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April 11, 2018 - Wednesday
8:30 AM - 8:55 AMCoffee / Registration
8:55 AM - 9:00 AMAndrew J. Long, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Welcome! [PDF, 2.34 MB]
 Morning SessionChair: Andrew Long
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMXiaoping Wang, Argonne National Laboratory
Fuzzy Dark Matter and Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions [PDF, 13.95 MB]
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMPrateek Agrawal, Harvard University
Extending the QCD axion [PDF, 4.23 MB]
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AMJiji Fan, Brown University
Ultralight scalar dark matter with repulsive self-interaction [PDF, 10.18 MB]
11:40 AM - 12:20 PMYonatan Kahn, Princeton University
Searching for keV freeze-in dark matter with Dirac materials [PDF, 10.44 MB]
12:20 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon SessionChair: Dan Hooper
2:00 PM - 2:40 PMIlias Cholis, John Hopkins University
Dark Matter Searches in Gravitational Waves [PDF, 27.31 MB]
2:40 PM - 3:20 PMTim Linden, Ohio State University
Astrophysical Signatures of Dark Matter Accumulation in Neutron Stars [PDF, 14.06 MB]
3:20 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee Break
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMFree Time / Chalk Talks (Nirmal Raj -- Sebastian Baum)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PMReception @ Seven Ten Lanes
1055 E 55th St, Chicago, IL 60637

 
April 12, 2018 - Thursday
 Morning SessionChair: Carlos Wagner
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMAntonio Delgado, University of Notre Dame
Using dileptons events to characterize DM [PDF, 7.74 MB]
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMYanou Cui, University of California, Riverside
New Observational Windows for Probing Hidden Dark Sectors [PDF, 12.31 MB]
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AMGordon Krnjaic, Fermilab
Gauged L_mu - L_tau, then and now [PDF, 22.2 MB]
11:40 AM - 12:20 PMYue Zhang, Northwestern University & Fermilab
Self-Destructing Dark Matter [PDF, 6.66 MB]
12:20 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon SessionChair: Carlos Wagner
2:00 PM - 2:40 PMMartin Schmaltz, Boston University
Large scale structure and cannibal dark matter [PDF, 17.57 MB]
2:40 PM - 3:20 PMSean Tulin, York University
Self-Interacting Dark Matter at Intermediate Scales
3:20 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee Break
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMFree Time / Chalk Talks (Tongyan Lin -- Bibhushan Shakya -- Alex Drlica-Wagner -- Malte Buschmann)

 
April 13, 2018 - Friday
 Morning SessionChair: Daniel Hooper
9:00 AM - 9:40 AMJames Unwin, University of Illinois, Chicago
Superheavy thermal dark matter [PDF, 3.9 MB]
9:40 AM - 10:20 AMNausheen Shah, Wayne State University
Higgs Portals for Thermal Dark Matter: EFT Perspectives and the NMSSM [PDF, 12.66 MB]
10:20 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
11:00 AM - 11:40 AMAdrienne L. Erickcek, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Early Universe's Imprint on Dark Matter [PDF, 7.17 MB]
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMYacine Ali-Haimoud, New York University
KICP Friday Seminar: Primordial Black Holes in the era of Planck and LIGO [PDF, 22.6 MB]
1:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
 Afternoon SessionChair: Andrew Long
2:00 PM - 2:40 PMRoni Harnik, Fermilab
Searching for the Luminous Higgsino at Borexino
2:40 PM - 3:20 PMYang Bai, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Six Flavor Quark Matter [PDF, 15.61 MB]
3:20 PM - 4:00 PMCoffee Break
4:00 PM - 6:00 PMFree Time / Chalk Talks