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Scientific Program

 

  • See below for the list of plenary topics and speakers
  • See here for listing of plenary and parallel sessions by timetable
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  • 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

-  Dark Energy Probes (25+5)  

      - 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

-  LHC Searches for New Physics (25+5) (canceled due to speaker illness)

      -  Marcela Carena, FermiLab

-  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

- Accelerator Neutrinos II:  Long-term Vision  (25+5)

           - Andre Rubbia, ETH Zurich

-  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

                                                                                                                                     

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