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Program
 
August 5, 2019 - Monday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
ERC 401
 Morning SessionChair: Alex Drlica-WagnerERC 401
9:00 AM - 9:30 AMAnnika Peter, OSU
Setting the Stage [PDF, 17.12 MB]
9:30 AM - 10:00 AMRocky W Kolb, University of Chicago
Dark Matter Landscape [PDF, 14.91 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:30 AMMarc Kamionkowski, Johns Hopkins University
Black holes, baryons, axions, the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, and dark matter [PDF, 15.76 MB]
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AMSam McDermott, FNAL
Stellar Constraints on Dark Matter and Dark Sectors [PDF, 8.71 MB]
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMVera Gluscevic, USC
Cosmological Probes of Dark Matter Physics [PDF, 4.42 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:30 PMAlyson Brooks, Rutgers
Understanding Dwarf Galaxies in order to Understand Dark Matter [PDF, 11.48 MB]
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch (provided)
 Afternoon SessionChair: Annika PeterERC 401
1:30 PM - 2:00 PMFrancis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico
Particle Dark Matter: The Discovery Potential of Milky Way Satellites in the LSST Era [PDF, 23.06 MB]
2:00 PM - 2:30 PMJonathan Blazek, EPFL
Dark matter and large-scale structure [PDF, 36.16 MB]
2:30 PM - 3:00 PMChihway Chang, KICP
Weak lensing as a tool for dark matter physics [PDF, 77.08 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMSimon Birrer, UCLA
Strong lensing probes of dark matter [PDF, 19.64 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:30 PMWilliam Dawson, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Black Holes Hiding in Plane Sight [PDF, 18.45 MB]
4:30 PM - 5:00 PMJennifer Marshall, Texas A&M University
The future of massively multiplexed spectroscopy: the Maunakea Spectroscopic Explorer [PDF, 3.3 MB]
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMDiscussion
6:00 PM - 7:30 PMReception
ERC 501 (Hubble Lounge)

 
August 6, 2019 - Tuesday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
ERC 401
9:00 AM - 10:30 AMDark Matter DiscussionChair: Tony TysonERC 401, ERC 576, ERC 583Overview of Dark Matter Discussion Topics

1. How should the dark matter community collaborate on LSST?

2. What follow-up facilities/resources do we need to do our science?

3. How can our community make an impact in the Snowmass/Astro2020 process?

4. What advances in simulation and/or theory are necessary for dark matter science?

5. What does dark matter discovery look like in the context of LSST?
10:30 AM - 11:00 AMCoffee Break
 Morning SessionChair: Francis-Yan Cyr-RacineERC 401
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMKyriakos Vattis, Brown University
Dark matter decaying in the late Universe can relieve the H0 tension [PDF, 4.54 MB]
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMMaurizio Giannotti, Barry University
Astrophysics of axions and axion like particles [PDF, 2.8 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:45 AMTroy J Raen, University of Pittsburgh
Dark Matter in Stars [PDF, 8.7 MB]
11:45 AM - 12:00 PMAdrienne L Erickcek, UNC Chapel Hill
Probing the early Universe with dark matter [PDF, 12.57 MB]
12:00 PM - 12:15 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch (provided)
 Afternoon SessionChair: Keith BechtolERC 401
1:30 PM - 1:45 PMLukasz Wyrzykowski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, Poland
Dark Matter and Black Holes from microlensing in OGLE, Gaia and LSST [PDF, 6.66 MB]
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMDaniel Gilman, University of California, Los Angeles
Constraining models of warm and self-interacting dark matter with quadruple-image strong gravitational lenses [PDF, 13.66 MB]
2:00 PM - 2:15 PMChris Fassnacht, UC Davis
New constraints on dark matter from gravitational lensing [PDF, 8.31 MB]
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMSiddharth Mishra-Sharma, New York University
Analyzing a population of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses to infer substructure properties using likelihood-free inference [PDF, 10.79 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMDiscussion
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCoffee break
 Afternoon SessionChair: Annika PeterERC 401
3:30 PM - 3:45 PMVictor H Robles, University of California Irvine
Using Simulations to constrain the nature Dark Matter in the era of new telescopes [PDF, 25.34 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:15 PMArka Banerjee, KIPAC/Stanford University
Signatures of Self-Interacting dark matter on stacked cluster density profiles and subhalo distributions [PDF, 4.35 MB]
4:15 PM - 4:30 PMAlexie Leauthaud, UCSC
Weak lensing Measurements of the Dark Matter Halose for dwarf galaxies [PDF, 5.91 MB]
4:30 PM - 4:45 PMNeelima Sehgal, Stony Brook University
CMB-HD: Probing Dark Matter Particle Properties with Ultra-High-Resolution CMB Lensing [PDF, 6.22 MB]
4:45 PM - 5:00 PMDiscussion
6:30 PM - 8:00 PMWorkshop Dinner
1206 E. 53rd Street Chicago, IL 60615
Cedars

 
August 7, 2019 - Wednesday
8:30 AM - 9:00 AMBreakfast
ERC 401
 Morning SessionChair: Yao-Yuan MaoERC 401
9:00 AM - 9:15 AMEthan O Nadler, KIPAC/Stanford
Milky Way Satellites: Probes of Dark Matter Microphysics [PDF, 15.46 MB]
9:15 AM - 9:30 AMAlexander Riley, Texas A&M University
The velocity anisotropy of the Milky Way satellite system [PDF, 27.77 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:45 AMKimberly Boddy, Johns Hopkins University
Tidal stripping of SIDM halos [PDF, 10.72 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMMei-Yu Wang, Carnegie Mellon University
Probing Dark Matter Particle Properties with dark matter phase space information in the Milky Way satellites [PDF, 3.55 MB]
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMDiscussion
10:15 AM - 10:45 AMCoffee break
 Morning SessionChair: Alex Drlica-WagnerERC 401
10:45 AM - 11:00 AMDavid Hendel, University of Toronto
Stellar streams and Milky Way substructure in the era of LSST [PDF, 2.95 MB]
11:00 AM - 11:15 AMNora Shipp, University of Chicago
Stellar streams with DES and Gaia [PDF, 1.91 MB]
11:15 AM - 11:30 AMTing Li, Fermilab / Carnegie Observatories
Dark Matter Science with Spectroscopy [PDF, 5.24 MB]
11:30 AM - 12:00 PMDiscussion
12:30 PM - 1:30 PMLunch (provided)