Presentations
Last updated: March 30, 2006. Presentations in PDF format are listed below. Click on the link to access the file. More talks will be uploaded to the web as soon as they're received.
Wednesday February 22
Morning session
- Precision cosmology - Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz)
- What the CMB says about dark matter and energy - Ned Wright (UCLA)
- Solving the cosmological constant - Katie Freese (Univ. of Michigan)
- Latest constraints on dark matter and dark energy from SDSS and CMBM - Max Tegmark (MIT)
Afternoon session
- A possible solution of the dark energy problem - S. G. Djorgovski (Caltech) and V. Gurzadyan (ICRA and Yerevan Phys. Inst.)
- Applying the Alcock-Paczynski test for dark energy to quasar pairs - Chris Impey (Univ. of Arizona)
- Baryon oscillations and scale dependant bias - Alexia Schulz (UC Berkeley)
- Signatures of scale-dependent bias and redshift-space distortions in the matter power spectrum - Eric M. Huff (UC Berkeley)
- Consequences of a hypothetical 1.7 THz cut off - Paul Frampton (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Classification of dark energy models in the (w0, wa) plane - Danny Marfatia (Univ. of Kansas)
- Measuring dark energy equation of state w(z) using current and anticipated experiments - Amol Upadhye (Princeton)
- Cosmology with SNLS - Ray Carlberg (Univ. of Toronto)
- CFHT - LS high-z Sn survey - Mark Sullivan (Univ. of Toronto)
- Low-redshift supernova search - Weidong Li (UC Berkeley)
- ESSENCE - Michael Wood-Vasey (Harvard)
- The dark energy survey - Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
- The Supernova/Acceleration Probe (SNAP) - Natalia Kuznetsova (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
- Dark energy from the ground - Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
Thursday February 23
Morning session
- Properties of dark matter - Gerry Gilmore (Cambridge University)
- Testing the self-consistency of MOND with 3-d galaxy kinematics - Christopher W. Stubbs and Arti Garg (Harvard)
- Constraining the physical properties of the dark energy using a nearly model independent approach - Ruth Daly (Penn. State Univ.) and S. G. Djorgovski (Caltech)
- Effects of dark-matter sterile neutrinos on reionization - Alex Kusenko (UCLA)
- Constraints on the existence and nature of dark matter from interacting clusters of galaxies - Douglas Clowe (Steward Observatory, Univ. of Arizona)
- A theory of dark energy based on the Casimir energy in a SUSY-breaking Brane world - Pisin Chen (SLAC/Stanford)
- Right neutralino cold dark matter abundance in (almost) any supersymmetric model - Paolo Gondolo (Univ. of Utah)
- The common origin of dark and luminous matter - Csaba Balazs (Argonne National Laboratory)
- Dark matter from early decays - Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine)
- Stau-neutralino co-annihilation region at the LHC - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M University)
- Neutralino annihilation beyond leading order - Gabe Shaughnessy (Univ. of Wisconsin)
- SUSY dark matter in models with and without universality - Howard Baer (Florida State University)
- Measuring dark matter properties at high-energy colliders,/a> - Edward Baltz (KIPAC/Stanford/SLAC)
- Dark matter astrophysics and high-energy colliders - Tommer Wizansky (Stanford)
- Evidence for sterile neutrinos that could be a part of dark matter - David O. Caldwell (UC Santa Barbara)
- Final results of the search for gravitational microlensing events by the EROS-2 collaboration - James Rich (CEA-Saclay)
Afternoon session
- Gamma rays from dark matter candidates - Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm University)
- Diffuse galactic gamma rays as tracer of dark matter - Wim de Boer (Univ. of Karlsruhe)
- Uncertainties in the interpretation of the diffuse galactic gamma-ray emission - Igor V. Moskalenko (Stanford)
- Gamma rays and antiprotons from WIMP annihilations in the halo - Joakim Edsjo (Stockholm University)
- Identifying the nature of the lightest neutralino with astrophysical observations - Dan Hooper (Fermilab)
- The Homestake Underground Laboratory: options for science in 2007 - Kevin Lesko (LBL)
- Cosmic Positron spectrum measurement from 1 to 50 GeV with AMS-01 - Jan Olzem (RWTH-Aachen Deutchland)
- Weakly-interacting massive particle (WIMP) dark matter within the mass range of 0.1 GeV to 10 GeV - Anthony Pullen (Caltech)
- Constraints on Dark Energy models from antiprotons - Mia Schelke (Univ. of Torino/Torino INFN)
- A search for gamma-ray emissions from Draco - Mani Tripathi (UC Davis)
- The physics program of the GLAST Large Area Telescope - Luca Latronico (Univ. of Pisa/INFN)
- Detecting with GLAST gamma rays coming from LKP annihilations in the context of the minimal UED models - Andrea Lionetto (Roma Tor Vergata)
- The search for milky way halo substructure WIMP annihilations using the GLAST LAT - Larry Wai (SLAC)
- Recent results from atmoshperic Cherenkov telescopes and dark matter - Stefano Profumo (Caltech)
- A modest proposal for solving the cosmological constant problem - Paul Steinhardt (Princeton)
Evening session
- Theoretical calculations of neutralino cross-sections with various nuclei - Gintaras Duda (Creighton Univ.)
- Using the Moon as a Strange Quark Nugget (SQN) Detector - Vigdor Teplitz (Goddard Space Flight Center/NASA)
- Dark energy tabletop experiments? Noise-power in SQUIDs and other curiosities - David R. Winn (Fairfield Univ.)
- Indirect dark matter search with antideuterons: progress and future prospects of GAPS - Jason Koglin (Columbia)
- Dark matter search with the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Juan de Dios Zornoza (IFIC/CSIC, University of Valencia)
- Testing warm dark matter models with dwarf galaxies in the local group - Louie Strigari (UC Irvine)
- Constraints on galactic positrons and MeV dark matter - Hasan Yuksel (Ohio State)
- Neutralino dark matter searches with neutrino telescopes: AMANDA results and IceCube prospects - Daan Hubert (Vrije Universiteit, Brussels)
- POLARBEAR - Brian Keating (UC San Diego)
- WMAP microwave emission interpreted as dark matter annihilation in the inner galaxy - Douglas Finkbeiner (Princeton)
Friday February 24
Morning session
- Annual modulation of dark matter in the presence of streams - Chris Savage (Univ. of Michigan)
- CDMS, SUSY and extra dimensions - Laura Baudis (Univ. Florida)
- EDELWEISS-II: status and future - Veronique Sanglard (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon)
- CRESST: results and status - Hans Kraus (Oxford Univ.)
- ZEPLIN II - Hanguo Wang (UCLA)
- ZEPLIN III - Results from surface calibrations - Tim Sumner (Imperial College)
- DRIFT-IIA - Demitri Muna (Univ. of Sheffield)
- Results from DRIFT-IIa - Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)
- XENON - Masaki Yamashita (Columbia)
- 3D position sensitivity of dual phase Xenon detectors for the XENON dark matter search - Kaixuan Ni (Yale)
- Results and status of the PICASSO experiment - Ubi Wichoski (Univ. of Montreal)
- Search for a monochromatic component of solar axions using Fe-57 - Toshio Namba (Univ. of Tokyo)
- SIMPLE-icity in direct dark matter searches - F. Giuliani (Centro de Fisica Nuclear, Universidade de Lisboa) for the SIMPLE Collaboration
- WARP: Results from the operation of a 2.3 liters argon prototype in Gran Sasso - C. Montanari (INFN/Pavia) for the WARP Collaboration
- Reionization as a probe of dark matter decay and annihilation - Xuelei Chen (National Astronomical Observatories of China)
Afternoon session
- Towards Coordination of the Deep Underground Laboratories in EUROPE: ILIAS - Neil Spooner (Univ. of Sheffield)
- SuperCDMS - Nader Mirabolfathi (UC Berkeley)
- Surface event rejection with phonon information in CDMS - Gensheng Wang (Caltech)
- The ArDM project - Lilian Kaufmann (ETH Zurich)
- SIGN - A gaseous-neon-based underground physics detector - James T. White (Texas A&M Univ.)
- Merits of dark matter detection with high pressure Xe gas - C.J. Martoff (Temple) and Peter F. Smith (RAL/UCLA/Temple)
- Status of the COUPP experiment - Juan Collar (Univ. of Chicago)
- Mini-Clean - Dan McKinsey (Yale)
- Neutron background in large-scale WIMP dark matter experiments - Vitaly Kudryavtsev for the ILIAS and UKDMC group (Univ. of Sheffield)
- The low-energy limits to background discrimination in two- phase liquid-xenon dark matter detectors - Tom Shutt (Case Western Reserve Univ.)
- R&D for future ZEPLIN - Pawel Majewski (Univ. of Sheffield)
- EURECA - Hans Kraus (Oxford)
- DUSEL - Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley)
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