Programme for the Dark Matter – Cairo Workshop 14th to 17th December 2015

First day Monday 14 December
From To   Speaker          Title
8:00 9:30            Registration
9:30 10:10 Opening and welcome  (Executive Director of STDF and Yehia Bahei El-Din, British University in Egypt)
10:20 11:00 Phil Harris Review of Collider Searches and Recap of Results
11:10 11:40           coffee break
11:40 12:20 James Pinfold Results from Atlas
12:30 2:00             Lunch
2:00 2:40 Kristian Hahn Status and Outlook of the LHC DM Working Group
2:50 3:20 Bjoern Penning Collider Searches in Association with Heavy Quarks
3:30 4:00            coffee break
4:00 4:40 Nicola de Fillippis The Higgs and DM
4:50 5:20 Waleed Abdallah SUSY DM in Light of LHC and LUX
Second day Tuesday 15 December
From To   Speaker            Title
9:30 10:10 Paolo Salucci Observations of DM in Galaxies and the Local Density in the Milky Way
10:20 11:00 Subha Majumdar Dark Matter Velocities and Implications for Direct Detection
11:10 11:40             coffee break
11:40 12:20 Marc Schumann Review of Direct Detection and the XENON Experiment
12:30 2:00               Lunch
2:00 2:40 Andrea Maccio Galaxy Formation and the Dark Matter Distribution
2:50 3:20 Jonathan Freundlich The Effect of Baryonic Density Fluctuations on DM Haloes
3:30 4:00              coffee break
4:00 4:40 Isabel Lopes Review of LUX and LZ
4:50 5:20 Barbara Clerbaux Ice Cube
5:30 6:00 Hossain Ahmed Direct Searches for Low-mass New Physics Particles at BABAR
Third day Wednesday 16 December
From To   Speaker          Title
9:30 10:10 Dan Hooper The Galactic Center Gamma Ray Excess
10:20 11:00 Shuang-Nan Zhang The High Energy Cosmic Radiation Detector
11:10 11:40             coffee break
11:40 12:20 Celine Boehm DM Models and Constraints
12:30 2:00               Lunch
2:00 2:40 Albert De Roeck DM Exotica
2:50 3:20 Ben Kilminster The Damic Experiment
3:30 4:00              coffee break
4:00 4:40 James Pinfold The MoeDAL Experiment and DM
4:50 5:20 Amr El-Zant WDM- Promises and Problems
Fourth day Thursday 17 December
From To Speaker            Title
9:30 10:10 James Bullock Dark Matter Properties and Galactic Structure
10:20 10:50 Ville Vaskonen Self-interacting Dark Matter and Cosmology of a Light Scalar Mediator
11:00 11:30             coffee break
11:30 12:10 David Wittmann Toward Self-Interaction Constraints With a New Sample of Merging Galaxy Clusters
12:30 2:00               Lunch

Local Organisers

  • Adel Awad
  • Sherif ElGammal
  • Gamal Nashed

Technical and executive

  • Yasser Abdellah
  • Mai El Sawy
  • Walaa Tarek