TeV Particle Astrophysics 2007
27-31 August. Istituto Veneto, Venice (Italy)


Programme
(updated October 2, 2007)

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Monday 27 Tuesday 28 Wednesday 29 Thursday 30 Friday 31

Morning
Plenary Session (9am)
Room: Sala del Portego
Chair: Antonio Masiero
Morning
Plenary Session (9am)
Room: Sala del Portego
Chair: Olga Mena
Morning
Plenary Session (9am)
Room: Sala del Portego
Chair: Angela Olinto
Morning
Plenary Session (9am)
Room: Sala del Portego
Chair: Gianfranco Bertone

9am - G. Busetto and A. Masiero (10')
Welcome 

9.10am - G. Bertone (15')
Overview (PDF)

9.25am - A. Olinto (35'+5')
Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory (PDF)

10.05am - L. Bergstrom (35'+5')
Indirect Dark Matter searches (PDF)

10.45am COFFEE BREAK

11.15am - A. Green (35'+5')
Dark Matter Distribution on small scales (PDF)

11.45am - L. Drury (35'+5')
The Future for ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy (PDF)


9am - T. Stanev (35'+5')
High energy neutrinos: sources and fluxes (PDF)

9.40am - C. Spiering (35'+5')
Neutrino Telescopes:  Status and prospects (PDF)

10.20am - C. Quigg (35'+5')
LHC and the future of particle physics (PDF)


11am COFFEE BREAK


11.30am - I. Antoniadis (35'+5')
Physics and signatures of extra dimensions (PDF)

12.10pm - G. Servant (35'+5')
Dark matter and  electroweak symmetry breaking (PDF)

9am - I. Moskalenko (35'+5')
Matter and Antimatter in Cosmic Rays (PDF)

9.40 am - G. Chardin (35'+5')
Dark Matter searches with cryogenic experiments (PDF)

10.20am - A. Rubbia (35'+5')
Dark Matter searches with liquid noble elements (PDF)

11am COFFEE BREAK

11.30am - L. Covi (35'+5')
Gravitino Dark Matter (PDF)

12.10pm - M. Battaglia (35'+5')
Determination of dark
matter properties at high-energy colliders
(PDF)
9am - D. Semikoz (35'+5')
Multi-messenger approach to UHECRs (PDF)

9.40am - W. Hofmann (35'+5')
Latest results
from ground based gamma-ray telescopes
(PDF)

10.20am - P. Michelson (35'+5')
GLAST (PDF)

11am COFFEE BREAK

11.30am - M. Tavani (35'+5')
AGILE  in orbit (PDF)

12.10pm - C. Quigg (40')
Summary Talk
(PDF)

12.50pm - A. Masiero (10')
Concluding
Remarks (PDF)

1pm - G. Bertone (5')
Announcement of TeVPA'08
(PDF)
Afternoon Afternoon Afternoon Afternoon

Parallel Session 1:
Gamma-ray Astrophysics
Convenors: F. Aharonian and L. Drury
Room: Sala del Portego
Parallel Session 4:
Neutrinos
Convenors: J. Beacom and F. Halzen
Room: Sala del Portego
Parallel Session 7:
DM Direct Detection
Convenors: L. Baudis and L. Kaufmann
Room: Sala del Giardino

3-7 pm Registration




5pm Welcome Cocktail



7.30pm Visit to San Marco Mosaics

3pm - D. Berge
Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of Galactic Supernova Remnants (PDF)
3.16pm -
S. Carrigan
Establishing a connection between high-power pulsars and very-high-energy gamma-ray sources
(PDF)
3.32pm - E. Brion
A detailed morphology of the W 28 region  at TeV energies as revealed by H.E.S.S.
(PDF)
3.48pm - B. Katz  
In which shell-type SNRs should we look for gamma-rays and neutrinos from p-p collisions?
(PDF)
4.04pm - S. Gabici 
Searching for galactic cosmic ray PeVatrons with multi-TeV gamma rays and neutrinos
(PDF)
4.20pm - D. Guetta  
High energy emission from internal shocks in Gamma Ray Bursts (PDF)

4.34pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm - T. Venters
The Spectral Index Distribution of Blazars
(PDF)
5.16pm - T. Totani
The Past High Activity of the Galactic Center and the 511 keV Annihilation Line Emission
(PDF)
5.48pm - V. Pavlidou 
Cosmology and Low-energy Astrophysics  with Gamma-ray Observations
(PDF)
6.04pm - R. Gilmore 
The Extragalactic Background Light  and Absorption in Gamma Ray Spectra
(PDF)
6.20pm -
S. Wagner   
Constraints on quantum gravity from fast TeV gamma-ray flares of AGN
(PDF)
6.36pm - L.  Maccione 
New Crab Nebula limits on Planck-scale suppressed LV in QED
(PDF)
3pm - D. Hooper
High energy neutrinos from extragalactic sources
(PDF)
3.16pm - A. Margiotta
The ANTARES neutrino telescope
(PDF)
3.32pm - F. Jouvenot
Sensitivity of KM3NeT deep-sea
neutrino telescope to galactic sources (PDF)
3.48pm - M. Bonesini
HARP results and implications for astrophysical neutrino production
(PDF)
4.04pm - G. Hill
Diffuse high-energy neutrino searches in AMANDA-II and IceCube
(PDF)
4.20pm - C. Rott
Potential of the IceCube array for reconstruction of low energy events
(PDF)

4.34pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm -
K. Murase
High Energy Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts
(PDF)
5.16pm - I. Taboada
Neutrinos from GRBs and other high energy transients with IceCube
(PDF)
5.32pm - M. Kowalski
Searching for high-energy neutrino transient sources
(PDF)
5.48pm - D. Williams
Future extension of the IceCube array with radio detectors
(PDF)
6.04pm - A. Leisos
A sea top infrastructure for calibrating an underwater neutrino telescope
(PDF)
6.20pm - M. Tluczykont
The Multi Messenger Approach and the MAGIC/IceCube ToO Program
(PDF)
6.36pm - F. Descamps
Feasibility study for acoustic neutrino detection in ice: The South Pole Acoustic Test Setup
(PDF)
3pm - M. Trotta
Theory/Phenomenolgy
(PDF)
3.25pm - D. Cerdeno
WIMPs identification through a
simultaneous measurement of axial
and scalar couplings(PDF)
3.50pm - J. Filippini

CDMS (PDF)

4.15pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm - D. McKinsey
Xenon10 (PDF)
5.25pm - N. Smith
Zeplin (PDF)
5.50pm - L. Kaufmann
ArDM
(PDF)
6.15pm - A. Liolios
CAST (PDF)
6.40pm - H. Nishimura
NEWAGE
(PDF)


Parallel Session 2:
Cosmic Rays
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour
coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: P. Blasi, D. Grasso
Room: Sala Alta
Parallel Session 5:
TeV Particle Physics
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: E. Baltz & G. Servant
Room: Sala del Giardino
Parallel Session 8:
Gamma-ray experiments
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: M. Martinez and G. Sinnis
Room: Sala Alta


3pm - R. Aloisio
Transition from Galactic to Extra-Galactic Cosmic Rays
(PDF)
3.25pm - K.H. Kampert
Cosmic Ray Observations around and above the knee
(PDF)
3.50pm - T. Stanev
IceTop Status in 2007
(PDF)
4.15pm - J.P. Wefel
A Brief Review of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics: From GeV to PeV
Energies
(PDF)

4.40pm COFFEE BREAK

5pm - J. Aoi
The effect of energy amplification variance on the shock acceleration
(PDF)
5.15pm - R. Budnik
Cosmic rays from trans-relativistic supernovae
(PDF)
5.30pm - S. Gabici
Gamma ray signatures of ultra high energy cosmic ray accelerators:
electromagnetic cascade
(PDF)
5.45pm - V. Kocharovsky
The converter acceleration mechanism for potential sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays
(PDF)
6pm - K. Kotera
Inhomogeneous magnetic fields and the Second Knee in the cosmic ray spectrum
(PDF)
6.15pm - A. Marcowith
The Fermi acceleration process in astrophysical shocks
(PDF)
6.30pm - R. Sparvoli
Cosmic ray measurements with the space telescope PAMELA: a status report
(PDF)
3pm - M. Fairbairn (30')
Stable massive particles at colliders
(PDF)
3.30pm - M. Lisanti
Unification and Dark Matter in a Minimal Scalar  Extension of the Standard Model
(PDF)
3.50pm - M. Cirelli
Minimal Dark Matter
(PDF)
4.10pm - R. Trotta
New statistical inference tools for SUSY searches
(PDF)

4.30pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm - A. Boyarsky
Searching for sterile neutrino Dark Matter
(PDF)
5.20pm - T. Hambye
EW symmetry breaking induced by Dark Matter
(PDF)
5.40pm - M. Senami
Dark matter abundance in universal extra dimension  models
(PDF)
6pm - I. Albuquerque
Signals for Universal Extra Dimensions in  Neutrino Telescopes
(PDF)
6.20pm - S. Matsumoto
Cosmology of Gravitino LSP Scenario with Right- Handed Sneutrino NLSP
(PDF)
6.40pm - S. Bass
Electroweak baryogenesis and "topological condensates"
(PDF)



3pm - J. Goodman (20'+5')
HAWC - A Wide Field TeV Observatory
(PDF)
3.25pm - M. Ohnishi (17'+3')
Gamma-ray Observation with the Tibet ASgamma  Experiment
(PDF)
3.45pm - I. DeMitri(17'+3')
First results from the ARGO-YBJ experiment
(PDF)
4.05pm - F. Longo (17'+3')
Gamma-ray astrophysics with GLAST
(PDF)

4.25pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm -
T. Nakamori (17'+3')
Status of the CANGAROO-III
(PDF)
5.20pm - N. Turini (20'+5')  
 The MAGIC experiment
(PDF)
5.45pm - T. Ergin (20'+5') 
TeV Gamma-ray Astronomy with the VERITAS Array (PDF)
6.10pm - F. Feinstein (17'+3')
H.E.S.S phase II
(PDF)
6.30pm - D.Paneque (5')
The role of GLAST in multiwavelength observations of bright TeV blazars (PDF)
6.35pm - D. Paneque (13'+2')
Study of the Variable VHE emission from Markarian 501
(PDF)
6.50pm - A. Sakharov (12'+1')
Quantum Gravity and the Mkr 501 flare from MAGIC
(PDF)
7.03pm -
M. Roncadelli (12'+1')
Evidence for a new light boson from cosmological gamma-ray propagation?
(PDF)




Parallel Session 3:
DM Indirect detection
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour
coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: N. Fornengo and D. Hooper
Room: Sala del Giardino
Parallel Session 6:
DM distribution and Indirect detection
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: J. Diemand and J. Taylor
Room: Sala Alta
Parallel Session 9:
Particle Astrophysics
(3pm - 7pm, 1/2 hour coffee break at 4.30pm)
Convenors: L. Pieri and M. Pietroni
Room: Sala del Portego


3pm - D. Finkbeiner 
Observable consequences of eXciting Dark  Matter
(PDF)
3.20pm - G. Dobler
The WMAP Haze Excess and WIMP Annihilations
(PDF)
3.40pm - C. Munoz
A comparison between direct and indirect dark matter  search
(PDF)
4.20pm - F. Donato
Dark Matter in Cosmic Rays
(PDF)

4.40pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm -  P. Salati
The antiproton cosmic ray signal at TeV energies
(PDF)
5.20pm - T. Bringmann
Gamma-ray spectra from dark matter annihilations
(PDF)
5.40pm - M. Fairbairn
The HR diagram of WIMP burning stars
(PDF)
6pm - H. Motz
Dark Matter Sensitivity of ANTARES
(PDF)
6.20pm - H. Zhao
Annihilation signatures of the Bullet Cluster and  other moving substructures
(PDF)
6.40pm -  S. Pascoli
Reconstructing WIMP properties with neutrino detectors
(PDF)
3pm - M. Taoso
Gamma-Rays from Dark Matter Mini-Spikes in M31
(PDF)
3.23pm - L. Pieri
Indirect detection of clumps inside the Milky Way
(PDF)
3.46pm - B. Bertucci     
Dark Matter searches with AMS-02
(PDF)
4.09pm - C. Giocoli
Hierarchical formation of the Milky Way with micro-solar mass resolution
(PDF)

4.32pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm - J. Siegal-Gaskins
Do tidal streams constrain dark matter substructure?
(PDF)
5.23pm - S. Horiuchi
Dark matter annihilation from cosmological IMBH
s (PDF)
5.46pm - P. Barros
Probing the SUSY parameters through neutrino telescopes
(PDF)
6.09pm - J. Taylor
Dark Matter on the Smallest Scales
(PDF)
6.32pm - J. Diemand
Evolution of Dark Matter Structures
(PDF)

3pm - W. Rodejohann
Neutrino Mixing and Neutrino Telescopes
(PDF)
3.16pm - T. Kashti
Flavoring Astrophysical Neutrinos: Flavor Ratios Depend on Energy
(PDF)
3.32pm - K. Blum
Probing CP violation in neutrino oscillations with neutrino telescopes
(PDF)
3.48pm - D. McKay
Neutrino telescopes, cross sections and fluxes
(PDF)
4.04pm - O. Mena
Ultrahigh-energy neutrino flux as a probe of large extra dimensions
(PDF)
4.20pm - L. Maccione
Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emissions of the Galaxy above the TeV
(PDF)

4.36pm - COFFEE BREAK

5pm - A. Taylor
High-Energy Neutrinos from Astrophysical Accelerators of Cosmic Ray Nuclei
(PDF)
5.16pm - D. Fargion
Neutrino and SUSY signals by airshowering beyond the edge
(PDF)
5.32pm - G. Marsella
Time structure in shower longitudinal development with ARGO-YBJ detector
(PDF)
5.48pm - N. Sakurai
Telescope Array Experiment
(PPT)
6.04pm - S. Das
Propagation of UHE protons through a magnetized large scale structure
(PDF)
6.20pm - K. Ichikawa
Some discrepancies in cosmological observations and possible solutions by decaying particles
(PDF)
6.36pm - R. Wischnewski
Lake Baikal: Physics results and plans
(PDF)




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Lunch and Coffee breaks: Refreshments will be served during coffee breaks at 11am and at 4:30pm from Tuesday to Friday (no afternoon break on Friday). For lunch (not provided) participants are recommended to explore the many bars and restaurants around the Istituto Veneto.