Competing Structure Formation Models

30 Sept 2019, 09:30 → 1 Oct 2019, 17:30 GMT

University of Iceland

Jesus Zavala Franco (University of Iceland)

The goal of the workshop is to gather together astrophysicists, cosmologists and particle physicists to discuss the current theoretical status of four leading, competing structure formation scenarios, and the possibilities to constrain these models with observations: i) CDM, ii) models with a primordial power spectrum cutoff (WDM and interacting DM); iii) SIDM and iv) fuzzy DM.

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Organisers:

Jesús Zavala Franco

Mark Lovell

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This workshop is part of a project that has received funding from the Icelandic Research Fund (Grant Number 173929)

  

Monday, 30 September

09:30 → 10:10 Self-Interacting Dark Matter: overview

Speaker: Hai-Bo Yu

10:10 → 10:50 Fuzzy Dark Matter: overview

Speaker: Philip Mocz

pmocz_2019_09_30_reykjavic.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:00 Warm Dark Matter: overview

Speaker: Mark Lovell

MLovell_IcelandWorkshop2019.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Discussion

Speakers: Hai-Bo Yu, Mark Lovell, Philip Mocz

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch + break

14:30 → 15:10 Dwarf galaxies in hydrodynamical CDM simulations

Speaker: Alyson Brooks

brooks.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Supernova feedback implementation in simulations

Speaker: Christoph Pfrommer

Pfrommer_Iceland19.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:00 Dwarf galaxies as probes of the dark matter nature: theory

Speaker: Justin Read

17:00 → 17:30 Discussion

Speakers: Alyson Brooks, Christoph Pfrommer, Justin Read

18:30 → 20:30 Workshop dinner

Tuesday, 1 October

09:30 → 10:10 Cosmology of models with a primordial power spectrum cutoff

Speaker: Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

Iceland_WS_2019_cyr-racine.pdf

10:10 → 10:50 Fuzzy Dark Matter: current developments

Speaker: Bodo Schwabe

iceland_talk_schwabe.pdf

10:50 → 11:20 Coffee break

11:20 → 12:00 Self-Interacting Dark Matter: current developments

Speaker: Andrew Robertson

Robertson_Iceland_2019.pdf

12:00 → 12:30 Discussion

Speakers: Andrew Robertson, Bodo Schwabe, Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch + break

14:30 → 15:10 The intergalactic medium as a probe of the dark matter nature

Speaker: Vid Irsic

Irsic_Reykjavik.pdf

15:10 → 15:50 Dwarf galaxies as probes of the dark matter nature: observations

Speaker: Michelle Collins

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:00 Gravitational lensing as a probe of the dark matter nature

Speaker: Simona Vegetti

17:00 → 17:30 Discussion

Speakers: Michelle Collins, Simona Vegetti, Vid Irsic