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

08:50 Welcome Address
Welcome Address
08:50 - 09:00
09:00 Overview
Overview
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Overview of Dark Matter - Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)

09:30 Theory of Direct Detection - Tanner Trickle (Fermilab)

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

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

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

12:00 Experimental Searches for Dark Sectors - Katherine Pachal (TRIUMF)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:20
14:20 Topics 1
Topics 1
14:20 - 15:40
Contributions

14:20 Enhanced dark sector production in beam dumps from electromagnetic cascades - Ryan Plestid (Caltech)

14:40 Beyond Standard Model Interactions at CCM - Edward Dunton (Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL))

15:00 Searching for dark sectors and X17 with PADME - Andre Frankenthal (Princeton University)

15:20 Characterising track length distributions of dark matter induced nuclear recoils in paleo-detectors with SRIM - Audrey Fung (Queen's University)
15:40 Break
Break
15:40 - 16:10
16:10 Topics 2
Topics 2
16:10 - 16:50
Contributions

16:10 Early Dark Energy During Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Afif Omar (TRIUMF/UVic)

16:30 Building Dark Structure Before Big Bang Nucleosynthesis - Melissa Diamond (Queen's University)
Thursday, 17 October 2024
09:00 1
1
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Search for Dark Matter and Dark Sectors at the LHC - Diallo Boye (Brookhaven)

09:30 Searches for Long-lived Particles in ATLAS - Jackson Burzynski (Simon Fraser U)

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

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

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

12:00 Dark Sectors at Muon Colliders - Navin McGinnis (U Arizona)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Overview
Overview
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Dark matter and neutrino physics with cosmology - Vera Gluscevic (U Southern California)

14:30 Dark Matter-Neutrino Interactions - Aaron Vincent (Queen's University)

15:00 Heavy Neutral Leptons - Douglas Tuckler (TRIUMF and Simon Fraser University)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Topics 3
Topics 3
16:00 - 17:20
Contributions

16:00 Semi-visible jets: where do we go from here? - Deepak Kar (University of Witwatersrand/University of Glasgow)

16:20 EFT breakdown of varying coupling constants - Carlos Henrique de Lima (TRIUMF)

16:40 Axion Quark Nuggets: A Recipe for a Glowing Milky Way? - Michael Sekatchev (University of British Columbia)
18:00 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
18:00 - 20:30
Friday, 18 October 2024
09:00 Overview
Overview
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Astrophysics Tests of Dark Sectors - Flip Tanedo (UC Riverside)

09:30 Cosmological Probes of Dark Sectors - Bryce Cyr (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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

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

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

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

12:10 Freeze-in Cogenesis of Asymmetric Dark Matter - Michael Shamma (TRIUMF)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Overview
Overview
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Theory of Ultralight Dark Sectors - Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)

14:30 Experimental Searches for Ultralight Dark Sectors - Gray Rybka (University of Washington)

15:00 Ultralight Dark Sectors in Cosmology - Renée Hlozek (U Toronto/Dunlap Inst.)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Topics 4
Topics 4
16:00 - 17:50
Contributions

16:00 QCD axion-mediated dark matter - Pankaj Munbodh (University of California Santa Cruz)

16:20 Ultralight Scalars and Vectors - Akshay Ghalsasi (Harvard University)

16:50 Closing Remarks