21st Symposium on Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands

31 Mar 2016, 08:00 → 1 Apr 2016, 18:00 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.

Thursday 31 March

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

10:00 → 10:30 coffee

10:30 → 11:00 Welcome/Opening

11:00 → 12:30 session 1

11:00 Welcome and news from the CAN

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

11:15 APPEC roadmap

Speaker: Frank Linde

11:30 Ultra high-energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Karl-Heinz Kampert

12:30 → 13:30 lunch

13:30 → 15:30 session 2

13:30 Gravitational waves I

Speaker: Henk Jan Bulten

14:10 Gravitational waves II

Speaker: Chris Van den Broeck

14:50 Gravitational waves III

Speaker: Gijs Nelemans

15:30 → 16:00 coffee

16:00 → 18:00 session 3

16:00 The XENON1T Dark Matter Search Experiment

Speaker: Mr Sander Breur (Nikhef)

16:15 Laser wave-front sensor for a correction of mirror aberrations in Advanced Virgo

Speaker: Kazuhiro Agatsuma

16:30 Modeling radio and high energy emission from jets produced by accreting black holes

Speaker: Dr Monika Moscibrodzka (Radboud University)

16:45 Radio detection of cosmic rays

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

17:00 A Study of radio frequency spectrum emitted by high energy air showers with LOFAR

Speaker: Dr Laura Rossetto (Radboud University Nijmegen)

17:15 The influence of the atmospheric refractive index on radio measurements of extensive air showers

Speaker: Mr Arthur Corstanje (Radboud University Nijmegen)

17:30 Circular polarization of radio emission from air showers in thunderstorm conditions.

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

17:45 Central Acceptance Testing for Camera Technologies for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Antonio Bonardi

18:00 → 19:00 hotel check in

19:00 → 21:00 dinner

Friday 1 April

09:00 → 10:30 session 4

09:00 The dawn of high-energy neutrino astronomy

Speaker: Julia Tjus

10:00 KM3NeT

Speaker: Karel Melis

10:15 Tau neutrino reconstruction in KM3NeT

Speaker: Robert Bormuth

10:30 → 11:00 coffee

11:00 → 12:30 session 5

11:00 Cosmology

Speaker: Daniel Baumann

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

Speaker: Fabio Zandanel

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

Speaker: Emma Storm

12:30 → 13:30 lunch

13:30 → 15:00 session 6

13:30 The Compact High Energy Camera for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Maurice Stephan

13:52 Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray propagation with CRPropa

Speaker: Dr Arjen van Vliet (Radboud University Nijmegen)

14:14 Particle Acceleration in Mildly Relativistic Shocks

Speaker: Patrick Crumley

14:36 A bright future for double white dwarf binaries

Speaker: Valeriya Korol

15:00 → 15:30 coffee

15:30 → 17:05 session 7

15:30 On the origin of the very high energy gamma ray emission of the Galactic Centre region

Speaker: David Berge

15:45 How to distinguish warm intergalactic medium from warm dark matter?

Speaker: Dr Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

16:00 APP-NL opportunities within ASTERICS

Speaker: Dr Rob van der Meer (ASTRON)

16:15 Determination of the local Dark Matter density

Speaker: Hamish Silverwood

16:30 Indirect dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies using an axisymmetric density profile

Speaker: Ms Niki Klop (GRAPPA, UvA)

16:45 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)