Name: VLVnT11 - Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop (2011)
Start: 2011-10-12T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2011-10-14T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Physics Lecture Hall

Monday 10 October 2011
Tuesday 11 October 2011
Wednesday 12 October 2011

09:00 Registration and coffee
Registration and coffee
09:00 - 10:00
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 Openings
Openings
10:00 - 10:30
Room: HG
Contributions

10:00 Welcome and Information by the Workshop Organisers - Uli Katz (Physikalisches Institut)

10:15 Welcome by the Vice-President of the University of Erlangen - Joachim Hornegger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
10:30 Neutrino Telescopes
Neutrino Telescopes
10:30 - 12:30
Room: HG
Contributions

10:30 IceCube results - Elisa Resconi

11:20 Northern Hemisphere Neutrino Telescopes - Juan Hernandez-Rey (Universidad de Valencia (ES))

11:55 UHE Neutrino Searches - Amy Connolly (University College London)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: open area in front of HG
14:00 Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
14:00 - 16:00
Room: HE
Contributions

14:00 Muon Energy Reconstruction in the ANTARES Detector - Jutta Schnabel (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg/ECAP)

14:20 Methods for muon energy loss reconstruction in IceCube - David Boersma (RWTH Aachen University)

14:40 Coincident searches for high energy neutrinos and gravitational waves with the ANTARES and LIGO/VIRGO detectors - boutayeb bouhou (APC)

15:00 A feasibility study for the detection of Super Nova explosions with an Underwater Neutrino Telescope - Anthony Leisos (Hellenic Open University School of Science & Technology)

15:20 Search for Ultra-High-Energy neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Javier Gonzalez (KIT)

15:40 Cosmogenic neutrinos in KM3NeT - Rezo Shanidze (Unuversity of Erlangen)
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
14:00 - 16:00
Room: HG
Contributions

14:00 Anisotropy of TeV cosmic rays in IceCube and IceTop - Marcos Santander (UW-Madison)

14:20 Influence of Cosmic Ray Composition - Patrick Berghaus (University of Delaware)

14:40 Search for neutrino emission in gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope - Agustín Sánchez Losa (IFIC (Spain))

15:00 Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the ANTARES detector - Juergen Brunner (Universite d'Aix - Marseille II (FR))

15:20 Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Juan De Dios Zornoza Gomez

15:40 Search for magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the ANTARES experiment - Gabriela Emilia Pavalas (Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania)
Calibration
Calibration
14:00 - 16:00
Room: HH
Contributions

14:00 Calibration systems of the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Juan Pablo Gómez González (ANTARES)

14:25 Characterization of optical properties of the site of the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Harold Yepes Ramirez (IFIC-ANTARES)

14:45 NEMO-SMO acoustic array: a deep-sea test of a novel acoustic positioning system for a km3-scale underwater neutrino telescope - Salvatore Viola (INFN)

15:05 Acoustic Calibration for the KM3NeT Pre-Production Module - Alexander Enzenhöfer (ANTARES)

15:25 Development of an acoustic transceiver for the KM3NeT positioning system - Giuseppina Larosa (IGIC-Universitat Politècnica de València)

15:45 Development of a compact acoustic calibrator for ultra-high energy neutrino detection - Silvia Adrián (Antares-UPV)
Deep-sea and Deep-ice Technologies
Deep-sea and Deep-ice Technologies
14:00 - 16:00
Room: HF
Contributions

14:00 KM3NeT deep-sea cabled network: the star-like layout - Rosanna Cocimano (INFN-LNS)

14:25 The MEUST submarine infrastructure for neutrino astronomy - Claude Vallee (CPPM)

14:50 Specification of Underwater Fiber Optic Connectors for Neutrino Telescope systems - Steven Thumbeck (Seacon Advanced Products, LLC)

15:15 A vertical electro-optical data cable for KM3NeT - Gertjan Mul (Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))

15:40 Assembly and Design of the Optical Modules for the NEMO Phase-2 - Emanuele Leonora (INFN, section of Catania)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: open area in front of HG
16:30 Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
16:30 - 19:30
Room: HG
Contributions

16:30 Time integrated search for point sources of cosmic neutrinos with the ANTARES telescope - Claudio Bogazzi (NIKHEF)

16:50 Point Source Searches by IceCube: Recent Results and Progress - Chad Finley Chad Finley

17:10 Evaluation of triggering schemes for KM3NeT - Thomas Seitz (ECAP - University of Erlangen (for the KM3NeT consortium))

17:30 KM3NeT sensitivity and discovery potential for galactic point-like sources - piera sapienza (lns)

17:50 Reconstruction efficiency and discovery potential of a Mediterranean neutrino telescope: A simulation study using the Hellenic Open University Simulation & Reconstruction (HOURS) package - Apostolos Tsirigotis (HOU)

18:10 The KM3NeT high energy neutrino telescope and Fermi bubbles: some predicitions - Rosa Coniglione (INFN- Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
Photodetection and Readout
Photodetection and Readout
16:30 - 19:33
Room: HE
Contributions

16:30 PMT measurements in Antares - Oleg Kalekin (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

16:50 Terrestrial Magnetic Field Effects on Large Photomultipliers - Emanuele Leonora (INFN, section of Catania)

17:10 Ageing Characterization on Large Area Photomultipliers - Emanuele Leonora (INFN Catania (Italy))

17:30 Status of the PMT development for KM3NeT - Lew Classen (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

17:50 Performance of Photo-Sensors for KM3NeT - Qader Dorosti (KVI Groningen)

18:10 Photomultiplier Design and Manufacture at ET Enterprises - Andy Cormack (ET Enterprises Ltd)

18:30 A TDC for characterization of KM3NeT PMTs - Gerard Kieft (Nikhef)

18:50 VSiPMT for underwater neutrino telescopes - Daniele Vivolo (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" e INFN)

19:10 A large surface Photomultiplier based on SiPMs - Carlos Maximiliano Mollo (INFN)
Computing and Data
Computing and Data
16:30 - 19:30
Room: HH
Contributions

16:30 The Antares Computing Model - Claudio Kopper (NIKHEF (for the ANTARES collaboration))

16:50 The NEMO Trigger and Data Acquisition System - Tommaso Chiarusi (INFN - Sezione di Bologna)

17:10 Data Acquisition, Triggering, and Filtering at the Auger Engineering Radio Array - John Kelley (Radboud University Nijmegen)

17:30 Online Control and Configuration in KM3NeT - Shebli Anvar (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

17:50 A DAQ processing system for the KM3NeT shore station - Antonis Papaikonomou (University of Athens for the KM3NeT consortium)

18:10 Photon tracking with GPUs in IceCube - Dmitry Chirkin (UW, Madison, U.S.A.)

18:30 GPUs for Parallel Trigger Implementation For Muon Detection - Bachir BOUHADEF (INFN Pisa.)
Thursday 13 October 2011

09:30 Coffee
Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
10:00 - 12:30
Room: HG
Contributions

10:00 Common Simulation Tools for Large Volume Neutrino Detectors - Annarita Margiotta (Universita e INFN (IT))

10:30 Simulation Chain for Acoustic UHE Neutrino Detectors - Max Neff (ECAP)

10:50 Neutrino-induced showers in the ANTARES Deep-Sea Telescope - Qader Dorosti (KVI Groningen)

11:10 Reconstruction and identification of neutrino-induced particle showers in IceCube - Eike Middell (DESY)

11:30 A Kalman Filter approach for track reconstruction in a neutrino telescope - Gianfranca De Rosa (Università di Napoli Federico II)

11:50 A reconstruction method for neutrino induced muon tracks taking into account the apriori knowledge of the neutrino source - Apostolos Tsirigotis (Physics Laboratory, School of Science & Technology, Hellenic Open University)

12:10 Evaluation of the discovery potential of an underwater Mediterranean neutrino telescope taking into account the estimated directional resolution and energy of the reconstructed track - Spyros Tzamarias (Hellenic Open University)
Mechanics, Deployment and Vessels
Mechanics, Deployment and Vessels
10:00 - 12:30
Room: HH
Contributions

10:00 Parallel Session 2 - Mechanics, Deployment and Vessels - Efstratios Anassontzis (University of Athens (GR)) Marco Circella (INFN Bari, Italy)

10:05 Maintenance of the deep-sea ANTARES neutrino telescope - Marco Circella (INFN Bari, Italy)

10:25 Mechanical design of NEMO Phase 2 - Giorgio Cacopardo (INFN- LNS)

10:45 A mechanical design for a detection unit for a deep-sea neutrino telescope - Edward Berbee (Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))

11:05 A launching vehicle for optical modules of a deep-sea neutrino telescope - Els de Wolf (Nikhef/University of Amsterdam)

11:25 Quality control considerations for the KM3NeT very large volume neutrino telescope - Calogero Sollima (INFN-Pisa)

11:45 Mechanical design of the Pre-Production Detector Unit Model of KM3NeT - Mario Musumeci (INFN)

12:05 Nautilus Marine Service GmbH - Industrial Presentation - Frank Egloff (Nautilus Marine Services GmbH)
Photodetection and Readout
Photodetection and Readout
10:00 - 13:00
Room: HE
Contributions

10:00 Reconfigurable hardware applications on NetFPGA for network monitoring in large area sensor networks - Vasileios Koutsoumpos (Nestor Institute for Astroparticle Physics)

10:20 SCOTT: A time and amplitude digitizer ASIC for PMT signal processing using multi time over threshold technique. - Sophie Catherine Ferry (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR)) Sophie Ferry

10:40 Latest progress in PMT development - Yuji Hotta (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.)

11:00 FPGA shore station demonstrator for KM3NeT - Kostas Manolopoulos (NESTOR Institute for Astroparticle Physics for the KM3NeT consortium)

11:20 Photonics-oriented data transmission network for the KM3NeT prototype detection unit - Jelle Hogenbirk (Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))

11:40 Data readout system utilizing photonic integrated circuit - Stanislaw Stopinski (1. Technische Universiteit Eindhoven 2. Institute of Microelectronics and Optoelectronics of Warsaw University of Technology)

12:00 White Rabbit: Sub-Nanosecond Timing over Ethernet - Henk Peek (NIKHEF (NL))

12:20 Embedded electronics and data acquisition of a detection node for the European KM3NeT telescope. - frederic louis (CEA)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: open area in front of HG
14:00 Theory and Phenomenology
Theory and Phenomenology
14:00 - 15:40
Room: HG
Contributions

14:00 The neutrino sky at very high energies - Markus Ahlers

14:50 Acceleration processes, galactic sources, the gamma connection - Luke Drury
15:40 Coffee
Coffee
15:40 - 16:10
Room: open area in front of HG

15:40 - 15:45
Room: HG
16:10 NT User Workshop
NT User Workshop
16:10 - 18:30
Room: HG
Contributions

16:10 Introduction - Uli Katz (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

16:20 Astrophysical Multi-messenger Observatory Network (AMON) - Tyce DeYoung (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)

16:45 HEAPNet and its ideas - Paolo Piattelli (INFN-LNS, Catania)

17:00 Global Neutrino Observatory - Uli Katz (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

17:15 Panel Discussion
19:30

19:30 - 23:59
Friday 14 October 2011

09:30 Coffee
Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 Future Projects
Future Projects
10:00 - 12:30
Room: HG
Contributions

10:00 KM3NeT - where are we and where do we go - Paul Martin Kooijman (NIKHEF)

11:00 Toward precision neutrino physics with DeepCore and beyond - Tyce DeYoung

11:30 Current status of the BAIKAL-GVD project - Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS)

12:00 Neutrinos with JEM-EUSO - Andrea Santangelo
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: open area in front of HG
14:00 Future Projects - continued
Future Projects - continued
14:00 - 15:00
Room: HG
Contributions

14:00 The Askaryan Radio Array - Kael Hanson (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

14:30 Neutrino Detection, Position Calibration and Marine Science with Acoustic Arrays in the Deep Sea - Robert Lahmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))
15:00 Roadmaps and Strategies
Roadmaps and Strategies
15:00 - 16:00
Room: HG
Contributions

15:00 Roadmaps for neutrino APP - Christian Spiering (DESY)

15:30 Funding aspects - Thomas Berghoefer (PT-DESY)
16:00 Coffee
Coffee
16:00 - 16:30
Room: HG
16:30 Conference Summary
Conference Summary
16:30 - 17:15
Room: HG
Contributions

16:30 Plenary Session: Conference Summary - Maarten De Jong (NIKHEF)