Underground Synergies with Astro-particle Physics: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the World’s Deep Underground Science Facilities

from Monday, December 17, 2012 (7:00 PM) to Wednesday, December 19, 2012 (4:45 PM)
Durham, UK (Calman Learning Centre at Durham University)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Dec 17, 2012
Dec 18, 2012
Dec 19, 2012
AM
9:00 AM
Welcome (until 9:35 AM)
9:00 AM Welcome, Context and Agenda - Sean Paling  
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9:15 AM Welcome from STFC - John Womerlsey  
9:20 AM Welcome from CPL/Boulby - Dave Mcluckie  
9:25 AM From the Geosphere to the Cosmos: welcome from ASPERA - Ino Agrafioti (NCSR Demokritos)  
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9:35 AM --- Coffee Break ---
9:50 AM
Earth Sciences (until 12:30 PM)
9:50 AM Facility Overview: Boulby Underground Laboratory - Sean Paling  
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10:10 AM Development of Muon Tomography techniques for site monitoring in Carbon Capture & Storage (CCS) - Jon Gluyas  
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10:30 AM The LSBB URL: a new platform for fundamental and applied low background interdisciplinary underground science and technology - Stephane Gaffet  
10:50 AM Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring for Earth Sciences at the INFN-Gran Sasso National Laboratory, Italy - Wolfango Plastino  
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11:10 AM The Boulby Geoscience research project: the benefits of industry collaboration - Matt Brain  
11:30 AM GEODYN: geodynamic station at Canfranc - Jordi Díaz Cusí  
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11:50 AM Geoneutrinos - Livia Ludhova  
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9:00 AM
Climate & the Environment (until 10:20 AM)
9:00 AM Facility Overview: Underground Laboratory of Modane - FABRICE PIQUEMAL (CNRS/IN2P3)  
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9:20 AM SKY-ZERO @ Boulby: Cosmic rays and climate – what can we learn from the ultra-low radiation environment - Jens Olaf Pepke Pedersen  
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9:40 AM Environmental measurement and After fukushima environmental fall out measurements - Rodolfo Gurriaran  
10:00 AM Environmental Gamma spectroscopy studies at the Boulby Underground Science Facility - David Sanderson  
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10:20 AM --- Coffee ---
10:40 AM Facility overview: National Laboratory of Gran Sasso - Francesco Arneodo  
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10:40 AM
Low background Counting (until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM STELLA - the LNGS ultra low background counting facility: Multi-Disciplinry Science Applications - Matthias Laubenstein  
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11:20 AM Interdisciplinary use of Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry at the Gran Sasso National Lab (LNGS) - Maria Laura di Vacri  
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11:40 AM Low background techniques at the Laboratoire Souterrain de Modane - Pia Loaiza  
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PM
7:00 PM Pre-registration Welcome Drinks  
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12:10 PM Geological investigation of rock at the underground laboratory at Slanic Prahova, Romania - Bogdan Mitrica  
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12:30 PM --- Lunch ---
1:30 PM
Biology and Astrobiology (until 3:10 PM)
1:30 PM Facility Overview: Underground Laboratory of Canfranc - Iulian Bandac  
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1:50 PM Astrobiology at Boulby: Studies of life in extreme envirnments, life beyond Earth and the development of instrumentation for use in planatory exploration and mining - Charles Cockell  
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2:10 PM Does biochemistry of living matter depends on environmental radiation? Yeasts to human cells at the LNGS - Emiliano Fratini  
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2:30 PM Studies of E. coli development in low radioactivity conditions - Pierre Micheau  
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2:50 PM CAREX (Coordination Action for Research Activities on life in Extreme Environments) - Nicolas Walter  
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3:10 PM --- Coffee ---
3:30 PM
Global Perspectives: Linking with other sciences/underground laboratories (until 5:00 PM)
3:30 PM The Sanford Deep Underground Science Facility - Kevin Lesko  
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3:55 PM DUSEL Interdisciplinary science studies - Derek Elsworth  
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4:10 PM Multidisciplinary studies at SOUDAN lab - Anthony Villano  
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4:30 PM Overview large cavities for different sites: Lessons from the LAGUNA project - Guido Nuijten  
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5:00 PM
Funding (until 5:40 PM)
5:00 PM Multidisciplinarity in the context of Horizon2020 - Christina Miller  
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5:20 PM Futures programme at STFC: the UK experience - Catherine Ewart  
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6:30 PM --- Drinks Reception ---
8:00 PM --- Social Dinner ---
12:00 PM Contribution of underground experiments in microelectronics for the metrology of radioactive contaminants in materials and circuits - Guillaume Warot  
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12:20 PM expertises for drug and food administration - FABRICE PIQUEMAL (CNRS/IN2P3)  
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12:40 PM Radiopurity Service at Laboratorio Subterraneo de Canfranc (LSC) - Iulian Bandac  
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1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
1:45 PM
Global Perspectives: Linking with other sciences/underground laboratories (until 3:25 PM)
1:45 PM The Watchman project: deep underground antineutrino detection for nuclear non-proliferation - Adam Bernstein  
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2:05 PM EPOS, the European Plate Observing System: an integrated geoscience infrastructure for Europe - Russ Evans  
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2:25 PM Underground radioactivity measurements at the HADES ultra low-level gamma spectrometry laboratory - Erica Andreotti  
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2:45 PM Environmental Radioactivity Monitoring for Earth Sciences - World Reference Laboratory and new Developments - Lucia Votano  
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3:05 PM Distributed Computing Infrastructures for Astroparticle, Earth and Environmental Sciences - Federico Ruggieri  
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3:25 PM Reflections on the workshop - Arnold WOLFENDALE  
3:25 PM
Roundtable, Concluding Remarks and Strategy for the future (until 4:00 PM)
3:35 PM Roundtable/Closing statements  
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