It is our pleasure to announce the
Meeting in celebration of Werner Hofmann's 60th birthday:
Frontiers in high-energy particle astrophysics and particle physics
Start: April 18th, 2013, 10:30am
End:
Location:
Registration: until April 4th via eMail to: Ruth.Crespo@mpi-hd.mpg.de
Information on how to reach the institute and the meeting venue can be found here
Agenda
April 18th | |
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The particle physics years - 2 hours | |
10:30 | Jets of hadrons (S. Bethke) - cancelled |
11:00 | The beauty of upsilon physics (K. Schubert) |
11:30 | B physics in hadron collisions: from HERA-B to LHCb (U. Uwer) |
12:00 | The quest for Majorana neutrinos (S. Schönert) |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
Astroparticle physics (Part I) - 2 hours | |
13:30 | Review talk on space-based observations (P. Caraveo) |
14:00 | Review talk on CRs above the knees and AUGER (K.-H. Kampert) |
14:30 | Review talk on HE Neutrino searches (U. Katz) |
15:00 | How to build large telescopes (H. Kärcher) |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee break |
16:00 | Welcome address (K. Blaum) |
16:05 | Laudatio (H. Völk) |
16:15 | Festkolloquium: 'Where would we be without Cygnus X-3?' (A. Watson) |
Reception | |
Dinner | |
April 19th | |
Astroparticle physics (Part II) - 1 hour | |
9:30 | Northern IACTs (J. Holder) |
9:55 | Interpretation of Gamma-ray results in the context of multi-frequency observations (S. Wagner) |
10:20-10:45 | Coffee break |
HEGRA, HESS and CTA (Part I, general overview) - 1 hour 45 min | |
10:45 | The path from CAT to HESS (M. Punch) |
11:05 | The path from HEGRA to HESS (G. Heinzelmann) |
11:25 | The success of HESS (G. Fontaine) |
11:45 | The path from HESS to HESS-II (C. Stegmann) |
12:05 | The path towards CTA (J. Hinton) |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch |
HEGRA, HESS and CTA (Part II, view from within Werners' group) - 1 hour 45 min | |
13:30 | Detectors for astrophysics at the MPIK, from CRT to HESS II (M. Panter) |
13:50 | Galactic Center and Dark Matter (C. van Eldik) |
14:10 | Supernova remnants seen with H.E.S.S. (D. Berge) |
14:30 | The Galactic Plane Survey (C. Deil) |
14:50 | Nuclei and Electrons (R. Bühler) |
15:10 | Concluding remarks (F. Aharonian) |
Accommodation
The local website to book hotels in Heidelberg can be found hereWe do have special conditions with the following hotels:
Hotel Leonardo
Bergheimer Strasse 63
10 single rooms blocked for MPIK
(single rooms 107 Euros, incl. breakfast, code: "MPIK-Hofmann")
eMail: b.stein@leonardo-hotels.com
website
Hotel Bayrischer Hof
Rohrbacher Strasse 2
We couldn't block rooms, just try!
(EZ/DZ a 88 Euro, code: "Universitaetsrate")
eMail: info@bayrischer-hof.de
phone: +49 6221 87288-0
website
Hotel Kohler
7 single rooms a 65 Euro
(breakfast incl., blocked until March 18 , code: "MPIK-Hofmann)
Goethestrasse 2
eMail: info@hotel-kohler.de
website
Heidelberg Guesthouse
(late arrival with access code only!)
15 single rooms a 79 Euro
(no breakfast room, but modern big rooms! blocked until end of March, code: "MPIK-Hofmann")
Bergheimer Strasse 24
eMail: vt@guesthouse-hd.de
website
Hotel Goldene Rose
St.-Anna-Gasse 7
1 single room a 95, 2 single a 115/double125, 4 single a 125 / double 135 Euros
(breakfast incl., code:"MPIK-Hofmann")
eMail: info@hotel-goldene-rose.de
website
Hotel Goldener Falke
Hauptstrasse 204
69117 Heidelberg
1 single room a 89 Euros, 4 single rooms a 99/double129 Euros (code: "MPIK-Hofmann")
eMail: info@goldener-falke-heidelberg.de
website
Krokodil Restaurant & Hotel
Kleinschmidtstrasse 12
D - 69115 Heidelberg
We couldn't block rooms - just try!
(ca. 80 Euros, Frau Ernst , code: "MPIK-Hofmann")
eMail: krokodil@krokodil-heidelberg.de
website
Guesthouse MPIK (on our premises)
(single room 35 EUR, double room 40 EUR)
eMail: guesthouse@mpi-hd.mpg.de
price list
Organizing Committee
Felix AharonianJim Buckley
Gerard Fontaine
Stefan Funk
Jim Hinton
Karl-Heinz Kampert
Johannes Knapp
Michael Kramer
Thomas Lohse
Manel Martinez
Christian Stegmann
Heinz Voelk
Contact: Stefan Funk, eMail: funk_at_slac.stanford.edu; Felix Aharonian, eMail: felix.aharonian_at_mpi-hd.mpg.de; Peter Eger, eMail: peter.eger_at_mpi-hd.mpg.de