21st Symposium on Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands

Mar 31, 2016, 8:00 AM → Apr 1, 2016, 6:00 PM Europe/Amsterdam

Kasteel Woerden

The annual meeting of the Dutch astroparticle physics community will be held this year as a two-day symposium on March 31st and April 1st, 2016 at Kasteel Woerden. This will be the 21st 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.

Thu, March 31

8:00 AM → 10:00 AM CAN meeting (closed session)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM coffee

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Welcome/Opening

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM session 1

11:00 AM Welcome and news from the CAN

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

11:15 AM APPEC roadmap

Speaker: Frank Linde

11:30 AM Ultra high-energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Karl-Heinz Kampert

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch

1:30 PM → 3:30 PM session 2

1:30 PM Gravitational waves I

Speaker: Henk Jan Bulten

2:10 PM Gravitational waves II

Speaker: Chris Van den Broeck

2:50 PM Gravitational waves III

Speaker: Gijs Nelemans

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM coffee

4:00 PM → 6:00 PM session 3

4:00 PM The XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment

Speaker: Mr Sander Breur (Nikhef)

4:15 PM Laser wave-front sensor for a correction of mirror aberrations in Advanced Virgo

Speaker: Kazuhiro Agatsuma

4:30 PM Modeling radio and high energy emission from jets produced by accreting black holes

Speaker: Dr Monika Moscibrodzka (Radboud University)

4:45 PM Radio detection of cosmic rays

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

5:00 PM A Study of radio frequency spectrum emitted by high energy air showers with LOFAR

Speaker: Dr Laura Rossetto (Radboud University Nijmegen)

5:15 PM The influence of the atmospheric refractive index on radio measurements of extensive air showers

Speaker: Mr Arthur Corstanje (Radboud University Nijmegen)

5:30 PM Circular polarization of radio emission from air showers in thunderstorm conditions.

Speaker: Mrs Gia Trinh (KVI - CART, University of Groningen)

5:45 PM Central Acceptance Testing for Camera Technologies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Antonio Bonardi

6:00 PM → 7:00 PM hotel check in

7:00 PM → 9:00 PM dinner

Fri, April 1

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM session 4

9:00 AM The dawn of high-energy neutrino astronomy

Speaker: Julia Tjus

10:00 AM KM3NeT

Speaker: Karel Melis

10:15 AM Tau neutrino reconstruction in KM3NeT

Speaker: Robert Bormuth

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM coffee

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM session 5

11:00 AM Cosmology

Speaker: Daniel Baumann

12:00 PM The importance of astro-particle in doing cosmology with clusters of galaxies

Speaker: Fabio Zandanel

12:15 PM Predictions for Dark Matter in Galaxy Clusters with Upcoming Radio Surveys

Speaker: Emma Storm

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM lunch

1:30 PM → 3:00 PM session 6

1:30 PM The Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Maurice Stephan

1:52 PM Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray propagation with CRPropa

Speaker: Dr Arjen van Vliet (Radboud University Nijmegen)

2:14 PM Particle Acceleration in Mildly Relativistic Shocks

Speaker: Patrick Crumley

2:36 PM A bright future for double white dwarf binaries

Speaker: Valeriya Korol

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM coffee

3:30 PM → 5:05 PM session 7

3:30 PM On the origin of the very high energy gamma ray emission of the Galactic Centre region

Speaker: David Berge

3:45 PM How to distinguish warm intergalactic medium from warm dark matter?

Speaker: Dr Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

4:00 PM APP-NL opportunities within ASTERICS

Speaker: Dr Rob van der Meer (ASTRON)

4:15 PM Determination of the local Dark Matter density

Speaker: Hamish Silverwood

4:30 PM Indirect dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies using an axisymmetric density profile

Speaker: Ms Niki Klop (GRAPPA, UvA)

4:45 PM Bayesian analysis of the Gamma-ray Luminosity function of Millisecond Pulsars and its implication for the galactic centre GeV excess

Speaker: Mr Thomas Edwards (University of Amsterdam, GRAPPA)