20th Symposium on Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands

26 Mar 2015, 08:00 → 27 Mar 2015, 18:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Hotel Erica, Berg en Dal

Jörg Hörandel (Radboud University Nijmegen dep. Astrophysics)

The annual meeting of the Dutch astroparticle physics community will be held this year as a two-day symposium on March 26th and 27th, 2015 in Hotel Erica in Berg en Dal. This will be the 20th symposium of a series which started in the year 2004. The meetings are organized by the Committee of Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands - CAN. The idea of these symposia is to form a strong astroparticle physics community in the Netherlands. The symposia give a platform to (PhD) students and postdoctoral researchers to present their recent results to a nation-wide audience and to establish new scientific contacts beyond the own working group. It is also a tradition to have international keynote speakers, reviewing important aspects of astroparticle physics. This meeting will also be the annual meeting of the new NWO research program Waves, Rays, and Particles - WARP.

Thursday, 26 March

1 CAN meeting (closed session)

Speaker: Jorg Hörandel (Radboud University Nijmegen dep. Astrophysics)

10:00 coffee

2 opening

Speaker: Jörg Hörandel (Radboud University Nijmegen dep. Astrophysics)

session 1

3 Gamma rays from the Crab Nebula

Speaker: Rolf Bühler

4 The KM3NeT neutrino experiment: current status and prospects

Speaker: Daan van Eijk

5 Measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy with KM3NeT/ORCA

Speaker: Martijn Jongen

12:30 lunch

session 2

6 Gamma-ray processes in galactic sources

Speaker: Emma de Ona Wilhelmi

7 Revisiting the Gerasimova-Zatsepin effect

Speaker: Vincent van Eijden

8 A study of the energy spectrum and the composition of cosmic rays

Speaker: Satyendra Thoudam

9 The exceptionally powerful TeV gamma-ray emitters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Speaker: Jacco Vink

15:30 coffee

session 3

10 Update on the 3.5 keV X-ray line from galaxies and clusters

Speaker: Jeroen Franse

11 Distinguishing dark matter and point sources in gamma rays with 1-point statistics

Speaker: Jennifer Gaskins

12 Non-parametric determination of the local Dark Matter density

Speaker: Hamish Silverwood

13 Disc formation from stellar tidal disruptions

Speaker: Clément Bonnerot

14 Multi-messenger astronomy of binary neutron mergers

Speaker: Kenta Hotokezaka

15 Modulation in radioactive decay

Speaker: Froukje Gjaltema

17:30 break

16 Astroparticle Physics in Europe: collaboration, coordination and community building

Speaker: Job de Kleuver

17 News from the CAN

Speaker: Jörg Hörandel (Radboud University Nijmegen dep. Astrophysics)

18 WARP - The new NWO program for astroparticle physics

Speakers: Jörg Hörandel (Radboud University Nijmegen dep. Astrophysics), Katrien Uytterhoeven

19:00 dinner

20:30 community get-together

Friday, 27 March

08:00 breakfast

session 4

19 Recent results from the Pamela experiment

Speaker: Roberta Sparvoli

10:00 coffee

session 5

20 Radio detection of extensive air showers with LOFAR

Speaker: Stijn Buitink

21 Using cosmic rays to calibrate a radio telescope

Speaker: Anna Nelles

22 Probing atmospheric electric fields in thunderstorms through radio emission from air showers

Speaker: Gia Trinh

23 Radio detection of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Johannes Schulz

24 Commissioning of CHEC-M - A prototype for a dual mirror SST camera for CTA

Speaker: Arnim Balzer

25 Central camera testing for CTA

Speaker: Antonio Bonardi

26 Inverse compton emission from galaxy clusters

Speaker: Richard Bartels

12:30 lunch

session 6

27 The antarctic impulse transient antenna: cosmic ray flux estimation and recent flight

Speaker: Harm Schoorlemmer

28 Current status of the XENON experiments

Speaker: Andrew Brown

29 XAMS - a dual phase xenomn TPC for Dark Matter R&D

Speaker: Erik Hogenbrink

14:45 coffee

session 7

30 Gravitational waves

Speaker: Alberto Sesana

31 Gravitational wave physics and astrophysics with binary neutron star coalescences: an update

Speaker: Michalis Agathos

16:15 end of symposium