Name: UCLA Dark Matter 2020 Conference
Start: 2020-03-25T07:30:00-07:00
End: 2020-03-28T13:15:00-07:00
Location: UCLA

UCLA Dark Matter 2020 Conference

from Wednesday, March 25, 2020 (7:30 AM) to Saturday, March 28, 2020 (1:15 PM)

Monday, March 23, 2020
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Wednesday, March 25, 2020
7:30 AM Welcome: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

7:55 AM Brief welcome and some organizational remarks - Graciela Beatriz Gelmini (University of California Los Angeles (US))
8:00 AM Session 1: Cosmology and structure formation
Cosmology and structure formation
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:00 AM Cosmology, data, and statistics - Edward Wright (UCLA)

8:30 AM Dark Energy in 2020 - Elisabeth Krause (The University of Arizona)

9:00 AM Interpreting Dwarf Galaxies and Dark Matter - Alyson Brooks (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)

9:30 AM A Review of strong gravitational lensing constraints on the nature of dark matter - Anna Nierenberg
10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:30 AM Session 2: Cosmology and structure formation
Cosmology and structure formation
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:30 AM Dark matter in the Milky Way - Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)

11:00 AM Indirect dark matter detection - Tracy Slatyer

11:30 AM Dark matter searches with neutrino telescopes - Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University)

12:00 PM Search for dark matter with IACTs and the Cherenkov Telescope Array Aldo Morselli for the CTA Consortium - Aldo Morselli (INFN)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:30 PM Session 3: Particle candidates and accelerator searches
Particle candidates and accelerator searches
1:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:30 PM Particle Dark Matter: Status and Prospects - Kathryn Zurek (Caltech)

2:00 PM Axions: Phenomenology and Detection - Surjeet Rajendran (Johns Hopings U.)

2:30 PM Sterile Neutrinos, Dark Matter, and the Dark Sector - George Fuller (UC San Diego)

3:00 PM Primordial Black Holes as dark matter - Volodymyr Takhistov

3:30 PM Dark Sector Searches at Accelerators - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))
4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
4:30 PM Session 4: Direct dark matter detection
Direct dark matter detection
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

4:30 PM Dark Matter Detection with Liquid Xenon - Elena Aprile (Columbia U.)

5:00 PM Direct Detection with Argon - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)

5:30 PM Direct detection without noble gases - Bernard Sadoulet (University of California, Berkeley)

6:00 PM New ideas for Sub-GeV dark matter direct detection - Rouven Essig
7:00 PM RECEPTION and POSTER SESSION IN THE SAME ROOM
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: UCLA Faculty Center
Contributions

7:00 PM Mono- W′: searching for dark matter in events with a hadronically decaying W′ and missing transverse energy - Kyungseop Yoon (University of California Irvine (US))

7:01 PM Axion-like Particles from Core-collapse Supernovae: Investigating Fermi's Sensitivity - Milena Crnogorcevic (University of Maryland College Park, NASA/GSFC)

7:02 PM Multiscatter Capture of Intermediate Mass Dark Matter by Population III Stars - Jacob Pilawa (Colgate University)

7:04 PM Sterile neutrinos in non-standard pre-BBN cosmologies - Phillip Lu (UCLA)

7:05 PM Astrophysical Simulations of Frequent Self-Interactions - Moritz Fischer (Universität Hamburg (UHH))

7:06 PM Solar Axion Searches with the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and BabyIAXO - Julia Katharina Vogel (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Laboratory (US)) Kerstin Perez (MIT)

7:07 PM The relation between Migdal effect and dark matter-electron scattering in isolated atoms and semiconductors - Mukul Sholapurkar

7:08 PM DMFlux: a tool for neutrino flux generation from dark matter annihilation and decay - QINRUI LIU (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

7:10 PM Iron filter designs for portable, monoenergetic 24 keV neutron calibration sources - Andreas Biekert (University of California, Berkeley)

7:11 PM A New Formation Channel for Globular Clusters - Yeou Chiou (UCLA)

7:13 PM Systematic errors in strong gravitational lensing reconstructions, a numerical simulation perspective. - Wolfgang Enzi (MPA- Garching, Germany)

7:14 PM Status and plans for the NA64 experiment at CERN - Johannes Bernhard (CERN)

7:15 PM Multiphonon excitations from dark matter scattering in crystals - Brian Campbell-Deem (University of California, San Diego)

7:16 PM Entering in the Era of Dark Matter Astronomy: Galactic DM Sensitivities in the X-ray and Gamma-ray Band - Dawei Zhong

7:17 PM GAPS TOF: towards construction of a large area, fast, and light weight balloon-borne time of flight system - Sean Quinn (UCLA)

7:18 PM Revisiting Constraints Placed on Sub-Lunar Mass Primordial Black Holes - Gabriel Vasquez (Ohio State University)
Thursday, March 26, 2020

7:30 AM Welcome: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
8:00 AM Session 5: Astrophysics and cosmology-1
Astrophysics and cosmology-1
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:00 AM Probing Dark Matter Throughout Cosmic History - Vera Gluscevic (USC)

8:15 AM From Dark Matter Particle Phenomenology to Astrophysical Structure Formation - Andrew Benson

8:30 AM Constraining dark matter models with strong gravitational lensing and simulations - Giulia Despali (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

8:45 AM Constraints on the free-streaming length of dark matter and halo concentrations with quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses - Daniel Gilman (UCLA)

9:00 AM Visibility-space Bayesian forward modeling of radio interferometric gravitational lens observations - Devon Powell (Max Planck Instute for Astrophysics)

9:15 AM Review of recent dark matter searches from the Fermi-LAT Collaboration - MATTIA DI MAURO (NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER AND CUA)

9:30 AM Dark Matter Interpretation of the Fermi-LAT Observations Toward the Outer Halo of M31 - Chris Karwin (Clemson University)

9:45 AM A New Mask for An Old Suspect: Testing the Sensitivity of the Galactic Center Excess to the Point Source Mask - Yiming Zhong (KICP, U of Chicago)
10:00 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:25 AM Session 6: Astrophysics and cosmology-2
Astrophysics and cosmology-2
10:25 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:25 AM The Hubble tension: implications for dark matter and dark energy - Nikki Arendse (DARK, University of Copenhagen)

10:40 AM Milky Way Satellites: Probes of Dark Matter Microphysics - ethan nadler (Stanford University)

10:55 AM Can tides disrupt cold dark matter subhaloes? - Raphaël Errani (University of Victoria)

11:10 AM Implications of the Gaia anisotropic substructure for direct detection - Nassim Bozorgnia

11:25 AM Sterile neutrino mass and mixing from cosmology and laboratory searches - Steffen Hagstotz (Stockholm University)
11:40 AM Session 7: Theory-1
Theory-1
11:40 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

11:40 AM Discovering Dark Matter with Ionization: DM-Electron Scattering versus the Migdal Effect - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)

11:55 AM The Migdal Effect: I’ll believe it when I see it - Daniel Baxter (University of Chicago)

12:10 PM WIMP dark matter from a nu perspective - IBRAHIM SAFA (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
12:25 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:25 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:30 PM Session 8: Searches at accelerators
Searches at accelerators
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:30 PM Recent Searches for Hidden-Sector Particles with BABAR - Brian Shuve (Harvey Mudd College)

1:45 PM The Light Dark Matter eXperiment, LDMX - David Hitlin (Caltech)

2:00 PM Search for new particles with the FASER Experiment - Susanne Kuehn (CERN)

2:15 PM Dark photon and light dark matter searches at Belle II

2:30 PM The Scientific Program of the PADME experiment - Gabriele Piperno

2:45 PM The Heavy Photon Search Experiment - Cameron Bravo (SLAC)
3:00 PM Session 9: Sterile neutrinos
Sterile neutrinos
3:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

3:00 PM Miraculous and Varied Production of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter, Structure Formation and X-ray Lines - Kevork N. Abazajian

3:20 PM TRISTAN: a novel detector for keV sterile neutrino search with KATRIN - Thibaut Houdy (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich)

3:35 PM The HUNTER Sterile Neutrino Search Experiment - Paul Hamilton (UCLA)

3:50 PM Leading Sensitivity to Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter with NuSTAR - Kerstin Perez (MIT)
4:05 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:05 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
4:30 PM Session 10: Theory-2
Theory-2
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

4:30 PM Supersymmetric dark matter candidates: wimps and axions - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

4:45 PM Prospects for DM Direct Detection in (non-)SUSY models - Sven Heinemeyer (CSIC (Madrid, ES))

5:00 PM Effective theory of nuclear scattering for WIMPs of arbitrary spin - Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)

5:15 PM Axion strings and axion dark matter - Yanou Cui (University of California, Riverside)

5:30 PM Axiogenesis and Kinetic Misalignment Mechanism - Raymond Co (University of Michigan)

5:45 PM The QCD Axion and Unification - Alexis Plascencia (Case Western Reserve University)

6:00 PM Black hole spectroscopy of dark matter and dark sector at future colliders - Ningqiang Song (Queen's University)

6:15 PM Uncertainties in Direct Dark Matter Detection in Light of Gaia's Escape Velocity Measurements - Youjia Wu (University of Michigan)

6:30 PM Dynamics of millicharged dark matter in supernova remnants - Jung-Tsung Li (UC San Diego)

6:45 PM A multicomponent dark matter scenario consistent with experiment - Roland Allen (Texas A&M University)
7:30 PM Banquet

7:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Faculty Center
Friday, March 27, 2020

7:30 AM Welcome: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
8:00 AM Session 11: Astrophysics and cosmology-3
Astrophysics and cosmology-3
8:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:00 AM In Search of Cosmic-Ray Antinuclei from Dark Matter with the GAPS Experiment - Kerstin Perez (MIT)

8:15 AM The GRAMS Project: MeV gamma-ray observations and antimatter-based indirect dark matter searches - Tsuguo Aramaki (SLAC)

8:30 AM Dark Stars: the First Stars Powered by Dark Matter - Katherine Freese (University of Michigan)

8:45 AM Gravitational probes of exotic compact objects - Djuna Croon (TRIUMF)

9:00 AM Dark matter study with Giant Telescopes - Tommaso Treu (UCLA)
9:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:20 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
9:45 AM Session 12: Non-directional direct detection: status of current experiments-2
Non-directional direct detection: status of current experiments-2
9:45 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

9:45 AM Status of PandaX dark matter experiments - yong yang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

10:00 AM Results on annual modulation by DAMA/LIBRA-phase2 - Pierluigi Belli (INFN - Roma Tor Vergata)

10:15 AM The SuperCDMS SNOLAB Experiment - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

10:30 AM Recent Results from XENON1T - Evan Shockley

10:45 AM Progress on Dark Matter search with ArDM at Canfranc - Balint Radics (CERN)

11:00 AM New physics searches with MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Mariano Lopez

11:15 AM Dark Matter Search Results from DEAP-3600 - Shawn Westerdale (Princeton University)

11:30 AM Status of the DAMIC-M Dark Matter Search Experiment - PITAM MITRA (University of Washington)

11:45 AM Recent Results and Current Status of COSINE-100 - William Thompson (Yale University)

12:00 PM Testing DAMA/LIBRA signal: ANAIS-112 two years result - Maria Martinez (Universidad de Zaragoza)

12:15 PM Status of the PICO-40L Experiment - Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Faculty Center
1:30 PM Session 13: Direct Detection Technical Developments
Direct Detection Technical Developments
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

1:30 PM Dark Matter Search with SuperCDMS eV-resolution Device - Yen-Yung Chang (California Institute of Technology)

1:45 PM Light detection in DarkSide-20k - Luigi Pio Rignanese (Universita e INFN, Bologna (IT))

2:00 PM Scintillation yield from electronic and nuclear recoils in superfluid helium-4 - Junsong Lin (University of California Berkeley)

2:15 PM Background Modeling in the LUX Detector for an Effective Field Theory Dark Matter Search - Gregory Rischbieter

2:30 PM The Design and Construction of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Dev Ashish Khaitan (University of Rochester)

2:45 PM Discrimination of electron recoils from nuclear recoils in two-phase xenon time projection chambers - Vetri Velan (University of California, Berkeley)

3:00 PM Analysis of High Energy Events and Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in XENON1T - Chiara Capelli

3:15 PM Searching for dark matter with PICO bubble chambers - Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)

3:30 PM Novel Charge Readouts for a CYGNUS-10 Directional Detector at Boulby - Spooner Neil (University of Sheffield)

3:45 PM Ultra-high radio-pure NaI(Tl) crystal growth for the SABRE experiment - Aldo Aldo Ianni

4:00 PM The LUX experiment: review of the recent data analysis progress - Quentin Riffard (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:15 PM DArT in ArDM, a new detector to measure ultra-low radioactive-isotope contamination of argon - Pablo Garcia Abia (CIEMAT)
4:30 PM Coffee Break: Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
5:00 PM Session 15: Next Generation Experiments
Next Generation Experiments
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

5:00 PM DarkSide-20k Design and Physics Prospects - Emilija Pantic (UC Davis)

5:15 PM Physics reach of the LUX-Zeplin Dark Matter Experiment - Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC)

5:30 PM The XENONnT Dark Matter Search Experiment - Fei Gao (Columbia University)

5:45 PM Dark matter and neutrino physics with DARWIN - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)
6:00 PM Session 14: Dark Matter Detection: New Proposals
Dark Matter Detection: New Proposals
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

6:00 PM Scintillating Bubble Chambers for GeV WIMPs and reactor CEvNS - Rocco Coppejans (Northwestern University)

6:15 PM HydroX: Hydrogen in Xenon to search for light dark matter particles - Hugh Lippincott (Fermilab)

6:30 PM Searching for Dark Matter with Paleo-Detectors - Patrick Stengel (Stockholm University)

6:45 PM Dark Matter-Electron Scattering from Aromatic Organic Targets - Carlos Blanco (University of Chicago )
7:30 PM Dinner on your own (explore Westwood area)
Dinner on your own (explore Westwood area)
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Saturday, March 28, 2020

7:30 AM Welcome: CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
8:00 AM Session 16: Direct Detection: low mass dark matter search
Direct Detection: low mass dark matter search
8:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

8:00 AM Low Mass Wimp Search with a Liquid Argon TPC - Shawn Westerdale (Cagliari)

8:15 AM EDELWEISS : direct searches for sub-GeV dark matter with cryogenic Ge detectors - Quentin ARNAUD (IP2I)

8:30 AM Low-mass Dark Matter Search with the CRESST-III Experiment - Lucia Canonica (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

8:45 AM The SENSEI Experiment: Status and Plans - Sho Uemura (Tel Aviv University)

9:00 AM Low Mass Dark Matter Searches with SuperCDMS and CUTE - Ryan Underwood (Queens University)

9:15 AM The search for light dark matter with NEWS-G - Guillaume Giroux (Queen's University)
9:30 AM Session 18: Direct Detection: Directional
Direct Detection: Directional
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

9:30 AM Status of the CYGNUS Directional Recoil Observatory Project - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))
9:50 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
9:50 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: PAB- 1-425
10:15 AM Session 17: Direct Detection: Search for axions and WISPs
Direct Detection: Search for axions and WISPs
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

10:15 AM Recent Results from Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX). - Jihee Yang (University of Washington)

10:30 AM CAPP18T axion dark matter search experiment at KAIST/IBS - JONGHEE YOO (KAIST)

10:45 AM Hunting Axion Dark Matter with MADMAX (MAgnetized Disk and Mirror Axion eXperiment) - Stefan Knirck (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics, Munich, Germany)

11:00 AM The Search for Axion Dark Matter Below 1 micro-eV: ABRACADABRA-10cm Current Results and Designing the DMRadio-m^3 - Lindley Winslow

11:15 AM First Operation of the HAYSTAC Dark Matter Axion Experiment with a Squeezed-State Receiver - Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley)

11:30 AM The CASPEr nuclear magnetic resonance search for ultra-light axion-like dark matter

11:45 AM Tunable axion plasma haloscopes - Edoardo Vitagliano
12:00 PM Final talk
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: PAB- 1-425
Contributions

12:00 PM Final Talk - Michael Turner (University of Chicago)

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