The CCAPP Symposium 2011
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Constraining Dark Energy Workshop | ISS Workshop | Supernovae and Neutrino Detectors Workshop | Fermi Workshop
Constraining Dark Energy Workshop | ISS Workshop | Supernovae and Neutrino Detectors Workshop | Fermi Workshop
About the Symposium
- The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics builds upon a synergy between OSU's Departments of Astronomy and Physics, to pursue research at the interface of cosmology, astrophysics, and high-energy particle physics.
- CCAPP's multi-messenger research initiatives include institutional affiliations with the Dark Energy Survey (DES), Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), SuperNova Acceleration Probe (SNAP), Swift, Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, Pierre Auger Observatory, ANtarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA), Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-III), IceCube and Askaryan Radio Array (ARA).
- Our primary objective is to showcase our world-leading interdisciplinary research center focused on fundamental issues such as dark matter/energy and the genesis/evolution of the Cosmos.
- CCAPP hosts annual symposia that feature local research activities in the context of broad scientific themes. The motif of this years CCAPP Symposium 2011, to be held from April 4-6, will be "Unravelling the Nature of the Universe with Current and Future Datasets".
- The Symposium will summarize through a series of invited overview talks the fundamental physics questions that are being address with current and upcoming experiments and surveys. Besides the focus on the scientific objectives, talks will describe in detail what is being observed/studied and what kind of data is produced and how it can be used.
- The Symposium will combine these overview talks with several workshops. The workshops will be conducted under the umbrella of the Symposium and have a common scheme. The workshops we help to facilitate discussion and provide a more productive working group environment to maximize the scientific output of the Symposium. The workshops are targeted at discussing new ideas in a stimulating environment. We in particular encourage active participation of early career scientists and students. Participants are also encouraged to present relevant results in the workshops as part of talks or in discussion.
- At the end of the last day, the Symposium participants will convene together in a short plenary session, in which the results of the workshops will be discussed. This summary session is targeted at bringing workshops to a meaningful conclusion and kick starting new collaborative efforts.
Committee
- Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC): Carsten Rott (SOC Chair), Patrick Allison, Basudeb Dasgupta, Tim Eifler, Eric Grashorn, Shunsaku Horiuchi, Stelios Kazantzidis, Peter Melchior, Michael Mortonson, Kohta Murase, Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins, Mike Stamatikos and Haojing Yan.
- Local Organizing Committee (LOC): Carsten Rott, Yavonne McGarry and Lisa Krehnovi.
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