Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
35th Course
Neutrino Physics: Present and Future
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2013

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday  Monday


Tuesday, September 17

Chair: J. Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:30 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen)
A brief history of the Town of Erice
09:35 - 10:05 Marianne Goeger-Neff (Garching)
Recent results from Double Chooz
10:15 - 10:45 Dan Dwyer (Berkeley, CA)
The Daya Bay Neutrino Oscillation Measurement
10:55 - 11:25 Soo-Bong Kim (Seoul)
Results for the Neutrino Mixing Angle Theta(1,3) from RENO
11:35 - 12:05 Coffee
Chair: A. Faessler
12:05 - 12:35 Caren Hagner (Hamburg)
Neutrino Oscillations
12:45 Lunch

Chair: D. Schildknecht
16:00 - 16:25 Ulrich Mosel (Giessen)
Neutrino Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei
16:30 - 16:55 Horst Lenske (Giessen)
Meson production in coherent neutrino-nucleus reactions
17:00 - 17:25 Rene Reifarth (Frankfurt / Main)
s- and r-process
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: D. Kirilova
18:00 - 18:25 Marek Zralek (Katowice)
Attempts to explain the neutrino masses and mixing
18:30 - 19:00 Werner Rodejohann (Heidelberg)
Models for sterile Neutrinos
19:10 - 19:40 Cristina Volpe (Paris)
Open issues in neutrino flavor conversion in core-collapse supernovae

Wednesday, September 18

Chair: P. Vogel
09:00 - 09:30 Fedor Simkovic (Bratislava)
Theory of the Double Beta Decay and the Determination of the Neutrino Mass
09:40 - 10:10 Peter Grabmayr (Tuebingen)
Neutrinoless Double Beta Decay in 76Ge with GERDA
10:20 - 10:50 Kai Zuber (Dresden)
Status of the COBRA double beta experiment
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: K. Langanke
11:30 - 12:00 Andreas Piepke (Tuscaloosa, AL)
Double beta decay of 136Xe: the EXO experiment
12:10 - 12:40 Steve King (Southampton)
Description of massive neutrinos. The origin of the neutrino mass.
12:50 Lunch

Chair: M. Lindner
16:00 - 16:30 Christian Weinheimer (Muenster)
Single Beta Decay and the Neutrino Mass
16:35 - 17:00 Filip Jediny (Prague)
NOvA neutrino experiment
17:05 - 17:30 Petr Vogel (Pasadena, CA)
Determining the hierarchy with reactor neutrinos: Promises and Challenges
17:35 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: P. Grabmayr
18:00 - 18:25 Heinrich Paes (Dortmund)
Flavor Symmetries - finding tests and alternatives
18:30 - 18:50 Daniela Kirilova (Sofia)
Neutrino Oscillations in the early Universe - cosmologocal effects and constraints
18:55 - 19:15 Christine Kraus (Sudbury)
update on SNO+
19:20 - 19:40 Osamu Yasuda (Hachioji)
Constraints on non-standard interactions by atmospheric neutrinos

Thursday, September 19

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Selinunte and Segesta

Friday, September 20

Chair: G. Chanfray
09:00 - 09:30 Klaus Blaum (Heidelberg)
Precision mass measurements for neutrino physics studies
09:40 - 10:10 Loredana Gastaldo (Heidelberg)
The Electron Capture 163-Ho experiment (ECHo)
10:20 - 10:50 Mikhail Krivoruchenko (Moscow)
Constraints for total-lepton-number violating four-fermion interactions from neutrinoless double-beta decay
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: U. Mosel
11:30 - 12:00 Philipp Chung-On Ranitzsch (Heidelberg)
Calorimetric measurement of the 163Ho electron capture spectrum
12:10 - 12:40 Guy Chanfray (Lyon)
Nuclear effects in neutrino quasielastic interactions
12:50 Lunch

Chair: H. Paes
16:00 - 16:25 Nancy Wandkowsky (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen)
Status of the KATRIN experiment
16:30 - 17:00 Lothar Oberauer (Garching)
Future large Neutrino Detectors
17:05 - 17:25 Ioannis Vergados (Ioannina)
Future dark matter searches: Directional experiments; inelastic WIMP-nucleus scattering
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: A. Piepke
18:00 - 18:30 Toshio Suzuki (Tokyo)
Neutrino-nucleus reactions induced by solar and supernova neutrinos
18:40 - 19:05 Dieter Schildknecht (Bielefeld)
The Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic -Neutrino-Nucleon Cross Section.
19:10 - 19:30 Cedric Weiland (Orsay)
Effects of singlet neutrino on lepton universality test

Saturday, September 21

Chair: K. Blaum
09:00 - 09:30 Aya Ishihara (Chiba-shi, Chiba)
Results from cosmic neutrino searches with IceCube
09:40 - 10:10 Karlheinz Langanke (Darmstadt)
Influence of neutrino-nucleus reactions on supernova dynamics and nucleosynthesis
10:20 - 10:50 Gemma Testera (Milano)
Insights in stars, neutrino physics and in the Earth
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: J. Vergados
11:30 - 12:00 Daijiro Suematsu (Kanazawa)
Neutrino mass and DM direct detection
12:10 - 12:40 Aldo Morselli (Rome)
The neutrinos-gamma-rays connection in the understanding of high-energy astrophysical sources
13:45 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo

Sunday, September 22

Chair: K. Zuber
09:00 - 09:30 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen)
Search for the Cosmic Neutrino Background and the Nuclear Beta Decay
09:40 - 10:10 Jouni Suhonen (Jyvaskyla)
A View to Double Beta Decays of Atomic Nuclei
10:20 - 10:50 Francois Vannucci (Paris)
Sterile neutrinos and Warm Dark Matter
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: M. Buballa
11:30 - 12:00 Dusan Stefanik (Bratislava)
Two- neutrino double-beta decay within SO(5) model and nucleon-nucleon interaction
12:05 - 12:30 Dong-Liang Fang (East Lansing)
Matrix Elements for Weak Decays
12:35 - 13:00 Ushasi Datta Pramanik (Kolkata)
Measurement of mass of neutrino from unique technique beta-decay measurement at SINP laboratory
13:05 Lunch

Chair: J. Suhonen
16:00 - 16:25 Julian Heeck (Heidelberg)
Lepton Number Violation with Dirac Neutrinos
16:30 - 16:55 Belina von Krosigk (Dresden)
Supernova Neutrino Detection with SNO+
17:00 - 17:25 Paolo Paggi (Rome)
News on neutrino astrophysics
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: L. Gastaldo
18:00 - 18:25 Sebastian Fischer (Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen)
Laser Raman Spectroscopy for the KATRIN experiment
18:35 - 18:55 Asmita Redij (Bern)
Multi-nucleon interaction to answer CCQE cross-section discrepancy

Monday, September 23

Chair: D. Fargion
09:00 - 09:30 Bruce Berger (Fort Collins)
The T2K and KamLAND-Zen Physics Programs
09:40 - 10:00 Anne Christin Wegmann (Heidelberg)
A liquid Argon scintillation veto for the GERDA experiment
10:05 - 10:30 Ushak Rahaman (Mumbai)
The need for an early anti-neutrino run of NOvA
10:35 - 10:55 Bjoern Lehnert (Dresden)
Search for double beta decays of palladium isotopes into excited states
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: L. Oberauer
11:30 - 11:55 Carlo Broggini (Padova)
Hydrogen and Helium burning studied at Gran Sasso
12:00 - 12:25 Ioannis Vergados (Ioannina)
Novel aspects of neutrino physics
12:30 - 12:55 Daniele Fargion (Rome)
Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays decaying and painting Gamma TeV Anisotropy and PeV Neutrino Events
13:00 Lunch

Chair: F. Vannucci
16:00 - 16:20 Meng-Ru Wu (Darmstadt)
Sterile neutrinos in supernovae
16:25 - 16:55 Raoul D. Viollier (Rondebosch)
Sterile neutrinos and the dark matter of our universe
17:05 - 17:25 Jakub Zmuda (Wroclaw)
Neutrino interactions at accelerator energies
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: J. Wambach
18:00 - 19:30 Manfred Lindner (Heidelberg)
Summary


20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner