Fourth annual workshop of the Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants

Friday, April 12, Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, Plaza E

"New Ideas in Dark Matter Searches" is a one-day workshop organized by the APS Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC). It will take place in Denver, CO on April 12, 2019—the day before the APS April meeting begins. It will be held at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel, the site of April Meeting 2019. The goal of the workshop is to survey a broad range of new ideas in dark matter searches and bring together researchers from different communities. The audience will consist of senior researchers, postdocs, and students who are using a wide variety of tools for the dark matter searches.

Links to previous GPMFC workshops can be found on the GPMFC website.

Workshop Program

8:50	Introduction
9:00	Surjeet Rajendran, UC Berkeley Detecting Dark Blobs
9:30	Leslie Rosenberg, University of Washington Recent ADMX results at DFSZ Sensitivity
10:00	Sae Woo Nam, NIST, Boulder Detecting photons from Dark Matter
10:30	Coffee break
11:00	Masha Baryakhtar, New York University Searches for Ultralight Axions with Black Holes and Gravitational Waves
11:30	Lam Hui, Columbia Ultra-light axion dark matter
12:00	Kent Irwin, Stanford Probing the QCD Axion with the Dark Matter Radio
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Eric Hudson, UCLA HUNTER: Precision Massive-Neutrino Search Based on a Laser Cooled Atomic Source
14:30	Chrisian Smorra, RIKEN Dark matter searches with antimatter
15:00	Yoni Kahn, University of Chicago Detection of sub-MeV dark matter with three-dimensional Dirac materials
15:30	Coffee and posters
16:45	Ken Van Tilburg, Institute for Advance Study Formation of dense axion minihalos
17:15	Hartmut Abele, TU Wien – Atominstitut Gravity Resonance Spectroscopy with neutrons and the dark sector
17:45	GPMFC "Best Student Poster" award

 

Workshop Registration

(1) If you are attending April 2019 meeting, register for the Friday workshop when you are registering for the April meeting. Registration fee: $75. To encourage and support the student attendance of the workshop, the student registration fee is only $25. Workshop space is limited so register early.

(2) If you are not attending the April meeting, fill in the April meeting form only for the workshop registration and e-mail to Don Wise at APS at wise@aps.org with a subject line “Registration for the GPMFC workshop” or fax to (301) 209-3652 (address the fax to Don Wise). He will register you. This cannot be done via online registration.

We recommend registering early as the number of participants is limited.

Poster Session and GPMFC Student Poster Competition

Posters are highly encouraged!

The workshop will include a poster session. The poster boards are 4 ft. high by 8 ft wide. To submit a poster, e-mail you name, affiliation, and a title of your poster to msafrono@udel.edu. Number of posters at the poster session is limited due to the space constraints so e-mail your poster title as soon as possible. If you are giving a talk/poster at the April meeting relevant to the subject of the workshop, you may still submit poster on the same subject at the workshop.

The Group on Precision Measurement and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC) will award a “Best Student Poster” award, consisting of a $500 cash prize for a poster presented at the workshop. Both graduate students and undergraduate students are eligible, and the applicant must be the first (presenting) author of the workshop poster. To apply, send a 1-page abstract of your poster in PDF format to andrew.geraci@northwestern.edu by March 19th. Please also include name, affiliation and email information for the applicant as well as the poster title at the top of the abstract page. To participate in the poster competition, you must be a member of GPMFC—you can join at the How to Join page.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about the workshop e-mail Marianna Safronova at msafrono@udel.edu.

Workshop Organizers
Marianna Safronova (University of Delaware)
Dmitry Budker (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and University of California, Berkeley)
Asimina Arvanitaki (Perimeter Institute)