Scientific Program

• See below for the list of plenary topics and speakers
• Seehere for listing of plenary and parallel sessions by timetable
• See here for listing of parallel sessions and convenors
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• A link here will be created, after the July 15th abstract and August 15th poster deadlines, to parallel session and poster abstracts

See below for listing of plenary topics and speakers (in progress, subject to revision)

Plenary Sessions and Speakers

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Plenary Session I: Cosmology                                                            8:45-10:20

Chair: Frank Avignone, University of South Carolina

-  Welcome to TAUP 2013  (5 minutes)

      - Wick Haxton, UC Berkeley/LBNL, and Frank Avignone, Univ. South Carolina

-  Dark -  Dark Energy Probes (25+5)  

      - David Kirkby, UC Irvine 

-  Cosmology after   The Cosmic Microwave Background Post Planck (25+5)

      - Krzysztof Gorski, JPL 

-  Gravitational Wave Cosmology (25+5)

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      - Scott Hughes, MIT

Plenary Session II: New Particles                                                     10Dark Matter and New Particles                        10:45-10:15

Chair: Georg Raffelt, Max Planck Institute, Munich

-  Dark Matter and Large-Scale Structure Simulations Simulations of Structure Formation (25+5)

      -  Risa Wechsler, Stanford University

-  LHC Searches for New Physics Low-Energy Cosmic Rays  (25+5)

-  Dark Matter Particle Candidates (25-5)

            -  Roberto Battiston, Univ. di Trento

Tuesday September 10

Plenary Session III: Dark Matter Searches                                        8Direct Detection                             8:45-10:15

Chair: Stefan Schoenert, Technical University of Munich

- WIMP -  Dark Matter WIMP Direct-Detection Searches in Noble Gases (25+5)

           -  Laura Baudis, Univ. Zurich

-   Other WIMP Dark Matter Direct-Detection Searches (25+5)

             - Jodi Cooley, Southern Methodist Univ.

-  Direct-Detection Searches for Axions and other non-WIMP Axion Dark Matter (25+5)

             - Gray Rybka, Univ. Washington

Plenary Session IV: Low-Energy Astrophysics                              10:45-12:15

Chair: Masayuki Nakahata, ICRR, University of Tokyo

-  Indirect Searches for Dark Matter Particle Candidates (25+-5)

      - David Cerdeno, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid

-  Indirect Searches for Dark Matter -  Low-Energy Cosmic Rays  (25+5)         

           -  Fiorenza Donato, INFN, Univ. Turin

-  Nuclear Astrophysics and Underground Accelerators (25+5)

             - Alessandra Guglielmetti, INFN, Univ. Milano

Wednesday September 11

Plenary Session V: Neutrino Properties                                            8Masses                                                 8:45-10:15

Chair: David Nygren, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

-  Double -  Double Beta Decay: Xenon Experiments (25+5)

          - Andreas Piepke, Univ. Alabama

-  Double Beta Decay: Other Experiments -  Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements Post Planck (25+5)- 

          - Luciano Pandola, LNGS

-  Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements Post Planck Theta-13:  Reactor and Accelerator Experiments (25+5) 

           - Joe Formaggio, MIT

Plenary Session VI: Neutrino Astrophysics                                    10:45-12:15

Chair: Frank Calaprice, Princeton University

-  Solar -  Solar Neutrinos and the Solar Model (25+5)

            -  Aldo Ianni, LNGS

-  Neutrino Properties and Supernovae The Supernova Mechanism and Its Multi-messenger Astrophysics (25+5)

            - Hans-Thomas Janka, MPA-Garching

-  Neutrino Properties and Supernovae   Global Analyses of Neutrino Experiments (25+5)

            - George Fuller, UC San Diego

Thursday September 12

Plenary Session VII: Long-Baseline Experiments                            8Neutrino Parameters                                        8:45-10:15

Chair: Serguey Petcov, SISSA, Trieste

-  Theta-13: Reactor and Accelerator Experiments -  Multimessenger Astrophysics of Supernovae (25+5)

            - Daniel Dwyer, Lawrence Berkley Laboratory

-  Accelerator   Global Analyses of Neutrino Experiments and the Hierarchy (25+5)-  Accelerator Neutrino Experiments and CP Violation

            - Concha Gonzalez-Garcia, Stony Brook and ICREA-Barcelona

-  Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos and Implications for Physics/Astrophysics (25+5) 

           - Thierry Lasserre, CEA Sacalay

Plenary Session VIII: Large-Detector New Phenomena                 10Neutrino Experiments        10:45-12:15

Chair: Stan Wojicki, Stanford University

-   Evidence for Sterile Neutrinos and Implications for Physics/Astrophysics Accelerator Neutrinos I: Present Decade (25+5)-  Nucleon Decay in Multi-Purpose Megadetectors (25+5)

           - Chris Walter, Duke University

-  Next-Generation Atmospheric Neutrino Experiments   (25+5)

           - Antoine Kouchner, Univ. Paris

Friday September 13

Plenary Session IX:  High-Energy Astrophysics                               8:45-10:15

Chair: Tom Gaisser, Bartol Research Institute, University of Delaware

-  Ultra-  Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (25+5)

        - Diego Harari, Centro Atomico Bariloche

-  High-  High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (25+5)

       -  Gernot Maier, DESY

-  High High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy (25+5)

               - Markus Ackermann, DESY

Plenary Session X:  New Underground Science                             10Detectors and Laboratories                   10:45-12:15

Chair: Nicolao Fornengo, University of Torino and INFN-Torino

-  Gravitational -  Gravitational Waves: Advanced-Generation Underground Detectors (25+5)  

        - Takaaki Kajita, Univ. Tokyo

-  Geoneutrinos Nucleon Decay Searches (25+5)

        - Masato Shiozawa, Univ. Tokyo

-  New Underground Laboratories:   Europe, Asia, and theAmericasthe Americas (25+5)

          - Sandro Bettini, Canfranc