Thursday 3/22/07
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7:30 Breakfast & Registration
8:30 Welcome:
James Bullock

Overview (Chair: Bullock)
8:35 Virginia Trimble Discovering the Dark:  1921-1986
8:55 Jonathan Feng Particle dark matter candidates (overview)
9:25 Joel Primack CDM Overview: LSS & Small Scales (overview)
9:55 Stacy McGaugh The Connection Between Dark and Luminous Matter
10:15 Break
10:40 Douglas Clowe The Bullet Cluster
11:00 Glennys Farrar Simulating the Bullet Cluster's Dynamics

DM detection

(Chair: Kaplinghat)
11:20 Marc Kamionkowski DM Detection (overview)
11:50 Ted Baltz Dark Matter 2007: LHC and GLAST
12:10 Paolo Gondolo WIMP Astronomy
12:30 Lunch
1:45 Hasan Yuksel Positron Annihilations at the Galactic Center and Dark Matter Scenarios
2:05 Dan Hooper Small Scale Structure of MeV Dark Matter

Substructure predictions (Chair: Klypin)
2:25 Andrey Kravtsov DM Substructure (overview)
2:55 Jürg Diemand Via Lactea: Simulating the Milky Way Dark Halo
3:15 James Taylor Local halo substructure as a target for DM detection
3:35 Savvas Koushiappas Detecting dark matter via the proper motion of microhalos
3:55 Andrew Zentner The Properties of CDM Substructure in the Local Group and Beyond
4:15 Break

MW dwarfs

(Chair: Bullock)
4:40 Steve Majewski Our new view of the local group (overview)
5:10 Beth Willman Using nearby dwarf galaxies as tracers of dark matter on small scales
5:30 Discussion The new dwarf satellites 







Friday 3/23/07
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7:30 Breakfast

MW dwarfs

(Chair: Bullock)
8:30 Gerry Gilmore The Observed properties of Dark Matter on small spatial scales (overview)
9:00 Raja Guhathakurta Keck Spectroscopy of Andromeda Red Giant Stars: Probing Dark Matter on Dwarf Galaxy to Galaxy Group Scales
9:20 Matthew Walker Dark matter and the seven dwarfs
9:40 Nicolas Martin Spectroscopic survey of faint local group satellites
10:00 Ricardo Munoz Modeling the tidal tails of the Carina dwarf Spheroidal
10:20 Justin Read A constraint on WDM from the Local Group Galaxies
10:40 Break

Galaxy Rotation Curves

(Chair: Barton)
11:00 Anatoly Klypin Rotation Curve Theory (overview)
11:30 Stephane Courteau Subtleties in dark matter decompositions
11:50 George Rhee Is there evidence for flat cores in the halos of dwarf galaxies?
12:10 Josh Simon The observational distribution of dark matter density profiles
12:30 Lunch
2:20 Alesssandro Pizzella CDM cusps in LSB galaxies by means of stellar kinematics

Warm dark matter

(Chair: Kaplinghat)
2:40 Alexander Kusenko Sterile neutrinos as warm, cool or cold dark matter
3:00 Kev Abazajian Constraints on Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter
3:20 Pat McDonald Probing Dark Matter Clustering using the Lyman Alpha Forest
3:40 Pedro Colin WDM revisited and the core dark matter problem
4:00 Break
4:20 Louie Strigari Resolving the core/cusp issue with Astrometry
4:40 Neal Dalal The halo mass function in warm/hot dark matter models
5:00 Discussion Cores and cusps







Saturday 3/24/07
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7:30 Breakfast

Alternative DM Models

(Chair: Kaplinghat)
8:30 Neil Weiner Exciting Dark Matter and Positrons in the Galactic Center
8:50 Ariel Zhitnitsky Dark Antimatter as a galactic heater: 511 keV photons & X rays from the Galactic bulge
9:10 Yudi Santoso Stop NLSP in Gravitino Dark Matter Searches
9:30 Xuelei Chen Constraints on Dark Matter Decay & Annihilation from the Cosmic Ioinzation History
9:50 Jose Cembranos Dark Matter from Minimal Universal
Extra-Dimensions
10:10 Break

Bar & Disk formation

(Chair: Barth)
10:40 Jerry Sellwood Dynamical friction, dark halo profiles, and galactic bars
11:00 Enrico Corsini Dark matter distribution in the center of barred galaxies
11:20 Oleg Gnedin Constraints on the dark matter halos of disk galaxies from the Tully-Fisher relation
11:40 Aaron Dutton A revised model for the formation of disk galaxies
12:00 Lunch

Mergers & Disk Galaxies

(Chair: Bullock)
1:40 Chung-Pei Ma /
Onsi Fakhouri
Merger Rates
2:00 Brant Robertson LCDM and Disk Galaxy Formation
2:20 Barry Madore Observational constraints on the existence of Gravitating Non-Luminous Galaxies

DM on Galaxy & Cluster Scales

(Chair: Bullock)
2:40 David Buote The X-ray Concentration-Mass relation
3:00 Priya Natarajan Lensing Clusters and CDM
3:20 Leonidas Moustakas A census of dark matter through multiwavelength observations of strong lenses
3:40 Alex Refregier The DUNE mission: a high precision probe of dark matter
4:00 Break

Substructure Lensing

(Chair: Kaplinghat)
4:20 Kim Griest Are there MACHOS in the halo?
4:40 Ben Metcalf Small-scale structure and strongly lensed quasars

Summary

(Chair: Kaplinghat)
5:00 Julianne Dalcanton Overview & Discussion




POSTERS

Thursday and Friday Title

Julie Comerford Halo Cluster Concentrations from Lensing

Rachel Kuzio de Naray Velocity Fields and Galaxy Profiles

Gianfranco Gentile Cusp/Core: HI data from two dwarfs

Daniel Grin A telescope search for decaying relic axions

Aravind Natarajan Dark matter caustics

Casey Watson Xray constraints on sterile neutrino warm dark matter

Jerry Sellwood /
Kristine Spekkens
Modeling Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxies: Application to NGC 2976


Garry Angus (presented by Stacy McGaugh) Simulating the bullet cluster’s relative velocity