Prof.Dr.H.V.Klapdor-Kleingrothaus

Teilchenphysik ohne Beschleuniger (Non Accelerator Particle Physics)

Experimental and theoretical research in the areas of
Double Beta Decay, Dark Matter Searches and Physics beyond the Standard Model

Preliminary Program of DARK2002

Program of DARK2002 (Status 28.01.02):

Fourth HEIDELBERG International Conference on
Dark Matter in Astro- and Particle Physics

Cape Town, South Africa, 4 - 9 February, 2002

Preliminary PROGRAM, status 28.01.02.


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Monday, February 4

9h20 - 9h30 : OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE

Chairman: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)
R.D. Viollier (Univ. Cape Town,SA)

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND I

Chairman: H.P. Nilles (Univ. Bonn, Germany)

9h30 - 10h10 A. Melchiorri (Oxford Un., UK): "Multiple Peaks in the CMB from BOOMERanG and DASI : Consequences for Cosmology"

10h10 - 10h35 A.R. Cooray (Caltech, USA): "New Opportunities in Large Scale Structure and Cosmic Microwave Background"

10h35 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK

THERMODYNAMICS OF DARK MATTER

Chairman: R.D. Viollier (Univ. Cape Town, SA)

11h00 - 11h30 R. Lindebaum (Univ. Natal, SA): "On the Formation of Degenerate Fermion Balls"

11h30 - 12h00 P.H. Chavanis (Toulouse, France): "The Self-Gravitating Fermi Gas"

12h00 - 12h30 N. Bilic (Zagreb, Croatia): "Unified Description of Dark Matter at the Center

12h30 - 14h00 LUNCH

DARK MATTER AND THE GALACTIC CENTER, BLACK HOLES

Chairman: L. Guzzo (Obs. di Brera, Italy)

14h00 - 14h40 A. Eckart (Cologne, Germany): "The Dark Mass at the Center of the Milky Way"

14h40 - 15h10 F.K. Baganoff (Cambridge, USA): "Chandra X-ray Spectroscopic Imaging of Sagittarius A*"

15h10 - 15h40 G.M. Madejski (SLAC, USA): "Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei"

15h40 - 16h10 R.D. Viollier (Univ. Cape Town, SA): "Comparison of Black Holes and Fermion Ball Scenario of the Galactic Center"

16h10 - 16h40 COFFEE BREAK

MACHOs AND MICROLENSING

Chairman: K. Zuber (Un. Dortmund, Germany)

16h40 - 17h10 K. Griest (Univ. Calif., San Diego, USA): "Baryonic Dark Matter and Machos"

17h10 - 17h40 A.J. Drake (Liverm. Nat. Lab., USA): "The Next Generation Microlensing Survey"

18:15 - 20:00 Cocktail Party (at the conference center)


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Tuesday, February 5

SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER I, AND ANTIMATTER

Chairman: H. Minakata (Metro Univ., Japan)

8h30 - 9h00 S. Rosier-Lees (LAPP, France): "LEP Constraints on SUSY Dark Matter"

9h00 - 9h30 V. Spanos (Austrian Ac. of Sc., Vienna, Austria): "Supersymmetric Dark Matter and Recent Experimental Constraints"

9h30 - 10h00 H. Meyer (DESY, Germany): "Search for Supersymmetry at the HERA EP Collider"

10h00 - 10h30 W. Wallraff (Aachen, Germany): "Search for Antimatter"

10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK

SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER II

Chairman: J.W.F. Valle (Univ. Valencia, Spain)

11h00 - 11h40 J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland): "Trends in Astroparticle Physics"

11h40 - 12h20 R. Arnowitt (Univ. Texas, USA): "Supersymmetry and Dark Matter"

12h20 - 12h50 H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany): "Evidence for Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay and Hot Dark Matter"

12h50 - 14h00 LUNCH

SUPERSYMMETRY, INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY I

Chairman: R. Arnowitt (Univ. Texas, USA)

14h00 - 14h40 P. Nilles (Univ. Bonn, Germany): "Non-Thermal Production of Gravitinos and Inflatinos in the Inflationary Universe"

14h40 - 15h15 J.E. Kim (Univ. Seoul, Korea): "Axinos as Dark Matter of the Universe"

15h15 - 15h40 R. Hofmann (MPI, Muenchen, Germany): "Gauged Inflation"

15h40 - 16h00 X.H. Meng (Nankai Un., Tianjin, China): "Dark Energy in the LFRW Cosmology"

16h00 - 16h30 COFFEE BREAK

INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY II

Chairman: N. Smith (Rutherford Lab., UK)

16h30 - 17h00 S. Bludman (DESY, Germany): "Quintessence Cosmology and the Cosmic Coincidence"

DARK MATTER SEARCHES I

Chairman: N. Smith(Rutherford Lab., UK)

17h00 - 17h30 D. Cline (Univ. Calif., USA): "Zeplin IV : A One-Ton Ultimate WIMP Detector"

NEW APPROACHES TO DARK MATTER

Chairman: S. Bludman (DESY, Germany)

17h30 - 17h50 A. Magnon (Univ. Aubiore, France): "Critical Cosmic State and Dark Energy: A logical (pre-geometric) approach"

17h50 - 18h10 R.A. Vera (Univ. of Concept., Chile): "Dark Matter and CMB Radiation Fixed by an Experimental Approach to Gravitation"


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Wednesday, February 6

Excursion through the Cape Peninsula


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Thursday, February 7

NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER I

Chairman: P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA)

8h30 - 9h00 E. Otten (Univ. Mainz, Germany): "Neutrino Mass from Tritium Beta Decay"

9h00 - 9h25 M. Steidl (Forsch. Karlsruhe, Germany): "The Future of Tritium Beta Decay Experiments"

SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER III

Chairman: P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA)

9h25 - 10h00 L. Roszkowski (Univ. Lancaster, UK): "On SUSY WIMP Detection"

10h00 - 10h30 J.D. Vergados (Ioannina Univ., Greece): "SUSY Dark Matter in the Universe - Theoretical Direct Detection Rates"

10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK

SUPERSYMMETRY AND DARK MATTER IV

Chairman: J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland):

11h00 - 11h40 P. Nath (Northeastern Un., Boston, USA): "The Status of Supersymmetry in the Light of Recent Experimental Observations"

NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER II

Chairman: J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland):

11h40 - 12h15 H. Minakata (Metro Univ., Japan): "Single and Double Beta Decay Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters"

12h15 - 12h45 T. Kajino (Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan): "New Constraints on Massive Degenerate Neutrinos from Primordial Nucleosynthesis and Cosmic Microwave Background Fluctuations"

12h45 - 14h00 LUNCH

COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND II AND LARGE SCALE STRUCTURE

Chairman: A. Melchiorri (Oxford Univ., UK)

14h00 - 14h30 A.J.S. Hamilton (Colorado Univ., USA): "Weighing Dark Energy, Dark Matter and Neutrinos with the Microwave Background, Galaxies and the Lyman Alpha Forest"

14h30 - 15h00 L. Guzzo (Obs. di Brera, Italy): "Large Scale Structure from Galaxy and Cluster Surveys"

EXTRA DIMENTIONS

Chairman: T. Kajino (Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

15h00 - 15h30 C. Burgess (Inst. Adv. St., Princeton, USA and Un. Quebec, Canada): "Dark Energy from Large Extra Dimensions"

15h30 - 16h00 COFFEE

NEUTRINOS AND HOT DARK MATTER III

Chairman: T. Kajino(Nat. Astr. Obs., Univ. Tokyo, Japan)

16h00 - 16h40 J.W. Valle (Univ. Valencia, Spain): "Status of Neutrino Physics"

16h40 - 17h20 A. Hime (Los Alamos, USA): "Solar Neutrino Observations at SNO"

17h20 - 17h50 K. Zuber (Un. Dortmund, Germany): "Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillation Experiments"


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Friday, February 8

DARK MATTER IN GALAXIES

Chairman: C. Burgess (Inst. Adv. St., Princeton, USA and Un. Quebec, Canada)

8h30 - 8h55 C. Cress (Univ. Natal, Pietermarizburg): "Testing Hierarchical Structure Formation Scenarios"

8h55 - 9h25 B. Fuchs (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany): "Dynamical Constraints on the Decomposition of the Rotation Curves of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies"

9h25 - 9h55 N. Menci (Observ. Astr. di Roma, Italy): "Dark Matter and Baryons in Groups and Clusters of Galaxies"

9h55 - 10h25 D. Merritt (Rutgers Univ. USA): "Dynamics of Dark Matter Cusps"

10h25 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK

COSMIC RAYS AND DARK MATTER I

Chairman: B. Fuchs (Univ. Heidelberg, Germany)

11h00 - 11h35 T. Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ., USA): "Physics Beyond the GKZ Cutoff"

11h35 - 12h05 V. Berezinsky (INFN, Gran Sasso, Italy): "Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Superheavy Dark Matter"

12h05 - 12h35 Z. Fodor (Eotvos Univ., Budapest, Hungary): "Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: Clustering, GUT Scale and Neutrino Masses"

12h35 - 14h00 LUNCH

INFLATION AND DARK ENERGY II

Chairman: L. Roszkowski (Univ. Lancaster, UK)

14h00 - 14h30 H.M. Lee (Seoul Nat. Univ., Korea): "Self-Tuning Solution of the Cosmological Constant Problem with Antisymmetric Tensor Field"

14h30 - 15h00 G. Tupper (Univ. Cape Town, SA): "The Chaplygin Gas as Dark Matter and Dark Energy"

15h00 - 15h30 M.P. Leubner (Univ. Innsbruck, Austria): "Dark Matter Distribution from Gravitational Entropy Evolution"

15h30 - 16h00 W.H. Kinney (Columbia Univ., New York, USA): "Cosmology with a Long Range Repulsive Force"

16h00 - 16h30 COFFEE BREAK

STRUCTURE FORMATION AND DARK MATTER

Chairman: T. Weiler (Vanderbilt Univ., USA)

16h30 - 17h00 P. Fayet (Ecole Norm. Sup., Paris, France): "Constraining Dark Matter Candidates from Structure Formation"

17h00 - 17h25 C. Boehm (Nucl.& Astr. Lab. Oxford Univ., UK): "Interacting Dark Matter Disguised as Warm Dark Matter"

17h25 - 17h50 T. Matos (Cinvestav Univ., Mexico): "The Strong Self-Interacting Scalar Field Model"

18h15 Conference Banquet (DINNER AT NEETHLINGSHOF)


Monday, 04.02 Tuesday, 05.02 Wednesday, 06.02 Thursday, 07.02 Friday, 08.02 Saturday, 09.02


Saturday, February 9

DARK MATTER SEARCHES II

Chairman: W. Rhode (Univ. Wuppertal, Germany)

8h30 - 9h10 P. Belli (Rome Univ., Italy): "Progress on DAMA Experiments"

9h10 - 9h35 A. Juillard (CSNSM, Orsay, France): "Dark matter Search with 320g Ionization/Heat Ge Bolometers in the EDELWEISS Experiment"

9h35 - 10h05 N.J.T. Smith (Rutherford Lab., UK): "Current Status and Results of the UK Based Dark Matter Direct Detection Searches and the Boulby Underground Facility"

10h05 - 10h30 F. Giuliani (Lisbon Univ., Portugal): "The Status of SIMPLE in 2002"

10h30 - 11h00 COFFEE BREAK

DARK MATTER SEARCHES III

Chairman: P. Belli (Rome Univ., Italy)

11h00 - 11h30 W. Seidel (MPI, Muenchen, Germany): "Results and Plans of the CRESST Dark Matter Search"

11h30 - 12h00 J. Dawson (Imperial Coll., London, UK): "Developments of a Two-Phase Xenon WIMP Detector"

12h00 - 12h30 S. Colafrancesco (Observ. Astr. di Roma, Italy): "Astrophysical Constraints on Neutralino Dark Matter from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters"

12h30 - 14h00 LUNCH

DARK MATTER SEARCHES IV

Chairman: E. Otten (Univ. Mainz, Germany)

14h00 - 14h30 L. Thompson (Univ. Sheffield, UK): "Dark matter Prospects with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope"

14h30 - 15h00 W. Rhode (Univ. Wuppertal, Germany): "The Potential of AMANDA for Dark Matter Search"

15h00 - 15h25 I.V. Krivosheina (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany and NIRFI, N-Novgorod, Russia): "Dark matter Search by Genius-TF and GENIUS"

15h25 - 15h55 J. Peltoniemi (Univ. Oulu, Finland): "Future Underground Laboratory in Finland"

15h55 - 16h25 COFFEE BREAK

CONFERENCE SUMMARY

Chairman: H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI, Heidelberg, Germany)

16h25 - 17h25 J. Ellis (CERN, Switzerland): "Beyond the Standard Model - the Future"

END OF CONFERENCE DARK 2002


Last updated : 28 Januar 2002 by I.Krivosheina