Name: UCLA Dark Matter 2018
Start: 2018-02-21T07:00:00-08:00
End: 2018-02-23T23:30:00-08:00
Location: UCLA Faculty Center

UCLA Dark Matter 2018

from Wednesday 21 February 2018 (07:00) to Friday 23 February 2018 (23:30)

Monday 19 February 2018
Tuesday 20 February 2018
Wednesday 21 February 2018

07:30 Continental breakfast
Continental breakfast
07:30 - 08:00
08:00 Overview talks
Overview talks
08:00 - 10:00
Contributions

08:00 James Bullock (UCI): Structure formation simulations - James Bullock (UCI)

08:30 Edward Wright (UCLA): Cosmic Backgrounds - Edward Wright (UCLA)

09:00 Elisabeth Krause (Caltech): Dark energy - Elisabeth Krause (Caltech)

09:30 Tommaso Treu (UCLA): Probing dark matter with strong gravitational lensing - Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Overview talks
Overview talks
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

10:30 Simona Murgia (UCI): Dark Matter indirect detection with gamma rays. - Simona Murgia (University of California, Irvine)

11:00 Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea): Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with Neutrinos - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University)

11:30 James Buckley (Washington U in St Louis): Search for dark matter with ACT's - James Buckley (Washington U. Saint Louis)

12:00 Christoph Weniger (GRAPPA, Amsterdam): Indirect dark matter searches with charged cosmic rays and sub-GeV photons - Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Overview talks
Overview talks
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Tien-Tien Yu (CERN): New Ideas for sub-GeV Dark Matter Direct Detection - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

14:00 Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley): Direct detection without noble gases and the low mass dark matter search frontier - Bernard SADOULET (University of California, Berkeley)

14:30 Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton): Direct dark matter detection with noble gases - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

15:00 Elena Aprile (Columbia): The XENON Dark Matter Search Program: Status and Prospects - Elena Aprile (Columbia)
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Overview talks
Overview talks
16:00 - 18:30
Contributions

16:00 Tim Tait (UCI): Dark Messages from Accelerators - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

16:30 Kalliopi Petraki (Nikhef/LPTHE, Paris): Dark matter particle candidates - Kalliopi Petraki (University of Melbourne)

17:00 Anne Green (Nottingham): Primordial Black Holes as dark matter - Anne Green

17:30 Peter Graham (Stanford): Experimental searches of axions and axion-like particles - Peter Graham

18:00 Kevork Abazajian (UCI): Dark matter sterile neutrinos - Kevork N. Abazajian
18:30 (also during coffee breaks)
(also during coffee breaks)
18:30 - 19:00
Contributions

18:30 Irene Bolognino (INFN- Milano): Direct search of Dark Matter through the SABRE experiment - Irene Bolognino (Dipartimento di Fisica Università degli Studi di Milano - INFN Sezione di Milano)

18:31 Jae Hyeok Chang (Stonybrook): Supernova 1987A Constraints on Low-Mass Dark Sectors - Jae Hyeok Chang (YITP, Stony Brook)

18:32 Estella Barbosa de Souza (Yale U.): COSINE-100 simulation and background assessment - Estella Barbosa de Souza (Yale U.)

18:33 Omar Moreno (SLAC): The Light Dark Matter eXperiment - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

18:34 Seongjin In (Sungkyunkwan University, Korea): Solar Atmospheric Neutrino Searches with IceCube Neutrino Telescope - Seongjin In (Sungkyunkwan University)

18:35 Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M U. ): Dark Matter Relics and Scalar Tensor Theories - Esteban Jimenez (Texas A&M University)

18:36 Christopher Michael Karwin (UCI): Evidence for Extended Gamma-ray Emission Toward the Outer Halo of M31 from Fermi-LAT Observations - Christopher Michael Karwin

18:37 Jung-Tsung Li (UCSD): Neutrino Burst-Generated Gravitational Radiation From Collapsing Supermassive Stars - Jung-Tsung Li

18:38 Brandon Melcher (Syracuse): Concentrated Dark Matter: Enhanced Small-scale Structure from Co-Decaying Dark Matter. - Brandon Melcher

18:39 Alissa Monte (UMass Amherst): Analysis of Alpha Events in DarkSide-50 - Alissa Monte

18:40 Hee Jung Kim (KAIST): Self-heating dark matter via the semi-annihilation - Hee Jung Kim (KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology))

18:41 Quynh Lah Nguyen (Notre Dame): Constraints on Interacting Dark Matter from small scale structure - Quynh Lan Nguyen

18:42 Kris Pardo (Princeton): Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints on Dark Matter Emulators - Kris Pardo

18:43 Tao Ren (UC Riverside): Diversity and Uniformity of Rotation Curves from Self-interacting Dark Matter Framework - Tao Ren (UC Riverside)

18:44 Ben Schlitzer (UC Davis): The Argon Response to Ionization and Scintillation Experiment - Ben Schlitzer

18:45 Gizem Sengor (Syracuse): An effective field theory approach to preheating - Gizem Segnor

18:46 Mukul Sholapurkar (Stony Brook): Neutrino Backgrounds for the Direct-Detection of Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Mukul Sholapurkar (Stony Brook University)

18:47 William Thompson (Yale): Monitoring System and Data Stability of COSINE-100 - William Thompson (Yale University)

18:48 Xinran Li (Princeton): Study on CMOS imaging detector for the search of neutrinoless double $\beta$ decay in ${}^{82}\mathrm{Se}$ - Xinran Li (Princeton University)

18:49 Thomas Thorpe (University of Hawaii): A Prototype Directional Dark Matter Detector - Thomas Thorpe

18:50 Jennifer Rittenhouse West (UCI): The Cosmological Fate of SU(3)_C x U(1)_EM (based on https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.04534) - Jennifer Rittenhouse West

18:51 Ziping Ye (University of Houston): Neutrino Detection in DarkSide-20k - Ziping Ye

18:52 Jingqiang Ye (UC San Diego): XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment - Jingqiang Ye

18:53 Chiara Pancaldo Salemi (MIT): ABRACADABRA, A Search for Low-Mass Axion Dark Matter - Chiara Salemi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

18:54 Jagjit Singh Sidhu (CASE): Novel Macroscopic Dark Matter (Macro) Detection Schemes - Jagjit Singh Sidhu (CWRU)

18:55 Jamin Rager (UNC): An Update on the Bosonic Dark Matter Search with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Jamin Rager (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill)

18:56 Field Rose Rogers (MIT): Searching for Antinucleon Signatures of Dark Matter in Cosmic Rays with GAPS - Field Rose Rogers (Yale University (US))

18:57 Daniel Gilman (UCLA): Probing dark matter with flux ratios from multiply imaged quasars - Daniel Gilman (UCLA)

18:58 Christopher Kelso (U of North Florida): Directly detecting Isospin-Violating Dark Matter - Christopher Kelso (U of North Florida)
19:00 Reception
Reception
19:00 - 20:00
Thursday 22 February 2018

07:00 Continental breakfast
Continental breakfast
07:00 - 07:30
07:30 Dark matter and structure in the Universe
Dark matter and structure in the Universe
07:30 - 09:18
Contributions

07:30 Anna Nierenberg (UCI): The nature of dark matter with narrow-line lensing - Anna Nierenberg (UCI)

07:50 Marcel Pawlowski (UCI): Phase-space structures in satellite galaxy systems - Marcel Pawlowski (University of California Irvine)

08:10 Simeon Bird (UC Riverside): Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter? - Simeon Bird (UC Riverside)

08:30 Michael Boylan-Kolchin (U of Texas, Austin): Testing Dark Matter Models with Dwarf Galaxies - Mike Boylan-Kolchin (U. of Texas at Austin)

08:50 Katherine Freese (U Michigan): Dark Stars - Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)

09:04 Daniele Gaggero (GRAPPA, Amsterdam): Primordial black holes as Dark Matter candidates? - Daniele Gaggero
09:18 Indirect dark matter detection
Indirect dark matter detection
09:18 - 09:55
Contributions

09:18 Dan Hooper (Fermilab): Pulsars and the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess - dan hooper

09:38 Tim Linden (Ohio State): Rise of the Leptons: Pulsar Emission Dominates the TeV Gamma-Ray Sky - Tim Linden (U)
09:55 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:55 - 10:25
10:25 Indirect dark matter detection-continuation
Indirect dark matter detection-continuation
10:25 - 11:07
Contributions

10:25 Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology): The FERMI excess investigated over the whole gamma-ray sky - Wim De Boer (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

10:39 Martin Winkler (NORDITA): Hunting for WIMPs with Charged Cosmic Rays - Martin Winkler (Nordita)

10:53 Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC): GAPS - Hunting for Dark Matter with Cosmic-ray Antimatter - Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)
11:09 Dark matter theory
Dark matter theory
11:09 - 12:33
Contributions

11:09 Alexander Dolgov (NSU and ITEP, Moscow): Massive Primordial Black Holes and Dark Matter - Alexander Dolgov (NSU)

11:23 Howard Baer (U. of Oklahoma): Prospects for WIMP and axion detection in SUSY with radiatively-driven naturalness - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

11:37 Peiwen Wu (Korea Inst. for Advanced Study): Heavy Quark Flavored Scalar Dark Matter - Peiwen Wu (Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS))

11:51 Samuel Witte (U. of Valencia): Unified Halo-Independent Formalism for Direct Detection Experiments - Samuel Witte (IFIC, University of Valencia)

12:05 Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah): The halo-independent approach as a problem of moments - Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

12:19 Dmitri Nanopoulos (TAMU): Starobinsky-like inflation, supercosmology and neutrini masses in no-scale flipped SU(5) - Dimitri Nanopoulos (University of Texas (US))
12:35 Lunch
Lunch
12:35 - 13:35
13:35 Dark matter searches at accelerators
Dark matter searches at accelerators
13:35 - 14:40
Contributions

13:35 Matteo Cremonesi (Fermilab): Dark matter searches at the LHC - Matteo Cremonesi (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))

13:55 Peter Lewis (University of Hawaii): Dark Sector Physics with Belle II - Peter Lewis (University of Hawaii)

14:12 Daniel Snowden-Iff (Occidental College): BDX-DRIFT: A low-energy, low-background, directional search for light dark matter at accelerators - Daniel Snowden-Ifft

14:26 Andrew Spray (CTPU, Inst. for Basic Science, Korea): Prospective Searches for Electroweak Dark Matter at CLIC - Andrew Spray (CoEPP, University of Melbourne)
14:42 Axions, Alps, Wisps as dark matter
Axions, Alps, Wisps as dark matter
14:42 - 15:51
Contributions

14:42 Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory): The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX): Overview & Recent Results - Christian Boutan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

15:02 Jonghee Yoo (KAIST): Axion Dark Matter Search - JONGHEE YOO (KAIST)

15:22 Alexander Millar (MPI Munich): Dielectric haloscopes: a new way to search for axion dark matter - Alexander Millar (Max Planck Institute for Phyiscs)

15:37 Luca Visinelli (Stockholm University and Nordita): Axions in cosmology and astrophysics - Luca Visinelli (Stockholm University and Nordita)
15:51 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:51 - 16:20
16:20 Axions, Alps, Wisps as dark matter-continuation
Axions, Alps, Wisps as dark matter-continuation
16:20 - 17:30
Contributions

16:20 Enrico Schiappacasse (Institute of Cosmology - Tufts University): Axion Dark Matter Clump - Enrico Schiappacasse (Institute of Cosmology - Tufts University)

16:34 Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia): Cosmological axion field and quark nugget dark matter model - Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)

16:48 Miguel Daal (UCSB): Light Bosonic Dark Dark Matter Search Using Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors (MKIDs) - Miguel Daal (UCSB)

17:02 Yevgeny Stadnik (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz): New Laboratory and Astrophysical Probes for Low-Mass Dark Matter and Dark Bosons - Yevgeny Stadnik (University of New South Wales)

17:16 Arran Phipps (Stanford University): Dark Matter Radio - arran phipps (Stanford University)
17:30 Dark matter theory
Dark matter theory
17:30 - 18:56
Contributions

17:32 Lina Necib (Caltech): Empirical Determination of the Dark Matter Velocity Distribution - Lina Necib (MIT)

17:46 Riccardo Catena (Chalmers U. of Technology, Sweden): Determining dark matter particle properties with direct detection experiments - Riccardo Catena (SISSA)

18:00 Patrick Stengel (Stockholm): Dark Matter and QCD-Charged Mediators in the Quasi-Degenerate Regim - Patrick Stengel

18:14 Paul Shapiro (U of Texas at Austin): Cosmology in a Universe with Complex Scalar-Field Dark Matter - Paul Shapiro (The University of Texas at Austin)

18:28 Tanja Rindler-Daller (U of Vienna): Growth of perturbations in a Universe with complex scalar-field dark matter - Tanja Rindler-Daller (Dept. of Physics, University of Michigan)

18:42 Sebastian Baum (Stockholm U. and Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden): Thermal dark matter and the Higgs - Sebastian Baum (Stockholm University and Oskar Klein Centre)
19:30 Conference banquet
Conference banquet
19:30 - 21:30
Friday 23 February 2018

07:30 Continental breakfast
Continental breakfast
07:30 - 08:00
08:00 Direct dark matter detection: status of current experiments-1
Direct dark matter detection: status of current experiments-1
08:00 - 10:00
Contributions

08:00 Kaixuan Ni (UCSD): Analyzing the XENON1T Dark Matter Search Data - Kaixuan Ni

08:15 Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong U.): PandaX status and prospects - Jianglai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

08:30 Christina Ignarra (SLAC): Overview and New Results from the LUX Experiment - Christina Ignarra (SLAC)

08:45 Jingke Xu (LLNL): A search for annual and diurnal rate modulations in the LUX experiment - Jingke Xu

09:00 Peter Meyers (Princeton U): Darkside Latest Results - Peter Meyers (Princeton University)

09:15 Vincenzo Caracciolo (LNGS, INFN): Dark Matter Investigation by DAMA/LIBRA - Vincenzo Caracciolo (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

09:30 Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology (KIT)): Results from the EDELWEISS-III Dark Matter search, prospects for EDELWEISS-LT and beyond - Bernhard Siebenborn (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))

09:45 Holger Kluck (HEPHY, Vienna): Search for low-mass dark matter with the CRESST-III experiment - Holger Kluck (HEPHY)
10:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30 Direct dark matter detection: status of current experiments-2
Direct dark matter detection: status of current experiments-2
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

10:30 Robert Calkins (SMU): Sub-GeV mass dark matter with the SuperCDMS experiment - Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University)

10:45 Ken Clark (SNOLAB): The PICO Experiment - Ken Clark (SNOLAB)

11:00 Status of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search - Shawn Westerdale (Carleton University)

11:15 Christian Regenfus (ETH Zurich): Status Report of The ArDM Project - Christian Regenfus (Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich (ETHZ) (CH))

11:30 Alvaro Chavarria (U. of Washington): First results from the full CCD array of DAMIC at SNOLAB - Alvaro Chavarria (University of Washington)

11:45 Reina Maruyama (Yale U.): COSINE-100 - Reina Maruyama

12:00 Marisa Sarsa (U. of Zaragoza, Spain): Testing DAMA/LIBRA result with ANAIS-112 experiment - Marisa Sarsa (University of Zaragoza)

12:15 Burkhant Suerfu (Princeton U.): Status of the SABRE NaI(Tl) Dark Matter Experiment - Burkhant Suerfu (Princeton University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Dark Matter Detection: New Proposals
Dark Matter Detection: New Proposals
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Peter F. Smith (UCLA): The HUNTER experiment: proposed detection of keV-range sterile neutrinos by energy-momentum reconstruction of atomic K-capture - PETER F SMITH (UCLA)

13:45 Philippe Gros (Queen's U., Kingston, Canada): NEWS-G: search for low-mass WIMPS with Spherical Proportional Counters - Philippe Gros (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)

14:00 Tien-Tien Yu (CERN): Exploring the sub-GeV Dark Matter Frontier with SENSEI - Tien-Tien Yu (CERN)

14:15 Joshua Berger (U. of Wisconsin-Madison): Searching for Boosted Dark Dark Matter in Large Volume Neutrino Detectors - Joshua Berger (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:30 Gulden Othman (U. of North Carolina-Chapel HIll): Low-Mass WIMP Search Using the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Gulden Othman (University Of North Carolina)

14:45 Omar Moreno (SLAC): First Results from the Heavy Photon Search - Omar Moreno (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
15:00 Direct dark matter detection: Technical Developments- 1
Direct dark matter detection: Technical Developments- 1
15:00 - 16:00
Contributions

15:00 Alessandro Razeto (LNGS, INFN, Italy): SiPM at cryogenic temperature for dark matter - Alessandro Razeto (LNGS, INFN, Italy)

15:15 Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab): Status of the LZ construction project - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)

15:30 Sally Shaw (UCSB): The LZ Outer Detector - Sally Shaw (UCSB)

15:45 Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian U. in Krakow): Low-background techniques in direct dark matter searches - Grzegorz Zuzel (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Direct Dark Matter Detection: Technical Developments -2
Direct Dark Matter Detection: Technical Developments -2
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 Paolo Agnes (Houston U): Measurement of liquid argon response to nuclear and electronic recoils with the ARIS experiment - paolo agnes (University of Houston)

16:45 Juijen (Ryan) Wang (U of New Mexico): Triplet Lifetime Measurement in Gaseous Argon using MiniCLEAN Detector - Juijen (Ryan) Wang (University of New Mexico)

17:00 Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (LBNL): Determination of Backgrounds for the LUX Experiment - Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:15 Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale/LBNL): Characterization of high voltage behavior in noble liquids with XeBrA - Lucie Tvrznikova (Yale/LBNL)
17:30 Direct Dark Matter Detection: Next Generation Experiments
Direct Dark Matter Detection: Next Generation Experiments
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Giuliana Fiorillo (U. di Napoli, INFN): Darkside-20k and the future Liquid Argon Dark Matter program - Giuliana Fiorillo (Universita e sezione INFN di Napoli (IT))

17:45 Jim Dobson (CERN): Projected WIMP sensitivity of the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter experiment - James Edward Young Dobson

18:00 Luca Grandi (U. Chicago): XENONnT on the horizon - Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago)

18:15 Ben M Loer (PNNL): Prospects for Low Mass WIMP Searches with SuperCDMS - Ben Loer (PNNL)

18:30 Manfred Lindner(MPI for Nuclear Phys. Heidelberg): DARWIN - towards the ultimate dark matter detector - Manfred Lindner (Max Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany)

18:45 Sven Vahsen (U. of Hawaii): Status of the CYGNUS Directional Dark Matter Detector Project - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))
19:00 Facilities
Facilities
19:00 - 19:45
Contributions

19:00 Andrew Renshaw (U. of Houston): URANIA and ARIA, Low radioactivity Argon for rare event searches - Andrew Renshaw (U. of Houston)

19:15 Aldo Ianni (Director, Canfranc): Dark Matter program at the LSC and synergy between DULs - Aldo Ianni (Canfranc)

19:30 Nigel Smith (Director, SNOLAB): Development of Deep Underground Facilities - Nigel Smith (SNOLab)