Small Scale Structure of Dark Matter

Event Type: Conference
End date:
June 6, 2008 at 9:00 AM

The nature of Dark Matter is one of the deepest mysteries in our understanding of modern physics, which is why various experiments, ranging from gamma ray/neutrino observatories to many direct detection experiments are designed to seek direct/indirect signatures of dark matter in the Universe. However, any comparison between the findings of these experiments with theoretical models would require an understanding of the structure of CDM on very small scales, which is very hard to model using numerical or analytic techniques.  

This workshop aims to bring together the experts in modeling, simulations and observations of the small scale structure of dark matter, with the purpose of finding a consensus on the structure of dark matter distribution, beyond the resolution of N-body simulations, as well as the most interesting observables that we should seek to theoretically understand, in the run-up to the upcoming experiments/observations.

 

Participants:

Gary Angus, University of St. Andrews
Andrew Benson, CalTech
Gienfranco Bertone, IAP
Neal Dalal, CITA
Juerg Diemand, UCO/Lick Observatory
Greg Dobler, Harvard University 
Pascal  Elahi, Queen's University
Liang Gao Durham University 
Paolo Gondolo, University of Utah
Anne  Green,  University of Nottingham
Manoj Kaplinghat, University of California, Irvine
Michael  Kuhlen,  IAS
Roya Mohayaee, IAP
Jim Peebles, Princeton University 
Lidia Pier,i University of Padova
Robyn Sanderson,  MIT
Louie Strigari, UC-Irvine
Mark Vogelsberger, Max-Planck-Institute 
Beth Willman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Andrew Zentner, University of Pittsburgh
Kathryn Zurek, University of Wisconsin-Madison