Programme Talks
WEDNESDAY |
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| 18:00-20:00 | Reception and Registration | |
| Foyer of the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre Complex, to the right of the Clarendon Laboratory seen from Parks Road (entrance opposite Keble Road) | ||
THURSDAY |
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| 09:00-09:05 | Welcome | |
| 09:05-10:50 | Overview and Context | |
| 09:05 | Joseph Silk -- Current Issues and Challenges | 30 min |
| 09:40 | Christian Spiering -- European Astroparticle Coordination - towards the ASPERA Roadmap Phase III | 30 min |
| 10:15 | Fabrice Piquemal -- Underground Laboratories in Europe | 20 min |
| 10:40 | Sean Paling -- The Boulby Underground Science Facility - status and plans | 10 min |
| 10:50-11:20 | COFFEE | |
| 11:20-12:35 | Neutrinos | |
| 11:20 | David Waters -- Neutrino Astronomy: General Overview and Future Prospects | 30 min |
| 11:55 | Amy Connolly -- ANITA | 15 min |
| 12:15 | Markus Ahlers -- Detecting SuperSymmetry at IceCube | 15 min |
| 12:35 | Lee Thompson -- The ACORNE project -- listening to neutrinos | 10 min |
| 12:50-13:00 | Posters | |
| 12:50 | Announcements of Posters (short summaries by the presenters) | |
| 13:05-14:20 | LUNCH | |
| 14:20-16:15 | Cosmic Rays | |
| 14:20 | Johannes Knapp -- Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory | 30 min |
| 14:55 | Carla Bleve -- Measurement of the UHE Cosmic Ray spectrum with the Pierre Auger Observatory | 15 min |
| 15:15 | Federico Fraschetti -- Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays from the Radio Lobes of AGNs | 15 min |
| 15:35 | Ben Smith -- The Mass Spectrum of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays: First Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory | 15 min |
| 15:55 | Andrew Taylor: The Photon Fraction of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays | 15 min |
| 16:15-16:45 | TEA | |
| 16:45-17:40 | Nuclear Astrophysics | |
| 16:45 | Brian Fulton -- Nuclear Astrophysics: An Overview | 30 min |
| 17:20 | Alex Murphy -- 18F Production in Novae | 15 min |
| 17:40-18:10 | Outreach | |
| 17:40 | Liz Jeavans | 30 min |
| DINNER at Hertford College | ||
| After dinner talk by Don Perkins | ||
FRIDAY |
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| 08:45-12:00 | Dark Matter | |
| 08:45 | Laura Baudis -- Experimental Dark Matter Searches -- An Overview | 30 min |
| 09:20 | James Binney -- Visible & dark Matter in our Galaxy | 30 min |
| 09:55 | Pierluigi Belli -- First results from DAMA / LIBRA | 15 min |
| 10:15 | Nigel Smith -- Update on the ZEPLIN-III Detector | 15 min |
| 10:35 | Samuel Henry -- CRESST and EURECA | 15 min |
| 10:55-11:25 | COFFEE | |
| 11:25 | Edward Daw -- DRIFT II | 15 min |
| 11:45 | Malcolm Fairbairn -- Dark Matter and Stars | 12 min |
| 12:00-12:55 | Gravitational Waves | |
| 12:00 | Sheila Rowan -- Gravitational wave searches - status and plans | 30 min |
| 12:35 | Edward Daw -- The EFC Fourier Coefficient Algorithm | 15 min |
| 12:55-14:10 | LUNCH | |
| 14:10-15:45 | Gamma-rays | |
| 14:10 | Jim Hinton -- The experimental status of VHE gamma-ray astronomy | 30 min |
| 14:45 | Felix Aharonian -- Theoretical aspects of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy | 30 min |
| 15:20 | John Quinn -- VERITAS - the first year of operation | 15 min |
| 15:40 | Joanna Skilton -- Particle acceleration in supernova remnants: the view from HESS | 15 min |
| 16:00-16:20 | Summary | |
| 16:00 | Subir Sarkar -- Summary | 20 min |
| 16:20-16:45 | TEA | |
| 16:45-17:15 | AGM of the IOP APP Group | |
Conference sessions will be in the Lindemann Lecture Theatre, which is situated on the first floor of the Clarendon Laboratory in Parks Road. Lunches will be held in the Martin Wood Complex, adjacent to the Clarendon Laboratory.
Speakers
Confirmed speakers include:
Joseph Silk
Christian Spiering
Dave Waters
Johannes Knapp
Brian Fulton
Laura Baudis
James Binney
Pierluigi Belli
Sheila Rowan
Jim Hinton
Felix Aharonian