Name: Vulcano Workshop 2014 - Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics
Start: 2014-05-18T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2014-05-24T13:30:00+02:00
Location: Vulcano Island, Sicily, Italy

Monday 12 May 2014
Tuesday 13 May 2014
Wednesday 14 May 2014
Thursday 15 May 2014
Friday 16 May 2014
Saturday 17 May 2014
Sunday 18 May 2014

18:00 Registration
Registration
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room

19:30 Welcome Cocktail
Welcome Cocktail
19:30 - 20:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room

20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room

Monday 19 May 2014
08:45
08:45 - 10:40
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

08:45 Welcome Address - Giampaolo Mannocchi (LNF) Roberto Fusco Femiano (IASF-Roma/INAF)

09:00 The eve of multimessenger astronomy - Michel Boer (CNRS-ARTEMIS)

09:25 Galaxy clusters as cosmological probe: from X-ray observables to the total mass - Stefano Ettori (INAF OA Bologna)

09:50 Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters: crossroad between astrophysics and cosmology - Gianfranco Brunetti (IRA - INAF)

10:15 Missing Baryons at all Astronomical Scales: current evidence and future prospects - Fabrizio Nicastro (INAF - OAR)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00
11:00 - 11:50
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 Cosmic Microwave Background from ground-based and space experiments - Massimiliano Lattanzi (FE)

11:25 BBN, Neutrinos and Nuclear Astrophysics - Carlo Gustavino (INFN-Rome)
11:50
11:50 - 12:15
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:50 AMS Experiment - Federico Pilo (PI) Roberto Battiston (TIFP)
12:15
12:15 - 13:05
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

12:15 Open Problems in Gravitational Physics - Salvatore Capozziello (Università di Napoli "Federico II")

12:40 Fundamental Physics in the ESA Program - Luigi Cacciapuoti (European Space Agency)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
17:00
17:00 - 19:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

17:00 Observational prospects in the electromagnetic domain of the gravitational wave sources - Marica Branchesi (Università di Urbino/INFN-Firenze)

17:25 Precision tests of General Relativity and Gravitation by Lunar Laser Ranging - Douglas Currie (University of Maryland, College Park)

17:50 An alternative gravity model with a non-minimal coupling between matter and curvature - Jorge Páramos (Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto)

18:15 Fundamental physics with space and ground atomic quantum sensors - Fiodor Sorrentino (FI)

18:40 Detection of B-mode Polarization using BICEP2 - Angiola Orlando (University of California, San Diego)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Tuesday 20 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 China's Programs of Astroparticle Physics in Space - Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
09:25
09:25 - 10:40
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:25 An update on dark matter searches - Piero Ullio (SISSA - INFN TS)

09:50 Digging out Dark Energy properties from the Large Scale Structure of the Universe - Massimo Pietroni (INFN-Padova and University of Parma)

10:15 SuperCDMS: Recent results on low mass WIMPs - David G. Cerdeno (Instituto de Fisica Teorica)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00
11:00 - 13:05
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 New DAMA/LIBRA results - Rita Bernabei (Physics dept. . Rome Tor Vergata University)

11:25 Direct Search for Dark Matter with Two-phase Xenon Detectors: Current Status of LUX and Plans for LZ - Victor Gehman (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:50 Recent results of the XENON100 experiment and future goals of the XENON project - Marcello Messina (Columbia University)

12:15 Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

12:40 Euclid space mission: a challenge devoted to the study of Cosmological Dark Energy & Dark Matter - Roberto Scaramella Roberto (Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
17:00
17:00 - 19:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

17:00 Are we seeing dark matter with the Fermi-LAT in a region around the Milky Way center? - German Arturo Gomez Vargas (Universidad Catolica de Chile - INFN Roma Tor Vergata)

17:25 Warm Dark Matter vs. Cold Dark Matter Scenarios for the Formation of Cosmic Structures - Nicola Menci (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)

17:50 Dark matter signals from the Inner Galaxy? - Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins (Caltech)

18:15 Dark matter searches with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Christian Farnier (Oskar Klein Centre - Stockholm University)

18:35 A new technique for direct investigation of dark matter - Antonino Pullia (MIB)
19:00
19:00 - 19:25
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

19:00 LHC: link with cosmology and astroparticle - Antonio Masiero (PD)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Wednesday 21 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 09:25
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Formation and Evolution of LSS - Klaus Dolag (USM)
09:25
09:25 - 11:05
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:25 Higgs bosons in the Standard Model and beyond - Sergio Bertolucci (CERN)

09:50 The Higgs and the excessive success of the SM - Guido Altarelli (Universita' di Roma Tre/CERN)

10:15 Dark Z' : from direct detection to LHC - Yann Mambrini (LPT Orsay)

10:40 LHC results and the interpretation of cosmic ray data - Ralph Engel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
11:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:25
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:25
11:25 - 13:05
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:25 Hadronic cross sections in extensive air showers and at accelerators - Ralf Ulrich (KIT)

11:50 LUNA: from Sun to Novae and beyond - Carlo Broggini (INFN-Sezione di Padova)

12:15 The TeV Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy from Local Dark Matter Annihilation - J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:40 Astroparticle Physics at LNGS - Stefano Ragazzi (MIB)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room

20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Thursday 22 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

09:25 SNRs as cosmic accelerator - Marco Miceli (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomici di Palermo G. S. Vaiana)

09:50 Cherenkov Telescope Array: Science prospects and project status - Jürgen Knödlseder (IRAP)

10:15 Crab observations with AGILE - Carlotta Pittori (INAF-OAR/ASDC)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00
11:00 - 13:05
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 GRB observations with Fermi - Francesco Longo (TS)

11:25 GRBs in the multimessenger era - Eleonora Troja (NASA/GSFC)

11:50 The MAGIC legacy to next generation of IACTs: results and prospects - Juan Cortina (IFAE)

12:15 Flaring Gamma-ray AGNs - Sara Buson (INFN & University of Padova)

12:40 Correlation analysis between sky maps of Tibet cosmic rays and microwave observed with WMAP and Planck - Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
17:00
17:00 - 19:55
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

17:00 Detection techniques for neutrinos and high energy astrophysics - Flavio Gatti (GE)

17:25 Neutrino observations with IceCube - Geraldina Golup (IIHE- Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

17:50 High-Energy Neutrino Astronomy with the ANTARES Deep-Sea Cherenkov detector and with the future KM3NeT Telescope. - Antonio Capone (ROMA1)

18:15 Double Chooz: Towards the near detector phase - Lee F F Stokes (University of Tübingen)

18:40 The OPERA experiment : new results - Chiara Sirignano (PD)

19:05 Status of neutrino oscillations and sterile neutrinos - Carlo Giunti (INFN)

19:30 Are IceCube PeV neutrino events extraterrestrial or can be of atmospheric origin? - Anatoly Petrukhin (MEPhI)
20:30 Gala Dinner
Gala Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Friday 23 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:55
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Direct measurements of cosmic rays in space - Roberta Sparvoli (ROMA2)

09:25 Results from the PAMELA space experiment - Emiliano Mocchiutti (TS)

09:50 Measurement of the Cosmic Ray energy spectrum with ARGO-YBJ - Giuseppe Di Sciascio (ROMA2)

10:15 The knee of proton spectrum - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

10:30 High energy cosmic ray anisotropy - Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)
10:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:55 - 11:15
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:15
11:15 - 13:20
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:15 Cosmic Rays at Ultra High Energies - Aurelio Grillo (LNGS) Roberto Aloisio (GSSI)

11:40 The heavy knee and the light ankle observed with KASCADE-Grande - Andreas Haungs (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology - KIT)

12:05 Recent Results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Pierre Sokolsky (University of Utah)

12:30 The Pierre Auger Observatory: highlights and future projects - Antonella Castellina (INFN-TO)

12:55 Large-Scale Distribution of Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays Detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory Above 10 PeV - Raffaella Bonino (Università di Torino and INFN)
13:30 Lunch
Lunch
13:30 - 14:30
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
17:00
17:00 - 19:50
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

17:00 UHECR and GRB Neutrinos : incomplete revolutions ? - Daniele Faragion (Phys Depart and INFN rome SAPIENZA)

17:25 Are cosmic rays still a valuable probe of Lorentz Invariance Violations in the Auger era? - Aurelio Grillo (LNGS-INFN)

17:50 Astroparticle Physics with the LHCf Detector at LHC - Alessia Rita Tricomi (CT)

18:15 High-energy Gamma Rays detection with the AMS-02 electromagnetic calorimeter - Federico Pilo (PI)

18:30 High energy atmospheric physics and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes - Martino Marisaldi (INAF-IASF Bologna)

18:55 The GAMMA-400 mission - Valter Bonvicini (INFN - Trieste)

19:20 The CALET mission on the International Space Station - Paolo Maestro (SI)

19:35 AERA – The Auger Engineering Radio Array - Raphael Krause (for the Auger Collaboration)
20:30 Dinner
Dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Saturday 24 May 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

09:00 Future reactor neutrino experiments in China - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

09:25 Future in Astroparticle at INFN - Fernando Ferroni (ROMA1)

09:50 Astroparticle in Europe - Stavros Katsanevas (university Paris 7/IN2P3/CNRS)

10:15 The hot and energetic universe with Athena - Giorgio Matt (Universita' Roma Tre)
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
11:00
11:00 - 13:15
Room: Therasia Resort, Conference Room
Contributions

11:00 Future of space astronomy: the end of the dark ages? - Pietro Ubertini (IAPS-INAF)

11:25 A Multi-purpose Cosmic Ray Experiment: The LHAASO Project - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics)

11:50 The JEM-EUSO mission - Andrea Santangelo (IAAT Kepler Center, University of Tuebingen)

12:15 The quest for gravitational waves: a global strategy - Eugenio Coccia (INFN-GSSI and U. of Rome Tor Vergata)