Parallel 4 - Dark Matter

Monday Aug 25, 2008, 2:00 PM → 7:00 PM America/Chicago

Hall of Ideas G

Xerxes R Tata (University of Hawaii)

2:00 PM → 2:18 PM Supernova Cosmology Beyond Luminosity Distances

Speaker: Andrew Zentner (University of Pittsburgh)

2:20 PM → 2:38 PM Dynamics of WIMPs in the Solar System and Implications for Direct and Indirect Detection

Speaker: Annika Peter (Caltech)

Slides peter_annika_cosmo08.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:58 PM The effect of early dark matter halos on reionization

Speaker: Aravind Natarajan (Universitaet Bielefeld)

Slides cosmo_natarajan.pdf

3:00 PM → 3:18 PM Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors: the WIMPless miracle

Speaker: Dr Huitzu Tu (UC Irvine)

3:20 PM → 3:38 PM Studies of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background: Modeling Blazars to Constrain Dark Matter

Speaker: Tonia Venters (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics)

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Break

4:00 PM → 4:18 PM DM-TPC: a novel approach to directional Dark Matter detection

Speaker: Gabriella Sciolla (MIT)

4:20 PM → 4:38 PM Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background

Speaker: Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (KICP, University of Chicago)

4:40 PM → 4:58 PM The role of sterile neutrinos in cosmology and astrophysics

Speaker: Kalliopi Petraki (UCLA)

Slides Sterile_Neutrinos_in_Cosmology_and_Astrophysics.pdf

5:00 PM → 5:18 PM The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search

Speaker: Xinjie Qiu (University of Minnesota)

5:20 PM → 5:38 PM Constraining the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data

Speaker: Chung-Lin Shan (Seoul National University)

Slides CLShan-Cosmo08.pdf

5:40 PM → 5:58 PM The effect of axionlike particles on gamma-ray spectra

Speaker: Melanie Simet (University of Chicago)

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM Reception & Poster Session