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Shedding Light on Dark Matter

 April 2-4, 2009



CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions


Program
Thursday 2-Apr    
9:00 9:10 Welcome  
9:10 9:50 Supersymmetry and Dark Matter Howard Baer (Oklahoma)
9:50 10:30 LHC Status and SUSY Search Preparations Sarah Eno (UMD)
10:30 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 11:40 Balloon and Space Based Search for Dark Matter Eun-Suk Seo (CREAM/ATIC/UMD)
11:40 12:20 Direct and Indirect Searches for Dark Matter Dan Hooper (Fermilab)
12:20 1:00 The WMAP Haze and Dark Matter Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard)
       
1:00 2:00 Lunch @ CSCAMM  
       
2:00 2:40 Dark Matter Halos, Dwarf Galaxies and Simulations Andrey Kravtsov (Chicago)
2:40 3:20 Signals from Dwarf Galaxies Louis Strigari (Stanford)
3:20 4:00 Some Systematic Properties of Galaxy Dynamics Stacy McGaugh (UMD)
4:00 4:30 BREAK  
4:30 5:10 Small Scale Structure from the Lyman-alpha Forest Adam Lidz (Harvard/U Penn)
5:10 5:50 Warm Dark Matter in the Milky Way Massimo Ricotti (UMD)
5:50 6:20 Shedding Light on the Dark Matter in NGC 6503 Peter Teuben (UMD)
Friday 3-Apr    
9:10 9:50 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Searches for Dark Matter David Thompson (Goddard SFC)
9:50 10:30 The LUX Dark Matter Experiment Carter Hall (UMD)
10:30 11:00 Coffee Break  
11:00 11:40 Substructure and Dark Matter Signals Savvas Koushiappas (Brown)
11:40 12:20 Detecting the Dark Matter in ICECUBE Kara Hoffman (ICECUBE/UMD)
12:20 1:00 The Dark Force and Dark Matter Andrey Katz (UMD)
       
1:00 2:00 Lunch @ CSCAMM  
       
2:00 2:40 Dwarf Galaxies and Dark Matter at Small Scales Manoj Kaplinghat (Irvine)
2:40 3:20 The Dwarf Galaxy Population and Density Profiles Rosemary Wyse (Johns Hopkins)
3:20 4:00 Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group Marla Geha (Yale)
4:00 4:30 BREAK  
4:30 5:10 High Velocity Clouds: Minihalos in the Local Group? Riccardo Giovanelli (Cornell)
5:10 5:50 Dark Matter Halos of LSB Galaxies Rachel Kuzio de Naray (Irvine)
5:50 6:30 Constraints and implications from the PAMELA and ATIC results XiaoJun Bi (IHEP China)
7:00 PM
Banquet at Seven Seas Restaurant
Saturday 4-Apr    
10:00 12:00 Informal Discussion at CSCAMM  
12:00 2:00 Lunch  
   
End of Workshop