Parallel talk is 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.
July 23, 2012 - Monday
| Direct Detection I Convener: Christopher Savage (Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor) | |
| Daniel Brandt, KIPAC, SLAC National Accelerator Lab, Stanford University Understanding the Physics of SuperCDMS SNOLAB Detectors | |
| Hassan Chagani, University of Minnesota SuperCDMS-SNOLAB: Road to 100 mm Germanium Detectors [PDF, 4.66 MB] | |
| Manungu Kiveni, Syracuse University Reanalysis of CDMS II data [PDF, 3.25 MB] | |
| Nicole E Fields, University of Chicago A low-energy analysis of CDMS data [PDF, 3.48 MB] | |
| Scott A Hertel, MIT Search for Annual Modulation in Low-Energy CDMS-II Data [PDF, 6.13 MB] | |
| Vitaly Kudryavtsev, University of Sheffield Background studies for the EDELWEISS dark matter experiment [PDF, 14.78 MB] | |
| Veronique Sanglard, Institut de Physique Nucleaire de Lyon EDELWEISS-II WIMP search at low energy [PDF, 2.35 MB] | |
| Silva Scorza, Southern Methodist University SuperCDMS-SNOLAB - an active neutron veto shield design [PDF, 3.07 MB] | |
| Hans Kraus, University of Oxford EURECA [PDF, 1.75 MB] | |
| Indirect Detection I Convener: Paolo Gondolo (Western Stage room, 14th floor) | |
| Matthias Danninger, Stockholm University Search for Dark Matter Captured in the Sun with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory [PDF, 2.93 MB] | |
| Sofia Sivertsson, KTH / Stockholm University WIMP diffusion in the Solar System and the neutrino signal from the Sun and the Earth [PDF, 0.43 MB] | |
| Joakim Edsjo, Oskar Klein Centre / Stockholm University Neutrino searches for dark matter [PDF, 5.71 MB] | |
| Jonathan A Miller, Vrije Universiteit Brussel Search for Secluded Dark Matter in the Sun using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory [PDF, 21.9 MB] | |
| Basudeb Dasgupta, CCAPP, Ohio State University Probing DM in Galaxy Clusters using Neutrino Telescopes [PDF, 7.04 MB] |
July 24, 2012 - Tuesday
| Direct Detection II Convener: Lauren Hsu (Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor) | |
| Kimberly J Palladino, MIT A discussion of the DEAP-3600 calibration systems. [PDF, 8.19 MB] | |
| Mark Boulay, Queen's University DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search at SNOLAB [PDF, 2.11 MB] | |
| Akira Hitachi, Kochi Medical School The electronic LET for slow ions in dark matter detector media [PDF, 0.92 MB] | |
| Dinesh Loomba, University of New Mexico The DRIFT Dark Matter Search [PDF, 61.31 MB] | |
| Daniel Santos, LPSC/UJF/CNRS Directional Detection of DM with MIMAC [PDF, 11.02 MB] | |
| Kentaro Miuchi, Kobe University NEWAGE [PDF, 1.93 MB] | |
| Shawn W Henderson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Surface Commissioning of the DMTPC 4-Shooter Directional Dark Matter Detector Prototype [PDF, 19.46 MB] | |
| Tatsuhhiro Naka, Nagoya University Directional Dark Matter Search with Nuclear Emulsion [PDF, 3 MB] | |
| Steven K Linden, Boston University Status Report on the MiniCLEAN Experiment | |
| Indirect Detection II Convener: James Buckley (Western Stage room, 14th floor) | |
| Lars Bergstrom, Stockholm University Spectral gamma-ray signatures in dark matter detection - a review [PDF, 5.35 MB] | |
| Timothy Linden, UC - Santa Cruz Indirect Detection of Dark Matter at the Galactic Center [PDF, 2.2 MB] | |
| Christoph Weniger, Max Planck Institute for Physics, Munich A tentative gamma-ray line from dark matter annihilation at the Fermi Large Area Telescope [PDF, 5.18 MB] | |
| Gabrijela Zaharijas, ICTP, Trieste Constraints on dark matter annihilation and decay in the Milky Way halo | |
| Meng Su, Harvard University/MIT Evidence for Gamma-ray Jets in Our Milky Way | |
| Emmanuel Moulin, CEA Saclay, IRFU Indirect dark matter searches with current imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes | |
| Emmanuel Moulin, CEA Saclay, IRFU Search for Dark Matter Annihilation Signals from the Fornax Galaxy Cluster with H.E.S.S. | |
| Pat Scott, McGill University Cosmology with ultracompact minihalos [PDF, 0.65 MB] | |
| Particle Physics Convener: Stefano Profumo (Steamboat room, 14th floor) | |
| Jordan Damgov, Texas Tech University Recent results from a search for Dark Matter production in the CMS experiment [PDF, 3.29 MB] | |
| Sara Rydbeck, DESY The inert doublet model and the role of multileptons at the LHC [PDF, 4.94 MB] | |
| Stefano Scopel, Sogang University Korea Phenomenology of light neutralinos in view of recent results at the CERN Large Hadron Collider [PDF, 2.31 MB] | |
| Jussi Virkajarvi, CP3-Origins & DIAS, University of Southern Denmark Invisible Higgs and Dark Matter [PDF, 1.69 MB] | |
| Randy C Cotta, SLAC/Stanford Experimental Bounds on Chi-Chi-V-V [PDF, 24.41 MB] | |
| Jaime Ruz Armendariz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Constraints on the axion-electron coupling for the non-hadronic models with CAST [PDF, 7.43 MB] | |
| Julia K Vogel, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory The International Axion Observatory (IAXO) [PDF, 10.06 MB] | |
| Qiaoli Yang, University of Florida Axion BEC: a model beyond CDM [PDF, 0.46 MB] |
July 25, 2012 - Wednesday
| Direct Detection III Convener: Vitaly Kudryavtsev (Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor) | |
| Ran Budnik, Columbia university The XENON1T experiment [PDF, 3.89 MB] | |
| Carmen Carmona-Benitez, Case Western Reserve University LUX detector, Installation and Operation [PDF, 1.8 MB] | |
| Carlos H Faham, Brown University Alpha tomography, calibrations and backgrounds in the LUX dark matter experiment [PDF, 3.73 MB] | |
| Matthew M Szydagis, UC Davis Calibrations of the LUX Detector on the Surface [PDF, 0.85 MB] | |
| Sean M Paling, Boulby Underground Science Facility Boulby Deep Underground Science Facility: Status and Future Plans [PDF, 2.59 MB] | |
| Tom Shutt, Case Western Reserve University The LZ Experiment [PDF, 1.59 MB] | |
| David Malling, Brown University Background Characterization and Rejection in the LZ Detector [PDF, 2.01 MB] | |
| Katsushi Arisaka, UCLA MAX and XAX: Dark matter and neutrino observatory based on multi-ton liquid xenon and liquid argon [PDF, 10.15 MB] | |
| Particle Physics/Direct Detection I Convener: Matthew Buckley (Western Stage room, 14th floor) | |
| Nicolas Bernal, University of Bonn, Germany Phenomenology of WIMPy baryogenesis models [PDF, 0.87 MB] | |
| Paolo Gondolo, University of Utah Phenomenology of light WIMPs [PDF, 9.76 MB] | |
| Andreas Goudelis, DESY - Hamburg The Inert Doublet Model of Dark Matter Beyond Tree-level [PDF, 0.89 MB] | |
| Jonathan Kozaczuk, UC Santa Cruz Exploring the Dark Matter - Electroweak Baryogenesis Connection in Supersymmetry | |
| Jong-Chul Park, Korea Institute for Advanced Study Assisted freeze-out | |
| Osamu Seto, Hokkai-Gakuen University Initially asymmetric dark matter [PDF, 0.62 MB] | |
| Seodong Shin, Seoul National University Dark matter in the PQMSSM in anomaly mediation [PDF, 13.97 MB] | |
| Zuowei Liu, McGill University Millicharged Atomic Dark Matter [PDF, 1.92 MB] | |
| Wei Xue, Physics Department, McGill University An optimistic CoGeNT analysis [PDF, 5.86 MB] |
July 26, 2012 - Thursday
| Direct Detection IV Convener: Viktor Zacek (Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor) | |
| Michael B. Crisler, Fermilab Dark Matter Search Results from the COUPP-4kg Bubble Chamber at SNOLAB [PDF, 20.2 MB] | |
| Hugh Lippincott, Fermilab COUPP Iodine Recoil Threshold Experiment [PDF, 13.32 MB] | |
| Alan E Robinson, University of Chicago COUPP Carbon and Fluorine Recoil Thresholds [PDF, 1.76 MB] | |
| Andrew Sonnenschein, Fermilab COUPP-60 | |
| Eric Vazquez-Jauregui, SNOLAB COUPP500: A 500kg CF3I Bubble Chamber [PDF, 2.31 MB] | |
| Juan Estrada, Fermilab Direct Dark Matter Search with Charge Couple Devices [PDF, 8.13 MB] | |
| Ritoban Basu Thakur, Fermilab / UIUC The CDMSlite experiment [PDF, 24.69 MB] | |
| Maria Luisa Sarsa, University of Zaragoza Background model for a NaI(Tl) detector in the frame of the ANAIS experiment [PDF, 10.04 MB] | |
| Indirect Detection III Convener: Douglas Spolyar (Western Stage room, 14th floor) | |
| Alex Geringer-Sameth, Brown University Results of continuum and line WIMP searches in dwarf galaxies with Fermi [PDF, 2.4 MB] | |
| Ilias Cholis, SISSA (Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati) Extracting limits on dark matter annihilation from dwarf spheroidal galaxies [PDF, 3.81 MB] | |
| Alexander A. Kirillov, National Research Nuclear University ''MEPhI'' Small scale dark matter clumps and its gamma ray signals | |
| Hannes-S. Zechlin, University of Hamburg, Germany Dark matter subhalos: the observational challenge [PDF, 7.36 MB] | |
| Ranjan Laha, CCAPP & Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University Radio Constraints on dark matter induced Galactic Center gamma-ray lines [PDF, 2.98 MB] | |
| Alexander V Belikov, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris Testing the composition of the of gamma rays from the galactic center and the cosmic ray electrons at TeV scale [PDF, 1.49 MB] | |
| Mariangela Lisanti, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science Illuminating the 130 GeV Line with Continuum Photons [PDF, 6.81 MB] | |
| Philip von Doetinchem, UC Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory The General Antiparticle Spectrometer (GAPS) - Hunt for dark matter using low energy antideuterons [PDF, 14.43 MB] |
July 27, 2012 - Friday
| Particle Physics/Direct Detection II Convener: Joakim Edsjo (Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor) | |
| Chris Purcell, University of Pittsburgh Dark Matter Direct Search Rates in Simulations of the Milky Way and Sagittarius Stream [PDF, 4.82 MB] | |
| Richard Hill, University of Chicago Universal behavior in the scattering of heavy, weakly interacting dark matter on nuclear targets | |
| Chung-Lin Shan, Academia Sinica Model-Independent Data Analysis in Direct Searches for Inelastic Dark Matter [PDF, 1.14 MB] | |
| Fabio Iocco, Oskar Klein Center for CosmoParticle Physics Dark Matter distribution in the Milky Way: microlensing and dynamical constraints | |
| Bibhushan Shakya, Cornell University Direct Detection Implications on Supersymmetry Naturalness [PDF, 2.13 MB] | |
| Miguel Pato, Technical University Munich Combining direct detection and antiprotons to constrain dark matter models [PDF, 3.52 MB] | |
| Structure and Stars Convener: Carlos Frenk (Steamboat room, 14th floor) | |
| Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh Asymmetric Dark Matter may Alter the Conditions for Stardom | |
| Mei-Yu Wang, University of Pittsburgh Constraints on Decaying Dark Matter from Large-Scale Structure | |
| Donghai Zhao, Shanghai Astronomical Observatory Tthe universal mass-concentration relation for cold, warm and hot dark matter halos | |
| Matthew R Becker, University of Chicago Extreme Scale Weak Lensing Simulations for Large Area Sky Surveys | |
| Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago Evolution of halo mass and cluster observable-mass scaling relations | |
| Indirect Detection IV Convener: Mariangela Lisanti (Western Stage room, 14th floor) | |
| Alessandro Cuoco, Oskar Kein Center for CosmoParticle Physics Diffuse Gamma-ray Background anisotropies and Dark Matter [PDF, 20.38 MB] | |
| German A. Gomez-Vargas, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid / IFT UAM-CSIC / INFN Roma Tor Vergata Dark matter constraints from the anisotropies of the gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi-LAT [PDF, 3.4 MB] | |
| Andrew W Smith, University of Utah The VERITAS Indirect Dark Matter Detection Program [PDF, 8.85 MB] | |
| David Tran, University of Minnesota Cosmic-ray and gamma-ray constraints on dark matter stability |
