3rd MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe
CETA-Ciemat, Trujillo (Caceres) 15-16 November, 2010 48 participants 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 New members
A new group of researchers will join MultiDark:
UGR group Manel Masip José Ignacio Illana Roberto Barceló Davide Meloni
also Alexander Knebe (UAM) will join the UAM/IFT group 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)
Office Manager Susana Hernández Organization 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 Infrastructures 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) •SDSS-III/BOSS (IAA, MultiDark) •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 … … Workshops Publications Calls (I) – Postdoctoral January 2010 Calls (II) – Summer Students Summer 2010 Calls (III) – Predoctorals September 2010 Calls (IV) – Postdoctoral – Open: December 2010 Training Collaborations Sponsorship MultiDark Website In the media 1st MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe UAM, Madrid, 25-27 January, 2010
57 participants Workshops 2nd MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe IFCA CSIC/UC, Santander, 28-30 June, 2010
55 participants Workshops 3rd MultiDark Consolider Workshop
Shedding light in our dark Universe CETA-Ciemat, Trujillo (Caceres) 15-16 November, 2010 48 participants Workshops 4th MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe IFT-UAM/CSIC, Madrid, 4-6 April, 2011 Workshops 5th MultiDark Consolider Workshop Shedding light in our dark Universe UHU, Huelva, November, 2011 Publications MultiDark members can include publications directly on the website
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”
In addition, we ask the MultiDark postdocs to include in their affiliation that they are a MultiDark Fellow
MultiDark is mentioned in the acknowledgements of ANTARES, MAGIC and BOSS papers Publications Calls (I) – Hired members
Currently working for the project:
Postdocs 2010-2012: 74 online applications received th ◦Mattia Fornasa, 2 years, IAA Deadline: 15 January 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
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◦ Technician 2010-2013:
◦ Roger Firpo, 3 years, IFAE Invited postdocs:
Timur Delahaye, IFT-CPAN Michele Doro, IFAE/UAB-CPAN Steve Blanchet, IFT Calls (II) – Summer Students
Deadline: 20th June 2010
Offered period: from July to September 2010
42 online applications received
Selected candidates: ANAIS y ROSEBUD Grupo UZ: Alberto Pérez (UV)
MAGIC Grupo IFAE: Xavier Paredes (UB) Grupo UCM-GAE: Víctor Martínez (UAM)
ANTARES y KM3NeT Grupo IFIC-Exp: Elena Marimón (UV), Miguel González (US) Grupo UPV: Maria Saldaña (UPV) , Miquel Crusells (UPC) Calls (III) – Predoctorals
Deadline: 30th September 2010 70 online applications received
Selected candidates
Miguel Peiró, UAM/IFT Muhammad Rehman, IFCA & UHU Ginevra Favole, IAA Adiv González, IFAE Sivia Pardo, UCM-GAE Viviana Gammaldi, UCM-Th Silvia Adrián, UPV Alex Vaño, UIB
Starting period: from Nov. 2010 on
The appointment will be for 4 years Calls (IV) – Postdocs
Open call until 7th December 2010 MultiDark Training school organized: ◦ School on Fermi science tools for Multidarkians UAM, Madrid, 19-21 April, 2010 Collaborations
Research proposals of MultiDark to the Fermi collaboration
Signatures of dark matter annihilations in the diffuse extragalactic gamma-ray background (approved) MD leading scientist: Mattia Fornasa
The search of axion-like-particles with Fermi and IACTs (under discussion) MD leading scientist: Miguel A. Sánchez Conde Invited researcher:
Eduard Masso, IFAE Collaborations
Memorandum of Understanding between MultiDark and Sloan Digital Sky Survey III Signed in July 2010 MD leading scientist: Francisco Prada
First contribution of MultiDark to a paper of the BOSS-SDSS III. “The clustering of massive galaxies at z~0.5 from the first semester of BOSS data” arXiv:1010.4915 [astro-ph.CO] Collaborations A new astrophysical database will be developed with the collaboration of the Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam (AIP) It will contain the MultiDark suite of large volume simulations and the Bolshoi simulation of Prof. Anatoly Klypin. Signed in September 2010
Leading scientists: Francisco Prada Stefan Gottlober
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
◦ Semana Española de las Astropartículas 2010 Activities in Spain, November 2010
MultiDark Website http://projects.ift.uam.es/multidark Facebook
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