Name: UCLA Dark Matter 2025
Start: 2025-03-24T07:30:00-07:00
End: 2025-03-27T18:45:00-07:00
Location: UCLA Physics and Astronomy Building 1-425

UCLA Dark Matter 2025

from Monday, March 24, 2025 (7:30 AM) to Thursday, March 27, 2025 (6:45 PM)

Monday, March 24, 2025

7:30 AM Registration

7:30 AM - 7:55 AM
7:55 AM Welcome and Introduction
7:55 AM - 8:25 AM
Contributions

7:55 AM Welcome and goals of the meeting - Stuart Brown Tommaso Treu

8:00 AM Introduction - Michael Turner
8:25 AM SESSION 1: Cosmology and structure formation (CHAIR: Surjeet Rajendran -JHU)
8:25 AM - 9:40 AM
Contributions

8:25 AM Is Dark Energy Evolving? - Josh Frieman

8:50 AM Dark matter physics from small-scale cosmic structure - Risa Wechsler

9:15 AM The Hubble Constant Problem - Lloyd Knox
9:40 AM Coffee Break

9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM SESSION 2: Astrophysics and Indirect Dark Matter Searches (CHAIR: Alex Kusenko -UCLA)
10:10 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

10:10 AM Dynamical astrophysical probes of dark matter - Jo Bovy

10:35 AM Black Holes as Dark Matter - Stefano Profumo

11:00 AM Galaxies as Probes of the Particle Physics Nature of Dark Matter - Mariangela Lisanti

11:25 AM An overview of new dark matter constraints from strong gravitational lensing probes. - Anna Nierenberg

11:50 AM Probing ultra-light dark matter wave interference with astrophysical observations - Elisa Gouvea Mauricio Ferreira
12:15 PM Lunch Break

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM SESSION 3: Dark Matter Particle Candidates and Accelerator Searches (CHAIR: David Saltzberg -UCLA)
1:15 PM - 3:20 PM
Contributions

1:15 PM Dark Matter: Quo Vadis? - Hitoshi Murayama

1:40 PM Observables in Quantum Gravity: the Quantum Mechanics of a Causal Diamond - Kathryn Zurek

2:05 PM What can solve the Strong CP Problem? - Surjeet Rajendran

2:30 PM Dark Matter at Colliders - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))

2:55 PM Dark Matter Production in Unusual Cosmologies - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)
3:20 PM Coffee Break

3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
3:50 PM SESSION 4: Direct Dark Matter Detection (CHAIR: Alvine Kamaha -UCLA)
3:50 PM - 5:55 PM
Contributions

3:50 PM Direct Detection with Xenon - Elena Aprile

4:15 PM Direct Detection with Argon - Cristiano Galbiati

4:40 PM Direct Detection with Cryogenic Solid State Detectors - Sunil Golwala

5:05 PM The Status of Sub-GeV Direct Detection - Rouven Essig

5:30 PM PaleoDetectors (Ancient Minerals from Deep Underground) - Katherine Freese (University of Texas)
Tuesday, March 25, 2025

7:30 AM Registration

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:00 AM SESSION 5: Astrophysics and Cosmology-1 (CHAIR: Anna Nierenberg --UCM)
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Dark matter and neutrinos: from the early universe to near-field cosmology - Vera Gluscevic (University of Southern California)

8:15 AM Supermassive black holes from dark matter - Yifan Lu (UCLA)

8:30 AM Simulating dark matter subhalos - Andrew Benson

8:45 AM Constraints on dark matter properties from the JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey - Daniel Gilman

9:00 AM COZMIC: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond CDM - Ethan Nadler (UC San Diego)

9:15 AM Extending MeV Dark Matter Bounds with COSI - Robin Ma'ila Anthony-Petersen

9:30 AM Status and Potential for Detection of Warm Dark Matter in Structure Formation and X-ray Astronomy - Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)
9:45 AM Coffee Break

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM SESSION 6: Astrophysics and Cosmology-2 (CHAIR:Andrew Benson -CIS)
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:15 AM Status of cosmic antinuclei searches - Philip Von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii at Manoa)

10:30 AM A Tale of Two Black Hole Populations - Simeon Bird

10:45 AM Long-Range Dark Matter Self-Interactions in FIRE Simulations - Isabel Sands (Caltech)

11:00 AM Probing DM Substructure with Dynamical Heating in Ultra-Faint Dwarfs - Peter Graham (Stanford)

11:15 AM Mapping out Dark Matter in the Milky Way - Lina Necib (MIT)

11:30 AM Primordial Black Holes as Dark Matter Candidates: O(α) Corrections to Hawking Radiation - Makana Silva (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

11:45 AM Limits on primordial black holes as dark matter from two decades of the OGLE survey - Przemek Mróz
12:00 PM Lunch Break

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
1:00 PM SESSION 7: Laboratory and Accelerator Based and Indirect Detection (CHAIR: Jay Hauser -UCLA)
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Model Independent Searches for sub-MeV Particles with Rare Isotope Doped Superconducting Sensors - Kyle Leach

1:15 PM Antihelium from Dark Matter Annihilation - Tim Linden
1:30 PM SESSION 8: Dark Matter Theory (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Cosmic Millicharge Background and Reheating Probes - Yu-Dai Tsai (University of California, Irvine)

1:45 PM Hardware upgrades to the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector to enhance WIMP sensitivity (*) - Theo Hugues (Queen's University)

2:00 PM Dark matter halos at z > 6 through gas kinematics - John Silverman
2:15 PM Coffee Break

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM SESSION 8: Dark Matter Theory (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
2:45 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:45 PM Macroscopic dark matter: fermi balls and black holes - zachary picker (UCLA)

3:00 PM Gravitational Waves from Black Hole formation - Chris Kouvaris

3:15 PM New Probes of Fundamental Physics in Diffuse Astrophysical Backgrounds - Volodymyr Takhistov

3:30 PM Probing Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights - Manoj Kaplinghat

3:45 PM Q-balls with an Attractive Force - Philip Lu (KIAS)
4:00 PM SESSION 9: Poster Session #1 (CHAIR: Alex Kusenko -UCLA)

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Conference Banquet

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

7:30 AM Registration

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:00 AM SESSION 10: Direct Detection: status of liquid/gas WIMP detectors (CHAIR: Cristiano Galbiati -Princeton)
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Dark matter direct detection with PandaX experiment - Ning Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

8:15 AM Dark Matter Search Status from DEAP-3600 - Spencer Haskins

8:30 AM The PICO-40L Direct Detection Experiment - Derek Cranshaw

8:45 AM Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment - Daniel Kodroff

9:00 AM DarkSide-20k Physics Potential for Dark Matter direct searches - Alessio Caminata

9:15 AM Latest results on the search for WIMPs with XENONnT - Zihao Xu

9:30 AM Enhanced recombination of $^{124}$Xe and the flow-tag of $^{214}$Pb in LUX-ZEPLIN - Chami Amarasinghe

9:45 AM Enhancing Direct Detection of Higgsino Dark Matter - Samuel Wong (Stanford University)
10:00 AM Coffee Break

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM SESSION 11: Direct Detection: status of crystalline WIMP detectors (CHAIR: Alvine Kamaha -UCLA)
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

10:30 AM The SuperCDMS experiment at SNOLAB - Shubham Pandey (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

10:45 AM The SABRE North experiment at LNGS to search for Dark Matter annual modulation - Gabriella Cataldi (INFN LNGS)

11:00 AM Towards a robust model-independent test of DAMA/LIBRA: ANAIS-112 six-year exposure results and prospects - María Luisa Sarsa (University of Zaragoza)

11:15 AM Status of CRESST - Pedro Vinicius Guillaumon

11:30 AM Overview of the SuperCDMS-HVeV Program - Kyle Kennard

11:45 AM COSINUS - towards the clarification of the puzzling DAMA/LIBRA signal - Karoline Julia Schaeffner (Max-Planck Institute for Physics)

12:00 PM Novel substrates and readout systems for crystal-based direct dark matter detection - James Ryan

12:15 PM The SABRE South Experiment at the Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory - Phillip Urquijo (The University of Melbourne)
12:30 PM Lunch Break

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM SESSION 12: Direct Detection: status of Light DM detection (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM The search for light dark matter with DAMIC-M - Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

1:45 PM Searching for dark sectors and X17 with PADME - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))

2:00 PM The DarkSide-LowMass search for dark matter below 10 GeV/c^2 - Shawn Scott Westerdale (University of California Riverside (US))

2:15 PM Search for electronic recoil signals with XENONnT - Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich)

2:30 PM The TESSERACT Project - Scott Hertel (U. Massachusetts, Amherst)

2:45 PM Exploring New Physics with PandaX-4T Low Energy Electronic Recoil Data - Xinning Zeng

3:00 PM Latest results and prospects of the SENSEI experiment. - Ana Martina Botti (Fermilab) SENSEI Collaboration

3:15 PM A search for cosmic ray boosted light dark matter with the LUX-ZEPLIN experiment - Yongheng Xu
3:30 PM Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM SESSION 13: Direct detection: Technical Development-1 (CHAIR: Rick Gaitskell -BrownU))
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM The DarkSide-20k Experiment and the Search for Dark Matter with Underground Argon - Ako Jamil (Princeton University)

4:15 PM Progress and Results from the TESSERACT Dark Matter Experiment - Michael Williams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:30 PM The Scintillating Bubble Chamber - Hugh Lippincott

4:45 PM The XLZD Experiment - Daniel Akerib (SLAC)

5:00 PM Xenon-Doped Argon for Dark Matter Search - Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

5:15 PM Progress of the PICO-500 Detector installation - Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

5:30 PM The Search for the Migdal Effect and the Modeling of Nuclear Recoil with DD Neutrons in LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Chen Ding (Brown University)

5:45 PM The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and BabyIAXO (*) - Kerstin Perez
Thursday, March 27, 2025

7:30 AM Registration

7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
8:00 AM SESSION 15: Direct detection: Technical Development-2 & Scientific Development (CHAIR: Chamkaur Ghag -UCL)
8:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM DarkNESS: probing dark matter from Low Earth Orbit with skipper-CCDs - Nathan Saffold (Fermilab)

8:15 AM CrystaLiZe: Dark Matter Detection and Beyond with Crystal Xenon - Scott Kravitz

8:30 AM Leveraging Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter Detection - Ryan Linehan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

8:45 AM The new Cryolab at Kamioka - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

9:00 AM Turn off the lights to see hidden sector dark matter - Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

9:15 AM EXCESS backgrounds observed in low-threshold dark matter and CEvNS experiments - Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

9:30 AM Searching for dark matter near and under the noise and backgrounds - Xinran Li (Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory)
9:45 AM Coffee Break

9:45 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM SESSION 16- Directional Direct Detection & Direct Detection Recent Developments I (CHAIR: Elisa Ferreira -Kavli IPMU, Japan)
10:15 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:15 AM Directional Dark Matter Detection - Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii (US))

10:35 AM Towards Quantum Sensing for Directional Dark Matter Detection Using Nitrogen Vacancy Centers in Diamond - Reza Ebadi

10:50 AM A step into the neutrino fog: first indication of solar CEvNS with XENONnT - Diego Ramírez García (University of Zurich)

11:05 AM Effect of Ultralight Dark Matter on g-2 of the Electron - Jason Evans (Shanghai Jiaotong University/TDLI)

11:20 AM Exploring the keV scale spectrum of CUORE to Search for Solar Axions - Alberto Ressa (INFN Roma1)

11:35 AM The TRISTAN Detector Upgrade for the Search of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter at KATRIN - Andrew Gavin
11:50 AM Lunch Break

11:50 AM - 12:50 PM
12:50 PM SESSION 17: Direct detection Recent Developments II & New Concepts (CHAIR: Paul Hamilton -UCLA)
12:50 PM - 2:50 PM
Contributions

12:50 PM Direct Detection of Dark Matter Using Optically Levitated Nanospheres - Yu-Han Tseng (Yale University)

1:05 PM Quantum Parity Detectors with meV resolution for low mass dark matter searches - Brandon Sandoval (Caltech)

1:20 PM GALILEO: Galactic Axion Laser Interferometer Leveraging Electro-Optics - Reza Ebadi

1:35 PM Searching for ultralight dark matter with trapped-ion interferometry - Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)

1:50 PM The Cross-Disciplinary Hunt for Dark Matter: Machine Learning and Material Science Meet Astroparticle Physics - Carlos Blanco (Princeton University)

2:05 PM The QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment with far infrared photon counting - Ritoban Basu Thakur

2:20 PM Design and development of the Princeton Axion Search - Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Princeton University)

2:35 PM CMB-S4 Talk (*) - Kimberly Boddy
2:50 PM Coffee Break

2:50 PM - 3:20 PM
3:20 PM SESSION 19: Direct detection: Ultra-Light DM (Axions, ALPs, WISPs) searches (CHAIR: Kim Boddy -UTAUS)
3:20 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

3:20 PM Searching for Axion Dark Matter with the ORGAN Experiment - Michael Tobar

3:35 PM Recent results on dark sector searches at Belle II - Cristina Martellini

3:50 PM Overview and Current Status of GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) - Tsuguo Aramaki

4:05 PM The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX): Overview of Current Operations and Future R&D - Erik Lentz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

4:20 PM New Results from HAYSTAC's Search for Dark Matter Axions - Michael Jewell (Yale University)

4:35 PM The progress of ALETHEIA, a low-mass DM direct detection project with liquid helium-filled TPCs - Junhui Liao

4:50 PM Searching for Axions and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with ABRACADABRA-10cm - Kaliroe Pappas (Columbia University)

5:05 PM NuSTAR as an Axion Helioscope - Jaime Ruz Armendariz (TU Dortmund)

5:20 PM DMRadio: The Search for < 1μeV Axions - Lindley Winslow

5:35 PM BREAD- The Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)
5:50 PM SESSION 20: Final talk ( Paul Hamilton, Alvine Kamaha, Alex Kusenko, Tommaso Treu)

5:50 PM - 6:20 PM

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