Presenters and Topics

International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics

16^th Course: "Gamma Ray and Cosmic Ray Astrophysics: From below GeV to beyond EeV Energies"

5-12 July 2008
Ettore Majorana Centre
Erice, Sicily, Italy

Presenter	Titles/Presentations
Marco Casolino (CV) Universita di Roma Rome, Italy	(1) PAMELA (Part 1) (Part 2) (2) Study of cosmic rays of galactic, solar, terrestrial and unknown origin with Pamela detector: first results.
Martin Israel (CV) Washington University St. Louis, Mo. USA	(1) What we Learn from Observation of Cosmic Ray Isotopic Composition (2) Evidence for Cosmic Ray Origin in Galactic OB Associations
Leonidas Resvanis (CV) University of Athens Athens, Greece	(1) Neutrino Astronomy and High Energy Neutrino Telescopes (Part 1) (Part 2)
Vladimir Ptuskin (CV) IZMIRAN, RAS Troitsk, Russia	(1) Diffusive Shock Acceleration (2) Supernova remnants as particle Accelerators
Todor Stanev (CV) Bartol Research Institute Bartol, DL, USA	(1) Propagation of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays in the Universe. (2) Neutrino Oscillations (3) Search for High Energy Neutrinos with Detectors Deployed in Antarctic Ice.
Marco Tavani IASF/INAF Roma Rome, Italy	(1) Gamma Ray Astrophysics with AGILE
Masahiro Teshima (CV) Max Plank Institute Munich, Germany	(1) CTA; Next Generation Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Observatory (2) Highlights of High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy
Alan Watson (CV) University of Leeds Leeds, UK.	(1) The Physics of Extensive Air Showers and the Pierre Auger Observatory (2) First results from the Pierre Auger Observatory - the birth of the hybrid era.
John Wefel (CV) Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA, USA	(1) Cosmic Ray Electrons (2) The Emergence of Particle Astrophysics in the Space Age
Gaurang Yodh (CV) University of California Irvine, Ca, USA	(1) TeV Gamma Ray Astronomy with Air Shower Telescopes (2) Cosmic Rays from the Knee to the Ankle
Shigehiro Nagataki (CV) Kyoto University Kyoto, Japan	(1) High Energy Neutrino Astronomy
Thomas Hams (CV) CRESST/USRA Greenbelt, MD USA	(1) BESS-Polar Program and the Search for Antimatter

Participant Presentations

Presenter	Titles/Presentations
Terri Brandt Ohio State University Columbus, Oh USA	Overview of the CREAM Experiment and the Flight of CREAM III
Rogerio Menezes de Almeida UNICAMP Campinas, Brazil	Search for UHECRs from SGR1806-20 with Pierre Auger Observatory
Jairo Cavalcante de Souza University of Sao Paulo San Paulo, Brazil	Searching for Supersymmetry through UHECR
Kamlesh Dookayka University of California Irvine, CA USA	Simulating Surface Roughness and its effects on EM wave scattering for ANITA
Gema Hebrero Universidad de Alcala Madrid, Spain	Behavior of Iron Charge States in Solar Flares produced in the Solar Corona Plasma: Results of Escape Model
Paula Gina Isar Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany	Radio Detection of Cosmic Ray Air Showers with LOPES
Juan Cruz Moreno Instituto de Fisica La Plata, Argentina	Atmospheric Depth Profile: A New Model for an Old Subject
Andreas Obermeier University of Chicago Chicago, Il USA	Galactic Propagations and Source Abundances of Cosmic Ray Nuclei at High Energies
Roberto Lineros Rodriguez Universita di Torino Torino, Italy	Positrons from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Halo: Theoretical Uncertainties
Iurii Sushch Nat'l Taras Shevchenko University Kyiv, Ukraine	VELA Supernova Remnant Evolution in the Inhomogeneous Interstellar Medium
Hajame Takami University of Tokyo Tokyo, Japan	Cross Correlation Study between UHECR Arrival Distribution and Nearby Large-scale Structure
Stephanie Wissel University of Chicago Chicago, IL USA	Direct Cherenkov Method of detecting VHE Cosmic Rays with Ground Based Detectors.

30 Years of Maury Shapiro's ISCRA

Presenter	Titles/Presentations
John Wefel LSU	(1) Retrospective on 30 years of the ISCRA (2) ISCRA-2010
Susan Ames Oxford	(1) Propagating Cosmic Rays with Maury
Gaurang Yodh UC-Irvine	(1) Early Years working with Maury
Arthur Smith Oxford	(1) A Recollection of Professor Shapiro

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