Name: Parallel 4 - Dark Matter
Start: 2008-08-25T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2008-08-25T19:00:00-05:00
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Parallel 4 - Dark Matter

Monday, August 25, 2008 - 2:00 PM

Monday, August 25, 2008
2:00 PM Supernova Cosmology Beyond Luminosity Distances - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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