Name: PROSPECTS IN LOW MASS DARK MATTER
Start: 2015-11-30T12:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-12-01T18:00:00+01:00
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München

PROSPECTS IN LOW MASS DARK MATTER

from Monday, 30 November 2015 (12:00) to Tuesday, 1 December 2015 (18:00)

Monday, 30 November 2015

12:00 Registration and welcome reception
Registration and welcome reception
12:00 - 13:30
Room: Foyer
13:30
13:30 - 15:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Welcome

13:45 Dark Matter: the Big Picture - Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam and GRAPPA)

14:30 Dark matter at the LHC, models and interpretations - David Salek (GRAPPA)

15:15 LOW MASS WIMP SEARCH WITH THE CDMS LOW IONIZATION THRESHOLD EXPERIMENT - Wolfgang Rau (Queen’s University, Kingston)
15:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Foyer
16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:15 Search for Low-Mass Dark Matter with the CRESST Experiment - Raimund Strauß (MPI für Physik München)

16:45 Perspectives for low mass dark matter searches with the LUX and LZ experiments. - Paolo Beltrame (University of Edinburgh - School of Physics and Astronomy)

17:15 Improving the sensitivity to low-mass WIMPs with XENON detectors - Moritz von Sivers (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Bern)
17:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:45 - 18:00
Room: Foyer
18:00
18:00 - 19:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Search for dark photons using CRESST-II data - Achim Gütlein (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

18:15 Production mechanisms for sterile neutrino Dark Matter - Alexander Merle (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 23:00
Room: Aumeister im Englischen Garten
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
08:30
08:30 - 10:35
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 DARKSIDE: RECENT RESULTS WITH UNDERGROUND ARGON AND OUTLOOK - Davide Franco (Laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie)

09:00 DAMIC experiment for low mass dark matter in CCDs - Ben Kilminster (University of Zurich)

09:30 Toward ~eV resolution phonon mediated detectors for SuperCDMS SNOLAB low mass Dark Matter search and beyond - Nader Mirabolfathi (Texas A&M University)

09:50 Going Beyond WIMPs: Exploring Light Dark Matter - Tomer Volansky (Tel Aviv University)
10:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:35 - 11:00
Room: Foyer
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 SEARCH FOR LOW-MASS WIMPS WITH THE EDELWEISS-III EXPERIMENT - Jules Gascon (IPNL Universite Lyon 1 and CNRS/IN2P3)

11:30 DARK MATTER [AND NEUTRINO] PHYSICS WITH SUB-KEV GERMANI-UM DETECTORS - Henry Wong (Academia Sinica)

12:00 DEPFET DEVICES FOR THE DETECTION OF LOW MASS WIMP INTERACTIONS - Johannes Treis (MPG Semiconductor Laboratory)

12:15 Challenges of Indirect Detection of low mass (below 50 GeV) Dark Matter - Marco CIRELLI (LPTHE Jussieu CNRS)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: Canteen
14:30
14:30 - 15:55
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

14:30 Ultralight dark matter - Javier Redondo (Zaragoza University)

15:15 A new QCD dark matter axion search using a dielectric resonant cavity - Bela Majorovits (MPI Physik)

15:35 The NEWS-SNO project - Sabine Roth (Physics Department, Queen's University)
15:55 Coffe break
Coffe break
15:55 - 16:30
Room: Foyer
16:30 Workshop overview
Workshop overview
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Prospects in low mass dark matter - Antonio Masiero (Univ. of Padova and INFN)