28-30 June, Santander Prompted by a call by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) for funding excellence projects grouping together many researchers, most of the Spanish community involved in the field of Dark Matter decided to apply for a common research project. In 2009 the MICINN selected 13 out of a total of 101 proposals in all branches of science. MultiDark was one of these 13 The main goal of MultiDark is to contribute to the identification and detection of the dark matter. To this end, we propose
to analyse in detail the most plausible candidates for dark matter,
to investigate how they form the dark halos hosting the galaxies,
to contribute to the development of experiments to detect the dark matter. G. Bertone IAP-France S. Gottlober AIP-Germany K. Choi KAIST-Korea N. Fornengo Univ. Torino/INFN Y. Mambrini LPT/Orsay-France J.D. Vergados Univ. Ioannina J. Collar Univ. Chicago A. Morselli Univ. Roma/INFN V. Vitale Univ. Roma/INFN M. Casolino Univ. Roma/INFN M. Ricci LNF-Frascati/INFN Project's General Board Steering Committee
• Carlos Muñoz (UAM/IFT) ◦ Carlos Muñoz (Coordinator) ◦ Juan J. Hernández-Rey (Deputy Coordinator & Area of Indirect Detection) • Sven Heinemeyer (IFCA) ◦ Jose W.F. Valle (Area of Analysis and Modelling) • Jose W.F. Valle (IFIC-AHEP) ◦ Francisco Prada (Area of Astrophysical Aspects) • Mario Gómez (UHU) ◦ María L. Sarsa (Area of Direct Detection) • Antonio L. Maroto (UCM-Th) • Francisco Prada (IAA)
• Juan Betancort-Rijo (IAC)
• María L. Sarsa (UZ) Advisory Committee • Abelardo Moralejo (IFAE)
• Juan A. Barrio (UCM-GAE) ◦ David O. Caldwell, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA • Juan J. Hernández-Rey (IFIC-Exp) ◦ Ben Moore, University of Zürich, Switzerland • Miquel Ardid (UPV) ◦ Keith Olive, University of Minnesota, USA • María D. Rodríguez-Frías (UAH) ◦ Gerard van der Steenhoven, NIKHEF and University of Twente, The Netherlands • Gonzalo Parente (USC) ◦ Joseph Silk, University of Oxford, UK • Alicia Sintes (UIB)
• Javier Bussons-Gordo (UM)
• Raúl Ramos (CETA-Ciemat)
MultiDark groups are involved in many experiments searching for Dark Matter:
• ANAIS, ROSEBUD, EURECA (UZ) • MAGIC (IFAE, UCM-GAE, IAA) • CTA (IFAE, UCM-GAE, UMU) • GAW (IAA, UHU) • ANTARES, KM3NeT (IFIC-Exp, UPV) • AUGER (USC, UAH, IFIC-AHEP) • JEM-EUSO (UAH) • LISA (UIB)
Foreign Members are also involved in:
• FERMI (A. Morselli) • PAMELA (M. Casolino, M. Ricci) • JEM-EUSO (M. Casolino, M. Ricci) • COUPP (J. Collar) MultiDark groups are also involved in the development of instrumentation for different projects:
Group PI Super Ifu Deployable Experiment Francisco Prada ......
MultiDark collaborates closely with the following companies:
Added Value Solutions … … -10/12/2009: The project mailing lists are created and located on the server of IFIC
-14/12/2009: The web page of MultiDark is created, with an online application for postdoc candidates (and deadline 15 of January)
• The MultiDark jobs are announced at the international level: CERN Courier, AAS job register, CERN job database, SLAC job database, tiptop, Y.S. Kim, SEA, RENATA, HEAPnet, ENTApP, ILIAS, math-jobs, tesla-jobs, MAGIC, CTA, VERITAS, HESS, Fermi, hyperspace@aei, greg-l, vesf, lsc-all (LIGO), lisa-eu, geo-ml, 900 personal addresses.
• More than 70 postdoc applications were received
-17/12/2009: A web site of MultiDark in facebook is created
-20/01/2010: An office manager (técnico de gestión) is hired
-25-27/01/2010: 1st MULTIDARK Consolider Workshop 1st MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe UAM, Madrid, 25-27 January, 2010
57 participants Creation of Working Groups Publications Calls (I) – Postdoctoral: Hired Members Calls (II) – Summer Students Calls (III) – Predoctorals Training Agreements Sponsorship MultiDark Website In the media Science Working Groups
◦ Indirect detection: gammas Coordinators: Juan Abel Barrio, Gianfranco Bertone, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde
◦ Indirect detection: neutrinos, antimatter, cosmic rays and gravitational waves Coordinators: Miquel Ardid, Nicolao Fornengo, Germán Ros, Juande D. Zornoza
◦ Direct detection Coordinators: David G. Cerdeño, Juan Collar, Eduardo García
◦ Cosmology Coordinators: Stefan Gottlober, Antonio L. Maroto
◦ LHC, particle physics and dark matter Coordinators: Mario E. Gómez, Sven Heinemeyer, Martin Hirsch
Outreach Working Group
◦ Coordinators: David G. Cerdeño, Susana Hernández, Sergio Pastor Recall to mention in the acknowledgements the support of the project. We suggest to write something like: “We thank the support of the spanish MICINN’s Consolider-Ingenio 2010 Programme under grant MultiDark CSD2009-00064”
MultiDark will be mentioned in the acknowledgements of ANTARES and MAGIC papers 74 online applications received
Currently working for the project:
◦ Mattia Fornasa – 2 year Postdoc – IAA ◦ Roger Firpo – 3 year Technician – IFAE/MAGIC
Postdocs starting on October 2010:
◦ Federico von der Pahlen, 2 years – IFCA ◦ Mirco Cannoni, 2 years - UHU ◦ Marco Taoso, 1 year - IFIC-AHEP ◦ Roberto Lineros, 1 year - IFIC-AHEP ◦ Guillaume Lambard, 2 years - IFIC-Exp ◦ Ji-Haeng Huh, 2 years - UAM/IFT ◦ Julien Lavalle, 2 years - MultiDark Experiments: ANAIS, ROSEBUD, MAGIC, ANTARES and KM3NeT
Research groups offering the visits: UZ, IFAE, UCM-GAE, IFIC-Exp and UPV
Deadline: June 20th, 2010
42 online applications received Selection procedure of the candidates ongoing
The students will receive a grant of up to 950 € gross monthly, the reimbursement of the trip and health insurance
Offered period: from July to September 2010 Open call until September 30th, 2010
The appointment will be for four years and the position includes some travel funds
The application should include: -statement of research interest in the project, indicating the preferred name(s) of the host Group(s) (see the list of groups) -CV including academic records -a letter of recommendation MultiDark Training school organized: ◦ School on Fermi science tools for Multidarkians UAM, Madrid, 19-21 April, 2010 Research proposal of MULTIDARK to the Fermi collaboration
- The search of axion-like-particles with Fermi and IACTs
- Signatures of dark matter annihilations in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background Memorandum of Understanding between MultiDark and Sloan Digital Sky Survey III
- We are specially interested in BOSS MultiDark sponsors the following activities:
◦ Constrained Local UniversE Simulations (CLUES) Workshop, La Cristalera, Madrid, 30 May - 5 June 2010
◦ International School on Astroparticle Physics, ISAPP 2010 “Multi-Messenger Approach to Astroparticle Physics” Univ. Zaragoza, 13-22 July, 2010
◦ International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology, PASCOS 2010, IFIC-Valencia, 19-23 July, 2010
◦ VIII Curso de Astrofísica en Sigüenza. ASTROPARTÍCULAS: ¿de qué está hecho el universo? Univ. of Alcalá de Henares, 27-30 July, 2010
http://projects.ift.uam.es/multidark
English and Spanish versions are available
New sections created: “Latest news”, “Hired members”, “Links”, “Instrumentation” and “Download logo”
The list of SWG has been included in “Organization”
New photo gallery of the experiments related to MultiDark
Calls: Postdoctorals, Predoctorals and Students
New workshops, activities and info have been included in sections “Workshops”, “Training”, “Sponsorship” and “In the media”
Mysteries of Science. July 2010 Magazine Quo
Interview about MultiDark. Newspaper La Vanguardia - 27 May 2010
MultiDark. Wikipedia. 24 Feb 2010
Cazadores españoles de Materia Oscura. Newspaper Público. 19 Dec 2009
¿De qué está hecho el Universo? Radio Interview Onda Regional de Murcia. 2 Dec 2009 Thank you for your attention!