Program
 
May 9, 2013 - Thursday
 Morning Session IChair: Christopher Williams
9:00 AM - 9:10 AMWELCOME
Angela Olinto
9:10 AM - 9:30 AMAngela Olinto, Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics
JEM-EUSO Science Overview [PDF, 7.04 MB]
9:30 AM - 9:50 AMJeff Grube, Adler Planetarium/EFI
CTA Science Overview [PDF, 14.81 MB]
9:50 AM - 10:10 AMCOFFEE BREAK
 Morning Session IIChair: Javier Tiffenberg
10:10 AM - 10:50 AMMarco Casolino, RIKEN & INFN
The Focal Surface of JEM-EUSO detector [PDF, 3.81 MB]
10:50 AM - 11:00 AMQuestions: JEM-EUSO Focal Plane
Marco Casolino
11:00 AM - 12:00 PMJuan Estrada, Fermilab
MAPMT Performance compared with Requirements Discussion
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLUNCH
 Afternoon Session IChair: Christopher Williams
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMArdavan Ghassemi, Hamamatsu
Latest MPPC Developments from Hamamatsu 1 [PDF, 0.26 MB]
1:00 PM - 1:30 PMArdavan Ghassemi, Hamamatsu
Latest MPPC Developments from Hamamatsu 2 [PDF, 0.31 MB]
1:30 PM - 2:15 PMNepomuk Otte, Georgia Tech
Nuisances of SiPMs and how to deal with them in Cherenkov telescopes on the example of the CTA SC-MST [PDF, 4.76 MB]
2:15 PM - 2:30 PMQuestions: Nuisances of SiPMs and how to deal with them
Nepomuk Otte
2:30 PM - 3:15 PMThomas Bretz, ETH Zurich
FACT Telescope [PDF, 43.13 MB]
3:15 PM - 3:30 PMQuestions: FACT Telescope
Thomas Bretz
3:30 PM - 4:00 PMCOFFEE BREAK
 Afternoon Session IIChairs: Toshihiro Fujii
4:00 PM - 5:00 PMJohn W Mitchell, Goddard Space Flight Center
SiPMs and G-APD Discussion
5:00 PM - 6:00 PMMarco Ricci, INFN, Laboratori Nazionali Frascati - ITALY
Mechanics and Thermal Requirements Discussion [PDF, 1.63 MB]
 
May 10, 2013 - Friday
 Morning Session IChair: Jeff Grube
9:00 AM - 9:45 AMDavid A Williams, University of California, Santa Cruz
Characterization of SiPMs for Use in Cherenkov Telescopes [PDF, 17.86 MB]
9:45 AM - 10:00 AMQuestions: SiPM for CTA
David Williams
10:00 AM - 10:15 AMCOFFEE BREAK
 Morning Session IIChair: Jeff Grube
10:15 AM - 11:00 AMPaul Rubinov, Fermilab
Electronics for large focal plane arrays
11:00 AM - 11:05 AMQuestions: Electronics
Paul Rubinov
11:05 AM - 11:50 AMJustin Vandenbroucke, KIPAC, SLAC
Waveform digitization with the TARGET chip [PDF, 4.02 MB]
11:50 AM - 12:00 PMQuestions: Waveform digitization with the TARGET chip
Justin Vandenbroucke
12:00 PM - 1:00 PMLUNCH
 Afternoon Session IChair: Juan Estrada
1:00 PM - 1:45 PMGrzegorz W Deptuch, Fermilab
3D integrated and digitally read-out solid-state photo-multiplier - proposal [PDF, 8.22 MB]
1:45 PM - 2:00 PMQuestions: 3D SiPM
Grzegorz Deptuch
2:00 PM - 2:45 PMEric Oberla, UChicago HEP
Development of large area Micro-channel Plate Photodetectors for imaging and fast-timing applications [PDF, 6.42 MB]
2:45 PM - 3:00 PMQuestions: PSEC MCP
Eric Oberla
3:00 PM - 3:30 PMCOFFEE BREAK
 Afternoon Session IIChair: Pedro Facal
3:30 PM - 4:30 PMElectonics Discussion
4:30 PM - 5:00 PMSummary and Future