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Wednesday February 17, 2016, 08:00-19:00, Northwest Campus Auditorium

• 07:30-08:00: Continental breakfast

Session 1: Inaugural talk and cosmology - Chairperson: Edward Wright

• 08:00-08:30: Michael Turner (University of Chicago): Inagural talk
• 08:30-09:00: Joel Primack (UC Santa Cruz): What new data + simulations teach us about cosmic structure formation
• 09:00- 09:30: Charles Lawrence (JPL/NASA): Overview of new CMB results
• 09:30-10:00: Brian Nord (FNAL): Early results from the Dark Energy Survey


• 10:00-10:30: Coffee break

Session 2: Indirect dark matter detection and LIGO - Chairperson: Rene Ong

• 10:30-11:00: Elliott Bloom (SLAC): Recent results on dark matter searches with Fermi-LAT: An overview
• 11:00-11:30: Francis Halzen (IceCube/Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison): Dark matter searches with IceCube
• 11:30-12:00: Andrew Smith (University of Maryland/NASA GSFC): Dark matter results/prospects from atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
• 12:00-12:30: Mirko Boezio (INFN Trieste): Overview of present and future cosmic-ray experiments
• 12:30-13:00: Alan Weinstein (Caltech): First results from Advanced LIGO


• 13:00-14:00: Lunch in Salon A, Covel Commons

Session 3: Collider searches and direct detection - Chairperson: Elliott Bloom

• 14:00-14:30: Tim Tait (UC Irvine): Searching for dark matter at the LHC
• 14:30-15:00: Bernard Sadoulet (UC Berkeley): Overview of direct dark matter searches not using noble gases
• 15:00-15:30: Richard Gaitskell (Brown University): Overview of direct dark matter searches using noble gases
• 15:30-16:00: Elena Aprile (Columbia University): Status of XENON-1T


• 16:00-16:30: Coffee break

Session 4: Theory, axions, and history - Chairperson: Laura Baudis

• 16:30-17:00: Katherine Freese (University of Michigan): Status of Inflation in light of CMB data
• 17:00-17:30: Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah): Dark matter particle candidates
• 17:30-18:00: Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield, UK and NCBJ, Poland): Three-tier approach to dark matter
• 18:00-18:30: Pierre Sikivie (University of Florida): Axion Dark matter: motivation and search techniques
• 18:30-19:00: Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine & Queen Jadwiga Observatory): Lost in the dark: a protohistory of dark matter


• 19:15-20:15: Reception, Salon A, Covel Commons

Thursday February 18, 2016, 08:00-19:15, Northwest Campus Auditorium

• 07:30-08:00: Continental breakfast

Session 5: Dark matter and structure in the Universe - Chairperson: Joel Primack

• 08:00-08:20: Alex Drlica-Wagner (Fermilab): DES and Fermi results on dwarf galaxies
• 08:20-08:35: Hai-Bo Yu (UC Riverside): The self-interacting dark matter paradigm
• 08:35-08:50: James Bullock (UC Irvine): Cold dark matter controversies and self-interacing dark matter
• 08:50-09:05: Chris Kelso (University of North Florida): Halo simulations with baryons and direct detection of dark matter
• 09:05-09:20: Sheldon Campbell (UC Irvine): Determining sensitivity of astrophysical anisotropy signals to dark matter annihilation
• 09:20-09:45: Nassim Bozorgnia (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam): Dark matter direct detection predictions from hydrodynamic simulations


• 09:45-10:15: Coffee break

Session 6: Indirect detection, the GeV excess from the galactic center, antideuterons, CTA - Chairperson: Francis Halzen

• 10:15-10:35: Dan Hooper (FNAL): Status of the Fermi GeV signal from the galactic center
• 10:35-10:55: Tim Linden (Ohio State University): Multiwavelength observations shed light on the galactic center gamma-ray excess
• 10:55-11:15: Manoj Kaplinghat (UC Irvine): Dark matter annihilation or unresolved millisecond pulsars in the Galactic Center?
• 11:15-11:35: Philip von Doetinchem (University of Hawaii): Cosmic-ray antideuteron searches
• 11:35-11:55 Vladimir Vassiliev (UCLA): The future CTA experiment

Session 7: Dark matter at the LHC - Chairperson: Howard Baer

• 11:55-12:15: Maxwell Chertok (UC Davis) Search for BSM physics including dark matter at CMS
• 12:15-12:35: Lashkar Kashif (University of Wisconsin): Search for BSM physics including dark matter at ATLAS


• 12:35-13:35: Lunch in Salon A, Covel Commons

Session 8: Sterile neutrino, dark photon, and axion dark matter searches - Chairperson: Pierre Sikivie

• 13:35-13:55: George Fuller (UC San Diego): Sterile neutrino dark matter
• 13:55-14:15: Michael Loewenstein (NASA/Goddard Space Center): Present and future observations of the 3.5 keV line
• 14:15-14:30: Tesla Jeltema (UC Santa Cruz): A critical look at the 3.5 keV line
• 14:30-14:45: Kevork Abazajian (UC Irvine): Sterile neutrino candidates for the 3.5 keV line
• 14:45-15:00: Alex Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU): Sterile neutrinos, dark matter and beyond standard model physics
• 15:00-15:15: Peter F. Smith (UCLA): Possibilities for terrestrial experiments to detect keV sterile neutrinos
• 15:15-15:30: Haipeng An (Caltech): Searching for dark photon with dark matter direct detection experiments
• 15:30-15:45: Gianpaolo Carosi (Lawrence Livermore NL): The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX)
• 15:45-16:00: Benjamin Brubaker (Yale University): Searching for dark matter axions with ADMX-HF


• 16:00-16:30: Coffee break

Session 9: Dark matter theory - Chairperson: Alexander Kusenko

• 16:30-16:45: Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma): Naturalness and mixed axion-higgsino dark matter
• 16:45-17:00: Dimitri Nanopoulos (TAMU): A No-Scale FSU(5) framework for (Sub)Planckian physics: from the Planck CMB photon bumps to the LHC diphoton 750 GeV bump(s)
• 17:00-17:15: Kimberly Boddy (University of Hawaii): Models of self-interacting dark matter
• 17:15-17:30: Samuel Witte (UCLA): Potential target dependence of the annual modulation in direct dark matter experiments
• 17:30-17:45: Vera Gluscevic (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton): Can we identify the theory of dark matter with direct detection?
• 17:45-18:00: Eugenio Del Nobile (University of Padova and INFN sezione di Padova): Minimal Dark Matter
• 18:00-18:15: Osamu Seto (Hokkai-Gakuen University): Singlet doublet mixed complex scalar dark matter
• 18:15-18:30: Michael Baker (Univ. of Mainz): The Coannihilation Codex

Session 10: Directional dark matter detectors< - Chairperson: George Fuller

• 18:30-18:45: Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College): DRIFT results
• 18:45-19:00: Michael Leyton (Royal Holloway, University of London/MIT): Directional detection with the DMTPC experiment
• 19:00-19:15: Andrzej Drukier (OKC, Stockholm University, Sweden/LEN Inc, Warsaw Poland): Chemically amplified detectors for dark matter


• Free evening: Explore UCLA, Westwood, and Los Angeles

Friday February 19, 2016, 08:00-19:30, Northwest Campus Auditorium

• 07:30-08:00: Continental breakfast

Session 11: Direct dark matter detection experiments I - Chairperson: Graciela Gelmini

• 08:00-08:20: Pierluigi Belli (INFN): DAMA/LIBRA results and perspectives
• 08:20-08:40: Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota): CDMSlite Results from Soudan
• 08:40-09:00: Scott Hertel (UC Berkeley): Improved and expanded limits from the LUX experiment
• 09:00-09:20: Masaki Yamashita (University of Tokyo): Recent results from XMASS
• 09:20-09:40: Julien Billard (IPN Lyon): Search for low mass WIMPs with the EDELWEISS III experiment
• 09:40-10:00: Alden Fan (UCLA): Results from DarkSide-50 with underground Ar


• 10:00-10:25: Coffee break

Session 12: Direct dark matter experiments II - Chairperson: Richard Gaitskell

• 10:25-10:40: Reina Maruyama (Yale): Results from the DM-Ice17 dark matter experiment at the South Pole
• 10:40-10:55: Javier Tiffenberg (Fermilab): DAMIC
• 10:55-11:10: Ray Bunker (PNNL): SuperCDMS Soudan
• 11:10-11:25: Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab): PICASSO, COUPP and PICO
• 11:25-11:40: Christian Regenfus (CERN): ArDM-1t
• 11:40-11:55: Clara Cuesta (University of Washington): Status of the ANAIS experiment
• 11:55-12:10: Mark Boulay (Carleton University): DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search with Ar
• 12:10-12:25: Qian Yue (Tsinghua University): China Darkmatter Experiment (CDEX)
• 12:25-12:40: Florian Reindl (Max Planck Institute for Physics Munich): Status of CRESST III


• 12:40-13:25: Lunch in Salon A, Covel Commons

Session 13: Next Generation (G2) direct dark matter detection experiments - Chairperson: Leszek Roszkowski

• 13:25-13:40: Sunil Golwala (Caltech): SuperCDMS SNOLAB
• 13:40-13:55: Tom Shutt (SLAC): The status of the LZ dark matter experiment
• 13:55-14:10: C.J. Martoff (Temple University): Proposed DarkSide-20k liquid argon dark matter search
• 14:10-14:25: Guillaume Plante (Columbia University): The XENON-nT project
• 14:25-14:40: Xiangdong Ji (Shanghai Jiao Tong University and University of Maryland): Status of the PandaX-II experiment at CJPL
• 14:40-14:55: Laura Baudis (Universität Zürich): Dark matter and other rare event searches with DARWIN

Session 14: Upcoming detectors, calibration, technological issues I - Chairperson: Elena Aprile

• 14:55-15:10: Burkhant Suerfu (Princeton University): Status of the SABRE NaI(Tl) dark matter experiment
• 15:10-15:25: Peter Sorensen (LBL): Limitations and applicability of the Lindhard model for few keV nuclear recoils
• 15:25-15:40: Junsong Lin (Oxford): A phonon-scintillation detector operating at milli-Kelvin temperature with low-temperature photomultiplier readout
• 15:40-15:55: Robert C. Webb (TAMU): The NEXT Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay Experiment: Status and Prospects


• 15:55-16:20: Coffee break

Session 15: Upcoming detectors, calibration, technological issues II: Chairperson: Frank Calaprice

• 16:20-16:35: Biagio Rossi (Princeton University): SiPM for DarkSide-20k
• 16:35-16:50: Paolo Agnes (Univ Paris VII - Laboratoire APC (Paris, FR): g4ds, the DarkSide simulation tool
• 16:50-17:05: Dongqing Huang (Brown University): Ultra-low energy calibration of LUX detector with D-D neutron, Tritium, and 127X
• 17:05-17:20: Marco Selvi (INFN Bologna): Backgrounds and sensitivity predictions for the XENON1T experiment
• 17:20-17:35: Maria Elena Monzani (SLAC): Expected Background in the LZ Experiment
• 17:35-17:50: Tomasz Biesiadzinski (SLAC): First results From the LZ system test platform
• 17:50-18:05: Kelsey Oliver-Mallory (UC Berkeley): Materials screening for the LZ experiment
• 18:05-18:20: Ethan Bernard (UC Berkeley): Studies of two-phase Xenon detector response with the PIXeY experiment

Session 16: Laboratories - Chairperson: Hanguo Wang

• 18:20-18:40: Nigel Smith (SNOLAB): The status of the SNOLAB Science Programme
• 18:40-19:00: Aldo Ianni (Canfranc Underground Laboratory): Status of the Canfranc Underground Laboratory
• 19:00-19:20: Qian Yue (Tsinghua University): China JinPing Underground Laboratory (CJPL)


• 19:30-21:30: Conference dinner and tribute to David B. Cline, Salon A, Covel Commons
  

Francis Halzen and Katsushi Arisaka will speak first, followed by short contributions from Elena Aprile, Leszek Roszkowski, Katherine Freese, Joel Primack, and a member David Cline's family. If you're attending only the Friday evening dinner, you can purchase parking at the Sunset Village (SV) parking structure adjacent to Covel Commons. Pay stations are located near the entryway off Charles E Young Drive. They accept credit cards, $1 bills and $5 bills.

Saturday February 20, 2016, 09:00 through the afternoon, Physics & Astronomy Building (PAB) 1-425

We are holding a Memorial Symposium for David B. Cline, with presentations celebrating his scientific accomplishments.