QCD at Cosmic Energies - II

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 The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and QCD

Minotavros

September 26 - 30,  2005
Skopelos, Greece

Local Org. Committee:
Apostolos Panagiotou (Univ. of Athens)
Emmanuel Fokitis (National Technical University of Athens)

International Org. Committee:
Yuri Dokshitzer (Paris-VI), Mark Strikman (Penn State Univ), Gabriele Veneziano (CERN)


Program
Participants
Information
Fees
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Agenda:
The Workshop will build on the First Workshop held last year in Erice and, once  again, bring together experts in High Energy QCD and Cosmic Ray Physics in view of expanding the mutually beneficial interface between experiments planning to explore forward physics at LHC and highest energy cosmic ray experiments.
We plan several invited lectures  to improve mutual understanding and the interaction between the fields
and several invited talks, leaving ample time for more focused short presentations and informal discussions.

Remarkpreceeding Workshop in Greece that may interest you
"Electromagnetic Interactions with Nucleons and Nuclei" (EINN 2005) 
in Milos  (19 - 24 September)


close-to-final Program (click here to upload and download talks)

Agenda: default format of
  morning session talks 60 = 50 min (presentation) + 10 min questions
afternoon session talks 45 = 40 min + 5 min (unless marked [60])

Monday    26  morning
Venya Berezinsky         UHECR: is there still place for UHE QCD?
Sergey Ostapchenko     Hadronic MC generators for colliders and cosmic rays
Edmond Iancu              From High-Energy QCD to Statistical Physics ... and back

Monday    26  afternoon
Daniele Treleani           Soft-hard interplay in high energy proton-nucleus collisions
Hajo Drescher              Modeling cosmic ray interactions near GZK    
Hector DeVega             Dark matter annihilation as source of 511 keV gammas from the galactic center


Tuesday    27
  morning
Hector DeVega            Acceleration Mechanisms for Cosmic Rays and the Astrophysical Sources  

Etienne Parizot            The Pierre Auger Observatory: first steps towards charged-particle astronomy
Peter Meszaros            Gamma-Ray Bursts: Recent results and High Energy perspectives

Tuesday    27  afternoon
Cliff Burgess     [60]       Lorentz violation and its potential relevance to very high energy phenomena
Paul Sommers   [60]       Overview of Auger experiment
Kasahara Katsuaki         LHCf: Measurement of photons and neutrons in the very forward region at the LHC 

Wednesday 28
    free for excursion  ( if the weather/seas cooperate )

Thursday   29
  morning
Mark Strikman                Transverse structure of the nucleon and onset of black limit
Jianwei Qiu                   Proton - nucleus potential of LHC
Spyros Tzamarias
      Underwater neutrino telescopy

Thursday   29
  afternoon
Boris Blok                      Critical QCD phenomena in small x physics in vicinity of the black disk limit
Larissa Bravina             Gluonic Shadowing and Nuclear Modification Factor
Lyudmila Sarytcheva    On alignment in jet events
Jim Whitmore                TBA


Friday      30
  morning
Karsten Eggert               Forward Physics with TOTEM
Albert De Roeck            Forward physics with CMS
Hannes Jung                  ep interactions at HERA energies and beyond: modeling higher orders and the problem of NLO

Friday     30  afternoon
Sebastian White    [60]   Probing QCD in ultraperipheral collisions at LHC
Panagiotis Katsas           Strangelet hunt at CMS
Evgeny Zabrodin           Collective flow and freeze-out in relativistic heavy ion collisions

ROUND TABLE / DISCUSSION


PARTICIPANTS
 1. Valentina Avati     <Valentina.Avati@cern.ch>
 2. Venya Berezinsky    <venya.berezinsky@lngs.infn.it>
 3. Boris Block         <blok@physics.technion.ac.il>          
 4. Larissa Bravina     <larissa.bravina@fys.uio.no>       
 5. Cliff Burgess       <cburgess@perimeterinstitute.ca>       
 6. Albert De Roeck     <deroeck@mail.cern.ch>          
 7. Hajo Drescher       <drescher@th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de>
 8. Karl Eggert         <karsten.eggert@cern.ch>              
 9. Jan Ridky           <ridky@fzu.cz>                          
10. Edmond Iancu        <iancu@dsm-mail.saclay.cea.fr>
11. Hannes Jung         <jung@mail.desy.de>                  
12. Peter Meszaros      <nnp@astro.psu.edu>                 
13. Sergey Ostapchenko  <serguei.ostaptchenko@ik.fzk.de>
14. Etienne Parizot     <parizot@ipno.in2p3.fr>      
15. Jianwei Qiu         <jwq@iastate.edu>                   
16. Paul  Sommers       <sommers@physics.utah.edu>            
17. Daniele Treleani    <daniel@ts.infn.it>               
18. Sebastian White     <swhite@bnl.gov>                       
19. Katsuaki Kasahara   <kasahara@icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>      
20. Panos Katsas
21. Eli Piasetzky       <eip@tauphy.tau.ac.il>
22. Jim Whitmore        <jjw@phys.psu.edu>                  
23. Evgeny Zabrodin     <eugen.zabrodin@fys.uio.no>

24. Apostolos Panagiotou <apanagio@phys.uoa.gr>
25. Mark Strikman        <strikman@phys.psu.edu>
26. Yuri Dokshitzer      <yuri@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
    Gabriele Veneziano   <Gabriele.Veneziano@cern.ch>



Skopelos

Information

The Workshop starts on Monday September 26 and ends on Friday September 30. One day will be free for excursion.
You are expected to arrive in Skopelos on Sunday September 25 and to leave on Saturday October 1.

 Accomodation
Reaching Skopelos
Meals Sightseeing
Local Transportation Poetic Touch

Workshop Fees
The overall fees contribution was estimated at 500 Euros   (NB: the next-to-leading order estimate is rather 535 Euros).
This covers: room in the hotel "Prince Stafylos" and half board (breakfast and lunch), two coffee breaks/day, local transportation and facilities, excursion and party.
Please note that the cost of transportation from Athens aeroport to Skopelos (bus + Flying Dolphine) is not included (see below for the ticket prices).
Payment should be made to the Secretariat at registration on the site, only in CASH.
Please, note that the Secretariat cannot accept credit cards or checks for
payment of the registration fee and the bus ticketsHave cash with you!
There are many major Greek banks on the island."


Accomodation
The accommodation for participants will be provided by the hotel  "Prince Stafylos".
Please book your room DIRECTLY with the hotel stating the name of our workshop "COSMIC QCD II" .
You can do it via internet using the Hotel booking page.

Meals
Breakfast and lunch will be given at the hotel and are include in the fee.
Evening dinners (not included in the fee) are open to participants' choice at the numerous tavernas of Skopelos.
Coffee, tea and cookies will be available at coffee breaks in the morning and afternoon.

Local Transportation
A mini-bus will be available daily for small trips of accompanying persons.
Taxis and cars/motorbikes for rent are available.
The information concerning your arrival and departure should be provided in advance to the Secretariat.

How to reach SKOPELOS and the Workshop venue

The Symposium will take place on the island of Skopelos in Greece.
The island is located about 300 km north of Athens in the Aegean sea.
There are two main ways to get to Skopelos:
1. Via Athens:
a) From Athens "E. Venizelos" international airport by airplane to SKIATHOS island and then
    by "Flying Dolphin" to Skopelos (~ 8 Euro).

b) From Athens airport by bus to Aghios Konstantinos port (~ 2 hours) and then
    by "Flying Dolphin" to Skopelos (~ 2.5 hours).
To help participants who chose this option,  bus transportation will be arranged from
the airport to the port (bus ticket price = adults ~ 26 Euro).
2. Direct international flights to Skiathos by several airlines from a number of airports in Europe, then
    by "Flying Dolphin" to Skopelos.
    The detailed "Flying Dolphin" schedules will be posted when available.

Dates:
Arrival:      Sunday,   25 September, 2005  
Departure: Saturday,  1 October,     2005

Those arriving at the Athens "E. Venizelos" airport, will board the Conference Bus
At the customs exit after baggage pickup, go to  "EXIT A"  and look for a person holding a sign:
       "COSMIC QCD II - SKOPELOS SYMPOSIUM"
You will be guided to the conference bus outside.

Please, arrange your arrival flight to Athens or Skiathos as early in the day as possible,
but not later than 15:00 for Athens and 20:00 for Skiathos airports.
Make sure you arrive AND check out of customs at the Athens airport by 16:00 the latest.
The bus to Aghios Konstantinos port leaves promptly at 16:00 to meet the "FD" (Flying Dolphin) for Skopelos.
Arrival emergency cell phones:
those of you who are supposed to arrive to Athens to catch the Conference Bus at 16:00
but get into trouble because of flight delay please call
Apostolos (+30) 69 77 42 60 10  or  his student Panos (+30) 69 72 29 02 53

Also, please, arrange your departure flight from Athens as late in the day as possible and not earlier than 14:00.


NB: The shedule of the FDs and FCatamarans are not known yet for the period past 18/9.
For the time being, we work on last years schedule. According to this, there is an:
   - FC on Friday   30/9   at 16:20 from Skopelos to Ag. Kon/nos, arriving in Athens ~ 21:30,
   - FC on Saturday 1/10 at 07:20 from Skopelos to Ag. Kon/nos, arriving in Athens ~ 12:30.
The updated schedule will be published in early September.

For direct flights to Skiathos consult the following websites:

http://flightresource.co.uk/cf/cheap-flights-to-skiathos.html

http://www.xl.com/default.asp
www.openjet.com www.unijetflights.com
www.flightresource.co.uk
www.thomsonflights.com
More transportation options will be posted on this webpage. Please, check it before booking your tickets.


Sightseeing in Skopelos 

ATTRACTIONS and SOCIAL EVENTS
Skopelos is an Aegean island situated in the central-northwest Aegean, east of Pelion and north of Evia. It has 67km of rich rugged coastline, being 17km long and 8km wide. The population is
approximately 5.700 native Skopelitans and is the second largest island in the Northern Sporades (Skiathos, Skopelos, Alonnisos and Skyros). Skopelos is the greenest island in Greece: more than 50% of its area is covered by a virgin forest of pine-trees. Here, where the green of the pine-trees and the dense forest mix with the deep blue of sea and sky, creating the picture of unrivalled nature beauty, you will find yourself in an idyllic land, in a small paradise in the very heart of Greece. Because the island of Skopelos is defined by lush green forest and the blue of the sea the International Organization of Biopolitics, on July the 5th 1997, officially proclaimed it "Green and Blue Island".
The island has a number of very interesting old monasteries and a large number of old churches to be visited. The main village, Chora-Skopelos, is particularly picturesque with its narrow streets, "kalnterimi", and characteristic architecture. There are also many good quality shops, restaurants and cafees.
Skopelos has also some interesting archaeological sites. Other attractions are the many beautiful beaches for swimming close to the hotel.

A mini-buss will be available daily for small trips of accompanying persons.

Depending on weather conditions, there will be a day-long (12-hour) excursion by boat to the well known "Marine Park of Alonissos", the natural habitat of the Mediterranean seals  "Monachus-Monachus" and the Aegean dolphins.
The excursion also includes a visit to a renovated old village, to a Byzantine Monastery and to an ancient sunken city, as well as lots of swimming at deserted beaches.

There will be a welcome buffet on arrival evening, Sunday 25 September, starting at about 21:30.

The Symposium banquet will feature folk-dancing by the Dansing Group of the Cultural Syllogos of Glossa, Skopelos.

Facilities
Video and overhead projectors;
basic stationary, fax and photocopy services;
computers and printers, e-mail service (16 ports)


Poetic Touch

The island was inhabited probably in the Neolithic period. Its ancient name was Peparethos and is mentioned by the pre-Hellenic people of Asia Minor who settled in the Aegean region in the period 2800 - 2000 BC. This name is mentioned likewise by Thoukydides.

Around 1600 BC Cretans whose leader was the mythical king Staphylos, son of Theseus and Ariadne, settled the island. As tradition reminds us, Theseus, son of Aegeas king of Athens, was sent with 7 young boys and 7 young girls to the Cretan king Minos, as a duty demanded by Athens, intended to be offered as sacrifice to the Minotaur (a strange creation of mythology, half man, half bull) who lived in the labyrinth underneath the palace of Knosos in Crete. There, Theseus became acquainted with Ariadne, Minos' daughter. Ariadne fell in love with him and helped him, giving him a ball of wool, to escape from the labyrinth and to survive. Theseus found the exit, kidnapped Ariadne and left Crete. But on the island of Naxos he abandoned Ariadne who in her loneliness discovered the God Dionisos who in his turn fell in love with the girl and took her to Lemnos. In Lemnos Ariadne and Dionisos had four sons, Thoantas, Oinopionas, Staphylos and Peparithos. Peparithos was the first to settle on the island of Skopelos. Until today his name survives in this place full of olive trees and pine forests.

At the end of Staphylos bay there is a peninsula. At the tip of this peninsula the tomb of King Staphylos was discovered containing his sword and many other artifacts, representing some of the most important finds of workmanship from the Mycenian and Minoan period. The sword handle is covered in gold, a precious sword for a precious king Staphylos.



Conference secretary
Phone : + 30 - 210 - 7276881 / 7276959 / 7723014    
Fax : + 30 - 210 - 7276987
E-mail : cosmicqcd@phys.uoa.gr
http://www.lpthe.jussiue.fr/Skopelos

Yuri Dokshitzer
Last modified: Wed Sept 14 17:57:10 CEST 2005