (Aula A)
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
12:00 Searching for Dark Matter with Neutron Stars - Tim Linden   (Aula A)
12:30 Aspects of Indirect Detection of Heavy Dark Matter - Bibhushan Shakya   (Aula A)
10:00
Direct Searches (until 13:00) (Aula A)
10:00 Dark Matter Direct Detection - The Low-Mass Frontier - Federica Petricca   (Aula A)
10:30 Recent Progress in the Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter - Rouven Essig   (Aula A)
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 Dark Matter Searches with Liquid Noble Gases - Marie-Cécile Piro   (Aula A)
12:00 Dark Matter - phonon scattering - Simon Knapen   (Aula A)
12:30 Direct Detection Signals from Absorption of Fermionic Dark Matter - Jeff Dror   (Aula A)
10:00
Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (until 10:30) (Aula A)
10:00 Dark radiation and Superheavy Dark Matter from Primoridal Black Holes - Dan Hooper   (Aula A)
10:30
Axions and ALPs (until 13:00) (Aula A)
10:30 Early-Universe Simulations of the Cosmological Axion - Malte Buschmann   (Aula A)
11:00 Axion Dark Matter Detection with CMB Polarization - Michael Fedderke   (Aula A)
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
12:00 The Large-Misalignment Mechanism for Compact Axion Structures - Ken Van Tilburg   (Aula A)
12:30 Axions with Maglev - Gustavo Marques Tavares   (Aula A)
09:30
Stellar Bounds (until 13:00) (Aula A)
10:00 The photon as new physics mediator - Josef Pradler   (Aula A)
10:30 Current limits in our understanding of solar interior from helioseismology and solar neutrinos - Aldo Serenelli   (Aula A)
11:00 Neutron Star Constraints on Dark Matter - Raghuveer Garani   (Aula A)
11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
12:00 Astrophysical axion bounds/hints - Alessandro Mirizzi   (Aula A)
12:30 Recent progress in the nuclear-matter equation of state from chiral effective field theory - Christian Drischler   (Aula A)
PM
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Dark Matter and Structures (until 17:30) (Aula A)
14:30 Constraining dark matter with future cosmological surveys - Aurel Schneider   (Aula A)
15:00 Isolated dwarf galaxies as probes of dark matter - Michelle Collins   (Aula A)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 New light on the local dark matter density distribution from Gaia - Vasily Belokurov   (Aula A)
16:30 The Dark Matter distribution of the Milky Way (its uncertainties and their effect on the determination of new physics) - Maria Benito   (Aula A)
17:00 Implications of Noether's Theorem at Galactic Scales - Susan Gardner   (Aula A)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Searches at accelerators (until 17:30) (Aula A)
14:30 A general overview of the dark sector in relationship with searches at accelerators - Gordan Krnjaic   (Aula A)
15:00 An overview of experiments aiming to investigate the dark sector making use of electron beams - Andrea Celentano   (Aula A)
15:30 Dark matter searches at accelerators - Caterina Doglioni   (Aula A)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Dark Matter searches at B-factories and first results from Belle II - Nataliia Kovalchuk   (Aula A)
17:00 Search for dark sector physics at proton beam experiments - Xiaoyong Chu   (Aula A)
17:30
Direct Searches (until 18:00) (Aula A)
17:30 Directional Direct Dark Matter searches and the CYGNO/INITIUM project - Elisabetta Baracchini   (Aula A)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Primordial Black Holes and Gravitational Waves (until 17:30) (Aula A)
14:30 Gravitational wave probes of dark matter - Djuna Croon   (Aula A)
15:00 Stochastic backgrounds of Gravitational Waves as an evidence of Primordial Black Holes - Davide Racco   (Aula A)
15:30 Probing Small Scales of Inflation and the Imprints of Primordial Non-Gaussianity on Gravitational Wave Spectrum - Caner Unal   (Aula A)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 Pulsar timing probes compact objects - Harikrishnan Ramani   (Aula A)
17:00 Primordial Black Holes as a common origin for baryons and dark matter - Sebastien Clesse   (Aula A)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---
14:30
Atomic Physics (until 17:30) (Aula A)
14:30 Some new (and less so) ways to look for dark matter - Dmitry Budker   (Aula A)
15:00 New physics searches with atomic clocks - Marianna Safranova   (Aula A)
15:30 Axion and dark photon detection with dielectric haloscopes - Masha Baryakhtar   (Aula A)
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30 New physics in atomic spectroscopy: an EFT approach - Clara Peset   (Aula A)
17:00 Stochastic fluctuations of bosonic dark matter - Andrei Derevianko   (Aula A)
13:00 --- Lunch Break ---