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Thursday 3/22/07 |
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Title
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| 7:30 |
Breakfast & Registration |
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| 8:30 |
Welcome: |
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| James Bullock |
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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)
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| 9:55 |
Stacy McGaugh |
The
Connection Between Dark and Luminous Matter |
| 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:40 |
Douglas Clowe |
The
Bullet Cluster
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| 11:00 |
Glennys Farrar |
Simulating the Bullet
Cluster's Dynamics
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DM detection |
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(Chair: Kaplinghat) |
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| 11:20 |
Marc Kamionkowski |
DM Detection (overview) |
| 11:50 |
Ted Baltz |
Dark
Matter 2007: LHC and GLAST |
| 12:10 |
Paolo Gondolo |
WIMP
Astronomy
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| 12:30 |
Lunch |
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| 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
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Substructure predictions (Chair:
Klypin) |
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| 2:25 |
Andrey Kravtsov |
DM
Substructure (overview)
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| 2:55 |
Jürg Diemand |
Via
Lactea: Simulating the Milky Way Dark Halo
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| 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
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| 4:15 |
Break |
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MW dwarfs |
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(Chair: Bullock) |
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| 4:40 |
Steve Majewski |
Our new view of the local group
(overview)
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| 5:10 |
Beth Willman |
Using
nearby dwarf galaxies as tracers of dark matter on small scales
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| 5:30 |
Discussion |
The new dwarf satellites |
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Friday 3/23/07 |
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| 7:30 |
Breakfast |
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MW dwarfs |
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(Chair: Bullock) |
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| 8:30 |
Gerry Gilmore |
The
Observed properties of Dark Matter on small spatial scales (overview)
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| 9:00 |
Raja Guhathakurta |
Keck
Spectroscopy of Andromeda Red Giant Stars: Probing Dark Matter on Dwarf
Galaxy to Galaxy Group Scales
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| 9:20 |
Matthew Walker |
Dark
matter and the seven dwarfs |
| 9:40 |
Nicolas Martin |
Spectroscopic
survey of faint local group satellites
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| 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 |
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Galaxy Rotation Curves |
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(Chair: Barton) |
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| 11:00 |
Anatoly Klypin |
Rotation
Curve Theory (overview)
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| 11:30 |
Stephane Courteau |
Subtleties
in dark matter decompositions
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| 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 |
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| 2:20 |
Alesssandro Pizzella |
CDM
cusps in LSB galaxies by means of stellar kinematics |
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Warm dark matter |
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(Chair: Kaplinghat) |
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| 2:40 |
Alexander Kusenko |
Sterile
neutrinos as warm, cool or cold dark matter
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| 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
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| 4:00 |
Break |
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| 4:20 |
Louie Strigari |
Resolving
the core/cusp issue with Astrometry
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| 4:40 |
Neal Dalal |
The
halo
mass function in warm/hot dark matter models |
| 5:00 |
Discussion |
Cores and cusps |
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Saturday 3/24/07 |
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Title |
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| 7:30 |
Breakfast |
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Alternative DM Models |
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(Chair: Kaplinghat) |
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| 8:30 |
Neil Weiner |
Exciting
Dark Matter and Positrons in the Galactic Center
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| 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
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| 9:50 |
Jose Cembranos |
Dark Matter from Minimal
Universal
Extra-Dimensions
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| 10:10 |
Break |
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Bar & Disk formation |
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(Chair: Barth) |
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| 10:40 |
Jerry Sellwood |
Dynamical
friction, dark halo profiles, and galactic bars
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| 11:00 |
Enrico Corsini |
Dark matter distribution in the
center of barred galaxies
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| 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 |
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Mergers & Disk Galaxies |
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(Chair: Bullock) |
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| 1:40 |
Chung-Pei Ma /
Onsi Fakhouri
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Merger
Rates
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| 2:00 |
Brant Robertson |
LCDM
and Disk Galaxy Formation |
| 2:20 |
Barry Madore |
Observational
constraints on the existence of Gravitating Non-Luminous Galaxies |
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DM on Galaxy & Cluster Scales |
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(Chair: Bullock) |
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| 2:40 |
David Buote |
The X-ray Concentration-Mass
relation
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| 3:00 |
Priya Natarajan |
Lensing
Clusters and CDM
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| 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 |
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Substructure Lensing |
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(Chair: Kaplinghat) |
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| 4:20 |
Kim Griest |
Are
there
MACHOS in the halo? |
| 4:40 |
Ben Metcalf |
Small-scale
structure and strongly lensed quasars
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Summary |
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(Chair: Kaplinghat) |
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| 5:00 |
Julianne Dalcanton |
Overview
& Discussion
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POSTERS |
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Thursday and Friday |
Title |
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Julie Comerford |
Halo
Cluster Concentrations from Lensing
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Rachel Kuzio de Naray |
Velocity
Fields and Galaxy Profiles
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Gianfranco Gentile |
Cusp/Core: HI data from two
dwarfs |
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Daniel Grin |
A telescope search for
decaying relic axions
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Aravind Natarajan |
Dark
matter caustics
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Casey Watson |
Xray
constraints on sterile neutrino warm dark matter
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Jerry Sellwood /
Kristine Spekkens
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Modeling
Non-Circular Motions in Disk Galaxies: Application to NGC 2976
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Garry Angus (presented by Stacy
McGaugh) |
Simulating
the bullet cluster’s relative velocity
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