Name: International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics
Start: 2012-02-13T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2012-02-16T18:00:00+01:00
Location: CERN

International Symposium on Future Directions in UHECR Physics

from Monday, February 13, 2012 (2:00 PM) to Thursday, February 16, 2012 (6:00 PM)

Monday, February 13, 2012
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome address - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

2:15 PM History of UHECR research - pierre sokolsky (university of Utah)

3:00 PM Review of current status of measurements - Paolo Privitera (Dipartimento di Fisica(RomaII))
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:15 PM Acceleration and propagation - Pasquale Blasi

4:50 PM Review of model predictions on spectrum/composition - Venya Berezinsky (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

5:25 PM Connecting accelerator experiments and cosmic ray showers - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)
6:15 PM Welcome reception in the Globe
Welcome reception in the Globe
6:15 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Globe 1st Floor
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

9:00 AM Conference Photo
Conference Photo
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
9:10 AM
9:10 AM - 11:10 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:10 AM HiRes and TA Spectrum Measurements - Douglas Bergman (U)

9:30 AM Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays at highest energies using the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ioana Maris

9:50 AM The Yakutsk array experiment: main results and future directions - Anatoly Ivanov (Shafer Institute for Cosmophysical Research & Aeronomy)

10:10 AM WG Review of UHECR spectrum data - Yoshiki Tsunesada (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

10:50 AM Nitrogen fluorescence in air for observing extensive air showers - Bianca Keilhauer (KIT)
11:10 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Mass Sensitive Observables of the Pierre Auger Observatory and Their Possible Implications - Michael Unger (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

11:50 AM HiRes and TA Composition Measurements - Yuichiro Tameda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

12:10 PM WG Review of UHECR composition data - Jose Bellido (The University of Adelaide)
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Particle physics connection - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

2:40 PM Review of accelerator data of relevance to shower simulation - Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya University)

3:20 PM Recent results from LHCf - Gaku Mitsuka (Nagoya University (JP))

3:40 PM Estimates of the proton-proton cross section at UHE energy - Paolo Lipari (Universita di Roma I)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Measurement of the proton-air cross section with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

4:50 PM Measurements of the muon shower content at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alexey Yushkov

5:10 PM New Physics at UHE energies - Glennys Farrar (New York University)

5:30 PM New technique and results of cosmic ray investigations in the energy interval 10^15 – 10^19 eV - Anatoly Petrukhin (MEPhI)

5:50 PM WG Review of modeling and description of air showers - Ralph Engel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM WG Review of anisotropy data - Peter Tinyakov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

9:40 AM WG Review of UHE multi-messenger data - Grigory Rubtsov (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS) Markus Risse (University of Siegen)

10:20 AM Review of TeV gamma-ray and neutrino data of relevance to UHECR - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:50 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Review of interpretation of multi-messenger data - Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg)

12:10 PM Ultra High Energy Nuclei Propagation and the Spectrum of UHECR - Roberto Aloisio (INAF - Osservatorio Arcetri Firenze)

12:30 PM Transition from Galactic to Extragalactic Cosmic Rays and cosmic ray anisotropy - Dmitri Semikoz (A)
12:50 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

2:00 PM Constraints on inductive acceleration of UHECRs in astrophysical sources. - Sergey Troitsky (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

2:20 PM Deflection of ultra-high energy heavy nuclei in magnetic fields - Gwenael Giacinti (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)

2:40 PM Are UHECR and multiplet also galactic? - Daniele Fargion (Rome University 1 Sapienza and INFN)

3:00 PM Extragalactic and galactic sources: new evidence, new challenges, new opportunities - Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

3:20 PM The Need for Hard Spectrum Local Sources of UHECR Nuclei - Andrew Taylor (ISDC, University of Geneva)

3:40 PM A strategy to unveil transient sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays - Hajime Takami (M)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

4:30 PM Reconstruction of Muon Production Depth in grounded array based on the TTC (Time Track Complementarity) method - Michelangelo Ambrosio (INFN Napoli)

4:50 PM What the radio signal tells about the cosmic-ray air shower. - Olaf Scholten (KVI/Univ. of Groningen)

5:10 PM Results from the Auger Engineering Radio Array - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)

5:30 PM First results from the Microwave Air Yield Beam Experiment (MAYBE): measurement of GHz radiation for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays detection - Christopher Williams (University of Chicago & KICP)

5:50 PM Status of the microwave detection of cosmic rays program at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Pedro Facal San Luis (U)

6:10 PM Microwave emission from extensive air showers as seen by CROME - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

6:25 PM TARA: Forward-Scattered Radar Detection of UHECR at the Telescope Array - John Belz (University of Utah)
7:45 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:45 PM - 11:15 PM
Thursday, February 16, 2012
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

9:00 AM On the astrophysical value of larger, yet achievable UHECR detectors - Etienne Parizot (Université Paris Diderot / APC)

9:20 AM Review of space-based approaches - Toshikazu Ebizusaki (Riken)

10:00 AM The JEM-EUSO mission: context and status - Andrea Santangelo (University Tuebingen)

10:20 AM Performances of JEM-EUSO - Mario Bertaina (University Torino)

10:40 AM Interdisciplinary Science with Large Aperture Cosmic Ray Detectors - Lawrence Wiencke (Colorado School of Mines)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
11:30 AM
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 AM Ultra high energy particle physics and astrophysics. The need for multicomponent EAS measurement and primary particle identification. - Antoine Letessier-Selvon (LPNHE CNRS/In2p3)

11:50 AM A conceptual design for a large ground array of Fluorescence Detectors - Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago)

12:10 PM Future plans of the Telescope Array experiment - Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City University)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Theory and phenomenology: summary & outlook - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago)

2:40 PM Experimental summary & future prospects - Masaki Fukushima (University Tokyo)

3:20 PM Open discussion - Alan Watson (University of Birmingham (GB))

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