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 13 February 2012 (14:00) to Thursday 16 February 2012 (18:00)

Monday 13 February 2012
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Welcome address - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

14:15 History of UHECR research - pierre sokolsky (university of Utah)

15:00 Review of current status of measurements - Paolo Privitera (Dipartimento di Fisica(RomaII))
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
16:15
16:15 - 18:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:15 Acceleration and propagation - Pasquale Blasi

16:50 Review of model predictions on spectrum/composition - Venya Berezinsky (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso)

17:25 Connecting accelerator experiments and cosmic ray showers - Tanguy Pierog (KIT)
18:15 Welcome reception in the Globe
Welcome reception in the Globe
18:15 - 21:00
Room: Globe 1st Floor
Tuesday 14 February 2012

09:00 Conference Photo
Conference Photo
09:00 - 09:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:10
09:10 - 11:10
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:10 HiRes and TA Spectrum Measurements - Douglas Bergman (U)

09:30 Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays at highest energies using the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ioana Maris

09:50 The Yakutsk array experiment: main results and future directions - Anatoly Ivanov (Shafer Institute for Cosmophysical Research & Aeronomy)

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

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

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

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

12:10 WG Review of UHECR composition data - Jose Bellido (The University of Adelaide)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Particle physics connection - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN)

14:40 Review of accelerator data of relevance to shower simulation - Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya University)

15:20 Recent results from LHCf - Gaku Mitsuka (Nagoya University (JP))

15:40 Estimates of the proton-proton cross section at UHE energy - Paolo Lipari (Universita di Roma I)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

16:30 Measurement of the proton-air cross section with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

16:50 Measurements of the muon shower content at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alexey Yushkov

17:10 New Physics at UHE energies - Glennys Farrar (New York University)

17:30 New technique and results of cosmic ray investigations in the energy interval 10^15 – 10^19 eV - Anatoly Petrukhin (MEPhI)

17:50 WG Review of modeling and description of air showers - Ralph Engel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)
18:30

18:30 - 20:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Wednesday 15 February 2012
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 WG Review of anisotropy data - Peter Tinyakov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

09:40 WG Review of UHE multi-messenger data - Grigory Rubtsov (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS) Markus Risse (University of Siegen)

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

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

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

12:30 Transition from Galactic to Extragalactic Cosmic Rays and cosmic ray anisotropy - Dmitri Semikoz (A)
12:50 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

14:00 Constraints on inductive acceleration of UHECRs in astrophysical sources. - Sergey Troitsky (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU))

14:20 Deflection of ultra-high energy heavy nuclei in magnetic fields - Gwenael Giacinti (NTNU Trondheim, Norway)

14:40 Are UHECR and multiplet also galactic? - Daniele Fargion (Rome University 1 Sapienza and INFN)

15:00 Extragalactic and galactic sources: new evidence, new challenges, new opportunities - Alexander Kusenko (UCLA)

15:20 The Need for Hard Spectrum Local Sources of UHECR Nuclei - Andrew Taylor (ISDC, University of Geneva)

15:40 A strategy to unveil transient sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays - Hajime Takami (M)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
16:30
16:30 - 18:45
Room: 503/1-001 - Council Chamber
Contributions

16:30 Reconstruction of Muon Production Depth in grounded array based on the TTC (Time Track Complementarity) method - Michelangelo Ambrosio (INFN Napoli)

16:50 What the radio signal tells about the cosmic-ray air shower. - Olaf Scholten (KVI/Univ. of Groningen)

17:10 Results from the Auger Engineering Radio Array - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen)

17:30 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)

17:50 Status of the microwave detection of cosmic rays program at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Pedro Facal San Luis (U)

18:10 Microwave emission from extensive air showers as seen by CROME - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

18:25 TARA: Forward-Scattered Radar Detection of UHECR at the Telescope Array - John Belz (University of Utah)
19:45 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:45 - 23:15
Thursday 16 February 2012
09:00
09:00 - 11:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 On the astrophysical value of larger, yet achievable UHECR detectors - Etienne Parizot (Université Paris Diderot / APC)

09:20 Review of space-based approaches - Toshikazu Ebizusaki (Riken)

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

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

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

11:30 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 A conceptual design for a large ground array of Fluorescence Detectors - Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago)

12:10 Future plans of the Telescope Array experiment - Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City University)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Theory and phenomenology: summary & outlook - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago)

14:40 Experimental summary & future prospects - Masaki Fukushima (University Tokyo)

15:20 Open discussion - Alan Watson (University of Birmingham (GB))

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