Scientific Program
- See below for the list of plenary topics and speakers
- See here for listing of plenary and parallel sessions by timetable
- See here for listing of parallel sessions and convenors
- See here for poster session instructions
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
Monday September 9
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
- David Kirkby, UC Irvine
- Cosmology after Planck (25+5)
- Krzysztof Gorski, JPL
- Gravitational Wave Cosmology (25+5)
- Scott Hughes, MIT
Plenary Session II: Dark Matter and New Particles 10:45-10:15
Chair: Georg Raffelt, Max Planck Institute, Munich
- Dark Matter and Simulations of Structure Formation (25+5)
- Risa Wechsler, Stanford University
- Low-Energy Cosmic Rays (25+5)
- Roberto Battiston, Univ. di Trento
Tuesday September 10
Plenary Session III: Dark Matter Direct Detection 8:45-10:15
Chair: Stefan Schoenert, Technical University of Munich
- WIMP Dark Matter 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 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
- Dark Matter Particle Candidates (25-5)
- David Cerdeno, Univ. Autónoma de Madrid
- Indirect Searches for Dark Matter (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 Masses 8:45-10:15
Chair: David Nygren, Physics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Double Beta Decay: Xenon Experiments (25+5)
- Andreas Piepke, Univ. Alabama
- Double Beta Decay: Other Experiments (25+5)
- Luciano Pandola, LNGS
- Direct Neutrino Mass Measurements Post Planck (25+5)
- Joe Formaggio, MIT
Plenary Session VI: Neutrino Astrophysics 10:45-12:15
Chair: Frank Calaprice, Princeton University
- Solar Neutrinos and the Solar Model (25+5)
- Aldo Ianni, LNGS
- The Supernova Mechanism and Its Multi-messenger Astrophysics (25+5)
- Hans-Thomas Janka, MPA-Garching
- Neutrino Properties and Supernovae (25+5)
- George Fuller, UC San Diego
Thursday September 12
Plenary Session VII: Neutrino Parameters 8:45-10:15
Chair: Serguey Petcov, SISSA, Trieste
- Theta-13: Reactor and Accelerator Experiments (25+5)
- Daniel Dwyer, Lawrence Berkley Laboratory
- Global Analyses of Neutrino Experiments (25+5)
- 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 Neutrino Experiments 10:45-12:15
Chair: Stan Wojicki, Stanford University
- Accelerator Neutrinos I: Present Decade (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-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (25+5)
- Diego Harari, Centro Atomico Bariloche
- High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (25+5)
- Gernot Maier, DESY
- High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy (25+5)
- Markus Ackermann, DESY
Plenary Session X: New Detectors and Laboratories 10:45-12:15
Chair: Nicolao Fornengo, University of Torino and INFN-Torino
- Gravitational Waves: Advanced-Generation Detectors (25+5)
- Takaaki Kajita, Univ. Tokyo
- Nucleon Decay Searches (25+5)
- Masato Shiozawa, Univ. Tokyo
- New Underground Laboratories: Europe, Asia, and the Americas (25+5)
- Sandro Bettini, Canfranc
