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SUMMARY:Active Galactic Nuclei as Dark Sector Laboratories
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Filippo Sala (U. Bologna and INFN)\, Piero Ullio (IF
 PU and SISSA and INFN)\, Gonzalo Herrera (Harvard)\n\nLight dark sectors a
 nd dark matter (DM) have attracted increasing interest in the past decade\
 , resulting in a fruitful activity on the theoretical\, phenomenological a
 nd experimental sides. The room for progress and new ideas in this field i
 s still large\, as testified for example by the recent identification of s
 everal new astrophysical probes of sub-GeV DM\, like those linked to Activ
 e Galactic Nuclei (AGN). Independently of DM\, recent high-energy neutrino
  observations from  AGN such as TXS 0506+056 and NGC 1068\, together with
  their electromagnetic counterparts\, have received a strong interest in t
 he multi-messenger community. These observations are still not well unders
 tood via Standard Model processes and standard astrophysical background ex
 pectations\, which has stimulated discussion around the possibility that d
 ark sectors beyond the Standard Model (BSM) may be present at these source
 s. Even when interpreting these observations with standard astrophysical m
 odels\, it has been demonstrated that multi-messenger AGN data have the po
 tential to set world-leading constraints on well-motivated models of DM\, 
 and even to lead to their discovery. The realization of this potential hin
 ges on refining the studies of AGN probes of dark sectors\, as well as on 
 advancing our knowledge of AGN themselves and of DM around them.\n\n\nAll 
 these fields have started to attract increasing interest in very recent ye
 ars\, but we have only scratched the surface of their needed cross-fertili
 zation.\n\n\nThis IFPU focus week is intended to bring together a communit
 y of experts in AGN observations and multi-messenger modeling\, in super-m
 assive black holes and DM around them\, as well as in BSM phenomenology. T
 he goal will be to shed light on recent results and to identify and start 
 exploring future avenues\, where mutual collaborations could lead to signi
 ficant advancements in knowledge.\n\n \n\nConfirmed speakers include:\n\n
 \n\n	Misty Bentz (Georgia State University)\n	Carlos Blanco (Penn State Un
 iversity)\n	Marina Cermeño (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)\n	Matteo 
 Cerruti (APC Paris\, member of CTAO coll.)\n	Jim Cline (McGill University)
 \n	Andrea Giovanni De Marchi (U. Bologna)\n	Pierfrancesco Di Cintio (CNR F
 irenze)\n	Alessandro Granelli (IFIC Valencia)\n	Andrew Gustafson (Virginia
  Tech)\n	Bradley Kavanagh (IFCA Santander)\n	Cristina Lagunas Gualda (TUM 
 Munich\, member of IceCube coll.) \n	Kohta Murase (Penn State University\
 , GRAND coll.)\n	Xavier Rodrigues (APC Paris).\n\n\n\n \n\n \n\nIn perso
 n participation is by invitation-only. If interested in attending some tal
 ks online then please write to the organisers and they will send you zoom 
 coordinates. \n\n \n\nWe look forward to welcoming you in Trieste and in
  zoom!\n\nhttps://lppc-indico.fas.harvard.edu/event/33/
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LOCATION:IFPU\, SISSA\, Trieste\, Italy
URL:https://lppc-indico.fas.harvard.edu/event/33/
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