Dark matter

MPIK Division on Particle and Astroparticle Physics

PhD Student Seminar on Dark Matter

Date: 6 – 8 May 2009
Location: Seminar room GE 339, 2nd floor

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

9:30 - 11:00   Dark matter in cosmology and astrophysics [PDF]
Hans Hettmansperger
11:00 - 11:15  
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15   Gentner-Kolloquium:
Neutrinos - The surprise continues
Gerald Garvey
12:15 - 13:30  
Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00   Direct dark matter detection [PDF]
Viviana Niro
15:00 - 15:30  
Coffee break
15:30 - 17:00   Explanations of the DAMA anomaly [PDF]
Alexander Blum
17:00 - 18:30   Indirect dark matter detection [PDF]
Mathias Garny

Thursday, 7 May 2009

9:30 - 11:00   Decaying dark matter [PDF]
Andreas Hohenegger
11:00 - 11:15  
Coffee break
11:15 - 12:15   Teekolloquium
Direct neutrino mass determination: The Karlsruhe neutrino experiment KATRIN
Christian Weinheimer
12:15 - 14:00  
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30   Annihilating dark matter [PDF]
Joachim Kopp
15:30 - 16:00  
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30   Astrophysical explanations of PAMELA / ATIC [PDF]
Alexander Kartavtsev

Friday, 8 May 2009

9:00 - 10:30   Dark matter in the MSSM [PDF]
Alexander Merle
10:30 - 11:00  
Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30   Dark matter at the LHC [PDF]
Adisorn Adulpravitchai
12:30 - 14:00  
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:30   Dark matter models
Tom Underwood
15:30 - 16:00  
Coffee break