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

VLVnT11 - Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop (2011)

from Wednesday, October 12, 2011 (8:00 AM) to Friday, October 14, 2011 (6:00 PM)

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

9:00 AM Registration and coffee
Registration and coffee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 AM Openings
Openings
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: HG
Contributions

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

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

10:30 AM IceCube results - Elisa Resconi

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

11:55 AM UHE Neutrino Searches - Amy Connolly (University College London)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: open area in front of HG
2:00 PM Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: HE
Contributions

2:00 PM Muon Energy Reconstruction in the ANTARES Detector - Jutta Schnabel (Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg/ECAP)

2:20 PM Methods for muon energy loss reconstruction in IceCube - David Boersma (RWTH Aachen University)

2:40 PM Coincident searches for high energy neutrinos and gravitational waves with the ANTARES and LIGO/VIRGO detectors - boutayeb bouhou (APC)

3:00 PM A feasibility study for the detection of Super Nova explosions with an Underwater Neutrino Telescope - Anthony Leisos (Hellenic Open University School of Science & Technology)

3:20 PM Search for Ultra-High-Energy neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Javier Gonzalez (KIT)

3:40 PM Cosmogenic neutrinos in KM3NeT - Rezo Shanidze (Unuversity of Erlangen)
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

2:00 PM Anisotropy of TeV cosmic rays in IceCube and IceTop - Marcos Santander (UW-Madison)

2:20 PM Influence of Cosmic Ray Composition - Patrick Berghaus (University of Delaware)

2:40 PM Search for neutrino emission in gamma-ray flaring blazars with the ANTARES telescope - Agustín Sánchez Losa (IFIC (Spain))

3:00 PM Measurement of Neutrino Oscillations with the ANTARES detector - Juergen Brunner (Universite d'Aix - Marseille II (FR))

3:20 PM Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Juan De Dios Zornoza Gomez

3:40 PM Search for magnetic monopoles and nuclearites with the ANTARES experiment - Gabriela Emilia Pavalas (Institute for Space Sciences, Bucharest, Romania)
Calibration
Calibration
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: HH
Contributions

2:00 PM Calibration systems of the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Juan Pablo Gómez González (ANTARES)

2:25 PM Characterization of optical properties of the site of the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Harold Yepes Ramirez (IFIC-ANTARES)

2:45 PM NEMO-SMO acoustic array: a deep-sea test of a novel acoustic positioning system for a km3-scale underwater neutrino telescope - Salvatore Viola (INFN)

3:05 PM Acoustic Calibration for the KM3NeT Pre-Production Module - Alexander Enzenhöfer (ANTARES)

3:25 PM Development of an acoustic transceiver for the KM3NeT positioning system - Giuseppina Larosa (IGIC-Universitat Politècnica de València)

3:45 PM 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
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: HF
Contributions

2:00 PM KM3NeT deep-sea cabled network: the star-like layout - Rosanna Cocimano (INFN-LNS)

2:25 PM The MEUST submarine infrastructure for neutrino astronomy - Claude Vallee (CPPM)

2:50 PM Specification of Underwater Fiber Optic Connectors for Neutrino Telescope systems - Steven Thumbeck (Seacon Advanced Products, LLC)

3:15 PM A vertical electro-optical data cable for KM3NeT - Gertjan Mul (Nikhef (for the KM3NeT consortium))

3:40 PM Assembly and Design of the Optical Modules for the NEMO Phase-2 - Emanuele Leonora (INFN, section of Catania)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: open area in front of HG
4:30 PM Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

4:30 PM Time integrated search for point sources of cosmic neutrinos with the ANTARES telescope - Claudio Bogazzi (NIKHEF)

4:50 PM Point Source Searches by IceCube: Recent Results and Progress - Chad Finley Chad Finley

5:10 PM Evaluation of triggering schemes for KM3NeT - Thomas Seitz (ECAP - University of Erlangen (for the KM3NeT consortium))

5:30 PM KM3NeT sensitivity and discovery potential for galactic point-like sources - piera sapienza (lns)

5:50 PM 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)

6:10 PM The KM3NeT high energy neutrino telescope and Fermi bubbles: some predicitions - Rosa Coniglione (INFN- Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
Photodetection and Readout
Photodetection and Readout
4:30 PM - 7:33 PM
Room: HE
Contributions

4:30 PM PMT measurements in Antares - Oleg Kalekin (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

4:50 PM Terrestrial Magnetic Field Effects on Large Photomultipliers - Emanuele Leonora (INFN, section of Catania)

5:10 PM Ageing Characterization on Large Area Photomultipliers - Emanuele Leonora (INFN Catania (Italy))

5:30 PM Status of the PMT development for KM3NeT - Lew Classen (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

5:50 PM Performance of Photo-Sensors for KM3NeT - Qader Dorosti (KVI Groningen)

6:10 PM Photomultiplier Design and Manufacture at ET Enterprises - Andy Cormack (ET Enterprises Ltd)

6:30 PM A TDC for characterization of KM3NeT PMTs - Gerard Kieft (Nikhef)

6:50 PM VSiPMT for underwater neutrino telescopes - Daniele Vivolo (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II" e INFN)

7:10 PM A large surface Photomultiplier based on SiPMs - Carlos Maximiliano Mollo (INFN)
Computing and Data
Computing and Data
4:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: HH
Contributions

4:30 PM The Antares Computing Model - Claudio Kopper (NIKHEF (for the ANTARES collaboration))

4:50 PM The NEMO Trigger and Data Acquisition System - Tommaso Chiarusi (INFN - Sezione di Bologna)

5:10 PM Data Acquisition, Triggering, and Filtering at the Auger Engineering Radio Array - John Kelley (Radboud University Nijmegen)

5:30 PM Online Control and Configuration in KM3NeT - Shebli Anvar (CEA - Centre d'Etudes de Saclay (FR))

5:50 PM A DAQ processing system for the KM3NeT shore station - Antonis Papaikonomou (University of Athens for the KM3NeT consortium)

6:10 PM Photon tracking with GPUs in IceCube - Dmitry Chirkin (UW, Madison, U.S.A.)

6:30 PM GPUs for Parallel Trigger Implementation For Muon Detection - Bachir BOUHADEF (INFN Pisa.)
Thursday, October 13, 2011

9:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 AM Physics, Reconstruction and Software
Physics, Reconstruction and Software
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

11:50 AM 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 PM 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 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: HH
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:05 PM Nautilus Marine Service GmbH - Industrial Presentation - Frank Egloff (Nautilus Marine Services GmbH)
Photodetection and Readout
Photodetection and Readout
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: HE
Contributions

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

10:20 AM 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 AM Latest progress in PMT development - Yuji Hotta (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.)

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

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

11:40 AM 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 PM White Rabbit: Sub-Nanosecond Timing over Ethernet - Henk Peek (NIKHEF (NL))

12:20 PM Embedded electronics and data acquisition of a detection node for the European KM3NeT telescope. - frederic louis (CEA)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: open area in front of HG
2:00 PM Theory and Phenomenology
Theory and Phenomenology
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

2:00 PM The neutrino sky at very high energies - Markus Ahlers

2:50 PM Acceleration processes, galactic sources, the gamma connection - Luke Drury
3:40 PM Coffee
Coffee
3:40 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: open area in front of HG

3:40 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: HG
4:10 PM NT User Workshop
NT User Workshop
4:10 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

4:10 PM Introduction - Uli Katz (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

4:20 PM Astrophysical Multi-messenger Observatory Network (AMON) - Tyce DeYoung (UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND)

4:45 PM HEAPNet and its ideas - Paolo Piattelli (INFN-LNS, Catania)

5:00 PM Global Neutrino Observatory - Uli Katz (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

5:15 PM Panel Discussion
7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 11:59 PM
Friday, October 14, 2011

9:30 AM Coffee
Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: open area in front of HG
10:00 AM Future Projects
Future Projects
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

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

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

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

12:00 PM Neutrinos with JEM-EUSO - Andrea Santangelo
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: open area in front of HG
2:00 PM Future Projects - continued
Future Projects - continued
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

2:00 PM The Askaryan Radio Array - Kael Hanson (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2:30 PM Neutrino Detection, Position Calibration and Marine Science with Acoustic Arrays in the Deep Sea - Robert Lahmann (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))
3:00 PM Roadmaps and Strategies
Roadmaps and Strategies
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

3:00 PM Roadmaps for neutrino APP - Christian Spiering (DESY)

3:30 PM Funding aspects - Thomas Berghoefer (PT-DESY)
4:00 PM Coffee
Coffee
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: HG
4:30 PM Conference Summary
Conference Summary
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: HG
Contributions

4:30 PM Plenary Session: Conference Summary - Maarten De Jong (NIKHEF)

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