Events: detail
The search for dark matter
- Hosted by:
- Institute of Physics & Royal Astronomical Society
- Speaker:
- None listed
- Starts:
- November 26, 2007 at 12:45 pm
- Ends:
- November 26, 2007 at 05:30 pm
- Location:
- Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, RAS Lecture Theatre, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BQ United Kingdom
- Maps:
Description
The purpose of this meeting is to bring together astronomers with experimentalists and phenomenologists interested in the search for particle dark matter in order to assess the prospects for progress, with particular focus on the UK programme.
12:55 Welcome
Chair: Wyn Evans
13:00 James Binney (Oxford): Dark matter in the Galaxy
13:30 Anne Green (Nottingham): Direct detection and the dark matter distribution
13:50 Mark Wilkinson (Leicester): Observable properties of dark matter
14:10 Dan Hooper (Fermilab): Indirect signatures of dark matter
14:40 Paula Chadwick (Durham): HESS searches for dark matter annihilation
15:00 Sergio Colafrancesco (Rome): Multifrequency analysis of dark matter signals
15:30 Tea
Chair: Subir Sarkar
16:00 Hans Krauss (Oxford): The future in cryogenic dark matter detectors
16:20 Nigel Smith (STFC/RAL): The noble (liquids) route to dark matter detection
16:40 Neil Spooner (Sheffield): Towards a halo dark matter “telescope”
17:00 Ben Morgan (Warwick): Optimizing directional dark matter detectors
17:20 Discussion
17:30 Meeting ends
Convenors: Wyn Evans, Alex Murphy and Subir Sarkar
- Registration required:
- Yes
- Free:
- Yes
Additional information
All are welcome, if you intend to attend please email Alex Murphy to let us know
For more information
- Contact person:
- Alex Murphy
- Email:
- amurphy [ at ] ph.ed.ac.uk
- Website:
- The search for dark matter
