5TH PATRAS WORKSHOP ON AXIONS, WIMPS AND WISPS

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Scientific Programme

The 5th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

will be held at the University of Durham on 13-17 July 2009.

Draft Agenda of the 5th Patras-Axion-WIMP-WISP Workshop:

**Monday 13/07/2009**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Opening
The physics case for Axions, WIMPs and WISPs
Bottom-up motivation	M. Ahlers
Axions, WIMPs and WISPs: Top-down motivation	J. Conlon
Dark Matter
The case for Dark Matter	L. Covi
Dark matter disk in the Milky Way	J. Read
Overview of Dark matter candidates	L. Roszkowski
Dark Matter
Structure Formation	A. Jenkins
Direct searches for Dark Matter
CRESST	H. Kraus
CDMS-II to SuperCDMS: WIMP search at a zeptobarn	T. Bruch
The XENON100 detector for dark matter searches	A. Kish
Results from the first science run of the ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment	H. Araujo
DM-TPC: Directional dark matter detection	A. Kaboth
The DRIFT II directional WIMP detector	N. Spooner
Dark Matter @ LHC	H. Baer

**Tuesday 14/07/2009**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Indirect searches for WIMPs
Indirect dark matter detection in the PAMELA, ATIC and FERMI era	A. Morselli
HESS Experiment	U. Schwanke
Annihilation + Decay - BSM explanations	J. Lavalle
Dark Matter Decay and Cosmic Rays	C. Weniger
Photon regeneration and laser polarization experiments
The CAST experiment: status and perspectives	E. Ferrer-Ribas
Search for Solar ALPs in the Low Energy Range at CAST	M. Karuza
Search for monoenergetic solar axions with CAST	K. Jakovcic
Photon regeneration and laser polarization experiments (continued)
Search for solar axions with mass over 1eV using coherent conversions of axions into photons (Tokyo axion helioscope)	R. Ohta
GammeV: Results and future plans at Fermilab	W. Wester, A. Chou
LIPSS at Jefferson Lab: Update	K. Baker
Status of the ALPS experiment	A. Lindner
Resonantly-Enhanced Photon Regeneration	D. Tanner
Search for hidden sector photons in a microwave cavity experiment	M. Tobar
SCRF Cavity at Daresbury	P. Williams
Yale Cavity	P. Slocum
Direct Axion signals
Searches for Higgs/axion-like particles in Y(ns) decays at BaBar	A. Gaz

**Wednesday 15/07/2009**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Photon regeneration and laser polarization experiments II
OSQAR	A. Siemko
Status of the BMV experiment	C. Rizzo
The status and prospects of the Q&A experiment with some applications	H.-H. Mei
Inteferometry of light propagation in pulsed fields	B. Doebrich
ADMX's Continuing Search for Dark Matter Axions	G.Rybka
WISPs Theoretical developments
Minicharges and Magnetic Monopoles	F. Bruemmer
Light U(1)'s from string theory	M. Goodsell

**Thursday 16/07/2009**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Tentative signals for WISPs
Searching for Axion-like-particles with Active Galactic Nuclei	C. Burrage
Chameleons in the Laboratory	P. Brax
Hidden CMB	J. Redondo
Axion like particles and cosmic rays	M. Fairbairn
Photon regeneration and laser polarization experiments III
Polarization measurements and their perspectives at the Low Energy Frontier	G. Cantatore
Direct searches for Dark Matter
The ArDM, a ton-scale liquid argon experiment for direct Dark Matter detection	P. Otyugova
Particle dark matter in the galactic halo: results from DAMA/LIBRA	P. Belli
Dark Matter Search with Germanium Detector at O (100eV) threshold TEXONO	S.-T. Lin
The status of the KIMS experiment	SC. Kim
Indirect-astrophysical searches for Axions & ALPS
Axion-like particles and polarization of quasars	A. Payez
Searching Solar X-ray Observations for Axions	I. Hannah
Solar X-rays from axions: rest mass dependent signatures	K. Zioutas
New Ideas
Performances of superconducting magnets	E. Todesco
Photon production from the scattering of Axions out of a solenoidal magnetic field	I. Shilon
Photon-axion conversionin a gradient field	J. Redondo
Fifth forces and Fundamental Symmetries
Tests of Lorentz Symmetry	R. Lehnert
Tests of gravity in the solar system	H. Dittus
Constraints on Pseudoscalar-Photon Interaction from CMB Polarization Observations	W.-T. Ni

**Friday 17/07/2009**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Summary and Visions for the future
Axions and WISPs in laboratory experiments	A. Lindner
Axions and WISPs astrophysical tests	S. Hannestad
WIMPs	L. Baudis
Discussion
2nd strategy meeting