Program


International School of Nuclear Physics
41st Course
Star Mergers, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter and Neutrinos
in Nuclear, Particle and Astro-Physics, and in Cosmology
Erice-Sicily
September 16-24, 2019

Blackett Institute (San Domenico)


Tuesday  Wednesday  Thursday  Friday  Saturday  Sunday  Monday


Tuesday, September 17

Chair: Jochen Wambach
09:00 - 09:05 Welcome
09:05 - 09:50 Amand Faessler (Tuebingen, Germany)
A brief history of the town of Erice
09:50 - 10:35 Andreas Bauswein (Darmstadt, Germany)
Gravitational waves and neutron star mergers
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee
Chair: Amand Faessler
11:15 - 12:15 Stephane Goriely (Brussels, Belgium)
Nucleosynthesis in Neutron-star mergers
12:30 Lunch

Chair: Andreas Bauswein
16:00 - 16:30 Takasumi Maruyama (Tsukuba, Japan)
Sterile Neutrino Search at J-PARC MLF
16:35 - 17:05 Toshitaka Kajino (Tokyo, Japan)
Impact of RIB Science and Neutrino Physics on Merger, Supernova, and Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis
17:10 - 17:35 Kanji Mori (Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan)
Big Bang Nucleosynthesis with Time-dependent Quark Mass
17:40 - 18:10 Coffee
Chair: Pasquale Di Bari
18:10 - 18:40 Robert Grzywacz (Knoxville, US)
"Beta-delayed neutron emission - new beginning"
18:45 - 19:15 Michael Famiano (Kalamazoo, MI, USA)
Nuclear Astrophysics in Relativistic Plasmas

Wednesday, September 18

Chair: Michael Buballa
09:00 - 09:35 Horst Lenske (Giessen, Germany)
Di-Star Mergers and Red Novae in a Fusion Approach
09:40 - 10:05 Abdul Quddus (Aligarh, India)
GW170817 constraints on the properties of neutron star in the presence of WIMP dark matter
10:10 - 10:30 Krzysztof Jodlowski (Warsaw, Poland)
Testing dark matter with Cherenkov light – prospects of H.E.S.S. and CTA for exploring minimal supersymmetry
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee
Chair: Josef Jochum
11:05 - 11:50 Manfred Lindner (Heidelberg, Germany)
Coherent neutrino scattering (theory and experimental results)
12:05 - 12:35 Liudmyla Berdina (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Reverberation Responses In Light Curves Of The Quasar
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Taka Kajino
16:00 - 17:00 Susanne Mertens (Muenchen, Germany)
The KATRIN experiment
17:15 - 17:35 Sebastian Mirz (Karlsuhe, Germany)
Van-der-Waals cluster formation as a systematic uncertainty for the KATRIN neutrino mass measurement
17:40 - 18:10 Coffee
Chair: Robert Grzywacz
18:10 - 18:30 Anna Pollithy (Garching, Germany)
Background in the KATRIN Experiment
18:35 - 18:55 Christoph Koehler (Muenchen, Germany)
Determination of the column density for the KATRIN neutrino mass measurement
19:00 - 19:30 Pasquale Di Bari (Southampton, UK)
Unifying dark matter, leptogenesis and neutrino masses

Thursday, September 19

09:00 - 20:00 Excursion:
Selinunte and Segesta
Leaving at 9:00 h from Porta Trapani.

Friday, September 20

Chair: Takasumi Maruyama
09:00 - 09:45 Josef Jochum (Tuebingen, Germany)
Double Beta Decay Experiments
10:00 - 11:00 Bernhard Schwingenheuer (Heidelberg, Germany)
Double beta decay experiments
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee
Chair: Daniele Fargion
11:45 - 12:30 Petr Vogel (Pasadena, CA, USA)
Double beta decay matrix elements: QRPA vs Shell Model
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Jun Cao
16:00 - 17:00 Marc Schumann (Freiburg, Germany)
Dark Matter and more with multi ton-scale Xenon Detectors
17:15 - 17:40 Tobias Stirner (Munich, Germany)
Neutrino flavor conversion
17:45 - 18:15 Coffee
Chair: Andreas Piepke
18:15 - 18:45 Giovanni Benato (Berkeley, United States)
Searching for neutrinoless double beta decay with cryogenic calorimeters

Saturday, September 21

Chair: Roberto Mussa
09:00 - 09:35 Wei Chen (Guangzhou, China)
Hidden-charm pentaquark states in a molecular picture
09:45 - 10:45 Dan Dwyer (Berkeley, USA)
The reactor anti-neutrino spectrum
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Michael Famiano
11:30 - 12:30 Thomas Gaisser (Newark, DE, USA)
Recent Results from IceCube
14:00 - 19:00 Excursion: Trapani
Excursion with lunch packages and towels on the bus to the beach near Trapani. Bus leaves at 14:00 h from Porta Trapani.

Sunday, September 22

Chair: Horst Lenske
09:00 - 09:45 Andreas Piepke (Tuscaloosa, AL, USA)
The nEXO double beta decay project: moving towards the ton scale
10:00 - 10:30 Daniele Fargion (Rome, Italy)
Tau Neutrino Astronomy on Earth and Space
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
Chair: Toshio Suzuki
11:10 - 11:55 Jun Cao (Beijing, China)
JUNO - the Detector and Physics Plans
12:10 - 12:40 Massimo Blasone (Fisciano, Italy)
Flavor states for oscillating neutrinos
12:50 Lunch

Chair: Wei Chen
16:00 - 16:25 Dimitrios Papoulias (Valencia, Spain)
Probing Neutrino Transition Magnetic Moments at CEvNS Experiments
16:30 - 16:55 Yuki Fujimoto (Tokyo, Japan)
Machine learning inference of the dense matter EoS and quark-hadron continuity
17:00 - 17:30 Coffee

Monday, September 23

Chair: Liudmyla Berdina
09:00 - 10:00 Roberto Mussa (Torino, Italy)
Ultra-high energy cosmic rays: recent results from AUGER
10:15 - 10:50 Oleg Smirnov (Dubna, Russian Federation)
Solar and geo-neutrinos: current status and future directions
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
Chair: Massimo Blasone
11:30 - 12:30 Kate Scholberg (Durham, USA)
Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering
12:45 Lunch

Chair: Dimitrios Papoulias
16:00 - 16:35 Toshio Suzuki (Tokyo, Japan)
Neutrino-nucleus reactions and scatterings for neutrino detection
16:45 - 17:10 Jespere Calderone Nzobadila Ondze (Bellville, South Africa)
Study of neutron pairing correlations in $^{134}Ba$ using (p,t) reaction on $^{136}Ba$
17:15 - 17:45 Coffee
Chair: Michael Buballa
17:45 - 19:15 Petr Vogel (Pasadena, CA, USA)
Summary

20:15 - 24:00 Conference Dinner