Valencia Workshop on the Small-Scale Structure of the Universe and Self-Interacting Dark Matter (9-20 de junio de 2025)

Valencia Workshop on the Small-Scale Structure of the Universe and Self-Interacting Dark Matter

desde lunes, 9 de junio de 2025 (8:00) hasta viernes, 20 de junio de 2025 (17:10)

lunes, 9 de junio de 2025

8:15 Registration
Registration
8:15 - 9:00
9:00 Words of IFIC´s director - Nuria Rius (IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)
Words of IFIC´s director
- Nuria Rius (IFIC, Valencia University-CSIC)
9:00 - 9:05
9:05 Welcome - Camilo Garcia Cely (IFIC)
Welcome
- Camilo Garcia Cely (IFIC)
9:05 - 9:15
9:15 Opening remarks - Manoj Kaplinghat (UC-Irvine)
Opening remarks
- Manoj Kaplinghat (UC-Irvine)
9:15 - 9:30
9:30
9:30 - 13:20
Contribuciones

9:30 Review talk: The state of the art of self-interacting dark matter simulations - Moritz Fischer (LMU)

10:10 Extracting Dark Matter from Dwarfs - Lina Necib (MIT)

10:30 The rich astrophysical phenomenology of a dissipative dark sector - Xuejian Shen (MIT)

10:50 Endo- and exothermic scattering in Milky Way-mass halos - Stephanie O'Neil (University of Pennsylvania, Princeton)

11:50 A detailed characterisation of low-mass dark matter subhalo tidal tracks via numerical simulations - Alejandra Aguirre-Santaella (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University (ICC Durham))

12:10 Moderated discussion
15:30
15:30 - 18:50
Contribuciones

15:30 Stellar halos as a probe of SIDM - Azadeh Fattahi (Stockholm University - Durham University)

15:50 Exploring solutions to the dwarf galaxy diversity problem - Akaxia Cruz (Simons Foundation)

16:10 Universal subhalo distributions across mass, redshift, hierarchy and cosmology - Jiaxin Han (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

17:10 MARVEL-ous Dark Matter Constraints using Dwarf Galaxies - Ferah Munshi (George Mason University)

17:30 Nature, nurture, and the phase space distribution of the Milky Way's high redshift progenitors today - Balu Sreedhar (University of Seville, Spain)
19:00 Welcome cocktail at the Botanic Garden
Welcome cocktail at the Botanic Garden
19:00 - 20:00
martes, 10 de junio de 2025
9:30
9:30 - 13:00
Contribuciones

9:30 Review talk: Strong lensing as a tool for measuring the properties of dark matter - Anna Nierenberg (UC Merced)

10:10 How 30+ quadruply-imaged quasars can constrain self-interacting dark matter - Daniel Gilman (University of Chicago)

10:30 Exploring the identity of dark matter with galaxy strong lensing - Ran Li (Beijing Normal University)

10:50 CDM, SIDM or Baryons: Subhalo detection with simulation-based inference from galaxy-scale strong lenses - Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta (Durham University)

11:50 Interpretable Machine Learning for Constraining Self-Interacting Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters - Ethan Tregidga (EPFL)

12:02 The role of Stellar Velocity Anisotropy and Dark Matter of Massive Ellipticals in H0 inference via Strong Lensing - Vishal Verma (CUNY Graduate Center)

12:14 The “little dark dot”: Evidence for Self-Interacting Dark Matter in the Strong Lens SDSSJ0946+1006? - Shubo Li (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:26 The dense, low-mass perturbers in B1938+666 and J0946+1006: implications for cold and self-interacting dark matter - Tajalli Maryam (MPA)
15:15
15:15 - 18:20
Contribuciones

15:15 Is the dark substructure in lens J0946+1006 a core-collapsed SIDM subhalo? - Quinn Minor (CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College)

15:35 The overconcentrated dark halo in the strong lens SDSS J0946 + 1006 is a subhalo: evidence for self-interacting dark matter? - Wolfgang Enzi (Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation Portsmouth)

15:55 Gravitational imaging detection of a 10^6 solar mass object in the strong lens system JVAS B1938+66 - Devon Powell (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

16:15 Emerging Opportunities to Resolve Challenging Observations through Self-Interacting Dark Matter with Mass Segregation - Daneng Yang (Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210023, China)

17:10 Interacting dark matter dark energy scenarios - Olga Mena (IFIC/CSIC-UV)

17:30 Stress-testing CDM with cluster-lenses - Priya Natarajan (Yale Universtiy)

17:50 Moderated discussion
18:30 Walking tour
Walking tour
18:30 - 20:30
miércoles, 11 de junio de 2025
9:30
9:30 - 13:00
Contribuciones

9:30 Review talk: Self-interacting dark matter candidates in dark sectors - Xiaoyong Chu

10:10 Self-interacting dark matter and inelasticity - Kallia Petraki (ENS and Sorbonne University)

10:30 Profiling Dark Matter Spikes with Gravitational Waves - Prolay Krishna Chanda (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)

10:50 Dark matter bound-state formation in the sun - Thomas Hambye (Brussels University (ULB))

11:50 Dark sector to the rescue of large neutrino masses in cosmology - Drona Vatsyayan (IFIC (UV-CSIC))

12:02 Dark Matter in an Evanescent Three-Brane Randall-Sundrum Scenario - Alejandro Muñoz Ovalle (IFIC-UV)

12:14 Color-Flavor Locked SIDM - Lorenzo De Ros (TUM)

12:26 Moderated discussion
16:10 Coffee break (with Horchata)
Coffee break (with Horchata)
16:10 - 17:00
jueves, 12 de junio de 2025
9:30
9:30 - 13:19
Contribuciones

9:30 Review talk: Particle nature of dark matter with stellar streams - Ana Bonaca (Carnegie Observatories)

10:10 Shaping the Galactic potential: Environment, Mergers & Stellar Tracers - Arpit Arora (University of Washington)

10:30 Using stellar streams as dark matter detectors in the Milky Way-LMC collision - Denis Erkal (University of Surrey)

10:50 The unabridged satellite luminosity function of Milky Way-like galaxies in ΛCDM: the contribution of “orphan” satellites - Isabel Santos-Santos (Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University)

11:50 Challenges and complexities of studying the fundamental nature of dark matter with stellar streams - Guillaume Thomas (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

12:10 GravSphere2: An extended higher-order Jeans modeling approach - Andrés Bañares Hernández (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

12:22 SIDM interpretations of GD-1 and Crater II - Xingyu Zhang (Tsinghua University)
15:30
15:30 - 18:30
Contribuciones

15:30 Review talk: Dark matter determinations in Local Group dwarf galaxies - Giuseppina Battaglia (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

16:10 Feedback-independent constraints on halo structure from extended rotation curves: concentrations challenge LCDM (remote) - Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez (Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS))

17:10 Investigating the effect of stellar bars on the formation of dark matter halo cores - Sioree Ansar (Durham University, United Kingdom)

17:30 Challenges Posed by: Ultra-faint Dwarf Galaxies - Nitya Kallivayalil (University of Virginia)

17:50 Moderated discussion
20:30 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
20:30 - 22:30
Restaurante Trinquet de Pelayo: https://grupogastrotrinquet.com/restaurantes/pelayo/
viernes, 13 de junio de 2025
9:20
9:20 - 13:34
Contribuciones

9:30 Signatures of Self-Interacting Dark Sectors - Kimberly Boddy (University of Texas at Austin)

9:50 What is the mass scale of self-interacting dark matter? - Felix Kahlhoefer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

10:10 SIDM with low-temperature reheating - Nicolás Bernal (New York University Abu Dhabi)

10:30 Dynamics of simplified SIDM models during reheating. - Kuldeep Deka (New York University Abu Dhabi)

10:50 Dark Bondi Accretion Aided by Baryons and the Origin of JWST Little Red Dots - Wei-Xiang Feng (Tsinghua University)

11:50 Two coincidences are a clue: Probing a GeV-scale dark sector - Yi Chung (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik)

12:10 Moderated discussion

12:40 Conclusions of the week - Yu Hai-bo (University of California, Riverside)
16:30 Coffee break at CSIC Casa de la Ciencia
Coffee break at CSIC Casa de la Ciencia
16:30 - 16:50
sábado, 14 de junio de 2025
domingo, 15 de junio de 2025