CONFERENCE PROGRAM


 
July 23, 2012 - Monday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMContinental breakfast
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session I
Convener: Dan Hooper
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
9:00 AM - 9:10 AMBrief Introduction
9:10 AM - 9:35 AMPriscilla B Cushman, University of Minnesota
SuperCDMS: Progress and Future Directions [PDF, 20.16 MB]
9:35 AM - 10:00 AMAntonio Melgarejo, Columbia University
New results from XENON100 [PDF, 5.26 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:25 AMKlaus Eitel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The EDELWEISS dark matter search [PDF, 3.53 MB]
10:25 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session II
Convener: Daniel Bauer
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
11:00 AM - 11:25 AMJoerg Jaeckel, IPPP/Durham University
Axions, WISPs and other stuff [PDF, 5.4 MB]
11:25 AM - 11:50 AMAaron S Chou, Fermilab
The Hunt for axions
11:50 AM - 12:15 PMLeslie J Rosenberg, University of Washington
Status of ADMX [PDF, 21.74 MB]
12:15 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMDessert & Coffee
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
2:15 PM - 6:00 PMAfternoon Parallel Sessions
 
July 24, 2012 - Tuesday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMContinental breakfast
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session I
Convener: Carsten Krauss
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AMRiccardo Cerulli, INFN-LNGS
Dark matter signal in DAMA/LIBRA [PDF, 22.96 MB]
9:25 AM - 9:50 AMChristian Strandhagen, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics Tuebingen University
The CRESST-II experiment - status update [PDF, 11.02 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:15 AMJuan Collar, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
New results from CoGeNT [PDF, 19.6 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMCoffee Break
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session II
Convener: Douglas Finkbeiner
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AMJoachim Kopp, Fermilab
Direct detection of light WIMPs [PDF, 4 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:35 AMJennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Caltech
Dark matter searches with Fermi [PDF, 8.61 MB]
11:35 AM - 12:00 PMJames Buckley, Washington University
Dark matter searches with ACTs [PDF, 20.7 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:25 PMStefano Profumo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fermi from a theorist's perspective [PDF, 23.91 MB]
12:25 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMDessert & Coffee
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
2:15 PM - 6:00 PMAfternoon Parallel Sessions
 
July 25, 2012 - Wednesday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMContinental breakfast
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session I
Convener: Andrey Kravtsov
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AMCarlos S Frenk, Durham University
Status of dark matter simulations [PDF, 17.38 MB]
9:25 AM - 9:50 AMMichael Kuhlen, Theoretical Astrophysics Center, UC Berkeley
Status of dark matter simulations [PDF, 26.94 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:15 AMDaniel P. Snowden-Ifft, Occidental College
Overview of directional dark matter detectors [PDF, 9.45 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMCoffee Break
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session II
Convener: Hans Kraus
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AMCarsten B Krauss, University of Alberta
Constraints on low-mass WIMPs from PICASSO [PDF, 4.75 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:35 AMYoichiro Suzuki, Kamioka Observatory, ICRR, U. of Tokyo
The XMASS Experiment [PDF, 12.31 MB]
11:35 AM - 12:00 PMAnnika Peter, UC Irvine
Astrophysical uncertainties in dark matter detection [PDF, 3.24 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:25 PMKevork N. Abazajian, University of California, Irvine
Status of sterile neutrino dark matter [PDF, 17.09 MB]
12:25 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMDessert & Coffee
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
2:15 PM - 6:00 PMAfternoon Parallel Sessions
 
July 26, 2012 - Thursday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMContinental breakfast
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Morning Plenary Session I
Convener: Lars Bergstrom
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
9:00 AM - 9:25 AMTim M.P. Tait, University of California, Irvine
Dark matter searches at the LHC (theory) [PDF, 5.9 MB]
9:25 AM - 9:50 AMDaniel Whiteson, UC Irvine
Dark Matter searches at the LHC (experiment)
9:50 AM - 10:15 AMMatthew Reece, Harvard University
Supersymmetry: Where Do We Stand? [PDF, 11.58 MB]
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMCoffee Break
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
''Meet and Greet'' the editors of the Physics of the Dark Universe journal (Elsevier Table, Wolf Point Registration Area, 15th floor). Editors will also be available from 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM.
 Morning Plenary Session II
Convener: Daniel Snowden-Ifft
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
10:45 AM - 11:10 AMKaren Gibson, Case Western Reserve University
The LUX Experiment [PDF, 10.24 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:35 AMRichard N Saldanha, LNGS, Italy
Status of Darkside [PDF, 11.59 MB]
11:35 AM - 12:00 PMAndrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
CLEAN Detection of Dark Matter [PDF, 15.93 MB]
12:00 PM - 2:00 PMLunch
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMDessert & Coffee
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
2:15 PM - 5:35 PMAfternoon Parallel Sessions
 Dinner
at the Adler Planetarium, 1300 South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605
5:45 PMShuttles board
Shuttle buses will be parked just East of the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza entrance on Orleans Street
6:00 PMShuttles depart
for the Adler Planetarium
6:30 PM - 7:30 PMHors d'oeuvres
7:30 PM - 9:30 PMDinner
10:00 PMShuttles board
in front of the Adler Planetarium main entrance
10:15 PMShuttles depart & return
to the Holiday Inn Mart Plaza
 
July 27, 2012 - Friday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMContinental breakfast
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
9:00 AM - 12:00 PMMorning Parallel Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:45 PMLunch
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMDessert & Coffee
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Afternoon Plenary Session I
Convener: Tim Tait
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
2:00 PM - 2:25 PMDouglas P Finkbeiner, Harvard University
Fermi jets and the 130 GeV line
2:25 PM - 2:50 PMAndrei Kounine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Status of AMS-02 [PDF, 11.33 MB]
2:50 PM - 3:15 PMMarco Taoso, University of British Columbia
Dark matter with radio telescopes [PDF, 1.84 MB]
3:15 PM - 3:45 PMCoffee Break
(Wolf Point Reception area, 15th floor)
 Afternoon Plenary Session II
Convener: Rocky Kolb
(Wolf Point Ballroom, 15th floor)
3:45 PM - 4:10 PMCarsten Rott, Ohio State University / CCAPP
Latest Results from IceCube [PDF, 11.76 MB]
4:10 PM - 4:35 PMGianfranco Bertone, University of Amsterdam
Summary Talk [PDF, 9.05 MB]