IPA 2015

from Monday, 4 May 2015 (08:00) to Wednesday, 6 May 2015 (18:00)
Union South

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 May 2015
5 May 2015
6 May 2015
AM
08:00
Registration: Marquee Lounge, 2nd Floor outside of the theater (until 09:00) (Marquee Lounge then Alumni, 2nd Floor)
09:00
IceCube Plenary (until 09:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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09:00 IceCube Present and Future - Prof. Olga Botner (Uppsala university)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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09:30
Radio Detection of the Highest-Energy Neutrinos (until 10:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
09:30 Radio Detection of the Highest Energy Neutrinos - Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:00
Nu Astronomy in the Mediterranean: Past, Present and Future (until 10:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:00 Neutrino Astronomy in the Mediterranean: Past, Present and Future - Dr Ronald Bruijn (Universiteit van Amsterdam/Nikhef)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
TeV Astrophysics at the HAWC Observatory (until 11:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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11:00 TeV Astrophysics at the HAWC Observatory - Segev BenZvi (University of Rochester)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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11:30
Fermi Results on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources (until 12:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
11:30 Fermi Results on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources - Dr Alice Harding (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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08:00
Information Desk - staffed until 16:00 (until 09:00) (Alumni, 2nd Floor near The Marquee)
09:00
Neutrinos and GRBs (until 09:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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09:00 Neutrinos from Gamma Ray Bursts in the IceCube and ARA Era   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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09:30
IceCube's neutrinos: What have we learned? (until 10:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
09:30 IceCube neutrinos: What we have learned - Prof. Eli Waxman (Weizmann Inst.)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:00
Telescope Array (until 10:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
10:00 Results from Telescope Array - Prof. Douglas Bergman (University of Utah)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
XENON (until 11:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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11:30
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay (until 12:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
11:30 Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay: Status and Prospects of CUORE and KamLAND-Zen - Dr Thomas ODonnell (UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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08:00
Information - leave your luggage here! (until 09:00) (Alumni, 2nd Floor)
09:00
Reactor Neutrino Experiments (until 09:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
09:00 Reactor Neutrinos: Recent Results and Future Prospects - Prof. Karsten Heeger (Yale University)   (The Marquee)
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09:30
Overview of JUNO (until 10:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
09:30 Overview of JUNO - Dr Chao Zhang (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:00
Liquid Argon / NBNF (until 10:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
10:00 Liquid Argon TPCs for Neutrino Detection   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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10:30 --- Break ---
11:00
MicroBooNE - a not-so-micro LArTPC (until 11:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
11:00 MicroBooNE - a not-so-micro LArTPC - Anne Schukraft (Fermilab)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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11:30
The Present and Future of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with T2K and DUNE (until 12:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
11:30 The Present and Future of Long Baseline Neutrino Oscillations with T2K and DUNE - Dr Alexander Himmel (Duke University)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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PM
12:00
CTA (until 12:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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12:30 --- Lunch on your own ---
14:00
Cosmology Overview (until 14:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
14:00 Cosmology overview - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/Chicago)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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14:30
Diffuse Neutrinos & Gamma Rays - Complementary Views on the High-Energy Universe (until 15:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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14:30 Diffuse Neutrinos & Gamma Rays - Complementary Views on the High-Energy Universe. - Markus Ackermann (o=desy-zeuthen,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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15:00 --- Break ---
15:30
Cosmic Rays (until 17:00) (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
15:30 Ultra-Fast Magnetic Sensing for Large-Area Detection of High Energy Particles - Prof. David Saltzberg (University of California, Los Angeles)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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15:45 The cosmic-ray air shower signal in Askaryan radio detectors - Krijn de Vries (VUB/IIHE)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:00 Anisotropy in Cosmic Ray Arrival Directions Using IceCube and IceTop - Frank McNally (IceCube)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:15 Understanding the anisotropy of cosmic rays at TeV and PeV energies - Martin Pohl (DESY)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:30 Muon-induced spallation backgrounds for MeV astrophysical neutrino signals in Super-Kamiokande - Shirley Li (The Ohio State University)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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15:30
Gamma Rays (until 17:00) (Northwoods)
15:30 Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data - Keith Bechtol (KICP, University of Chicago)   (Northwoods)
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15:50 Monitoring TeV Gamma-ray Sources for Flaring States with HAWC - Mr Ian Wisher (University of Wisconsin - Madison)   (Northwoods)
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16:10 Gamma Rays from Cosmic Ray Collisions with the Sun Observed with Fermi - Mr Kenny, Chun Yu NG (CCAPP, The Ohio State University)   (Northwoods)
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16:30 The status of Himalayan Gamma Ray Observatory (HiGRO) - Prof. B. S. Acharya (WIPAC and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)   (Northwoods)
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15:30
Neutrino Astrophysics (until 17:00) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
15:30 Waxman and Bahcall meet Auger in a single energy bin - Luis Anchordoqui (City University of New York)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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15:50 First cosmogenic neutrino limits from the ARA detector at the South Pole - Aongus Ó Murchadha (o=ulb,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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16:10 A measurement of the diffuse astrophysical muon neutrino flux using multiple years of IceCube data. - Mr Sebastian Schoenen (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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16:30 On Extensions of IceTop to Veto Air Showers for Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube - Jan Auffenberg (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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18:30
Banquet (until 20:30) ()
12:00
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (until 12:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
12:00 Ultra-high energy cosmic rays - Dr Michael Unger (New York University)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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12:30 --- Lunch on your own ---
14:00
Accelerator-Based Neutrino (until 15:30) (WI Idea)
14:00 Recent results from MINERvA - Cheryl Patrick (Northwestern University)   (WI Idea)
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14:18 Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CEvNS) - Dr Robert Cooper (Indiana University)   (WI Idea)
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14:36 Status of the Project 8 Experiment - Mr Benjamin LaRoque (UC Santa Barbara)   (WI Idea)
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14:54 KPipe: A Short-Baseline Muon-Neutrino Disappearance Experiment using Neutrinos from Kaon Decay-at-rest - Taritree Wongjirad (MIT)   (WI Idea)
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15:10 Wave-Packet Treatment for Detection of Accelerator Neutrinos - Mr Cheng-Hsien Li (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)   (WI Idea)
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14:00
Cosmic Rays (until 15:32) (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
14:00 Atmospheric neutrinos from perturbative charm production and decay - Prof. Mary Hall Reno (University of Iowa)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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14:23 SIBYLL 2.3 and MCEq, a customizable numerical solver for atmospheric lepton fluxes - Anatoli Fedynitch (CERN/KIT)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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14:46 Origin of the ankle in the ultra-high energy cosmic ray spectrum and extragalactic protons below it - Luis Anchordoqui (City University of New York)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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15:09 The Ordinary and the Wondrous: Neutrinos from Star-Forming Galaxies and from Extraterrestrial Megaprojects - Dr Brian Lacki (Institute for Advanced Study)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
14:00
Dark Matter (until 15:30) (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
14:00 Neutrino Portal Dark Matter: From Dwarf Galaxies to IceCube - Dr JJ Cherry (LANL)   (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
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14:23 Signatures of dark matter sterile neutrinos in core-collapse supernovae - MacKenzie Warren (University of Notre Dame)   (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
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14:45 Background from Cosmogenic Activation in the DM-Ice Dark Matter Experiment - Mr Walter Pettus (University of Wisconsin - Madison)   (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
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15:00 Stability Analysis of DM-Ice17 - Zachary Pierpoint (UW-Madison)   (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
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15:15 Muon-Induced Backgrounds in DM-Ice NaI(Tl) Dark Matter Detectors - Antonia Hubbard (University of Wisconsin, Madison)   (Northwoods, 3rd Floor)
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14:00
Neutrino Astrophysics (until 15:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
14:00 The Greenland Neutrino Observatory - Keith Bechtol (KICP, University of Chicago)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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14:20 Detecting high-energy neutrinos with RADAR - Aongus O'Murchadha (ULB/IIHE) Krijn de Vries (VUB/IIHE)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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14:40 On Observing Anisotropy of Cosmic Neutrinos - Sheldon Campbell (The Ohio State University)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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15:00 Theory benchmarks for IceCube-Gen2 - Dr Walter Winter (DESY)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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15:32 --- Break ---
16:00
Multi-Messenger (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Toward the Identification of the Cosmic Neutrino Origin - Dr Kohta Murase (Institute for Advanced Study)   ()
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16:12 Ultra-high-energy emission from an evolving gamma-ray burst: neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gamma rays - Dr Mauricio Bustamante (CCAPP Ohio State University)   ()
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16:24 Searching for primordial black hole evaporation signal with AMON - Gordana Tešić (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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16:36 AMON Searches for Jointly-Emitting Neutrino + Gamma-Ray Transients - Azadeh Keivani (The Pennsylvania State University)   ()
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16:48 AMON: transition to real-time operations - Gordana Tešić (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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17:12 Implications of IceCube's neutrino discoveries for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays - Dr Matt Kistler (Stanford University)   ()
16:00
Neutrino Astrophysics (until 17:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
16:00 Astrophysical Sources of the IceCube Cosmic Neutrino Events - Prof. Soebur Razzaque (University of Johannesburg)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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16:20 High-energy neutrinos from a nearby newborn pulsar - Ke Fang (University of Chicago)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
16:40 Neutrinos from Galactic Microquasars - Mr Luiz da Silva (University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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17:00 Star-Forming Galaxies as Sources of High Energy Neutrinos - Tova Yoast-Hull (University of Wisconsin-Madison)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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16:00
Non-Accelerator-Based Neutrino (until 17:30) (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
16:00 Neutrinoless double beta decay with EXO-200 - Dr Yung-Ruey Yen (Drexel University)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:15 Measurement of Muon Neutrino Disappearance with IceCube/DeepCore - Matt Dunkman (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:30 PROSPECT: a short-baseline reactor antineutrino measurement - Dr Karin Gilje (Illinois Institute of Technology)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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16:45 The status of India-based Neutrino Observatory (INO) - Prof. B. S. Acharya (WIPAC and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)   (Landmark, 3rd Floor)
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12:00
Status of the NOvA Experiment (until 12:30) (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
12:00 Status of the NOvA Experiment - Ryan Patterson (California Institute of Technology)   (The Marquee, 2nd Floor)
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