Dark Matter Sessions

Monday, 16 December 1996

Preliminary Program

Chair: M. Turner (U. Chicago)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Michael Turner, mturner@oddjob.uchicago.edu


Session I (2:00-4:10 pm)


2:00 Michael S. Turner: Summary of Poster Session
2:05 Marc Davis, Determination of Omega_0
2:30 Evalyn I. Gates: Microlensing and the Composition of the Galactic Halo
2:55 Neil J. Spooner: Summary of WIMP Searches
3:20 Karl van Bibber: First Results from a Large-scale Search for Cosmic Axions
3:40 Thomas Shutt: First Results from the CDMS Search for Neutralinos
4:00 Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille: Final Results from EROS 1

Session II (4:15-6:15 pm)


A. Microlensing (4:15-5:15)


4:15 Draza Markovic: Microlensing, the structure of the Galactic Halo and the determination of massive objects' mass function
4:25 Philippe Jetzer: Halo dark clusters of brown dwarfs and molecular clouds
4:35 Katherine Freese: Limits on Brown Dwarfs, Red Dwarfs, and White Dwarfs as Baryonic Halo Matter
4:45 Takashi Nakamura: The minimum total mass of MACHOS and halo models of the Galaxy
4:55 Brian Fields: Halo white dwarfs and the hot IGM
5:05 A.F. Zakharov: Microlensing by noncompact astronomical bodies

B. Black Holes as Dark Matter (5:15-5:45)


5:15 David Cline: Possible Evidence for Primordial BHs
5:25 Mike Hawkins: Primordial BHs as Dark Matter
5:35 Andrew Heckler: SDSS Search for Stellar Mass BHs

C. Other Topics in Dark Matter (5:45-6:15)


5:45 Matt Craig: Deducing the nature of the dark matter from cores in dark matter halos
5:55 Moshe Carmeli: Is galaxy dark matter a property of space-time?
6:05 Philip Mannheim: Dark matter: A challenge to standard gravity or a warning?

Posters