GLAST LAT DM & Exotic Physics Group Workshop

July 11-13, 2005 (2 ½ day meeting)


The Monday and Tuesday sessions start at 9AM and finish at 6 PM. The Wednesday Session goes from 9 AM until 12:00 PM.

Monday - July 11, 2005

 9:00 - 9:10 AM          Welcome - Steve Kahn, Deputy Director, KIPAC (10 min)

 9:10 - 9:50 AM          GLAST Overview - Elliott Bloom (40 min)

 9:50 - 10:30 AM        Current GLAST related DM work in Italy - Aldo Morselli (40 min)

10:30 - 10:50 AM      Break (20 min)

10:50 - 11:30 AM      Report on the DC-2 meeting in Italy, and DC2 plans - Richard Dubois (40 min)

11:30 - 12:10 PM       Dark Matter Overview I Theory - Ted Baltz (40 min)

12:10 - 1:30 PM         Lunch (80 min)

1:30 - 2:10 PM           Dark Matter experimental Challenges - Larry Wai (40 min)

2:10 - 2:50 PM           Extra Dimension overview Theory - Andrea Lionetto (40 min)

2:50 - 3:30 PM           Lorentz Invariance Tests Theory - Michael Peskin (40 min)

3:30 - 3:50 PM           Break (20 min)

3:50 - 4:30 PM           Experimental challenges for Extra Dimensions - Eduardo do Couto e Silva (40 min)

4:30 - 5:10 PM           Experimental Challenges for Lorentz Invariance - Jeff Scargle (40 min)

5:10 - 6:00 PM           Discussion (50 min)

7:00 PM                     dinner

 

Tuesday - July 12, 2005

9 AM - 9:45 AM       Modeling the diffuse emission of the Galactic center and at high latitudes - what we will do to try to improve over what was possible for EGRET- Seth Digel (40 min)

9:45 - 10:30 AM        Studies of diffuse emission with GALPROP - Igor Moskalenko (45 min)

10:30 - 10:50 AM      Break (20 min)


10:50 - 11:35 AM      Gamma-ray observations of the Galactic center and inner Galaxy - Olaf Reimer (45 min)

11:35 - noon               Discussion (35 min)

Noon - 1:30 PM Lunch (90 min)

1:30 - 6:00 PM Contributed talks of 30 minutes each.

1:30 - 2:00 PM           The search for DM in M31 using CELESTE - Eric Nuss (30 min)

2:00 - 2:30 PM           Energy Cross Calibration of GLAST with ACTs - Lester Miller (30 min)

2:30 - 3:00 PM           Limits on the baryon asymmetry in the universe from the low energy (<100 MeV) extra galactic background and prospects for GLAST. - Gary Godfrey

3:00 - 3:30 PM           Break (30)

3:30 - 4:00 PM           What is happening in Italy (continued) - Aldo Morselli (30 min)    

4:30 - 6 PM                More talks or discussion. (1.5 hours)

 

 

Wednesday - July 13, 2005

9AM - 12:00 PM       Planning for pre - launch publications, Collaboration meeting in Late August, and DC2 in January 06.

10:30 - 11 AM           break. (30 min)