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 AM Welcome Address
Welcome Address
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Overview
Overview
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

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

9:30 AM Theory of Direct Detection - Tanner Trickle (Fermilab)

10:00 AM Theory of Dark Sectors - Nikita Blinov (York U)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Searches
Searches
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4:30 PM Building Dark Structure Before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Melissa Diamond (Queen's University)
Thursday, October 17, 2024
9:00 AM 1
1
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

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

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

10:00 AM Searches for LLPs at CMS - Juliette Alimena (DESY)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM 2
2
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

3:00 PM Heavy Neutral Leptons - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)
3:30 PM Break
Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Topics 3
Topics 3
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM
Contributions

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

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

4:40 PM Axion Quark Nuggets: A Recipe for a Glowing Milky Way? - Michael Sekatchev (University of British Columbia)
6:00 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00 AM Overview
Overview
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Astrophysics Tests of Dark Sectors - Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)

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

10:00 AM Gravitational Wave Signals from Dark Sectors - Yikun Wang (Caltech)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM More
More
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Astrometric Probes of Dark Matter - Nassim Bozorgnia (U Alberta)

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

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

12:10 PM Freeze-in Cogenesis of Asymmetric Dark Matter - Michael Shamma (TRIUMF)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Overview
Overview
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Theory of Ultralight Dark Sectors - Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

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

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

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

4:20 PM Ultralight Scalars and Vectors - Akshay Ghalsasi (Harvard University)

4:50 PM Closing Remarks