Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
32nd Course
Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2010


Friday Saturday  Sunday Monday  Tuesday Wednesday  Thursday


Friday, September 17

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: A. Faessler
09:00 - 09:20 Welcome
09:20 - 10:05 Aldo Ianni (Assergi)
Neutrino Physics with BOREXINO
10:20 - 11:05 Alexander Heger (Minneapolis, MN)
Evolution of Massive Stars
11:20 - 11:45 Coffee
Chair: H. Schatz
11:45 - 12:30 Karl Gebhardt (Austin)
Massive Black Holes: Observations and Implications
13:00 Lunch

Parallel Session A
San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: J. Jochum
16:00 - 16:35 Margherita Buizza Avanzini (Milano)
Experimental evidence of electron neutrino oscillations in vacuum and validation of the MSW-LMA model
16:45 - 17:20 Ulrich Katz (Erlangen)
Neutrino Astronomy with KM3NeT (ppt) (pdf)
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: Th. Kosmas
18:00 - 18:30 Thomas Eberl (Erlangen)
First results from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope
18:40 - 19:15 Vadim Rodin (Tuebingen)
Measuring the Fermi matrix elements of neutrinoless double beta decay by charge-exchange reactions
19:25 - 19:50 Vaitsa Tsakstara (Ioannina)
Studying neutrino and anti-neutrino scattering off Zn isotopes with QRPA

Parallel Session B
San Rocco, Feynman Lecture Hall
Chair: Ch. Weinheimer
16:00 - 16:40 Christel Smith (Del Mar)
New Nuclear and Weak Physics in Primordial Nucleosynthesis (ppt) (pdf)
16:50 - 17:25 Carlo Broggini (Padova)
20 years of LUNA
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: M. Hass
18:00 - 18:45 Filippo Terrasi (Caserta)
Underground and above ground nuclear astrophysics
19:00 - 19:35 Maik Stuke (Bielefeld)
Particle asymmetries in the early universe


Saturday, September 18

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: K. Kokkotas
09:00 - 09:45 James Hough (Glasgow)
Searching for Gravitational Waves
10:00 - 10:45 Josef Jochum (Tuebingen)
Direct Dark Matter Detection - CRESST
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: G. Sigl
11:30 - 12:15 Nils Andersson (Southampton)
Gravitational wave astronomy: Promises and challenges
12:30 - 12:50 Hans Feldmeier (Darmstadt)
Towards microscopic ab-initio calculations of astrophysical S-factors
13:00 Lunch

Parallel Session A
San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: J. Hoerandel
16:00 - 16:40 Andrea Santangelo (Tuebingen)
Particle Astrophysics of the Ultra High Energy Universe
16:50 - 17:20 Rastislav Hodak (Bratislava)
Towards the detection of relic neutrinos
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: F. Terrasi
18:00 - 18:35 Francesco Cafagna (Bari)
Indirect Dark Matter search in cosmic rays
19:45 - 19:15 Tomas Rodriguez (Darmstadt)
Neutrinoless double beta decay studied with configuration mixing methods
19:25 - 19:50 Jan Glorius (Darmstadt)
p-process nucleosynthesis: activation experiments

Parallel Session B
San Rocco, Feynman Lecture Hall
Chair: A. Ianni
16:00 - 16:45 Reynald Pain (Paris)
Supernovae Ia and Dark Energy
17:00 - 17:30 Marek Kowalski (Bonn)
Neutrino-Astrophysics with IceCube
17:40 - 18:10 Coffee
Chair: R. Pain
18:10 - 18:35 Klaas Vantournhout (Darmstadt)
A quantum approach to a dynamical simulation of the neutron star crust
18:40 - 19:05 Alexey Illarionov (Trento)
Microscopic calculation of the (low-temperature) equation of state of dense matter and neutron star structure
19:10 - 19:30 Soma Mandal (Taki, West Bengal)
Possibility of exotic structure of neutron star matter in presence of strong quantizing magnetic field
19:35 - 19:55 Anne Sauerwein (Koeln)
Nuclear physics experiments for the astrophysical p process (ppt) (pdf)

Sunday, September 19

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: C. Rolfs
09:00 - 09:45 Hendrik Schatz (East Lansing)
Rare isotope experiments and stellar explosions
10:00 - 10:45 Franz Käppeler (Karlsruhe)
Reaction cross sections for the s-, r-, and p-process
Coffee
Chair: V. Rodin
11:30 - 12:15 Karlheinz Langanke (Darmstadt)
Nuclear Reactions and the Dynamics of explosive Star Scenarios
12:25 - 12:50 Christian Weinheimer (Muenster)
The XENON-Project for direct Dark Matter search
13:00 Lunch

Parallel Session A
San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: H. Feldmeier
16:00 - 16:35 Harald Merkel (Mainz)
Search for dark matter gauge bosons with MAMI
16:45 - 17:20 Guenter Sigl (Hamburg)
High Energy Astrophysics with multiple messengers
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: H. Fritzsch
18:00 - 18:25 Sebastian Mendizabal (Hamburg)
Quantum mechanics of leptogenesis
18:30 - 18:55 Frank Daniel Steffen (Muenchen)
Dark Matter, Particle Physics and the LHC
19:00 - 19:25 Sabrina Casanova (Heidelberg)
Gamma-ray emission from molecular clouds: a probe of cosmic ray origin and propagation (ppt) (pdf)
19:30 - 19:50 Juergen Schaffner-Bielich (Heidelberg)
The Cosmological QCD Phase Transition Revisited

Parallel Session B
San Rocco, Feynman Lecture Hall
Chair: F. Simkovic
16:00 - 16:25 Oliver Wieland (Milano)
The Pygmy resonance in 68Ni and the neutron skin
16:30 - 16:55 Iris Dillmann (Garching)
r-process nucleosynthesis
17:00 - 17:20 Theocharis Kosmas (Ioannina)
Studying low-energy neutrinos through neutrino-nucleus interactions
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: S. Kamerdzhiev
18:00 - 18:30 Horst Lenske (Giessen)
Density Functional Theory for Processes of Astrophysical Interest
18:35 - 19:00 Alexandrina Petrovici (Bucharest)
Beyond mean field approach to the beta decay of medium mass nuclei relevant for nuclear astrophysics
19:05 - 19:30 Betty Tsang (East Lansing)
Experimental Constraints on Nuclear Symmetry Energy
19:35 - 19:55 Michele Marta (Dresden)
Experimental study of the 14N(p,gamma)15O reaction.

Monday, September 20

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: Th. Clifton
09:00 - 09:45 Rita Bernabei (Roma)
Particle Dark Matter in the galactic halo
10:00 - 10:45 Enectali Figueroa-Feliciano (Cambridge, Mass.)
Direct Detection Searches for Dark Matter
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: A. Santangelo
11:30 - 11:55 Wim de Boer (Karlsruhe)
Indirect Signatures for Dark Matter Annihilation
12:00 - 12:25 Tohru Motobayashi (Wako)
Studies with RI beams for explosive nuclear burning
13:15 - 19:00 Excursion: San Vito lo Capo

Tuesday, September 21

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Greek Temples in Selinunte and Temple and Greek Theater in Segesta

Wednesday, September 22

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: R. Bernabei
09:00 - 09:45 Friedrich Roepke (Garching)
Description of (type Ia) supernova explosions
10:00 - 10:45 Joachim Truemper (Garching)
Observations of Neutron Stars and the Equation of State of Matter at High Densities
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: J. Truemper
11:30 - 11:55 Dominik Schwarz (Bielefeld)
Cosmic acceleration
12:00 - 12:30 Harald Fritzsch (Muenchen)
Fundamental Constants and their Cosmic Time Variation (ppt) (pdf)
12:35 - 12:55 Aldo Morselli (Roma)
The Quest for Dark Matter Signals and the gamma-ray sky
13:00 Lunch

Parallel Session A
San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: A. Heger
16:00 - 16:25 Matthias Kerschhaggl (Bonn)
Cosmology with the Supernova Factory
16:30 - 16:45 Ivo Seitenzahl (Garching)
Internal conversion electrons and supernova light curves
16:50 - 17:25 Matthias Prall (Muenster)
The KATRIN experiment: recent measurements
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: N. Andersson
18:00 - 18:35 Daniela Kirilova (Sofia)
On lepton asymmetry and Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
18:45 - 19:20 Shawn Bishop (Garching)
Nova Reaction Rates and Experiments
19:25 - 19:55 Werner Richter (Bellville)
Shell-model studies of the rp-reaction 25Al(p,gamma)26Si (ppt) (pdf)

Parallel Session B
San Rocco, Feynman Lecture Hall
Chair: M. Buizza-Avanzini
16:00 - 16:35 Michael G. Schmidt (Heidelberg)
Electroweak Baryogenesis
16:45 - 17:20 Toshio Suzuki (Tokyo)
Spin dependent nuclear weak processes and nucleosynthesis in stars
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: A. Morselli
18:00 - 18:35 Daniele Fargion (Roma)
How to disentangle eventual Neutrino-Antineutrino CPT violation terms
18:40 - 19:05 Klaus Suemmerer (Darmstadt)
Coulomb and nuclear dissociation of 6Li as a tool to study the Big-Bang nucleosynthesis reaction alpha(d,gamma)6Li
19:10 - 19:30 Tuomo Kalliokoski (Jyvaskyla)
Can EMMA solve the puzzle of the knee?
19:35 - 19:55 Wladyslaw Henryk Trzaska (Jyvaskyla)
The LAGUNA project

Thursday, September 23

San Domenico, Dirac Lecture Hall
Chair: F. K. Thielemann
09:00 - 09:45 Fedor Simkovic (Bratislava)
Neutrino mass, fundamental rare processes and relic neutrinos
10:00 - 10:45 Timothy Clifton (Oxford)
Is dark energy an illusion?
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: D. Fargion
11:30 - 12:05 Claus Rolfs (Muenster)
Electron screening, a puzzle
12:15 - 12:50 Kostas Kokkotas (Tuebingen)
Neutron Star Dynamics
13:00 Lunch
Chair: F. Röpke
16:00 - 16:35 Friedrich-K. Thielemann (Basel)
What are the sites for producing r-process and other heavy elements?
16:45 - 17:20 Michael Hass (Rehovot)
The never-ending saga of solar fusion reactions
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee
Chair: J. Wambach
18:00 - 19:30 Panel discussion: Prospects of Particle and Nuclear Astrophysics

N. Andersson (Gravitational Waves)
C. Broggini (Astrophysical Reactions)
J. Jochum (Dark Matter)
T. Motobayashi (Radioactive Beams)
F. K. Thielemann (Supernovae; Dark Energy)
J. Truemper (Neutron Stars; Black Holes)

General discussion
20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner
Hotel Elimo