Name: GRAPPA @ 5: Celebrating 5 years of astroparticle physics and cosmology in Amsterdam
Start: 2017-10-16T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-10-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Amsterdam

GRAPPA @ 5: Celebrating 5 years of astroparticle physics and cosmology in Amsterdam

from Monday 16 October 2017 (09:00) to Wednesday 18 October 2017 (17:00)

Monday 16 October 2017

09:00 Welcome Speech by Peter van Tienderen, Dean of the Faculty of Science
Welcome Speech by Peter van Tienderen, Dean of the Faculty of Science
09:00 - 09:15
Room: Turingzaal

09:15 Five Years of GRAPPA - Gianfranco Bertone
Five Years of GRAPPA - Gianfranco Bertone
09:15 - 09:30
09:30 Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves
Astroparticle Physics and Gravitational Waves
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Turingzaal
Contributions

09:30 Astroparticle Physics the way ahead according to APPEC - Stavros Katsanevas - Stavros KATSANEVAS (CNRS/IN2P3)

10:15 Nergis Mavalvala - Nergis Mavalvala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 The Dark Matter distribution of the Milky Way: its uncertainties and their effects on the determination of new physics - Fabio Iocco (ICTP-SAIFR)

11:45 The Birth of the Dark Matter Problem - J. de Swart (University of Amsterdam)

12:00 Gaia and the Local Dark Matter Density - Hamish Silverwood (Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona)

12:15 The Galactic Center Excess with Skyfact - Richard Bartels (University of Amsterdam)

12:30 How to distinguish warm intergalactic medium from warm dark matter? - Antonella Garzilli
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 13:45
Room: Newtonzaal
13:45 Dark Matter
Dark Matter
13:45 - 16:00
Room: Turingzaal
Contributions

13:45 Dark Matter - A showcase for GRAPPA - Lars Bergstrom - Lars Bergstrom (Stockholm University)

14:30 Searching for Particle Dark Matter - Tim Tait - Tim M.P. Tait (University of California, Irvine)

15:15 Dark Matter Direct Detection: News from the Low Background Frontier - Jocelyn Monroe - Jocelyn Monroe (RHUL)
16:00

16:00 - 17:00

18:00 Welcome Reception & Public Lecture - Artis Planetarium
Welcome Reception & Public Lecture - Artis Planetarium
18:00 - 22:00
Tuesday 17 October 2017
10:00 Cosmology
Cosmology
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Turingzaal
Contributions

10:00 Universal Axions - Matthew Kleban - Matthew Kleban (New York University)

10:45 Towards Fundamental Physics from Cosmological Surveys - Hiranya Peiris - Hiranya Peiris
11:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 2
2
12:00 - 13:15
Contributions

12:00 Probing Light Relics with CMB and BAO - Benjamin Wallisch (DAMTP, University of Cambridge)

12:15 Searching for primordial black holes - Daniele Gaggero

12:30 Dark Information: Forecasting with the Fisher Matrix - Thomas Edwards (University of Amsterdam)

12:45 Better models of the gamma-ray sky with SkyFACT - Emma Storm (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam)

13:00 The Future of Gamma-ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters - Fabio Zandanel (University of Amsterdam)
13:15 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45
Room: Turingzaal
14:45 High Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays
High Energy Astrophysics & Cosmic Rays
14:45 - 17:00
Room: Turingzaal
Contributions

14:45 The 3.5 keV Line: Current Status and Future Prospects - Esra Bulbul - Esra Bulbul

15:30 Open questions in particle acceleration theory - Luke Drury - Luke Drury (DIAS)

16:15 The Gamma-ray view of the Universe - Stefan Funk - Stefan Funk (ECAP, Universität Erlangen)
19:00 GRAPPA@5 Party - Pont 13
GRAPPA@5 Party - Pont 13
19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday 18 October 2017
10:00 High Energy Neutrinos
High Energy Neutrinos
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Turingzaal
Contributions

10:00 Neutrino Astronomy: The Low-Energy Frontier - John Beacom - John Beacom (Ohio State University)

10:45 IceCube: Building a New Window on the Universe from Antarctica - Francis Halzen - Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)
11:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00
12:00 3
3
12:00 - 13:30
Contributions

12:00 Nu Interactions From the Heavens: Measurement of Neutrino Cross Sections Above 10 TeV - Mauricio Bustamante (Niels Bohr Institute)

12:15 Multimessenger studies of blazars - Fe Krauss

12:30 Cosmic ray positrons: constraints on propagation parameters and dark matter searches in view of AMS-02 data - Manuela Vecchi (São Institute of Physics)

12:45 Temporal evolution of high energy radiation in type IIn Supernovae - Dimitrios Kantzas (University of Amsterdam)

13:00 Molecular hydrogen as probe for new physics - Salumbides Edcel (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

13:15 ANTARES highlights and KM3NET prospects - Antonio Capone
13:30 Jacco Vink
Jacco Vink
13:30 - 13:45
Room: Turingzaal