OVERVIEW
The Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics (KICP) at the University of Chicago will host the 9th International Conference "Identification of Dark Matter, 2012" in Chicago, USA on July 23-27, 2012. The conference will take place in downtown Chicago at the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza.


The main topics of the conference are
  • Dark matter candidates
  • Dark matter direct searches
  • Dark matter indirect searches
  • Connections with accelerator searches
  • Halo models and structure formation
  • Weak lensing
  • Neutrino physics
  • Cosmology and dark energy
The conference will include both invited and contributed talks as well as a few more specialized sessions.

 
International Advisory Committee
Daniel Akerib
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA		Elena Aprile
Columbia University, USA		Rita Bernabei
Universita degli Studi di Roma, Italy
Gianfranco Bertone
University of Amsterdam		Joakim Edsjo
Oskar Klein Centre / Stockholm University		Katherine Freese
University of Michigan, USA
Richard Gaitskell
Brown University, USA		Gilles Gerbier
IRFU/ CEA Saclay, France		Anne Green
University of Nottingham, UK
Karsten Jedamzik
Universite de Montpellier, France		Xiangdong Ji
University of Maryland, USA		Lawrence Krauss
Arizona State University, USA
Vitaly Kudryavtsev
University of Sheffield		Reina Maruyama
University of Wisconsin-Madison		Leszek Roszkowski
University of Sheffield, UK
Bernard Sadoulet
University of California, Berkeley, USA		Pierre Salati
University of California, Berkeley, USA		Daniel Santos
LPSC/UJF/CNRS
Pierre Sikivie
University of Florida, USA		Daniel Snowden-Ifft
Occidental College		Neil Spooner
University of Sheffield, UK
Max Tegmark
Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research at MIT, USA		Karl van Bibber
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey, USA

 
Local Organizing Committee
Daniel Bauer
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Matthew Buckley
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Juan Collar
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Scott Dodelson
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Aimee Giles
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics		Jeter Hall
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dan Hooper
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Lauren Hsu
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Rocky Kolb
University of Chicago/KICP
Angela Olinto
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics		Helen Pates
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics		Ted Ressell
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Douglas Spolyar
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory		Lian-Tao Wang
Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics

 
Banquet Dinner

The conference dinner banquet will be held on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at the Adler Planetarium. One banquet ticket is included with each paid conference registration. Additional banquet tickets are available for purchase for an additional $75.00 per person.


DINNER, Thursday - July 26, 2012
  • 5:45 PM Shuttles board (shuttle buses will be parked just East of the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza entrance on Orleans Street)
  • 6:00 PM Shuttles depart for the Adler Planetarium
  • 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Hors d'oeuvres
  • 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM Dinner
  • 10:00 PM Shuttles board (in front of the Adler Planetarium main entrance)
  • 10:15 PM Shuttles depart & return to the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza

 
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