Workshop on Cosmic Particles

from Friday 18 February 2005 (10:00) to Sunday 20 February 2005 (14:00)
The Cosener's House

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Feb 2005
19 Feb 2005
20 Feb 2005
AM
10:00 --- Coffee ---
10:05 --- Overview talks ---
10:10 --- Chair: Prof Norman McCubbin (RAL) ---
10:15 Overview Talk on Cosmic Rays - Dr J Knapp (University of Leeds)  
11:15 What's new in High Energy Gamma Rays - Dr P Chadwick (University of Durham)  
Talk
11:55 What will we learn (soon) about gamma Ray Bursts - Prof. M Ward (University of Durham)  
Talk
09:00 Hadronic Physics Session  
09:05 --- Chair: Prof Norman McCubbin (RAL) ---
09:15 Neutrino production in the atmosphere and accelerator hadron-yield measurements - Dr G Barr (University of Oxford)  
Talk
10:00 Hadronic diffraction and cosmic-ray showers - Dr M.G. Albrow (FNAL)  
Talk
10:45 --- Coffee ---
11:05 Modelling of hadronic showers - Dr R Engel (Karlsruhe)  
Talk
11:50 --- Lunch ---
08:45 --- Future Projects and Possible UK Involvement ---
08:55 --- Chair: Alan Watson (Leeds) ---
09:00 Scene-setting - PPARC Science Committee - Prof. M Ward (University of Durham)  
09:10 Prospect for Auger - Prof. J Bluemer (Karlsruhe)  
Talk
09:55 Proepects for neutrino astronomy - Dr L Thompson (University of Sheffield)  
Talk
10:40 --- Coffee ---
11:00 Future of gamma ray astronomy and perspectives for the UK - Dr J Rose (University of Leeds)  
Talk
11:45 Furture prospects for large-scale and directional Dark Matter detectors - Prof. N Spooner (University of Sheffield)  
Talk
PM
12:15 --- Lunch ---
13:30 --- Chair: Prof Nigel Smith (RAL) ---
13:45 Overview talk on Dark Matter - Timothy Sumner (Imperial College London)  
Talk
14:45 Neutrino astronomy today - Dr D Waters (University College London)  
Talk
16:00 --- Tea ---
16:20 FLASH: A Laboratory calibration for high-energy cosmic-ray experiments - Prof. P Sokolsky (University of Utah)  
Talk
17:05 --- End of Session ---
13:30 --- Chair: Prof R Bingham (RAL) ---
13:45 Mechanisms of Cosmic Ray Acceleration - Prof. T Bell (Imperial College)  
Talk
14:30 What can we learn about CR acceleration from observation? - Prof. L Drury (University of Dublin)  
Talk
15:15 --- Tea ---
15:35 Attempting to explain the cosmic-ray spectrum - Prof. A.M. Hillas (University of Leeds)  
Talk
16:20 Dark Matter and Ultra-High energy Cosmic Rays - Dr S Sarkar (University of Oxford)  
Talk
16:55 --- End of session ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
13:45 --- End of session ---