International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics
<< Maurice M. Shapiro >>

18th Course:

"A new Era in Particle Astrophysics"
New Instruments, New Results and New Understanding

4-10 July 2012
Ettore Majorana Centre
Erice, Sicily, Italy


Lectures

PresenterTitles/Abstracts
Michael Cherry (CV)
 Louisiana State University
 Baton Rouge, La, USA
(1) Earth Occultation Monitoring of the Hard X-ray/Low-Energy Gamma Ray Sky with GBM
(2) Terrestrial Gamma Flashes
Amanda Cooper-Sarkar (CV)
 University of Oxford
 Oxford, UK
(1) Latest results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC: part 1
(2) Latest results from the ATLAS experiment at the LHC: part 2
Brenda Dingus (CV)
 Los Alamos National Lab
 Los Alamos, NM
(1) Milagro's View of the TeV Sky
(2) HAWC: A New Observatory for the TeV Sky
Francis Halzen (CV)
 University of Wisconsin
 Madison, WI, USA
(1) Particle Astrophysics: Closing in on the Sources of Cosmic Rays Part 1
(2) Particle Astrophysics: Closing in on the Sources of Cosmic Rays Part 2
Jorg Horandel (CV)
 Radboud University
 Nijmegen, Netherlands
(1) Radio detection of extensive air showers
(2) A century of research on cosmic rays
Antoine Letessier-Selvon (CV)
 University of Paris
 Paris, France
(1) UHECR detectors and detection techniques: Extensive Air Showers
(2) Recents results from UHECR observatories
Subir Sarkar (CV)
 University of Oxford
 Oxford, UK
(1) Discovering Dark Matter
(2) Antimatter in Cosmic Rays
(3) Homi Bhabha and Cosmic Ray Research in India
Fabian Schüssler (CV)
 CEA Irfu SPP
 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
(1) Neutrino Astronomy: Opportunities and Challenges
Arthur Smith (CV)
 Oxford University
 Oxford, UK
(1) Golden Ages in Astrophysics
Roberta Sparvoli (CV)
 University of Rome
 Rome, Italy
(1) Particle Astrophysics from low to high energy with PAMELA Part 1
(2) Particle Astrophysics from low to high energy with PAMELA Part 2
(3) The Cosmic Ray work of Domenico Pacini
Todor Stanev (CV)
 University of Delaware
 Newark, DE, USA
(1) Galactic environment. Propagation of cosmic rays in the Galaxy.
(2) Propagation of UHECR in intergalactic space and production of secondary signals.
Christian Stegmann (CV)
 DESY
 Zeuthen, Germany
(1) Gamma-ray astronomy I - past, present and future
John Wefel (CV)
 Louisiana State University
 Baton Rouge, LA, USA
(1) Cosmic Rays and the Birth of High Energy Physics
(2) Balloon and Satellite measurements of Cosmic Rays below the "knee"
(3) Centennial of Cosmic Ray Science (part)

Participant Presentations
PresenterTitles/Abstracts
Rita Anjos
 
 
Analysis of the Propagation of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Ray nuclei (POSTER)
Rafael Alves Batista
 
 
Energy Losses of UHECRs due to the Expansion of the Universe
David Benyamin
 
 
Cosmic Ray Diffusion in the inhomogeneous Milky Way
Bruno Daniel
 
 
Impact of irregular stations on the event reconstruction of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Marlene Doert
 
 
Unprecedented multi-instrument studies of the BL Lac object Mrk501
Ke Fang
 
 
Newly-born Pulsars as UHECR sources
Jacob Feintzeig
 
 
Point Source Searches with the IceCube Neutrino Detector
Valerio Formato
 
 
Solar modulation of galactic protons with the PAMELA experiment.
Daniel Huber
 
 
Radio Detection of Cosmic Rays
Karen Salome Caballero Mora
 
 
Data Analysis with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory
Anna Nelles
 
 
Detection of cosmic rays with the LOFAR radio telescope
Bakhtiyar Ruzybayev
 
 
All-particle Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum with IceTop
Marcos Santander
 
 
Anisotropy of TeV and PeV cosmic rays with IceCube and IceTop
Anne Schukraft
 
 
Search for a diffuse flux of extragalactic neutrinos with IceCube
Johannes Schulz
 
 
Design of a 2-phase Time Projection Chamber for Xenon Purity Measurements
Malgorzata Siudek
 
 
Pi of the Sky telescopes in Chile and Spain - so faraway and so close
Joulien Tatar
 
 
ARIANNA – A New Concept for the Detection of GZK Neutrinos
Neeharika Thakur
 
 
Short-term variations in cosmic ray proton fluxes from BESS-Polar I
B. Vargas-Cardenas
 
 
Solar cosmic ray signals in the Mexico City neutron monitor database (POSTER)
Fabio Vito
 
 
The high-redshift (z>3) AGN population in the Chandra Deep Field South (POSTER)
Roman Welsing
 
 
Gamma-ray astronomy and AGN physics with the VERITAS experiment