Program
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June 9, 2014 - Monday
  Welcome
  Observational Status & Isotropic Diffuse MeasurementsChair: Toshihiro Fujii
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM Jack Singal, University of Richmond
The Cosmic Radio Background - Five Years of an Enigma [PPTX, 0.98 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM Alan Kogut, NASA / GSFC
The Case for a Bright Extragalactic Radio Background [PDF, 5.31 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM Keith Bechtol, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-ray Background from 100 MeV to 820 GeV [PDF, 6.19 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Miguel A Mostafa, Penn State
First results from the HAWC Observatory [PDF, 22.74 MB]
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Naoko Kurahashi Neilson, University of Wisconsin
Cosmic Neutrinos in IceCube [PDF, 2.34 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Eiji Kido, Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo
Recent results from the Telescope Array experiment [PDF, 3.45 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM Abigail Vieregg, University of Chicago
Radio Detection of Ultra-high Energy Neutrinos [PDF, 32.18 MB]
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Break-out Discussion 1
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM LUNCH
  Census of Extragalactic SourcesChair: Ke Fang
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Tessa Vernstrom, University of British Columbia
The Radio Background: Recent estimates from discrete and extended sources [PPTX, 31.34 MB]
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Brian Lacki, NRAO/IAS
All Radiation Backgrounds from Star-Forming Galaxies [PDF, 3.04 MB]
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM Brian Fields, University of Illinois
Cosmic Rays and the Star-Forming Contribution to the GeV Background [PDF, 2.56 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Marco Ajello, Clemson University
Contribution of Blazars and other source classes to the gamma-ray backgroud [PDF, 4.78 MB]
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Mattia Di Mauro, University of Turin and INFN Turin
Composition of the Isotropic diffuse gamma-ray background and dark matter constraints. [PDF, 6.62 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM Vahe Petrosian, Stanford University (Physics and KIPAC)
On The Contribution of Discrete Sources to the Background Radiations [PDF, 2.55 MB]
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM Break-out Discussion 2
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception

June 10, 2014 - Tuesday
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome
  AnisotropiesChair: Abigail Vieregg
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM Kevork N Abazajian, University of California, Irvine
Constraints and Signals from the Diffuse Gamma Ray and X-ray Backgrounds [PDF, 5.43 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM Hajime Takami, KEK
Arrival distribution of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and implications to their sources [PDF, 3.85 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM Foteini Oikonomou, Pennsylvania State University
Anisotropies in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays: current status and prospects with a next-generation instrument [PDF, 2.26 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Sheldon S Campbell, Ohio State University
Combined Energy Spectra of Flux and Anisotropy: Identifying Anisotropic Source Populations of Gamma-rays or Neutrinos [PPTX, 5.01 MB]
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Fiorenza Donato, Torino University
Anisotropies in gamma-rays [PPT, 1.67 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Caltech
Constraining the origin of the gamma-ray background with anisotropy [PDF, 4.95 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM Nicolao Fornengo, University of Torino and INFN
Particle dark matter searches in the anisotropic sky [PDF, 6.86 MB]
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Break-out Discussion 3
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch
  EBL Attenuation, Secondary Cascades, & Dark MatterChair: Keith Bechtol
2:00 PM - 2:20 PM Yoshiyuki Inoue, ISAS/JAXA
Does the near-infrared extragalactic background light excess come from the extragalactic sky? [PDF, 5.49 MB]
2:20 PM - 2:40 PM Dimitrios Giannios, Purdue
The fate of TeV photons from blazars [PPT, 7.22 MB]
2:40 PM - 3:00 PM Tonia M Venters, NASA GSFC
The Impact of Electromagnetic Cascades of Energetic Particles on the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background [PDF, 15.36 MB]
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Alberto Dominguez, University of California, Riverside
The measurement of the expansion rate of the Universe from gamma-ray attenuation [PDF, 3.59 MB]
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM Miguel A Sánchez-Conde, KIPAC/SLAC, Stanford
Cosmological dark matter annihilation signals: theoretical predictions [PDF, 16.88 MB]
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM Gabrijela Zaharijas, ICTP and INFN, Trieste
Cosmological dark matter annihilation signals: experimental constraints [PDF, 12.01 MB]
4:20 PM - 5:00 PM Break-out Discussion 4

June 11, 2014 - Wednesday
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM Welcome
  Multiwavelength & Multimessenger ConnectionsChair: Dan Hooper
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM Kohta Murase, Institute for Advanced Study
Multimessenger Approaches to the Origin of IceCube Neutrinos [PDF, 8.11 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM Maria Petropoulou, Purdue University
The role of hadronic cascades in GRB models of efficient neutrino production [PDF, 10.79 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AM Ke Fang, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
The TA Cosmic Ray Excess and High Energy Neutrinos [PDF, 4.25 MB]
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Markus Ahlers, WIPAC
High-Energy Cosmogenic Neutrinos [PDF, 2.93 MB]
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM Coffee Break
10:50 AM - 11:10 AM Amy Connolly, Ohio State University
The Complementarity Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays for UHE Astrophysics [PDF, 1.29 MB]
11:10 AM - 11:30 AM Kumiko Kotera, Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Synchrotron pair echo/halo from ultrahigh energy cosmic rays: a robust scenario to explain extreme TeV blazar observations [PDF, 4.91 MB]
11:30 AM - 11:50 AM Charles D. Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory
Origin and Impact of Radiation Backgrounds on Detection of High-Energy Radiation Sources [PDF, 5.64 MB]
  Experimental and Theoretical Outlook DiscussionChairs: Angela Olinto and Tim Linden
11:50 AM - 12:30 PM Brainstorming and Discussion (Full Group)
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM Lunch (The End)