Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory: Inauguration Meeting

Tuesday Aug 30, 2016, 10:30 AM → 6:00 PM Europe/Warsaw

Seminar Room 5301 (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

Krzysztof Wozniak (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland), Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

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10:30 AM Registration / Coffee

Introduction Session

Conveners: Dr Krzysztof Wozniak (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS, Krakow, Poland), Dr Niraj Dhital (INP PAS), Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

1 Welcome

Speaker: Prof. Henryk Wilczyński (INP PAS, Krakow)

Slides welcome.pdf

2 Philosophical welcome: towards a breakthrough in science

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

Slides homola-philosophical-welcome-160830.pdf

3 Open questions on Dark Matter distribution

Speaker: Dr Joanna Jałocha-Bratek (Cracow University of Technology)

Slides piotrkowe2.pdf

4 UHECR and Dark Matter

Speaker: Dr Jan Pękala (INP PAS, Krakow)

Slides uhecr-pekala.pdf

5 UHE photon interactions: the uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Jilberto Zamora Saa (JINR, Dubna)

Slides JZAMORASAA_DM.pdf

6 Introduction to super-preshowers: the quest for unique signatures of New Physics

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

Slides homola-credo-intro-to-sps.pdf

7 CREDO: meta-experiment to hunt New Physics manifestations

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

Slides homola-credo.pdf

8 CREDO as a citizen science project: an option or a must?

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

Slides homola-credo-citizen-science.pdf

1:00 PM Lunch / Coffee

Inauguration Session

Conveners: Prof. Henryk Wilczyński (INP PAS), Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

9 CREDO Inauguration

Speakers: Konrad Kopański (INP PAS, Krakow), Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

10 Spartphones as the key scientific component of CREDO

Speaker: Dr Chase Shimmin (CERN)

Slides krakow2016.pdf

11 Cherenkov telescopes hunting for super-preshowers

Speaker: Dr Dariusz Góra (Humboldt University, Berlin)

Slides presentation_cracow_v3.pdf

12 Some aspects of pattern recognition in the context of citizen science

Speaker: Dr Angelo Adamo (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna)

Slides Presentazione_per_il_Meeting_CREDO_Cracovia_30_8_2016.pdf

13 Cosmic rays in the ATLAS detector

Speaker: Dr Krzysztof Wozniak (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Krakow, Poland)

Slides kw_atlas_cosmicrays.pdf

14 Dark Matter: challenges and models in the super-preshower context

Speaker: Prof. Mikhail Medvedev (University of Kansas)

Slides 2cDM-Cracow16.zip

4:30 PM Coffee

Concluding Session

Convener: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

15 Example of additional CREDO applications: earthquake precursors?

Speaker: Dr Jilberto Zamora Saa (JINR, Dubna)

Slides

• luces_terremoto.mp4
• main.pdf
• TERREMOTO_EN_CHILE.mp4

16 CREDO: the simplest rules of a collaboration

Speaker: Dr Piotr Homola (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAS)

Slides homola-simplest_rules-credo-160830.pdf

17 Summary and Discussion