Program of DARK2002 (Status 28.01.02):
Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics
Monday, 04.02
Monday, February 4
9h20 - 9h30 : OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Chairman:
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND I
Chairman: H.P. Nilles (Univ. Bonn, Germany)
9h30 - 10h10 A. Melchiorri (Oxford Un., UK): "Multiple Peaks in the CMB from BOOMERanG and DASI : Consequences for Cosmology"
10h10 - 10h35 A.R. Cooray (Caltech, USA): "New Opportunities in Large Scale Structure and Cosmic Microwave Background"
10h35 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
THERMODYNAMICS OF DARK MATTER
Chairman: R.D. Viollier (Univ. Cape Town, SA)
11h00 - 11h30 R. Lindebaum (Univ. Natal, SA): "On the Formation of Degenerate Fermion Balls"
11h30 - 12h00 P.H. Chavanis (Toulouse, France): "The Self-Gravitating Fermi Gas"
12h00 - 12h30 N. Bilic (Zagreb, Croatia): "Unified Description of Dark Matter at the Center
12h30 - 14h00 LUNCH
DARK MATTER AND THE GALACTIC CENTER, BLACK HOLES
Chairman: L. Guzzo (Obs. di Brera, Italy)
14h00 - 14h40 A. Eckart (Cologne, Germany): "The Dark Mass at the Center of the Milky Way"
14h40 - 15h10 F.K. Baganoff (Cambridge, USA): "Chandra X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sagittarius A*"
15h10 - 15h40 G.M. Madejski (SLAC, USA): "Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei"
15h40 - 16h10 R.D. Viollier (Univ. Cape Town, SA): "Comparison of Black Holes and Fermion Ball Scenario of the Galactic Center"
16h10 - 16h40 COFFEE BREAK
MACHOs AND MICROLENSING
Chairman: K. Zuber (Un. Dortmund, Germany)
16h40 - 17h10 K. Griest (Univ. Calif., San Diego, USA): "Baryonic Dark Matter and Machos"
17h10 - 17h40 A.J. Drake (Liverm. Nat. Lab., USA): "The Next Generation Microlensing Survey"
18:15 - 20:00
Monday, 04.02
SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER I, AND ANTIMATTER
Chairman: H. Minakata (Metro Univ., Japan)
8h30 - 9h00 S. Rosier-Lees (LAPP, France): "LEP Constraints on SUSY Dark Matter"
9h00 - 9h30 V. Spanos (Austrian Ac. of Sc., Vienna, Austria): "Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Recent Experimental Constraints"
9h30 - 10h00 H. Meyer (DESY, Germany): "Search for Supersymmetry at the HERA EP Collider"
10h00 - 10h30 W. Wallraff (Aachen, Germany): "Search for Antimatter"
10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER II
Chairman: J.W.F. Valle (Univ. Valencia, Spain)
11h00 - 11h40 J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland): "Trends in Astroparticle Physics"
11h40 - 12h20 R. Arnowitt (Univ. Texas, USA): "Supersymmetry and Dark Matter"
12h20 - 12h50 H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany): "Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Hot Dark Matter"
12h50 - 14h00 LUNCH
SUPERSYMMETRY, INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY I
Chairman: R. Arnowitt (Univ. Texas, USA)
14h00 - 14h40 P. Nilles (Univ. Bonn, Germany): "Non-Thermal Production of Gravitinos and Inflatinos in the Inflationary Universe"
14h40 - 15h15 J.E. Kim (Univ. Seoul, Korea): "Axinos as Dark Matter of the Universe"
15h15 - 15h40 R. Hofmann (MPI, Muenchen, Germany): "Gauged Inflation"
15h40 - 16h00 X.H. Meng (Nankai Un., Tianjin, China): "Dark Energy in the LFRW Cosmology"
16h00 - 16h30 COFFEE BREAK
INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY II
Chairman: N. Smith (Rutherford Lab., UK)
16h30 - 17h00 S. Bludman (DESY, Germany): "Quintessence Cosmology and the Cosmic Coincidence"
DARK MATTER SEARCHES I
Chairman: N. Smith(Rutherford Lab., UK)
17h00 - 17h30 D. Cline (Univ. Calif., USA): "Zeplin IV : A One-Ton Ultimate WIMP Detector"
NEW APPROACHES TO DARK MATTER
Chairman: S. Bludman (DESY, Germany)
17h30 - 17h50 A. Magnon (Univ. Aubiore, France): "Critical Cosmic State and Dark Energy: A logical (pre-geometric) approach"
17h50 - 18h10 R.A. Vera (Univ. of Concept., Chile): "Dark Matter and CMB Radiation Fixed by an Experimental Approach to Gravitation"
Monday, 04.02
Excursion through the Cape Peninsula
Monday, 04.02
NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER I
Chairman: P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA)
8h30 - 9h00 E. Otten (Univ. Mainz, Germany): "Neutrino Mass from Tritium Beta Decay"
9h00 - 9h25 M. Steidl (Forsch. Karlsruhe, Germany): "The Future of Tritium Beta Decay Experiments"
SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER III
Chairman: P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA)
9h25 - 10h00 L. Roszkowski (Univ. Lancaster, UK): "On SUSY WIMP Detection"
10h00 - 10h30 J.D. Vergados (Ioannina Univ., Greece): "SUSY Dark Matter in the Universe - Theoretical Direct Detection Rates"
10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER IV
Chairman: J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland):
11h00 - 11h40 P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA): "The Status of Supersymmetry in the Light of Recent Experimental Observations"
NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER II
Chairman: J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland):
11h40 - 12h15 H. Minakata (Metro Univ., Japan): "Single and Double Beta Decay Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters"
12h15 - 12h45 T. Kajino (Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan): "New Constraints on Massive Degenerate Neutrinos from Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations"
12h45 - 14h00 LUNCH
COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND II AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE
Chairman: A. Melchiorri (Oxford Univ., UK)
14h00 - 14h30 A.J.S. Hamilton (Colorado Univ., USA): "Weighing Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Neutrinos with the Microwave Background, Galaxies and the Lyman Alpha Forest"
14h30 - 15h00 L. Guzzo (Obs. di Brera, Italy): "Large Scale Structure from Galaxy and Cluster Surveys"
EXTRA DIMENTIONS
Chairman: T. Kajino (Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
15h00 - 15h30 C. Burgess (Inst. Adv. St., Princeton, USA and Un. Quebec, Canada): "Dark Energy from Large Extra Dimensions"
15h30 - 16h00 COFFEE
NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER III
Chairman: T. Kajino(Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
16h00 - 16h40 J.W. Valle (Univ. Valencia, Spain): "Status of Neutrino Physics"
16h40 - 17h20 A. Hime (Los Alamos, USA): "Solar Neutrino Observations at SNO"
17h20 - 17h50 K. Zuber (Un. Dortmund, Germany): "Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments"
Monday, 04.02
DARK MATTER IN GALAXIES
Chairman: C. Burgess (Inst. Adv. St., Princeton, USA and Un. Quebec, Canada)
8h30 - 8h55 C. Cress (Univ. Natal, Pietermarizburg): "Testing Hierarchical Structure Formation Scenarios"
8h55 - 9h25 B. Fuchs (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany): "Dynamical Constraints on the Decomposition of the Rotation Curves of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies"
9h25 - 9h55 N. Menci (Observ. Astr. di Roma, Italy): "Dark Matter and Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies"
9h55 - 10h25 D. Merritt (Rutgers Univ. USA): "Dynamics of Dark Matter Cusps"
10h25 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
COSMIC RAYS AND DARK MATTER I
Chairman: B. Fuchs (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)
11h00 - 11h35 T. Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ., USA): "Physics Beyond the GKZ Cutoff"
11h35 - 12h05 V. Berezinsky (INFN, Gran Sasso, Italy): "Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Superheavy Dark Matter"
12h05 - 12h35 Z. Fodor (Eotvos Univ., Budapest, Hungary): "Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Clustering, GUT Scale and Neutrino Masses"
12h35 - 14h00 LUNCH
INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY II
Chairman: L. Roszkowski (Univ. Lancaster, UK)
14h00 - 14h30 H.M. Lee (Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea): "Self-Tuning Solution of the Cosmological Constant Problem with Antisymmetric Tensor Field"
14h30 - 15h00 G. Tupper (Univ. Cape Town, SA): "The Chaplygin Gas as Dark Matter and Dark Energy"
15h00 - 15h30 M.P. Leubner (Univ. Innsbruck, Austria): "Dark Matter Distribution from Gravitational Entropy Evolution"
15h30 - 16h00 W.H. Kinney (Columbia Univ., New York, USA): "Cosmology with a Long Range Repulsive Force"
16h00 - 16h30 COFFEE BREAK
STRUCTURE FORMATION AND DARK MATTER
Chairman: T. Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)
16h30 - 17h00 P. Fayet (Ecole Norm. Sup., Paris, France): "Constraining Dark Matter Candidates from Structure Formation"
17h00 - 17h25 C. Boehm (Nucl.& Astr. Lab. Oxford Univ., UK): "Interacting Dark Matter Disguised as Warm Dark Matter"
17h25 - 17h50 T. Matos (Cinvestav Univ., Mexico): "The Strong Self-Interacting Scalar Field Model"
18h15
Monday, 04.02
DARK MATTER SEARCHES II
Chairman: W. Rhode (Univ. Wuppertal, Germany)
8h30 - 9h10 P. Belli (Rome Univ., Italy): "Progress on DAMA Experiments"
9h10 - 9h35 A. Juillard (CSNSM, Orsay, France): "Dark matter Search with 320g Ionization/Heat Ge Bolometers in the EDELWEISS Experiment"
9h35 - 10h05 N.J.T. Smith (Rutherford Lab., UK): "Current Status and Results of the UK Based Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches and the Boulby Underground Facility"
10h05 - 10h30 F. Giuliani (Lisbon Univ., Portugal): "The Status of SIMPLE in 2002"
10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK
DARK MATTER SEARCHES III
Chairman: P. Belli (Rome Univ., Italy)
11h00 - 11h30 W. Seidel (MPI, Muenchen, Germany): "Results and Plans of the CRESST Dark Matter Search"
11h30 - 12h00 J. Dawson (Imperial Coll., London, UK): "Developments of a Two-Phase Xenon WIMP Detector"
12h00 - 12h30 S. Colafrancesco (Observ. Astr. di Roma, Italy): "Astrophysical Constraints on Neutralino Dark Matter from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters"
12h30 - 14h00 LUNCH
DARK MATTER SEARCHES IV
Chairman: E. Otten (Univ. Mainz, Germany)
14h00 - 14h30 L. Thompson (Univ. Sheffield, UK): "Dark matter Prospects with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope"
14h30 - 15h00 W. Rhode (Univ. Wuppertal, Germany): "The Potential of AMANDA for Dark Matter Search"
15h00 - 15h25 I.V. Krivosheina (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany and NIRFI, N-Novgorod, Russia): "Dark matter Search by Genius-TF and GENIUS"
15h25 - 15h55 J. Peltoniemi (Univ. Oulu, Finland): "Future Underground Laboratory in Finland"
15h55 - 16h25 COFFEE BREAK
CONFERENCE SUMMARY
Chairman: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)
16h25 - 17h25 J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland): "Beyond the Standard Model - the Future"
END OF CONFERENCE DARK 2002
Last updated : 28 Januar 2002 by I.Krivosheina