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