Monday, August 31, 2009

Monday Aug 31, 2009, 9:00 AM → 8:05 PM America/Chicago

Lecture Hall (Monona Terrace)

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM Welcome

Speaker: Baha Balantekin (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Slides NDM09_opening.ppt

9:10 AM → 9:50 AM Cryogenic Detectors for Double Beta Decay and Dark Matter Searches

Speaker: Ettore Fiorini (University of Milano-Bicocca)

Slides NDM2009bis.pptm

9:50 AM → 10:30 AM Overview of current and proposed searches for double-beta decay

Speaker: Reyco Henning (UNC Chapel Hill)

Slides NDM09.pdf NDM09.pptx

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM Double beta decay experiments and Majorana neutrinos

Speaker: Hiroyasu Ejiri (RCNP Osaka University)

Slides Ejiri_NDN09_new.ppt

11:40 AM → 12:15 PM The GERDA experiment, a search for neutrinoless double beta decay

Speaker: Daniel Lenz (Max-Planck-Institut for Physics)

Slides GERDA_Review_NDM09.pdf

12:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch Break

2:15 PM → 2:50 PM The Majorana Demonstrator

Speaker: Rob Johnson (University of Washington)

Slides MajoranaNDM2009_v2.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:25 PM The CUORE Experiment

Speaker: Dr Samuele Sangiorgio (University of Wisconsin)

Slides sangiorgio-ndm.pdf

3:25 PM → 4:00 PM Nuclear Structure Studies Relevant to Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay

Speaker: John Schiffer (Argonne National Lab)

Slides NDM09_Schiffer.ppt

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Neutrino Resonance and Applications

Speaker: Raju Raghavan (Virginia Tech)

Slides raghavanI_NDM09.ppt

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM coffee break

5:00 PM → 5:35 PM Status and perspectives of direct neutrino mass measurements

Speaker: Lutz Bornschein (KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)

Slides 090831_NDM09_lbornschein_pdf.pdf

5:35 PM → 6:10 PM Status and Prospects of MARE

Speaker: Massimiliano Galeazzi (University of Miami)

Slides Galeazzi_NDM09.ppt

6:10 PM → 6:50 PM Cyclotron radiation spectroscopy and direct neutrino mass Measurements

Speaker: Benjamon Monreal (UC Santa Barbara)

Slides bmonreal_ndm09.pdf bmonreal_ndm09.ppt

6:50 PM → 8:05 PM Reception