Dark Stars Workshop

November 7-11

University of Michigan
3481 Randall Lab
  Ann Arbor MI 48109-1040

 

Dark Stars Workshop 
November 7-11, 2009
3481 Randall Lab
Saturday 11/7    
10:00am Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
11:00am Paolo   Gondolo University of Utah
  "Intro to Dark Stars Talk and Discussion"
12:30pm  Lunch  
3:00pm Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
3:30pm Discussion  
   
Sunday 11/8      
10:00am Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
11:00am Doug  Spolyar Fermilab
   
11:45am Cosmin  Ilie University of Michigan
  "Boosted annihilation DM rates and Dark Stars"
12:30pm  Lunch  
3:00pm Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
3:30pm Discussion  
   
Monday 11/9      
10:00am Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
10:30am Discussion  
11:30am  Lunch  
1:00pm Pat  Scott Stockholm
  "Dark stars at the Galactic centre and the DarkStars public code"
1:45pm Sofia   Sivertsson Royal Institute of Technology+ Oskar Klein Centre, Sweden
  "The WIMP capture process for dark stars, including scattering"
2:30pm Grant Mathews University of Notre Dame
   
3:15pm Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
3:30pm Discussion  
8:00pm  Reception at Freese Residence (Flyers in Packets and on Registration table)
   
Tuesday 11/10      
10:00am Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
11:45am Pearl  Sandick  University of Texas
  "Cosmic Neutrinos from Dark Stars"
12:30pm  Lunch  
1:30pm Aravind Natarajan Carnegie Mellon University
  "Hydrogen 21cm cosmology without active stars"
2:15pm Marcel  Zemp University of Michigan
  "The Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos: Recent Insights from High Resolution Simulations"
3:30pm Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
4:00pm Discussion  
7:30pm  Dinner at Palio Restaurant (Flyers in Packets and on Registration table)
   
Wednesday 11/11    
10:00am Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
10:30am Marta Volonteri University of Michigan
  "Pathways to massive black holes seed formation"
12:00pm  YHET Brown Bag Seminar- Arjun Bagchi of Harish Chandra Research Institute 
  "The non-relativistic limit of AdS/CF"
3:00pm Coffee and Refreshments in 3481 Randall Lab
3:30pm Discussion  

 

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