Thursday, September 3, 2009

Thursday Sep 3, 2009, 9:00 AM → 8:00 PM America/Chicago

9:00 AM → 9:40 AM High energy neutrino astronomy with IceCube

Speaker: Ignacio Taboada (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Slides NDM09_Taboada.pptx NDM09_Taboada.pptx

9:40 AM → 10:05 AM Neutrino flavor ratio on Earth and at origin

Speaker: Ming-Huey Huang (National United University, Taiwan)

Slides Nu-flavor-ratios.pdf

We discuss the reconstruction of neutrino flavor ratios at astrophysical sources from future neutrino-telescope measurements, given the knowledge of neutrino mixing angles obtained from terrestrial experiments. With a statistical analysis, we demonstrate that the pion source and the muon damped source can be distinguished at the 3sigma level provided the accuracies on measuring R= Phi(Nu_mu)/ (Phi(nu_e) + Phi(Nu_tau))) and S=Phi(nu_e) / Phi(nu_tau) can both reach about 10%. On the other hand, the above two sources are very difficult to distinguish by merely measuring R alone. We also discuss the effect of leptonic CP phase on such a flavor-ratio reconstruction.

10:05 AM → 10:35 AM Auger Results

Speaker: Segev BenZvi (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides auger_benzvi.pdf

10:35 AM → 10:50 AM coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:25 AM Indications of dark matter from astrophysical observations

Speaker: Mr Yu Gao (UW Madison)

Slides gao_ndm09.pdf

11:25 AM → 12:15 PM Models of Neutrino Mass and Mixings

Speaker: Lisa Everett (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides ndm2009_everett.pdf

12:15 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch Break

2:15 PM → 2:50 PM What do we know about Extra-galactic sources of neutrinos and Ultra- High Energy cosmic rays?

Speaker: Peter Meszaros (Pennsylvania State University)

document meszaros-wis09.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:25 PM Indirect dark matter searches with neutrino telescopes

Speaker: Sotiris Loucatos (IRFU, CEA-Saclay)

Slides Loucatos_NDM09.pdf

3:25 PM → 4:00 PM Galactic sources: connections between gamma-ray astronomy and neutrinos

Speaker: Todor Stanev (University of Delaware)

Slides ndm09_stanev.pdf

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM coffee break

4:20 PM → 4:55 PM IceCube - Low energy physics with IceCube Deep Core

Speaker: Ty DeYoung (Penn State University)

Slides NDM_DeYoung.pdf

4:55 PM → 5:20 PM HAWC

Speaker: Aguilar Sanchez Juan Antonio (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides ndm09_aguilar.ppt

5:20 PM → 5:55 PM VERITAS results

Speaker: Martin Schroedter (Iowa State)

Slides MS_UMadison.pdf

6:00 PM → 8:00 PM Conference Dinner