8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

9:00 AM - 9:10 AM

WELCOME

HIGHEST ENERGY PARTICLES AS PROBES OF COSMIC BACKGROUNDS AND NEW PHYSICS

9:15 AM - 9:40 AM

Luigi Costamante, Stanford University
Invited Talk: Probing the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) with gamma-ray blazars [PDF]

9:40 AM - 9:55 AM

Rudy C. Gilmore, UC Santa Cruz
The Extragalactic Background Light and Gamma-ray Attenuation [PDF]

9:55 AM - 10:10 AM

Luis C Reyes, KICP - University of Chicago
EBL Studies with the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope [PDF]

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM - 11:10 AM

Stefan J. Wagner, LSW - Heidelberg University
Invited Talk: Current and future tests of Lorentz Violation

11:10 AM - 11:35 AM

Floyd W. Stecker, NASA/GSFC
Invited Talk: Testing Lorentz Invariance Using Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays [PDF]

11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

John Kelley, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Searching for Quantum Gravity with AMANDA and IceCube [PDF]

11:50 AM - 12:05 PM

Kalliopi Petraki, UCLA
Sterile Neutrinos in Cosmology and Astrophysics [PDF]

12:10 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch
(lunch boxes will be provided courtesy of KICP)

SEARCH FOR DARK MATTER SIGNATURES WITH UPCOMING PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS EXPERIMENTS

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Stefano Profumo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Invited Talk: Fundamental Physics with GeV Gamma Rays [PDF]

1:55 PM - 2:20 PM

Jim Buckley, Washington University, St Louis
Invited Talk: Prospects for detecting dark matter with VERITAS and future gamma-ray instruments [PDF]

2:20 PM - 2:45 PM

Brian L. Winer, Ohio State University
Invited Talk: Prospects for detecting dark matter with Fermi [PDF]

2:45 PM - 3:00 PM

David C. Latimer, University of Kentucky
Dark-matter constraints from a cosmic index of refraction [PDF]

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM - 3:55 PM

Dan Hooper, Fermilab
Invited Talk: High Energy Positrons and Electrons in the Milky Way - Are We Seeing Dark Matter? [PDF]

3:55 PM - 4:10 PM

Michael Schubnell, University of Michigan
Cosmic-Ray Positron and Antiproton Measurements with the HEAT Balloon Experiment [PDF]

4:10 PM - 4:25 PM

Darren R. Grant, Pennsylvania State University
Indirect Dark Matter Searches with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory [PDF]

4:25 PM - 4:40 PM

Hasan Yuksel, Bartol / University of Delaware
Neutrinos as Probes or Candidates of Dark Matter [PDF]

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Workshop Dinner
Kimbark Plaza 1206 E 53rd St, Chicago, IL 60615 (773) 324-6227

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Coffee and Pastries

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM

Breakfast

INFORMATION ABOUT COSMOLOGICAL POPULATIONS EMBEDDED IN THE HIGH-ENERGY SKY

9:00 AM - 9:25 AM

Charles D. Dermer, Naval Research Laboratory
Invited Talk: Cosmological Evolution of Blazars [PDF]

9:25 AM - 9:50 AM

Brian Fields, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Invited Talk: Physics of starforming galaxies and the gamma-ray background [PDF]

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

Shin'ichiro Ando, California Institute of Technology
Invited Talk: Cosmic Supernova Neutrino Background [PDF]

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

10:45 AM - 11:10 AM

Uri Keshet, Center for Astrophysics
Invited Talk: Physics of galaxy clusters and intergalactic shocks imprinted on the nonthermal sky [PDF]

11:10 AM - 11:25 AM

Amy Y. Lien, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Cosmic Core-Collapse Supernovae and Neutrino Background in Upcoming Sky Surveys [PDF]

11:25 AM - 11:40 AM

Patrick W. Younk, Colorado State University
Extracting information from the way the highest energy events cluster [PDF]

11:40 AM - 11:55 AM

Tonia M. Venters, KICP - University of Chicago
Cosmological Implications of Studies of the Blazar Contribution to the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background [PDF]

11:55 AM - 12:10 PM

James Braun, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Searches for Neutrino Point Sources with AMANDA and IceCube [PDF]

12:10 PM - 12:25 PM

John D. Hague, University of New Mexico
Study of Two Metrics for Anisotropy in the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays [PDF]

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Lunch
(lunch boxes will be provided courtesy of KICP)

GAMMA RAYS AND ULTRA-HIGH-ENERGY COSMIC RAYS AS PROBES OF THE INTERGALACTIC MAGNETIC FIELD

1:30 PM - 1:55 PM

Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Invited Talk: Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetic Fields [PDF]

1:55 PM - 2:20 PM

Klaus Dolag, MPA, Garching
Invited Talk: Simulating magnetic fields within large scale structures and the propagation of UHECRs [PDF]

2:20 PM - 2:55 PM

Stefano Gabici, DIAS, Dublin
Invited Talk: Gamma Ray Emission associated with UHECR sources [PDF]

2:55 PM - 3:10 PM

Brian Baughman, Ohio State University / Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics
Limiting Galactic and Extragalactic Magnetic Field Models with UHECRs [PDF]

3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Coffee Break

3:30 PM

Open Discussion and Adjourn