Fifth International Heidelberg Conference on
DARK MATTER IN ASTRO AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
3-9 October, 2004
Fifth International Heidelberg Conference on
DARK MATTER IN ASTRO AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
3-9 October, 2004
| CHAIRMEN OF THE CONFERENCE | : | H.V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI-K, Heidelberg) |
| R. Arnowitt (Texas A&M) | ||
| LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE | : | R. Allen |
| R. Arnowitt, Chair | ||
| R. Bryan | ||
| V. Kocharovsky | ||
| C. Pope | ||
| E. Sezgin | ||
| J. White | ||
| SCIENTIFIC SECRETARY | : | I. Krivosheina (MPI-K Heidelberg and NIRFI, Nishnij Novgorod) |
| CONFERENCE SECRETARY | : | Ms. Beverly Guster |
| Department of Physics | ||
| Texas A&M University | ||
| Tel: (979)845-3622 (during conference hours) | ||
| Fax: (979)845-8674 | ||
| b-guster@physics.tamu.edu |
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The international Heidelberg conference on "Dark Matter in Astro and Particle Physics" is an interdisciplinary conference that brings together scientists working in fields as diverse as cosmology, astrophysics, particle and nuclear physics. The aim of the conference is to discuss the nature and origin of dark matter and dark energy which dominate our universe. The first three conferences took place in 1996, 1998, and 2000 in Heidelberg Germany (which gave the conference its name) and the 2002 conference took place in Cape Town South Africa. DARK 2004 will be hosted by the George P. and Cynthia W. Mitchell Institute For Fundamental Physics, of the Department of Physics Texas A&M University. Arrival date is Sunday October 3.
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All conference talks will take place in Room 601 Rudder Tower. In addition there are other rooms we have reserved in Rudder Tower which the conferees may use for private discussions: Room 501 on Monday, Tuesday Wednesday and Friday, and Room 308 on Thursday and Saturday. In addition to the conference talks there will be five public lectures: Adam Reiss (Monday), Charles Bennett (Tuesday), Eric Linder and Wendy Freedman (Thursday) and Rocky Kolb (Friday). We have listed these talks in the program, and all conferees are invited to attend them. |
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Monday, October 4
Tuesday, October 5
Wednesday, October 6
Thursday, October 7
Friday, October 8
Saturday, October 9
End of Conference |
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Major topics of DARK 2004 are:
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In addition to talks on the above topics, we are planning to have three special sessions at the conference devoted to dark matter detection. Session 1 will discuss current data from the different detector groups. Session 2 will be concerned with new detectors that will be on line in the near future, and Session 3 will discuss future one ton detectors and new approaches to dark matter detection. The idea is to be able to present to the active workers in the field a broad picture of the current status and future plans for dark matter detection, and we are contacting the major detector groups for this purpose. At present, there will be speakers from the following groups: CDMS, DAMA/LIBRA, Drift, EDELWEISS, GENIUS, Liquid Bubble Chamber, XENON, XMASS and ZEPLIN. |
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Elena Aprile (Columbia University) Pierluigi Belli (Universita di Roma) Charles Bennett (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Alain Blanchard (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de l'Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees) Paul Brink (Stanford University) Riccardo Cerulli (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) David Cline (University of California at Los Angeles) Silvia Costantini (University of Rome 1 and INFN) Priscilla Cushman (University of Minnesota) Wim De Boer (Karlsruhe University) Olivier Dore (Princeton University) Bhaskar Dutta (University of Regina) Andreas Eckart (Universitat zu Koln) Ryoji Enomoto (University of Tokyo) Nicolao Fornengo (Turin University) Wendy Freedman (Observatories of the Carnegie Institution) Burkhard Fuchs (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Heidelberg) Paolo Gondolo (University of Utah) Kim Griest (University of California at San Diego) Alex Gurevitch (Lebedev Institute of Physics) Jihn E. Kim (Seoul National University) Mariana Kirchbach (San Luis Potosi Uinversity) Hans Klapdor-Kleingrothaus (MPI-K, Heidelberg) Vitaly Kocharovsky (Texas A&M University) Edward Kolb (Fermilab-University of Chicago) George Kraniotis (Texas A&M University) Irina Krivosheina (MPI-K Heidelberg and NIRFI, Nishnij Novgorod) Alexander Kusenko (University of California, Los Angeles) Eric Linder (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory) Lee Loveridge (University of California, Los Angeles) Roland Luscher (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) Antonio Masiero (University of Padova) Chikaori Matsuda (University of Tokyo) Peter McIntyre (Texas A&M University) Dante Nakazawa (University of Chcago) Dimitri Nanopoulos (Texas A&M University) Pran Nath (Northeastern Univeristy) Keith Olive (University of Minnesota) Ludvig Popeko (St-Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute) Margarida Rebelo (CERN) Adam Riess (Space Telescope Science Institute) Leszek Roszkowski (University of Sheffield) Mikhail Sazhin (Sternberg Astronomical Institute) Richard Schnee (Case Western Reserve University) Kris Sigurdson (California Institute of Technology) Nigel Smith (Rutherford Appelton Laboratory) Neil Spooner (University of Sheffield) Alexander Studenikin (Moscow State University) Anatoly Svidzinsky (Texas A&M University) Atsushi Takeda (Kyoto University) Ioannis Vergados (University of Ioannina) Alexey Vikhlinin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Hanguo Wang (University of California, Los Angeles) Robert Webb (Texas A&M University) James White (Texas A&M University) Yvonne Wong (DESY) |
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The conference fees are:
US $325 until August 1, 2004
US $350 after August 1, 2004
The conference fees include the welcoming party, coffee breaks, excursion, conference
banquet and a copy of the proceedings. Conference fees can be paid by major credit
cards or in cash in US $. The conference will provide bussing from the Hilton hotel
to the university conference building. Some hotels have free pickups from the
College Station airport (Easterwood Airport).
The registration form can be found here: TRAVEL INFORMATION
College Station is serviced by the international airports at Dallas and
Houston with commuter flights by American Airlines from Dallas to
College Station (about 50 minutes) and by Continental Airlines from
Houston to College Station (about 35 minutes). It is possible to rent
a car in Houston and drive to College Station (about an hour and 45 minutes).
However, parking on campus is exceedingly difficult. (The drive from
Dallas to College Station is 3 1/2 to 4 hours.)
COMPUTER AND INTERNET FACILITIES
Wireless laptops will operate in Room 601 Rudder Tower. There will be laptop connections for non wireless operation in the rear of Room 601 as well as several computers allowing connection to the internet. Staff will be available in the rear of Room 601 for help.
SOCIAL PROGRAM
There will be a reception Sunday, October 3, 6:30 - 9:00 PM at the Faculty Club, top floor of Rudder Tower (buses to Rudder Tower will leave starting 6:15 PM from the Hilton Hotel, and will circle back and forth during the reception).
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer. Directions for
preparing a camera ready copy will be sent to the speakers shortly after
the end of the conference.
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