2nd Anisotropic Universe Workshop: Unveiling the Anisotropic Universe

from Monday 11 April 2016 (08:30) to Wednesday 13 April 2016 (18:00)
Amsterdam

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 Apr 2016
12 Apr 2016
13 Apr 2016
AM
08:30 Registration  
09:00 Welcome/Introduction  
09:10
Morning session (1) - Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN/Torino) (until 10:30)
09:10 Cosmological results from Planck 2015 - Silvia Galli  
09:50 CMB phase shift and future bounds an axion couplings - Benjamin Wallisch (University of Cambridge)  
10:10 Anisotropies and Inhomogeneities on the Largest Cosmic Scales - Dr Camera Stefano (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics)  
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Morning session (2) - Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN/Torino) (until 12:30)
11:00 Near-field Cosmology - Jenny Sorce  
11:40 The infrastructure of voids: on void hierarchy, void galaxies and the Local Void - Rien van de Weijgaert (U)  
12:10 News from the Dark Energy Survey - Dr Aurélien Benoit-Lévy (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)  
09:00
Morning session (1) - Miguel Sánchez-Conde (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University) (until 10:20)
09:00 Fermi-LAT measurement and origin of the Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background - Gabrijela Zaharijas (CEA Saclay)  
09:40 Looking to Dark Matter through gamma-ray anisotropies - Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN/Torino)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:35
Morning session (2) - Miguel Sánchez-Conde (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University) (until 12:35)
10:35 Dissecting the high-latitude gamma-ray sky with photon-count statistics - Dr Hannes Zechlin (University of Torino)  
10:55 High-energy Astrophysics in a single pixel - Michael Feyereisen (University of Amsterdam)  
11:15 Updated measurement of gamma-ray anisotropies - Mattia Fornasa (GRAPPA Institute (University of Amsterdam))  
11:35 Tomography of the Fermi-LAT diffuse extragalactic signal via cross-correlation with galaxy catalogues - Alessandro Cuoco (U)  
12:15 Anisotropic Universe unveiled with new galaxy catalogs - Maciej Bilicki (Leiden University)  
09:00
Morning session (1) - Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam) (until 10:20)
09:00 Anisotropy and subtle aspects of cosmic-ray transport - Pasquale Blasi  
09:40 Cosmic-ray anisotropies above the ankle - Silvia Mollerach (CONICET)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Morning session (2) - Jacco Vink (University of Amsterdam) (until 12:40)
10:40 Probing anisotropies in arrival directions of astrophysical neutrinos - Markus Ahlers  
11:20 Neutrinos and gamma rays as messengers of extragalactic astrophysical sources - Irene Tamborra  
12:00 Do high-energy astrophysical neutrinos trace star formation? - Kimberly Emig (Leiden Observatory)  
12:20 Using event pairs to search for point-like sources in high-energy neutrino data - Ke Fang (University of Maryland)  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (1) - Mattia Fornasa (GRAPPA Institute (University of Amsterdam)) (until 15:20)
14:00 Cosmological anisotropies and neutrino properties - Julien Lesgourgues  
14:20 The halo model in the era of precision Cosmology and accurate Astrophysics - Massimo Viola  
15:00 Correlations in the radio background - Marco Regis (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:40
Afternoon session (2) - Mattia Fornasa (GRAPPA Institute (University of Amsterdam)) (until 17:00)
15:40 Fluctuations in the Near Infrared (and X-ray) Background - Dr Ruben Salvaterra (IASF)  
16:20 Anisotropies of the cosmic X-ray background: Challenging results from angular correlation studies with XBOOTES - Dr Alexander Kolodzig (KIAA (Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University))  
16:40 Probing isotropy of cosmic acceleration by Type Ia supernovae - Mr Behnam Javanmardi (Argelander Institute for Astronomy)  
17:00 Open discussion - Dr Aurelien Benoit-Levy  
12:35 --- Lunch break ---
14:00
Afternoon session (1) - Shin'ichiro Ando (University of Amsterdam) (until 15:20)
14:00 Spatial signature of Dark Matter in the Galaxy - Francesca Calore (University of Amsterdam)  
14:20 Correlated statistical noise in power spectrum measurements - Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)  
15:00 Probing WIMP Dark Matter with gamma rays and over 1000 deg^2 of weak lensing data - Tilman Troester (University of British Columbia)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:40
Afternoon session (2) - Shin'ichiro Ando (University of Amsterdam) (until 16:20)
15:40 Characterization of subhalo structure properties and implications for Dark Matter annihilation signals - Miguel Sánchez-Conde (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)  
16:00 Looking for unresolved point-like sources: the wavelet ways - Richard Bartels (University of Amsterdam)  
16:20 Open discussion - Jennifer Gaskins  
19:00 --- Social Dinner ---
12:40 --- Lunch break ---
14:10
Afternoon session - Kumiko Kotera (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) (until 15:10)
14:10 The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network - Foteini Oikonomou (Penn State University)  
14:30 Observations of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger GW150914 and their implications - Dr Nissanke Samaya (Radboud University)  
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:40 Open discussion - Pasquale Blasi (INAF)