Overview:
Dark sectors broadly denote explorations of new physics beyond the Standard Model. Several particularly promising venues have been identified and are actively pursued by the astro-particle physics community within recent years, including topics related to axions and axion-like particles, neutrinos, black holes and gravitational waves. The goal of the conference is to bring together experts from these distinct areas in a timely opportunity, leveraging recent advances in the fields, to explore new ideas and bring into focus synergistic grounds for future collaborative research directions.
Conference Poster: AstroDark-2021 Poster
Dates and Time:
- December 7-10 Japan (December 6-9 US/Europe)
- Daily at 7:00 AM JST (2:00 PM US PST, 5:00 PM US EST, 11:00 PM EU CET)
- Abstract submission deadline: November 10 (11:59 PM JST)
Venue:
- Online ZOOM (virtual)
- Connection information will be sent to participants
Confirmed Speakers:
- John F. Beacom (Ohio State U.)
- Glennys R. Farrar (NYU)
- George M. Fuller (UCSD)
- Peter Graham (Stanford U.)
- Anson Hook (U. Maryland)
- Dan Hooper (Fermilab/U. Chicago)
- Marc Kamionkowski (Johns Hopkins U.)
- Kazunori Kohri (KEK)
- Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab/U. Chicago)
- Alexander Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
- Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton U.)
- Kohta Murase (Penn State U./YITP, Kyoto U.)
- Matthew Reece (Harvard U.)
- Benjamin Safdi (UC Berkeley)
- Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
- Kate Scholberg (Duke U.)
- Tracy Slatyer (MIT)
- Timothy Tait (UC Irvine)
- Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
- Irene Tamborra (NBI, U. Copenhagen)
- Kathryn Zurek (Caltech)
Keynote Lecture: Lisa Randall (Harvard U.)
Program:
Program at a glance: AstroDark-2021 Program
Session chairs: Program Session Chairs
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Day 1: reviews (dark matter), plenary sessions, parallel sessions, poster sessions
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Day 2: reviews (axions), plenary sessions, poster sessions
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Day 3: reviews (neutrinos), plenary sessions, parallel sessions, poster sessions
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Day 4: reviews (gravitational waves, primordial black holes), plenary sessions, Best Poster Award, Keynote Lecture
Poster sessions will be held during scheduled breaks virtually, with Best Poster Award announced at the end of the conference.
Organizers:
Volodymyr Takhistov (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo) [chair]
Edoardo Vitagliano (UCLA)
Joshua Eby (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
Graciela B. Gelmini (UCLA) [diversity coordinator]
Shigeki Matsumoto (Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo)
