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

Vulcano Workshop 2014 - Frontier Objects in Astrophysics and Particle Physics

from Sunday, 18 May 2014 (18:00) to Saturday, 24 May 2014 (13:30)

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)