Scientific Programme

The 7th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs

was held at Mykonos, Royal Myconian & Myconian Imperial Resorts.

Evening Reception: 26 June 2011.

Scientific Programme: 27 June - 1 July 2011.

Agenda of the 7th Patras-Axion-WIMP-WISP Workshop:

**Monday 27/06/2011**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Welcome

The mu problem, weak CP, strong CP, axions, and GUTs	Jihn Kim
Identifying Dark Matter Particles	Gianfranco Bertone
ADMX (1), ADMX (2)	Gray Rybka /David Tanner
EDELWEISS II: latest results	Johann Gironet
Experimental search for the hidden sector photon at UWA	Rhys Povey
Light-shining-through-walls with virtual minicharge particle-antiparticle states in external magnetic fields	Babette Doebrich
Neutrino Mass Bounds from Cosmological Probes	Yong-Yeon Keum
White dwarfs as physical laboratories: the axion case	Jordi Isern

Lunch

Review of EDM experiments	Yannis Semertzidis
An improved search of the nEDM	Philipp Schmidt-Wellenburg
First results from Yale 34GHz cavity experiment	Andrew Martin
Status report of the CERN light shining through the wall experiment with microwave axions and related aspects	Michael Betz
qBounce, gravity resonance spectroscopy and 5th force limits	Hartmut Abele
Indications for a highly transparent universe at very high energies	Manuel Meyer
CAST	Theopisti Dafne

Welcome Reception at the Hotel

**Tuesday 28/06/2011**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dark Matter Axions	Pierre Sikivie
Axions and the Chiral Magnetic Effect	Dmitri Kharzeev
Review on double beta decay experiments	Frank Avignone
LHCb Performance, Physics and Prospects	Olaf Steinkamp
Mirror matter	Paolo Crivelli
Neutrino oscillations – experimental review and prospects	Christos Touramanis
The frequency of elephants in the Galaxy	Ben Moore

Lunch

XENON	Elena Aprile
GammeV: Laser Experiments at Fermilab for WISPs and Other Effects	William Wester
New Generation Axion Helioscope	Igor Irastorza
Late cosmology constraints on thermal relic axions and axion-like particles	Davide Cadamuro
Solar Paraphotons	Sergey Troitsky
The Sun in hidden photons	Javier Redondo
SHIPS	Matthias Schwarz

Discussion on the presented topics	Andreas Ringwald

**Wednesday 29/06/2011**
Title/Topic	Speaker
Excursion

Lunch

Dark Forces and Dark Matter in a Hidden Sector	Sarah Andreas
Searches for New Phenomena at Jefferson Lab.	Keith Baker
Optical probes of the quantum vacuum: The polarisation tensor in external fields	Felix Karbstein
CDEX/TEXONO: Dark Matter Searches with sub-keV Germanium Detector	Hau-Bin Li
XMASS	Yasuhiro Kishimoto
The BaRBE project and the perspectives of TES sensors in WISP searches	Giovanni Cantatore
Novel WISP searches	Axel Lindner
Public Lecture downtown Mykonos	Yannis Semertizidis

**Thursday 30/06/2011**
Title/Topic	Speaker
ALPS	Eike von Seggern
BOREXINO: Search for 5.5 MeV solar axions	Alexander Derbin / Valentina Muratova
Hidden Photon as Dark Matter Candidate	Paola Arias-Reyas
Solar flares as harbinger of new physics	Konstantin Zioutas
CDMS	Bernard Sadoulet
Cosmogenic and Radiogenic Backgrounds: Generalized Tools for Underground Experiments	Priscilla Cushman
CRESST	Raimund Strauß
Probing low-mass WIMPs with liquid xenon	Aaron Manalaysay

WIMP Dark Matter Discussion	Gianfranco Bertone

Lunch

Indirect Dark Matter search with H.E.S.S.	Giovanni Lamanna
Solar Chameleons with an introduction to their connection to dark energy	Philippe Brax
Prospects for dark matter searches with CTA	Emmanuel Moulin
Photon propagation in a cold axion background with and without magnetic fields	Domenec Espriu
New constraints on very light pseudoscalars	Alexandre Payez
GridPix TPCs and their application in Dark Matter and Double Beta Decay Experiments	Harry Van Der Graaf
BMV / XAX experiment	Rémy Battesti

Dinner at the Hotel

**Friday 1/07/2011**
Title/Topic	Speaker
ATLAS results on SUSY	Bilge Demirkoz
CDM from strongly interacting hidden sector	Pyungwon Ko
Search for resonant absorption of solar axions by atomic nuclei	Evgeniy Unzhakov
SPHINX	Szymon Gburek
DARWIN	Marc Schumann

Summary	Joerg Jaeckel
Final Words

5th Axion Strategy meeting	Giovanni Cantatore

Lunch