MANTS Meeting

from Monday, 14 October 2013 (08:00) to Tuesday, 15 October 2013 (19:31)
Garching, Germany

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
14 Oct 2013
15 Oct 2013
AM
08:30
Registration All Day (until 09:29) ()
09:29
Status and Highlights from Experiments (until 09:30) ()
09:30
IceCube (until 09:50) ()
09:30 IceCube - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
Slides
09:50
Antares (until 10:05) ()
09:50 ANTARES Highlights - Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey (IFIC (CSIC-UV))   ()
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10:05
Baikal / GVD (until 10:25) ()
10:05 Baikal/GVD - Prof. Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev (Institute for nuclear research)   ()
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10:25
KM3Net (until 10:40) ()
10:25 News from KM3NeT - Prof. Uli Katz (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)   ()
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10:40
Astrophysical Interpretation of IceCube Excess (until 11:00) ()
10:40 Astrophysical Interpretations of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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11:00 --- Break ---
11:30
Low Energy (until 13:00) ()
11:30 Introducing WOM: The Wavelength-Shifting Optical Module - Lukas Schulte (o=bonn,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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12:10 PINGU Precision for Atmospheric Oscillation Parameters - Mr Kai Krings (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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11:30
Simulations (until 13:00) ()
11:30 Status of simulations for ORCA - Salvatore Galata (APC)   ()
11:45 The km3 simulation package - Dr Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)   ()
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12:05 Understanding Atmospheric Background in Neutrino Telescopes - Dr Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)   ()
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12:25 Trigger Studies for ORCA - Mr Tamas Gal (ECAP)   ()
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12:40 Atmospheric muons rejection for ORCA - Mr Luigi Antonio Fusco (INFN and University of Bologna)   ()
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09:30
Reconstruction (until 11:00) ()
09:30 The cascade reconstruction in the Baikal experiment - Bair Shaybonov (JINR)   ()
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09:50 Cascade Reconstruction in IceCube - Claudio Kopper (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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10:10 Shower reconstruction and analysis with ANTARES & KM3NeT - Florian Folger (Mr)   ()
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10:30 Event fitting with direct event re-simulation - Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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09:30
Reconstruction (until 11:00) ()
09:30 Neutrino reconstruction for PINGU - Dr Rezo Shanidze (DESY)   ()
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09:45 Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Agata Trovato (LNS - INFN)   ()
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10:00 Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Mr Robert Bormuth (Nikhef)   ()
10:15 Flavor Separation - Mr Thomas Heid (ECAP)   ()
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10:30 A particle identification algorithm for PINGU - Ty DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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11:00 --- Break ---
11:29
Future Detectors - High Energy (until 11:30) ()
11:30
Neutrino Self-Veto (until 11:50) ()
11:30 Atmospheric neutrino self-veto - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)   ()
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11:50
Intermediate energy starting tracks (until 12:10) ()
11:50 Lowering IceCube's energy threshold for point source searches in the southern sky - Jacob Feintzeig (University of Wisconsin--Madison)   ()
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PM
13:00 --- Lunch will be provided ---
14:29
Future Detectors - Low Energy (until 14:30) ()
14:30
DeepCore oscillation results (until 14:45) ()
14:30 DeepCore oscillation results - Mr Juan-Pablo Yanez (DESY)   ()
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14:45
Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy (until 15:10) ()
14:45 Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy - Andreas Gross (TU Munich)   ()
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15:10
ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study (until 15:35) ()
15:10 ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study - aart heijboer (nikhef)   ()
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15:35
Intrinsic physics limitations (until 15:55) ()
15:35 Intrinsic physics limitations to reconstruction - Dr Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)   ()
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16:00 --- Break ---
16:29
Future Detectors - Low Energy (until 16:30) ()
16:30
Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy (until 16:50) ()
16:30 PINGU mass hierarchy sensitivity - Dr Walter Winter (Wurzburg university)   ()
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16:50
Beam options (until 17:10) ()
16:50 Beam options - Mr Juergen Brunner (DESY)   ()
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17:10
Discussion (until 18:00) ()
19:30
Social Dinner - CAVOS Taverna, Koeniginstrasse, 34 80802 Muenchen www.cavos-taverna.de (until 22:30) ()
12:10
Veto and HE Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn (until 12:30) ()
12:10 IceCube In-Ice Veto For High-Energy Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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12:30
Air Cherenkov Surface Veto (until 12:45) ()
12:30 A low energy air Cherenkov veto system - Tyce DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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12:45 --- Lunch ---
13:44
Future Detectors - High Energy (until 13:45) ()
13:45
Considerations for surface veto strategies / IceVeto (until 14:00) ()
13:45 Considerations for a surface veto array and a look at event rates - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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14:00
Multi-string extensions / IceCube ++ studies (until 14:20) ()
14:00 DecaCube Part I - Mr David Altmann (o=humboldt,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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14:10 DecaCube - IceCube++ - Part II - Prof. Christopher Wiebusch (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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14:20
KM3NeT options (until 14:40) ()
14:20 KM3NeT and diffuse flux: first preliminary results - Dr Rosa Coniglione (INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)   ()
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14:40
Discussion (until 14:59) ()
14:59
Future Directions in Neutrino Astronomy (until 15:00) ()
15:00
Global Neutrino Telescope Coordination (until 15:20) ()
15:20
Panel Discussion (until 16:00) ()