IDM2016 (17-22 July 2016) · Sheffield HEP Indico (Indico)

IDM2016

from Sunday, 17 July 2016 (18:00) to Friday, 22 July 2016 (17:00)
Master Cutlers Hall

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

17 Jul 2016

18 Jul 2016

19 Jul 2016

20 Jul 2016

21 Jul 2016

22 Jul 2016

08:00	Registration open (until 08:50) (Cutler's Hadfield Hall (Ground Floor))
08:50	Introduction to IDM2016 - Prof. Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Jules Gascon; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
09:00	Welcome address by Sheffield Pro-Vice Chancellor - Prof. Richard Jones (The University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Jules Gascon; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe)
09:10	Looking for the identity of the dark matter in our cosmic neighbourhood - Carlos Frenk (Durham University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Jules Gascon; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
09:40	Stretching the WIMP paradigm: Direct detection techniques for light-weight WIMPs. - Prof. Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Jules Gascon; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
10:10	The KATRIN neutrino mass experiment - Dr. Joachim Wolf (Karlsruhe Institute of technology (KIT)) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Jules Gascon; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Dark energy and new interactions in the dark sector - Prof. Carsten van de Bruck (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Priscilla Cushman; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
11:30	Overview of Dark Matter Searches with the Fermi-LAT - Brandon Anderson (Stockholm University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Priscilla Cushman; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides

08:30	Toward minimal assumptions for WIMP dark matter - Prof. Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Vitaly Kudryavtsev; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
09:00	Particle dark matter: what it is and how to determine its properties - Leszek Roszkowski (Univ. of Sheffield and NCBJ) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Vitaly Kudryavtsev; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
09:30	Liquefied Noble gases: an optimal target for the Dark Matter search and more. - Dr. Marcello Messina (Columbai University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Vitaly Kudryavtsev; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
10:00	Latest results on indirect dark matter searches with IceCube - Prof. Carsten Rott (Sungkyunkwan University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Vitaly Kudryavtsev; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Search for low-mass WIMPs with CRESST - Dr. Paolo Gorla (Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso - INFN) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
11:20	Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions - Prof. Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
11:40	Overview of Axion Searches - Dr. Edward Daw (The University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides

08:30	Primordial Black Holes - Dr. Florian Kuhnel (Stockholm University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Leszek Roszkowski; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
09:00	Searches for Dark Matter particles at the Large Hadron Collider - Prof. Gabriella Sciolla (Brandeis University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Leszek Roszkowski; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
09:30	New results on low mass WIMPs search with the EDELWEISS-III experiment. - Mrs. Véronique SANGLARD (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Leszek Roszkowski; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
10:00	Devil in the Detail – Calibration of Dark Matter Detectors - Prof. Richard Gaitskell (Brown University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Leszek Roszkowski; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	The SuperCDMS High Mass WIMP Search - Robert Calkins (Southern Methodist University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gorla; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
11:30	Ten years of PAMELA in orbit - Valeria Di Felice (INFN Rome Tor Vergata and ASDC) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gorla; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides

08:30	Recent results from XMASS - Prof. Yoichiro Suzuki (Kavli IPMU, the University of Tokyo) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierluigi Belli; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
09:00	Latest AMS results on the properties of elementary particle fluxes and flux ratios in primary cosmic rays - Dr. Andrei Kounine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierluigi Belli; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
09:30	The LUX dark matter search - Dr. Aaron Manalaysay (University of California Davis) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierluigi Belli; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
10:00	The Dark Energy Universe - Prof. Bob Nichol (ICG Portsmouth) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierluigi Belli; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Status of the XENON1T project - Prof. Luca Grandi (The University of Chicago / KICP) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
11:20	Overview and status of LUX-ZEPLIN - Dr. James Dobson (University College London) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
11:40	PandaX-II 500kg Liquid Xenon Dark Matter Exp in Jinping, China - Prof. Xiangdong Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University/U. Maryland) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides

08:30	Galactic Cold Dark Matter from First Principles - Dr. Luca Visinelli (Nordita) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Neil Spooner; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
09:00	Bolometric Detection of Dark Matter - Jules Gascon (IPNL (Universite de Lyon 1 and CNRS/IN2P3)) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Neil Spooner; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
09:30	Searching for Signals of Dark Matter in the Gamma-Ray Sky - Lisanti Mariangela (Princeton University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Neil Spooner; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
10:00	New techniques for a wicked problem: Indirect dark matter searches with photons - Dr. Christoph Weniger (University of Amsterdam) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Neil Spooner; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
10:30	--- Coffee break ---
11:00	Dark Stars: Dark Matter Annihilation can power the first stars - Prof. Katherine Freese (Univ of MI and Stockholm U) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
11:30	Exploring the physics frontier with the MAGIC Telescopes: Indirect dark matter searches - Mr. Joaquim Palacio Navarro (IFAE-MAGIC) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
11:50	Dark matter searches with PICO: An overview and the recent results. - Mr. Chanpreet Amole (Queen's University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides

18:00

Registration open + Reception drinks (until 21:00) (Cutlers' Hadfield Hall (Ground Floor))

12:00	Neutrino physics with dark matter detectors - Louis Strigari (Texas A&M) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Priscilla Cushman; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
12:20	Direct detection and the neutrino floor - Mr. Ciaran O'Hare (University of Nottingham) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Priscilla Cushman; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
12:40	Light sterile neutrino search with reactor experiments - Dr. Julia Haser (MPIK Heidelberg) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Priscilla Cushman; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
13:00	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Indirect Detection (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe)
14:00	Cosmic-ray antideuteron searches - Philip von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii at Manoa) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
14:20	Probing dim point sources in the inner Milky Way using PCAT - Mr. Tansu Daylan (Graduate Student) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
14:40	Gamma-ray emission and the dark matter content of the dwarf galaxy Reticulum II - Prof. Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:00	Signatures of Self-Interacting Dark Matter in the Sun - Mr. Niklas Grønlund Nielsen (CP3-origins, University of Southern Denmark) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:20	Discovery of a new extragalactic population of energetic particles - Mr. Thomas Lacroix (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:40	A Probabilistic Catalogue of Unresolved High Latitude Fermi LAT Sources - Mr. Stephen Portillo (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Catherine De Clercq; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
14:00	Low Mass WIMP Searches (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff)
14:00	The status of the DAMIC experiment at Snolab - Junhui Liao (University of Zurich, Switzerland) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
14:20	LOW ENERGY NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND DARK MATTER SEARCHES WITH SUB-KEV GERMANIUM DETECTORS - Dr. Manoj Kumar Singh (Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
14:40	Recent results and prospects of CDEX at the China JinPing Underground Laboratory - Prof. Shin-Ted LIN (Sichuan University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:00	Charge migration study of a massive cryogenic Ge detector for the detection of light dark matter using the Neganov-Luke Effect - Mrs. Nadine Foerster (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:20	A low-mass dark matter search using ionization signals in XENON100 - Mr. Andrea Tiseni (Nikhef) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:40	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Chamkaur Ghag; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff)
14:00	Neutrinos and Dark Sector (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
14:00	SBND: Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and More with Fermilab’s Short-Baseline Near Detector - Georgia Karagiorgi (University of Manchester) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
14:20	Search for Accelerator-Produced sub-GeV Dark Matter Particles in MiniBooNE - Dr. Teppei Katori (Queen Mary University of London) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
14:40	Search for heavy neutral leptons with the near detector complex ND280 of the T2K neutrino experiment at J-PARC - Dr. Alexander Izmaylov (IFIC CSIC) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:00	The SHIP Experiment at CERN - Dr. John Back (University of Warwick) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:20	The COHERENT Neutrino Experiment - Prof. Phillip Barbeau (Duke University) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:40	A search for bosonic dark matter with the MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR - Thomas Caldwell (UNC) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
16:00	--- Tea break ---
16:30	Indirect Detection (until 18:10) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe)
16:30	Prospects for Indirect Dark Matter Searches with Hyper-Kamiokande - Dr. Matthew Malek (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
16:50	Revealing the nature of dark matter with Milky Way dwarf satellite galaxies - Dr. Mei-Yu Wang (Texas A&M University) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
17:10	Warm intergalactic medium or warm dark matter? - Dr. Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
17:30	KWISP : the radiation pressure sensor - Dr. Marin Karuza (University of Rijeka and INFN Trieste) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
17:50	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Riccardo Catena; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe)
16:30	Low Mass WIMP Searches (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Hiroyuki Sekiya; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff)
16:30	Light WIMP search with a high-pressure gaseous TPC: The TREX-DM projec - Dr. Javier Gracia Garza (Universidad de Zaragoza) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Hiroyuki Sekiya; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
16:50	NEWS (New Experiment With Sphere) - Mr. Alexis Brossard (Queen's University Kingston Ontario Canada) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Hiroyuki Sekiya; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
17:10	What atomic physics can contribute to light dark matter direct detection - Mr. Chih-Pan Wu (National Taiwan University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Hiroyuki Sekiya; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
17:30	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Hiroyuki Sekiya; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff)
16:30	Neutrinos and Dark Sector (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
16:30	Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter Interpretations of the Unidentified 3.5 keV Line - Prof. Kevork Abazajian (University of California, Irvine) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
16:50	The PADME experiment - Gabriele Piperno (INFN - LNF) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
17:10	Present and Future Observations of the 3.5 keV Line - Dr. Michael Loewenstein (University of Maryland, Colleg Park) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
17:30	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Gabriella Sciolla; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
19:00	RECEPTION IN TOWN HALL (until 21:00) (Town Hall)

12:00	XENON100 run combination results - Mr. Ludwig Rauch (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
12:20	Recent Results from DarkSide-50 - Prof. Giuliana Fiorillo (Universita degli studi di Napoli "Federico II" and INFN Napoli) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
12:40	Physics Case for Axion or ALP Dark Matter - Andreas Ringwald (DESY) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Karl van Bibber; Session Managers: David Woodward & Jost Migenda) Slides
13:00	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Axion (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
14:00	Status of the ADMX-HF Extreme Axion Experiment - Prof. Karl van Bibber (University of California Berkeley) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:20	Status, physics case and prospects of the International Axion Observatory (IAXO) - Igor Irastorza (Universidad de Zaragoza) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:40	Searching for ultralight dark matter with atomic spectroscopy and magnetic resonance - Prof. Budker Dmitry (Helmholtz Institute Mainz) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:00	Status and Future of ADMX - Prof. Gray Rybka (University of Washington) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:20	Cold Dark Matter Axion Search with a Dipole Magnet - Dr. Lino Miceli (IBS Center for Axion and Precision Physics Research) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:40	Axion and axion-like particle searches in LUX - Ms. Maria Francesca Marzioni (University of Edinburgh) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Pierre Sikivie; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:00	Directional (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff)
14:00	Carbon nanotubes as a target for directional WIMP detection - Gianluca Cavoto (INFN Roma) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
14:20	ZnWO4 anisotropic scintillator for directionality technique - Dr. Riccardo Cerulli (INFN-LNGS) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
14:40	Studies on ZnWO4 crystals for the direction-sensitive dark matter search - Dr. Hiroyuki Sekiya (ICRR, University of Tokyo) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:00	The technical improvements on NEWS experiment - Mr. Takashi Asada (Nagoya University) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:20	Recoil Directionality Studies in Two-Phase Liquid Argon TPC Detectors - Mr. Marco Rescigno (INFN/Roma) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
15:40	Directional Dark Matter Detection with the DMTPC Experiment - Mrs. Gabriela Druitt (RHUL) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Daniel Santos; Session Manager: Andrew Scarff) Slides
14:00	Noble Gas (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward)
14:00	Calibration of the LUX Dark Matter Experiment - Ms. Sally Shaw (UCL) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:20	Calibration of the DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Detector - Dr. Nasim Fatemighomi (Royal Holloway University of London) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:40	Measurement of the absolute reflectance of PTFE immersed in liquid xenon - Francisco Neves (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:00	Depleted Argon for Large Scale Dark Matter Searches - Prof. Giuliana Fiorillo (Universita degli studi di Napoli "Federico II" and INFN Napoli) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward)
15:20	Supernova Neutrino Physics with Xenon Dark Matter Detectors: A Timely Perspective - Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam (GRAPPA)) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:40	Differential capacitive measurement and monitoring sensors for the LUX-ZEPLIN dark matter detector - Ms. Kathryn Boast (University of Oxford) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Darren Grant; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:00	--- Tea break ---
16:30	Other Techniques (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Luca Grandi; Session Manager: David Woodward)
16:30	Inelastic WIMP-nucleus scattering to the first excited state of $^{125}$Te: a possible search with CUORE - Prof. Frank Avignone (University of South Carolina) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Luca Grandi; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:50	Run II of the PICO 60 experiment - Prof. Carsten Krauss (University of Alberta) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Luca Grandi; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:10	Reinventing the Bubble Chamber: A New Design for PICO-40L and PICO-500 - Michael Crisler (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Luca Grandi; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:30	Cryogenic phonon-scintillation detectors with PMT readout for rare event search experiments - Mr. Junsong Lin (University of Oxford) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Luca Grandi; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:30	Theory (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Louis Strigari; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
16:30	A non-relativistic effective theory approach to dark matter direct and indirect detection - Dr. Riccardo Catena (Chalmers University of Technology) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Louis Strigari; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
16:50	How to calculate direct detection exclusion limits that are consistent with gamma rays from WIMP annihilation in the Milky Way halo - Prof. Anne Green (University of Nottingham) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Louis Strigari; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:10	Looking for Dark Matter in the Earth's Shadow - Dr. Bradley Kavanagh (LPTHE - Paris) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Louis Strigari; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:30	Correction of the Reconstruction of the Velocity Distribution for Low-Mass WIMPs - Prof. Chung-Lin Shan (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Louis Strigari; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
19:00	KELHAM ISLAND AND EDALE VISITS (until 21:00) (Kelham Island)

12:00	Latest status of the 3.5 keV line as a Dark Matter candidate - Mr. Jeroen Franse (Leiden University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gorla; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
12:20	NEWAGE direction-sensitve direct dark matter search - Prof. Kentaro Miuchi (Kobe University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gorla; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
12:40	Highlights on signals from Dark Matter particles - Prof. Pierluigi Belli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gorla; Session Managers: David Woodward & Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
13:00	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Annual Modulation (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward)
14:00	Event rate modulation in XENON100 -results and prospects. - Mr. Bart Pelssers (Stockholm University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:20	Results from the DM-Ice17 - Jay Hyun Jo (Yale University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:40	The status of KIMS experiment - Dr. Hyunsu Lee (Institute for Basic Science) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:00	SABRE: WIMP Modulation Detection in the Northern and Southern Hemisphere - Mrs. Francis Froborg (Imperial College) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:20	Status of the COSINE experiment - Chang Hyon Ha (Center for Underground Physics, IBS) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:40	Status and Prospects of ANAIS-112 at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Dr. María Luisa Sarsa (University of Zaragoza) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:00	Laboratories and Low Background (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
14:00	Radon Monitoring and Mitigation - Darren Grant (University of Alberta) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:20	Radon Screening for Low Background Experiments - Mr. Andrew Scarff (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:40	Material screening programme for the LZ experiment - Dr. Paul Scovell (University of Oxford) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:00	Background studies in SuperCDMS - Mr. ELIAS LOPEZ ASAMAR (Durham University) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:20	Simulation of the Electromagnetic Backgrounds in the CRESST-II Experiment - Mr. Cenk Turkoglu (TU Wien) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:40	Measurement of the tritium background in the EDELWEISS-III germanium detectors - Dr. Silvia Scorza (KIT) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:00	Theory (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe)
14:00	Neutralino dark matter at TeV scale revisited - Dr. Andrzej Hryczuk (University of Oslo) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
14:20	Unitarisation of EFT Amplitudes for Dark Matter Searches at the LHC - Michael Schmidt (The University of Sydney) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
14:40	Less-simplified models of dark matter for direct detection and the LHC - Dr. Arghya Choudhury (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:00	Update on Higgs portal dark matter and global fits - Pat Scott (Imperial College) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:20	Dark Forces in the Sky: signals from Z' and the Dark Higgs - Dr. Yi Cai (The University of Melbourne) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
15:40	Constraints from renormalisation of the Minimal Dark Matter model - Mr. James McKay (Imperial College London) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Malcolm Fairbairn; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
16:00	--- Tea break ---
16:30	Annual Modulation (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward)
16:30	Dark Matter annual modulation with CUORE-0 and CUORE - Gabriele Piperno (INFN - LNF) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:50	Background Subtracting the Search for Annual Modulation in CDMS II - Danielle Speller (University of California, Berkeley) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:10	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yeongduk Kim; Session Manager: David Woodward)
16:30	Laboratories and Low Background (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
16:30	Low Background Factilities at CUP - Dr. Douglas Leonard (IBS Center for Underground Physics) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
16:50	Muon backgrounds at underground laboratories - Dr. Vitaly Kudryavtsev (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:10	Underground neutron backgrounds - Mr. Frederic Mouton (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:30	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Klaus Eitel; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
16:30	Theory (until 18:10) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe)
16:30	Effective Field Theory of Dark Matter: a Global Analysis - Sebastian Liem (Grappa, University of Amsterdam) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
16:50	Bayesian study of cosmic ray propagation: evidence against homogeneous propagation and implications for indirect detection of dark matter - Dr. Aaron Vincent (IPPP Durham) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
17:10	Dark Plasma simulations - Mr. Tiit Sepp (Tartu Observatory) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) notes Slides
17:30	Plasma dark matter direct detection - Dr. Robert Foot (COEPP, School of Physics, University of Melbourne) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
17:50	Gauge Invariance and Simplified Models with Scalar Mediators - Dr. Giorgio Busoni (The University of Melbourne) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Anne Green; Session Manager: Anthony Ezeribe) Slides
19:00	PUBLIC TALK AT THE DIAMOND-KATIE FREESE (until 21:00) (Diamond Centre, UoS)

12:00	EDELWEISS: R&D and perspectives for 2017 and beyond - Dr. Klaus Eitel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
12:20	Recent status of the China Jinping Underground Laboratory (CJPL) - Mr. LiTao Yang (Tsinghua University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
12:40	Strategies for a directional detection of Dark Matter. - Dr. Camille Couturier (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie-Grenoble (Grenoble-Alpes University/CNRS)) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Yoichiro Suzuki; Session Managers: Jost Migenda & Frederic Mouton) Slides
13:00	--- Lunch break ---
14:00	Axion (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
14:00	Launching the Axion Research at CAPP in Korea - Dr. Woohyun Chung (CAPP/IBS) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:20	Conceptual design of a third-generation axion detector - Prof. David Tanner (University of Florida) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:40	Microbulk Micromegas as x-ray detectors for axion searches in IAXO - Ms. Elisa Ruiz-Choliz (Universidad de Zaragoza) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:00	Progress on the ARIADNE axion NMR experiment - Prof. Andrew Geraci (University of Nevada Reno) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:20	Commissioning of the Generation-2 Axion Dark Matter eXperiment (ADMX) with near quantum noise limited amplifiers - Dr. Rakshya Khatiwada (University of Washington) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
15:40	The highs and lows of the QCD axion - Prof. Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
14:00	Directional (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
14:00	Nuclear Emulsions for WIMP Search (NEWS) - Giovanni De Lellis (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
14:20	The spherical TPC for light-WIMP and low energy neutrino physics search - Dr. ioannis giomataris (CEA-Saclay) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
14:40	Directional Dark Matter Detection with MIMAC - Dr. Daniel Santos (Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie-Grenoble (Grenoble-Alpes University/CNRS)) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:00	Latest results from the DRIFT dark matter detector - Prof. Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:20	Status of the Directional Dark Matter Detector Project (D$^3$) - Prof. Sven Vahsen (University of Hawaii) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
15:40	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Kentaro Miuchi; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
14:00	Laboratories and Low Background (until 16:00) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward)
14:00	The SNOLAB Facility and Current Program - Dr. Kenneth Clark (SNOLAB) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:20	The Sanford Underground Research Facility - Dr. Jaret Heise (Sanford Underground Research Facility) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
14:40	Planning for underground sites in Korea - Prof. Yeongduk Kim (IBS) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:00	The Modane Underground Laboratory (LSM), multi-disciplinarily low radioactivity platform - Dr. Ali Dastgheibi Fard (CNRS/LSM) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:20	Boulby Underground Laboratory: Status and plans - Prof. Sean Paling (STFC Boulby Underground Lab) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
15:40	The Canfranc Underground Laboratory - Dr. Aldo Ianni (Canfranc Laboratory) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Reina Maruyama; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:00	--- Tea break ---
16:30	Axion (until 18:10) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
16:30	New method for setting a bound on the product from 14.4 keV solar axions - Prof. Richard Creswick (University of South Carolina) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
16:50	Status of ALPS2 - Dr. Mikhail Karnevskiy (DESY) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:10	Results from the CASCADE microwave light shining through a wall experiment - Dr. Ian Bailey (Lancaster University) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:30	Monodromy Dark Matter - Viraf Mehta (University of Heidelberg) (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda) Slides
17:50	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Banqueting Hall (First Floor); Chair: Igor Irastorza; Session Manager: Jost Migenda)
16:30	Directional (until 17:50) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Sven Vahsen; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
16:30	D3 - milli, a Negative Ion Time Projection Chamber (NITPC) prototype with pixel readout - Mr. Thomas Thorpe (University of Hawaii) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Sven Vahsen; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
16:50	NITEC: a Negative Ion Time Expansion Chamber for directional Dark Matter searches - Mrs. Elisabetta Baracchini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Sven Vahsen; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
17:10	Simplified charge readout technology for a massive directional WIMP search telescope (CYGNUS-TPC) - Mr. Anthony Ezeribe (The University of Sheffield) (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Sven Vahsen; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton) Slides
17:30	DISCUSSION (Venue: Cutlers' Drawing Room (First Floor); Chair: Sven Vahsen; Session Manager: Frederic Mouton)
16:30	Noble Gas (until 18:10) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward)
16:30	Updated Analysis in the PandaX-II Experiment - Mr. Andi Tan (University of Maryland, College Park, USA) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
16:50	Dark Matter Search at the Multi-Ton Scale with XENONnT - Dr. Michelle Galloway (Universität Zürich) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:10	The DARWIN Dark Matter experiment - Dr. Auke Colijn (Nikhef) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:30	An Effective Field Theory Search for Dark Matter with the Large Underground Xenon Experiment - Dr. Nicole Larsen (University of Chicago/KICP) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
17:50	The LZ System Test Program - Dr. Kimberly Palladino (University of Wisconsin Madison) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Aldo Ianni; Session Manager: David Woodward) Slides
18:10	BANQUET AT CHATSWORTH AND CHATSWORTH TOUR (until 23:00) (Chatsworth)

12:10	Search for dark matter with DEAP-3600 - Dr. Marcin Kuzniak (Carleton University) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
12:30	Dark Matter Detectors and the Neutrino Wall - Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
12:50	APPEC - Prof. Frank LINDE (Nikhef & UvA) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton) Slides
13:10	SUMMARY and END - Karl van Bibber (University of California, Berkeley) (Venue: Cutlers' Main Hall (First Floor); Chair: Paolo Gondolo; Session Managers: Andrew Scarff & Frederic Mouton)
13:30	--- Lunch break ---
15:00	END OF CONFERENCE (until 16:00) ()

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