Name: VLVnT - 2015 : Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope
Start: 2015-09-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: University "La Sapienza", Physics Department

VLVnT - 2015 : Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope

from Monday, September 14, 2015 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, September 16, 2015 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 14, 2015

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Sala Direzione INFN, II floor
9:00 AM Plenary session 1: Opening ceremony and Workshop introduction
Opening ceremony and Workshop introduction
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening speeches, Greetings from local authorities

9:10 AM Extragalactic Neutrino Sources and their Multi-Messenger Constraints - Markus Ahlers

9:40 AM High energy neutrinos: validations, inferences, prospects - Francesco Vissani (INFN - LNGS)

10:10 AM Latest results from Fermi-LAT and the impact on neutrino observations - Paolo Giommi
10:40 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary Session 2: Results, Status and Plans for the HE neutrino observatories of the GNN
Results, Status and Plans for the HE neutrino observatories of the GNN
11:00 AM - 1:20 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, first floor
Contributions

11:00 AM Results from IceCube - Tyce DeYoung (Michigan State University)

11:20 AM ANTARES results - maurizio spurio (University of Bologna (Italy))

11:40 AM Baikal/GVD: results, status and plans - Zhan Dzhilkibaev

12:10 PM IceCube-Gen2: The Science, the Detector, Drilling, and Logistics - Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

12:45 PM KM3NeT-ARCA project status and plans - rosa coniglione (INFN)
1:20 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:20 PM - 2:20 PM
2:20 PM Parallel Session F: Calibration - 1
Calibration - 1
2:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Aula Careri, 1st floor
Contributions

2:20 PM A Precision Optical Calibration Module for IceCube-Gen2 - Martin Jurkovic (TUM)

2:40 PM Impact of DM-Ice17 Muon Data on IceCube Reconstructions - Antonia Hubbard

3:00 PM Time and amplitude calibration of the Baikal-GVD neutrino telescope - Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR RAS, Moscow)

3:20 PM Moon shadow observation with ANTARES and KM3NeT neutrino telescope - Matteo Sanguineti (INFN Genova - Università di Genova)

3:40 PM Calibration Methods and Tools for KM3NeT - Vladimir Kulikovskiy (LNS)

4:00 PM Aspects of the optical system relevant for the KM3NeT timing calibration - Gerard Kieft (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))
Parallel session A: Detection technique: photon - 1
Detection technique: photon - 1
2:20 PM - 4:20 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st floor
Contributions

2:20 PM The KM3NeT Digital Optical Module - Daniele Vivolo

2:50 PM Multi-PMT Optical Module Designs for IceCube-Gen2 - Alexander Kappes (Friedrich-Alexander-Univ. Erlangen (DE))

3:20 PM The optical module of the Baikal-GVD - Алексей Шейфлер

3:50 PM ET Enterprises - Andy Cormack
4:20 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM
4:40 PM Parallel Session C: Detection Techniques: radio and acoustic
Detection Techniques: radio and acoustic
4:40 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st floor
Contributions

4:40 PM Characterisation and testing of the KM3NeT acoustic positioning system - Francesco Simeone (INFN)

4:55 PM Acoustic neutrino detection investigations within ANTARES and prospects for KM3NeT - R. Lahmann (-)

5:10 PM Fiber optic hydrophones for acoustic neutrino detection - Ernst-Jan Buis (TNO)

5:25 PM A compact array calibrator to study the feasibility of the acoustic neutrino detection - Miguel Ardid (UPV)

5:40 PM The Askaryan Radio Array: Status and new results. - Albrecht KARLE (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison)

5:55 PM The ARIANNA Hexagonal Radio Array performance and prospects - Allan Hallgren (Uppsala University)

6:10 PM Proposal for a Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection - Olivier Martineau (CNRS)
Parallel Session F: Calibration - 2
Calibration - 2
4:40 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: Aula Careri, 1st floor
Contributions

4:40 PM Development and performances of a high statistic PMT test facility - Carlos Maximiliano Mollo (INFN)

5:00 PM Characterization benches for the KM3NeT DOMs - Antoine David Kouchner (Universite de Paris VII (FR)) Bruny Baret (CNRS)

5:20 PM The Calibration Units of the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope - Antoine David Kouchner (Universite de Paris VII (FR)) Bruny Baret (CNRS)

5:40 PM The LED Beacons prototype system the for time calibration of the KM3NeT-IT Towers - Giulia De Bonis

6:00 PM Measuring the optical properties of the IceCube drill holes - Martin Rongen (RWTH Aachen)

6:20 PM Measurement of light scattering in deep sea - Nikos Maragos (NATIONAL CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH "DEMOKRITOS")
6:45 PM Welcome drink
Welcome drink
6:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
9:00 AM Plenary Session 3: Neutrino Physics with under-ice, under-water, underground detectors
Neutrino Physics with under-ice, under-water, underground detectors
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Aula Amaldi, first floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Global neutrino oscillation analysis: status of unknown parameters, and future systematic challenges for ORCA and PINGU - Eligio Lisi (INFN, Bari, Italy)

9:30 AM KM3NeT/ORCA: status and plans - Dorothea Samtleben (Leiden University)

10:00 AM From DeepCore to PINGU - Juan-Pablo Yanez (DESY)
10:40 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Parallel Session D: Physics Results - 1
Physics Results - 1
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st floor
Contributions

11:00 AM Indirect detection of Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Miguel Ardid (UPV)

11:20 AM IceCube results from pointlike source searches using 6 years of through-going muon data - Stefan Coenders (Technische Universität München)

11:40 AM IceCube results from low-energy point source searches in the southern hemisphere - Sebastian Euler (Uppsala University)

12:00 PM KM3NeT/ARCA sensitivity and discovery potential for neutrino point-like sources - Agata Trovato (INFN)

12:20 PM Search for point-like neutrino sources over the Southern Sky with the ANTARES and IceCube neutrino telescopes - Barrios-Martí Javier (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

12:40 PM Search for spacial and temporal collective effects in the ANTARES neutrino telescope data. - Antoine David Kouchner (Universite de Paris VII (FR)) Bruny Baret (CNRS)
Parallel Session E: Readout/DAQ/Data transmission -1
Readout/DAQ/Data transmission -1
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Rasetti, 2nd floor
Contributions

11:00 AM Present and Future of the IceCube DAQ and Online Systems - Kael Hanson (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

11:18 AM Data acquisition system of the Baikal-GVD - Denis Kuleshov

11:36 AM The Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the KM3NeT neutrino telescope - Carmelo Pellegrino (INFN)

11:51 AM KM3NeT Digital Optical Module Electronics - Diego Real (IFIC)

12:06 PM KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope 1-ns resolution Time To Digital Converters - David Calvo (IFIC)

12:18 PM Characterization of the electro-optical transceivers in the KM3NeT optical network - Sara Rita Pulvirenti (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

12:33 PM The Control Unit of KM3NeT Data Acquisition - Cristiano Bozza (University of Salerno)

12:48 PM Live Monitoring and Quasi-Online Event Reconstruction for KM3NeT - Tamas Gal (University of Erlangen)
Parallel session A: Detection technique: photon - 2
Detection technique: photon - 2
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Aula Careri, 1st floor
Contributions

11:00 AM A Wavelength-shifting Optical Module (WOM) for in-ice Neutrino Detectors - Dustin Hebecker

11:20 AM The VSIPMT project - Francesco Di Capua (INFN)

11:40 AM Hamamatsu PMTs Latest Developmental Status - Yuji Hotta Hotta (Hamamatsu)

12:00 PM Latest improvements of the Hamamatsu MPPCs - Christian Dille (Hamamatsu Photonics Deutschland GmbH)

12:20 PM The effects of Earth's magnetic field on 3-inch diameter photomultipliers used in KM3NeT neutrino telescope. - Valentina Giordano (INFN)
1:00 PM lunch break
lunch break
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Parallel Session D: Physics Results - 2
Physics Results - 2
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st floor
Contributions

2:00 PM THE GALACTIC DIFFUSE NEUTRINO EMISSION: A NEW COMPREHENSIVE SCENARIO - Antonio Marinelli (Institute of Physics, Pisa)

2:20 PM Neutrino fluxes from the Galactic plane and the ANTARES limits - Luigi Antonio Fusco (University of Bologna)

2:40 PM An expected performance of “Dubna” neutrino telescope for search for high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by detection of high-energy cascades - Zhan Dzhilkibaev

3:00 PM Predicted sensitivity of the KM3NeT/ARCA detector to a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos - Luigi Antonio Fusco (University of Bologna)

3:20 PM A Surface Array to Study Astrophysical Neutrinos with IceCube-Gen2 - Javier Gonzalez (Bartol Research Institute, Univ Delaware)
Parallel Session E: Readout/DAQ/Data transmission -2
Readout/DAQ/Data transmission -2
2:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Aula Rasetti, 2nd floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Digital and analog electronics for an autonomous, deep-sea, Gamma Ray Burst Neutrino prototype detector. - Konstantinos Manolopoulos (University of Athens)

2:18 PM The Trigger and Data Acquisition System for the KM3NeT-Italia towers - Matteo Favaro (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

2:33 PM The KM3NeT-IT Tower data acquisition and data transport electronics - Carlo Alessandro Nicolau (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

2:48 PM NANET3: THE ON-SHORE READOUT AND SLOW-CONTROL BOARD FOR THE KM3NET-IT UNDERWATER NEUTRINO TELESCOPE - Andrea Biagioni (INFN)
Parallel Session I: Istallation/Infrastructure/Production techniques
Istallation/Infrastructure/Production techniques
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Careri, 1st floor
Contributions

2:00 PM Design and Mass Production of the Optical Modules for KM3NeT-Italia project - Emanuele Leonora (INFN-sezione di Catania)

2:20 PM Km3Net Italia Seafloor Network - Riccardo PAPALEO (INFN LNS)

2:40 PM The MEUST deep sea infrastructure in the Toulon site - Patrick Lamare (CNRS)

3:00 PM GRBNeT - A Prototype Autonomous Neutrino Detector - Konstantinos Pikounis (NCSR Demokritos)

3:20 PM Baikal-GVD deployment procedures - Igor Belolaptikov

3:40 PM Deep subsea data transmission : wet mateable hybrid connectors based on dry inserts - Christophe Tardy (POWERSEA)
3:10 PM Parallel Session G: Computing models, data repositories, Virtual observatory, data formats, software systems, user training - 1
Computing models, data repositories, Virtual observatory, data formats, software systems, user training - 1
3:10 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Rasetti, 2nd floor
Contributions

3:10 PM IceCube Simulation Production and the Transition to IceProd2 - David Schultz (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3:30 PM Enabling Grid Computing resources within the KM3NeT computing model - Christos Filippidis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))

3:45 PM Using IKAROS as a data transfer and management utility within the KM3NeT computing model - Christos Filippidis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))
4:10 PM coffee break
coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Parallel Session G: Computing models, data repositories, Virtual observatory, data formats, software systems, user training - 2
Computing models, data repositories, Virtual observatory, data formats, software systems, user training - 2
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Rasetti, 2nd floor
Contributions

4:30 PM The Relational Database System of KM3NeT - Cristiano Bozza (University of Salerno)

4:50 PM Application of Data Mining Techniuqes in Atmospheric Neutrino Analyses with IceCube - Tim Ruhe (TU Dortmund)

5:10 PM A study on implementing a multithreaded version of the SIRENE detector simulation software for high energy neutrinos - Christos Filippidis (Nat. Cent. for Sci. Res. Demokritos (GR))
Parallel Session H: Atmospheric neutrino phenomenology
Atmospheric neutrino phenomenology
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Aula Careri, 1st floor
Contributions

4:30 PM gSeaGen: a GENIE-based code for neutrino telescope - Carla Distefano (LNS-INFN)

4:50 PM Present theoretical uncertainties on charm hadroproduction in QCD and prompt neutrino fluxes - Maria Vittoria Garzelli

5:10 PM Atmospheric Flux Uncertainties and the Neutrino Mass Hierarchy - Joakim Sandroos (Universität Mainz, IceCube)

5:30 PM Neutrino-nucleon cross-sections at energies of Megaton-scale detectors - Askhat Gazizov (GSSI/DESY)

5:50 PM Neutrino oscillation mass spectrometry with megaton neutrino detectors - Kotoyo Hoshina

6:10 PM Measurement of the Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Energy Spectrum with IceCube in the 79- and 86-Ctring Configuration - Tim Ruhe (TU Dortmund)
Parallel Session J: Multi Messengers
Multi Messengers
4:30 PM - 6:50 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, 1st floor
Contributions

4:30 PM Correlation between the UHECRs measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array and neutrino candidate events from IceCube - Mohamed Rameez (Universite de Geneve (CH))

4:50 PM Searches of time-dependent neutrino sources using five years of data of the ANTARES telescope - Damien DORNIC (CPPM)

5:10 PM Capabilities of IceCube's Gamma-Ray, Optical and X-Ray Follow-Up Programs - Thomas Kintscher (DESY)

5:30 PM Follow-up of high-energy neutrinos detected by the ANTARES telescope - Aurore Mathieu

5:50 PM The search for TeV gamma-rays associated with IceCube’s high-energy neutrinos using VERITAS - Jon Dumm (Stockholm University)

6:10 PM Joint search for High Energy neutrinos and gravitational waves with the Antares neutrino telescope and the LIGO-Virgo gravitational waves interferometers - Bruny Baret (CNRS)

6:30 PM AMON: Transition to Real-Time Operations - Douglas Cowen (Pennsylvania State University)
5:30 PM Parallel Session B: Challanges in Simulation and Reconstruction
Challanges in Simulation and Reconstruction
5:30 PM - 6:51 PM
Room: Aula Rasetti, second floor
Contributions

5:30 PM The Run-by-Run Monte Carlo simulation for the ANTARES experiment - Luigi Antonio Fusco (University of Bologna)

5:46 PM CORSIKA Modifications for Faster Background Generation - Kyle Jero (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

6:02 PM 3+N flavor neutrino propgation with NuSQuIDS - Kyle Jero (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

6:18 PM Energy reconstruction of high energy muon and neutrino events in KM3NeT - EVANGELIA DRAKOPOULOU (N.C.S.R. Demokritos)

6:34 PM Using the JPP software package in KM3NeT reconstruction algorithms - Karel Melis (Nikhef)
8:00 PM Conference Dinner

8:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
9:00 AM Plenary Session 4
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Aula Amaldi, first floor
Contributions

9:00 AM Phenomenology of atmospheric neutrinos - Anatoli Fedynitch (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (DE))

9:30 AM Neutrino-Nucleus Interactions in the few-GeV region - Juan M Nieves (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

10:00 AM Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations Experiments - Alfons Weber (STFC/RAL & Uni Oxford)
10:40 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Plenary session 5
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy: Investigating the sky at photon energies between ~20 GeV and 100 TeV - Christopher van Eldik (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

11:40 AM Future very-high-energy gamma-rays detection projects at ground - Alessandro De Angelis (Universita degli Studi di Udine (IT))

12:20 PM Opportunities within ASTERICS - Rob van der Meer (ASTRON)
12:40 PM lunch break
lunch break
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM
1:40 PM Plenary session 6: APIF and APPEC views, Workshop closure
APIF and APPEC views, Workshop closure
1:40 PM - 2:40 PM
Room: Aula Amaldi, first floor
Contributions

1:40 PM ANTARES/IceCube multimessenger projects - Juergen Brunner (CPPM)

2:10 PM APPEC's view - Frank Linde (NIKHEF (NL))

2:30 PM Workshop closure - Antonio Capone (Universita e INFN, Roma I (IT))