Carolina International Symposium on Neutrino Physics (CISNP)

Scientific Program

Thursday, May 15, 2008

9:00 - 10:30 Session 1 - Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Cosmology (Chair: W. Haxton)
M. Turner (Chicago) "Quarks and the Cosmos: from Massive Neutrinos to Dark Energy"
L. Stodolsky (Muenchen) "An Aspect of Dark Matter"
E. Figueroa-Feliciano (MIT) "Towards Direct Detection of WIMP's with the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search"
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 2 - Neutrino Oscillations, Solar Model (I) (Chair: R.G.H. Robertson)
A. McDonald (Kingston) "Physics at SNO and the New SNOLAB"
B. Altschul (USC) "Testing Relativity with Neutrinos"
K. Lande (Philadelphia) "Neutrino Oscillations at Homestake from Chlorine to the Megadetector"
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 - 4:00 Session 3 - Neutrino Experiments (I) (Chair: S. Mishra)
E. Fiorini (Milano) "Searches on Neutrino Physics with Cryogenic Detectors"
K. Lesko (LBNL) "The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at Homestake"
Y. Efremenko (Oak Ridge) "Neutrinos at SNS"
S. Elliott (Los Alamos) "The Majorana Project"
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:30 Session 4 - Double Beta-Decay (Chair: S. Elliott)
A. Barabash (Moscow) "NEMO-3 Double Beta Decay Experiment: Last Results"
H. Ejiri (Osaka) "Double Beta Decays and Related Subjects in Japan"
P. Vogel (Pasadena) "Anatomy of Nuclear Matrix Elements for Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay"
J. Engel (Chapel Hill) "Nuclear-Structure Corrections to the Double-Beta-Decay Operator"








Friday , May 16, 2008


9:00 - 10:30 Session 5 - Double-Beta Decay (II) (Chair: P. Vogel)
J. Wilkerson (Seattle) "Peter Rosen and Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay -- A Legacy of Insights and Advocacy"
O. Civitarese (La Plata) Further Test of the QRPA Calculation of DBD-NME"
B. Kayser (Batavia) "Double Beta Decay: Physics, Recollections, and Future"
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Session 6 - Neutrino Oscillations, Solar Model (II) (Chair: B. Holstein)
W. Haxton (Seattle) "CN Neutrinos and the Sun's Primordial Metalicity"
F. Calaprice (Princeton) "First Results from the Borexino Solar Neutrino Experiment"
S. Mishra (USC) "Future Discoveries in Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment: A Review of Crucial Precision Ingredients"
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break
2:00 - 4:00 Session 7 - Neutrino Experiments (II) (Chair: E. Fiorini)
F. Avignone (USC) "Early Particle Astrophysics Experiments with Ultra-Low Background Germanium Detectors"
H. Miley (PNNL) "A Review of the Germanium Collaboration between USC and PNNL"
R.G.H. Robertson (Seattle) "Direct Measurements of Neutrino Mass"
G. Gratta (Stanford) "Measuring the Neutrino Mass One Atom at the Time"
4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 6:00 Session 8 - Neutrino Physics (Chair: F. Halzen)
W. Louis (Los Alamos) "Searching for Physics Beyond the Standard Model with Accelerator Neutrino Experiments"
P. Serpico (Batavia) "Neutrino and Cosmology: a Lifetime Relationship"
B. Holstein (Amherst) "The Strange Disappearance of Ettore Majorana"








Saturday , May 17, 2008


9:00 - 11:00 Session 9 - General Physics, Neutrino Astrophysics (Chair: R. Creswick)
S. Freedman (Berkeley) "Memories of a Test of Bell's Inequality"
S. Nussinov (Tel Aviv) "Classical and Quantum Phases: Non-Abelian Variants and the MSW Effect"
F. Halzen (Madison) "Neutrino Astronomy"
J. Collar (Chicago) "New Approaches to Dark Matter and Neutrino Detection"
11:00 - 12:00 Lunch Break
12:00 - 1:40 Session 10 - Neutrino Experiments (III) and Summary (Chair: K. Lande)
F. Hartmann (Heidelberg) "Double CHOOZ and the Search for Short Range Electron Anti-Neutrino Oscillations"
C. Bigongiari (Valencia) "First Results from the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope"
S. Petcov (Trieste) "Concluding Remarks" (40 Minutes)



Social Events

On the evening of Wednesday, May 14, at 5:30pm a reception will be given at the Inn at USC (symposium site).

The symposium banquet will be held on the evening of Friday, May 16, at 6:30pm at the Capital City Club,
1201 Main Street
25th Floor
Columbia, South Carolina 29201
(803) 256-2000.

The CISNP banquet will be free of charge.





Question and Information regarding the conference: papp@physics.sc.edu

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