The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) will proudly present the new European Astroparticle Physics Strategy 2017-2026.
The event will take place on 9 January 2018 10:00 – 18:00 in Residence Palace, Brussels.
The new APPEC strategy will be presented, addressing scientific issues and an update of the long term scientific strategies. Crucial organisational aspects and societal issues like global collaboration, community building, gender balance, education, public outreach and relations with industry will be discussed. By acting coherently upon these recommendations, Europe will be able to fully exploit the tantalizing discovery potential in Astroparticle Physics.
The ceremony will start with the new strategy, followed by a contribution of Robert Jan Smits, the EC Director General of DG RTD, a keynote talk about the exciting prospects of Gravitational Waves science and more.
The one-day event will include an interactive and lively afternoon programme for scientists, policy makers and representatives of funding agencies discussing the recommendations and how to implement them between all participants. Participants are kindly invited for active contributions and bringing up ideas.
Participation in the APPEC Roadmap event is free of charge.
The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON) is a program currently under development at The Pennsylvania State University, in collaboration with a growing list of U.S. and international observatories. AMON seeks to perform a real-time correlation analysis of the high-energy signals across all known astronomical messengers – photons, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and gravitational waves – in an effort to:
Enhance the combined sensitivity of collaborating observatories to astrophysical transients by searching for coincidences in their sub-threshold data;
Enable rapid follow-up imaging or archival analysis of the putative astrophysical sources.
The SENSE project will be funded by the European Commission as a Coordination and Support Action in the domain of Future Emerging Technologies (FET-Open) with the aim of coordinating the research and development efforts in academia and industry in low light level sensoring.
This initiative has emerged from the series of Technology Forums organized within the frame of ASPERA and APPEC. SENSE is a three-year project. Starting in September 2016, R&D experts will be invited to prepare an R&D roadmap towards the ultimate low light level sensors. SENSE will then coordinate, monitor, and evaluate the R&D efforts of research groups and industry in advancing low light level sensors and liaise with strategically important European initiatives and research groups and companies worldwide.
While ESA’s Planck mission was a resounding success, and its data are still being analysed, we now face a gap before the next space-based CMB mission. It is currently believed that the next space mission will happen at the earliest in the late twenties-early thirties and it should be planned with the same ambition that determined the design of Planck, that is: give definitive measurements. Till then the European CMB community needs to develop both intermediate measurements on ground or using balloons and the technology that would permit ultimate sensitivities.
APPEC (Astroparticle Physics European Consortium) and its transnational partner JINR (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research) in Dubna, the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences together with the Lomonosov State University in Moscow, and the Irkutsk State University are inviting astroparticle physicists and colleagues from neighboring fields to attend the Lake Baikal Three Messenger Conference.
The conference will provide an opportunity to discuss how to confine nature and underlying physical processes in the non-thermal universe by making use of the three astroparticle messengers along with the multi- discipline and wavelength measurements and the theory. Scientific results achieved with current astroparticle experiments will be shown and discussed together with upcoming experimental opportunities in Russia, Europe and worldwide. A detailed look shall also be taken on capabilities of existing common analysis frameworks, alert systems, and future requirements. This conference will offer an opportunity for astroparticle physics community in Europe, Russia and worldwide to foster the cooperation on astroparticle infrastructure projects taking data for the three messengers.
The primary purpose of this “Summer Institute” is to bring together young physicists, geophysicists, and geologists, who, in ten days, can together acquire a working set of basic knowledge that will help them to start-up and face these inter-disciplinary studies.
The 16th JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics will take place from 8 to 15 July 2016, in a picturesque village Bol’shie Koty (Big Cats) on the shores of Lake Baikal.
Undergraduate and graduate students as well as early-career PhDs (postdocs) are invited to attend the School. The working language of the school is English. The School offers a unique experience of full scientific immersion “Siberian style”:
A week of lectures given by world experts on variery of topics (Standard Model and beyond, neutrino physics, LHC results, cosmology, gravity, astrophysics)
Plenty of time for questions and informal discussions with lecturers
Intensive study sessions on topics of the lectures held in small groups
An opportunity to give a presentation or present a poster of own work
Friendly atmosphere, new contacts and friends
The stunning views of the Lake Baikal and Siberian Taiga.
The XXVII International Conference on Neutrino Physics and Astrophysics (Neutrino 2016) will be held in London from Monday 4 July to Saturday 9 July 2016.
RICAP-16 will be the sixth edition of the RICAP Conference. The Conference, entirely dedicated to the study of high-energy cosmic rays, has been traditionally organized by the INFN sections and Physics Departments of the three public Universities of Roma ( University “La Sapienza”, University Roma “Tor Vergata” and University “Roma Tre”). The 2016 edition will be held in Villa Tuscolana, Frascati, Roma.
Scientific Topics
The aim of the Conference will be to present and discuss some of the most relevant theoretical and experimental results in the field of high-energy cosmic rays (gamma, neutrinos, charged cosmic rays). Special attention will be paid to the multi-messenger search for high-energy cosmic rays sources, including gravitational wave searches. A special session will be dedicated to Dark Matter search. The Conference will give the opportunity to collect experimental results from presently operating experiments. Experiments in progress and future projects will be discussed, debating on the different features and on sensitivities. Particular relevance will be given to the discussion of the open questions in high energy Astroparticle Physics.
