INPA Workshop on Dark Matter

Thursday 8 May 2014, 08:15 → 21:00 US/Pacific

Building 50 Auditorium (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

1 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Kevin Lesko (LBNL)

2 Cosmic Observations

Speaker: Uros Seljak

Slides seljak_inpa.pdf

3 New Experimental Opportunities in Dark Matter Detection

Speaker: Surjeet Rajendran (Stanford)

Slides LBL.pdf

10:30 Coffee

4 Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: George Fuller (UCSD)

Slides BBN-Fuller.pdf

12:00 Lunch at the Cafeteria

5 LHC Searches for DM

Speaker: Ian Hinchliffe

Slides dark_matter.pdf

6 Nuclear Physics of WIMP detection

Speaker: Wick Haxton

Slides DM_INPA.pdf

7 LUX/LX (Noble Gas)

Speaker: Mike Witherell (UCSB)

Slides INPA_MW.pdf

16:00 Break

8 CDMS (Si/Ge)

Speaker: Matt Pyle (UC Berkeley)

Slides LBL_SCDMS14.pdf

9 Indirect Observations of Dark Matter

Speaker: Spencer Klein

Slides KleinINPADarkMatter.pdf

19:30 Dinner

Location to be arranged