Workshop Program
Workshop Program
LDMA2015
Scientific Program
The workshop scientific program will begin on Wednesday, June 24, and will end on Friday, June 26, at lunch time. The program will include presentation sessions in the morning and afternoon, followed by discussion sessions.  
Social Program
The welcome reception will take place at the Sala consigliare of the Camogli City Hall, from 18:00 to 19:30 on June 23, instead of the Castello della Dragonara. The social dinner will take place on Thursday, June 25.
 
            Tuesday June 23
16:30 - 18:30    Registration at the Hotel Cenobio
18:00 - 19:30    Welcome reception at the Sala Consigliare of the Camogli City Hall
Wednesday June 24
08:30 - 09:15    Registration
09:15 - 09:30    Welcome
09:30 - 10:00    A theoretical overview on dark forces
                         Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria) 
10:00 - 10:30    Cosmological constraints on light dark matter
                         Jonathan Davis (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris)
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
Chair: Eugenio Scapparone (INFN - Bologna)
11:00 - 11:30    Search for light dark matter with fixed target experiments at hadron machines
                         Patrick deNiverville (University of Victoria)
11:30 - 12:00    LDM search at the Fermilab BNB with the MiniBooNE detector
                         Robert Cooper (Indiana University)
12:00 - 12:30    Dark photon search in heavy ion experiments at RHIC and LHC
                         Taku Gunji (University of Tokio)
12:30 - 13:00    Discussion 1
13:00 - 14:30    Lunch
Chair: Annalisa D’Angelo (Università di Roma Tor Vergata and INFN)
14:30 - 15:00    Light dark matter searches with fixed target experiments at lepton machines
                          Gordan Krnjaic (Perimeter Institute)
15:00 - 15:30    The Jefferson Lab facility for light dark matter searches
                         Stepan Stepanyan (Jefferson Lab)
15:30 - 16:00    The APEX experiment at Jefferson Laboratory
                         James Beacham (Ohio State University)
16:00 - 16:30    Coffee Break
Chair: Alessandra Filippi (INFN - Torino)
16:30 - 17:00    The HPS experiment at Jefferson Laboratory 
                         Norman Graf (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
17:00 - 17:30    Search for dark forces at BABAR
                         Alberto Lusiani (Scuola Normale Superiore and INFN-Pisa)
17:30 - 18:00    Search for dark forces at Belle and Belle II
                         Gianluca Inguglia (DESY - Hamburg)
18:00 - 18:30    Discussion 2
Thursday June 25 
Chair: Raffaella De Vita (INFN - Genova)
09:00 - 09:30    Heavy photon search at Mainz
                         Harald Merkel (J. Gutenberg University Mainz)
09:30 - 10:00    The MESA facility for light dark matter search
                         Sabato Stefano Caiazza (J. Gutenberg University Mainz) 
10:00 - 10:30    The LNF facility for light dark matter search
                         Paolo Valente (INFN - Roma)
10:30 - 11:00    Coffee Break
Chair: Fabio Bossi (INFN - LNF)
11:00 - 11:30    The PADME experiment at LNF
                         Mauro Raggi (INFN - LNF)
11:30 - 12:00    LDM search at Cornell
                         Jim Alexander (Cornell University)
12:00 - 12:30    The BDX experiment
                         Marzio De Napoli (INFN - Catania)
12:30 - 13:00    Discussion 3
13:00 - 14:30    Lunch
Chair: Nicolao Fornengo (Università di Torino and INFN)
14:30 - 15:00    Dark matter halos as particle colliders for light dark sectors
                          Sean Tulin (York University)
15:00 - 15:30    Light dark matter and direct detection
                         Claudia Nones (CEA - IRFU - SPP)
15:30 - 16:00    Directionality in DM detection
                         Daniel Snowden-Ifft (Occidental College)
16:00 - 16:30    Coffee Break
Chair: D. Watts (University of Edinburgh)
16:30 - 17:00    Carbon nanotubes potentialities for directional searches of dark matter particles with M<10 GeV
                         Gianluca Cavoto (INFN - Roma)
17:00 - 17:30    Search for dark forces in nuclear transitions
                         Attila Krasznahorkay  (Hungarian Academy of Science)
17:30 - 18:00    Accelerator driven searches in underground laboratory
                         Maxim Pospelov (University of Victoria)
18:00 - 18:30    Discussion 4
20:00                Social Dinner at Hotel Cenobio
Friday June 26 
Chair: Giacomo Polesello (INFN - Pavia)
09:00 - 09:30    Searches for dark matter at the LHC and their interpretation
                         Greg Landsberg (Brown University)
09:30 - 10:00    Search for long-lived particles at LHC (or hadron colliders)
                         Stefano Giagu (Università di Roma la Sapienza)
10:00 - 10:30    The SHIP experiment at CERN
                         Walter Bonivento (INFN - Cagliari)
10:30 - 11:00    LDM searches and millicharge experiments
                         Eder Izaguirre (Perimeter Institute)
11:00 - 11:30    Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30    Discussion  and closeout
End of the workshop