VULCANO WORKSHOP 2006

FRONTIER OBJECTS IN ASTROPHYSICS AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

21-27 May 2006

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Sunday 21 Afternoon

16:30 Registration of Participants
19:00 End of registration
19:30 Welcome Cocktail Party
20:00 Dinner

Monday 22 Morning

09:00 Franco Giovannelli & Giampaolo Mannocchi Welcome Address

OPENING REMARKS

Chairperson: GIULIO AURIEMMA
09:10 Franco Giovannelli Twenty Years of Astroparticle Physics.
9:45 Lawrence Jones Astroparticle.
10:20 Piero Spillantini MoonBase: An Opportunity for Astroparticle Physics.
10:55 Coffee Break
Chairperson: NINO PANAGIA
11:25 Guido Pizzella Results of the Search for Coincidences between the Gravitational Wave Experiments Explorer and Nautilus.
12:00

End of Session

Anticipated talk of the session JET SOURCES AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
12:00 Guido Chincarini Highlights of the SWIFT Mission: Short Bursts, Flares, Prompt Emission and High-z GRBs.
12:35 End of anticipated talk
12:35 Interval

Monday 22 Afternoon

COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: LAWRENCE JONES
17:00 Stefano Liberati Planck Scale Phenomenology: A Review.
17:35 Giulio Auriemma Baryogenesis.
18:10 Luigi Guzzo Evolution of Large Scale Structures.
18:45 Nino Panagia Sources of Ionization of the Intergalactic Medium in the Early Universe.
19:20 Sergio Colafrancesco Dark Matter: Theoretical and Experimental Researches.

19:55 Interval

Tuesday 23 Morning

COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: GUIDO PIZZELLA
08:30 Rita Bernabei Dark Matter Search: The Status of the Art.
09:05 Francesco Fucito Dark Matter and Extra Dimensions.
09:40 Salvatore Capozziello Modified Gravity versus Dark Matter and Dark Energy.
10:15 Carlo Gustavino Measurements of nuclear cross sections of interest in primordial nucleosynthesis with the LUNA experiment.
10:50 Coffee Break

ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES

Chairperson: SERGIO COLAFRANCESCO
11:20 Wei Cui TeV Astrophysics: A Review.
11:55 Ken Ebisawa A General Review of the Galactic Sky.
12:30 Yoshitomo Maeda Galactic Center: A Review.
13:05 Interval

Tuesday 23 Afternoon

ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES

Chairperson: KEN EBISAWA
17:00 Peter von Ballmoos 511 KeV Electron-Positron Annihilation Emission: A Review.
17:35 Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan Recycled Binary Pulsars: The Best Laboratory for Fundamental Physics.
18:10 Giora Shaviv New Effect in Accretion Disks around BHs.
18:30 Bernd Aschenbach The X-ray evolution of SN 1987A.

Anticipated talk of the NEUTRINO SESSION
18:50 Giora Shaviv Did we determine correctly the sun neutrino flux?
19:25 End of anticipated talk
19:25 Interval

Wednesday 24 Morning

ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: JOSEP MARIA PAREDES
09:00 Janusz Ziolkowsi Black Holes Highlights in the INTEGRAL Era.
09:35 Yoh Takei Galactic Interstellar Medium (ISM): Hot and Cold ISM Probed with X-ray Spectroscopy.
09:55 Guillaume Dubus Gamma Ray Binaries.
10:30 Coffee Break
Chairperson: JOSEP MARIA PAREDES
11:00 Andrea Santangelo The TeV Sky with HESS: A Review.
11:35 Michele Iacovacci ARGO-YBJ: Status and First Results.

Anticipated talk of NEUTRINO SESSION

11:55 Antonio Ereditato High Precision Neutrino Oscillations Experiments.
12:30 End on anticipated tak

Postponed talk of the OPENING REMARK SESSION
12:30 Vivek Sharma CP Violation in B Decays.
13:05 End of postponed talk
13:05 Interval

Wednesday 24 Afternoon

FREE

 

Thursday 25 Morning

ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: GUILLAUME DUBUS
08:30 Masahiro Teshima The Contribution of AGASA and MAGIC to Astroparticle Physics.
09:05 Isabelle Lhenry-Yvon AUGER Highligths.

09:40 End of Session

JET SOURCES AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Chairperson: JANUSZ ZIOLKOWSKI
09:40 James Beall The Role of Relativistic Jets in Astroparticle Physics
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Sylvain Chaty Microquasars: Their Role in Astroparticle Physics.
11:20 Josep Paredes Microquasars and AGNs as Sources of HE Gamma-Rays.
11:55 Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan Magnetorotational Core-Collapse SN: Explosion and Jets.

Anticipated talk of the Session DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENT
12:15 Riccardo Cerulli Future Goals for the Possible DAME/1Ton, now at R&D Stage.
12:30 End of anticipated talk

Postponed talk of the Session OPENING REMARKS
12:30 Daniel Denegri Accelerators: LHC and the Universe.
13:05 End of postponed talk
13:05 Interval

Thursday 25 Afternoon

JET SOURCES AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Chairperson: ISABELLE LHENRY-YVON
16:30 Arnon Dar Towards a Complete Theory of GRBs.
17:05 End of Session

THE CHALLENGE OF COSMIC RAY PRODUCTION
Chairperson: ISABELLE LHENRY-YVON
17:05 Sabrina Casanova Surveying the TeV gamma ray sky with Milagro.
17:40 Gianni Navarra HE Cosmic Ray Data: Status and Open Questions.
18:15 Antonio Codino A Unique Mechanism Generatine the Knee and the Ankle in the Local Galactic Zone.
18:45 Roberto Aloisio Transition from Galactic to Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays.
19:05 Andreas Haungs EAS Radio Detection with LOPES.
19:40 Interval

Friday 26 Morning

THE CHALLENGE OF COSMIC RAY PRODUCTION
Chairperson: JAMES BEALL
08:30 Pasquale Blasi UHE Cosmic Rays: Origin, Acceleration and Propagation.
09:05 Karl-Heinz Kampert Recent Results from KASCADE-Grande.
09:40 Alvaro de Rujula A Theory of Cosmic Rays.
10:15 Piera Ghia Cosmic ray anisotropies between 10^13 eV and 10^20 eV.
10:50 Coffee Break
Chairperson: TODOR STANEV
11:20 Pasquale Blasi Non Linear Particle Acceleration at Shock Fronts.
11:40 Anatoly Petrukhin Probable Appearance of Quark-Gluon Plasma in Cosmic Ray Experiments.
12:00 Igor Yashin Results of Cosmic Ray Muon Investigations in the Frame of the Russian-Italian Project DÉCOR.
12:20 Aldo Morselli HE Deuteron Measurement with the CAPRICE-98 Experiment.
12:40 End of Session

NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY
Chairperson: ANATOLY PETRUKHIN
12:40 Marco Selvi LVD highlights.
13:00 Interval

Friday 26 Afternoon

NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY
Chairperson: PASQUALE BLASI
17:00 Todor Stanev Neutrinos: The Key to UHE Cosmic Rays.
17:35 Yoshihisa Obayashi SUPER-KAMIOKANDE: The Status of Neutrino Oscillations.
18:10 Valery Chechetkin HE Neutrinos and Type-II Supernovae.
18:45 Francesco Vissani Neutrinos from SNRs.
19:20 End of Session
19:20 Interval

Saturday 27 Morning

DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENT
Chairperson: IGOR YASHIN
09:00 Paolo Lipari Perspectives for HE Neutrino Telescopes.
09:35 Teresa Montaruli ICE CUBE: The State of Art.
09:50 Fabrizio Lucarelli NEMO.
10:05 Giorgio Giacomelli OPERA.
10:20 Alessia Tricomi LHCF.
10:35 Coffee Break
11:00 Carla Bonifazi The Angular Resolution of AUGER.
11:15 Miguel Mostafa Hybrid Detection of UHECRs with the Pierre Auger Observatory.
11:30 Behcet Alpat AMS.
11:45 Isabella Pagano WSO: World Space Observatory.
12:00 End of Session

CONCLUDING REMARKS

Chairperson: NINO PANAGIA
12:00 Lawrence Jones  
12:15 Todor Stanev  
12:25 Giulio Auriemma Highlights of Vulcano Workshop 2006
12:40 Janusz Ziolkowski 20 years of "Frontier Objects in Astrophycisa and Particle Physics”
12:55 End of Session

CONCLUDING ADDRESS

Chairperson: NINO PANAGIA
12:55 Franco Giovannelli Concluding Address
13:00 End of the Workshop