RICAP'07 - Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics

from Wednesday 20 June 2007 (10:00) to Friday 22 June 2007 (18:00)
University of Roma "La Sapienza"

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20 Jun 2007
21 Jun 2007
22 Jun 2007
AM
10:00
Registration (until 13:00) (Physics Dept.)
09:00
Parallel Session: EAS and Gamma Detection (until 11:00) (Aula Magna)
09:00 KASCADE-Grande: an overview and first results - Mario Bertaina (Universita' di Torino, Italy)   (Aula Magna)
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09:15 A new approach to EAS investigations in energy region 10^15 - 10^19 eV - Rostislav Kokoulin (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia)   (Aula Magna)
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09:30 The analysis of hybrid events in Auger - Francesco Salamida (University of L'Aquila and INFN, Italy)   (Aula Magna)
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09:45 The Fluorescence Telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Heiko Geenen (University of Wuppertal, Germany)   (Aula Magna)
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10:00 Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ detector in Scaler Mode - Tristano Di Girolamo (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II")   (Aula Magna)
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10:15 Survey of the Northern Hemisphere Galactic Plane with Milagro - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   (Aula Magna)
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10:30 Status of the CRTNT Experiment - Zhen Cao (IHEP, Beijing, China)   (Aula Magna)
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10:45 Diffusive Shock Acceleration in Astrophysics - Athina Meli (University of Athens, Physics Department, Greece)   (Aula Magna)
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09:00
Parallel Session: Neutrino Detection (until 11:00) (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
09:00 Prototype string for a km3 Baikal neutrino telescope - Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS, Russia)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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09:15 Data taking system for NEMO experiment - Francesco Simeone (Universita' La Sapienza & INFN, Roma)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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09:30 High energy muon shower reconstruction - Salvatore Mangano (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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09:45 Point-like source searches with the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Juan Jose' Hernandez (IFIC, Valencia, Spain)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
10:00 Analyses strategies and resent result from AMANDA-II - Kirsten Muenich (University of Dortmund, Germany)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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10:15 Cosmic-ray physics with IceCube - Tilo Waldenmaier (University of Delaware, USA)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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10:30 Test results of prototype to measure large angle cosmics rays - Maurizio Iori (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
10:45 Lepton Bundles and Gamma Bursts byTau AirShowers beyond the edge - Daniele Fargion (INFN and Physics Dept. University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
11:00 --- Coffee break ---
11:30
Parallel Session: Antimatter detection in space (until 13:00) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
11:30 Dark matter, cosmological constant and neutrino mixing - Giuseppe Vitiello (Universita' di Salerno, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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11:45 Solar and heliospheric cosmic ray observations with PAMELA experiment - Marco Casolino (INFN and Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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12:00 The Time-of-Flight system of the PAMELA experiment: in-flight performances - Rita Carbone (INFN Napoli, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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12:15 Cosmic-ray Astrophysics with the AMS-02 experiment - Alberto Oliva (Università & INFN Perugia)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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12:30 Dark Matter Searches with AMS-02 - Francesco Maria Cardano (Università degli studi di Perugia)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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12:45 Antiproton and Positron Signal Enhancement in Dark Matter Mini-Spikes Scenarios - Julien Lavalle (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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11:30
Parallel Session: Gamma Detection (until 13:00) (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
11:30 Diffuse Gamma Emission of the Galaxy from Cosmic Rays - Dario Grasso (INFN, Pisa, Italy)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
11:45 The H.E.S.S. view of the Galactic Centre region - Christopher van Eldik (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Germany)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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12:00 H.E.S.S. observations of Active Galactic Nuclei - Francesca Volpe (Ecole Polytechnique, France)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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12:15 MAGIC observations of the HMXB LS I +61 303 in VHE gamma rays - Tobias Jogler (Max Planck Institut für Physik, Germany)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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12:30 TenTen: A new array of Cherenkov Telescopes for multi-TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy - Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide, Australia)   (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
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09:00
Plenary Session: VHE Neutrino Detection (until 11:30) (Aula AMALDI)
09:00 The BAIKAL neutrino experiment: status, selected physics results, and perspectives - Zhan Djilkibaev (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia)   (Aula AMALDI)
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09:25 IceCube: Recent results and prospects - Tyce DeYoung (Pennsylvania State University, USA)   (Aula AMALDI)
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09:50 Recent achievements of the NEMO project - Emilio Migneco (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)   (Aula AMALDI)
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10:15 Data from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - John Carr (Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille, France)   (Aula AMALDI)
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10:40 KM3NeT: a next generation neutrino telescope - Els de Wolf (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)   (Aula AMALDI)
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11:05 Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos as Probes of Physics - Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona, USA)   (Aula AMALDI)
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11:30 --- Coffee break ---
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13:00 --- Welcome Lunch ---
14:30
Plenary Session: Gamma Detection - 1 (until 16:50) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
14:30 Welcome and Conference opening - Antonio Capone (Chairman of the Conference) Francesco Ronga (Chairman of "INFN Commissione Scientifica II (Astroparticle Physics")   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
14:45 TeV Gamma-Ray Observations with Milagro - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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15:10 ARGO-YBJ experiment in Tibet - Giacomo D'ali' Staiti (University of Palermo)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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15:35 Gamma-ray astronomy: Recent results from the H.E.S.S. telescope system - Gerd Puehlhofer (ZAH Landessternwarte, Heidelberg, Germany)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
16:00 Highlights of MAGIC results - Denis Bastieri (Università & INFN Padova, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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16:25 First Results from the VERITAS Gamma-ray Telescopes - David Hanna (McGill University, Canada)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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16:50 --- Coffee break ---
17:15
Plenary Session: Gamma Detection - 2 (until 18:55) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
17:15 CTA, next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory - Masahiro Teshima (MPI Munich, Germany)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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17:40 AGILE IN ORBIT - Marco Tavani (INAF and Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
18:05 Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope - GLAST - Alexander Moiseev (CRESST/NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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18:30 INTEGRAL High Energy Sky: the keV to MeV cosmic sources - Pietro Ubertini (Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale Roma, INAF)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Plenary Session: UHE Cosmic Rays Detection (until 16:55) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
14:30 Acceleration and Transport of High Energy Cosmic Rays: A Review - Pasquale Blasi (INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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14:55 The origin of galactic cosmic-rays - Joerg Hoerandel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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15:20 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum Measurement with HiRes Experiment - Zhen Cao (IHEP, Beijing, China)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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15:45 Ultra – High Energy cosmic rays: the present status and future prospects - Alan Watson (University of Leeds, UK)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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16:15 UHECR observation from space: perspectives for next-generation experiments. - Alessandro Petrolini (University of Genova and INFN, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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17:00 --- Coffee break ---
17:20
Plenary Session: Antimatter detection in space (until 18:40) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
17:20 In-Flight performances of the PAMELA satellite experiment - Paolo Papini (Università di Firenze & INFN, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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17:45 The AMS experiment on the ISS: a particle physics experiment in space - Roberto Battiston (Universita' di Perugia e INFN Perugia, Italy)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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18:10 Indirect detection of dark matter candidates in gamma-rays - Lars Bergström (Physics Dept., Stockholm University, Sweden)   (Aula Magna Rettorato)
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19:00
Exhibition of the "Choir of Physics Students" directed by Prof. Paolo Camiz (until 20:00) ()
20:30
Conference Dinner (until 22:30) (Casa dell'Aviatore)
12:00
Plenary Session: UHE Neutrino Detection (until 13:15) (Aula AMALDI)
12:00 Cosmic rays and neutrinos from supernova remnants - Francesco Vissani (LNGS-INFN, Italy)   (Aula AMALDI)
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12:25 Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Lee Thompson (University of Sheffield, UK)   (Aula AMALDI)
12:50 Radiowave Neutrino Detection - Dave Besson (University of Kansas, UK)   (Aula AMALDI)
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13:15 --- Lunch break ---
15:00
Closing Session and Summary (until 17:10) (Aula AMALDI)
15:00 Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos - Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute and Dept. of Phys. and Astronomy, Univ. of Delaware, USA)   (Aula AMALDI)
15:30 Summary on parallel sessions: "EAS and Gamma Detection" and "Gamma Detection" - Aldo Morselli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)   (Aula AMALDI)
15:55 Summary on parallel sessions: "Neutrino detection" and "Antimatter detection in space" - Ralf Wischnewski (Desy, Zeuthen, Germany)   (Aula AMALDI)
16:20 Conference Summary - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware, USA)   (Aula AMALDI)
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