MANTS-GNN Meeting 2014

from Friday, 19 September 2014 (16:00) to Sunday, 21 September 2014 (19:31)
Geneva, Switzerland

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
19 Sep 2014
20 Sep 2014
21 Sep 2014
AM
07:30
Registration all day (until 09:15) (At the main entrance)
09:15
Overview / FoM / Data Policy - Christian Spiering and Erik Blaufuss, conveners (until 10:45) (Filtration Plant)
09:15 Overview on plans at all sites and GNN report - Dr Christian Spiering (DESY)   (Filtration Plant)
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09:45 Figure of Merit overview - Dr Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)   (Filtration Plant)
10:15 Data sharing and data policies - Mr Erik Blaufuss (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Filtration Plant)
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10:45
Break (until 11:15) (Opposite registration)
11:15
PINGU / ORCA : I (until 13:00) (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
11:15 PINGU configuration and plans - Darren Grant (U of Alberta)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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11:30 ORCA - configuration and plans - Mr Juergen Brunner (o=desy-zeuthen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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11:45 Reconstruction Methods & Performances in Water - Mr Jannik Hofestaedt (ECAP)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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12:10 Reconstruction methods & performances (tracks, cascades, PID) in ice - Joao Pedro A M de Andre (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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11:15
Working Group on Performance and Figure of Merit (until 13:00) (R-001, Filtration Plant)
11:15 FoM discussion/overview/ideas - Claudio Kopper (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (R-001, Filtration Plant)
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09:00
Optical Sensors and Technology (until 11:00) (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
09:00 pDOM for Next Generation IceCube - Dr John Kelley (UW Madison)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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09:15 the km3net multi-pmt DOM - aart heijboer (nikhef)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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09:35 mDOM for Next Generation IceCube - Dr Alexander Kappes (ECAP)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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09:50 Design and studies for a new optical module for IceCube high energy extension - Mr Romain Gaior (Chiba University)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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10:05 The Baikal Optical Module for GVD - Dr Vladimir Aynutdinov (INR Moscow)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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10:20 The WOM approach for Next Generation IceCube - Prof. Sebastian Boeser (University Mainz)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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10:40 IceVeto: A high energy extension for IceCube - Jan Auffenberg (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (S2-B01, Salle Bohr)
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09:00
Point Sources / Self Veto (until 10:55) (222-R-001)
09:00 Combined IceCube-ANTARES point-source analysis - Mr Javier Barrios Martí (IFIC)   (222-R-001)
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09:30 Muon neutrino searches at high energies - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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09:50 The Generalized Neutrino Self-Veto for Neutrino Telescopes - Kyle Jero (o=uwrf,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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10:10 KM3NeT Diffuse Fluxes sensitivity studies - Mr Luigi Antonio Fusco (INFN and University of Bologna)   (222-R-001)
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10:30 KM3NeT point-like sources - Agata Trovato (LNS - INFN)   (222-R-001)
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11:00
Break (until 11:30) (Same as yesterday)
11:30
Performance and Figures of Merit (until 12:50) (Filtration Plant)
PM
16:00
Meeting of the GNN Board (until 18:00) (222-R-001)
13:00
Lunch (until 14:00) (Cafeteria 1)
14:00
Atmospheric Neutrinos / Charm (until 15:40) (222-R-001)
14:00 hadron and charm production in the atmosphere - Introductory remarks from ISVHECRI 2014 - Paolo Desiati (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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14:25 Self-veto and charm production with HE neutrinos in IceCube - Gary Binder (UC Berkeley)   (222-R-001)
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14:50 Atmospheric neutrinos and charm production - Chang Hyon Ha (o=lbl,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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15:15 Charm with High Energy Muons in IceCube - Summary of P.Berghaus' results - Mr Hans-Peter Bretz (o=desy-zeuthen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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14:00
PINGU / ORCA: II (until 15:40) (Salle Bohr, S2-B01)
14:00 Calibration strategy in ice - Mr Martin Jurkovic (TU Muenchen)   (Salle Bohr, S2-B01)
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14:20 Muon rejection in PINGU - Elisa Resconi (o=munchen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salle Bohr, S2-B01)
14:40 Muon rejection studies for ORCA - Mr Luigi Antonio Fusco (INFN and University of Bologna)   (Salle Bohr, S2-B01)
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14:50 Comparison of ORCA and PINGU Sensitivity Studies - Mr Martijn Jongen (Nikhef) Lukas Schulte (o=bonn,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salle Bohr, S2-B01)
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15:40
Break (until 16:10) (Across the floor from Registration)
16:10
Atmospheric Neutrinos / Charm (until 18:15) (222-R-001)
16:10 Atmospheric neutrinos and diffuse fluxes of cosmic neutrinos with the ANTARES detector. - Annarita Margiotta (Universita' di Bologna and Sezione INFN di Bologna)   (222-R-001)
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16:45 Contribution of Kshort to the flux of atmospheric electron neutrinos - Dr Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)   (222-R-001)
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17:05 Review of charm production in colliders (RHIC, ALICE, LHCb, ….) - Alessandro Grelli (University of Utrecht)   (222-R-001)
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17:40 High energy hadronic interaction models bridging accelerator with cosmic ray physics - Anatoli Fedynitch (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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16:10
Cascade Reconstruction (until 18:05) (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
16:10 Search for a cosmic neutrino flux with showers in 6 years of ANTARES data - Dr Thomas Eberl (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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16:40 high energy cascade reconstruction in km3net - aart heijboer (nikhef)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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17:10 Cascade reconstruction and angular resolution in GVD - Prof. Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev (Institute for nuclear research, Moscow)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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17:35 IC79/86 Partially contained cascades - Achim Stoessl (o=desy-zeuthen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salle Bohr S2-B01)
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18:30 --- Aperitif ---
12:50
Lunch (until 13:50) ()
13:50
Parallel Session Summaries (until 16:25) (222-R-001)
13:50 ANTARES constraints to a Galactic component of the HESE - Prof. maurizio spurio (University of Bologna and INFN)   (222-R-001)
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14:10 Point source / Diffuse / Cascade summary - Markus Ackermann (o=desy-zeuthen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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14:25 Cascade Session Summary - Dr Thomas Eberl (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)   (222-R-001)
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14:35 Summary of Charm Production Session - Paolo Desiati (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (222-R-001)
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15:00 Summary of the ORCA/PINGU - Dr Antoine Kouchner (APC-University Paris Diderot)   (222-R-001)
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15:25 Summary of Optical Sensors & Technology - Timo Karg (DESY)   (222-R-001)
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