Name: Vulcano Workshop 2016 - Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Start: 2016-05-22T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2016-05-28T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Vulcano Island, Sicily, Italy

Monday, May 23, 2016
8:45 AM Welcome address - Roberto Fusco-Femiano (IAPS/INAF) Giampaolo Mannocchi (LNF)
Welcome address
- Roberto Fusco-Femiano (IAPS/INAF)
- Giampaolo Mannocchi (LNF)
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
9:00 AM Gravitational Waves
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview of Gravitational Wave Observations by LIGO and Virgo - Giovanni Andrea Prodi (TIFP)

9:25 AM Launch of LISA-Pathfinder and e-LISA - Massimo Bassan (ROMA2)

9:50 AM Beyond Einstein's Gravity: Dark Energy, Dark matter and Gravitational WavesGravity theories alternative to General Relativity - Salvatore Capozziello (NA)
10:15 AM Future Prospects
10:15 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

10:15 AM Astroparticle Research in Europe - Frank Linde
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Future Prospects
11:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Astroparticle Research in China - Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

11:25 AM INAF Programs for High Energy Astrophysics - Pietro Ubertini (ROMA2)

11:50 AM INFN Astroparticle programs - Marco Pallavicini (GE)

12:15 PM Future of LHC - Roger Forty (CERN)

12:40 PM Space Astronomy in Future - Pietro Ubertini (R)
1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
5:00 PM Gravity
5:00 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

5:00 PM Experimental gravity tests in the solar system - Manuele Martini (LNF)

5:25 PM Nonminimally coupled gravity and planetary motion - Riccardo March (IAC-CNR and INFN-LNF)

5:50 PM Black holes: a window into strong (quantum?) gravity - Roberto Casadio (BO)

6:15 PM Holographic theory of gravity and cosmology - Y. Jack Ng (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
6:40 PM Cosmic Rays
6:40 PM - 7:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

6:40 PM The CALET Mission on International Space Station - Pier Simone Marrocchesi (SI)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Tuesday, May 24, 2016
9:00 AM Neutrino
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview on Neutrino Physics - Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)

9:25 AM Reactor neutrinos and mass hierarchy - Jun Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

9:50 AM Neutrinoless double beta decay: where we are and where we are going - Andrea Giuliani (CSNSM Orsay)

10:15 AM ANTARES + Km3Net - Paolo Piattelli (LNS)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Neutrino
11:00 AM - 11:50 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Understanding IceCube’s astrophysical neutrino observations - Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Institute of Technology)

11:25 AM The Halo 2 Supernova Detector - Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University / SNOLAB)
11:50 AM Cosmic Rays
11:50 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:50 AM Ground based Gamma Ray Astronomy Review - Masahiro Teshima (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics / Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

12:15 PM Cosmic Rays in galaxy clusters and constraints from gamma ray - Gianfranco Brunetti (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

12:40 PM High Energy Astrophysics - Carlotta Pittori (INAF-OAR/ASDC)
1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
5:00 PM Cosmic Rays
5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

5:00 PM The Fermi Observatory - status and prospects - Luca Latronico (TO)

5:25 PM The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory - Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)

5:50 PM Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources - Carlotta Pittori (INAF-OAR/ASDC)

6:15 PM The Power Spectrum of Cosmic Ray Arrival Directions - Markus Ahlers (UW-Madison)

6:40 PM Particle Acceleration at Supernova Remnants and Supernovae - Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)

7:05 PM Inhomogeneous CR transport in the Galaxy - Carmelo Evoli (GSSI)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Wednesday, May 25, 2016
9:00 AM Session in memory of Prof. Guido Altarelli
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Remembering Guido Altarelli - Mario Greco (ROMA3)

9:25 AM Beyond the Standard Model - Riccardo Barbieri (PI)

9:50 AM Neutrino Masses and Mixing Angles: a Tribute to Guido Altarelli - Ferruccio Feruglio (PD)

10:15 AM Guido's contribution to the life of INFN - Antonio Masiero (PD)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Cosmic Rays
11:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Review on Cosmic Ray direct detection - Piergiorgio Picozza (ROMA2)

11:25 AM The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass Project - Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)

11:50 AM Review on galactic Cosmic Ray detection - Andrea Chiavassa (TO)

12:15 PM LHAASO Prospects: Spectra of Cosmic Ray Species - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

12:40 PM IceTop Results on Cosmic Ray Detection - Javier Gonzalez (University of Delaware)
1:30 PM lunch
lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room

3:00 PM Excursion to Lipari
Excursion to Lipari
3:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Thursday, May 26, 2016
9:00 AM Cosmic Rays
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM High-Energy Cosmic Rays:Galactic or Extragalactic? - Joerg Hoerandel (Radboud University Nijmegen)

9:25 AM Review on UHECR (Theory) - Peter Biermann (MPIfR Bonn, Germany)

9:50 AM Review on UHECR (Experimental) - Piera Luisa Ghia (LPNHE-CNRS, Paris)

10:15 AM Astroparticle and particle physics at ultra high energies:results and perspectives from the Pierre Auger Observatory. - Antonella Castellina (TO)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Cosmic Rays
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Recent Results from the Telescope Array Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Observatory - John Matthews (University of Utah)

11:25 AM Cosmic-ray studies using the ALICE detector at the LHC - Mario Sitta (AL)

11:50 AM Review on Cosmic-Ray Radio Detection - Frank Schröder (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
12:15 PM Dark Matter & Dark Energy & Neutrino (astrophysical connections)
12:15 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

12:15 PM Warm DM vs. Cold DM Scenario for the formation of Cosmic Structures - Nicola Menci (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
12:40 PM Astrophysics/Cosmology
12:40 PM - 1:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

12:40 PM The Large Scale Structure Path to the High Energetic Universe - Enzo Franco Branchini (ROMA3)
1:30 PM lunch
lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
5:00 PM Astrophysics/Cosmology
5:00 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

5:00 PM First stars in the Universe - Umberto Maio (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics & INAF)
5:25 PM Dark Matter & Dark Energy & Neutrino (astrophysical connections)
5:25 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

5:25 PM Indirect and direct Dark Matter search - Piero Ullio (TS)

5:50 PM Status and future Prospect Gamma-ray Signatures of DM - Aldo Morselli (ROMA2)

6:15 PM Dark matter and the galactic center GeV excess - Marco Taoso (IFT CSIC Madrid)

6:40 PM Signals from Dark Matter particles - Rita Bernabei (ROMA2)

7:05 PM The XENON1T Dark Matter Search at LNGS - Elena Aprile (Columbia University)
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Friday, May 27, 2016
9:00 AM Dark Matter & Dark Energy
9:00 AM - 9:50 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM Euclid space mission: shedding light on dark energy and dark matter - Roberto Scaramella (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

9:25 AM The relativistic all-sky analysis with Gaia - Mariateresa Crosta (INAF-OATo)
9:50 AM Gravitational Waves
9:50 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:50 AM From GW detection to GW astronomy - Eugenio Coccia (ROMA2)

10:15 AM EM Counterparts/Follow up of GW Sources - Marica Branchesi (FI)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Astrophysics/Cosmology
11:00 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Multimessenger astronomy, the dawn of a new era for the knowledge of the Universe - Michel Boer (CNRS-ARTEMIS)

11:25 AM Picturing Feedback in Action in the Milky Way: a 6 Myrs old Galaxy Hot Outflow Traveling at a speed of 1 kpc per Myr - Fabrizio Nicastro (INAF - OAR)

11:50 AM Observations of Galaxy Clusters in the Microwave and the X-rays - Pasquale Mazzotta (ROMA2)

12:15 PM The Sources of Cosmic Reionisation - Francesco Haardt (MIB)
1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
4:55 PM Astrophysics/Cosmology
4:55 PM - 7:25 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

4:55 PM GRBs multimessenger - ELEONORA Troja (NASA/GSFC)

5:20 PM Study of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis deep underground - Carlo Gustavino (ROMA1)

5:45 PM Can we use Fast Radio Bursts as cosmological probes? - Marta Burgay (INAF - ORA Cagliari)

6:10 PM SKA Science - Luigina Feretti (Istituto di Radioastronomia)

6:35 PM ASI Science Programs: Current and Future Space Missions - Barbara Negri
8:30 PM Dinner
Dinner
8:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Saturday, May 28, 2016
9:00 AM Particle Physics
9:00 AM - 10:40 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

9:00 AM TeV energy physics at LHC and in cosmic rays - Anatoly Petrukhin (NRNU MEPhI)

9:25 AM Accelerator dark matter searches: comparison with direct and indirect searches - Mario Antonelli (LNF)

9:50 AM Dark Matter search at fixed target - Tommaso Spadaro (LNF)

10:15 AM New projects on dark photon search - Venelin Kozhuharov (LNF)
10:40 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00 AM Particle Physics
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 AM Nucleus Nucleus interactions and their application in medicine - Giuseppe Battistoni (MI)

11:25 AM Recent Higgs Boson Results from the LHC - Roberto Di Nardo (LNF)

11:50 AM Flavour physics perspectives with the LHCb upgrade - Pierluigi Campana (LNF)

12:15 PM Recent selected hightlight from LHCb - Monica Pepe Altarelli (CERN)
1:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room