DMUK Meeting

Friday 13 Jul 2018, 08:50 → 18:00 Europe/London

PH8 (IPPP, Durham University)

David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham University), Chamkaur Ghag (UCL), Christopher McCabe (King's College London)

This is a 1-day meeting for the UK's Dark Matter community to meet up, present research, and discuss the latest progress in the field.

The meeting will take place at the IPPP, Durham University.

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dark_matter_heating_Durham_JustinRead.pdf

08:50 → 10:30 Session: Astrophysics and Cosmology

Convener: David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham University)

08:50 Welcome

Speaker: David G. Cerdeño (IPPP, Durham University)

09:00 Testing cold dark matter

Speaker: Carlos Frenk (ICC, Durham University)

09:30 Evidence for dark matter heating in dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Justin Read (University of Surrey)

dark_matter_heating_Durham_JustinRead.pdf

10:00 Probing the particle nature of dark matter with stellar streams

Speaker: Nassim Bozorgnia (IPPP, Durham University)

Bozorgnia-DMUK.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee and DM Day Discussion

11:00 → 12:30 Session: Underground physics

Convener: Jim Dobson (University College London)

11:00 The Boulby Underground Laboratory

Speaker: Paul Scovell (Boulby Underground Laboratory)

Boulby_Update_DMUK.pptx

11:30 Review of direct detection

Speaker: Pawel Majewski (STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

DMUK_PAM.pdf

12:00 Dark matter searches at the LHC

Speaker: Darren Price (University of Manchester)

DPrice_DMUK_LHCDMsearches.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Session: Pen and paper physics

Convener: Christopher McCabe (University of Amsterdam)

13:30 CNO: Clearly Now (an) Opportunity

Speaker: Malcolm Fairbairn (King's College London)

DMUK2018durhamFAIRBAIRN.pptx

14:00 Axion dark matter from strings

Speaker: Ed Hardy (University of Liverpool)

DMUK.pdf

14:30 Astrophobic Axions

Speaker: Luca Di Luzio

Di_Luzio_Astrophobic.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee

15:30 → 17:00 Session: Status updates

Convener: Nassim Bozorgnia (IPPP, Durham University)

15:30 Update on CYGNUS

Speaker: Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield)

16:00 The status of the LZ experiment

Speaker: Alex Murphy (University of Edinburgh)

LZUK-IPPP.compressed.pdf

16:30 Challenges to parameter reconstruction in direct detection

Speaker: Andrew Cheek (Institute of Particle Physics Phenomenology)

presentation.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Session: Open Discussion

Convener: Chamkaur Ghag (UCL)

17:00 Discussion

Materials attached

Advisory panel chairs June 19.pptx

Topics for discussion