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, 23 May
- 1
  
  Welcome address
  
  Speakers: Giampaolo Mannocchi (LNF), Dr Roberto Fusco-Femiano (IAPS/INAF)
- Gravitational Waves
  
  Convener: Pietro Ubertini (ROMA2)
  - 2
    
    Overview of Gravitational Wave Observations by LIGO and Virgo
    
    Speaker: Giovanni Andrea Prodi (TIFP)
    
    Slides
  - 3
    
    Launch of LISA-Pathfinder and e-LISA
    
    Speaker: Massimo Bassan (ROMA2)
    
    Slides
  - 4
    
    Beyond Einstein's Gravity: Dark Energy, Dark matter and Gravitational WavesGravity theories alternative to General Relativity
    
    Speaker: Prof. Salvatore Capozziello (NA)
    
    Slides
- Future Prospects
  
  Convener: Piergiorgio Picozza (ROMA2)
  - 5
    
    Astroparticle Research in Europe
    
    Speaker: Prof. Frank Linde
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Future Prospects
  
  Convener: Piergiorgio Picozza (ROMA2)
  - 6
    
    Astroparticle Research in China
    
    Speaker: Prof. Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 7
    
    INAF Programs for High Energy Astrophysics
    
    Speaker: Pietro Ubertini (ROMA2)
  - 8
    
    INFN Astroparticle programs
    
    Speaker: Marco Pallavicini (GE)
    
    Slides
  - 9
    
    Future of LHC
    
    Speaker: Roger Forty (CERN)
    
    Slides
  - 10
    
    Space Astronomy in Future
    
    Speaker: Pietro Ubertini (R)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- Gravity
  
  Convener: Prof. Salvatore Capozziello (NA)
  - 11
    
    Experimental gravity tests in the solar system
    
    Speaker: Manuele Martini (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 12
    
    Nonminimally coupled gravity and planetary motion
    
    Speaker: Dr Riccardo March (IAC-CNR and INFN-LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 13
    
    Black holes: a window into strong (quantum?) gravity
    
    Speaker: Roberto Casadio (BO)
    
    Slides
  - 14
    
    Holographic theory of gravity and cosmology
    
    Speaker: Prof. Y. Jack Ng (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
    
    Slides
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: Prof. Salvatore Capozziello (NA)
  - 15
    
    The CALET Mission on International Space Station
    
    Speaker: Pier Simone Marrocchesi (SI)
    
    Slides
- 20:30
  
  Dinner
Tuesday, 24 May
- Neutrino
  
  Convener: Prof. Yifang Wang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
  - 16
    
    Overview on Neutrino Physics
    
    Speaker: Prof. Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg)
    
    Slides
  - 17
    
    Reactor neutrinos and mass hierarchy
    
    Speaker: Prof. Jun Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 18
    
    Neutrinoless double beta decay: where we are and where we are going
    
    Speaker: Dr Andrea Giuliani (CSNSM Orsay)
    
    Slides
  - 19
    
    ANTARES + Km3Net
    
    Speaker: Paolo Piattelli (LNS)
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Neutrino
  
  Convener: Prof. Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)
  - 20
    
    Understanding IceCube’s astrophysical neutrino observations
    
    Speaker: Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Institute of Technology)
    
    Slides
  - 21
    
    The Halo 2 Supernova Detector
    
    Speaker: Dr Clarence Virtue (Laurentian University / SNOLAB)
    
    Slides
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: Prof. Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)
  - 22
    
    Ground based Gamma Ray Astronomy Review
    
    Speaker: Prof. Masahiro Teshima (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics / Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)
    
    Slides
  - 23
    
    Cosmic Rays in galaxy clusters and constraints from gamma ray
    
    Speaker: Dr Gianfranco Brunetti (INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)
    
    Slides
  - 24
    
    High Energy Astrophysics
    
    Speaker: Dr Carlotta Pittori (INAF-OAR/ASDC)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: John Matthews (University of Utah)
  - 25
    
    The Fermi Observatory - status and prospects
    
    Speaker: Luca Latronico (TO)
    
    Slides
  - 26
    
    The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory
    
    Speaker: Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
    
    Slides
  - 27
    
    Search of MeV-GeV counterparts of TeV sources
    
    Speaker: Dr Carlotta Pittori (INAF-OAR/ASDC)
    
    Slides
  - 28
    
    The Power Spectrum of Cosmic Ray Arrival Directions
    
    Speaker: Dr Markus Ahlers (UW-Madison)
    
    Slides
  - 29
    
    Particle Acceleration at Supernova Remnants and Supernovae
    
    Speaker: Dr Gwenael Giacinti (MPIK Heidelberg)
    
    Slides
  - 30
    
    Inhomogeneous CR transport in the Galaxy
    
    Speaker: Carmelo Evoli (GSSI)
    
    Slides
- 20:30
  
  Dinner
Wednesday, 25 May
- Session in memory of Prof. Guido Altarelli
  
  Convener: Giampaolo Mannocchi (LNF)
  - 31
    
    Remembering Guido Altarelli
    
    Speaker: Mario Greco (ROMA3)
    
    movie
    
    Slides
  - 32
    
    Beyond the Standard Model
    
    Speaker: Riccardo Barbieri (PI)
    
    Slides
  - 33
    
    Neutrino Masses and Mixing Angles: a Tribute to Guido Altarelli
    
    Speaker: Ferruccio Feruglio (PD)
    
    Slides
  - 34
    
    Guido's contribution to the life of INFN
    
    Speaker: Antonio Masiero (PD)
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: Prof. Masahiro Teshima (Max-Planck-Institute)
  - 35
    
    Review on Cosmic Ray direct detection
    
    Speaker: Piergiorgio Picozza (ROMA2)
    
    Slides
  - 36
    
    The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass Project
    
    Speaker: Prof. Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)
    
    Slides
  - 37
    
    Review on galactic Cosmic Ray detection
    
    Speaker: Andrea Chiavassa (TO)
    
    Slides
  - 38
    
    LHAASO Prospects: Spectra of Cosmic Ray Species
    
    Speaker: Prof. Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)
    
    Slides
  - 39
    
    IceTop Results on Cosmic Ray Detection
    
    Speaker: Dr Javier Gonzalez (University of Delaware)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  lunch
- 15:00
  
  Excursion to Lipari
Thursday, 26 May
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: Prof. Eun-Suk Seo (University of Maryland)
  - 40
    
    High-Energy Cosmic Rays:Galactic or Extragalactic?
    
    Speaker: Joerg Hoerandel (Radboud University Nijmegen)
    
    Slides
  - 41
    
    Review on UHECR (Theory)
    
    Speaker: Prof. Peter Biermann (MPIfR Bonn, Germany)
    
    Slides
  - 42
    
    Review on UHECR (Experimental)
    
    Speaker: Piera Luisa Ghia (LPNHE-CNRS, Paris)
    
    Slides
  - 43
    
    Astroparticle and particle physics at ultra high energies:results and perspectives from the Pierre Auger Observatory.
    
    Speaker: Antonella Castellina (TO)
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Cosmic Rays
  
  Convener: Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
  - 44
    
    Recent Results from the Telescope Array Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Observatory
    
    Speaker: John Matthews (University of Utah)
    
    Slides
  - 45
    
    Cosmic-ray studies using the ALICE detector at the LHC
    
    Speaker: Mario Sitta (AL)
    
    Slides
  - 46
    
    Review on Cosmic-Ray Radio Detection
    
    Speaker: Dr Frank Schröder (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
    
    Slides
- Dark Matter & Dark Energy & Neutrino (astrophysical connections)
  
  Convener: Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
  - 47
    
    Warm DM vs. Cold DM Scenario for the formation of Cosmic Structures
    
    Speaker: Dr Nicola Menci (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
- Astrophysics/Cosmology
  
  Convener: Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State Univ.)
  - 48
    
    The Large Scale Structure Path to the High Energetic Universe
    
    Speaker: Enzo Franco Branchini (ROMA3)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  lunch
- Astrophysics/Cosmology
  
  Convener: Piera Luisa Ghia (LPNHE-CNRS, Paris)
  - 49
    
    First stars in the Universe
    
    Speaker: Dr Umberto Maio (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics & INAF)
    
    Slides
- Dark Matter & Dark Energy & Neutrino (astrophysical connections)
  
  Convener: Piera Luisa Ghia (LPNHE-CNRS, Paris)
  - 50
    
    Indirect and direct Dark Matter search
    
    Speaker: Piero Ullio (TS)
    
    Slides
  - 51
    
    Status and future Prospect Gamma-ray Signatures of DM
    
    Speaker: Aldo Morselli (ROMA2)
    
    Slides
  - 52
    
    Dark matter and the galactic center GeV excess
    
    Speaker: Dr Marco Taoso (IFT CSIC Madrid)
    
    Slides
  - 53
    
    Signals from Dark Matter particles
    
    Speaker: Rita Bernabei (ROMA2)
    
    Slides
  - 54
    
    The XENON1T Dark Matter Search at LNGS
    
    Speaker: Prof. Elena Aprile (Columbia University)
    
    Slides
- 20:30
  
  Dinner
Friday, 27 May
- Dark Matter & Dark Energy
  
  Convener: Prof. Frank LINDE (Nikhef - APPEC)
  - 55
    
    Euclid space mission: shedding light on dark energy and dark matter
    
    Speaker: Prof. Roberto Scaramella (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
  - 56
    
    The relativistic all-sky analysis with Gaia
    
    Speaker: Dr Mariateresa Crosta (INAF-OATo)
    
    Slides
- Gravitational Waves
  
  Convener: Prof. Frank LINDE (Nikhef - APPEC)
  - 57
    
    From GW detection to GW astronomy
    
    Speaker: Eugenio Coccia (ROMA2)
  - 58
    
    EM Counterparts/Follow up of GW Sources
    
    Speaker: Marica Branchesi (FI)
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Astrophysics/Cosmology
  - 59
    
    Multimessenger astronomy, the dawn of a new era for the knowledge of the Universe
    
    Speaker: Dr Michel Boer (CNRS-ARTEMIS)
    
    Slides
  - 60
    
    Picturing Feedback in Action in the Milky Way: a 6 Myrs old Galaxy Hot Outflow Traveling at a speed of 1 kpc per Myr
    
    Speaker: Dr Fabrizio Nicastro (INAF - OAR)
    
    Slides
  - 61
    
    Observations of Galaxy Clusters in the Microwave and the X-rays
    
    Speaker: Pasquale Mazzotta (ROMA2)
    
    Slides
  - 62
    
    The Sources of Cosmic Reionisation
    
    Speaker: Francesco Haardt (MIB)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- Astrophysics/Cosmology
  
  Convener: Rita Bernabei (ROMA2)
  - 63
    
    GRBs multimessenger
    
    Speaker: Dr ELEONORA Troja (NASA/GSFC)
  - 64
    
    Study of Big Bang Nucleosynthesis deep underground
    
    Speaker: Carlo Gustavino (ROMA1)
    
    Slides
  - 65
    
    Can we use Fast Radio Bursts as cosmological probes?
    
    Speaker: Dr Marta Burgay (INAF - ORA Cagliari)
    
    Slides
  - 66
    
    SKA Science
    
    Speaker: Dr Luigina Feretti (Istituto di Radioastronomia)
    
    Slides
  - 67
    
    ASI Science Programs: Current and Future Space Missions
    
    Speaker: Barbara Negri
    
    Slides
- 20:30
  
  Dinner
Saturday, 28 May
- Particle Physics
  
  Convener: Roger Forty (CERN)
  - 68
    
    TeV energy physics at LHC and in cosmic rays
    
    Speaker: Prof. Anatoly Petrukhin (NRNU MEPhI)
    
    Slides
  - 69
    
    Accelerator dark matter searches: comparison with direct and indirect searches
    
    Speaker: Mario Antonelli (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 70
    
    Dark Matter search at fixed target
    
    Speaker: Tommaso Spadaro (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 71
    
    New projects on dark photon search
    
    Speaker: Venelin Kozhuharov (LNF)
    
    Slides
- 10:40
  
  Coffee Break
- Particle Physics
  
  Convener: Prof. Anatoly Petrukhin (NRNU MEPhI)
  - 72
    
    Nucleus Nucleus interactions and their application in medicine
    
    Speaker: Giuseppe Battistoni (MI)
    
    Slides
  - 73
    
    Recent Higgs Boson Results from the LHC
    
    Speaker: Roberto Di Nardo (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 74
    
    Flavour physics perspectives with the LHCb upgrade
    
    Speaker: Pierluigi Campana (LNF)
    
    Slides
  - 75
    
    Recent selected hightlight from LHCb
    
    Speaker: Monica Pepe Altarelli (CERN)
    
    Slides
- 13:30
  
  Lunch

Vulcano Workshop 2016 - Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Therasia Resort, Conference Room

Vulcano Island, Sicily, Italy