Schedule for: 25w2034 - New approaches to dark matter in galaxies and the Local Group
Beginning on Friday, August 22 and ending Sunday August 24, 2025
All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).
| Friday, August 22 | |
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| 16:00 - 19:30 |
Check-in begins (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre - open 24 hours) ↓ Note: the Lecture rooms are available after 16:00. (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre) |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Registration (TCPL Foyer) |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Welcome (TCPL 201) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Alyson Brooks: Dark matter, dwarf galaxies, and cosmological simulations (TCPL 201) |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Ferah Munshi: MARVEL-ous Dark Matter Constraints using Dwarf Galaxies (TCPL 201) |
| 17:20 - 17:40 | Nikhil Arora: Understanding the uniqueness of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group (TCPL 201) |
| 17:40 - 17:55 | Odelia Hartl: On the Orbital History of the Milky Way and M31 (TCPL 201) |
| 18:00 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 19:30 - 21:30 | Free time for visiting Banff (Other (See Description)) |
| 21:30 - 23:30 | Drinks at Banff Ave Brewing (Other (See Description)) |
| Saturday, August 23 | |
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| 07:00 - 08:45 |
Breakfast ↓ A buffet breakfast is served daily between 7:00am and 9:00am in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 |
Welcome Talk by BIRS Staff ↓ A brief introduction to BIRS with important logistical information, technology instruction, and opportunity for participants to ask questions. (TCPL 201) |
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Matthew Walker: Observations of dark matter in the local group (TCPL 201) |
| 09:30 - 09:50 | Lina Necib: Mapping out the Dark Matter in the Milky Way (TCPL 201) |
| 09:50 - 10:10 | Nora Shipp: How Disrupted are the Milky Way Satellites? Tidal Disruption Across Simulations and Observations (TCPL 201) |
| 10:10 - 10:40 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Oren Slone: Astrophysical Probes of the Particle Nature of a Secluded Dark Sector (TCPL 201) |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Hai-Bo Yu: Signatures of Gravothermal Collapse in Dark Matter Halos (TCPL 201) |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Maya Silverman: Mergers Matter: Gravothermal Collapse in Low-Mass Halos with Self-Interacting Dark Matter (TCPL 201) |
| 11:40 - 13:00 |
Lunch ↓ A buffet lunch is served daily between 11:30am and 1:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 13:00 - 13:20 |
Group Photo ↓ Meet in foyer of TCPL to participate in the BIRS group photo. The photograph will be taken outdoors, so dress appropriately for the weather. Please don't be late, or you might not be in the official group photo! (TCPL Foyer) |
| 13:20 - 13:40 | Matthew Buckley: Machine-Learning Milky Way Dark Matter (TCPL 201) |
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Aaron Vincent: Limits on dark matter across the Galaxy using the tip of the red giant branch (TCPL 201) |
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Elena Pinetti: Hunting axions with the James Webb Space Telescope (TCPL 201) |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | David Dunsky: Observing Dark Matter Decays to Gravitons via Graviton-Photon Conversion (TCPL 201) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Javier Reynoso Cordova: The effect of the LMC on non-standard interactions on dark matter direct detection experiments (TCPL 201) |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Evan Vienneau: How does the Large Magellanic Cloud impact dark matter annihilation signals in the Milky Way? (TCPL 201) |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 15:45 - 16:45 | Panel Discussion (TCPL 202) |
| 16:45 - 17:45 | Free time for collaboration (TCPL 202) |
| 17:45 - 19:30 |
Dinner ↓ A buffet dinner is served daily between 5:30pm and 7:30pm in the Vistas Dining Room, the top floor of the Sally Borden Building. Note that BIRS does not pay for meals for 2-day workshops. (Vistas Dining Room) |
| Sunday, August 24 | |
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| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room) |
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Simona Murgia: Dark matter searches with γ-rays: potential signals from the Milky Way and the the Local group (TCPL 201) |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Addy Evans: Gamma-ray quiet millisecond pulsars and the Galactic Center Excess (TCPL 201) |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Nassim Bozorgnia: Concluding Remarks (TCPL 201) |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Checkout by 11 ↓ 2-day workshop participants are welcome to use BIRS facilities (TCPL) until 15:00 on Sunday, although participants are still required to checkout of the guest rooms by 11 M. There is no coffee break service on Sunday afternoon, but self-serve coffee and tea are always available in the 2nd floor lounge, Corbett Hall. (Front Desk – Professional Development Centre) |
