Eighth UCLA Symposium: Sources and Detection of

Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

Presentations (PDF format)

Wednesday February 20, 2008

Precision cosmology and the dark universe

Latest dark matter and dark energy constraints and the road ahead - Max Tegmark (MIT)
Results from the COSMOS survey relating to the mapping of cosmic large scale structures in the baryons and the dark matter - Nick Scoville (Caltech)
Particle dark matter: An overview - Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield, UK)
Small scale issues (dark matter satellites, cusps, etc.) and implications for cold vs. warm dark matter - Joel Primack (UCSC)

Mini-symposium: equation of state of dark energy: Current Observations on w

The Carnegie Supernova Project - Wendy Freedman (Carnegie Observatories)
Results from the SDSS-II Supernova Survey – Josh Frieman (Fermilab and Univ. of Chicago)
The equation of state of dark energy - Ruth Daly (Pennsylvania State Univ.)
ESSENCE: Six-Year Cosmological results – Michael Wood-Vasey (Harvard Univ.)

Large Telescopes and New Theory

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project: prospects and progress – Jack Singal (KIPAC-SLAC)
An overview and status of the Dark Energy Survey – John Peoples (FNAL) and John Thaler (Univ. of Illinois)
The MAGIC of supercritical string cosmology (SSC) and how it affects LHC - Dimitri Nanopoulos (TAMU)

Special Topic: Ten years of dark energy - Remembering the first public discussion on dark energy at DM98

The discovery, 10 years ago, of the evidence for dark energy – Gerson Goldhaber (LBL)
Ten years of seeing dark energy - Adam Riess (Space Telescope Science Institute)
A decade of dark energy – Ruth Daly (Penn. State Univ.)
Eight questions from an experimenter – Martin Perl (SLAC)
Some historical reflections on the dark energy discovery – Robert Crease (Stony Brook Univ.)

Thursday February 21, 2008

Special Topic: Ten years of dark energy - Remembering the first public discussion on dark energy at DM98 (continued)

Dark energy: past, present and future– Saul Perlmutter (LBL)

A short clip of Saul Perlmutter's presentation at DM98:

Theories of dark energy and near term probes of w

Overview and Status of the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) – Karl Gebhardt (Univ. of Texas)
Turnaround in cyclic cosmology – Paul Frampton (Univ. of North Carolina)
Cosmological Constant as a Manifestation of the Hierarchy – Pisin Chen (KIPAC/LeCosPA)
Holographic dark energy: its observational constraints and theoretical features - Yin-Zhe Ma (Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, China)

Search for axions

Overview of the Gamma Ray Large Area Telescope - Elliott Bloom (Stanford)
Warm axino dark matter with &Omega _b - &Omega _DM – Osamu Seto (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
The first results from the GammeV experiment – Jonghee Yoo (Fermilab)
ADMX: Pushing the Limits on Dark Matter Axions – Gray Rybka (Univ. of Washington)
Axion opportunities in gamma-ray astronomy – Pasquale Serpico (FNAL)
Axion constraints in non-standard thermal histories – Daniel Grin (Caltech)

Cold and warm dark matter models in the galaxy

Dark matter caustics – Pierre Sikivie (Univ. of Florida)
Theoretical motivations, astrophysical hints, and the prospects for detection of dark matter in the form of sterile neutrinos – Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)
Search for warm dark matter with Suzaku observations of dwarf spheroidal galaxies – Michael Loewenstein (Univ. of Maryland and NASA/GSFC)
Observational Tests of Modified Gravity Theories – Bhuvnesh Jain (Univ. Penn.)
Dark stars: a new phase of stellar evolution – Katherine Freese (Univ. of Michigan)
Needed Hot Dark Matter Avoiding the Usual Constraints – David O. Caldwell (UCSB)
Dark matter capture in the first star: a power source and a limit on stellar mass – Douglas Spolyar (UC Santa Cruz)
Unifying inflation and dark matter – Rouzbeh Allahverdi (Univ. of New Mexico)

Indirect search for dark matter

Dark matter research with PAMELA space mission - Piergiorgio Picozza (INFN)
A Search for Neutralino Dark Matter in the charge -1 spectrum of AMS-01 – Gray Rybka (Univ. of Washington)
Search for Axion Dark Matter with GLAST – David Paneque (KIPAC-SLAC)
The search for WIMP dark matter with GLAST using photons – Robert Johnson (UC Santa Cruz)
Multi-wavelength signals of dark matter annihilations at the galactic center - Piero Ullio (SISSA/ISAS)

Perspectives in the search for dark matter signatures in the GLAST LAT electron flux – Alex Moiseev (Goddard)
AGILE – Aldo Morselli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata)
GAPS - Chuck Hailey (Columbia Univ.)
High Energy Neutrinos from Neutralino Annihilations in the Sun – Gabe Shaughnessy (Univ. of Wisconsin)
The dark connection between the Canis Major dwarf, the Monoceros ring, the gas flaring, the rotation curve and the EGRET excess of diffuse galactic gamma rays – Wim de Boer (Univ. of Karlsruhe)
Morphological and spectral analyses of the WMAP “haze” – Gregory Dobler (Harvard University)
Dark matter annihilations in the WMAP sky – Dan Hooper (Fermilab)
Indirect searches for dark matter search with H.E.S.S - Emmanuel Moulin (DAPNIA/SPP)
The search for DM in nearby dwarf galaxies with MAGIC: candidates, results and prospects – Miguel Angel Sanchez-Conde (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia – CSIC)
New gamma-ray contributions to supersymmetric dark matter annihilation - Joakim Edsjφ (Stockholm Univ.)

Friday February 22, 2008

SUSY models of dark matter and direct search sensitivity

Dark Matter and Terascale Physics – Vernon Barger (Univ. Wisc.)
Properties of neutralino dark matter from SO(10) SUSYGUTs – Howard Baer (Florida State Univ.)
Measurement of relic density at the LHC - Bhaskar Dutta (Texas A&M)
Hadronic uncertainties in the elastic scattering of supersymmetric dark matter – Chris Savage (Univ. of Minnesota - FTPI)
Dark matter and the success of inflation within MSSM – Anupam Mazumdar (Univ. of Lancaster)

Direct search for dark matter

CDMS – Rupak Mahapatra (UC Santa Barbara)
WARP – Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton Univ.)
ZEPLIN II – Weichung Ooi (UCLA)
XENON 10 – Aaron Manalaysay (Univ. of Zurich)
Early results from COUPP – Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)

Direct and indirect search for dark matter results (II)

ZEPLIN III – Alex Murphy (Univ. of Edinburgh)
Using a high efficiency veto to increase the sensitivity of ZEPLIN-III a possible WIMP detector - Emma Jayne Barnes (Univ. of Edinburgh)
LUX I – Hanguo Wang (UCLA)

Directional recoil rates for WIMP direct detection – Paolo Gondolo (Univ. of Utah)
Model-independent data analyses of the WIMP-Nucleon cross sections in direct dark matter detection - Chung-Lin Shan (Physikalisches Inst. der Univ. Bonn)
Charge on a Strange Quark Nugget (SQN) in Space – Vigdor Teplitz (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
"Exciting" dark matter and the 511 keV line – Douglas Finkbeiner (Harvard Univ.)
Directional signatures in DRIFT – Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)
Correct and incorrect uses of 1-sided and 2-sided limits in dark matter experiments - Peter F. Smith (RAL, UK)

Motivation for large detectors and plans for large detectors

Super CDMS and beyond – Blas Cabrera (Stanford Univ.)
DM-TPC: a novel approach to directional Dark Matter detection – Gabriella Sciolla (MIT)
LUX (1 ton) – Richard Gaitskell (Brown Univ.)
ELIXIR - a route to tonne-scale xenon detectors - Tim Sumner (Imperial College, UK)
XENON100 – Elena Aprile (Columbia Univ.)
XPAND (Xenon Plus Argon No-radiation Detector) – Katsushi Arisaka (UCLA)
Dark matter detection using scintillation pulse shape discrimination in high pressure
Xenon gas – Peter F. Smith (RAL/Temple Univ.)
Xenon, double beta decay, and WIMPs – David Nygren (LBNL/Stockholm Univ.)
A high pressure noble gas approach for WIMP detection – James T. White (Texas A&M)
The Mini-CLEAN dark matter detector - James Nikkel (Yale Univ.)
Gravitational spacecraft anomalies as well as the at present relatively large uncertainty of Newton’s gravity constant G are explained on the basis of force-effects due to a so-far unknown form of space-like matter – Klaus Volkamer (Institute for Subtle Matter Research)

New Facilities

DUSEL – Milind Diwan (BNL)
SNOLAB – Tony Noble (Queen’s Univ.)