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Sunday, April 15th |
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Evening: |
Registration and reception |
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5:00- 8:30 PM |
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Monday, April 16th |
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Morning: |
Introduction, and Latest Results |
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Welcome |
Thomson |
8:50- 9:00 |
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Composition as a signature of cosmic-ray origin at the knee and above |
Gaisser |
9:00- 9:40(+5 min for questions) |
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HiRes Results |
Abu-Zayyad |
9:45-10:05+5 |
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TA Results |
Sagawa |
10:10-10:30+5 |
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break |
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10:30-10:45 |
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Status and results from the Pierre Auger Observatory |
Perrone |
10:45-11:05+5 |
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Status and Recent Results from the KASCADE-Grande Experiment |
Haungs |
11:10-11:30+5 |
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Status of IceCube and IceTop |
Karle |
11:35-11:55+5 |
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lunch |
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12:00- 1:30 |
Afternoon: |
Composition |
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Elongation rate from hybrid data |
Mostafa |
1:30- 1:50+5 |
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Amiga and HEAT |
Engel |
1:55- 2:15+5 |
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TALE methods |
Belz |
2:20- 2:40+5 |
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break |
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2:45- 3:00 |
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Composition Studies based on muons, penetrating muons, and EAS E.M. Component Experiments |
Navarra |
3:00- 3:20+5 |
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Searches for the end of the galactic cosmic ray spectrum |
Stanev |
3:25- 3:45+5 |
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All methods together |
Yodh |
3:50- 4:10+5 |
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breakout sessions |
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4:15- 6:00 |
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Tues April 17th |
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Morning |
Advances in VHE Gamma-Ray Astronomy (2007) |
Kieda |
9:00- 9:20+5 |
Highlight |
AGASA Results |
Teshima |
9:25- 9:45+5 |
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Morning: |
Shower Simultations |
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Hadronic Interactions and Extensive Air Shower Development |
Ostapchenko |
9:50-10:10+5 |
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Sibyll |
Ahn |
10:15-10:35+5 |
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break |
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10:40-10:55 |
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Sigma(p-air) expt |
Belov |
10:55-11:15+5 |
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On the measurement of the proton-air cross section using air shower data |
Ulrich |
11:20-11:40+5 |
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Imposing the Froissart bound: Part I, p-air cross section |
Block |
11:45-12:05+5 |
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lunch |
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12:10- 1:40 |
Afternoon: |
Accelerator Experiments |
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Interaction Models and Accelerator Data |
Engel |
1:40- 2:10+5 |
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Links between Astroparticle Physics and the LHC |
Pinfold |
2:15- 2:35+5 |
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break |
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2:40- 2:55 |
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The LHCf experiment for measurement of forward neutral particle production |
Turner |
2:55- 3:15+5 |
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The MIPP experiment at Fermilab- Status, Plans
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Raja |
3:20- 3:40+5 |
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breakout sessions |
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3:45- 5:30 |
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Wednesday April 18th |
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Morning: |
Models of UHECR's |
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The propagation of the highest energy cosmic rays |
Biermann |
9:00- 9:20+5 |
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New Insights into the Acceleration and Transport of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy |
Jokipii |
9:25- 9:45+5 |
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break |
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9:50-10:10+ |
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Magnetic-Field Amplification and Cosmic-Ray Observation in Turbulent MHD Shocks |
Giacalone |
10:15-10:30+5 |
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Anisotropy of UHECR from Extragalactic Sources: New or Conventional Physics? |
Tinyakov |
10:35-10:55+5 |
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Numerical Propagation of Cosmic Rays in the Galaxy |
DeMarco |
11:00 -11:20+5 |
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Signiture of Protons in UHECR and Transisition from Extra Galactic to Galactic Cosmic Rays
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11:25 -11:45+5 |
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lunch |
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11:50- 1:30 |
Afternoon: |
Models (cont'd) |
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Recent Observations that are relevent to UHECR production and propagation |
Kronberg |
1:30- 1:50+5 |
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Magnetic fields of our Galaxy and beyond |
Han |
1:55- 2:15+5 |
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Origin and physics of the highest energy cosmic rays |
Biermann |
2:20- 2:40+5 |
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p, nuclei propagation |
Hooper |
2:45- 3:05+5 |
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break |
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3:10- 3:25 |
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Some Future Experiments: |
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The MARIACHI experiment- Ideas on Radar Detection of UHECR |
Takai |
3:25- 3:45+5 |
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Cosmic Ray Astrophysics with GLAST |
Ormes |
3:50- 4:10+5 |
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breakout sessions |
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4:15- 6:15 |
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Evening: |
Workshop banquet |
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6:30-10:00 |
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Thursday April 29th |
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Morning Highlight: |
Neutrino Experiments |
Zornoza |
9:00- 9:20+5 |
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Morning: |
Summary Session |
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Summary of breakout session #1 |
Belz |
9:25- 9:55+5 |
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Summary of breakout session #2 |
Gaisser |
10:00-10:30+5 |
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Workshop Summary |
Sokolsky |
10:35-11:15+5 |
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lunch |
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11:20- 1:00 |
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End of Workshop |
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Breakout Sessions |
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Session 1: |
A Consensus among Fluorescence Experiments |
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Discussion Leader: Sokolsky |
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Reporter: Belz & Scott |
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Monday |
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FLASH |
Reil |
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FLASH (thick target) |
Belz |
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Flourescence in air excited by electrons from a Sr90 source |
Sakaki |
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Spectral resolved Measurement of the Nitrogen Flourescence Emissions in Air induced by Electrons |
Waldenmaier |
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Tuesday |
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HiRes usage |
Abu Zayyad |
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Auger usage |
Wiencke |
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TA/TALE usage |
Bergman |
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Ashra |
Sasaki |
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Wednesday |
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JEM-EUSO |
Teshima |
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Tau neutrino limit |
Martens |
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An upper limit on the upward-going electron-neutrino flux from the HiRes instrument |
Scott |
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Searching for neutrino induced showers in the Pierre Auger Observatory |
Gora |
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Exploring the EHE Universe with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory |
Grullon |
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On the interpretation of neutrino flux limits |
Becker |
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Imposing the Froissart bound: Part II, New structure functions for nu -n scattering |
Block |
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Session 2: |
A Consensus in the 10^17 eV Decade |
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Discussion Leader: Gaisser |
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Discussion among: |
Kascade-Grande IceTop/IceCube TA/TALE Auger/Amiga/HEAT |
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Issues: |
Comparison of energy scales, all-particle spectral shapes Complementarity of information in various experiments Hook-up with lower energy measurements; rigidity-dependent cutoffs Is the Fe knee at 8x10^16 eV? What is above the Fe knee? Are there protons in the 10^17 eV Decade? |
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