STARS2017 - 4th Caribbean Symposium on Cosmology, Gravitation, Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics / SMFNS2017 - 5th International Symposium on Strong Electromagnetic Fields and Neutron Stars

from Wednesday 3 May 2017 (08:00) to Saturday 13 May 2017 (20:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 May 2017
4 May 2017
5 May 2017
6 May 2017
7 May 2017
8 May 2017
9 May 2017
10 May 2017
11 May 2017
12 May 2017
13 May 2017
AM
08:45 --- School opening ---
09:00 Black holes as tools - AdS/CFT and the holographic principle (Lecture I) - Matthias Kaminski (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Black holes as tools - AdS/CFT and the holographic principle (Lecture II) - Matthias Kaminski (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States)  
09:00 Effective model for quark-hadron matter in compact stars (Lecture I) - David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw, Poland and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Effective model for quark-hadron matter in compact stars (Lecture II) - David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw, Poland and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)  
09:00 Modeling extreme matter in heavy-ion collisions (Lecture I) - Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)  
10:20 --- Coffee break ---
10:40 Modeling extreme matter in heavy-ion collisions (Lecture II) - Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)  
08:00 --- Registration ---
08:45 --- Symposium Opening ---
09:00 The neutrino flavor puzzle - Ricardo González Felipe (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa (ISEL), Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa and Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas (CFTP), Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)  
09:20 Uniformly accelerated point charge: cusp radiation - Michael Good (Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan)  
09:40 What can magnetar QPOs tell us about the NS EoS - Michael Gabler (Max Plank Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)  
10:00 IceCube: A wide view on astro-particles - Javier Gonzalez (Bartol Research Institute, Univ. Delaware, Newark, United States)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
11:00 The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment - DUNE: the precision era of neutrino physics - Ernesto Kemp (University of Campinas, Brazil)  
11:30 Astro-particle physics with the DUNE detector - John LoSecco (University of Notre Dame du Lac, Physics Department, Indiana, United States)  
09:00 Axisymmetric and spherical sources of Majumdar-Papapetrou type spacetimes - Gonzalo García-Reyes (Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia)  
09:20 Stealth configurations in a generalized scalar-tensor gravity - Elizabeth Rodríguez Querts (Instituto de Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica (ICIMAF), La Habana, Cuba & Departamento de Física, CINVESTAV-IPN, C. Mexico, Mexico)  
10:00 Exact General Relativity contrasted with cosmological perturbations and Newtonian gravity - Roberto Sussman (ICN-UNAM, Mexico)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
11:00 Predictions of the pseudo-complex General Relativity - Peter Hess (Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, UNAM, C. Mexico, Mexico)  
11:30 Generic General Relativity from action principle and general principle of relativity - Juergen Struckmeier (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)  
09:00 Cosmological implications of vector Galileons - Yeinzon Rodriguez Garcia (UAN & UIS, Bucaramanga, Colombia)  
09:20 (2+1) Scale dependent gravity coupled to a non-linear electrodynamic source - Ernesto Contreras (Departamento de Fı́sica, Universidad de los Andes, Apartado Aéreo 4976, Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia)  
09:40 An emergent Van der Waals-like description of black hole entropy - Pedro Bargueno (Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia)  
10:00 Gravitational and electromagnetic signatures of accretion into a black hole - Claudia Moreno (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
11:00 Holography & quasinormal modes - tools for strongly coupled far from equilibrium dynamics - Matthias Kaminski (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, United States)  
11:30 --- Walter Greiner Prize ---
10:00 --- Trip to Naviti Beach Club Varadero Hotel - Buses leave Comodoro Hotel at 09:30 ---
08:45 --- Symposium Opening ---
09:00 Propagation of photon in a diluted medium moving parallel to the magnetic field: Faraday rotation angle - Lidice Cruz Rodríguez (Facultad de Fisica, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba)  
09:20 Chiral effects in gauge theories - Jorge Luis Acosta Avalo (Instituto Superior de Tecnologias y Ciencias Aplicadas (InSTEC), La Habana, Cuba)  
09:40 Scalar boson decay in presence of magnetic fields - Gabriella Piccinelli (FES-Aragón UNAM, Mexico)  
10:00 Kicks of magnetized strange quarks induced by anisotropic emission of neutrinos - Daryel Manreza Paret (Facultad de Física, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba & Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares ICN-UNAM, Mexico)  
10:20 --- Coffee Break ---
10:40 The magnetic field profile in strongly magnetized neutron stars - Veronica Dexheimer (Kent State University, Kent, United States)  
11:00 Modulating magnetar emission by resonant cyclotron scattering - Michael Gabler (Max Plank Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany)  
11:30 The very best limits on cosmological magnetic fields - Federico Urban (KBFI, Tallinn, Estonia)  
09:00 Boson stars solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations in the sense of Colombeau-Egorov's theory of generalized functions - Duvier Suarez Fontanella (Facultad de Fisica, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)  
09:20 Could low braking-index pulsar J1734-3333 evolve into a magnetar? - Zhifu Gao (Xinjiang Astronomical Observatary, CAS, Xinjiang, China)  
10:00 Configurations of rotating compact stars - Enping Zhou (Peking University, Beijing, China)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Why could 3- flavor strange matter be ``superluminal"? - Jiguang Lu (Peking University, Beijing, China)  
11:30 Fluxtube dynamics in neutron star cores - Vanessa Graber (McGill University, Montreal, Canada)  
09:00 Habitability of the Milky Way revisited - Rolando Cardenas (Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas, Cuba)  
09:20 Constraining the prebiotic cell size limits in extremely hostile UV environments: Implications for the Early Earth - Rolando Cardenas (Universidad Central "Marta Abreu" de Las Villas)  
09:40 Sensitivity studies of color reconnection in top underlying events measurements - A. Rodriguez (Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas, La Habana, Cuba)  
10:00 A new class of quark-hadron hybrid equation of state for astrophysics - David Blaschke (University of Wroclaw, Poland and Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 --- Symposium Closing ---
PM
12:00 --- School closing ---
17:00 --- Registration of participants ---
12:00 News from the Pierre Auger Observatory - Lukas Nellen (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Electromagnetic emissivity of hot and dense matter - Elena Bratkovskaya (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)  
14:30 A new transport approach for heavy ion collisions - Joerg Aichelin (Subatech/CNRS, Nantes, France)  
15:00 Strangeness and charm production at FAIR energies - Marcus Bleicher (Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) and University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
16:00 Ultra-relativistic heavy ion physics highlights – past, present and future - John W. Harris (Yale University, Branford, United States)  
16:30 Measurement of antiproton production in p-He collisions at LHCb to constrain the secondary cosmic antiproton flux - Giacomo Graziani (INFN, Sezione di Firenze, Italy)  
17:00 Color transparency in nuclear matter - D. Y. Arrebato (Instituto Superior de Tecnologías y Ciencias Aplicadas (InSTEC), La Habana, Cuba)  
17:30 Supporting the existence of the QCD critical point by compact star observations - David Edwin Alvarez Castillo (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Dubna, Russia)  
19:00 --- Welcome Cocktail ---
12:00 MaGiC - Horst Stoecker (GSI, FiAS and Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Overview of Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) - Wlodek Kluzniak (Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warszawa, Poland)  
14:30 Latest results from Telescope Array - Douglas Bergman (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States)  
15:00 eROSITA - status and scientific prospects - Werner Becker (Max-Planck Institut for extraterr. Physics and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
16:00 2RXS - the most complete X-ray catalog ever made - Thomas Boller (MPE Garching, Germany)  
16:30 The SVOM gamma-ray burst mission - Christian Motch (CNRS, Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, France)  
17:00 Limits on intergalactic dust during reionization - Nia Imara (Harvard University, CfA, Cambridge, United States)  
17:30 High energy scattering in QCD at small Bjorken x: from ultra-high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays to high energy heavy ion collisions - Jamal Jalilian-Marian (Baruch College-CUNY and Ecole Polytechnique, New York, United States)  
12:00 --- Symposium Closing ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
17:00 --- Tour in Old Havana - buses leave Comodoro Hotel at 17:00 ---
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00 --- Free Afternoon ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Dark matter and dark energy as quantum entities - Ramzi Suleiman (University of Haifa, Israel)  
15:00 Heavier and darker: spin-2 dark matter - Federico Urban (KBFI, Tallinn, Estonia)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break and Poster Session ---
16:00 Measuring $\Omega_M$ with gamma-ray bursts - Massimo Della Valle (Capodimonte Astronomical Observatory - INAF, Naples, Italy)  
16:30 Cross-tests of CMB features in the primordial spectra - Spyros Sypsas (FCFM, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)  
12:00 Radiative MHD simulations of disk accretion onto neutron stars - Wlodek Kluzniak (Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warszawa, Poland)  
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Neutral vector bosons in a constant magnetic field - Gretel Quintero Angulo (Facultad de Física, Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)  
15:00 Hartle’s slow rotation effects in magnetized white dwarfs - Diana Alvear Terrero (Instituto de Cibernetica, Matematica y Fisica (ICIMAF), La Habana, Cuba)  
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00 Hadron single spin asymmetry and polarization relation in reactions involving photons - Carlos Solano (Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Lima, Peru)  
16:30 TBA - Lawrence Sulak (Boston University, United States)  
20:00 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00 --- Return to Havana - Buses leave Naviti Beach Club Varadero Hotel at 15:00 ---