Name: Probe Combination for Dark Matter Physics in the Era of Large Surveys
Start: 2026-09-02T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-09-04T19:30:00-05:00
Location: KICP, University of Chicago

Probe Combination for Dark Matter Physics in the Era of Large Surveys

from Wednesday, September 2, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, September 4, 2026 (7:30 PM)

Monday, August 31, 2026
Tuesday, September 1, 2026
Wednesday, September 2, 2026
9:00 AM Connecting theory to observations
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: 401
Contributions

9:00 AM Connecting theory to observation with simulations and semi-analytic model - Andrew Benson

9:23 AM SUBMERGE: Subhalo Mass Evolution in Realistic Galactic Environments - Tara Dacunha (Stanford University)

9:35 AM Calibrating Semi-Analytic Models to Beyond Cold Dark Matter - Dimple Sarnaaik (Carnegie Observatories)

9:47 AM Gravothermal Collapse Across Knudsen Numbers - James Gurian (Perimeter Institute)

9:59 AM Discussion
10:15 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM Stellar streams as probe of DM
10:40 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 401
Contributions

10:40 AM Stellar streams as probes of dark matter - Sarah Pearson (The Technical University of Denmark, DTU Space)

11:03 AM Probing dark matter with stellar-stream density fluctuations in the LSST era - Matthieu Pélissier (LPSC - CNRS)

11:15 AM Constraining the Dark Matter Perturber of the AAU Stellar Stream Using Simulation-Based Inference - Ella Marin (University of Washington)

11:27 AM Inference Pipeline for Quantitative Constraints on Dark Matter from Stellar Stream Dynamics - Jacob Nibauer (Harvard University)

11:39 AM Imprints of progenitor dynamics on stellar stream velocities - Anya Phillips (Harvard University)

11:51 AM No Stream Left Unscathed: The Host Galaxy Baseline for Dark Matter Substructure - Arpit Arora (University of Washington)

12:03 PM Discussion
12:15 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 401

1:15 PM Parallel tutorials: Numerical simulations
Numerical simulations
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 401

Parallel tutorials: Stellar streams
Stellar streams
1:15 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: 401
2:00 PM Alternative DM models 1
2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: 401
Contributions

2:00 PM FLASH TALKS

2:15 PM Alternative dark matter models and the linear matter power spectrum - Vera Gluscevic (USC)

2:38 PM Beyond CDM: Limits from the Milky Way Satellites - Wendy Crumrine

2:50 PM The Radial Distribution of MW Satellites: Survey Selection Effects and Host Properties - Niusha Ahvazi (University of Virginia)

3:02 PM Discussion
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

3:45 PM Breakout/discussion

3:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 401

5:00 PM Reception

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: 401
Thursday, September 3, 2026
9:00 AM Alternative DM models 2
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: 401
Contributions

9:00 AM Alternative dark matter models and small-scale structure - Mariangela Lisanti (Princeton University)

9:23 AM The Cooling Curve is All You Need: A Framework for Characterising Dissipation in Dark Sectors - Sandip Roy (University of California San Diego)

9:35 AM Forward Modeling of MW Satellites for Dark Matter Inference in the Large-Survey Era - Soumyodipta Karmakar (University of New Mexico)

9:47 AM From Intact Dwarf Galaxies to Stellar Streams: Cosmological Tests of Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Maya Silverman (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

9:59 AM Dark Matter with the Via Project - Vedant Chandra (Harvard/MIT)

10:11 AM Discussion
10:25 AM Coffee break

10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: 401
10:55 AM Extragalactic probes of DM
10:55 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 401
Contributions

10:55 AM Extragalactic probes of cosmic structure - Julian Muñoz (UT Austin)

11:18 AM Cosmological Probes of Atomic Dark Matter - Jared Barron (Stony Brook University)

11:30 AM Self-Interacting Dark Matter in the First 700 Myr - Tyler Smith (University of California, Irvine)

11:42 AM Discussion
12:00 PM Lunch

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 401

1:00 PM Parallel tutorials: Modeling dwarf galaxy populations
Modeling dwarf galaxy populations
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: 401

Parallel tutorials: Strong lensing and DM substructure
Strong lensing and DM substructure
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: 401
1:45 PM Strong lensing as a probe of DM
1:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

1:45 PM Strong lensing by galaxies as a probe of cosmic structure - Anna Nierenberg (UC Merced)

2:08 PM Simulation-based Forward-Modeling of Strong Lensing Substructure in Dark Matter Halos - Ollie Jackson (UC San Diego)

2:20 PM Recent advances in the flux-ratio anomaly statistics method for DM inference - Hadrien Paugnat (UCLA)

2:32 PM A novel probe of dark matter substructure in galaxy clusters from lensed arc asymmetry - Derek Perera (University of Minnesota)

2:45 PM Discussion
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: 401

3:30 PM Breakouts/discussion

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: 401

6:00 PM Conference dinner

6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, September 4, 2026
9:15 AM DM and dwarf galaxies
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: 401
Contributions

9:15 AM Antlia 2, Crater 2 and Bootes III: Milky Way's Satellite Galaxies under Tidal Stripping - Ting Li (University of Toronto)

9:27 AM The ELVES-Dwarf Survey: Satellite Populations Around Dwarf Galaxies - Jiaxuan Li (Stanford University)

9:39 AM Building massive stellar-kinematic samples of MW dwarf spheroidal galaxies and dark matter inference - Andrew Pace (University of Virginia)

9:51 AM Modeling Constraints and Dark Matter Implications of Crater II's Stellar Mass Loss - Kaia Atzberger

10:03 AM Rotation Curve Diversity in CDM - Alyson Brooks (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey)

10:15 AM Discussion
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Wrap up discussion

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 401

12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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