Plenary Program

All plenary sessions will be held in the Auditorium of the Beckman Center

A printable schedule for all plenary and working group sessions is available.

Thursday, August 24

Morning: Motivation and Overview

Chair: D. Casper (UC Irvine)
08:00 Welcome J. Hemminger
(Irvine)
08:10 Neutrino Physics Overview J.W.F. Valle
(Valencia)
08:50 The Last Five Years S. Wojcicki
(Stanford)
09:30 The Next Five Years T. Nakaya
(Kyoto)
10:10 Break
Chair: J.J. Gomez Cadenas (Valencia)
10:35 Getting the Most from Oscillation Experiments H. Minakata
(Tokyo Metro)
11:15 Beyond T2K and NOvA W. Winter
(IAS)
11:55 Radioactive Ion Beams A. Fabich
(CERN)
12:35 Lunch

Afternoon: ISS Reports and NuFact Working Group Introductions

Chair: P. Dornan (Imperial)
14:00 ISS Introduction P. Dornan
(Imperial)
14:10 ISS Physics Working Group Report and Discussion K. Long(Imperial)
14:50 ISS Accelerator Working Group Report and Discussion M. Zisman
(LBNL)
15:30 Break
16:00 ISS Detector Working Group Report and Discussion M. Ellis
(FNAL)
Chair: T. Nakaya (Kyoto)
16:45 Working Group 1 Introduction P. Hernandez
(Valencia)
17:00 Working Group 2 Introduction M. Sakuda
(Okayama)
17:15 Working Group 3 Introduction H. Kirk
(BNL)
17:30 Working Group 4 Introduction A. Sato
(Osaka)
17:45 Session Ends

Welcome reception on Beckman Center terrace 17:45 - 18:30

Friday, August 25

Morning: Experimental Techniques

Chair: M. Lindroos (CERN)
08:30 Beam Cooling with Ionization Losses C. Rubbia
(Pavia)
09:00 Muon Colliders S. Geer
(FNAL)
09:30 What (Should) Sensitivity Estimates Mean? Jan Conrad
(KTH)
10:00 Break
10:30-12:30 Working Group Session 1
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon: Phenomenology

14:00-16:00 Working Group Session 2
16:00 Break
Chair: J.L. Feng (UC Irvine)
16:30 Searching for New Physics with Neutrinos P. Huber
(Wisconsin)
17:15 Neutrinos and the Cosmos K. Abazajian
(Maryland)
18:00 Session Ends

Saturday, August 26

Open Day: No Meetings

Optional excursion to the Getty Center in Los Angeles

Sunday, August 27

Morning: Machine R&D

Chair: S. Machida (CCLRC/RAL/ASTeC)
08:30 Accelerating Muons: Options and R&D J.S. Berg
(BNL)
09:10 High-Power Targetry R&D N. Simos
(BNL)
09:50 MUCOOL and MICE A. Bross
(FNAL)
10:30 Break
11:00-12:30 Working Group Session 3
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon: Neutrino Interactions

14:00-16:00 Working Group Session 4
16:00 Break
Chair: K. McFarland (Rochester)
16:30 Neutrino Interactions: What Do Oscillation Experiments Need to Know? D. Harris
(FNAL)
17:15 Neutrino Interactions:
Experiments
M. Wascko
(Imperial)
18:00 Session Ends

Monday, August 28

Morning: Hadron Production

Chair: V. Palladino (INFN-Naples)
08:30 Hadron Production Uncertainties and Neutrino Beams R. Raja
(FNAL)
09:15 Hadron Production Experiments D. Schmitz
(Columbia)
10:00 Break
10:30-12:30 Working Group Session 5
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon: Muon Physics

13:45-15:45 Working Group Session 6
15:45 Break
Chair: W. Molzon (UC Irvine)
16:10 Low-Energy Muon Physics and Phenomenology A. DeGouvea
(Northwestern)
16:50 Low-Energy Muon Experiments T. Mori
(Tokyo)
17:30 Session Ends

Conference dinner and reception starts at 19:00

Tuesday, August 29

Morning: Detectors and Laboratories

Chair: H. Sobel (UC Irvine)
08:30 Underground Laboratories W. Haxton
(Washington)
09:00 Detector R&D Developments and Prospects B. Fleming
(Yale)
09:30 What Else Can Large Neutrino Detectors Do? T. Kajita
(ICRR)
10:00 Break
10:30-12:30 Working Group Session 7
12:30 Lunch

Afternoon: Regional Perspectives and Plans

14:00-16:00 Working Group Session 8
16:00 Break
Chair: S. Geer (FNAL)
16:30 Asian Regional Outlook M. Sakuda
(Okayama)
17:00 North American Regional Outlook R. Palmer
(BNL)
17:30 European Regional Outlook V. Palladino
(INFN-Naples)
18:00 Session Ends

Wednesday, August 30

Working Group Reports and ISS Discussion

Chair: T. Kajita (ICRR)
08:30 Working Group 1 Report
Part 1
Part 2
O. Yasuda
(Tokyo Metro)
M. Messier
(Indiana)
09:00 Working Group 2 Report
Part 1
Part 2
G. Zeller
(Columbia)
S.Boyd
(Warwick)
09:30 Working Group 3 Report R. Garoby
(CERN)
10:00 Working Group 4 Report F. Gatti
(INFN-Genoa)
10:30 Break
11:00 ISS Discussion and Future Plans Moderator:
P. Dornan
(Imperial)
What Did the ISS Achieve? A. Blondel
(Geneva)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Workshop Ends

Ayres Hotel & Suites, Costa Mesa

Beckman Center