Workshop on Astrophysics of Dark Matter

13 Oct 2015, 09:30 → 16 Oct 2015, 18:00 Asia/Tokyo

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Identification of cosmological dark matter is one of the most exciting challenges in science.  
The workshop will bring together observers and theorists and will focus on astrophysical probes that can elucidate the nature of dark matter.
We will hold a reception on Wednesday, October 14, at 18:00.  Those wishing to attend the reception will be asked to contribute 3500 yen per person.

Invited speakers:
Boylan-Kolchin, Michael (U. of Maryland)
Camera, Stefano (U. of Manchester)
Kaplinghat, Manoj (UCI)
Massey, Richard (Durham University)
Naoz, Smadar (UCLA)
Nierenberg, Anna (Ohio state University)
Pollack, Jason (Caltech)
Vegetti, Simona (MPA, Garching)
Viel, Matteo(INAF - Astronomical Observatory, Trieste, Italy) 
Wright, Edward  (UCLA)

Program: available at Time table

Slides will be made available depending upon the consent of the speaker. 

Dates: Oct. 13 (Tue) - 16 (Fri), 2015 

Venue: Lecture Hall (1F), Kavli IPMU main building 

Organizers: Alexander Kusenko (UCLA / Kavli IPMU), Tommaso Treu (UCLA), Naoki Yoshida(Kavli IPMU)

Contact Address: : Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan

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Sponsor:
Kavli IPMU (WPI)

 

                                    

 

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Photo _MG_4611.JPG

Shuttle Bus 2015 2015shuttlebus_e.pdf

Tuesday 13 October

10:00 → 11:00 Observations of Dark Matter from the Solar Neighborhood to the Universe

Speaker: Edward Wright (UCLA)

Slides Wright-Tokyo-IPMU-DM-151013.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Testing LCDM in the Milky Way

Speaker: Michael Boylan-Kolchin (U. of Maryland)

Slides Mike_Boylan-Kolchin_ipmu.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies

Speaker: Prof. Kohei HAYASHI (Kavli IPMU)

Slides DarkMatterWorkshop_20151013_Hayashi.pdf

13:20 → 13:40 Dark Matter from a hidden strong sector

Speaker: Dr Ran HUO (Kavli IPMU)

Slides huor_CompositeDM.pdf

13:40 → 14:00 Dark matter constraints from dwarf spheroidal galaxies and future spectroscopic survey

Speaker: Koji ICHIKAWA (Kavli IPMU)

Slides ichikawa.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Detecting Particle Dark Matter Signatures by Cross-Correlating Gamma-Ray Anisotropies and Weak Gravitational Lensing

Speaker: Stefano Camera (U. of Manchester)

Slides StefanoCamera_IPMU.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Tea time

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Speaker: Dr Naoki YOSHIDA (Kavli IPMU)

Wednesday 14 October

10:00 → 11:00 Astronomical Particle colliders

Speaker: Richard Massey (Durham University)

Slides RichardMassey.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 The Self-interacting Dark Matter Paradigm

Speaker: Manoj Kaplinghat (UCI)

Slides Kaplinghat_IPMU_2015.pdf

12:00 → 12:10 Group Photo (on the covered stairs)

12:10 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 Detection of Assembly bias and the splashback radius on cluster scales

Speaker: Dr Surhud MORE (Kavli IPMU)

Slides Surhud_More.pdf

13:30 → 14:00 The dark matter halos of early-type galaxies: a strong lensing view

Speaker: Dr Alessandro SONNENFELD (Kavli IPMU)

Slides sonnenfeld.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 High redshift satellite galaxies and gravitational lenses as probes of dark matter

Speaker: Anna Nierenberg (Ohio state University)

Slides Nierenberg_IPMU2015.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Tea time

16:00 → 17:00 Discussion

Speaker: Dr Tommaso TREU (UCLA)

18:00 → 20:00 Reception at Cafeteria on campus

Thursday 15 October

10:00 → 11:00 Gravitationally Imagining Dark Matter

Speaker: Simona Vegetti (MPA, Garching)

Slides Ipmu_simona.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Formation of Dark Matter Donuts Around Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Speaker: Smadar Naoz (UCLA)

Slides Naoz.pdf

12:00 → 15:00 IPMU celebration

15:00 → 16:00 Tea time

Friday 16 October

10:00 → 11:00 Perspectives of discoveries in intergalactic space

Speaker: Viel Matteo (INAF - Astronomical Observatory, Trieste, Italy)

Slides VIEL_IPMU_15v2.pdf

11:00 → 12:00 Supermassive Black Holes from Ultra-Strongly Self-Interacting Dark Matter

Speaker: Jason Pollack (Caltech)

Slides IPMU_Presentation_10-16-15_Pollack.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:30 Stellar streams as a tracer of the dark matter halo in the Milky Way

Speaker: Ms Miho N. ISHIGAKI (Kavli IPMU)

13:30 → 14:00 Cross-Correlation of Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background and Luminous Red Galaxies

Speaker: Dr Masato SHIRASAKI (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

Slides Shirasaki.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Round table discussion

Speaker: Dr Alexander KUSENKO (UCLA/Kavli IPMU)

15:00 → 16:00 Tea time