The Dark Matter in Southern California (DaMaSC) Symposium series will connect the local scientific communities approaching dark matter detection from direct, indirect, and collider searches, as well as via astrophysical insights through gravitational lensing, galactic structure, and other astronomical observational approaches. Our goals are to foster tighter networking among nearby researchers, and to create a forum to facilitate new cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Funded through the Keck Institute for Space Studies (KISS), DaMaSC is envisioned to become a semi-annual meet-up of dark-matter enthusiasts in southern California. Each Symposium will be divided into a small number of focused plenary talks, panel sessions, and moderated discussions.
The inaugural event of the DaMaSC Symposium Series will be held at Caltech on Friday, January 25. Coffee breaks, lunch, and a wine-and-cheese reception will be provided.
Team Leads
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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Annika Peter
Ohio State University
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Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins
Caltech
- Kev N. Abazajian — UC Irvine
- Mo Abdullah — UC Irvine
- Josh J. Adams — Carnegie Observatories
- Eric Albin — UC Irvine
- Andrew J. Benson — Carnegie Observatories
- Kimberly Boddy — Caltech
- Cliff W. Cheung — Caltech
- Randy C. Cotta — UC Irvine
- Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine — JPL/Caltech
- Roland de Putter — JPL/Caltech
- Eugenio Del Nobile — UCLA
- Greg Dobler — Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
- Olivier Dore — JPL/Caltech
- Andrey Egorov — USC
- Jeff P. Filippini — Caltech
- George M. Fuller — UC San Diego
- Shea Garrison-Kimmel — UC Irvine
- Graciela Gelmini — UCLA
- Vera Gluscevic — Caltech
- Evan B. Grohns — UC San Diego
- Shunsaku Horiuchi — UC Irvine
- Ji-Haeng Huh — UCLA
- Manoj Kaplinghat — UC Irvine
- Alina Kiessling — JPL
- Oliver King — Caltech
- Alexander Kusenko — UCLA/Kavli IPMU
- Bumseok Kyae — Pusan National University
- Philip M. Lubin — UC Santa Barbara
- Kevin Lung — UCLA
- Julian Merten — JPL/Caltech
- Sarah Miller — UCR/Caltech
- Abhilash Mishra — Caltech
- Samuel A. I. Mognet — UCLA
- Leonidas Moustakas — JPL/Caltech
- Andy Nelson — UC Irvine
- Harry Nelson — UC Santa Barbara
- Drew B. Newman — Caltech
- Anna M. Nierenberg — UC Santa Barbara
- Amol V. Patwardhan — UC San Diego
- Vasiliki Pavlidou — University of Crete
- Emilija Pantic — UCLA
- Annika Peter — UC Irvine
- Anders Pinzke — UC Santa Barbara
- Alvise Raccanelli — JPL/Caltech
- Jason D. Rhodes — JPL
- Miguel E. Rocha — UC Irvine
- Chia-Hsien Shen — Caltech
- Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins — Caltech
- Dan Stern — JPL
- Artin Teymourian — UCLA
- Tommaso Treu — UC Santa Barbara
- Mike Werner — JPL
- Daniel Whiteson — UC Irvine
- Alex V. Zahn — Caltech
Presentations
| Speaker | Affiliation | Presentation |
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| Clifford Cheung | Caltech | WIMP Dark Matter + SUSY (5.3 MB pdf) |
| Manoj Kaplinghat | UC Irvine | Particle Dark Matter Candidates Overview (11.2 MB pdf) |
| Harry Nelson | UCSB | Direct Dark Matter Searches (40.6 MB pdf) |
| Daniel Whiteson | UC Irvine | Dark Matter Collider Searches (2.6 MB pdf) |
| Jason Rhodes, JPL, and | Tommaso Treu, UCSB | Using astronomy to measure dark matter distributions and infer dark matter particle properties (79 KB pdf of questions to attendees) |
