May 1st – 3rd, 2023

Partially supported by the DOE Office of Science (Office of High Energy Physics).

The 8th LCTP Spring Symposium will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan on the topic of indirect searches for dark matter.

The workshop will be on May 1st – 3rd, 2023, with talks ending near midday on the 3rd and a reception on the evening of the 1st. However, participants will be welcome to stay the entire week for continued interactions. There will be no registration fee.

While the astrophysical evidence for the existence of dark matter in our Universe is overwhelming, the particle nature of dark matter remains mysterious. Many dark matter models predict unique cosmological and astrophysical signatures that may be detectable with current and future observations. However, discovering evidence for particle dark matter through observations of the cosmos will require a thorough understanding of the landscape of possible particle dark matter models and their associated phenomenology, a deep understanding of standard astrophysical processes that may manifest as backgrounds, and sophisticated telescopes and data analysis techniques. This workshop aims to bring together the relevant subgroups of the dark matter theory, astrophysics theory, and observational astronomy and cosmology communities to lay a roadmap towards the discovery of particle dark matter. The workshop will also put special focus on novel approaches to detecting particle dark matter that go beyond the traditional paradigms.

Workshop Organizers:

Aaron Pierce (LCTP)
Stefano Profumo (UCSC)
Ben Safdi (UC Berkeley)
Tracy Slatyer (MIT)

Workshop Administrator:
Karen O”Donovan

University of Michigan
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1040
(P) 734-763-9698

Workshop Venue:
Randall Laboratory/West Hall