SpacePart '06

19 Apr 2006, 08:00 → 21 Apr 2006, 22:30 Europe/Zurich

Ruxin Conf. Center, Beihang University, Beijing

Li Wei (Beihang University), Roberto Battiston (INFN & University of Perugia)

III International Conference on Particle and Fundamental Physics in Space

Wednesday, 19 April

09:00 → 10:30 Welcome remarks and keynote speech

09:00 BUAA Welcome

Speaker: Dr Li Wei (Beihang Univerisity)

09:08 Introducing INFN

Speaker: Prof. Roberto Battiston (INFN and University of Perugia)

09:16 Ministry of Science & Technology, China

Speaker: Dr Xian'en Zhang (Director-general Ministry of Science & Technology, China)

09:24 Welcome of the Ambassador of Italy

Speaker: Dr G. Menegatti (Italian Ambassador in China)

09:32 CNES, Physics in space

Speaker: Dr G. Bignami (CNES)

Slides bignami-pechino.pdf Slides

10:00 CASC

Speaker: Dr Yang Haicheng (CASC)

Slides CASC.pdf Slides

10:30 → 11:00 Coffe break

11:00 → 12:30 Agencies overview

11:00 Space Science in China

Speaker: Dr Zang Zhenqun (CNSA)

Slides CNSA.pdf Slides

11:30 Fundamental Phyisics in Space at ESA

Speaker: Dr O. Jennrich (ESA)

Slides ESA_SpacePart06_Beijing.pdf Slides

12:00 Fundamental Phyisics in Space in USA

Speaker: Dr Vernon Jones (NASA)

Slides NASA_SpacePart06.pdf Slides

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Breack

14:00 → 15:30 Agencies overview (cont.)

14:00 Fundamental Phyisics in Space in Italy

Speaker: Dr S. Di Pippo (ASI)

Slides ASI_spacepart2006.pdf Slides

14:30 Fundamental Phyisics in Space in Russia

Speaker: Prof. M. Panasyuk (ROSKOMOS)

Slides panasyuk_russian_fed_program.pdf Slides

15:00 JAXA's Long-term Vision for Science

Speaker: Dr T. Takahashi (JAXA)

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15:30 → 18:35 Particle Physics in Space

15:30 Open issues in the standard model of particle and fields

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Masiero (Padova University)

Slides mpre.pdf Slides

16:00 AMS-02 A particle physics experiment in space

Speaker: Prof. Roberto Battiston (INFN and University of Perugia)

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16:30 Cosmological Matter-Antimatter asimmetry and neutrino

Speaker: Dr Xing Zhizhong (IHEP CAS)

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16:50 Evidence for DM from Cosmic Rays?

Speaker: Dr W. De Boer (Karlsruhe University)

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17:20 The PAMELA space mission

Speaker: Dr Marco Ricci (INFN - LNF)

Slides Ricci_SpacePart06.pdf Slides

17:45 The CALET experiment on the ISS

Speaker: Dr S. Torii (ISAS)

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18:10 Dark Matter Searcher (DMS)

Speaker: Dr Chang Jin (PMO - Nanjing)

Slides Jin_Chang_DMS-SpacePrat06-1.pdf Slides

19:00 → 21:00 Social Dinner

Thursday, 20 April

09:00 → 11:00 Particle Physics in Space

09:00 Searching for sterile dark-matter with X-ray telescopes

Speaker: Dr A. Kusenko (University of California)

09:20 The observation of high energy particles by DSP satellites during storm time

Speaker: Dr Cao Jinbin (CSSAR Beijing)

Slides CAO_jinbin.pdf Slides

09:40 The BESS program

Speaker: Prof. A. Yamamoto (KEK)

Slides Slides Yamamoto_SpPart06-060420ccc.pdf

10:00 TUS and the EECR program in Russia

Speaker: Prof. M. Panasyuk (ROSKOSMOS)

Slides Panasyuk_TUS_SpacePart06.pdf Slides

10:20 JEM/EUSO: Extreme Universe Spae

Speaker: Dr Y. Takizawa (RIKEN)

10:40 UHE studies from Space: a vision for the next decade

Speaker: Dr A. Santangelo (University Tubingen)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffe break

11:30 → 12:45 Links with ground based experiments

11:30 Cold dark matter signals from underground

Speaker: Prof. Rita Bernabei (INFN)

Slides bernabei_spacepart06_web.pdf Slides

11:55 Status of the ARGO experiment in Tibet

Speaker: Dr He Huihai (IHEP)

Slides Huihai_ARGOStatus2006.pdf Slides

12:20 Status of VIRGO project at Cascina and Review of GW

Speaker: Dr S. Braccini (INFN)

Slides Slides VIRGOStatus_Braccini.pdf

12:45 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 17:00 Space Telescopes

14:00 Latest results from the INTEGRAL space telescope

Speaker: Dr Nicholas Produit (CERN)

Slides produit_spacepart.pdf Slides

14:25 Gamma ray burst discoveries with the SWIFT mission

Speaker: Dr F. Marshall (NASA GSFC)

Slides fmarshall_spacepart06.pdf Slides

14:50 Future X-ray telescopes in ESA

Speaker: Dr L. Piro (INAF IASF)

Slides Pirospacepart06.pdf Slides

15:15 Gamma ray physics with GLAST

Speaker: Dr Claudia Cecchi (INFN and University of Perugia)

Slides Cecchi.pdf Slides

15:35 PLANK satellite constraints on particle physics with the measurement of CMB polarized anisotropies

Speaker: Dr Francois Xavier Désert (Grenoble University)

Slides desert_Planck_SpacePart06_FXDmodified.pdf Slides

15:55 HXMT-A Chinese high energy astrophysics mission

Speaker: Dr Li Tipei (Tsinghua University)

Slides Slides Tipei_Li_HXMT.pdf

16:20 Symbol X: a formation flying mission for hard X-ray astronomy

Speaker: Dr P. Caraveo (INAF IASF)

Slides caraveo_SIMBOLX.pdf Slides

16:40 On the modern concept of a multipurpose orbital observatory for direct study of high energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Dr R. Mukhamedshin (INR Moscow)

Slides Mukhamedshin_Spacepart2006.pdf Slides

17:00 → 18:00 Transfer to Italian Institute of Culture

18:00 → 19:30 Special Session at the Italian Institute of Culture

19:30 → 21:00 Reception at the Italian Embassy

Friday, 21 April

09:00 → 10:40 Fundamental Physics and gravitation

09:00 Gravity probe B: testing Einstein at the limit of engineering

Speaker: Dr W. Bencze (Stanford University)

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09:25 Measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect using the LAGEOS satellites

Speaker: Dr I. Ciufolini (INFN)

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09:50 LISA and LISA Pathfinder

Speaker: Dr W. Heinzel (MPIG Hannover)

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10:15 ASTROD (Astrodynamical Space Test of Releativity using Optical Devices ) and ASTROD I

Speaker: Dr Ni Weitou (PMO - Nanjing)

Slides Slides wei-tou.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffe break

11:10 → 12:20 Fundamental Physics and gravitation (cont.)

11:10 Atom interferometers and optical clocks: new quantum sensors for fundamental Physics and applications to Earth laboratories and in space.

Speaker: Dr G. Tino (INFN)

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11:35 AXEL experiment in space to search for spin-coupling interactions

Speaker: Dr Dong Yao (PMO - Nanjing)

Slides Dong_Yao_AXEL_experiment_in_space_to_search_for_spin_coupling_interaction.pdf Slides

11:50 INAF

Speaker: Prof. Piero Benvenuti (INAF)

Slides INAF_Benvenuti_SpacePart06.pdf Slides

12:20 → 12:50 Science on the Moon and Mars

12:20 The ESA Aurora program

Speaker: Dr Simona Di Pippo (ASI)

Slides Di_Pippo_aurora_pechino_aprile2006.pdf Slides

12:50 → 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 → 14:45 Science on the Moon and Mars (cont.)

14:00 Modelling the Lunar radiation environment

Speaker: Dr Giovanni De Angelis (ISS)

14:15 Using the Moon as a low-noise seismic detector for strange quark matter

Speaker: Dr Talso Chui (NASA JPL)

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14:30 Wide-band, low-noise, low-power seismometer for SQM search and Lunar science

Speaker: Dr K. Penanen (NASA JPL)

Slides Penanen_SpacePart06_talk2.pdf Slides

14:45 → 15:25 Space applications and technologies

14:45 Theoretical and experimental studies of atomic oxygen interacting with material surfaces in low Eart orbit

Speaker: Dr Lee Chun-Hian (BUAA)

Slides Leee_Chun-hian.pdf Slides

15:05 Recent development in scientific research balloning

Speaker: Dr Vernon Jones (NASA)

Slides Jones_SpacePart06_Balloons.pdf Slides

15:25 → 15:50 Coffe break

15:50 → 18:10 Space applications and technologies (cont.)

15:50 The Chinese manned space program and related technologies

Speaker: Dr Gu Yidong (CAST)

16:10 Prospects for the chinese space exploring technology

Speaker: Dr Wang Li (CAST)

Slides Slides wang_li.pdf

16:30 Research on vacuum plume and its effects

Speaker: Dr CAI Guobiao (BUAA)

Slides BUAA-CAI_Guobiao.pdf Slides

16:50 Near UV atmospheric background characterization for an Earth watching space observatory

Speaker: Dr A. Thea (INFN Sezione di Genova)

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17:10 LOBSTER: new space telescopes

Speaker: Dr Rene Hudec (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov)

Slides HudecSpacepart.pdf Slides

17:30 Fast low power electronics for space

Speaker: Dr Mauro Menichelli (INFN Sezione di Perugia)

Slides Menichelli_Chinatalk.pdf Slides

17:50 Testing the technologies for LARES payload

Speaker: Dr A. Franceschi (INFN LNF)

Slides Franceschi_SpacePart06_LARES.pdf Slides

18:10 → 19:00 Round table: Space science and technology in the 21st century

18:10 Space science and technology in the 21st century

Speakers: Dr L. Piro (INAF IASF), Dr M. Panasyuk (ROSKOSMOS), Dr S. Di Pippo (ASI), Dr T. Takahashi (JAXA), Dr Vernon Jones (NASA), Dr Wang Li (CAST)

21:00 → 22:00 Posters

21:00 [POSTER] ASTROD Gravitational Reference Sensor (GRS): goal and requirements.

Speaker: Dr Antonio Pulido Paton (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS)

21:02 [POSTER] Test Mass Charging and Disturbances for ASTROD I

Speaker: Dr Bao Gang (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS)

21:04 [POSTER] The Research of Anti-Interference Techniques for Electronic Device in AMS-C System

Speaker: Dr Chen Congyan (AMS Research Center Nanjing, China)

21:06 [POSTER] A proposal for detecting supernova relic neutrinos at the Super-Kamiokande detector

Speaker: Dr Chen Shaomin (Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University)

21:08 [POSTER] INTEGRAL and Blazars

Speaker: Dr Rene Hudec (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov)

21:10 [POSTER] Si and Glass - Novel Technologies for Space

Speaker: Dr Rene Hudec (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov)

21:14 [POSTER] Development of an epitaxial contact technology for novel X- and Gamma-ray detectors based on Cadmium Telluride p-$i$-n diodes

Speaker: Dr Anna Maria Mancini (Università di Lecce)

21:16 [POSTER] Gas Pixel Detectors for X-ray Polarimetry applications

Speaker: Dr Gloria Spandre (INFN sez di Pisa)

21:18 [POSTER] Measuring the deep-space environmental momentum flux using the ASTROD I and ASTROD drag-free system data

Speaker: Dr Shi Jianchun (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS)

21:32 [POSTER] Temperature of the horizons of Vaidya-Bonner-de Sitter space-time

Speaker: Dr Shi Wanglin (CAST)

21:34 [POSTER] Polar: a compact detector for GRB photon polarization measurements

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Pierre Vialle (LAPP (France))

21:44 [POSTER] The behaviour of high energy electrons associated with electromagnetic waves in the earth’s radiation belts

Speaker: Dr Yang Junying (CAS)

21:46 [POSTER] Heat Influx Uniformity Analysis of Infrared Heating Strips Based on Monte Carlo Simulation

Speaker: Dr Yu Tao (CAST)

21:48 [POSTER] POSSIBLE EXPLANATION OF THE ANOMALOUS, WEAK, LONG-RANGE ACCELERATION OF PIONEER10/11 BY NEW PHYSICS

Speaker: Dr Jiang Xingliu (Department of Physics, Beihang University)

21:50 [POSTER] Study on Space Debris and Impact Effect on Spacecraft

Speakers: Dr Guanghui Jia (Beihang University (BUAA)), Dr Hai Huang (Beihang University (BUAA))

21:52 [POSTER] Electric Propulsion and Advanced Space Propulsion in BUAA

Speakers: Dr Haibin TANG (Beihang University (BUAA)), Dr Yu LIU (Beihang University (BUAA))

21:54 [POSTER] ANOMALOUS NUCLEAR PHENOMENA ASSOCIATED WITH ULTRAFAST PROCESSES

Speakers: Dr Jiang Xingliu (Department of Physics, Beihang University), Dr Zhou Xiaoping (Department of Physics, Beihang University)

21:56 [POSTER] INTEGRAL as a Virtual Observatory

Speakers: Peter Kubanec, Dr Rene Hudec (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Ondrejov)