Program

 

Vulcano workshop 2008
P r o g r a m

Sunday 25 Afternoon

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

Monday 26 Morning

08:50 Franco Giovannelli Welcome Address
  &Giampaolo Mannocchi  
OPENING REMARKS
Chairperson: Giulio Auriemma
09:00 Franco Giovannelli Astroparticle Physics: Up-to-date Review.
09:35 Lawrence Jones Astroparticle Physics: Where are we going?
10:10 Piero Spillantini First Generation CR Experiments on the First Generation Moon based Condominium.
10:45
Coffee Break
Chairperson: Nino Panagia
11:15 Fernando Ferroni Present and Future of Double Beta Decay Searches.
11:50 Rene Hudec The Importance of Astronomical Plates Archives as Complementary Support for Astroparticle Physics.
12:25
END OF SESSION
12:25
Anticipated talk of the session JET SOURCES AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
12:25 Yujin Nakagawa HETE-2 Highlights.
13:00
End of the anticipated talk of the session JET SOURCES AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
13:00
INTERVAL

Monday 26 Afternoon

 
COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: Lawrence Jones
17:00 Carlo Gustavino The Impact of LUNA Results on Astroparticle Physics.
17:35 Giulio Auriemma Recent Accelerator Results and Baryogenesis.
18:10 Piergiorgio Picozza Antimatter and Dark Matter from Space.
18:45 Salvatore Capozziello Dark Energy Models toward Observational Tests and Data.
19:20
INTERVAL
 
SPECIAL NIGHT SESSION
21:30
A QUIET REVOLUTION
An award-winning educational film (narrated by Meryl Streep)
Produced by the Earth Council
with the support of Soka Gakkai International
22:00
UNA RIVOLUZIONE SILENZIOSA
(in Italian)

22:30
END OF SPECIAL NIGHT SESSION

Tuesday 27 Morning

COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: Guido Pizzella
09:00 Rita Bernabei First Results from DAMA/LIBRA and Combined Results with DAMA/NaI.
09:35 Nino Panagia Supernovae and Cosmology.
10:10 Sergio Colafrancesco Dark Matter Scenario and Crucial Experiment Probes.
10:45
END OF SESSION
10:45
Coffee Break
ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: Sergio Colafrancesco
11:15 Alessandro De Angelis VHE Astrophysics: A Review.
11:50 Carlotta Pittori AGILE Highlights: First Year.
12:25 Wlodek Bednarek Gamma-rays from Massive Binaries.
13:00
INTERVAL

Tuesday 27 Afternoon

ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: James H. Beall
17:00 Takeshi Tsuru SUZAKU Highlights.
17:35 Janusz Ziolkowski News from Galactic X-Ray Binaries.
18:10 Bernd Aschenback Twenty-one Years of SN 1987A.
18:45
INTERVAL

Tuesday 27 Night

THEATRE PERFORMANCE AT THE EOLIAN HOTEL
21:30
Flavia Giovannelli & Lisa Colosimo
"Macchie Solari e Chiari di Luna"
22:30
END OF THE PERFORMANCE

Wednesday 28 Morning

 
ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan
09:00 Guido Pizzella SN 1987A Revisited.
09:35 Sanjay K. Gosh Quark Stars: Their Influence on Astroparticle Physics.
10:10 Kinwah Wu Solitons in Large Scale Multi-Component Systems: Excitation, Stability and Astrophysical/Cosmological Implications. 1), 2)
11:35 Antoine Letessier-Selvon Correlation of the Highest Cosmic Rays with the Position of Nearby AGNs.
12:10
END OF SESSION
JET SOURCES AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
12:10 James H. Beall Jets in Astrophysics: A Review.
12:45 Annalisa Celotti Matter Content in AGN Jets.
13:05
INTERVAL

Wednesday 28 Afternoon

 
F R E E
 
SPECIAL OUTREACH AFTERNOON SESSION
Chairperson: Franco Giovannelli
19:30 Piero Galeotti Viaggio tra le Stelle (in Italian)
20:15
End of SPECIAL OUTREACH AFTERNOON SESSION

Wednesday 28 Night

21:30
ETRUSCAN WINE PARTY

Thursday 29 Morning

 
JET SOURCES AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Chairperson: Janusz Ziolkowski
08:40 Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan Jet Collimation by Magneto-Torsional Oscillations.
09:00 James H. Beall The Physics of Jet Interactions with the Ambient Medium in AGN and Galaxy Clusters.
09:35 Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan Cosmic GRBs: Observatons and Modelling.
10:10 Lorenzo Amati GRB Physics & Cosmology.
10:45
Coffee Break
Chairperson: Antoine Letessier-Selvon
11:15 Daniele Fargion GRBs, SGRs and XRF by Unified Processing Jets: The Muons Role.
11:50 Wolfgang Kundt The sources of the Cosmic Rays, and of the Gamma-Ray-Bursts, after more than 40 years of delilberation.
12:25
END OF SESSION
 
QUANTUM GRAVITY
12:25 Luca Maccione Quantum Gravity Phenomenology: A Review and Recent Results.
13:00
END OF SESSION
13:00
INTERVAL

Thursday 29 Afternoon

 
THE CHALLENGE OF COSMIC RAY PRODUCTION
Chairperson: Kinwah Wu
17:00 Gianni Navarra Cosmic rays up to the "Ankle": The HE Galactic Radiation.
17:35 Claudio Di Giulio UHE Cosmic Ray Flux.
18:10 Igor I. Yashin Study of VHE Cosmic Ray Spectrum by Means of Muon Density Measurements at Ground Level.
18:35 Anatoly Petrukhin Are Cosmic Rays Galactic or Extragalactic?
 
NEURINO ASTRONOMY
19:10 Piero Galeotti Neutrinos from SNe: A 25 Years Challenge in Italy.
19:45
INTERVAL

Thursday 29 Night

 
MUSIC IN VULCANO
21:30
STRING DUO
Alessandro Perpich - Violin
Rocco De Massis - Viola
22:30
END OF THE CONCERT

Friday 30 Morning

NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY
Chairperson: Anatoly Petrukhin
09:00 Todor Stanev UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos.
09:35 Ulrich Katz Neutrino Astronomy with Km3Net.
10:10 Carmen Palomares Double Chooz Neutrino Experiment.
10:45
Coffee Break
Chairperson: Todor Stanev
11:15 Paolo Desiati IceCube News: Implications for Astroparticle Physics.
11:50 Barbara Caccianiga The First Real Time Detection of 7Be Neutrinos with the Experiment Borexino.
12:10 Valery Chechetkin Radiatrion of a Neutrino Mechanism for Type II Supernovae.
12:45 Daniele Fargion New Views for Neutrino Astronomy with AUGER: Predictions.
13:05
END OF SESSION
13:05
INTERVAL

Friday 30 Afternoon

 
DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENTS
Chairperson: Piergiorgio Picozza
17:00 Rene Hudec New Alternative Methods of GRB Detection: Ionospheric Response and Optical Wide-Field Monitors.
17:20 Simone Dell'Agnello ETRUSCO.
17:35 Simone Dell'Agnello LARES and MoonLIGHT.
17:50 Rene Hudec GAIA: Expectation for Astroparticle Physics.
18:10 Giuseppe Di Sciascio ARGO-YBJ Experiment: the status of the art.
18:25 Aurelio Grillo A museum for Astroparticle Physics.
18:40
INTERVAL
18:40
Postponed talk of the session JET SOURCES AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS
19:15
INTERVAL
 
SPECIAL NIGHT SESSION
Chairperson: Aurelio Grillo
21:45 Daniele Fargion Europa and Enceladus: Places for living and UHECR and UHE Neutrino Detection.
22:20
The Strange Case of Cosmic Rays
(a film produced by Frank Capra)
 
END OF THE SPECIAL NIGHT SESSION

Saturday 31 Morning

 
DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENTS
Chairperson: Rene Hudec
09:00 Nino Panagia From HST to JWST.
09:35 Takeshi Tsuru NeXT: New Japanise X-Ray Telescope Mission.
09:55 Roberto Battiston New Ideas for Balloon Borne Experiments.
10:15 Andrea Santangelo UHECRs from Space: JEM-EUSO and S-EUSO.
10:35
Coffee Break
11:00 Thomas Schweizer CTA: The Future Cherenkov Telescope Array.
11:20
END OF SESSION
 
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chairperson: Bernd Aschenbach
11:20 Todor Stanev Concluding remarks
11:35 Guennadi Bisnovatyi-Kogan Concluding remarks
11:50 Janusz Ziolkowski Concluding remarks
12:05 Giulio Auriemma Concluding remarks
12:20
END OF SESSION
 
CONCLUDING ADDRESS
12:20 Franco Giovannelli Concluding address
12:30
END OF THE WORKSHOP