Scientific Program of

NOW 2008

Neutrino Oscillation Workshop

Conca Specchiulla, Otranto, Italy

September 6-13, 2008

Sunday 7 Morning:

Hexahedron (plenary): Probing low energy and mass scales Chair: Milla Baldo Ceolin

Time Speaker Title

8.30 - 8.40 Gianluigi Fogli Welcome to NOW 2008

8.40 - 9.15 Paolo de Bernardis The CMB in the light of Planck

9.15 - 9.50 Gennaro Miele BBN and physics beyond standard models

Coffee Break (20 min.)

10.10 - 10.45 Guido Drexlin Perspectives on neutrino mass from beta decay

10.45 - 11.20 Amand Faessler Nuclear matrix elements for neutrinoless double beta decay

11.20 - 11.55 Giorgio Gratta Neutrinoless double beta decay: Experiments

Afternoon:

Hexahedron (parallel) Probing low energy and mass scales

Conveners: Sergio Pastor and Stefan Schoenert

Icosahedron (parallel) Exploring the range from TeV to ZeV

Conveners: Piera Ghia and Michael Kachelriess

Time Speaker Title Time Speaker Title

16.00-16.20

Antonio Palazzo

Neutrino masses and mixings: 2008 status

16.00- 16.20

Francesco Villante

Cosmic rays and neutrinos from SNRs

16.20- 16.40

Jonathan Pritchard

Neutrino mass from cosmological 21 cm observation

16.20- 16.40

Christian Cardall

Neutrino transport with flavor mixing in Supernovae

16.40- 17.00

Alfredo Cocco

Relic neutrino detection using beta decay

16.40- 17.00

Jose Luis Bazo

Search for neutrino point sources with IceCube

17.00- 17.20

Giuseppe Vitiello QFT and mixing 17.00-

17.20 Eleonora Presani

Antares, potential of searches for point sources

Coffee Break (20 min.)

17.40- 18.00

Massimiliano Lattanzi

Constraints on MaVaN scenarios

17.40- 18.05

Nicola Giglietto (*) GLAST

18.00- 18.20

Carlo Giunti GSI anomaly 18.05-

18.30 Emiliano Carmona (*)

HE gamma ray observat. of SNRs with IACTs

18.20- 18.40 (*) 5' longer review talks

Pause (10 min.)

Special Plenary Session Chair: G.L. Fogli

18.50-19.20 Ettore Fiorini Physics of Rare Events: Insights on Napoleon's Death

Monday 8 Morning:

Octahedron (plenary): Neutrino Physics around MeV energies Chair: Lucia Votano

Time Speaker Title

8.40 - 9.15 Simon Peeters Seeking theta_13 with reactor neutrinos

9.15 - 9.50 Itaru Shimizu KamLAND results

Coffee Break (20 min.)

10.10 - 10.45 Livia Ludhova 200 days of Borexino data

10.45 - 11.20 Gersende Prior Results from SNO phase III

11.20 - 11.55 Guenter Sigl Collective flavor transitions of supernova neutrinos

Afternoon: (Note early beginning of Sessions)

Octahedron (parallel) Neutrino Physics around MeV energies

Conveners: Thierry Lasserre and Hiroshi Nunokawa

Tetrahedron (parallel) Crossing different energy scales

Conveners: Flavio Gatti and Silvia Pascoli

Time Speaker Title Time Speaker Title

15.40- 16.00

Youngdo Oh Current status of RENO 15.40-

16.00 Gustavo Branco

Leptogenesis and low-energy observables

16.00- 16.20

David Lhuillier

Reactor neutrino monitoring

16.00- 16.20

Serguey Petcov

Neutrino Mass Spectrum, Dirac and Majorana Leptonic CP-Violation and Leptogenesis

16.20- 16.40

Stephen Parke

Mass hierarchy via Mossbauer & reactor neutrinos

16.20- 16.40

Andrea Romanino

Leptogenesis in SO(10) type see-saw

16.40- 17.00

Basudep Dasgupta

Earth effects and mass hierarchy with SN neutrinos

16.40- 17.00

Werner Rodejohan

Deviations from tri-bimaximal mixing

17.00- 17.20

Andreu Esteban

Decoherence in SN neutrino transformations

17.00- 17.20

Marco Cirelli

Non-standard neutrino interactions and cosmology

Coffee Break (20 min.)

Excursion to Otranto (18.00 - 22.00)

Spaghettata (22.30)

Tuesday 9

Morning:

Dodecahedron (plenary): Neutrino Physics at and above GeV energies Chair: Stanley Wojcicki

Time Speaker Title

8.40 - 9.15 Walter Winter Long baseline neutrino oscillations: Theoretical aspects

9.15 - 9.50 Thomas Schwetz Physics potential of future atmospheric neutrino searches

Coffee Break (20 min.)

10.10 - 10.45 Hidekazu Kakuno Neutrino oscillations at T2K

10.45 - 11.20 Maury Goodman Long baseline neutrino oscillations in the US

11.20 - 11.55 Francesco Ronga Long baseline neutrino oscillations at Gran Sasso

Afternoon:

Dodecahedron (parallel) Neutrino Physics at and above GeV energies

Conveners: Michele Maltoni and Francesco Terranova

Hexahedron (parallel) Probing low energy and mass scales

Conveners: Sergio Pastor and Stefan Schoenert

Time Speaker Title Time Speaker Title

16.00- 16.20

Justin Evans

Latest results from MINOS

16.00- 16.20

Marco Roncadelli

A new light boson from MAGIC observations?

16.20- 16.40

Yoshinori Kurimoto

The SciBooNE experiment at FNAL

16.20- 16.40

Alessandro Mirizzi

Cosmological mass bounds on hot-dark matter axions

16.40- 17.00

Luca Scotto-Lavina

Recent results from OPERA

16.40- 17.00

Vadim Rodin 2nu2beta decay of deformed nuclei

17.00- 17.20

Paola Sala The CNGS neutrino beam 17.00-

17.20 Jouni Suhonen

Effects of orbital occupation on 0nu2beta NME

Coffee Break (20 min.)

17.40- 18.00

Mauro Mezzetto

Physics & technology of beta beams

17.40- 18.00

Ladislav Vala

Results of NEMO3 and status of SuperNEMO

18.00- 18.20 Kenneth Long International Design

Study for the Nu Factory 18.00- 18.20

Fabio Bellini

0nu2beta decay search with CUORICINO and CUORE

18.20- 18.40

Srubabati Goswami Physics program of INO 18.20-

18.40 Jozsef Janicsko Status of GERDA

18.40-19.00

Fanny Dufour T2KK 18.40-

19.00 Federico Sanchez NEXT Xenon TPC

Wednesday 10 Full day excursion

Pizzettata (22.30)

Thursday 11 Morning:

Icosahedron (plenary): Exploring the range from TeV to ZeV Chair: Maurizio Lusignoli

Time Speaker Title

8.40 - 9.15 Venya Berezinsky Ultra high energy cosmic rays

9.15 - 9.50 Lukas Nellen AUGER results, and implications for UHE neutrinos

Coffee Break (20 min.)

10.10 - 10.45 Teresa Montaruli Neutrino astronomy in Ice

10.45 - 11.20 Uli Katz Underwater Neutrino Telescopes

11.20 - 11.55 Nicolao Fornengo Dark matter: gamma rays, antimatter and neutrinos

Afternoon:

Icosahedron (parallel) Exploring the range from TeV to ZeV

Conveners: Piera Ghia and Michael Kachelriess

Octahedron (parallel) Neutrino Physics around MeV energies

Conveners: Thierry Lasserre and Hiroshi Nunokawa

Time Speaker Title Time Speaker Title

16.00- 16.20

Giovanni Marsella

Physics and astronomy results from the ARGO-YBJ experiment

16.00- 16.20

Carlo Maria Broggini

LUNA and neutrinos from the Sun

16.20- 16.40

Nicolas Busca Auger and UHECR sources 16.20-

16.40 Davide Franco

8B solar neutrino flux down to 2.8 MeV in Borexino

16.40- 17.00

Pasquale Serpico

UHECR sources: autocorrelation

16.40- 17.00

Chris Jillings SNOLAB

17.00- 17.20

Ricard Tomas

HE neutrinos from Cen A

17.00- 17.20

Stephen Dye

Geoneutrinos: An overview

Coffee Break (20 min.)

17.40- 18.00

Karl-Heinz Kampert

CR composition, analysis methods

17.40- 18.00

Giampaolo Co'

Neutrino cross sections and nuclear structure

18.00- 18.20

Denis Allard

UHECR and cosmogenic neutrinos

18.00- 18.20

Renata Zukanovich

Unparticles and solar neutrinos

18.20- 18.40

Francesco Cafagna PAMELA 18.20-

18.40 Daniele Fargion

Matter and antimatter signatures in solar flare nu's

Evening: Social Dinner

Friday 12 Morning:

Tetrahedron (plenary): Crossing different energy scales Chair: Giovanni Costa

Time Speaker Title

8.40 - 9.15 Andre de Gouvea Lepton Flavor Violation

9.15 - 9.50 Fabrizio Cei The MEG experiment

Coffee Break (20 min.)

10.10 - 10.45 Michael Pluemacher Leptogenesis

10.45 - 11.20 Mu-Chun Chen Models of neutrino masses and mixings

11.20 - 11.55 Lothar Oberauer Neutrino physics and the LAGUNA project

Afternoon:

Tetrahedron (parallel) Crossing different energy scales

Conveners: Flavio Gatti and Silvia Pascoli

Dodecahedron (parallel) Neutrino Physics at and above GeV energies

Conveners: Michele Maltoni and Francesco Terranova

Time Speaker Title Time Speaker Title

16.00- 16.20

Filipe Joaquim LFV in type II see-saw 16.00-

16.20 Evgeny Akhmedov

Neutrino oscillograms of the Earth

16.20- 16.40

Luca Merlo

LFV in Models with A_4 Flavour Symmetry

16.20- 16.40

Davide Meloni

Sterile neutrinos at future long-baseline experiments

16.40- 17.00

Roberto Franceschini

Type III see-saw at the LHC

16.40- 17.00

Marco Laveder

Gallium and reactor neutrino anomalies

17.00- 17.20

Paolo Cattaneo

Perspectives beyond MEG

17.00- 17.20

Timur Rashba

Probing nonstandard interactions with reactor nu's

Coffee Break (20 min.)

17.40- 18.00

Alberto Guglielmi

CNGS beam and MODULAr

17.40- 18.00

Toshihiko Ota

Constraints on nonstandard interactions

18.00- 18.20

Maurizio Bonesini

R&D efforts towards a neutrino factory

18.00- 18.20

Alexander Studenikin

Neutrino electromagnetic properties

Plenary Session Chair: G.L. Fogli

Time Speaker Title

18.30 - 19.15 Manfred Lindner Concluding talk

Gianluigi Fogli Acknowledgments

Saturday 13: Departures