Name: IPA 2013
Start: 2013-05-13T07:30:00-05:00
End: 2013-05-15T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Union South

Monday, 13 May 2013

08:00 Monday all day
Monday all day
08:00 - 08:55

08:55

08:55 - 09:00

09:00 Stefan Westerhoff
Stefan Westerhoff
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
09:10 - 09:45
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

09:20 Double Beta Decay: A Very Important and Difficult Experiment: Giorgio Gratta, Stanford University
09:45 Sarah Church, KIPAC, Stanford University
Sarah Church, KIPAC, Stanford University
09:45 - 10:20
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

09:45 The Planck Mission - Sarah Church (Stanford University)
10:20 Jenny Thomas, University College London
Jenny Thomas, University College London
10:20 - 10:55
Room: The Marquee - Level 2

10:55 Break
Break
10:55 - 11:15

11:15

11:15 - 11:20

11:20 Jolien Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Jolien Creighton, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
11:20 - 11:55
Room: The Marquee - Level 2

11:55 Guenter Sigl, Universitat Hamburg / DESY
Guenter Sigl, Universitat Hamburg / DESY
11:55 - 12:30
Room: The Marquee - Level 2

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: On Your Own
14:00 Teppei Katori / Zelimir Djurcic, convenors
Teppei Katori / Zelimir Djurcic, convenors
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Results from MINOS and the status of MINOS+ - Gregory Pawloski (University of Minnesota)

14:25 Results from the T2K long baseline neutrino experiment - Casey Bojechko (University of Victoria)

14:50 The Status of the NOvA Experiment - Xinchun Tian (University of South Carolina)

15:10 Neutrino Measurements in the Making - Jenny Thomas (University College of London)
Doug Bergman, convenor
Doug Bergman, convenor
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 UHE photons, neutrinos, and hadrons at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Current status and prospects for the future - David Nitz (Michigan Technological University)

14:25 Results from the Telescope Array Experiment - Gordon Thomson (University of Utah) Pierre Sokolsky (University of Utah)

14:50 TARA: Radar Detection of UHECR Air Showers - John Belz (University of Utah)

15:10 Cosmic Rays of Extreme Energies - Angela Olinto (The University of Chicago)
Carsten Rott, convenor
Carsten Rott, convenor
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Indirect Searches for Dark Matter with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Andrea Albert (The Ohio State University / CCAPP)

14:18 An Indirect Detection Source Comparison Case Study: The Galactic Center and The Fornax Galaxy Cluster - Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)

14:36 Latest Results on Searches for Dark Matter from IceCube - Matthias Danninger (Stockholm University)

14:54 Positrons from dark matter in light of recent developments - Matt Kistler (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

15:12 Prospects for Discovery of DM Annihilation to Primary Neutrinos with IceCube - Bradley Knockel (University of New Mexico)
Lisa Kaufman / Wei Wang, co-convenors
Lisa Kaufman / Wei Wang, co-convenors
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Neutrino-less double beta decay with EXO-200 and nEXO - andrea pocar (umass amherst)

14:20 CUORE neutrinoless double beta decay experiment - Yuan Mei (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:40 Status of the GERDA Experiment - Oliver Schulz (MPI für Physics, Munich)

15:00 The NEXT way to neutrinoless double beta decay - Paola Ferrario (IFIC - Valencia)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Fifth Quarter Studio - 2nd Level
16:00 Doug Bergman, convenor
Doug Bergman, convenor
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Study of TeV-PeV cosmic-ray anisotropy with the IceCube, IceTop, and AMANDA detectors - Marcos Santander (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:18 Cosmic Ray Physics with ARGO-YBJ - Roberto Iuppa (University & INFN of Rome Tor Vergata)

16:36 Sensitivity of Auger and JEM-EUSO to Ensemble Fluctuations in the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray Flux - Paul Thomas (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Northeastern University)

16:54 Deflections of UHECRs from Cen A in the Galactic magnetic field - Azadeh Keivani (Louisiana State University)

17:12 Newborn pulsars as ultrahigh energy cosmic accelerators - Ke Fang (University of Chicago)
Carsten Rott, convenor
Carsten Rott, convenor
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 COUPP - Russell Neilson (University of Chicago)

16:18 DAMIC results and its current status - Jing Zhou (The University of Chicago)

16:36 The DRIFT Dark Matter Search - Dinesh Loomba (UNM)

16:54 Operation and First Data of DM-Ice17 at the South Pole - Matt Kauer (UW Madison)

17:12 The XENON100 experiment - Kyungeun Lim (UW-Madison)
Marcus Ahlers, convenor
Marcus Ahlers, convenor
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Neutrino Physics @ Auger - Luis Anchordoqui (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee)

16:15 Results from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope - Juan Pablo Gomez Gonzalez (IFIC (CSIC-UV))

16:30 KM3NeT: The next generation neutrino telescope - Alexander Kappes (o=humboldt,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:45 The Askaryan Radio Array (ARA) neutrino observatory - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

17:00 Performance of the ARIANNA Neutrino Telescope - Corey Reed (UC Irvine)

17:15 Towards a Megaton MeV Neutrino Detector - Sebastian Böser (Universität Bonn)
Wei Wang / Lisa Kaufman, co-convenors
Wei Wang / Lisa Kaufman, co-convenors
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 NEXT-DEMO prototype results - Francesc Monrabal (IFIC)

16:40 Solar neutrinos, geoneutrinos and search for sterile neutrinos with Borexino - David Bravo (Virginia Tech)

17:00 Neutrino Oscillations with DeepCore and PINGU - Ty DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
18:30

18:30 - 20:30
Tuesday, 14 May 2013

08:00 & Information 8:00 to 15:00
& Information 8:00 to 15:00
08:00 - 08:55

08:55

08:55 - 09:00

09:00 Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
Tao Han, University of Pittsburgh
09:00 - 09:35
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
09:35 Keith Bechtol, KICP, University of Chicago
Keith Bechtol, KICP, University of Chicago
09:35 - 10:10
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

09:35 Selected Fermi-LAT Results from the Past Year - Keith Bechtol (KICP, University of Chicago)
10:10 Trevor Weekes, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Trevor Weekes, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
10:10 - 10:45
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

10:10 Overview and History of TeV Gamma Ray Astronomy - trevor weekes (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:10

11:10

11:10 - 11:15
11:15 Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
Jordan Goodman, University of Maryland
11:15 - 11:50
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

11:15 First Light in HAWC - Jordan Goodman (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
11:50 Brian Humensky, Columbia University
Brian Humensky, Columbia University
11:50 - 12:25
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

11:50 CTA and the Future.... - Brian Humensky (Columbia University)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Teppei Katori / Zelimir Djurcic
Teppei Katori / Zelimir Djurcic
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Status and Outlook for LBNE - Jon Urheim (Indiana University)

14:25 Neutrino Physics Results at MINERvA - Carrie McGivern (University of Pittsburgh)

14:45 Searching for Sterile Neutrinos and CP Violation: The IsoDAR and Daedalus Experiments - Michael Shaevitz (Columbia University)
John Pretz, convenor
John Pretz, convenor
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 The Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Sky with VERITAS - Jonathan Dumm (UW-Madison)

14:25 High-Energy Gamma-Ray Bursts with Fermi - Nicola Omodei (Stanford University/KIPAC)

14:50 Galactic Sources in the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Elizabeth Hays (NASA GSFC)
Markus Ahlers, convenor
Markus Ahlers, convenor
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Observation of Very High Energy Neutrinos in IceCube - Claudio Kopper (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:15 Spatial Clustering Analysis of the Very High Energy Neutrinos in IceCube - Naoko Kurahashi Neilson (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:30 Cosmic Neutrino Flavor Ratios with Broken ν_μ-ν_τ Symmetry - Thomas J Weiler (Vanderbilt University)

14:50 High-Energy Neutrinos from Cosmic Explosions - Kohta Murase (Institute for Advanced Study)

15:10 Atmospheric lepton fluxes at high energies - Reno, Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa)
Wei Wang / Lisa Kaufman, co-convenors
Wei Wang / Lisa Kaufman, co-convenors
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Recent Reactor-Based Measurements of Theta13 - David Webber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

14:20 Status of US Short Baseline Reactor Effort - Bryce Littlejohn (University of Cincinnati)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Zelimir Djurcic / Teppei Katori, co-convenors
Zelimir Djurcic / Teppei Katori, co-convenors
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 MiniBooNE: current evidence for neutrino oscillations and a future test - Rex Tayloe (Indiana U.)

16:25 A Future Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiment at Fermilab - Robert Cooper (Indiana University)

16:45 Status of MicroBooNE - Christina Ignarra (MIT)

17:10 Recent Results from the Fermilab MIPP Experiment and Future Nitrogen Run - Nickolas Solomey (Wichita State University)
John Pretz, convenor
John Pretz, convenor
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 A view of the Milagro sky with VERITAS - Ester Aliu (Barnard College)

16:25 Connection Between Pulsar GeV Emission and Pulsar Wind Nebula TeV Emission. - Anushka U Abeysekara (Michigan State University)

16:50 Spectral breaks observed in CR spectrum solves the puzzle with the knee and beyond - Serap Tilav (o=udel,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
Markus Ahlers, convenor
Markus Ahlers, convenor
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 PeV Cascades in IceCube - Ranjan Laha (Ohio State University)

16:15 Testing Lorentz invariance in beta decays - Jorge S. Diaz (Indiana University)

16:35 PRIDE – Passive Radio Ice Depth Experiment - An Instrument to Measure Outer Planet Lunar Ice Depths from Orbit using Neutrinos - Timothy Miller (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab)
16:00 - 17:30
Wednesday, 15 May 2013

08:00 & Information - bring your luggage here!
& Information - bring your luggage here!
08:00 - 08:55
Room: 2nd Level

08:55

08:55 - 09:00

09:00 Paul Sommers, Penn State University
Paul Sommers, Penn State University
09:00 - 09:35
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
09:35 Nathan Whitehorn, WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nathan Whitehorn, WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison
09:35 - 10:10
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

09:35 Results from IceCube - Nathan Whitehorn (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
10:10 Stefan Schoenert, Technische Universitat Munchen
Stefan Schoenert, Technische Universitat Munchen
10:10 - 10:45
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

10:10 Neutrinos from the sun and from other sources - Stefan Schoenert (TUM)
10:45 Break
Break
10:45 - 11:10

11:10

11:10 - 11:15

11:15 Yvonne Wong, The University of New South Wales
Yvonne Wong, The University of New South Wales
11:15 - 11:50
Room: The Marquee - Level 2

11:50 Antonio Jesus Melgarejo Fernandez, Columbia University
Antonio Jesus Melgarejo Fernandez, Columbia University
11:50 - 12:25
12:25 Lauren Hsu, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics
Lauren Hsu, Fermilab Center for Particle Astrophysics
12:25 - 13:00
Room: The Marquee - Level 2
Contributions

12:25 Status of Direct Searches for Low Mass WIMPs - Lauren Hsu (FNAL)