Name: MANTS Meeting
Start: 2013-10-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-10-15T19:31:00+02:00
Location: Garching, Germany

MANTS Meeting

from Monday 14 October 2013 (08:00) to Tuesday 15 October 2013 (19:31)

Monday 14 October 2013

08:30

08:30 - 09:29

09:29 HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
09:29 - 09:30
09:30 Albrecht Karle
Albrecht Karle
09:30 - 09:50
Contributions

09:30 IceCube - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
09:50 Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey
Juan-Jose Hernandez-Rey
09:50 - 10:05
Contributions

09:50 ANTARES Highlights - Juan Jose Hernandez-Rey (IFIC (CSIC-UV))
10:05 Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev
10:05 - 10:25
Contributions

10:05 Baikal/GVD - Zhan-Arys Dzhilkibaev (Institute for nuclear research)
10:25 Uli Katz
Uli Katz
10:25 - 10:40
Contributions

10:25 News from KM3NeT - Uli Katz (ECAP / Univ. Erlangen)
10:40 Markus Ahlers
Markus Ahlers
10:40 - 11:00
Contributions

10:40 Astrophysical Interpretations of the IceCube Excess - Markus Ahlers (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:29
11:30 Horsal HE 008
Horsal HE 008
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Introducing WOM: The Wavelength-Shifting Optical Module - Lukas Schulte (o=bonn,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

12:10 PINGU Precision for Atmospheric Oscillation Parameters - Kai Krings (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
Horsal HE 009
Horsal HE 009
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Status of simulations for ORCA - Salvatore Galata (APC)

11:45 The km3 simulation package - Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)

12:05 Understanding Atmospheric Background in Neutrino Telescopes - Paolo Desiati (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

12:25 Trigger Studies for ORCA - Tamas Gal (ECAP)

12:40 Atmospheric muons rejection for ORCA - Luigi Antonio Fusco (INFN and University of Bologna)
13:00 Lunch will be provided
Lunch will be provided
13:00 - 14:29

14:29 HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
14:29 - 14:30
14:30 Juan-Pablo Yanez
Juan-Pablo Yanez
14:30 - 14:45
Contributions

14:30 DeepCore oscillation results - Juan-Pablo Yanez (DESY)
14:45 Gross/Clark
Gross/Clark
14:45 - 15:10
Contributions

14:45 Studies to PINGU's sensitivity to Neutrino Mass Hierarchy - Andreas Gross (TU Munich)
15:10 Aart Heijboer
Aart Heijboer
15:10 - 15:35
Contributions

15:10 ORCA mass hierarchy sensitivity study - aart heijboer (nikhef)
15:35 Clancy James / Jannik Hofestadt
Clancy James / Jannik Hofestadt
15:35 - 15:55
Contributions

15:35 Intrinsic physics limitations to reconstruction - Clancy James (University of Erlangen-Nuernberg)
16:00 Break
Break
16:00 - 16:29

16:29 HE 009 - near Kim
HE 009 - near Kim
16:29 - 16:30
16:30 Walter Winter
Walter Winter
16:30 - 16:50
Contributions

16:30 PINGU mass hierarchy sensitivity - Walter Winter (Wurzburg university)
16:50 Jurgen Brunner
Jurgen Brunner
16:50 - 17:10
Contributions

16:50 Beam options - Juergen Brunner (DESY)
17:10

17:10 - 18:00

19:30

19:30 - 22:30
Tuesday 15 October 2013
09:30 High Energy - Horsal 008
High Energy - Horsal 008
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 The cascade reconstruction in the Baikal experiment - Bair Shaybonov (JINR)

09:50 Cascade Reconstruction in IceCube - Claudio Kopper (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

10:10 Shower reconstruction and analysis with ANTARES & KM3NeT - Florian Folger (Mr)

10:30 Event fitting with direct event re-simulation - Dmitry Chirkin (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
Low Energy - Konferenzraum - down the stairs across from Kim into the building next door, up one flight of stairs, and follow the signs to the room
Low Energy - Konferenzraum - down the stairs across from Kim into the building next door, up one flight of stairs, and follow the signs to the room
09:30 - 11:00
Contributions

09:30 Neutrino reconstruction for PINGU - Rezo Shanidze (DESY)

09:45 Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Agata Trovato (LNS - INFN)

10:00 Reconstruction and energy estimation for tracks - Robert Bormuth (Nikhef)

10:15 Flavor Separation - Thomas Heid (ECAP)

10:30 A particle identification algorithm for PINGU - Ty DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
11:00 Break
Break
11:00 - 11:29

11:29 Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
11:29 - 11:30
11:30 Tom Gaisser
Tom Gaisser
11:30 - 11:50
Contributions

11:30 Atmospheric neutrino self-veto - Thomas Gaisser (University of Delaware)
11:50 Jacob Feintzeig
Jacob Feintzeig
11:50 - 12:10
Contributions

11:50 Lowering IceCube's energy threshold for point source searches in the southern sky - Jacob Feintzeig (University of Wisconsin--Madison)
12:10
12:10 - 12:30
Contributions

12:10 IceCube In-Ice Veto For High-Energy Starting Events - Nathan Whitehorn (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:30 Tyce DeYoung
Tyce DeYoung
12:30 - 12:45
Contributions

12:30 A low energy air Cherenkov veto system - Tyce DeYoung (o=psu,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 13:44

13:44 Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
13:44 - 13:45
13:45 Albrecht Karle / Jan Auffenberg
Albrecht Karle / Jan Auffenberg
13:45 - 14:00
Contributions

13:45 Considerations for a surface veto array and a look at event rates - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14:00 Christopher Wiebusch / David Altmann
Christopher Wiebusch / David Altmann
14:00 - 14:20
Contributions

14:00 DecaCube Part I - David Altmann (o=humboldt,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:10 DecaCube - IceCube++ - Part II - Christopher Wiebusch (o=rwth,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
14:20 Rosa Coniglione
Rosa Coniglione
14:20 - 14:40
Contributions

14:20 KM3NeT and diffuse flux: first preliminary results - Rosa Coniglione (INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud)
14:40

14:40 - 14:59

14:59 Horsaal 008
Horsaal 008
14:59 - 15:00

15:00 Christian Spiering / TBD
Christian Spiering / TBD
15:00 - 15:20

15:20

15:20 - 16:00