The 12th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs will be held at Jeju Island, South Korea, from June 20th to 24th, 2016.
This workshop continues a rich and successful series, reviewing recent theoretical advances, laboratory experiments, as well as astrophysical and cosmological results in the fields of axions, WIMPs and WISPs.
The scientific programme covers the following topics:
– The physics case for WIMPs, Axions, WISPs
– Direct and indirect searches for Dark Matter and Dark Energy
– Direct and indirect searches for Axions and other WISPs
– Signals from astrophysical sources
– Review of collider experiments
– New theoretical developments
Requests for oral or poster contributions to the workshop can be made from now on via the conference webpage.
The important dates dealing with the registration and abstract submission are:
4 April, 2016: deadline for abstract submission
20 April, 2016: announcement of decisions on submitted contributions
25 April, 2016: deadline for early registration
20 May, 2016: deadline for late registration
Yannis K. Semertzidis (Chair, CAPP/IBS & KAIST)
Vassilis Anastassopoulos (University of Patras)
Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)
Joerg Jaeckel (University of Heidelberg)
Axel Lindner (DESY)
Andreas Ringwald (DESY)
Marc Schumann (AEC Bern)
Konstantin Zioutas (University of Patras & CERN)
Local organizing committee:
Yannis K. Semertzidis (Chair)
Dominika Konikowska (Contact person)
Woohyun Chung
Yeaji Jang
Sookyung Jung
Young-Im Kim
ByeongRok Ko
Soohyung Lee
Yujung Lee
Ka Young Oh
Eleni Petrakou
SungWoo Youn
An international conference on imaging techniques in subatomic physics, astrophysics, medicine, biology and industry. The conference is organised by KTH Royal Institute of Technology and sponsored by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences KVA through its Nobel Institute for Physics.
Location: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), Dublin
Date: 12/04/2016 – 14/04/2016, all day
The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), with the support of an interdisciplinary grant from the Irish Research Council (WEXD – When Experts Disagree), will hold a specialist workshop from Tuesday 12th to Thursday 14th April 2016 examining some disputed areas of high-energy astrophysics. A novel and interesting aspect of the meeting is that it will also be attended by some experimental philosophers interested in expert disagreement.
The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium invites you to a town meeting at the Grand Amphithéatre de Sorbonne in Paris on the 6 and 7 April 2016 to discuss an update of the 2011 APPEC Astroparticle Physics roadmap, to be published in September 2016.
In 2014, APPEC decided to launch an update of the 2011 Roadmap, transforming it to a “resource aware” roadmap. The intention was to gauge the financial impact of the beginnings of operation of the large global scale observatories put forward in the previous roadmap and to examine the possibilities of international coordination of future global initiatives. The APPEC Scientific Advisory Committee examined the field and prepared a set of recommendations. Based on these recommendations, the APPEC General Assembly drafted a set of “considerations” to be published by end of February 2016 and be debated in an open dialogue with the community, through the web page but primarily at the town meeting of 6-7 April. Based on this debate the final recommendations of APPEC will appear by September 2016.
During the 6-7 April meeting, there will be presentations and discussions around the nine subdomains of astroparticle physics separated in four larger topics (Early Universe, Dark Universe, Neutrinos and High Energy Universe). At the end of the first day, Nobel laureate 2015 T. Kajita will give a general public talk on neutrino physics. The town meeting will close with a round table discussion, including presentations comments and discussions with non-European international agencies.
The International Cosmic Day enables students to get in contact with astroparticle physicists to get a first insight into their research, experimental methods and everyday work. Some basic questions which will be adressed are:
What are cosmic particles?
Where do they come from?
How can they be measured?
The 4th International Cosmic Day on November 5, 2015 is organized by DESY, together with Netzwerk Teilchenwelt, IPPOG, QuarkNet and Fermilab and will enable students in many different countries around the world to get to do their own experiments at nearby universities, research institutions or even in their classrooms. We invite students to:
Perform their own cosmic particle experiment
Analyze and present their data on a common website
Compare their own results with the results of others
Work like in an international research collaboration
Get in contact with scientists and physics
In September 2015 the Horizon 2020 work programs for the period 2017-2018 will be released by the European Commission. APPEC invites all interested astroparticle physicists, colleagues from neighboring scientific fields and companies interested in F&E cooperations to a community workshop.
After the APPEC Horizon 2020 workshops in November 2013 (Zeuthen) and February 2014 (Paris) with this third workshop APPEC wants to achieve the following:
1. Analyse and discuss the experience of the first two years of Horizon 2020 and give advice on how to prepare successful proposals in future calls.
2. Inform about the upcoming funding opportunities and support the community in preparing their proposals for the calls.
3. Prepare with the community astroparticle infrastructure related activities and collaborative actions to be discussed with the European Commission as topics of future work programs (2019 and beyond).
The program of the workshop will be composed by experts’ presentations on the various funding instruments – including individual grants – and open discussions. Furthermore, astroparticle groups can ask for dedicated sessions to setup and plan their strategy for collaborative projects.
Special emphasis shall be put on proposals for calls in the Future Emerging Technology (FET) and the Leadership in Enabling and Industrial Technologies programs of Horizon 2020; representatives of companies interested in common R&D projects are welcome to participate in the workshop. The Spreading Excellence and Widening Participation program (“Teaming and Twinning”) as well as the Research Infrastructures program with focus on e-infrastructures and big data shall be covered.
The first annual meeting of the programme “Matter and Universe” of the project oriented funding (PoF) research field Matter will take place at the research center Jülich.
The meeting at the Research Center Jülich brings together the different programme communities with activities in elementary particle physics, hadron physics, nuclear physics and astroparticle physics in order to strengthen the co-operation across the different programme topics.
This meeting follows the HAP DM 2013 meeting, addressing recent results and developments in Dark Matter search. The workshop will be organised along plenary overview talks by senior scientists, with the additional possibility for young researchers to present their work in short presentations.
HAP DM 2015 will have overview talks on the following topics:
1) CMB and its impact on DM: Planck results focussing on consequences for WIMP DM
2) CDM vs. WDM scenarios: N-body simulations with LCDM parameters: general overview and special results on dwarf galaxies; Simulations of galactic structures with warm DM; Astrophysical observations of dwarf galaxies/ dwarf galaxy surveys; Searches for DM annihilation in dwarf galaxies; Production of Sterile Neutrino dark matter; Observation of a 3.5keV line from X-ray observations of galaxy clusters – evidence for sterile neutrinos?
3) WIMP models and (laboratory) searches: WIMP interactions in EFT and simplified models; LHC DM search: results and perspectives; Asymmetric Dark Matter; Two-Component Dark Matter; SUSY NMSSM WIMPs; Direct searches for WIMPs, challenges & perspectives with liquid noble gas detectors; Direct searches for WIMPs, challenges & perspectives with cryogenic bolometers
4) Axions, ALPs and dark photons: Phenomenology of dark photons and ALPs; The experimental search for axions and ALPs
5) Indirect DM searches: Modelling of astrophysical foreground; Update on Fermi-LAT & the case for a 1-3 GeV excess in GC data; Positron excess, the search for nuclei and prospects with AMS-02; Searching for a neutrino signal from DM annihilation in IceCube and SuperK
Program Committee:
Gisela Anton (ECAP Erlangen), Klaus Eitel (KIT), Iris Gebauer (KIT), Josef Jochum (Kepler Center Tübingen), Michael Klasen (WWU Münster), Lutz Köpke (JGU Mainz), Marek Kowalski (HU Berlin, DESY Zeuthen), Gernot Maier (DESY Zeuthen), Uwe Oberlack (JGU Mainz), Martin Pohl (U Potsdam, DESY Zeuthen), Thomas Schwetz-Mangold (KIT), Günter Sigl (U Hamburg), Christopher Wiebusch (RWTH Aachen)
Local Organisation:
Klaus Eitel, Marie-Christine Kauffmann, Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
The International GridKa School “Big Data, Cloud Computing and Modern Programming” is one of the leading summer schools for advanced computing techniques in Europe. The school provides a forum for scientists and technology leaders, experts and novices to facilitate knowledge sharing and information exchange.The target audience are different groups like graduate and PhD students, advanced users as well as IT administrators. GridKa School is hosted by Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). It is organized by KIT and the HGF Alliance “Physics at the Terascale”.
The biennial TAUP series covers recent experimental and theoretical developments in astroparticle physics by invited plenary review talks and parallel workshop sessions of invited and contributed presentations. Topics covered by the conference are:
Cosmology and particle physics
Dark matter and its detection
Neutrino physics and astrophysics
Gravitational waves
High-energy astrophysics and cosmic rays
