Monday, Oct 29, 2012

• Limit on sterile neutrino contribution from the Mainz Neutrino Mass Experiment, Christine Kraus, Andrej Singer, Kathrin Valerius, Christian Weinheimer [Patrick]
• Highlights from "Neutrinos at the forefront of elementary particle physics and astrophysics" [Samia]
• Search for Large Extra Dimensions Based on Observations of Neutron Stars with the Fermi-LAT. Berenji, B. [Gf]

Monday, October 22

• Chasing a consistent picture for dark matter direct searches. Chiara Arina
• Gravity waves from cosmic bubble collisions. Michael P. Salem, Prashant Saraswat, Edgar Shaghoulian
• Unidentified sources in the Fermi-LAT second source catalog: the case for DM subhalos. Hannes-S. Zechlin, Dieter Horns

Monday, October 15

Today we meet in room B0.206

• Sensitivity of IceCube-DeepCore to neutralino dark matter in the MSSM-25. Hamish Silverwood, Pat Scott, Matthias Danninger, Christopher Savage, Joakim Edsjö, Jenni Adams, Anthony M Brown, Klas Hultqvist
• Binaries with the eyes of CTA; J.M. Paredes, S. Markoff, et al. [CTA Consortium]
• Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation; Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi, Martin J. Savage
• Cosmic Dark Energy Emerging from Gravitationally Effective Vacuum Fluctuations: Bruno M. Deiss

Monday, October 8

• Nonlinear shock acceleration and gamma-ray emission from Tycho and Kepler. G. Morlino, D. Caprioli [Jacco]
• Constraints on Dark Matter Annihilation in Clusters of Galaxies from Diffuse Radio Emission. Emma Storm, Tesla E. Jeltema, Stefano Profumo, Lawrence Rudnick [Jacco]
• An argument that the dark matter is axions, P. Sikivie [Salome -> ?]
• Sensitivity of IceCube-DeepCore to neutralino dark matter in the MSSM-25. Hamish Silverwood, Pat Scott, Matthias Danninger, Christopher Savage, Joakim Edsjö, Jenni Adams, Anthony M Brown, Klas Hultqvist Postponed to next week
• The Shortest-Known–Period Star Orbiting Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole, L. Meyer, A. M. Ghez et al. [Gf]
• Testing MOND Over a Wide Acceleration Range in X-Ray Ellipticals. Mordehai Milgrom [Gf]

Monday, October 1st

Today we will meet the new postdocs and students, and hear what they are working on.

We will also discuss Jet Launching Structure Resolved Near the Supermassive Black Hole in 
M87, perhaps our astro friends have comments?

Monday, September 24

• Stringent and Robust Constraints on the Dark Matter Annihilation Cross Section From the Region of the Galactic Center: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3015 [Shin'Ichiro]
• Radio Mini-Halo Emission from Cosmic Rays in Galaxy Clusters and Heating of the Cool Cores: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4639 [Shin'Ichiro]
• Ben will tell us about "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?" by Polchinski et al http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.3123

Monday, September 17

• Gf will give an overview of IDM 2012 and discuss the plans for IDM 2014
• Ben will tell us about "Black Holes: Complementarity or Firewalls?" by Polchinski et al http://arxiv.org/abs/arXiv:1207.3123
• Maria will tell us about "Nuclear uncertainties in the spin-dependent structure functions for direct dark matter detection" by Cerdeno et al. http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6426