Name: TeV Particle Astrophysics 2013
Start: 2013-08-26T08:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-08-29T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

TeV Particle Astrophysics 2013

from Monday, August 26, 2013 (8:00 AM) to Thursday, August 29, 2013 (7:30 PM)

Monday, August 26, 2013

7:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Results from IceCube - Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

9:00 AM Latest news on ANTARES and KM3NeT Observatories - Alexandre Creusot (APC, France)

9:30 AM Radio detection of cosmic rays with LOFAR - Stijn Buitink

10:00 AM The interplay of cosmic rays and gamma rays - Daniel Castro (MIT)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Probing the Very High Energy Universe with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - David Williams (UCSC)

11:30 AM A Non-Thermal View of the Galactic Center - Roland Crocker (Monash University)

12:00 PM Observations of Fermi bubbles and Evidence for Past Activities in the Galactic Center - Meng Su (MIT)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM High-energy neutrino
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

2:00 PM Searches for Point and Extended Sources of Neutrinos with the IceCube Detector - Jake Feintzeig

2:24 PM Search for Neutrinos form Gamma-Ray Bursts with ANTARES - Julia Schmid

2:48 PM Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma Ray Bursts with IceCube - Mike Richman

3:12 PM Search for correlation of high-energy starting events in IceCube with GRBs - Ignacio Taboada

3:36 PM Neutrino-Induced Cascades with IceCube - Joanna Kiryluk
Multi-wavelength studies of Galactic sources
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM VERITAS Galactic Physics - Farzaneh Sheidaei

2:24 PM The TeV Gamma-ray Milky Way as seen by H.E.S.S. - Christoph Deil

2:48 PM TeV and GeV emitting supernova remnants: radio observations - Denis Leahy

3:12 PM Dark matter Bremsstrahlung gamma ray signatures - Gabrijela Zaharijas

3:36 PM Pulsar-wind Nebulae as a Dominant Population of Galactic VHE Sources - Blagoy Rangelov
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Cosmic Rays in the Heliosphere - Jack Jokipii

4:54 PM Heliospheric modulation of CRs - Pavol Bobik

5:18 PM Constraints on Galactic Cosmic-Ray Origins from Elemental and Isotopic Composition Measurements - Walter Binns

5:42 PM Measuring Antimatter over Antarctica: Results from the BESS-Polar Program - Akira Yamamoto John Mitchell

6:06 PM The PAMELA Experiment: Seven Years of Cosmic Rays Investigation - Mirko Boezio
High-energy neutrino
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Analysis of the High-Energy Starting Events in IceCube - Claudio Kopper

4:54 PM Demystifying the PeV Cascades in IceCube: Less (Energy) is More (Events) - Ranjan Laha

5:18 PM Performance of the ARIANNA Neutrino Telescope - Corey Reed

5:42 PM Reconstructing Askaryan Electric Fields in ARIANNA - Jordan Hanson

6:06 PM PRIDE – Passive Radio Ice Depth Experiment - An Instrument to Measure Outer Planet Lunar Ice Depths from Orbit using Neutrinos - Tim Miller
6:30 PM Reception
Reception
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

7:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Auger - Markus Roth (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe)

9:00 AM Results from the Telesope Array Experiment - Charles Jui

9:30 AM What can we learn about the ultra-high energy cosmic-ray origin from the present results by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory? - Shigeru Yoshida (Chiba University)

10:00 AM Radio Askaryan Neutrino Telescopes - Amy CONNOLLY
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Recent results from the AMS-02 experiment - Veronica Bindi (University of Hawaii)

11:30 AM CREAM - Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)

12:00 PM Probing Galactic Cosmic Ray Origins with the SuperTIGER Long-Duration Balloon Instrument - John Mitchell (NASA)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Propagation of cosmic rays - Vladimir Ptuskin

2:24 PM Brief review of ATIC results on nuclei and electrons - John Wefel

2:48 PM Cosmic Rays with VERITAS - David Staszak

3:12 PM Cosmic Ray Studies with MAGIC - Sara Rebecca Gozzini

3:36 PM PeV Cosmic Rays measured by IceCube/IceTop - Serap Tilav
Ultra-high-energy messengers
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

2:00 PM Extreme Energy Particles with JEM-EUSO - Angela Olinto

2:30 PM Measuring Potential Noise Backgrounds for the Telescope Array Radar (TARA) near Long Ridge, UT - Jordan Hanson

3:00 PM The development of remote receiver stations for TARA - Samridha Kunwar

3:30 PM Anisotropy studies with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Miguel Mostafa
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Particle physics
4:30 PM - 5:42 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Electroweak Cogenesis - Yue Zhang

4:54 PM Self-interacting dark matter in a non-abelian hidden sector - Boddy Kimberly

5:18 PM Particle Physics Implications and Constraints on Dark Matter Interpretations of the CDMS Signal - Alexander Wijangco
Ultra-high-energy messengers
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

4:30 PM Mass composition studies with Pierre Auger Observatory - Alessio Porcelli

5:00 PM Measurements of the muon content of air showers and search for ultra-high energy neutrinos and photons at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Ines Valino

5:30 PM Probing cosmic-ray origin with the cosmogenic neutrino searches with IceCube - Aya Ishihara

6:00 PM Neutrino transport in accretion disks - Ye-Fei Yuan (Univ. of Sci. and Tech. of China)
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

7:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Galactic GeV overview - Terri Brandt (NASA)

9:00 AM Galactic TeV overview - Emma De Ona Wilhelmi (ICE, Spain)

9:30 AM Extragalactic gamma-ray overview - Yoshiyuki Inoue (SLAC)

10:00 AM The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Tech)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Cosmic ray propagation - Troy Porter (Stanford University)

11:30 AM Indirect detection of dark matter: gamma-ray overview I - Robert Johnson (UC Santa Cruz)

12:00 PM Indirect detection of dark matter: gamma-ray overview II - Savvas Koushiappas (Brown University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM High-energy cosmic rays and their propagation
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmic Ray Electron Synchrotron Telescope (CREST) status report - Stephane Coutu

2:24 PM The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) for High Energy Astroparticle Physics on the International Space Station - Shoji Torii

2:48 PM The DAMPE Space Mission - Xin Wu

3:12 PM Cosmic ray physics with the GAMMA-400 experiment - Paolo Cumani

3:36 PM Results From the pGAPS Test Flight - Isaac Mognet
Indirect searches for dark matter
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

2:00 PM The VERITAS Dark Matter Program - Benjamin Zitzer

2:20 PM Constraints on dark matter annihilation and decay in the Milky Way halo - Gabrijela Zaharijas

2:40 PM Dark Matter constraints from Fermi-LAT inner Galaxy measurements - German Gomez Vargas Miguel SANCHEZ-CONDE

3:00 PM The 135 GeV Fermi Line and MiDM/RayDM at the LHC - Brian Shuve

3:20 PM Indirect Search for Light Dark Matter with X-rays - Michael Loewenstein

3:40 PM Analysis of dark matter and astrophysical interpretations for excess extended gamma ray emission in Galactic center - Nicolas Canac
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM High-energy gamma rays
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM The Impact of Gamma-ray Halos on the Angular Anisotropy of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background - Tonia Venters

4:54 PM The measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe from gamma-ray attenuation - Alberto Dominguez

5:18 PM Constraining emission models with observations of the highest-energy gamma rays from the exceptional GRB 130427A - Taylor Aune

5:42 PM Search for high energy emission from GRBs with the HAWC Observatory - Dmitry Zaborov

6:06 PM Multi-Wavelength Study of HESS J1809-193: Suzaku and Chandra Observations of the North-East Extension - Blagoy Rangelov
Indirect searches for dark matter
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

4:30 PM Indirect WIMP Searches with Super-Kamiokande - Michael Smy

4:50 PM The Effective Theory of Self-Interacting Dark Matter - Mathieu Cliche

5:10 PM Cold dark matter halo concentrations and their implications for substructure annihilation boosts - Miguel Sanchez-Conde

5:30 PM The TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy from Local Dark Matter Annihilation - Patrick Harding

5:50 PM Resolving small-scale Dark Matter structures using multi-source Indirect Detection - Kenny Chun Yu Ng

6:10 PM Gamma-ray Probes of Dark Matter Halo Substructure - Sheldon Campbell
Thursday, August 29, 2013

7:00 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
8:30 AM Plenary
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Recent Results from the LHC - David Berge (CERN)

9:00 AM Collider implications for dark matter - Roni Harnik (Fermilab)

9:30 AM What do we learn from the recent cosmic-ray positron measurements? - Eli Waxman (Weizmann Institute of Science)

10:00 AM Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter - Stefano Profumo (UCSC)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 AM Direct Detection of Dark Matter: Hints, Exclusions, and Future - Enectali Figueroa (MIT)

11:30 AM Direct detection with noble liquids - Dan McKinsey (Yale University)

12:00 PM Direct detection in China - Kaixuan Ni (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM High-energy gamma rays
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

2:00 PM The Fermi bubbles: foreground subtraction and energy spectrum - Dmitry Malyshev

2:24 PM Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert

2:48 PM A GeV Gamma-Ray Spectral Feature in the Inner Galaxy - Tracy Slatyer

3:12 PM Disentangling Hadronic and Leptonic Cascade Scenarios from the Very-high-energy Gamma-ray Emission of Hard-spectrum Blazars - Hajime Takami

3:36 PM Neutron-Proton-Conversion Acceleration at Subphotospheres of Relativistic Outflows - Kazumi Kashiyama
Particle physics
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr) - Surjeet Rajendran

2:24 PM Astrophysics-independent analysis of direct detection data - Paolo Gondolo

2:48 PM Direct Detection of Self-interacting Dark Matter - Hai-bo Yu

3:12 PM First results on neutrinoless double beta decay of Ge-76 by the GERDA experiment - Grzegorz Zuzel

3:36 PM The Effect of Gravitational Focusing on Annual Modulation - Mariangela Lisanti
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM High-energy gamma rays
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Auditorium
Contributions

4:30 PM Relativistic MHD Simulations of Ponyting Flux-Driven Jets - Xiaoyue Guan

4:54 PM The Gamma-ray Spectrum of PKS 1424+240, the Most Distant TeV Source - David Williams

5:18 PM Multi-Messenger Tests of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers

5:42 PM Secondary photons and neutrinos from distant blazars and the intergalactic magnetic fields - Warren Essey

6:06 PM Long-term Optical Study of Extragalactic TeV sources - Omar Kurtanidze
Particle physics
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: Huntington
Contributions

4:30 PM Baryogenesis for WIMPs - Yanou Cui

4:54 PM Imprints of Non-thermal Wino dark matter on Small-Scale Structure - Ayuki Kamada

5:18 PM Kinetic Decoupling of Dark Matter in Effective Theories - William SHEPHERD

5:42 PM Implementing Simplified Models in the Search for Dark Matter - Anthony Difranzo

6:06 PM Prospects and Blind Spots for Neutralino Dark Matter - David Pinner