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: April 19th, 2013, 3:30pm
Location: Otto-Hahn-Hörsaal, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg, Germany

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
The particle physics years - 2 hours
10:30Jets of hadrons (S. Bethke) - cancelled
11:00The beauty of upsilon physics (K. Schubert)
11:30B physics in hadron collisions: from HERA-B to LHCb (U. Uwer)
12:00The quest for Majorana neutrinos (S. Schönert)
12:30-13:30Lunch
Astroparticle physics (Part I) - 2 hours
13:30Review talk on space-based observations (P. Caraveo)
14:00Review talk on CRs above the knees and AUGER (K.-H. Kampert)
14:30Review talk on HE Neutrino searches (U. Katz)
15:00How to build large telescopes (H. Kärcher)
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00Welcome address (K. Blaum)
16:05Laudatio (H. Völk)
16:15Festkolloquium: 'Where would we be without Cygnus X-3?' (A. Watson)
Reception
Dinner
April 19th
Astroparticle physics (Part II) - 1 hour
9:30Northern IACTs (J. Holder)
9:55Interpretation 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
10:45The path from CAT to HESS (M. Punch)
11:05The path from HEGRA to HESS (G. Heinzelmann)
11:25The success of HESS (G. Fontaine)
11:45The path from HESS to HESS-II (C. Stegmann)
12:05The path towards CTA (J. Hinton)
12:30-13:30Lunch
HEGRA, HESS and CTA (Part II, view from within Werners' group) - 1 hour 45 min
13:30Detectors for astrophysics at the MPIK, from CRT to HESS II (M. Panter)
13:50Galactic Center and Dark Matter (C. van Eldik)
14:10Supernova remnants seen with H.E.S.S. (D. Berge)
14:30The Galactic Plane Survey (C. Deil)
14:50Nuclei and Electrons (R. Bühler)
15:10Concluding remarks (F. Aharonian)

PDF version of the agenda

Accommodation

The local website to book hotels in Heidelberg can be found here

We 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 Aharonian
Jim 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