RICAP'07 - Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics

from Wednesday, June 20, 2007 (10:00 AM) to Friday, June 22, 2007 (6:00 PM)
University of Roma "La Sapienza"

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Jun 20, 2007
Jun 21, 2007
Jun 22, 2007
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10:00 AM
Registration (until 1:00 PM) (Physics Dept.)
9:00 AM
Parallel Session: EAS and Gamma Detection (until 11:00 AM) (Aula Magna)
9:00 AM KASCADE-Grande: an overview and first results - Mario Bertaina (Universita' di Torino, Italy)  
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9:15 AM A new approach to EAS investigations in energy region 10^15 - 10^19 eV - Rostislav Kokoulin (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Russia)  
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9:30 AM The analysis of hybrid events in Auger - Francesco Salamida (University of L'Aquila and INFN, Italy)  
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9:45 AM The Fluorescence Telescopes of the Pierre Auger Observatory - Heiko Geenen (University of Wuppertal, Germany)  
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10:00 AM Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ detector in Scaler Mode - Tristano Di Girolamo (Universita' di Napoli "Federico II")  
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10:15 AM Survey of the Northern Hemisphere Galactic Plane with Milagro - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)  
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10:30 AM Status of the CRTNT Experiment - Zhen Cao (IHEP, Beijing, China)  
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10:45 AM Diffusive Shock Acceleration in Astrophysics - Athina Meli (University of Athens, Physics Department, Greece)  
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9:00 AM
Parallel Session: Neutrino Detection (until 11:00 AM) (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
9:00 AM Prototype string for a km3 Baikal neutrino telescope - Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS, Russia)  
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9:15 AM Data taking system for NEMO experiment - Francesco Simeone (Universita' La Sapienza & INFN, Roma)  
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9:30 AM High energy muon shower reconstruction - Salvatore Mangano (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)  
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9:45 AM Point-like source searches with the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Juan Jose' Hernandez (IFIC, Valencia, Spain)  
10:00 AM Analyses strategies and resent result from AMANDA-II - Kirsten Muenich (University of Dortmund, Germany)  
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10:15 AM Cosmic-ray physics with IceCube - Tilo Waldenmaier (University of Delaware, USA)  
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10:30 AM Test results of prototype to measure large angle cosmics rays - Maurizio Iori (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)  
10:45 AM Lepton Bundles and Gamma Bursts byTau AirShowers beyond the edge - Daniele Fargion (INFN and Physics Dept. University La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM
Parallel Session: Antimatter detection in space (until 1:00 PM) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
11:30 AM Dark matter, cosmological constant and neutrino mixing - Giuseppe Vitiello (Universita' di Salerno, Italy)  
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11:45 AM Solar and heliospheric cosmic ray observations with PAMELA experiment - Marco Casolino (INFN and Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)  
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12:00 PM The Time-of-Flight system of the PAMELA experiment: in-flight performances - Rita Carbone (INFN Napoli, Italy)  
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12:15 PM Cosmic-ray Astrophysics with the AMS-02 experiment - Alberto Oliva (Università & INFN Perugia)  
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12:30 PM Dark Matter Searches with AMS-02 - Francesco Maria Cardano (Università degli studi di Perugia)  
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12:45 PM Antiproton and Positron Signal Enhancement in Dark Matter Mini-Spikes Scenarios - Julien Lavalle (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille, France)  
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11:30 AM
Parallel Session: Gamma Detection (until 1:00 PM) (Sala TeleConferenze Rettorato)
11:30 AM Diffuse Gamma Emission of the Galaxy from Cosmic Rays - Dario Grasso (INFN, Pisa, Italy)  
11:45 AM The H.E.S.S. view of the Galactic Centre region - Christopher van Eldik (MPI for Nuclear Physics, Germany)  
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12:00 PM H.E.S.S. observations of Active Galactic Nuclei - Francesca Volpe (Ecole Polytechnique, France)  
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12:15 PM MAGIC observations of the HMXB LS I +61 303 in VHE gamma rays - Tobias Jogler (Max Planck Institut für Physik, Germany)  
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12:30 PM TenTen: A new array of Cherenkov Telescopes for multi-TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy - Gavin Rowell (University of Adelaide, Australia)  
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9:00 AM
Plenary Session: VHE Neutrino Detection (until 11:30 AM) (Aula AMALDI)
9:00 AM The BAIKAL neutrino experiment: status, selected physics results, and perspectives - Zhan Djilkibaev (Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow, Russia)  
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9:25 AM IceCube: Recent results and prospects - Tyce DeYoung (Pennsylvania State University, USA)  
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9:50 AM Recent achievements of the NEMO project - Emilio Migneco (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)  
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10:15 AM Data from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - John Carr (Centre de Physique de Particules de Marseille, France)  
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10:40 AM KM3NeT: a next generation neutrino telescope - Els de Wolf (NIKHEF, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)  
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11:05 AM Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos as Probes of Physics - Ina Sarcevic (University of Arizona, USA)  
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11:30 AM --- Coffee break ---
PM
1:00 PM --- Welcome Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Plenary Session: Gamma Detection - 1 (until 4:50 PM) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
2:30 PM Welcome and Conference opening - Antonio Capone (Chairman of the Conference) Francesco Ronga (Chairman of "INFN Commissione Scientifica II (Astroparticle Physics")  
2:45 PM TeV Gamma-Ray Observations with Milagro - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)  
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3:10 PM ARGO-YBJ experiment in Tibet - Giacomo D'ali' Staiti (University of Palermo)  
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3:35 PM Gamma-ray astronomy: Recent results from the H.E.S.S. telescope system - Gerd Puehlhofer (ZAH Landessternwarte, Heidelberg, Germany)  
4:00 PM Highlights of MAGIC results - Denis Bastieri (Università & INFN Padova, Italy)  
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4:25 PM First Results from the VERITAS Gamma-ray Telescopes - David Hanna (McGill University, Canada)  
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4:50 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:15 PM
Plenary Session: Gamma Detection - 2 (until 6:55 PM) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
5:15 PM CTA, next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory - Masahiro Teshima (MPI Munich, Germany)  
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5:40 PM AGILE IN ORBIT - Marco Tavani (INAF and Univ. Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy)  
6:05 PM Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope - GLAST - Alexander Moiseev (CRESST/NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, USA)  
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6:30 PM INTEGRAL High Energy Sky: the keV to MeV cosmic sources - Pietro Ubertini (Istituto Astrofisica Spaziale Roma, INAF)  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Plenary Session: UHE Cosmic Rays Detection (until 4:55 PM) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
2:30 PM Acceleration and Transport of High Energy Cosmic Rays: A Review - Pasquale Blasi (INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy)  
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2:55 PM The origin of galactic cosmic-rays - Joerg Hoerandel (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)  
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3:20 PM Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Spectrum Measurement with HiRes Experiment - Zhen Cao (IHEP, Beijing, China)  
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3:45 PM Ultra – High Energy cosmic rays: the present status and future prospects - Alan Watson (University of Leeds, UK)  
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4:15 PM UHECR observation from space: perspectives for next-generation experiments. - Alessandro Petrolini (University of Genova and INFN, Italy)  
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5:00 PM --- Coffee break ---
5:20 PM
Plenary Session: Antimatter detection in space (until 6:40 PM) (Aula Magna Rettorato)
5:20 PM In-Flight performances of the PAMELA satellite experiment - Paolo Papini (Università di Firenze & INFN, Italy)  
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5:45 PM The AMS experiment on the ISS: a particle physics experiment in space - Roberto Battiston (Universita' di Perugia e INFN Perugia, Italy)  
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6:10 PM Indirect detection of dark matter candidates in gamma-rays - Lars Bergström (Physics Dept., Stockholm University, Sweden)  
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7:00 PM
Exhibition of the "Choir of Physics Students" directed by Prof. Paolo Camiz (until 8:00 PM)
8:30 PM
Conference Dinner (until 10:30 PM) (Casa dell'Aviatore)
12:00 PM
Plenary Session: UHE Neutrino Detection (until 1:15 PM) (Aula AMALDI)
12:00 PM Cosmic rays and neutrinos from supernova remnants - Francesco Vissani (LNGS-INFN, Italy)  
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12:25 PM Acoustic Detection of Ultra High Energy Neutrinos - Lee Thompson (University of Sheffield, UK)  
12:50 PM Radiowave Neutrino Detection - Dave Besson (University of Kansas, UK)  
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1:15 PM --- Lunch break ---
3:00 PM
Closing Session and Summary (until 5:10 PM) (Aula AMALDI)
3:00 PM Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos - Todor Stanev (Bartol Research Institute and Dept. of Phys. and Astronomy, Univ. of Delaware, USA)  
3:30 PM Summary on parallel sessions: "EAS and Gamma Detection" and "Gamma Detection" - Aldo Morselli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Italy)  
3:55 PM Summary on parallel sessions: "Neutrino detection" and "Antimatter detection in space" - Ralf Wischnewski (Desy, Zeuthen, Germany)  
4:20 PM Conference Summary - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware, USA)  
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