Parallel 4 - Dark Matter
Monday, August 25, 2008 -
2:00 PM
Monday, August 25, 2008
2:00 PM
Supernova Cosmology Beyond Luminosity Distances
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Andrew Zentner
(
University of Pittsburgh
)
Supernova Cosmology Beyond Luminosity Distances
Andrew Zentner
(
University of Pittsburgh
)
2:00 PM - 2:18 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
2:20 PM
Dynamics of WIMPs in the Solar System and Implications for Direct and Indirect Detection
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Annika Peter
(
Caltech
)
Dynamics of WIMPs in the Solar System and Implications for Direct and Indirect Detection
Annika Peter
(
Caltech
)
2:20 PM - 2:38 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
2:40 PM
The effect of early dark matter halos on reionization
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Aravind Natarajan
(
Universitaet Bielefeld
)
The effect of early dark matter halos on reionization
Aravind Natarajan
(
Universitaet Bielefeld
)
2:40 PM - 2:58 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
3:00 PM
Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors: the WIMPless miracle
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Huitzu Tu
(
UC Irvine
)
Thermal Relics in Hidden Sectors: the WIMPless miracle
Huitzu Tu
(
UC Irvine
)
3:00 PM - 3:18 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
3:20 PM
Studies of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background: Modeling Blazars to Constrain Dark Matter
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Tonia Venters
(
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
)
Studies of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background: Modeling Blazars to Constrain Dark Matter
Tonia Venters
(
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
)
3:20 PM - 3:38 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
3:40 PM
Break
Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Outside Lecture Hall
4:00 PM
DM-TPC: a novel approach to directional Dark Matter detection
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Gabriella Sciolla
(
MIT
)
DM-TPC: a novel approach to directional Dark Matter detection
Gabriella Sciolla
(
MIT
)
4:00 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
4:20 PM
Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background
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Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
(
KICP, University of Chicago
)
Revealing dark matter substructure with anisotropies in the diffuse gamma-ray background
Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
(
KICP, University of Chicago
)
4:20 PM - 4:38 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
4:40 PM
The role of sterile neutrinos in cosmology and astrophysics
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Kalliopi Petraki
(
UCLA
)
The role of sterile neutrinos in cosmology and astrophysics
Kalliopi Petraki
(
UCLA
)
4:40 PM - 4:58 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
5:00 PM
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
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Xinjie Qiu
(
University of Minnesota
)
The Cryogenic Dark Matter Search
Xinjie Qiu
(
University of Minnesota
)
5:00 PM - 5:18 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
5:20 PM
Constraining the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data
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Chung-Lin Shan
(
Seoul National University
)
Constraining the Spin-Independent WIMP-Nucleon Coupling from Direct Dark Matter Detection Data
Chung-Lin Shan
(
Seoul National University
)
5:20 PM - 5:38 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
5:40 PM
The effect of axionlike particles on gamma-ray spectra
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Melanie Simet
(
University of Chicago
)
The effect of axionlike particles on gamma-ray spectra
Melanie Simet
(
University of Chicago
)
5:40 PM - 5:58 PM
Room: Hall of Ideas G
6:00 PM
Reception & Poster Session
Reception & Poster Session
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Grand Terrace