Neal Weiner Associate Professor of Physics Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics New York University New York, NY 10003

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1 TEL: (212) FAX: (212) Neal Weiner Associate Professor of Physics Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics New York University New York, NY 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 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 ; 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 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 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/ /31/2009)] Beyond the Standard Model: The Weak Scale, Neutrino Mass and the Dark Sector [Department of Energy (06/01/ /31/2010)]

2 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.

3 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 SLAC Conference on Dark Forces, Astrophysical Motivations for Dark Forces, Sept Weak Interactions and Nuclear Physics (WIN 09), Dark Matter Theory, Sept Organizer, Galileo Galilei Conference on the LHC, Florence, Italy Aug-Sept 2009 ATLAS Workshop, New York, New Results in Dark Matter, Aug SLAC Summer Institute lecturer on dark matter theory, Aug Perimeter Summer School lecturer on dark matter theory, June TASI lecturer on dark matter theory, June RICAP Conference, Rome, Italy, Electron and Positron Excesses, May Planck 09, Padua Italy, Cosmic Ray Signals of Dark Matter, May 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 CERCA workshop: Detecting Dark Matter in the Milky Way, Cosmic Ray Signals of Dark Matter, March Borexino Collaboration Meeting, LNGS, Implications of PAMELA for Direct Detection Experiments, March La Thuile Conference on Particle Physics, Theories of Dark Matter, March Radcliffe Institute Dark Matter Meeting, Theories of Dark Matter, Feb Aspen conference, Physics in the LHC era, Theories of Dark Matter, January Michigan Dark Matter Workshop, Delightful Castles in the Sky, January KITP-Beijing Conference on the LHC, Beyond Minimal Dark Matter, Nov 2008.

4 PCTS Symposium, Princeton University, The Big Bang and Beyond, Beyond Minimal Dark Matter, Oct NYU Colloquium, Illuminating Dark Matter, Oct Identification of Dark Matter Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, Interpreting DAMA with Inelastic Dark Matter, Aug Perimeter Institute workshop, Variation of Fundamental Constants, Dark Energy and Mass Varying Neutrinos, July KITP Conference talk, Delicious Supersymmetry: Resolving the Flavor Problem with an R-Symmetry, June Aspen Center for Physics, Inelastic Dark Matter, July KITP Workshop Session leader, Astrophysical Signatures Anomalies and Dark Matter, May Cornell Colloquium, Illuminating Dark Matter, November Stanford Colloquium, Illuminating Dark Matter, October SLAC Summer Institute, Exotic Dark Matter Candidates, August CERN BSM Theory Institute:, Missing Energy Signatures at LEP and Tevatron, August Irvine Workshop on Astrophysical Signals of Dark Matter, Exciting Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL 511keV signal, March ENTAPP Workshop on Dark Matter, Signals of e + e Production from Dark Matter in the Halo, CERN, March Organizer, 2007 Aspen Winter Conference, New Physics at the Electroweak Scale and New Signals at Hadron Colliders, Jan 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 Neutrino 2006, Santa Fe, NM, Theories of Neutrino Dark Energy, June 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.

5 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 International 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, Scotland, 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 Symmetry Breaking from Extra Dimensions, arxiv:hep-ph/ ICTP Conference on Physics Beyond Four Dimensions, Trieste, It, July 2000, Supersymmetry Breaking from Extra Dimensions

6 SUSY 2000, CERN, July 2000, Small Neutrino Masses from Supersymmetry Breaking Additional seminars given at the Peking University (2009), Rutgers University (2009, 2010), IAS, (2010, 2010, 2009), Johns Hopkins (Oct 2009), Princeton Center for Theoretical Science (Oct 2008), Institute for Advanced Study (April 2008, April 2008, Oct 2005, Feb 2005), Rutgers University (Oct 2008, April 2008), Johns Hopkins University (Oct 2008, Feb 2002, Nov 2001), Stanford University (Nov 2007, April 2007 (2), April 2003), UC Santa Cruz (Nov 2007), University of Washington (April 2007, May 2006, Nov 2001, Aug 2000), University of Michigan (Nov 2006, Feb 2002, Oct 2000), Columbia University (Mar 2006, Nov 2002), Boston University (Oct 2005, Jan 2003, Nov 2002), Columbia University (Mar 2006, Nov 2002), MIT (Mar 2003), Cornell University (Feb 2003), New York University (Jan 2003), Mighigan State University (Oct 2000), SLAC (Jan 2009, Feb 2001), UC Berkeley (Feb 2001, Nov 2003), Aspen Center for Theoretical Physics (July 2002, July 2001). University of Minnesota (Dec 2001).

7 Professional References Ann Nelson Professor of Physics University of Washington Seattle, WA Phone: Fax: Lawrence Hall Professor of Physics University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA Phone: Fax: Nima Arkani-Hamed Professor of Physics Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, NJ Phone: Fax: Matt Strassler Department of Physics and Astronomy Rutgers, The State University of NJ 126 Frelinghuysen Rd. Piscataway, NJ USA Phone:

8 Publications 1. CoGeNT Interpretations, S. Chang, J. Liu, A. Pierce, N. Weiner and I. Yavin, arxiv: [hep-ph] 2. Peaked Signals from Dark Matter Velocity Structures in Direct Detection Experiments, R. F. Lang and N. Weiner, arxiv: [hep-ph] 3. Dark Matter Direct Detection with Non-Maxwellian Velocity Structure, M. Kuhlen et al., JCAP 1002, 030 (2010) 4. MiXDM: Cosmic Ray Signals from Multiple States of Dark Matter, I. Cholis and N. Weiner, arxiv: The Fermi Haze: A Gamma-Ray Counterpart to the Microwave Haze, G. Dobler, D. P. Finkbeiner, I. Cholis, T. R. Slatyer and N. Weiner, Astrophysical Journal, 717, 825 (2010) 6. Neutrino Mass, Sneutrino Dark Matter and Signals of Lepton Flavor Violation in the MRSSM, A. Kumar, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, arxiv: [hep-ph] 7. High Energy Electron Signals from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Sun, P. Schuster, N. Toro, N. Weiner and I. Yavin, arxiv: [hep-ph] 8. The Dark Side of the Electroweak Phase Transition, S. Das, P. J. Fox, A. Kumar and N. Weiner, arxiv: [hep-ph] 9. Momentum Dependent Dark Matter Scattering, S. Chang, A. Pierce and N. Weiner, JCAP 1001, 006 (2010) 10. The Fermi gamma-ray spectrum of the inner galaxy: Implications for annihilating dark matter, I. Cholis, G. Dobler, D. P. Finkbeiner, L. Goodenough, T. R. Slatyer and N. Weiner, arxiv: Inelastic Dark Matter and DAMA/LIBRA: An Experimentum Crucis, D. P. Finkbeiner, T. Lin and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 80, (2009) 12. Capture and Indirect Detection of Inelastic Dark Matter, A. Menon, R. Morris, A. Pierce and N. Weiner, arxiv: [hep-ph] 13. PAMELA, DAMA, INTEGRAL and Signatures of Metastable Excited WIMPs, D. P. Finkbeiner, T. R. Slatyer, N. Weiner and I. Yavin, JCAP 0909, 037 (2009) 14. Cosmic Ray Positrons from Annihilations into a New, Heavy Lepton, D. J. Phalen, A. Pierce and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 80, (2009) 15. The Case for a 700+ GeV WIMP: Cosmic Ray Spectra from ATIC and PAMELA, I. Cholis, G. Dobler, D. P. Finkbeiner, L. Goodenough and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 80, (2009)

9 16. The PAMELA Positron Excess from Annihilations into a Light Boson, I. Cholis, D. P. Finkbeiner, L. Goodenough and N. Weiner, JCAP 0912, 007 (2009) 17. Nuclear scattering of dark matter coupled to a new light scalar, D. P. Finkbeiner, T. R. Slatyer and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 78, (2008) 18. LHC Signals for a SuperUnified Theory of Dark Matter, N. Arkani-Hamed and N. Weiner, JHEP 0812, 104 (2008) 19. A Theory of Dark Matter, N. Arkani-Hamed, D. P. Finkbeiner, T. R. Slatyer and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) 20. High Energy Positrons From Annihilating Dark Matter, I. Cholis, L. Goodenough, D. Hooper, M. Simet and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 80, (2009) 21. Using the Energy Spectrum at DAMA/LIBRA to Probe Light Dark Matter, S. Chang, A. Pierce and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) 22. Inelastic Dark Matter in Light of DAMA/LIBRA, S. Chang, G. D. Kribs, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) 23. CMB and 21-cm Signals for Dark Matter with a Long-Lived Excited State, D. P. Finkbeiner, N. Padmanabhan and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 78, (2008) 24. High Energy Positrons and the WMAP Haze from Exciting Dark Matter, I. Cholis, L. Goodenough and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 79, (2009) 25. Nonstandard Higgs Boson Decays, S. Chang, R. Dermisek, J. F. Gunion and N. Weiner, Ann. Rev. Nucl. Part. Sci. 58, 75 (2008) 26. Mixed Sneutrinos, Dark Matter and the LHC, Z. Thomas, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 77, (2008) 27. Flavor in supersymmetry with an extended R-symmetry, G. D. Kribs, E. Poppitz and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 78, (2008) 28. Nonstandard Higgs Decays with Visible and Missing Energy, S. Chang and N. Weiner, JHEP 0805, 074 (2008) 29. Sensitivity and Insensitivity of Galaxy Cluster Surveys to New Physics, J. Erlich, B. Glover and N. Weiner, JCAP 0803, 006 (2008) 30. Exciting Dark Matter and the INTEGRAL/SPI 511 kev signal, D. P. Finkbeiner and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 76, (2007) 31. Late forming dark matter in theories of neutrino dark energy, S. Das and N. Weiner, arxiv:astro-ph/ Visible cascade Higgs decays to four photons at hadron colliders, S. Chang, P. J. Fox and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, (2007)

10 33. A Supersymmetric Twin Higgs, S. Chang, L. J. Hall and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 75, (2007) 34. Naturalness and Higgs decays in the MSSM with a singlet, S. Chang, P. J. Fox and N. Weiner, JHEP 0608, 068 (2006) 35. New matter effects and BBN constraints for mass varying neutrinos, N. Weiner and K. M. Zurek, Phys. Rev. D 74, (2006) 36. Supersymmetric theories of neutrino dark energy, R. Fardon, A. E. Nelson and N. Weiner, JHEP 0603, 042 (2006) 37. Supersplit supersymmetry, P. J. Fox et al., arxiv:hep-th/ SLAC-PUB-11125(2005) 38. The status of inelastic dark matter, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 72, (2005) 39. Neutrino oscillations as a probe of dark energy, D. B. Kaplan, A. E. Nelson and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, (2004) 40. Dark Energy from Mass Varying Neutrinos, R. Fardon, A. E. Nelson and N. Weiner, JCAP 0410, 005 (2004) 41. Little inflatons and gauge inflation, D. E. Kaplan and N. J. Weiner, JCAP 0402, 005 (2004) 42. Hadron masses and screening from AdS Wilson loops, A. Karch, E. Katz and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, (2003) 43. Extended anomaly mediation and new physics at 10-TeV, A. E. Nelson and N. T. Weiner, arxiv:hep-ph/ UW-PT-02-24(2002) 44. Inelastic dark matter at DAMA, CDMS and future experiments, D. Tucker- Smith and N. Weiner, Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 124, 197 (2003) To appear in the proceedings of 5th International UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe (DM 2002), Marina del Rey, California, Feb Deconstruction and Gauge Theories in AdS 5, L. Randall, Y. Shadmi and N. Weiner, JHEP 0301, 055 (2003) 46. Dirac gaugino masses and supersoft supersymmetry breaking, P. J. Fox, A. E. Nelson and N. Weiner, JHEP 0208, 035 (2002) 47. Electroweak unification into a five-dimensional SU(3) at a TeV, S. Dimopoulos, D. E. Kaplan and N. Weiner, Phys. Lett. B 534, 124 (2002)

11 48. Gauge/anomaly Syzygy and generalized brane world models of supersymmetry breaking, A. E. Nelson and N. J. Weiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, (2002) 49. Radion mediated supersymmetry breaking as a Scherk-Schwarz theory, D. E. Kaplan and N. Weiner, arxiv:hep-ph/ ANL-HEP-PR (2001) 50. Large extra dimensions from a small extra dimension, Z. Chacko, P. J. Fox, A. E. Nelson and N. Weiner, JHEP 0203, 001 (2002) 51. Unification without unification, N. Weiner, arxiv:hep-ph/ UW-PT-01-15(2001) (Submitted to Phys.Rev.Lett.) 52. Ineffective supersymmetry: Electroweak symmetry breaking from extra dimensions, N. Weiner, arxiv:hep-ph/ UW-PT-01-14(2001) Talk given at 36th Rencontres de Moriond on Electroweak Interactions and Unified Theories, Les Arcs, France, Mar GUT breaking on the brane, Y. Nomura, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Nucl. Phys. B 613, 147 (2001) 54. Finite radiative electroweak symmetry breaking from the bulk, N. Arkani- Hamed, L. J. Hall, Y. Nomura, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Nucl. Phys. B 605, 81 (2001) 55. Inelastic dark matter, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 64, (2001) 56. New perspectives in physics beyond the standard model, N. J. Weiner UMI (2000) 57. Neutrino masses at v**(3/2), N. Arkani-Hamed, L. J. Hall, H. Murayama, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, arxiv:hep-ph/ UCB-PTH-00-19(2000) 58. Small neutrino masses from supersymmetry breaking, N. Arkani-Hamed, L. J. Hall, H. Murayama, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 64, (2001) 59. Solving the hierarchy problem with exponentially large dimensions, N. Arkani- Hamed, L. J. Hall, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 62, (2000) 60. Exponentially small supersymmetry breaking from extra dimensions, N. Arkani-Hamed, L. J. Hall, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 63, (2001) 61. Neutrino mass anarchy, L. J. Hall, H. Murayama and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2572 (2000)

12 62. Flavor at the TeV scale with extra dimensions, N. Arkani-Hamed, L. J. Hall, D. Tucker-Smith and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 61, (2000) 63. U(2) and maximal mixing of nu/mu, L. J. Hall and N. Weiner, Phys. Rev. D 60, (1999) 64. Oscillations of solar and atmospheric neutrinos, R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, D. Tucker-Smith, A. Strumia and N. Weiner, JHEP 9812, 017 (1998) 65. Alternative theories of CP violation, R. Barbieri, L. J. Hall, A. Stocchi and N. Weiner, Phys. Lett. B 425, 119 (1998)