Conference: “Visions for table-top experiments on dark matter”
Date: Feb 26th—27th, 2019
Place: Kavli IPMU, University of Tokyo
One of the greatest challenges in modern physics concerns the nature of dark matter. A pressing endeavour is to identify and characterise any non-gravitational interactions in the laboratory. A wave of new dark matter experiments are ongoing or proposed, which are typified by their utilisation of ultra-high precision techniques, often with "table-top" sized equipment. They offer new opportunities to test dark matter over a very large mass range, and probe different theoretical constructs. The field is ripe with new ideas and anticipation of discoveries.
This workshop will focus on the prospects for direct detection of dark matter via a wide variety of high-precision table-top experiments. It will address both theoretical and experimental developments in this emerging field, and the opportunities for improving—or finding new—search strategies.
Topics include:
Confirmed Speakers:
Shioji Asai (Tokyo)
Dmitry Budker (Mainz/Berkeley)
John Doyle (Harvard)
Hidetoshi Katori (Tokyo)
Shuta Nakajima (Kyoto)
Surjeet Rajendran (Berkeley)
Yannis Semertzidis (IBS Korea)
Yevgeny Stadnik (Mainz)
Stefan Ulmer (CERN/RIKEN)
Ron Walsworth (Harvard-Smithsonian)
Jun Ye (NIST/JILA)
Organizers: Alex Kusenko (UCLA/Kavli IPMU), Tom Melia (Kavli IPMU), Hirosi Ooguri (Kavli IPMU/Caltech), Tadayuki Takahashi (Kavli IPMU)
Email: ttdm_loc@ipmu.jp