New Paradigms for Dark Matter

The workshop will discuss new ideas about Dark Matter in light of recent results from direct detection experiments and astrophysical observations.

Friday Dec. 5

• 9:00-9:15 Coffee/welcome (Winston Ko)
• 9:15-10:45 Recent Results from Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments (Peter Sorensen)
• 10:45-11:00 Questions/discussion
• 11:00-11:30 Recent Results from PAMELA and ATIC (Jonathan Ormes)
• 11:30-12:15 Questions/discussion
• 12:15-2:00 Lunch
• 2:00-2:30 Astrophysical intepretation of PAMELA and ATIC results (Stephano Profumo)
• 2:30-3:00 Questions/discussion
• 3:00-3:30 Astrophysical constraints on Non-Minimal Dark Matter (Marc Kamionkowski)
• 3:30-4:00 Coffee break
• 4:00-5:30 Moderated discussion (Marc Kamionkowski)

• 7PM: Dinner

Saturday Dec. 6

• 9:30-11:30 New Physics Interpretation of the DAMA Signal (Spencer Chang)

• 11:30-1:00 Lunch
• 1:30-3:30 Moderated discussion: New Physics Interpretation of the PAMELA and ATIC signals (Graham Kribs)
• 3:30-3:45 Coffee break
• 3:45 Moderated discussion: composite dark matter (Philip Shuster)

slides and mp3s will be stored here

• A Theory of Dark Matter
• Using the Energy Spectrum at DAMA/LIBRA to Probe Light Dark Matter
• Early Annihilation and Diffuse Backgrounds in 1/v WIMP models
• Inelastic Dark Matter in Light of DAMA/LIBRA

• Marc Kamionkowski (Caltech)
• Graham Kribs (U. Oregon)
• Jonathan Ormes (U. Denver)
• Stephano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)
• Peter Sorensen (LLNL)

Local participants:

• Andreas Albrecht (UC Davis)
• Yi Cai (UC Davis)
• Spencer Chang (UC Davis)
• Hsin-Chia Cheng (UC Davis)
• Nathaniel Craig (Stanford)
• Robin Erbacher (UC Davis)
• Rouven Essig (SLAC)
• John Conway (UC Davis)
• Jack Gunion (UC Davis)
• Zhenyu Han (UC Davis)
• Nemanja Kaloper (UC Davis)
• Joe Kiskis (UC Davis)
• Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
• Winston Ko (UC Davis)
• Piyush Kumar (UC Berkeley)
• Markus Luty (UC Davis)
• John McRaven (UC Davis)
• Philip Schuster (SLAC)
• Neelima Sehgal (SLAC)
• David Stancato (UC Davis)
• John Terning (UC Davis)
• Jesse Thaler (UC Berkely)
• Natalia Toro (Stanford)
• Jay Wacker (Stanford)
• Nick Walsh (UC Davis)
• Renjun Xu (UC Davis)