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, 24 March 2025 (07:30) to Thursday, 27 March 2025 (18:45)

Monday, 24 March 2025

07:30 Registration

07:30 - 07:55
07:55 Welcome and Introduction
07:55 - 08:25
Contributions

07:55 Welcome and goals of the meeting - Stuart Brown Tommaso Treu

08:00 Introduction - Michael Turner
08:25 SESSION 1: Cosmology and structure formation (CHAIR: Surjeet Rajendran -JHU)
08:25 - 09:40
Contributions

08:25 Is Dark Energy Evolving? - Josh Frieman

08:50 Dark matter physics from small-scale cosmic structure - Risa Wechsler

09:15 The Hubble Constant Problem - Lloyd Knox
09:40 Coffee Break

09:40 - 10:10
10:10 SESSION 2: Astrophysics and Indirect Dark Matter Searches (CHAIR: Alex Kusenko -UCLA)
10:10 - 12:15
Contributions

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

10:35 Black Holes as Dark Matter - Stefano Profumo

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

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

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

12:15 - 13:15
13:15 SESSION 3: Dark Matter Particle Candidates and Accelerator Searches (CHAIR: David Saltzberg -UCLA)
13:15 - 15:20
Contributions

13:15 Dark Matter: Quo Vadis? - Hitoshi Murayama

13:40 Observables in Quantum Gravity: the Quantum Mechanics of a Causal Diamond - Kathryn Zurek

14:05 What can solve the Strong CP Problem? - Surjeet Rajendran

14:30 Dark Matter at Colliders - Jonathan Lee Feng (University of California Irvine (US))

14:55 Dark Matter Production in Unusual Cosmologies - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)
15:20 Coffee Break

15:20 - 15:50
15:50 SESSION 4: Direct Dark Matter Detection (CHAIR: Alvine Kamaha -UCLA)
15:50 - 17:55
Contributions

15:50 Direct Detection with Xenon - Elena Aprile

16:15 Direct Detection with Argon - Cristiano Galbiati

16:40 Direct Detection with Cryogenic Solid State Detectors - Sunil Golwala

17:05 The Status of Sub-GeV Direct Detection - Rouven Essig

17:30 PaleoDetectors (Ancient Minerals from Deep Underground) - Katherine Freese (University of Texas)
Tuesday, 25 March 2025

07:30 Registration

07:30 - 08:00
08:00 SESSION 5: Astrophysics and Cosmology-1 (CHAIR: Anna Nierenberg --UCM)
08:00 - 09:45
Contributions

08:00 Dark matter and neutrinos: from the early universe to near-field cosmology - Vera Gluscevic (University of Southern California)

08:15 Supermassive black holes from dark matter - Yifan Lu (UCLA)

08:30 Simulating dark matter subhalos - Andrew Benson

08:45 Constraints on dark matter properties from the JWST lensed quasar dark matter survey - Daniel Gilman

09:00 COZMIC: Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations with Initial Conditions Beyond CDM - Ethan Nadler (UC San Diego)

09:15 Extending MeV Dark Matter Bounds with COSI - Robin Ma'ila Anthony-Petersen

09:30 Status and Potential for Detection of Warm Dark Matter in Structure Formation and X-ray Astronomy - Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine)
09:45 Coffee Break

09:45 - 10:15
10:15 SESSION 6: Astrophysics and Cosmology-2 (CHAIR:Andrew Benson -CIS)
10:15 - 12:00
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:00 - 13:00
13:00 SESSION 7: Laboratory and Accelerator Based and Indirect Detection (CHAIR: Jay Hauser -UCLA)
13:00 - 13:30
Contributions

13:00 Model Independent Searches for sub-MeV Particles with Rare Isotope Doped Superconducting Sensors - Kyle Leach

13:15 Antihelium from Dark Matter Annihilation - Tim Linden
13:30 SESSION 8: Dark Matter Theory (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
13:30 - 14:15
Contributions

13:30 Cosmic Millicharge Background and Reheating Probes - Yu-Dai Tsai (University of California, Irvine)

13:45 Hardware upgrades to the DEAP-3600 dark matter detector to enhance WIMP sensitivity (*) - Theo Hugues (Queen's University)

14:00 Dark matter halos at z > 6 through gas kinematics - John Silverman
14:15 Coffee Break

14:15 - 14:45
14:45 SESSION 8: Dark Matter Theory (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
14:45 - 16:00
Contributions

14:45 Macroscopic dark matter: fermi balls and black holes - zachary picker (UCLA)

15:00 Gravitational Waves from Black Hole formation - Chris Kouvaris

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

15:30 Probing Gravothermal Collapse of Dark Matter Halos: Observational Insights - Manoj Kaplinghat

15:45 Q-balls with an Attractive Force - Philip Lu (KIAS)
16:00 SESSION 9: Poster Session #1 (CHAIR: Alex Kusenko -UCLA)

16:00 - 18:00

18:00 Conference Banquet

18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 26 March 2025

07:30 Registration

07:30 - 08:00
08:00 SESSION 10: Direct Detection: status of liquid/gas WIMP detectors (CHAIR: Cristiano Galbiati -Princeton)
08:00 - 10:00
Contributions

08:00 Dark matter direct detection with PandaX experiment - Ning Zhou (Shanghai Jiao Tong University (CN))

08:15 Dark Matter Search Status from DEAP-3600 - Spencer Haskins

08:30 The PICO-40L Direct Detection Experiment - Derek Cranshaw

08:45 Status of the LUX-ZEPLIN Dark Matter Experiment - Daniel Kodroff

09:00 DarkSide-20k Physics Potential for Dark Matter direct searches - Alessio Caminata

09:15 Latest results on the search for WIMPs with XENONnT - Zihao Xu

09:30 Enhanced recombination of $^{124}$Xe and the flow-tag of $^{214}$Pb in LUX-ZEPLIN - Chami Amarasinghe

09:45 Enhancing Direct Detection of Higgsino Dark Matter - Samuel Wong (Stanford University)
10:00 Coffee Break

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

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

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

11:00 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 Status of CRESST - Pedro Vinicius Guillaumon

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

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

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

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

12:30 - 13:30
13:30 SESSION 12: Direct Detection: status of Light DM detection (CHAIR: Tommaso Treu -UCLA)
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 The search for light dark matter with DAMIC-M - Danielle Norcini (Johns Hopkins University)

13:45 Searching for dark sectors and X17 with PADME - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University (US))

14:00 The DarkSide-LowMass search for dark matter below 10 GeV/c^2 - Shawn Scott Westerdale (University of California Riverside (US))

14:15 Search for electronic recoil signals with XENONnT - Chiara Capelli (University of Zurich)

14:30 The TESSERACT Project - Scott Hertel (U. Massachusetts, Amherst)

14:45 Exploring New Physics with PandaX-4T Low Energy Electronic Recoil Data - Xinning Zeng

15:00 Latest results and prospects of the SENSEI experiment. - Ana Martina Botti (Fermilab) SENSEI Collaboration

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

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 SESSION 13: Direct detection: Technical Development-1 (CHAIR: Rick Gaitskell -BrownU))
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 The DarkSide-20k Experiment and the Search for Dark Matter with Underground Argon - Ako Jamil (Princeton University)

16:15 Progress and Results from the TESSERACT Dark Matter Experiment - Michael Williams (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:30 The Scintillating Bubble Chamber - Hugh Lippincott

16:45 The XLZD Experiment - Daniel Akerib (SLAC)

17:00 Xenon-Doped Argon for Dark Matter Search - Jingke Xu (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA)

17:15 Progress of the PICO-500 Detector installation - Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta)

17:30 The Search for the Migdal Effect and the Modeling of Nuclear Recoil with DD Neutrons in LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment - Chen Ding (Brown University)

17:45 The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) and BabyIAXO (*) - Kerstin Perez
Thursday, 27 March 2025

07:30 Registration

07:30 - 08:00
08:00 SESSION 15: Direct detection: Technical Development-2 & Scientific Development (CHAIR: Chamkaur Ghag -UCL)
08:00 - 09:45
Contributions

08:00 DarkNESS: probing dark matter from Low Earth Orbit with skipper-CCDs - Nathan Saffold (Fermilab)

08:15 CrystaLiZe: Dark Matter Detection and Beyond with Crystal Xenon - Scott Kravitz

08:30 Leveraging Quantum Sensors for Dark Matter Detection - Ryan Linehan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, USA)

08:45 The new Cryolab at Kamioka - Maurice Garcia-Sciveres (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US))

09:00 Turn off the lights to see hidden sector dark matter - Peter Sorensen (LBL / Berkeley Lab)

09:15 EXCESS backgrounds observed in low-threshold dark matter and CEvNS experiments - Florian Reindl (Vienna University of Technology (AT))

09:30 Searching for dark matter near and under the noise and backgrounds - Xinran Li (Lawrence Berkeley national laboratory)
09:45 Coffee Break

09:45 - 10:15
10:15 SESSION 16- Directional Direct Detection & Direct Detection Recent Developments I (CHAIR: Elisa Ferreira -Kavli IPMU, Japan)
10:15 - 11:50
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:50 - 12:50
12:50 SESSION 17: Direct detection Recent Developments II & New Concepts (CHAIR: Paul Hamilton -UCLA)
12:50 - 14:50
Contributions

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

13:05 Quantum Parity Detectors with meV resolution for low mass dark matter searches - Brandon Sandoval (Caltech)

13:20 GALILEO: Galactic Axion Laser Interferometer Leveraging Electro-Optics - Reza Ebadi

13:35 Searching for ultralight dark matter with trapped-ion interferometry - Leonardo Badurina (California Institute of Technology)

13:50 The Cross-Disciplinary Hunt for Dark Matter: Machine Learning and Material Science Meet Astroparticle Physics - Carlos Blanco (Princeton University)

14:05 The QUAntum LImited PHotons In the Dark Experiment with far infrared photon counting - Ritoban Basu Thakur

14:20 Design and development of the Princeton Axion Search - Saptarshi Chaudhuri (Princeton University)

14:35 CMB-S4 Talk (*) - Kimberly Boddy
14:50 Coffee Break

14:50 - 15:20
15:20 SESSION 19: Direct detection: Ultra-Light DM (Axions, ALPs, WISPs) searches (CHAIR: Kim Boddy -UTAUS)
15:20 - 17:50
Contributions

15:20 Searching for Axion Dark Matter with the ORGAN Experiment - Michael Tobar

15:35 Recent results on dark sector searches at Belle II - Cristina Martellini

15:50 Overview and Current Status of GRAMS (Gamma-Ray and AntiMatter Survey) - Tsuguo Aramaki

16:05 The Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX): Overview of Current Operations and Future R&D - Erik Lentz (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

16:20 New Results from HAYSTAC's Search for Dark Matter Axions - Michael Jewell (Yale University)

16:35 The progress of ALETHEIA, a low-mass DM direct detection project with liquid helium-filled TPCs - Junhui Liao

16:50 Searching for Axions and High-Frequency Gravitational Waves with ABRACADABRA-10cm - Kaliroe Pappas (Columbia University)

17:05 NuSTAR as an Axion Helioscope - Jaime Ruz Armendariz (TU Dortmund)

17:20 DMRadio: The Search for < 1μeV Axions - Lindley Winslow

17:35 BREAD- The Broadband Reflector Experiment for Axion Detection - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)
17:50 SESSION 20: Final talk ( Paul Hamilton, Alvine Kamaha, Alex Kusenko, Tommaso Treu)

17:50 - 18:20

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