Pearl Sandick

CURRICULUM VITAE
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Contact Information
Theory Group
Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, C1608
Austin, TX 78712-0269

Office: RLM 9.314
512-471-4108
pearl@ph.utexas.edu

Education
Ph.D. (Physics) 2008, University of Minnesota
B.A. (Mathematics) 2003, New York University

Research
I do research in the areas of supersymmetry, astrophysics and cosmology.


Publications SPIRES
Particle Dark Matter: Status and Searches}, by Pearl Sandick, to appear in the ASP conference proceedings of the ``Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009: New Horizons in Astronomy,'' 18-20 Oct. 2009.

The Sensitivity of the IceCube Neutrino Detector to Dark Matter Annihilating in Dwarf Galaxies, by Pearl Sandick, Douglas Spolyar, Matthew R. Buckley, Katherine Freese, and Dan Hooper, submitted to Phys. Rev. D, arXiv:0912.0513.

Neutralino Dark Matter in MSSM Models with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, by Pearl Sandick, to appear in the proceedings of the Invisible Universe International Conference, UNESCO, Paris, France, 29 Jun - 3 Jul 2009.

Detecting Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, by Pearl Sandick, to appear in the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY09), Boston, MA, 5 - 10 Jun 2009.

Update on the Direct Detection of Dark Matter in MSSM Models with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, by John Ellis, Keith A. Olive, and Pearl Sandick, New J. Phys. 11 (2009) 105015.

Varying the Universality of Supersymmetry-Breaking Contributions to MSSM Higgs Boson Masses, by John Ellis, Keith A. Olive, and Pearl Sandick, Phys.~Rev.~D 78 (2008) 075012.

Sparticle Discovery Potentials in the CMSSM and GUT-less Supersymmetry-Breaking Scenarios, by John Ellis, Keith A. Olive, and Pearl Sandick, JHEP 08 (2008) 013.

Dark Matter Phenomenology of GUT-less SUSY Breaking, by Pearl Sandick, To appear in the proceedings of 15th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY07), Karlsruhe, Germany, 26 Jul - 1 Aug 2007.

Phenomenology of GUT-less Supersymmetry Breaking, by John Ellis, Keith A. Olive and Pearl Sandick, JHEP 06 (2007) 079.

What if supersymmetry breaking appers below the GUT scale? by John Ellis, Keith A. Olive and Pearl Sandick, Phys. Lett. B 642 (2006) 389.

Gravitational Waves from the First Stars, by Pearl Sandick, Keith A. Olive, Frederic Daigne and Elisabeth Vangioni, Phys. Rev. D 73 (2006) 104024.

The Relic Neutrino Background from the First Stars, by Keith A. Olive and Pearl Sandick, Published in Venice 2006, Neutrino oscillations in Venice, 337-355.

Neutrino Signatures from the First Stars, by Frederic Daigne, Keith A. Olive, Pearl Sandick and Elisabeth Vangioni, Phys. Rev. D 72 (2005) 103007.

Presentations
Particle Dark Matter: Status and Searches, Invited Talk, Frank N. Bash Symposium 2009, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2009.

Neutralino Dark Matter in MSSM Models with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, Invisible Universe, UNESCO, Paris, France, June 2009.

Detecting Dark Matter in the MSSM with Non-Universal Higgs Masses, SUSY 2009, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, June 2009.

Dark Matter Phenomenology in NUHM Models, Pheno 2009, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, May 2009.

Higgs Searches at the LHC, Brown Bag Seminar, High Energy Theory Brown Bag Seminar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, November 2008.

Higgs Searches at the LHC, Theory Group Brown Bag Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, October 2008.

GUT-less SUSY Phenomenology, High Energy Theory Seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, September 2008.

Relaxing SUSY Universality: What it means for Neutralino Dark Matter, Dark Side II, University of Michigan, Ann arbor, MI, June 2008.

Cosmology and Collider Searches in GUT-less SUSY Scenarios, Theory Group Seminar, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 2008.

Dark Matter Phenomenology of the GUT-less CMSSM, Miami 2007: A topical conference on elementary particles, astrophysics, and cosmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, December 2007.

Neutralino Dark Matter in the GUT-less CMSSM, Fermilab Particle Astrophysics Seminar, Fermilab, Batavia, IL, September 2007.

Neutralino Dark Matter in the GUT-less CMSSM, Astrophysics and Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, September, 2007.

Dark Matter Phenomenology of GUT-less SUSY Breaking, The 15th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of Fundamental Interactions, Karlsruhe, Germany, July 2007.

GUT-less Supersymmetry Phenomenology, CERN-TH Institute on LHC-Cosmology Interplay, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2007.

Dark Matter Phenomenology of sub-GUT Supersymmetry Breaking, Dark Side of the Universe Workshop, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, June 2007.

EGRET's Excess of Diffuse Gamma Rays as a Dark Matter Tracer, Astrophysics and Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, December 2006.

Neutrino and Gravitational Wave Signals from Cosmological Supernovae, Theoretical Advanced Study Institute in Elementary Particle Physics (TASI), University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, June 2006.

Cosmological Supernovae: Neutrino Background and Gravitational Wave Signatures, Astrophysics and Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, April 2006.

Neutrino Signatures from the First Stars, Astrophysics and Cosmology Lunchtime Seminar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005.

Neutrino Signatures from the First Stars (Poster), Probing Early Structure Formation with Mass, Light, and Chemistry Workshop, William I. Fine Theoretical Physics Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, October 2005.

Links
Women in Physics and Astronomy
American Physical Society
Union of Concerned Scientists

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