TEL: (212) 992-8784 Neal Weiner FAX: (212) 995-4903 Associate Professor of Physics [email protected] Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics New York University New York, NY 10003 Education Ph.D. in Physics, University of California, Berkeley, May, 2000, Advisor: Lawrence Hall. B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude, Carleton College, June 1996. Professional Experience Associate Professor, Dept. Physics, New York University, Sept 2009 { present; Assistant Professor, Dept. Physics, New York University, Sept 2004 { Aug 2009; Research Associate, Theory Group, University of Washington, Oct 2000 { Aug 2004; Graduate Student Researcher, Theory Group, UC Berkeley Physics Department and LBNL Physics Division, June 1998 { 2000; Graduate Student Researcher, BaBar Group, UC Berkeley Physics Department and LBNL Physics Division, June 1997 { December 1997; Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley Physics Dept., Sept 1996 { June 1999. Grants, Awards and Honors Blavatnik Finalist 2010; Kavli Fellow 2009; DOE Outstanding Junior Investigator 2006; NSF CAREER Award 2005; University Fellowship 1996; Goldwater Scholarship 1995; Phi Beta Kappa 1995. Research Projects Beyond the Minimal Dark Sector: Finding New Physics in Cosmology and Colliders [National Science Foundation (7/1/2010-7/1/2013) (1/1/2005-12/31/2009)] Beyond the Standard Model: The Weak Scale, Neutrino Mass and the Dark Sector [Department of Energy (06/01/2006-05/31/2010)] Invited Talks and Conferences (incl. upcoming) • Zurich, Workshop - Dark Matter in the Sky and Underground, Sept 2010 • Parma International School of Theoretical Physics, \Lectures on Dark Matter", Sept 2010 • IDM 2010, Montpellier, France, \Theoretical Perspectives on DAMA/LIBRA in Light of Recent Results", July 2010 • Cargese Summer School on Theoretical Physics, \Lectures on Dark Matter", Corsica, July 2010 • Aspen Workshop, From Colliders to the Dark Sector, Organizer, June-July 2010 • Perimeter Institute, Cosmological Frontiers of Fundamental Physics, \New Directions in Dark Matter", June 2010 • U Oregon/U Washington workshop on The Terascale at LHC 0.5 and the Tevatron, \Dark Matter vis-a-vis LHC 0.5", June 2010 • Johns Hopkins Workshop on New Collisions Between Theory and Experiment, \Why We Might Find Dark Matter This Year (Or Early Next Year)", May 2010 • HEFTI Workshop on Light Dark Matter, UC Davis \Theories of Light Dark Matter", May 2010 • CUNY ITS Workshop on Emerging problems in particle phenomenology, \Beyond Minimal Dark Matter", April 2010 • Rutgers University Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", April 2010 • ETH Zurich Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", March 2010 • UCLA DM2010 Conference, \Signals of Dark Matter with a GeV Scale Force", Feb 2010 • University of Toronto Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", Jan 2010 • Harvard University Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", Jan 2010 • NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Future Horizons of Fundamental Physics Workshop \Where We Stand on Dark Matter", Jan 2010 • Physics of the Universe Summit, Caltech/SpaceX, \Dark Matter Goes to Hollywood", Jan 2010 • Organizer: KITP Workshop on Dark Matter, Santa Barbara, Dec 09. • Chicagoland Regional Meeting Lecture, \Finding Dark Matter by Moonlight", Dec 09. • Kavli Frontiers of Science Meeting, \Hints of Dark Matter", Nov 09. • Fermi Symposium, \Signals of Dark Forces at Fermi", Washington DC, Nov 09. • McGill Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", Oct 2009. • SLAC Conference on Dark Forces, \Astrophysical Motivations for Dark Forces", Sept 2009. • Weak Interactions and Nuclear Physics (WIN 09), \Dark Matter Theory", Sept 2009. • Organizer, Galileo Galilei Conference on the LHC, Florence, Italy Aug-Sept 2009 • ATLAS Workshop, New York, \New Results in Dark Matter", Aug 2009. • SLAC Summer Institute lecturer on dark matter theory, Aug 2009. • Perimeter Summer School lecturer on dark matter theory, June 2009. • TASI lecturer on dark matter theory, June 2009. • RICAP Conference, Rome, Italy, \Electron and Positron Excesses", May 2009. • Planck 09, Padua Italy, \ Cosmic Ray Signals of Dark Matter", May 2009. • Fermi Data Release Symposium, \Dark Matter Interpretations of the Fermi Data", May 2009 • University of Washington Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", May 2009 • MIT Physics Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", April 2009 • University of Arizona Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", April 2009 • Lecturer, ICTP Spring School on String Theory and Related Topics, March 2009. • CERCA workshop: "Detecting Dark Matter in the Milky Way", \Cosmic Ray Signals of Dark Matter", March 2009. • Borexino Collaboration Meeting, LNGS , \Implications of PAMELA for Direct De- tection Experiments", March 2009. • La Thuile Conference on Particle Physics, \Theories of Dark Matter", March 2009. • Radcliffe Institute Dark Matter Meeting, \Theories of Dark Matter", Feb 2009. • Aspen conference, Physics in the LHC era, \Theories of Dark Matter", January 2009. • Michigan Dark Matter Workshop, \Delightful Castles in the Sky", January 2009. • KITP-Beijing Conference on the LHC, \ Beyond Minimal Dark Matter", Nov 2008. • PCTS Symposium, Princeton University, The Big Bang and Beyond, \Beyond Min- imal Dark Matter", Oct 2008. • NYU Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter", Oct 2008. • Identification of Dark Matter Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, \Interpreting DAMA with Inelastic Dark Matter", Aug 2008. • Perimeter Institute workshop, Variation of Fundamental Constants, \Dark Energy and Mass Varying Neutrinos", July 2008. • KITP Conference talk, \Delicious Supersymmetry: Resolving the Flavor Problem with an R-Symmetry", June 2008. • Aspen Center for Physics, \Inelastic Dark Matter", July 2008. • KITP Workshop Session leader, \Astrophysical Signatures Anomalies and Dark Mat- ter', May 2008. • Cornell Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter," November 2007. • Stanford Colloquium, \Illuminating Dark Matter," October 2007. • SLAC Summer Institute, \Exotic Dark Matter Candidates," August 2007. • CERN BSM Theory Institute:, \Missing Energy Signatures at LEP and Tevatron," August 2007. • Irvine Workshop on Astrophysical Signals of Dark Matter, \Exciting Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL 511keV signal," March 2007. • ENTAPP Workshop on Dark Matter, \Signals of e+e− Production from Dark Matter in the Halo," CERN, March 2007. • Organizer, 2007 Aspen Winter Conference, \New Physics at the Electroweak Scale and New Signals at Hadron Colliders," Jan 2007. • Edinburgh Workshop on LHC Physics, \Exciting Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL/SPI 511 keV excess." • Fermilab Colloquium, Oct 2006, \Neutrinos and Dark Energy." • Cosmo 2006, Lake Tahoe, CA, \Late Forming Dark Matter in Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy," Sept 2006. • Neutrino 2006, Santa Fe, NM, \Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy," June 2006. • Galileo Galilei Institute, workshop seminar, June 2006, \Dark Matter in theories of Neutrino Dark Energy." • University of Oregon, Ultra Mini 2006, May 2006, \Observational Consequences of Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy." • Governor's School West, Winston-Salem, NC, school colloquium, July 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,2007,2008,2009 \Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe." • Planck 05: From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale, Abdus Salam Interna- tional Centre for Theoretical Physics, May 2005, invited plenary talk, \Models of Neutrino Dark Energy." • University of Chicago, May, 2005, invited colloquium, \Neutrino Mass and Dark Energy." • 5th International Workshop on the Identification of Dark Matter, Edinburgh, Scot- land, Sept 2004, invited talk, \Relic Neutrinos as the Source of Dark Energy" • Mt. Fuji Summer Institute, June 2004, invited talk, \Neutrinos and Dark Energy" • 28th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, Baltimore, MD, June 2004, invited talk, \Beyond the Minimal Dark Sector" • DM 2004, Marina del Rey, CA, February 2004, Conference on Dark Matter invited talk, \Neutrino Mass and Dark Energy" • Aspen 2004 Winter Conference on Particle Physics, invited talk Feb 2004, \Neutrino Mass and Dark Energy" • Frontiers Workshop, October 2002, University of Minnesota, \New Supersymemtric Extensions of the Standard Model" • Pacific Institute of Mathematical Sciences Workshop, August 2002, University of British Columbia, \Supersoft Supersymmetry Breaking" • DM 2002, Marina del Rey, CA, February 2002, Conference on Dark Matter invited talk, \Inelastic Dark Matter at DAMA, CDMS and Future Experiments" • Snowmass, July 2001: Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Working Group Plenary Talk, \Higgs in Extra Dimensions" • Snowmass, July 2001: Indirect tests of supersymmetry working group, \Reconciling CDMS and DAMA with Inelastic Sneutrino Dark Matter" • Argonne Theory Institute, June 2001, \CDMS, DAMA and Inelastic Sneutrino Dark Matter" • Rencontres de Moriond, March 2001, “Ineffective Supersymmetry - Electroweak Sym- metry Breaking from Extra Dimensions," arXiv:hep-ph/0106021 • ICTP Conference on Physics Beyond Four Dimensions, Trieste, It, July 2000, \Su- persymmetry Breaking from Extra Dimensions" • SUSY 2000, CERN, July 2000, \Small Neutrino Masses from Supersymmetry Break- ing" Additional seminars given at the Peking University (2009), Rutgers University (2009, 2010), IAS, (2010, 2010, 2009), Johns Hopkins (Oct 2009), Princeton Center for Theo- retical Science (Oct 2008), Institute for Advanced Study (April 2008, April 2008, Oct 2005, Feb 2005), Rutgers University (Oct 2008, April 2008), Johns Hopkins Univer- sity (Oct 2008, Feb 2002, Nov 2001), Stanford University (Nov 2007, April 2007 (2), April 2003), UC