Monday, 24 September
9:00 - 9:10
OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE
Chairman of Heidelberg DARK MATTER Conferences -
H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Heidelberg, Germany)
Co-Chairman of DARK MATTER 2007 -
Geraint Lewis (School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia)
Direct and Indirect Search for Cold Dark Matter I
Chairman:
09:10 - 09:50
Ricardo Cerulli (INFN, Rome, Italy):
"Results and Developments With Large Mass Highly Radiopure NaI(Tl) at LNGS"
09:50 - 10:25
Wim de Boer (Univ. of Karlsruhe, Germany):
"The Dark Connection Between the CANIS Major Dwarf, the Monceros Ring,
the Gasflaring, the Rotation Curve and the EGRET Excess of diffuse
Galactic Gammas Rays"
10:25 - 10:35
Burkhard Fuchs (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany):
"Density Wave Theory of the Milky Way's Spiral Structure
Indicates a Massive Outer Galactic Disk"
10:35 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
SUSY/SUGRA Phenomenology in Dark Matter,
New Symmetries and Early Universe I
Chairman:
11:00 - 11:30
Dharamvir Ahluwalia (Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand):
"Elko Dark Matter: A Mass Dimension One, Local, Spin One Half Quantum Field"
11:30 - 12:00
Roland Allen (Texas A&M Univ., College Station, Texas, USA):
"Supersymmetric Dark Matter Candidate (neutralino) from a Fundamental
Statistical Theory"
12:00 - 12:25
Axel Krause (Univ. of Munich, Germany):
"Towards Dark Energy from String Theory"
12:25 - 12:55
Margarida Nesbitt Rebelo (CERN, Switzerland and Univ. of Lisboa,
Portugal):
"CP Violation and Leptogenesis"
12:55 - 13:20
Dimitri Schritt (Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand):
"Elko Dark Matter: A Conservative Candidate"
13:20 - 14:30 LUNCH
Structure Formation. Dark Matter and Dark Energy I
Chairman:
14:30 - 15:00
Matthew Colless (Anglo-Australian Observ., Epping, Australia):
"Dark Matter and Dark Energy from Galaxy Redshift Surveys"
15:00 - 15:30
Marusa Bradac (KIPAC Inst., SLAC, Stanford, USA):
"Shedding Light on Dark Matter: Seeing the Invisible
with Gravitational Lensing"
15:30 - 16:00
Matthew Francis (School of Physics, Univ. of Sydney, Australia):
"Dark Matter Power Spectra to 1% Accuracy Between Dynamical
Dark Energy Cosmologies"
16:00 - 16:30
Alexander Zakharov (ITEP, Moscow, Russia):
"Dark Matter and Dark Energy or Alternative Theories of Gravity"
16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
Massive Black Holes, Galaxy Clusters, Low Mass
Stellar Evolution
Chairman:
17:00 - 17:40
Andreas Eckart (Koeln Univ., Germany):
"Results from Recent Coordinated Observations of the Galactic Center"
17:40 - 18:10
Raoul D.Viollier (University of Cape Town, South Africa):
"Sterile Neutrinos and the Rapid Formation of Supermassive Black Holes"
18:10 - 18:40
Patrick Scott (Stockholm Un., AlbaNova Un. Center, Sweden):
"Low-Mass Stellar Evolution With WIMP Capture and Annihilation"
Tuesday, 25 September
23.09, Sunday/
24.09, Monday/
25.09, Tuesday/
26.09, Wednesday/
27.09, Thursday/
28.09, Friday/
Search for Hot and Warm Dark Matter I
Chairman:
09:00 - 09:35
Ernst Otten (Mainz University, Germany):
"Status and Perspectives of Search for the Neutrino Mass from Tritium Decay"
09:35 - 10:15
Hans V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (Heidelberg, Germany):
"Hot Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay"
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:10
Kazuhiko Kojima (Nat. Astronom. Observat, of Japan, Tokyo, Japan): "Cosmological Constraint an 'Neutrino Mass' from CMB Anisotropies with Primordial Magnetic Field"
Cosmological Parameters, MOND and
Dark Energy II
11:10 - 11:40
Tim Schrabback (Inst. fuer Astron., Univ. Bonn, Germany):
"Cosmological Weak Lensing and Dark Matter Mapping with the Hubble
Space Telescope"
11:40 - 12:10
Benoit Famaey (Inst. d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles):
"The Bullet Cluster: Cases for Dark Matter and MOND"
12:10 - 12:35
Dai G. Yamazaki (Nat. Astronomical Observ. of Japan, Tokyo, Japan): "Effects of Primordial Magnetic Field on CMB and Density Field"
12:35 - 14:30 LUNCH
Cold Dark Matter II, Dark Halos I, Structure Formation and Dark Matter I
Chairman:
14:30 - 14:55
Henrique Araujo (Astroph. Group Blackett Lab.,
Imperial College London, UK):
"The ZEPLIN-III Dark Matter Experiment"
14:55 - 15:25
Burkhard Fuchs (Universitaet Heidelberg, Germany):
"When Galactic Discs Grow in Dark Haloes"
15:25 - 15:55
Manfred P. Leubner (University of Innsbruck, Austria):
"Nonextensive Theory of Dark Matter and Gas Density Distributions in Galaxies and Clusters"
15:55 - 16:25 COFFEE BREAK
Structure Formation and Dark Matter II
Chairman:
16:25 - 16:55
Steffen Knollmann (Astrophysikalisches Inst. Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany):
"Dark Matter Halo-Profiles in Scale-Free Simulations"
16:55 - 17:25
Emil Prodanov (Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland):
"Reisser-Nordstrom Expansion"
17:25 - 17:50
Ishwaree Neupane (Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch,
New Zealand):
"Physical Constraints on Gauss-Bonnet Dark Energy Cosmologies"
Wednesday, 26 September
23.09, Sunday/
24.09, Monday/
25.09, Tuesday/
26.09, Wednesday/
27.09, Thursday/
28.09, Friday/
Large Scale Structure, Dark Halos II, Gamma-Ray Sources
Chairman:
09:00 - 09:30
Chris Blake (Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn,
Victoria, Australia):
"First Results from the Wiggle Z Survey"
09:30 - 10:00
Brendon Brewer (University of Sydney, Australia):
"Dark Matter in Galaxies: Clues from Gravitational Lensing"
10:00 - 10:30
Arash Bodaghee (Univ. of Geneva Observatory, Switzerland):
"Highlights from INTEGRAL and a Synthetic View of Gamma-Ray Sources"
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Structure Formation. Dark Matter, Dark Halos III, Exotics I
Chairman:
11:00 - 11:30
Chris Power (Swinburne Univ. of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia):
"Small Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation"
11:30 - 12:00
Habib Khosroshaki (School of Phys. and Astr., Univ. of Birminigham, UK):
"Dark Halos of Fossil Galaxy Groups and Clusters: Observations
and Simulations"
12:00 - 12:20
Berian James (University of Sydney, Australia):
"The Galaxy Profile of Clusters"
12:20 - 12:50
Edward Drobyshevski (Ioffe Physico-Technical Inst., St.Petersburg, RUSSIA):
"Dark Electric Matter Objects: History of Discovery, Modes of Interaction
With Matter, Some Inferences and Prospects"
12:50 - 14:00
LUNCH and Poster Session
Ali Alavi (Sabzevar Univ. Iran):
"Non-Commutative Fine Structure of Dark Energy"
Satyavarapu Naga Parameswara Gupta
"Missing Mass In Galaxies In Dynamic Universe Model Of Cosmology Using Regression Analysis"
Afternoon: Free !!!!!
19:00 CONFERENCE DINNER
(to be held at the Thai Pothong Restaurant, Newtown at 7pm.)
Thursday, 27 September
23.09, Sunday/
24.09, Monday/
25.09, Tuesday/
26.09, Wednesday/
27.09, Thursday/
28.09, Friday/
Cosmological Variations and Fundamental Constants, Axions I
Chairman:
09:00 - 09:30
Michael Murphy (Univ. of Cambridge, UK ):
"A varying fine Structure Constant? Observational Status and Future Prospects"
09:30 - 10:00
David Wiltshire (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand):
"Gravitational Energy and Cosmic Acceleration: Towards Concordance Cosmology without Exotic Dark Energy"
10:00 - 10:30
Jihn E. Kim (University of Seoul, Korea):
"Axion and Axino Contribution to Dark Matter"
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Exotics II - Axions, Fifth Force ...
Chairman:
11:00 - 11:30
Darin Kinion (LNL, USA):
"The Axion Dark-Matter Experiment"
11:30 - 12:00
Jonghee Yoo (FNAL, USA):
"The GammeV Axion-Like Particle Search Experiment at Fermilab"
12:00 - 12:30
Eduardo Guendelman (Physics Dep., Ben Gurion Univ. of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel):
"Scalar Field Driven Cosmology with Neutrino Dark Energy and Absence of the Fifth Force Problem "
12:30 - 12:55
Motohiko Kusakabe (Dep. od Astronomy, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan):
"Negatively-Charged Massive Particles as Progenitors for CDM, and Solution
to the 6Li and 7Li Problem in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis"
12:55 - 14:30 LUNCH
Cold Dark Matter Search III
Chairman
14:30 - 15:00
Tommy Ohlsson (Dep. of Theor. Physics, Royal Institute
of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden):
"Neutrinos from WIMP Annihilations"
15:00 - 15:25
Irina Krivosheina (NIRFI, N.-Novgorod, Russia):
"GENIUS-TF - Present Status"
15:25 - 15:50
Csaba Balazs (School of Physics, Monash Univ., Melbourne, Australia):
"Supersymmetric Origin of Dark and Luminous Matter"
15:50 - 16:15
Nicole Bell (School of Physics, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia):
"Annihilating Dark Matter"
16:15 - 16:45 COFFEE BREAK
Search for Hot and Warm Dark Matter II, New Symmetries II
Chairman:
16:45 - 17:15
Alexander Kusenko (Dep. of Phys. and Astronomy, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA):
"Dark Matter's X-Files"
17:15 - 17:40
Irina Krivosheina (NIRFI, N.-Novgorod, Russia):
"SN87A - 20 Years of Registration of the Neutrino Signal (Historical View)"
17:40 - 18:10
Norma Susana Mankoc Borstnik (University of Ljubljana,
FMF, Ljubljana, Slovenia):
"A New Way to Physics, Beyond the Standard Model -
Approach Unifying Spins and Charges and Properties
of Four Families of Quarks and Leptons Within This Approach"
Friday, 28 September
23.09, Sunday/
24.09, Monday/
25.09, Tuesday/
26.09, Wednesday/
27.09, Thursday/
28.09, Friday/
Cold Dark Matter Search IV
Chairman:
09:00 - 09:30
Geraint Lewis (School of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia): "Dark Matter: Smooth or compact? Limits from microlensing"
09:30 - 09:55
Jonghee Yoo (FNAL, USA):
"CDMS Experiment - Present Status"
09:55 - 10:20
Brian L. Winer (Dep. of Physics, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA):
"Prospects for the Search for Dark Matter with GLAST"
10:20 - 10:45
Patrick Tisserand (MSO, Australia):
"Current Constraints on MACHOS with the EROS-2 Project"
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
Cold Dark Matter Search V
Chairman:
11:15 - 11:40
Masayuki Nakahata (ICRR, Tokio, Japan):
"Status of XMASS Experiment"
11:40 - 12:05
Sergio Navas (Fisica Teorica, Univ. of Granada, Spain):
"Dark Matter Search with Noble Liquids: the ArDM Experiment"
12:05 - 12:35
Neil Spooner
(University of Sheffield, UK):
"Progress on Directional Dark Matter Searches and Prospects
for a WIMP Telescope"
12:35 - 13:00
Alfio Rizzo (Belgium, Brussels):
"Search for Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope and Prospects for IceCube"
13:00 - 14:30 LUNCH
Cold Dark Matter Search VI
14:30 - 14:55
George Georgevits (UNSW, Sydney, Australia):
"Detection of Kuiper Belt Objects by Stellar Occultation"
14:55 - 15:20
Ryuta Hazama (University of Hiroshima, Japan):
"Direct Search for Spin-Dependent WIMPs with CaF2 Detector"
Underground Laboratories and Future
Chairman:
15:20 - 15:50
Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield, UK):
"ILIAS and the Underground Laboratories of Europe"
15:50 - 16:20
Tony Noble (SNOLAB, Canada):
"The SNOLAB Underground Facility for Astropartical Physics"
Concluding Remarks
End of Conference
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