Invited Speakers

I Astrophysical input into DM searches

  • Gianfranco Bertone (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)
    Dark matter, black holes, and gravitational waves
  • Chris McCabe (King's College, London, UK)
    Astrophysical constraints on dark matter detection
  • Francesca Calore (Laboratoire d’Annecy-le-Vieux de Physique Théorique, France)
    Astrophysical inputs and current constraints from indirect dark matter detection
  • Tracy Slatyer (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
    The gamma ray excess from the galactic centre

II The effects of baryons on the structure of dark matter halos

  • Andrew Pontzen (University College, London, UK)
    The core-cusp controversy: theory and observations
  • Matthias Steinmetz (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany)
    Dark matter structure in the Milky Way after Gaia

III Constraints on the nature of dark matter from astrophysics

  • Simon White (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
    The smallest dark matter halos and their annihilation radiation
  • Till Sawala (University of Helsinki, Finland)
    Lessons about dark matter from satellite galaxies
  • Noam Libeskind (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany)
    Planes of satellite galaxies
  • Alejandro Benitez-Llambay (University of Milano-Bicoccha, Italy)
    Dark galaxies as a probe of dark matter
  • Denis Erkal (University of Surrey, UK)
    Dark matter halo detection from gaps in tidal streams
  • Simona Vegetti (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
    Strong gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter
  • Catherine Heymans (University of Edinburgh/Ruhr Universitat Bochum; Scotland/Germany)
    Weak gravitational lensing as a probe of dark matter

IV Alternatives to cold dark matter

  • Alexey Boyarsky (University of Leiden, Netherlands)
    Warm dark matter
  • Andrew Robertson (University of Durham, UK)
    Self-interacting dark matter
  • Elisa Ferreira (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)
    Fuzzy dark matter