LHC and Dark Matter Workshop 2009

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Time	Tuesday, January 6th

10:55am	Gordon Kane (University of Michigan) - Welcoming Comments
11:00-11:30am	Giora Mikenberg (Weizmann Institute/CERN)
	"ATLAS detector status and commissioning"
11:30-12:00pm	James Pivarski (Texas A&M University)
	"Early Discovery Channels in CMS"
2:00-2:30pm	Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah)
	"LHC, Dark Matter, and Non-Standard Cosmologies"
2:30-:300pm	Howard Baer (University of Oklahoma)
	"Mixed Axion/Axino Dark Matter in Yukawa-Unified Models, and Prospects for LHC"
3:30-4:00pm	Neal Weiner (New York University)

4:00-4:30pm	Lian-Tao Wang (Princeton)
	"Non-abelian Dark Sectors and their Collider Signatures"
4:30-5:15pm	PAMELA Collaboration - Mirko Boezio (University of Trieste)
	"Indirect Detection of Dark Matter with PAMELA"

Time	Wednesday, January 7th
11:00-11:30am	Paolo Rumerio (University of Maryland) - CMS
	"Status of CMS Experiement"
11:30-12:00pm	Jesse Thaler (University of California, Berkeley)
	"Dark Matter through the Axion Portal"
2:00-2:30pm	Dan Phalen (University of Michigan)
	"PAMELA from Dark Matter Annihilations to Vector Leptons"
2:30-:300pm	Teruki Kamon (Texas A&M)
	"Probing Supersymmetric Cosmology at the LHC"
3:00-3:30pm	Tommaso Lari (CERN) - ATLAS
	"Exclusive searches"
Time	Thursday, Janaury 8th
11:00-11:30am	Scott Watson (University of Michigan
	"LHC as a Probe on the Cosmological Origin of Dark Matter"
11:30-12:00pm	Gordon Kane (University of Michigan)
	"Is the PAMELA Positron Excess Winos?"
2:00-2:30pm	George Redlinger (Brookhaven National Laboratory) - ATLAS
	"Inclusive Searches. How Can We Discover SUSY in 2009?"
2:30-:300pm	Anwar Bhatti (Rockerfeller University) - CMS
	"Searches for SUSY in all-hadronic and lepton+jets+MET Final States"
3:30-4:00pm	Joakim Edsjo (Stockholm University)
	"Indirect Searches for Dark Matter and their Uncertainties"
4:00-4:30pm	James Lamb (University of California, Santa Barbara) - CMS
	"Data Driven Methods to Estimate the Vector Boson + Jets Background to New Phenomena Searches Involving Missing Energy at CMS"
4:30-5:15pm	Fermi/GLAST - Aldo Morselli (University of Rome)
	"Search for Dark Matter in the Fermi era"

Time	Friday, January 9th
10:30am	Kathryn Zurek (FNAL)
	"Multi-Component Dark Matter and the ATIC/PAMELA Signals"
11:00-11:30am	Spencer Chang (University of California - Davis)
	"Inelastic Dark Matter and DAMA"
11:30-12:00pm	Brent Nelson (Northeastern University)
	"How Can Dark Matter Observations Help Solve the LHC Inverse Problem?"
2:00-2:30pm	Oliver Gutsche (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) - CMS
	"Dilepton Final States Studeies at CMS: From SM to New Physics"
2:30-:300pm	Partha Konar (University of Florida)
	"\sqrt{s}_min: A Global Inclusive Variable for Determining the Mass Scale of New Physics at LHC"
3:30-4:00pm	Hideki Okawa (Tokyo) - ATLAS
	"Determination of background from W/Z and top. What do we need to find SUSY?"
4:00-4:30pm	Richard Teuscher (IPP and University of Toronto) - ATLAS
	"Determination of background from QCD. What do we need to find SUSY?"
4:30-5:00pm	David Morrissey (Harvard University)
	"Candidates for Inelastic Dark Matter"
Time	Saturday, Janaury 10th
11:00-11:30am	Brooks Thomas (University of Arizona)
	"Collider Signatures of Inert Doublet Dark Matter"
11:30-12:00pm	Chris Savage (University of Minnesota - FTPI)

12-12:30pm	Itay Yavin (Princeton)
	"Light-Dark States at the LHC"
12:30pm	Workshop concludes