PACIFIC 2012

PACIFIC 2012, a symposium on Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Including Fundamental InteraCtions

Sept. 1-7, 2012, Moorea, French Polynesia

September 1

11:30 - 12:00 Neil Davies (Director, Gump Station): Welcome remarks
12:05 - 12:35 Francis Murphy (Associate Director, Gump Station): Orientation
12:35 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Pierre Sokolsky (U. Utah):The trouble with ultra-high energy cosmic rays
14:35 - 15:05 Martin Pohl (U. Potsdam and DESY): What cosmic-ray anisotropy tells us (1.2 MB)
15:10 - 15:40 Shigehiro Nagataki (U. Kyoto): Life of long gamma-ray bursts: from explosion to remnants
15:50 - 16:15 Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45 Soebur Razzaque (George Mason U.): High energy emission from gamma ray bursts
16:50 - 17:30 discussions
18:30 dinner

September 2

11:00 - 11:30 Dr. Eric Clua (Conseiller scientifique du haut-commissaire de la République): Strategy and tools for the development of scientific research in French Polynesia
11:40 - 12:10 Mark Morris (UCLA): Restlessness of the galactic black hole
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Eric Linder (UC Berkeley): Constraints on neutrinos, dark energy, and gravity from cosmology surveys
14:35 - 15:05 Christian Reichardt (UC Berkeley): Beyond LambdaCDM -- what measurements of the CMB damping tail tell us about neutrinos and other extensions
15:15 - 16:15 coffee break, discussions
17:00 Public lecture by Francois Vannucci (U. Paris): "Les neutrinos: les messagers secrets de l'invisible"
19:00 Tahitian Feast

September 3

9:00 - 12:30 sea excursion
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Dave Kieda (U. Utah): Observations of selected galactic TeV sources by the VERITAS Observatory (17.6 MB)
14:35 - 15:05 Toby Burnett (U. Washington), Is there new physics in gamma-ray data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope?
15:10 - 15:40 Shinichiro Ando (GRAPPA): Constraints on dark matter annihilation from observations of galaxy clusters
15:45 - 16:05 coffee break
16:05 - 16:35 Patrick Younk (Los Alamos National Lab): A two component model for dark matter in the Milky Way galaxy
16:40 - 17:10 Kohta Murase (Ohio State U.): Gamma-ray signatures of ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray sources
17:15 - 17:45 Alexander Kusenko (UCLA): Cosmic connections: from cosmic rays to gamma rays
18:00 dinner

September 4

9:00 - 12:30 inland excursion
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Goran Senjanovic (ICTP): Neutrino paradigm and LHC
14:35 - 15:05 Michael DuVernois (U. Wisconsin): IceCube & Friends (54 MB)
15:10 - 15:40 Mark Vagins (Kavli IPMU): EGADS - Building the world's most advanced supernova neutrino detector (10 MB)
15:45 - 16:05 coffee break
16:05 - 16:35 Kalliopi Petraki (U. Melbourne): Sterile neutrinos as dark matter
16:40 - 17:10 Francois Vannicci (U. Paris): Sterile neutrinos and the missing mass of the universe
17:15 - 17:45 Konstantin Belov (UCLA): ANITA - Looking into the universe of the ultra-high energy cosmic rays and neutrinos
18:00 dinner

September 5

11:30 - 12:00 Mikhail Shifman (U. Minnesota): Non-Abelian strings and 2D-4D correspondence
12:30 - 14:00 lunch
14:00 - 14:30 Robert Foot (U. Melbourne): Mirror dark matter interpretation of the DAMA, CoGeNT and CRESSTII experiments (1.5 MB)
14:35 - 15:05 Kalliopi Petraki (U. Melbourne): Asymmetric dark matter
15:10 - 15:40 Anibal Medina (Univ of Melbourne): Radion dark matter
15:45 - 16:05 coffee break
16:05 - 16:35 Guey-Lin Lin (National Chiao-Tung U.): Dark matter induced neutrino signature in IceCube and KM3NeT
16:40 - 17:10 Mu-chun Chen (UC Irvine): Models of discrete family symmetries and the stability of their predictions
17:15 - 17:45 Michael Ratz (UCI): Supersymmetric unification and R symmetries (4.3 MB)
17:50 - 18:20 Elena Orlando (Stanford U.): Interstellar radio emission and its implication for cosmic rays and magnetic fields
18:30 dinner

September 6 - 7