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)
CERN (500/1-001)

: Sessions

: Talks

: Breaks

Feb 13, 2012

Feb 14, 2012

Feb 15, 2012

Feb 16, 2012

9:00 AM	--- Conference Photo ---
9:10 AM	Experimental challenges of UHECR -Prof. Bruce Dawson (University of Adelaide) (until 11:10 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:10 AM	HiRes and TA Spectrum Measurements - Douglas Bergman (U) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:30 AM	Measurement of the energy spectrum of cosmic rays at highest energies using the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ioana Maris (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:50 AM	The Yakutsk array experiment: main results and future directions - Anatoly Ivanov (Shafer Institute for Cosmophysical Research & Aeronomy) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:10 AM	WG Review of UHECR spectrum data - Yoshiki Tsunesada (Tokyo Institute of Technology) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:50 AM	Nitrogen fluorescence in air for observing extensive air showers - Dr Bianca Keilhauer (KIT) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:10 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM	UHECR and particle shower -Prof. Gordon Thomson (University of Utah) (until 12:50 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 AM	Mass Sensitive Observables of the Pierre Auger Observatory and Their Possible Implications - Michael Unger (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:50 AM	HiRes and TA Composition Measurements - Yuichiro Tameda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:10 PM	WG Review of UHECR composition data - Dr Jose Bellido (The University of Adelaide) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

9:00 AM	UHECR - astrophysics and multi-messenger - Piera Luisa GHIA (LPNHE-CNRS) (until 11:00 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM	WG Review of anisotropy data - Prof. Peter Tinyakov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:40 AM	WG Review of UHE multi-messenger data - Markus Risse (University of Siegen) Dr Grigory Rubtsov (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:20 AM	Review of TeV gamma-ray and neutrino data of relevance to UHECR - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:00 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM	Sources and Propagation -Dr Hiroyuki Sagawa (University of Tokyo) (until 12:50 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:30 AM	Review of interpretation of multi-messenger data - Guenter Sigl (University of Hamburg) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:10 PM	Ultra High Energy Nuclei Propagation and the Spectrum of UHECR - Dr Roberto Aloisio (INAF - Osservatorio Arcetri Firenze) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:30 PM	Transition from Galactic to Extragalactic Cosmic Rays and cosmic ray anisotropy - Dmitri Semikoz (A) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

9:00 AM	New detection techniques and detector designs - Piergiorgio Picozza (Dipartimento di Fisica(RomaII)) (until 11:00 AM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
9:00 AM	On the astrophysical value of larger, yet achievable UHECR detectors - Etienne Parizot (Université Paris Diderot / APC) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
9:20 AM	Review of space-based approaches - Prof. Toshikazu Ebizusaki (Riken) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:00 AM	The JEM-EUSO mission: context and status - Prof. Andrea Santangelo (University Tuebingen) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:20 AM	Performances of JEM-EUSO - Dr Mario Bertaina (University Torino) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
10:40 AM	Interdisciplinary Science with Large Aperture Cosmic Ray Detectors - Lawrence Wiencke (Colorado School of Mines) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:00 AM	--- Coffee break ---
11:30 AM	New detection techniques and detector designs - Igor Tkachev (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) (until 12:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
11:50 AM	A conceptual design for a large ground array of Fluorescence Detectors - Prof. Paolo Privitera (University of Chicago) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
12:10 PM	Future plans of the Telescope Array experiment - Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City University) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

2:00 PM	Introduction -Dr James W Cronin (University of Chicago) (until 3:45 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:00 PM	Welcome address - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:15 PM	History of UHECR research - pierre sokolsky (university of Utah) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:00 PM	Review of current status of measurements - Paolo Privitera (Dipartimento di Fisica(RomaII)) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:45 PM	--- Coffee Break ---
4:15 PM	Theoretical challenges of UHECR - Gustavo Medina Tanco (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares - UNAM) (until 6:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:15 PM	Acceleration and propagation - Prof. Pasquale Blasi (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:50 PM	Review of model predictions on spectrum/composition - Venya Berezinsky (INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:25 PM	Connecting accelerator experiments and cosmic ray showers - Dr Tanguy Pierog (KIT) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
6:15 PM	--- Welcome reception in the Globe ---

1:00 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Theory and measurement of UHECR flux and composition -Prof. James Matthews (Louisiana State University) (until 4:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:00 PM	Particle physics connection - Jonathan R. Ellis (CERN) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:40 PM	Review of accelerator data of relevance to shower simulation - Prof. Yoshitaka Itow (Nagoya University) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:20 PM	Recent results from LHCf - Gaku Mitsuka (Nagoya University (JP)) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:40 PM	Estimates of the proton-proton cross section at UHE energy - Prof. Paolo Lipari (Universita di Roma I) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:00 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM	Theory and measurement of UHECR flux and composition -Prof. Peter Grieder (University of Bern) (until 6:30 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
4:30 PM	Measurement of the proton-air cross section with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Dr Ralf Matthias Ulrich (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE)) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
4:50 PM	Measurements of the muon shower content at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Alexey Yushkov (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:10 PM	New Physics at UHE energies - Prof. Glennys Farrar (New York University) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:30 PM	New technique and results of cosmic ray investigations in the energy interval 10^15 – 10^19 eV - Prof. Anatoly Petrukhin (MEPhI) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
5:50 PM	WG Review of modeling and description of air showers - Dr Ralph Engel (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
6:30 PM	Poster session (until 8:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)

12:50 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Source models and theory challanges of UHECRs -Prof. Paul Sommers (Penn State University) (until 4:00 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
2:00 PM	Constraints on inductive acceleration of UHECRs in astrophysical sources. - Sergey Troitsky (Russian Academy of Sciences (RU)) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
2:20 PM	Deflection of ultra-high energy heavy nuclei in magnetic fields - Gwenael Giacinti (NTNU Trondheim, Norway) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
2:40 PM	Are UHECR and multiplet also galactic? - Prof. Daniele Fargion (Rome University 1 Sapienza and INFN) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
3:00 PM	Extragalactic and galactic sources: new evidence, new challenges, new opportunities - Alexander Kusenko (UCLA) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
3:20 PM	The Need for Hard Spectrum Local Sources of UHECR Nuclei - Dr Andrew Taylor (ISDC, University of Geneva) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
3:40 PM	A strategy to unveil transient sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays - Hajime Takami (M) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
4:00 PM	--- Coffee break ---
4:30 PM	New detection techniques and detector designs -Prof. Enrique Zas (University of Santiago) (until 6:45 PM) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber)
4:30 PM	Reconstruction of Muon Production Depth in grounded array based on the TTC (Time Track Complementarity) method - Dr Michelangelo Ambrosio (INFN Napoli) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
4:50 PM	What the radio signal tells about the cosmic-ray air shower. - Prof. Olaf Scholten (KVI/Univ. of Groningen) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
5:10 PM	Results from the Auger Engineering Radio Array - Ad van den Berg (University of Groningen) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
5:30 PM	First results from the Microwave Air Yield Beam Experiment (MAYBE): measurement of GHz radiation for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays detection - Mr Christopher Williams (University of Chicago & KICP) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
5:50 PM	Status of the microwave detection of cosmic rays program at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Pedro Facal San Luis (U) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
6:10 PM	Microwave emission from extensive air showers as seen by CROME - Radomir Smida (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
6:25 PM	TARA: Forward-Scattered Radar Detection of UHECR at the Telescope Array - Prof. John Belz (University of Utah) (503/1-001 - Council Chamber) Slides
7:45 PM	--- Conference Dinner ---

12:30 PM	--- Lunch break ---
2:00 PM	Summary and outlook - Johannes Bluemer (KIT) (until 4:00 PM) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
2:00 PM	Theory and phenomenology: summary & outlook - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
2:40 PM	Experimental summary & future prospects - Prof. Masaki Fukushima (University Tokyo) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides
3:20 PM	Open discussion - Alan Watson (University of Birmingham (GB)) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium) Slides

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