Name: VLVnT13 - Very Large Volume Neutrino Telescope Workshop 2013
Start: 2013-08-05T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-08-07T18:00:00+02:00
Location: AlbaNova University Center

Monday, 5 August 2013

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Main Entrance
09:00 Neutrino Telescopes
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium
Contributions

09:15 Recent Results from the ANTARES neutrino telescope - Thomas Eberl (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)

09:50 Latest results from IceCube - Alexander Kappes (Humboldt University / DESY)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Main Entrance
11:00 High Energy Neutrinos - Results and Theory
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Results from IceCube Contained Event Search - Nathan Whitehorn (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

11:35 Multi-Messenger Tests of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers (UW-Madison & WIPAC)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: down the street
14:00 Photodetection and Readout I.
14:00 - 15:35
Room: FB54
Contributions

14:00 The electronics readout and data acquisition system of the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope Node - Diego Real (IFIC)

14:20 The electronic system of the Towers for the KM3NeT-Italy Cherenkov Neutrino Detector. - Francesco Simeone (University "Sapienza" and INFN Rome)

14:40 1 ns Time to Digital Converter for KM3NeT Data Readout System - David Calvo (IFIC)

15:00 Long-term optical background measurements in the Capo Passero deep-sea site - Maria Grazia Pellegriti for the Nemo collaboration (INFN-LNS)

15:20 PMTs development by Hamamatsu - Yuji Hotta (Hamamatsu Photonics)
Physics, Reconstruction, and Software I.
14:00 - 15:30
Room: FB53
Contributions

14:00 IceVeto: Extended PeV neutrino astronomy in the Southern Hemisphere with IceCube. - Jan Auffenberg (University of Wisconsin Madison)

14:20 Sensitivity of the KM3NeT detector to a neutrino flux from the Fermi Bubbles. - Paolo Piattelli (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)

14:40 Sensitivity of the KM3NeT detector to neutrino fluxes from Galactic point-like sources - Paul KOOIJMAN (U. of Amsterdam/Utrecht U./Nikhef)

15:00 Detection of Extended Galactic Sources with an Underwater Neutrino Telescope - Antonios Tsirigotis (Hellenic Open University) Dimitrios Lenis (INPP, NCSR Demokritos)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Main Entrance
16:00 Calibration I.
16:00 - 18:00
Room: FB54
Contributions

16:00 Underwater acoustic positioning system for the KM3NeT project - Salvatore Viola (INFN - LNS)

16:20 Proposal of a new generation of Laser Beacon for Time Calibration in the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope - Diego Real (IFIC)

16:40 Nanobeacon: A low cost Time calibration instrument for the KM3NeT Neutrino Telescope - David Calvo (IFIC)

17:15 A technique for measuring the sea water optical parameters with a dedicated laser beam and a Multi-PMT Optical Module - Antonios Papaikonomou (Hellenic Open University) Apostolos Tsirigotis (Hellenic Open University)
Physics, Reconstruction, and Software II.
16:00 - 18:00
Room: FB53
Contributions

16:00 UHE neutrino and cosmic ray emission from GRBs: revising the models and clarifying the cosmic ray-neutrino connection - Mauricio Bustamante (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

16:25 Search for Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts with ANTARES - Julia Schmid (ECAP / University of Erlangen)

16:45 Search for neutrino point sources with 2007-2012 ANTARES data - Juan de Dios Zornoza (IFIC)

17:05 Search for a small-scale anisotropy with 3 years of the IceCube detector - Anna Bernhard (TU München)

17:25 Multimessenger searches with the ANTARES high energy neutrino telescope - Bruny Baret Baret (CNRS)
19:00 Reception at City Hall
Reception at City Hall
19:00 - 21:00
Room: Stadshuset
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
09:00 Calibration II.
09:00 - 10:30
Room: FB54
Contributions

09:00 Light Propagation in the South Pole Ice - Dawn Williams (University of Alabama)

09:30 Results from the IceCube video camera system at 2455 meters ice depth - Per Olof Hulth (Stockholm University)

10:00 Calibration study for PINGU - Rezo Shanidze (DESY, Platanenallee 6 15738 Zeuthen)
Mechanics, Deployment, and Infrastructure
09:00 - 10:30
Room: FB53
Contributions

09:00 Developments in Fiber Optic Hydralight Wetmate Technology - Sergio Mendez (SeaCon)

09:20 The photonics based KM3NeT readout and data transmission system - Gerard Kieft (Nikhef)

09:40 Power network in large area detector networks - Eric Heine (Nikhef)

10:00 The Mechanics of the KM3NeT string. - Paul Kooijman (Univ.of Amsterdam/Utrecht University/Nikhef)
10:30 Break
Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Main Entrance
11:00 Photodetection and Readout II.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: FB54
Contributions

11:00 Characterization of the 80mm diameter Hamamatsu PMTs for KM3NeT - Emanuele Leonora (INFN-section of Catania)

11:20 Characterization of the KM3NeT photomultipliers in the Hellenic Open University - George Bourlis (Hellenic Open University)

11:40 Characterization of the ETEL and HZC 3+ inch PMTs - Oleg Kalekin (ECAP / University of Erlangen)

11:55 Noise and spurious pulses for Cherenkov light detection with 10 inch and 3 inch photomultipliers. - Valentina Giordano (INFN - Catania)

12:10 Noise pulses on photomultipliers coupled to glass vessel - Emanuele Leonora (INFN-section of Catania)
Physics, Reconstruction, and Software III.
11:00 - 12:30
Room: FB53
Contributions

11:00 Extending IceCube-DeepCore to Low Energies for a Dark Matter Search toward the Galactic Center - Samuel Flis (Stockholms Universitet)

11:25 Detection Prospects for GeV Neutrinos from Collisionally Heated Gamma-ray Bursts with IceCube/DeepCore - Imre Bartos (Columbia University)

11:50 The sensitivity to neutrino mass hierarchy with PINGU - Andreas Gross (TUM)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: down the street
14:00 New Horizons
14:00 - 15:15
Contributions

14:00 Vetoing Atmospheric Muons (and Neutrinos) - Claudio Kopper (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
15:30 Break
Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Main Entrance
16:00 Computing and Data
16:00 - 18:00
Room: FB54
Contributions

16:00 The Data Acquisition System of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory - John Kelley (Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison)

16:25 The Trigger and Data Acquisition for the NEMO-Phase 2 Tower - Francesco Simeone (University "Sapienza" and INFN Rome)

16:50 The IceCube data acquisition system for galactic core collapse supernova searches - Volker Baum (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

17:10 Trigger Study for NEMO Phase 2 - Bachir Bouhadef (INFN Pisa)

17:30 The relational database system of KM3NeT - Cristiano Bozza (University of Salerno / INFN Gruppo Collegato di Salerno) Uli Katz (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
Deep Sea and Deep Ice Technology
16:00 - 18:00
Room: FB53
Contributions

16:00 About the prototype of the KM3NeT DOM: First results - Tino Michael (Nikhef)

16:20 Design Engineering for PINGU DOMs - Perry Sandstrom (IceCube/WIPAC)

16:40 Development of the multi-PMT optical module for PINGU - Lew Classen (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

17:00 Opto-Acoustical Modules for KM3NeT - Alexander Enzenhöfer (ECAP, University of Erlangen)

17:20 PORFIDO: Oceanographic measurements on neutrino telescopes - Agnese Martini (INFN - LNF)
19:00 Dinner at Vasa
Dinner at Vasa
19:00 - 23:00
Wednesday, 7 August 2013
09:30 Oscillations
09:30 - 11:00
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium
Contributions

09:30 The neutrino mass hierarchy measurement with a neutrino telescope in the Mediterranean Sea: A feasibility study - Apostolos Tsirigotis (Hellenic Open University)

10:05 Neutrino Oscillations with IceCube DeepCore and PINGU - Tyce DeYoung (Penn State University)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 Neutrino Telescopes and Atmospheric Neutrinos
11:30 - 13:00
Room: Oskar Klein Auditorium
Contributions

11:30 News from KM3NeT - Uli Katz (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)

12:10 Neutrinos from charm production in the atmosphere - Rikard Enberg (Uppsala University)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
Room: down the street