CONFERENCE PROGRAM


Final Program


Sunday March 10th


Morning Session : High Energy Cosmic Rays (1)
Chairperson: Tanguy Pierog (KIT, Karlsruhe)

35'+10'

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Cosmic ray acceleration
Pasquale Blasi (INAF, Arcetri) (pdf)

15'+5'

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The nuclear mass composition of UHECR with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Eva Santos (LIP, Lisbon) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Measurement of the energy spectrum of the cosmic rays at the highest energies using the Pierre Auger Observatory
Alejandra Parra Flores (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela ) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Spin of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center
Viacheslav Dokuchaev (INR-RAS, Moscow) (pdf)


Afternoon Session: Gamma-Ray Astronomy (1)
Chairperson: Abelardo Moralejo Olaizola (IFAE, Barcelona)

35'+10'

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Introduction to extragalactic sources of very high energy photons
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The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars

Christoph Pfrommer (HITS, Heidelberg) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Highlights from the VERITAS Extragalactic Observing Program
Jonathan Dumm (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Diffuse gamma-ray emission from mis-aligned active galactic nuclei
Mattia Di Mauro (INFN, Torino) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Measuring the non-thermal particle pressure in galaxy clusters thru multi-frequency observations: from SKA to CTA.
Sergio Colafrancesco (Wits University, Johannesburg) (pdf)

35'+10'

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Propagation of very-high energy photons
Andrei Neronov (EPFL, Lausanne) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Using Gamma Rays as Intergalactic Magnetometers
Justin Finke (US Naval Research Lab, Washington) (pdf)

Monday March 11th


Morning Session: Gamma-Ray Astronomy (2)
Chairperson: Sergio Colafrancesco (Wits University, Johannesburg)

25'+5'

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Fundamental physics with atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes
Abelardo Moralejo Olaizola (IFAE, Barcelona) (pdf)

15'+5'

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First constraints on axion-like particles from gamma-ray astronomy with HESS
Denis Wouters (CEA-Irfu, Saclay) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Searches for Lorentz Invariance Violation with Gamma-Ray Observatories and Latest Results from Fermi-LAT
Vlasios Vasileiou (LUPM, Montpellier) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Probing Lorentz Invariance in Cosmology
Giulia Gubitosi (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Future of Gamma-ray Astronomy: CTA
Giovanni Lamanna (LAPP, Annecy) (pdf)

15'+5'

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The ASTRI Project: prototype status and future plans for a Cherenkov dual-mirror small-telescope array
Nicola La Palombara (INAF-IASF, Milano) (pdf)


Afternoon Session: Dark Matter (1)
Chairperson: Bruno Serfass (Univ. of Berkeley)

35'+10'

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Fermi results on Dark Matter searches
Eric Nuss (LUPM, Montpellier) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Dark matter and fundamental physics with CTA
Emmanuel Moulin (CEA-Irfu, Saclay) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Magnetic monopoles at the LHC and in the Cosmos
Philippe Mermod (University of Geneva) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Indirect Search for Dark Matter with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
Vincent Bertin (CPPM, Marseille) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Dark Radiation Constraints on Mixed Axion/Neutralino Dark Matter
Andre Lessa (University of Sao Paulo) (pdf)

Tuesday March 12th


Morning Session: Neutrinos
Chairperson: Jacques Dumarchez (LPNHE, Paris)

25'+5'

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IceCube results
Markus Ahlers (UW, Madison) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Recent Results from the Antares Neutrino Telescope
Salvatore Mangano (IFIC, Valencia) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Search for extremely high energy cosmogenic neutrinos with the IceCube detector
Keiichi Mase (Chiba University) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Energy spectrum of atmospheric nu_mu and limits on diffuse fluxes of cosmic neutrinos with ANTARES
Simone Biagi (University of Bologna and INFN) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Search for neutrino flares from Active Galactic Nuclei with the IceCube detector
Angel Cruz (DESY, Hamburg) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Search of a neutrino signal with the ANTARES telescope based on multi-messenger analysis
Damien Dornic (CPPM, Marseille) (pdf)


Afternoon Session: High Energy Cosmic Rays (2)
Chairperson: Pasquale Blasi (INAF, Arcetri)

25'+5'

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Effect of LHC data on Extensive Air Shower Development
Tanguy Pierog (KIT, Karlsruhe) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Measurement of the proton-air cross-section with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Carla Bleve (University of Wuppertal) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Search for ultra-high energy photons and neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory
Mathieu Tartare (LPSC, Grenoble) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Recent results of Telescope Array experiment
Nobuyuki Sakurai (Osaka City University) (pdf)

15'+5'

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A Search for Correlation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with IRAS-PSCz and 2MASS-6dF Galaxies
Foteini Oikonomou (University College London) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Anisotropies studies at EeV range with the Pierre Auger Observatory
Romain Gaior (LPNHE, Paris) (pdf)

15'+5'

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The isotropy problem of ultra-high energy cosmic rays: the effects of anisotropic transport
Rahul Kumar (Ben-Gurion University, Beer-Sheva) (pdf)

Wednesday March 13th


Morning Session: GRBs (1)
Chairperson: Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP, Toulouse)

25'+5'

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Swift results on GRBs
Andrea Melandri (INAF, Brera) (pdf)

25'+5'

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GRBs and Cosmology
Thomas Kruehler (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen) (pptx)

15'+5'

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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst redshift distribution: selection biases or rate evolution at high-z?
David Coward (UWA, Crawley) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Models and possible progenitors of gamma-ray bursts at the test field of the observations.
Bruce Gendre (OCA, Nice) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Explosion of very massive stars and the role of hydrodynamical instabilities
Andrey Baranov (LAPTH, Annecy) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Search for High Energy Gamma Ray Burst Neutrino Emission with ANTARES
Julia Schmid (Erlangen Centre For Astroparticle Physics) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts
Michal Was (Albert Einstein Institute, Hannover) (pdf)


Afternoon Session (1): GRBs (2)
Chairperson: David Coward (UWA, Crowley)

25'+5'

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Gamma-Ray Burst Observations with Fermi
Frédéric Piron (LUPM, Montpellier) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Fermi observations of the jet photosphere in gamma-ray bursts
Elena Moretti (Stockholm University) (pdf)

15'+5'

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GRB Spectra Beyond the Standard Model
Rob Preece (University of Alabama in Huntsville) (pdf)


Afternoon Session (2): Common Session with the QCD Conference
Chairperson: Jacques Dumarchez (LPNHE, Paris)

35'+10'

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The cosmic ray puzzle, 100 years after : from their discovery to their origin.
Fabrice Feinstein (LUPM, Montpellier) (odp)

35'+10'

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The Higgs Boson Discovery and its Implications
Meena Narain (Brown University, Providence) (pptx)

Thursday March 14th


Morning Session: Dark Matter (2)
Chairperson: E. Nuss (LUPM, Montpellier)

15'+5'

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Latest results from XENON100 data
Maxime Le Calloch (SUBATECH, Nantes) (pdf)

15'+5'

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EDELWEISS
Gilles Gerbier (CEA-Irfu, Saclay) (pptx)

15'+5'

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CDMS-II
Bruno Serfass (UC, Berkeley) (pdf)

15'+5'

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COUPP: bubble chambers for dark matter detection
Eric Vazquez-Jauregui (SNOLAB, Lively) (pdf)

25'+5'

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Directional Dark Matter Detection
Daniel Santos (LPSC Grenoble) (pdf)

15'+5'

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LUX
Michael Woods (UC, Davis) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Recent results from XMASS
Katsuki Hiraide (ICRR, Tokyo) (pdf)


Afternoon Session : Gamma-Ray Astronomy (3)
Chairperson: Christoph Pfrommer (HITS, Heidelberg)

25'+5'

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Charting the TeV Milky Way: H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey maps, catalog and source populations
Svenja Carrigan (MPI, Heidelberg) (pdf)

15'+5'

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The First Fermi-LAT Catalog of Supernova Remnants
Francesco de Palma (INFN Bari) (pdf)

25'+5'

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SNR and molecular clouds
Armand Fiasson (LAPP, Annecy) (pptx)

15'+5'

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SNRs interacting with Molecular Clouds as seen with H.E.S.S.
Diane Fernandez (LUPM, Montpellier) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Evidence of hadronic emission in middle-aged SNRs
Andrea Giuliani (INAFiIASF, Milano) (pdf)

15'+5'

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HE and VHE emission from pulsars and their surroundings according to Fermi LAT and HESS
Bronek Rudak (CAMK, Warsaw) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Recent MAGIC results on Galactic sources of VHE gamma-ray emission
Victor Stamatescu (IFAE, Barcelona) (pdf)

Friday March 15th


Morning Session: Gamma-Ray Astronomy (4)
Chairperson: Svenja Carrigan (MPI, Heidelberg)

15'+5'

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TeV gamma rays from supernova remnant
Pierre Cristofari (APC, Paris) (pdf)

15'+5'

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VHE galactic source highlights from VERITAS
Stéphane Vincent (DESY, Zeuthen) (pdf)

15'+5'

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The Fermi discovery of a population of gamma-ray novae
Adam Hill (SLAC & University of Southampton) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Survey of the Milky Way and nearby galaxies in hard X- and gamma- rays
Alexander Lutovinov (IKI, Moscow) (ppt)

15'+5'

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First Light from the HAWC Gamma-Ray Observatory
Kirsten Tollefson (Michigan State University, East Lansing) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Status of the MACE telescope
Kuldeep Yadav (Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai) (pdf)


Afternoon session:
Chairperson: David Mota (University of Oslo)

15'+5'

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The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory Project (LHAASO)
Olivier Deligny (IPN, Orsay) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Deep Underground Astroparticle Physics at SNOLAB
Eric Vazquez-Jauregui (SNOLAB, Lively) (pdf)

15'+5'

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New constraints on primordial black holes abundance from femtolensing of gamma-ray bursts
Anna Barnacka (CAMK, Warsaw) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Spiral galaxies without Lambda Cold Dark Matter
Piotr Skindzier (Jagiellonian University, Krakow) (pptx)

15'+5'

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Directional Direct Detection with MIMAC: status and perspectives
Quentin Riffard (LPSC, Grenoble) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Irradiation of an Accretion Disk by a Jet: Implications for Spin Measurements of Black Holes
Thomas Dauser (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics) (pdf)

15'+5'

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Thermal death of the Chelyabinsk meteor with energy nearly 500 kilotonnes
Mikail Ivanov (Central Institute of Aviation Motors, Moscow) (ppt)

 
 

Posters:

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The spectrum of cosmic ray electrons and positrons measured by the PAMELA experiment: A real problem still seeking a solution.
Rafik Sedrati (University Badji Mokhtar, Annaba)

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Shear-Layer Acceleration and Radiation Mechanism in Blazars
Parisa Roustazadeh (Rice University, Houston)

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Unifying static analysis of gravitational structures with a scale-dependent scalar field gravity as alternative to dark matter
David F. Mota (University of Oslo)

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if a Machian relationship between gravitons and gravitinos exist, what does such a relationship imply as to scale factor, and quintessence evolution? and the evolution of DM ?
Andrew Beckwith (Chongqing University)

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Hidden Mass Boson Medium as Real Dark Matter with Theoretical Background and Practical Applications
Mikhail Ivanov (Central Institute of Aviation Motors, Moscow)

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Gravitational lens system B0218+357: constraints on lens models and Hubble constant
Tatiana Larchenkova (Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow)