Name: Cosmic Frontier Workshop
Start: 2013-03-06T08:00:00-08:00
End: 2013-03-08T18:00:00-08:00
Location: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Monday, 4 March 2013
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Wednesday, 6 March 2013

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 09:00
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Panofsky and Kavli Auditoriums
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Chi-Chang Kao (SLAC)

09:05 SLAC Meeting Logistics - Richard Partridge (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

09:15 Goals, Agenda, Deliverables; Looking Forward - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)

09:35 NSF Perspectives - Jean Cottam (NSF)

09:50 DOE Perspectives - Michael Salamon (DOE)

10:05 Frontier Capabilities: Non-Accelerator Facilities - Murdock Gilchriese (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

10:15 Intensity Frontier: Neutrinos - Kate Scholberg (Duke University)

10:25 Snowmass Young - Marcelle Soares-Santos (Fermilab)

10:35 Open Discussion, Outstanding Issues
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Direct Searches for Dark Matter in Perspective - Kathryn Zurek (University of Michigan)

11:20 More Precise Computations of WIMP Scattering - Richard Hill (University of Chicago)

11:45 New Directions for Direct Detection of Dark Matter - P.W. Graham

12:10 Discussion - Tim Tait (UC Irvine)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Sycamore
Contributions

11:00 Introduction to CF2 - Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

11:15 Introduction to Complementarity - Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida)

11:30 Overview: Gamma Rays - Kevork Abazajian (U. C. Irvine)

11:50 Overview: Neutrinos - Francis Halzen

12:10 Overview: Cosmic Rays - Igor Moskalenko
Axion Theory
Axion Theory
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Madrone
Contributions

11:00 Sikivie An Argument that the Dark Matter is Axions - Sikivie

11:20 Giannotti, Astrophysical constraints on axion-photon coupling - Giannotti

11:40 Kyu Jung Bae, Cosmology of SUSY Axion Models - Kyu Jung Bae

12:15 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Welcome to CF5 - Klaus Honscheid (Ohio State University) Sarah Church (Stanford University/KIPAC)

11:30 Dark Energy in the 2020's - Michael Turner (University of Chicago)

12:00 CMB Science - Uros Seljak (University of California at Bekeley)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

11:00 A personal view of present and future theory on the basic nature of space and time - Lenny Susskind (Stanford)

11:30 Experimentally testable ideas about quantum geometry - Craig Hogan Hogan (Fermilab)

12:00 The Fermilab Holometer - Aaron Chou (Fermilab)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Status of CF1 planning - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

13:45 Working Group A: Status and Science Case - Dan Bauer (Fermilab)

14:05 Working Group B: Defining the Parameter Space - Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

14:25 Working Group C: Enabling Technology and Infrastructure - Bob Jacobsen (UC Berkeley)

14:45 Discussion CF1/4
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Sycamore
Contributions

13:30 VERITAS - Andrew Smith

13:55 IceCube - Darren Grant

14:20 Multiwavelength Searches - Tesla Jeltema

14:45 PAMELA - Mirko Boezio
Axion Experiment
Axion Experiment
13:30 - 15:45
Room: Madrone
Contributions

13:30 Gray Rybka: ADMX Current Status - Gray Rybka

13:50 van Bibber, ADMX - HF

14:05 Pivovarov, IAXO

14:20 Carosi, Axion Cavity R&D
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Constraints from Multiple Probes - Olivier Dore

13:55 Systematics from Multiple Probes - Michael Mortonson

14:20 Overlapping Spectro-Photo Surveys - Pat McDonald

14:50 Large Simulations - Salman Habib
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

13:30 CMB Experimental Capabilities - Clarence Chiang

14:00 CMB Experimental Challenges - Chao-Lin Kuo

14:30 CMB Foregrounds in the Planck Era - Charles Lawrence
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

13:30 Diffuse Gamma-Ray Backgrounds - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (California Institute of Technology)

13:50 Gamma-Ray Bursts - Nicola Omodei (Stanford University)

14:10 Particle Acceleration in Active Galaxies - Henric Krawczynski (Washington University in St. Louis)

14:30 Galactic Sources of High Energy Gamma Rays - Stefan Funk (SLAC)
15:00

15:00 - 16:30
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor

15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00

Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 KIMS - Y.D. Kim (Sejong University)

16:15 DM-Ice - Reina Maruyama (University of Wisconsin)

16:30 Princeton NaI - Frank Calaprice (Princeton University)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Sycamore
Contributions

16:00 Fermi Overview - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins

16:25 Galactic Center Overview - Timothy Linden (UCSC)

16:50 Fermi Galactic Center - Simona Murgia

17:15 130 GeV Line - Meng Su

17:40 Fermi and CTA constraints on pMSSM - Alex Drlica-Wagner (SLAC)
DM candidates, searches and methods
DM candidates, searches and methods
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
Contributions

16:00 Zhitnitky, Dark Matter and Baryogenesis - Two Sides Same Coin

16:20 Kyle, Ground-based Quark Nugget Searches

16:40 Redondo: IAXO - Javier Redondo

17:00 Cieplak, Constraining Black Hole DM using Microlensing

17:20 Jeremy Mardon, Direct detection of sub-GeV dark matter

17:40 Discussion
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 BAO - Nikhil Padmanabhan

16:30 Sirens - Ray Frey

17:00 Clusters - Steve Allen
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

16:00 Neutrinos from LSS - Kev Abazajian

16:30 Inflation form LSS - Dragan Huterer

17:00 Alternatives to Inflation - Austin Joyce

17:30 Cross Correlations - Oliver Zahn
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Madrone
Contributions

16:00 Collective Oscillations in Supernovae - George Fuller (U.C. San Diego)

16:20 EHE Neutrinos: An Overview - Abigail Vieregg (Harvard University)

16:40 IceCube Impact on Neutrino Physics - Tyce DeYoung (Penn State University)

17:00 Ultra High Energy Comic Rays and Neutrinos - Roberto Aloisio (INFN)

17:20 Neutrino Anomalies Impact on Astrophysics - William Louis (LANL)

17:40 Non-Standard Neutrino Interactions - John (JJ) Cherry (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
18:00

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Redwood A/B

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Madrone

Round table discussion
Round table discussion
18:00 - 18:30
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Discussion of DM Complementarity Document - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Konstantin Matchev (University of Florida) Tim Tait (UC Irvine)
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

18:00 HEPAP Facilities Sup-Panel - Josh Frieman

18:20 Dark Energy with 30-m Telescopes - Michael Bolte
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Thursday, 7 March 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:55
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 D^3 (Remote presentation) - S. Vahsen

09:15 DRIFT - D. Snowden-Ifft (Boston University)

09:30 NewAge - D. Snowden-Ifft

09:45 DMTPC (Remote presentation) - Peter Fisher

10:00 MIMAC (website info) - Daniel Santos

10:25 COUPP & PICASSO - Andrew Sonnenschein (Fermilab)

10:40 COUPP & PICASSO II (Remote Presentation) - Tony Noble (Queen's University)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

09:00 CTA - Matthew Wood

09:15 CALET and Gamma-400 - Alex Moiseev

09:30 GAPS - Philip von Doetinchem

09:45 PINGU - Darren Grant

10:00 HAWC - John Pretz

10:15 Hyper-K - Yusuke Koshio
DM theory perspectives
DM theory perspectives
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
Contributions

09:00 Moroi, Non-Wimp Dark Matter Candidates in SUSY Models

09:20 Nomura, A Theoretical Perspective on Dark Matter

09:40 Cheung, Non-WIMP Zoology
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 MS-DESI - Michael Levi

09:30 21 cm Intensity Mapping - Gary Hinshaw

10:00 Instrumentation - Juan Estrada
09:00 - 10:05
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

09:00 Baryogenesis and Astrophysics - Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)

09:15 Resonant Flavor Oscillations: A New Source for Electroweak Baryogenesis - Chris Lee (LANL)

09:30 Generic Predictions of EWBG-ready BSMs - Daniel Chung (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

09:45 Testing electroweak baryogenesis at the LHC - Andrew Long (Arizona State University)
10:00
10:00 - 10:30
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

10:00 Jiji Fan: Double Disk Dark Matter - JiJi Fan (Princeton University)

10:15 Sigurdson: Dark Matter Antibaryons and Induced Nucleon Decay - Kris Sigurdson (University of British Columbia)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00

Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 CoGeNT - John Orrel

11:15 TEXONO/CDEX - H.T. Wong

11:30 SuperCDMS - Blas Cabrera (Stanford)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

11:00 Discussion: Future Experimental Directions - Doug Cowen (Penn State) James Buckley (Washington University) Stefan Funk

11:30 Discussion: Definition of Indirect Detection Benchmarks - James Buckley (Washington University) Stefano Profumo (UC Santa Cruz)
Light Fermions
Light Fermions
11:00 - 12:50
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
Contributions

11:00 Fuller, Sterile Neutrinos: Dark Matter and Supernovae

11:20 Abazajian, The Status of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter

11:40 Ruchaiskiy, Sterile Neutrinos as Dark Matter

12:40 Discussion
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Whitney
Contributions

11:00 Cores in galaxies and galaxy clusters and relevance to dark matter models - Annika Peter (UC Irvine)

11:30 Dark matter densities and cores in Milky Way satellites - Mike Boylan-Kolchin (UC Irvine)

12:00 Bullet cluster and other merging galaxy clusters - Will Dawson (UC Davis)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

11:00 Supernovae - Michael Wood-Vasey

11:30 Strong Lensing - Eric Linder
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Madrone
Contributions

11:00 Update/Review of Cosmological Estimates of Neutrino Number - Robert Scherrer (Vanderbilt University)

11:15 Limits on Extra Dimensions from UHE Neutrino Measurements - Spencer Klein (LBNL & UC Berkeley)

11:30 Leptogenesis - Mu-chun Chen (University of California, Irvine)

12:00 Limits on the Violation of Lorentz Invariance from Gamma-Ray Measurements - Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Institute of Technology)

12:15 Upping the Reach for New Particles/Physics, JEM-EUSO in the ISS - Thomas Weiler (Vanderbilt University)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

11:00 Small Scales - Jaiyul Yoo

11:30 Clusters - Eduardo Rozo
11:30

11:30 - 13:00
Room: Cypress

12:30

12:30 - 13:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30

12:30 - 14:30
Room: Shasta
12:30 - 14:30
Room: Whitney
Contributions

12:30 WIMP DM Direct Detection - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

12:40 WIMP DM Indirect Detection - James Buckley (Washington University)

12:50 Instrumentation - Juan Estrada (FNAL)

13:00 Non-WIMP DM - William Wester (Fermilab)

13:10 Discussion: Science Studies and Opportunities

13:30 Discussion: Young Scientists Survey
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 DEAP-3600 - Marcin Kuzniak

13:45 PANDA-X - Xiangdong Ji (Shanghai Jai-Tong University)

14:00 XENON - K. Arisaka (UCLA)

14:15 LUX/LZ - Thomas Shutt (Case Western Reserve University)

14:30 DarkSide - Cristiano Galbiati (Princeton University)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

13:30 Hybrid Photodetector Development - Masashi Yokoyama

13:55 LAPPD - Karen Byrum (Argonne National Lab)

14:20 Silicon PMs - Neopumok Otte

14:45 Custom ASICs - Kurtis Nishimura (SLAC)
Experiment, Indirect Detection, and Theory Connections
Experiment, Indirect Detection, and Theory Connections
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
Contributions

13:30 Cline, The Search for Low-mass WIMPs

13:50 L. Moustakas, Shedding Light

14:10 Siegal-Gaskins, Sterile Neutrino Search with GBM
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Lassen
Contributions

13:30 Non-MSUGRA MSSM models - Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)

14:00 MSUGRA and Focus Points - David Sanford (Caltech)

14:30 pMSSM models+LHC constraints - Matthew Cahill-Rowley (SLAC)

15:00 Contact Operators - Will Shepherd (UCSC)
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

13:30 Painting Galaxies - Risa Wechsler

14:00 Photon Simulations - Andy Connolly

14:30 Weak Lensing - Chris Hirata

15:00 Dark Energy/Modified Gravity - Fabian Schmidt
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Redwood A/B
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Madrone
Contributions

13:30 Neutrino Cross Sections from IceCube Observations - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

13:50 High-Energy Cross Sections from the Pierre Auger Observatory - James Matthews (Louisiana State University)

14:10 Telescope Array - Gordon Thomson (University of Utah)

14:30 The Moon as a Detector for Extreme-Energy Cosmic Rays - Mary Reno (University of Iowa)

14:50 Auger and JEM-EUSO Sensitivity to Ensemble Fluctuations in the Cosmic Ray Flux - Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

15:10 UHE Neutrinos with the TAUWER project - James Russ (Carnegie Mellon University)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

16:00 Nbody Status - Michael Kuhlen

16:25 Nbody Issues - Francesc Ferrer

16:50 Introduction to non-SUSY Models - Kathryn Zurek
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Sycamore
Contributions

16:00 NMSSM review - Mathew McCaskey (University of Kansas)

16:30 UED review - KC Kong (University of Kansas)

17:00 Hidden Charged DM - Hai-Bo Yu (University of Michigan)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

16:00 Challenges for Modified Gravity - Andrew Tolley

16:30 Astrophysical Tests of Gravity Theories - Bhuvnesh Jain

17:00 Lab Tests of Scalar Fields - Amol Upadhye

17:30 Varying Fundamental Constants - Roger Thompson
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Redwood A/B
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Madrone
Contributions

16:00 Updates on AMS-02 - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawaii)

16:20 Q-Balls - Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

16:40 Primordial Black Holes - Jane MacGibbon (University of North Florida)

17:00 The EBL and Axions - Frank Krennrich (Iowa State University)

17:20 Anti-nuggets as Dark Matter - Ariel Zhitnitsky (University of British Columbia)

17:40 Radio Detection of UHECRs - Konstantin Belov (UCLA)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 NeXT - David Nygren (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:15 Liquid-He4 - Daniel McKinsey (Yale University)

16:30 Nuclear Emulsions - T. Naka

16:45 DNA - Charles Cantor (Boston University)

17:00 DAMIC - Juan Estrada (FNAL)
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
18:00
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

18:00 Complementarity in pMSSM - Ahmed Ismail (SLAC)

18:30 pMSSM: Direct Detection+ICECUBE - Randel Cotta Cotta (Stanford/SLAC)
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Redwood A/B

18:00 - 19:30
Room: Kavli 2nd Floor
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

18:00 WFIRST - Neil Gehrels

18:30 EUCLID - Jason Rhodes
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Friday, 8 March 2013
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 Underground Facilities + Discussion - Murdock Gilchriese (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

09:20 Requirements for Large Neutrino/Astrophysics Facilities - Michael Smy (UCI)

09:35 Instrumentation for CF1 - Juan Estrada (FNAL)

09:45 Plans For Radiopurity Infrastructure - John Orrell Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)

10:00 Discussion
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Redwood C/D
Contributions

09:00 SUSY Indirect Searches - Randel Cotta

09:25 SUSY Complementarity - Thomas Rizzo

09:50 Crossing Symmetry - William Shepherd
Dark Matter and Astrophysical Probes (CF3+CF4)
Dark Matter and Astrophysical Probes (CF3+CF4)
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor
Contributions

09:00 Strigari, Is there Tension between Observed Small-scale Structure and CDM?

09:30 de Vega, Fermionic WDM Reproduces Galaxy Observ. because of QM

10:00 Dodelson, Current and Future Cosmological Constraints on Neutrinos
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 LSST - Steve Kahn

09:30 Cross Correlations Sub-Group Planning Session
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Sycamore
Contributions

09:00 Structure Sub-Group Planning Talk
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Madrone
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

09:00 GAPS - Rene Ong (UCLA)

09:20 HAWC and Beyond - Brenda Dingus (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:40 CTA - David Williams (U.C. Santa Cruz)

10:00 PINGU - Doug Cowen (Penn State)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:50
Room: Panofsky Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Updated Comments from Working Group A - Dan Bauer (Fermilab)

11:15 Updated Comments from Working Group B - Tim Tait (UC Irvine)

11:30 Updated Comments from Group C - Robert Jacobsen

11:50 Discussion: Summary Slide Compilation/ Future Plans - Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota)
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Redwood C/D

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kavli 3rd Floor

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Madrone

11:00 - 12:30
Room: Kavli Auditorium
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Redwood A/B
Contributions

11:00 JEM-EUSO - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago)

11:20 ARIANNA - Steven Barwick (UC Irvine)

11:40 Radar Detection of UHECRs - John Belz (University of Utah)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Room: Panofsky and Kavli Auditoriums
Contributions

13:30 Recognition of Meeting Organizers

13:31 CF1 Summary

13:45 CF2 Summary - James Buckley (Washington University)

14:00 CF3 Summary

14:15 CF4 Summary - Konstantin Matchev (University of Floriday)

14:30 CF5: Dark Energy Summary - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)

15:00 CF5: CMB Summary - Sarah Church (Stanford / SLAC)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:50
Room: Panofsky and Kavli Auditoriums
Contributions

16:00 CF6 Summary - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago) Ann Nelson (University of Washington) Craig Hogan Hogan (Fermilab) Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

16:30 Instrumentation Frontier - Clarence Chang (University of Chicago)

16:40 Summer Meeting Plans: The Grand Scheme - Jonathan Rosner (University of Chicago)

17:00 Cosmic Fronter Summer Meeting Agenda Update and Paths Forward - Jonathan Feng (UC Irvine) Steve Ritz (UCSC and SCIPP)