VULCANO WORKSHOP 1998
FRONTIERS OBJECTS IN ASTROPHYSICS
AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Vulcano (Italy), May 24-30
Final Program
Sunday 24 Afternoon
16.00 REGISTRATION OF PARTICIPANTS
19.00 END OF REGISTRATION
19.30 WELCOME COCKTAIL PARTY
20.00 DINNER
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Monday 25 Morning
08.30 F. GIOVANNELLI & G. MANNOCCHI Welcome Address
OPENING REMARKS
Chairperson: H. BRADT
08.35 F. GIOVANNELLI Open Problems in Astroparticle Physics Today.
09.10 G. AURIEMMA Astroparticle Physics: Toward Highest Energies.
09.45 A. MASIERO Dark Matter Problems.
10.20 Coffee Break
Chairperson: W. KUNDT
10.50 E. FIORINI Present Limits on Neutrinoless Double
Beta-Decay and Their Implications in
Astroparticle Physics.
11.25 G. PIZZELLA Gravitational Wave Experiments.
12.00 N. PANAGIA News from HST.
12.35 G. BONO Cosmic Distances: Primary Distance Indicators.
13.10 END OF SESSION
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Monday 25 Afternoon
COSMOLOGY
Chairperson: G.S. BISNOVATYI-KOGAN
17.00 S. COLAFRANCESCO On the Clusters of Galaxies: Probes of Dark
Matter and High Energy Phenomena.
17.35 N. MENCI The Evolution of Baryons in Galaxy Clusters.
17.55 R. REBOLO Cosmic Background and Light Elements.
18.30 J. BECKMAN The Importance of Light Elements in Cosmology.
19.05 D. DENEGRI Sparticle and SUSY Dark Matter Discovery
Potential of LHC.
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COSMOLOGY
Tuesday 26 Morning
Chairperson: L. JONES
08.30 R. BERNABEI Results from DAMA Experiment: Particle Dark Matter.
09.05 C. BUCCI Late results on Double Decay Search of 130Te.
09.25 P. FRANZINI Status and Perspectives of the Search for Direct CP
Violation.
10.00 N. PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE Microlensis Towards the Small
Magellanic Cloud With EROS-2.
10.35 END OF SESSION
Coffee Break
ASTROPHYSICS OF HIGH ENERGY COSMIC SOURCES
Chairperson: G. FIORENTINI
11.05 H. BRADT The Impact of RXTE Upon Our Knowledge
of the Universe.
11.40 W. VOGES Highlights from ROSAT.
12.15 H. BLOEMEN CGRO-COMPTEL Science Review.
12.50 INTERVAL
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Tuesday 26 Afternoon
Chairperson: G. PIZZELLA
17.00 C. ROBINSON The Hard X-Ray Sky as Seen from CGRO-BATSE
(Galactic Superluminal, Accreting Pulsars and
Gamma-Ray Bursts).
17.35 A. PICCIONI Two Seasons of Photometry and Spectroscopy
on A 0535+26.
18.05 F. GIOVANNELLI Does X-Ray Pulsar A 1118-61 Belong to an
Atypical X-Ray/Be System?
18.20 D. de MARTINO The Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables.
18.40 P. GOLDONI SIGMA Observations of X-Ray Novae.
19.00 W. BRINKMANN Recent Results from X-Ray Studies of AGNs.
19.20 W. KUNDT The Youngest Mapped SNR in the Galaxy: In Orion ?
19.40 P. GRANDI Beppo-SAX Observations of Bright Radio Galaxies:
Unified Schemes for Radio Loud AGNs.
20.00 INTERVAL
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Wednesday 27 Morning
Chairperson: N. PANAGIA
08.30 O. REIMER Highlights from CGRO-EGRET.
09.05 F. GIOVANNELLI Young Open Clusters: A Class of X-Ray and Gamma-Ray
Emitters.
09.25 V. DOGIEL Gamma and X-Ray Emission Produced in the Orion
Complex.
09.45 J. ISERN Gamma-Ray Emission from TypeIa Supernovae.
10.20 J. BEALL Non-Thermal Processes in Line Emission from AGNs.
10.40 Coffee Break
Chairperson: W. BRINKMANN
11.00 P. PADOVANI High Energy Emission from AGNs and Unified Schemes.
11.35 J. ZIOLKOWSKI Rotation of Neutron Stars and Black Holes.
11.55 W. KUNDT The Noise Structure of Pulsar Clocks.
12.15 G. BISNOVATYI-KOGAN Properties of Advective Accretion Disks Around
Black Holes.
12.35 E. LORENZ Status of TeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy.
13.10 M. HILLAS New Insights into BL Lac Objects from TeV and
KeV Observations.
13.30 INTERVAL
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Wednesday 27 Afternoon
FREE
21.30 ETRUSCAN WINE PARTY
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Thursday 28 Morning
Chairperson: A. WOLFENDALE
08.30 F. KRENNRICH An Overview of TeV Astronomy.
09.05 P. GHIA VHE Gamma-Ray Astrophysics: Results from EAS-TOP
Experiment at Gran Sasso.
09.25 N. TURINI Preliminary Results from CLUE Cherenkov UV
Experiment.
09.45 G. YODH First Light in MILAGRITO.
10.05 END OF SESSION
Coffee Break
GAMMA-RAY BURSTS
Chairperson: G. AURIEMMA
10.35 E. COSTA The Impact of Beppo-SAX on the Knowledge
of Gamma-Ray Bursts.
11.10 A. DAR Origin of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Cosmic Rays.
11.45 G. MODESTINO Correlation Analysis Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and
Gravitational Wave Data.
12.05 L. SCARSI Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Likely Source of the Extreme
Energy Cosmic Radiation and Cosmic Neutrinos
at Energies Above 10**19 eV. A Crucial test.
12.25 W. KUNDT Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Critical Analysis.
13.00 END OF SESSION
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Thursday 28 Afternoon
THE CHALLENGE OF COSMIC RAY PRODUCTION
Chairperson: N. PALANQUE-DELABROUILLE
16.30 M. OSTROWSKI Processes of Cosmic Ray Acceleration
in Relativistic Plasma Flows.
17.05 A. MASTICHIADIS Particle Acceleration and High Energy
Emission in Blazar Jets.
17.40 L. JONES Accelerator and Cosmic Ray Studies of Nuclear
Collisions at Very Small Angles.
18.15 A. PETRUKIN Muons in Extensive Air Showers.
18.35 G. BATTISTONI The Non-Relativistic Component of Extensive
Air Showers.
18.55 C. ARAMO Shower Front Characteristics of Individual
Extensive Air Showers.
19.15 A. GRILLO First results of the TTC approach to longitudinal
development of Extensive Air Showers
19.30 INTERVAL
22.00 CONCERT IN LIPARI
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Friday 29 Morning
Chairperson: A. PETRUKIN
08.30 M. HILLAS What Is Happening at the Knee of the Cosmic Ray
Spectrum ?
09.05 G. NAVARRA Physics Around the Knee: A Review of
Experimental Results.
09.40 L. JONES Cosmic Ray Muon Studies with the L3 Muon
Spectrometer at CERN.
10.00 E. SCAPPARONE Study of the Muon Photonuclear with MACRO.
10.20 A. CODINO New Numerical Results on Fundamental
Properties of Galactic Cosmic Rays.
10.40 Coffee Break
Chairperson: G. YODH
11.10 A. WOLFENDALE Cosmic Ray Origin in the Range 10**5-10**7 GeV.
11.45 A. WOLFENDALE Cosmic Ray Origin Below 10 GeV.
12.05 J. LINSLEY Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays: The Primary
Composition Measurement Problem.
12.25 C. GUERARD The Auger Project and the Detection of
Extreme High Energy Cosmic Rays.
13.00 END OF SESSION
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Friday 29 Afternoon
NEUTRINO ASTRONOMY
Chairperson: M. HILLAS
16.30 G. SHAVIV The Solar Neutrino Problem Today.
17.05 G. FIORENTINI Status of Solar Neutrino Problem.
17.40 T. STANEV Neutrino Oscillations with Atmospheric
Neutrinos: Some New Considerations.
18.00 L. PASSALACQUA Limits on Neutrino Mass from e+e- Colliders.
18.20 M. NAKAMURA Neutrino Oscillations: Results from Accelerators.
18.55 D. NICOLO' Neutrino Oscillations at Reactors.
19.15 P. BERNARDINI Measurement of Atmospheric Neutrino Induced
Muon Flux with MACRO Detector.
19.35 P. GALEOTTI LVD Results.
19.55 V. CHECHETKIN New Mechanism of Supernova Explosion Owing to
Neutrinos.
20.15 INTERVAL
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Saturday 30 Morning
Chairperson: D. DENEGRI
08.30 P. LIPARI Anomalies in Neutrino Physics.
09.05 A. DAR High Energy Neutrinos from Blazars
and Gamma-Ray Bursts.
09.30 END OF SESSION
Coffee Break
DIRECTION FOR NEXT GENERATION EXPERIMENTS
Chairperson: E. FIORINI
10.00 L. SCARSI AIR WATCH: A Project to Observe the Extreme
Energies in Cosmic Rays and Cosmic Neutrinos.
10.15 R. D'ALESSANDRO The Study of Anti-Protons and Positrons in Space
With the PAMELA Spectrometer.
10.30 TBD Atmospheric Neutrino Anomaly: The Next
Generation Experiment.
10.50 E. MERONI Borexino and Solar Neutrino Physics.
11.05 A. MORSELLI Planned Future Projects for the Study of the
Gamma-Ray Spectrum Between 20 MeV and 100 GeV.
11.20 G. AURIEMMA Viktor HESS (High Energy Stereoscopic System)
Project.
11.35 J. ISERN SIXE (Spanish Italian X-ray Experiment):
Finalysing the Phase A.
11.50 C. LA PADULA First Results with the IAS-TRT
(Three Reflections Telescope) Prototype
12.05 END OF SESSION
CONCLUDING REMARKS
Chairperson: L. SCARSI
12.05 FIRST SPEAKER
12.20 SECOND SPEAKER
12.35 THIRD SPEAKER
12.50 FOURTH SPEAKER
13.05 F. GIOVANNELLI Concluding Address
13.15 END OF THE WORKSHOP