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

08:00 → 10:00 CAN meeting (closed session)

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

10:00 → 10:30 coffee

10:30 → 10:45 opening

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

10:45 → 12:30 session 1

10:45 Gamma rays from the Crab Nebula

Speaker: Rolf Bühler

11:45 The KM3NeT neutrino experiment: current status and prospects

Speaker: Daan van Eijk

12:15 Measurement of the neutrino mass hierarchy with KM3NeT/ORCA

Speaker: Martijn Jongen

12:30 → 13:30 lunch

13:30 → 15:30 session 2

13:30 Gamma-ray processes in galactic sources

Speaker: Emma de Ona Wilhelmi

14:30 Revisiting the Gerasimova-Zatsepin effect

Speaker: Vincent van Eijden

14:45 A study of the energy spectrum and the composition of cosmic rays

Speaker: Satyendra Thoudam

15:00 The exceptionally powerful TeV gamma-ray emitters in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Speaker: Jacco Vink

15:30 → 16:00 coffee

16:00 → 17:30 session 3

16:00 Update on the 3.5 keV X-ray line from galaxies and clusters

Speaker: Jeroen Franse

16:15 Distinguishing dark matter and point sources in gamma rays with 1-point statistics

Speaker: Jennifer Gaskins

16:30 Non-parametric determination of the local Dark Matter density

Speaker: Hamish Silverwood

16:45 Disc formation from stellar tidal disruptions

Speaker: Clément Bonnerot

17:00 Multi-messenger astronomy of binary neutron mergers

Speaker: Kenta Hotokezaka

17:15 Modulation in radioactive decay

Speaker: Froukje Gjaltema

17:30 → 17:40 break

17:40 → 17:55 Astroparticle Physics in Europe: collaboration, coordination and community building

Speaker: Job de Kleuver

17:55 → 18:05 News from the CAN

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

18:05 → 18:20 WARP - The new NWO program for astroparticle physics

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

19:00 → 20:30 dinner

20:30 → 23:00 community get-together

Friday, 27 March

08:00 → 09:00 breakfast

09:00 → 10:00 session 4

09:00 Recent results from the Pamela experiment

Speaker: Roberta Sparvoli

10:00 → 10:30 coffee

10:30 → 12:30 session 5

10:30 Radio detection of extensive air showers with LOFAR

Speaker: Stijn Buitink

11:00 Using cosmic rays to calibrate a radio telescope

Speaker: Anna Nelles

11:15 Probing atmospheric electric fields in thunderstorms through radio emission from air showers

Speaker: Gia Trinh

11:30 Radio detection of extensive air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Johannes Schulz

11:45 Commissioning of CHEC-M - A prototype for a dual mirror SST camera for CTA

Speaker: Arnim Balzer

12:00 Central camera testing for CTA

Speaker: Antonio Bonardi

12:15 Inverse compton emission from galaxy clusters

Speaker: Richard Bartels

12:30 → 13:30 lunch

13:30 → 14:45 session 6

13:30 The antarctic impulse transient antenna: cosmic ray flux estimation and recent flight

Speaker: Harm Schoorlemmer

14:00 Current status of the XENON experiments

Speaker: Andrew Brown

14:30 XAMS - a dual phase xenomn TPC for Dark Matter R&D

Speaker: Erik Hogenbrink

14:45 → 15:00 coffee

15:00 → 16:15 session 7

15:00 Gravitational waves

Speaker: Alberto Sesana

16:00 Gravitational wave physics and astrophysics with binary neutron star coalescences: an update

Speaker: Michalis Agathos

16:15 → 16:20 end of symposium