Wednesday, May 24, 2017Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Physics (Lidow) room 502

Organizer:Yael Shadmi

For more information please contact: ela.ulman@weizmann.ac.il

Supported by the I-CORE Program of the Planning and Budgeting Committee and The Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 1937/12)

The Quantum Universe

The Center of Research Excellence The Quantum Universe

I-CORE Meeting

10:45 Gathering & refreshments

11:00 Tongyan Lin Berkeley

Low mass dark matter detection with superfluid helium

12:00 Lunch

12:50 Vincent DesJacquesTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology

Cosmological constraints on dark matter: status and prospects

13:30 Lee YacobiTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology

Segmented Gamma-Ray Scintillator Detectors with Directional Capabilities

14:10 coffee

14:30 Doron KushnirThe Weizmann Institute of Science

Core-collapse supernovae are thermonuclear explosions

15:10 Kfir BlumThe Weizmann Institute of Science

Neutrino Signal of Collapse-induced Thermonuclear Supernovae: the Case for Prompt Black Hole Formation in SN1987A