Name: Light Dark World International Forum 2017
Start: 2017-10-19T08:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-10-21T12:00:00-04:00
Location: University of Pittsburgh

Monday, 16 October 2017
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Wednesday, 18 October 2017
Thursday, 19 October 2017

08:30 Registration and Breakfast
Registration and Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 (session chair: David McKeen)
(session chair: David McKeen)
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

09:00 Welcome and Introduction - Brian Batell (University of Pittsburgh)

09:10 Light dark matter: models and direct detection prospects - Tongyan Lin (Berkeley/UCSD)

09:45 Light DM Direct Detection - Matt Pyle (Berkeley)
10:20 Coffee
Coffee
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 (session chair: David McKeen)
(session chair: David McKeen)
10:50 - 12:00
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

10:50 Repulsion of Dark Matter and Null Direct Signals - Hooman Davoudiasl (BNL)

11:25 Flavor physics and a light dark world - Irina Mocioiu (PennState)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 (session chair: Brian Batell)
(session chair: Brian Batell)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

14:00 The Axion Resonant InterAction DetectioN Experiment (ARIADNE) - Andrew Geraci (Nevada)

14:30 Clockwork axion and its continuum limit - Chang Sub Shin (APCTP)

15:00 The axion quality problem - Linda Carpenter (OSU)
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 (session chair: Brian Batell)
(session chair: Brian Batell)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

16:00 Minimal Flavor Violation with Axion-Like Particles - Sang Hui Im (Bonn)

16:30 Flavor and light scalars - Ahmed Ismail (Pittsburgh)

17:00 Light Axino Dark Matter: Freeze-in Production, Decay and Lyman-alpha Forest Constraints - Kyu Jung Bae (IBS-CTPU)
Friday, 20 October 2017

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 (session chair: Tongyan Lin)
(session chair: Tongyan Lin)
09:00 - 10:10
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

09:00 Searches for light new physics at LHCb - Mike Williams (MIT)

09:35 ELDER (and SIMP) Dark Matter - Maxim Perelstein (Cornell)
10:10 Coffee
Coffee
10:10 - 10:50
10:50 (session chair: Tongyan Lin)
(session chair: Tongyan Lin)
10:50 - 12:00
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

10:50 SIMP scenario made healthier by dark vector mesons - Pyungwon Ko (KIAS)

11:25 Phenomenology of the Gauged U(1) Clockwork - Hyun Min Lee (Chung-Ang)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 14:00
14:00 (session chair: Ahmed Ismail)
(session chair: Ahmed Ismail)
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

14:00 Global Positioning System as a Dark Matter Detector - Andrei Derevianko (Nevada)

14:30 Searching for light bosons with black holes and gravitational waves - Masha Baryakhtar (Perimeter)

15:00 Interacting Dark Matter and Astrophysical Signatures - Yong Tang (Tokyo)
15:30 Coffee and Group Photo
Coffee and Group Photo
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 (session chair: Ahmed Ismail)
(session chair: Ahmed Ismail)
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

16:00 Exotic Phenomenology from the Sterile Neutrino Sector - Bibhushan Shakya (Cincinnati/Michigan)

16:30 Light Dark Matter at Neutrino Experiments - Lina Necib (Caltech)

17:00 Inelastic Boosted Dark Matter at Dark Matter Direct Detection Experiments - Doojin Kim (CERN)
18:30 Forum Dinner
Forum Dinner
18:30 - 21:30
Saturday, 21 October 2017

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 (session chair: Hye-Sung Lee)
(session chair: Hye-Sung Lee)
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

09:00 Dynamical Dark Matter: Theoretical Overview and Recent Results - Keith Dienes (Arizona/NSF)

09:30 Model Building in the Dynamical Dark Matter Framework: Thermal and Non-Thermal Realizations - Brooks Thomas (Lafayette)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Oakland Room
10:30 (session chair: Hye-Sung Lee)
(session chair: Hye-Sung Lee)
10:30 - 12:00
Room: Oakland Room
Contributions

10:30 Testing Light Dark Matter Coannihilation With Fixed-Target Experiments - Gordan Krnjaic (Fermilab)

11:00 Dark Sector Searches at Seaquest - Ming Liu (LANL)

11:30 The Weak Mixing Angle and Dark Parity Violation - Including Qweak Results - William Marciano (BNL)