Daily schedule

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September 2 Presentation or activity
11:30 - 12:00 Neil Davies, Frank Murphy, Hinano Murphy (welcome remarks)
12:05 - 12:35 Eric Clua
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Robert Thomas Foot (University of Melbourne): Explaining galactic structure and direct detection experiments with mirror dark matter
14:35 - 15:05 Pham Q. Hung (University of Virginia): Luminogenesis: From dark to luminous matter
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Kai Martens (IPMU/University of Tokyo-Kamioka): Dark matter direct detection experiments
16:20 - 16:50 Shunsaku Horiuchi (UC Irvine): Sterile neutrino limits using galaxies of the local group
17:00 - 17:30 Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah): Astrophysics-independent analysis of direct detection data
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
September 3 Presentation or activity
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:05 - 12:35 Discussion
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara): Strong gravitational lensing probes of dark matter and dark energy
14:35 - 15:05 Edoardo Carlesi (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid): The imprints of interacting dark energy on the cosmic web and galaxy clusters
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Oleg Gnedin (University of Michigan): The formation and structure of dark halos of galaxies
16:20 - 16:50 Paul Sutter (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris): Cosmology and astrophysics with cosmic voids
17:00 - 17:30 John Silverman (Kavli IPMU): Do supermassive black holes matter (for cosmology)?
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
September 4 Presentation or activity
11:00 - 12:35 Sea excursion
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin-Madison): Neutrino astrophysics at the South Pole
14:35 - 15:05 Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University): Supernova neutrinos in the 21st century
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 James Rosenzweig (UCLA): Laboratory acceleration of charged particles in plasma, and connection of cosmic ray acceleration
16:20 - 16:50 Ian Nugent (RWTH Aachen): BABAR
17:00 - 17:30 Simonetta Liuti (University of Virginia): Self organizing maps parametrization of parton distribution functions
18:00 - 20:00 Tahitian feast
September 5 Presentation or activity
11:30 - 12:00 Discussions
12:05 - 12:35 Discussions
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Amy Furniss (UC Santa Cruz): The gamma-ray spectrum of the most distant TeV-emitting blazar PKS 1424+240
14:35 - 15:05 Alexander Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU): Cosmic rays and TeV gamma rays from distant AGN
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Yoshiyuki Inoue (SLAC/Stanford University): Extragalactic background light: gamma-ray attenuation up to the epoch of cosmic reionization
16:20 - 16:50 Marco Ajello (UC Berkeley): The extragalactic background light in the Fermi era
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
September 6 Presentation or activity
11:00 - 12:35 Inland excursion
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Brenda Dingus (Los Alamos National Lab): Surveying the TeV sky with HAWC
14:35 - 15:05 Gerd Kunde (Los Alamos National Laboratory): Search Q-balls and slow-moving matter with HAWC
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Slava Turyshev (JPL/NASA): Testing fundamental gravitation in space: recent progress and future directions
18:00 - 20:00 Dinner
September 7 Presentation or activity
11:30 - 12:00 Discussions in groups
12:05 - 12:35 Discussions in groups
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30 Discussions in groups
14:35 - 15:05 Discussions in groups
15:10 - 15:30 Coffee break
15:45 - 16:15 Discussions in groups
16:20 - 16:50 Discussions in groups
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions in groups
18:00 - 20:00