The 3rd World Summit meeting on Exploring the Dark Side of the Universe will take place from 9 – 13 March 2020 in Guadeloupe Islands. The main goal is to discuss progress and future directions related to outstanding issues, both in Cosmology and in Particle Physics. The successes and shortcomings of the Standard Cosmological model as well as the Standard Particle Physics model will be reviewed through the last astrophysical observations and accelerator experiment results.
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The 12th Cosmic Ray International Seminar (CRIS 2020) “The endless multiple voices fugue of the Universe” will be held in Vietri sul Mare (Amalfi Coast – Italy), 8th – 12th June 2020. The meeting will focus fundamental topics in astroparticle physics with specific emphasis on the new-born multimessenger astronomy studies. The meeting is being organized by the Catania and Napoli Divisions of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), by the Department of Physics “E. Pancini” of the University of Napoli Federico II and by the Department of Physics and Astronomy “E. Majorana” of the University of Catania.
CRIS 2020, following the experience of previous editions, aims to present overviews of existing data and reports from the present and future experiments. Talks will cover both theoretical/phenomenological and experimental/observational aspects, in order to give an exhaustive overview of this complex field. The discussion about the present status and future plans requires to involve theorists and experimentalists working on various messengers. Thus, the progress in astroparticle physics achieved through space and ground-based detectors is expected to play a major role in the scientific program of CRIS 2020.
The 20th JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, will take place from July 14 to 21, 2020, in the picturesque village Bol’shie Koty (Big Cats) on the shore of Lake Baikal. Master and PhD students as well as early-career postdocs are invited to attend the School. The School offers:
a week of lectures given by invited experts in experimental and theoretical HEP and astroparticle physics,
plenty of time for questions and informal discussions with lecturers,
intensive study sessions in small groups,
an opportunity to present a talk or poster of own work,
friendly atmosphere, new contacts and friends,
and finally the stunning views of the lake Baikal and Siberian Taiga.
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The 21st International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI 2020) will be hosted by the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research at the site of the GRAPES-3 experiment in Ooty, India during June 4-8, 2020.
ISVHECRI is a biennial conference series supported by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). Its primary objective is to provide a forum for the discussion of very high energy interaction for the interpretation of cosmic ray data based on the information available from both the accelerator and cosmic ray experiments. This unique series brings together cosmic ray physicists and scientists involved with the high energy accelerators and colliding beam facilities.
The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT, https://www.eucapt.org) invites all theoretical astroparticle physicists and cosmologists (PhD students, postdocs, and staff) who are affiliated to a research institution in a European country, to participate in the 1st EuCAPT census by following this link:
This will allow to include you and your institution in the EuCAPT network and mailing list, and to inform you about the exciting programme of scientific meetings, collaborative projects, joint proposals, and outreach activities.
Please help to reach all interested scientists, by spreading this information to your colleagues and group members. You are kindly ask to complete the census questionnaire by January 31, 2020.
The EAS S5 symposium on gravitational-wave astrophysics will take place during the virtual European Astronomical Society (EAS) annual meeting on the 2nd and 3rd of July 2020 and focus on the question of “What have we learned from the observed population of gravitational wave sources?”.
In this symposium, it will be discussed what have we learned so far from the observed population of gravitational-wave sources and what are the implications regarding the stellar progenitors of gravitational-wave sources, kilonovae and more generally electromagnetic transients that accompany gravitational-wave events, nucleosynthesis, general relativity and nuclear physics.
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The DarkMachines workshop: “Advanced workshop on Accelerating the Search for Dark Matter with Machine Learning” will take place from 27 April to 1 May 2020 at CERN. This workshop is the third edition of a series of yearly meetings of the Dark Machines community (http://darkmachines.org/), a research collective of physicists and data scientists. The aim of the workshop is to answer cutting edge questions about dark matter with the most advanced techniques that data science provides us with. The researchers coming to this workshop will bring together expertise in particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology, statistics and information science (machine learning) and plenty of time will be devoted to discussions and brainstorming.
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The ISAPP School on gravitational waves will take place from May 19th to May 30th at the Villa Finaly, Florence.
The science of gravitational waves is becoming an essential part of the scientific education of PhD students in the field of astroparticle physics. This school offers a general overview of the different aspects of this science: a theoretical introduction on gravitational waves and their astrophysical sources, a course on detectors, and finally an overview of data analysis techniques and the scientific implications of the first detections. Future perspectives, covering the instruments and associated science, will also be discussed.
The school will take place in Villa Finaly, an historical place belonging to the Paris Universities. This quiet location, offers the possibility of in-depth discussions among students and between students and teachers, who are encouraged to stay as much as possible.
Lectures will take place in the morning and early afternoon. Then Q/A sessions or time for projects development are allocated in the afternoon. Projects (for example, analysis of LIGO and Virgo data) will be developed in groups, with a kick-off at the beginning of the school and a final presentation at the end of the school.
In the evening, informal meetings are planned on broader themes, such as the challenges of open data, the management of a large science project, and how to perform high quality science outreach.
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The ISAPP school on “Gamma rays to shed light on dark matter” will happen in Madrid between 21-30 June, 2020.
The purpose of the School is to offer a general overview of the state-of-the-art of gamma-ray dark matter searches and it is primarily aimed at students at the MSc and PhD level, as well as young postdocs working in the field.
Being an ISAPP school, it will closely follow the same format and spirit of previous ISAPP schools across the world.
The program will include introductory lectures on Astrophysics, Cosmology and Particle physics, as well as a series of more specific lectures on each of the main topics. It will also provide the students with some of the most useful computational tools in the field, by running a few hands-on sessions on specific yet quite standard dark matter work packages.
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The ISAPP summer school on “Neutrino Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology” will be held at the Casa de la Ciencia in the historic centre of Valencia (Spain) from 2-10 July 2020. The school’s goal is to cover the main theoretical and experimental aspects of neutrino physics. The school is primarily aimed at PhD students and other young researchers working in this field, either experimentalists, theorists or phenomenologists who wish to have an up-to-date overview of neutrino physics and its connection to Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Following the standard ISAPP school format, the scientific program will consist of main lectures (1.5 hours including discussion) including introductory pre-courses on Particle Physics and Cosmology. Some sessions will be devoted to discussions to stimulate the interaction among students and lecturers. There will be also poster presentations for which participants are encouraged to contribute with results on their current research topics.
The 20th JINR-ISU Baikal Summer School on Physics of Elementary Particles and Astrophysics, will take place from July 14 to 21, 2020, in the picturesque village Bol’shie Koty (Big Cats) on the shore of Lake Baikal. Master and PhD students as well as early-career postdocs are invited to attend the School. The School offers:
The European Consortium for Astroparticle Theory (EuCAPT, 
