Name: Dark Interactions 2024
Start: 2024-10-16T08:50:00-07:00
End: 2024-10-18T18:00:00-07:00
Location: Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre

Monday, October 14, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024

8:50 a.m. Welcome Address
Welcome Address
8:50 a.m. - 9:00 a.m.
9:00 a.m. Dark Matter: Overview
Overview
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Overview of Dark Matter - Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)

9:30 a.m. Theory of Direct Detection - Tanner Trickle (Fermilab)

10:00 a.m. Theory of Dark Sectors - Nikita Blinov (York U)
10:30 a.m. Break
Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Dark Matter: Searches
Searches
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

11:00 a.m. Direct Search Experiments for Weak Scale Dark Matter - Alvine Kamaha (UCLA)

11:30 a.m. Direct Search Experiments for Sub-GeV Dark Matter - Jodi Cooley (SNOLAB)

12:00 p.m. Experimental Searches for Dark Sectors - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
2:20 p.m. Dark Sectors: Topics 1
Topics 1
2:20 p.m. - 3:40 p.m.
Contributions

2:20 p.m. Enhanced dark sector production in beam dumps from electromagnetic cascades - Ryan Plestid (Caltech)

2:40 p.m. Beyond Standard Model Interactions at CCM - Edward Dunton (Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL))

3:00 p.m. Searching for dark sectors and X17 with PADME - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University)

3:20 p.m. Characterising track length distributions of dark matter induced nuclear recoils in paleo-detectors with SRIM - Audrey Fung (Queen's University)
3:40 p.m. Break
Break
3:40 p.m. - 4:10 p.m.
4:10 p.m. Dark Sectors: Topics 2
Topics 2
4:10 p.m. - 4:50 p.m.
Contributions

4:10 p.m. Early Dark Energy During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Afif Omar (TRIUMF/UVic)

4:30 p.m. Building Dark Structure Before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Melissa Diamond (Queen's University)
Thursday, October 17, 2024
9:00 a.m. Dark Sectors at Colliders: 1
1
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Search for Dark Matter and Dark Sectors at the LHC - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven)

9:30 a.m. Searches for Long-lived Particles in ATLAS - Jackson Burzynski (Simon Fraser U)

10:00 a.m. Searches for LLPs at CMS - Juliette Alimena (DESY)
10:30 a.m. Break
Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Dark Sectors at Colliders: 2
2
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

11:00 a.m. LHC Searches for New Physics with Far Forward Detectors - Roshan Mammen Abraham (UC Irvine)

11:30 a.m. Dark Sector Searches at LHCb - Philip Ilten (U Cincinnati) Philip Ilten (University of Cincinnati)

12:00 p.m. Dark Sectors at Muon Colliders - Navin McGinnis (U Arizona)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Neutrinos: Overview
Overview
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Dark matter and neutrino physics with cosmology - Vera Gluscevic (U Southern California)

2:30 p.m. Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

3:00 p.m. Heavy Neutral Leptons - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)
3:30 p.m. Break
Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Dark Sectors: Topics 3
Topics 3
4:00 p.m. - 5:20 p.m.
Contributions

4:00 p.m. Semi-visible jets: where do we go from here? - Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand/University of Glasgow)

4:20 p.m. EFT breakdown of varying coupling constants - Carlos Henrique de Lima (TRIUMF)

4:40 p.m. Axion Quark Nuggets: A Recipe for a Glowing Milky Way? - Michael Sekatchev (University of British Columbia)
6:00 p.m. Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00 a.m. Dark Sectors in Astrophysics and Cosmology: Overview
Overview
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
Contributions

9:00 a.m. Astrophysics Tests of Dark Sectors - Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)

9:30 a.m. Cosmological Probes of Dark Sectors - Bryce Cyr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

10:00 a.m. Gravitational Wave Signals from Dark Sectors - Yikun Wang (Caltech)
10:30 a.m. Break
Break
10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m. Dark Sectors in Astrophysics and Cosmology: More
More
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Contributions

11:00 a.m. Astrometric Probes of Dark Matter - Nassim Bozorgnia (U Alberta)

11:30 a.m. Cloudy with a Chance of Dark Matter - Leo Kim (Queen's University)

11:50 a.m. Kicking the tires on picolensing as a PBH dark-matter probe - Michael A. Fedderke (Perimeter Institute)

12:10 p.m. Freeze-in Cogenesis of Asymmetric Dark Matter - Michael Shamma (TRIUMF)
12:30 p.m. Lunch
Lunch
12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
2:00 p.m. Ultralight Dark Sectors: Overview
Overview
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Contributions

2:00 p.m. Theory of Ultralight Dark Sectors - Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

2:30 p.m. Experimental Searches for Ultralight Dark Sectors - Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

3:00 p.m. Ultralight Dark Sectors in Cosmology - Renée Hlozek (U Toronto/Dunlap Inst.)
3:30 p.m. Break
Break
3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
4:00 p.m. Dark Sectors: Topics 4
Topics 4
4:00 p.m. - 5:50 p.m.
Contributions

4:00 p.m. QCD axion-mediated dark matter - Pankaj Munbodh (University of California Santa Cruz)

4:20 p.m. Ultralight Scalars and Vectors - Akshay Ghalsasi (Harvard University)

4:50 p.m. Closing Remarks