Astroparticle Physics PhD Defenses

Thursday 23 Apr 2020, 09:00 → 18:00 Europe/Rome

Remote connection (GSSI)

Ivan De Mitri (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN)

Public Defense of Doctoral Dissertations

2020 Spring Session

Link for the remote conection: meet.google.com/wbw-iwpc-vad

09:00 → 10:00 Searching for Core-Collapse Supernovae in the Multimessenger Era: Low Energy Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Odysse Halim (GSSI)

HALIM-slides.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Roberto Aloisio (GSSI-L'Aquila), Chair
Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Natalia Di Marco (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Walter Fulgione (INFN-LNGS, INAF-OATO)
Fausto Guarino (Università di Napoli "Federico II")

Substitutes: Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila), Jan Harms (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Kate Scholberg (Duke University, North Carolina, USA)
Irene Tamborra (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Michele Zanolin (Embry-Riddle University, Prescott, Arizona, USA)

Advisor: Viviana Fafone (Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")
Co-advisor: Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)

11:00 → 12:00 Measurement of cosmic ray proton+helium flux with the DAMPE experiment

Speaker: Zhaomin Wang (GSSI)

WANG-slides.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Roberto Aloisio (GSSI-L'Aquila), Chair
Elisabetta Baracchini (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Natalia Di Marco (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Walter Fulgione (INFN-LNGS, INAF-OATO)
Fausto Guarino (Università di Napoli "Federico II")

Substitutes: Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila), Jan Harms (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Fausto Guarino (Università di Napoli "Federico II")
Miguel Mostafa (Center for Particle Astrophysics, Pensylvania State University, USA)
Shuang-Nan Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)

Advisor: Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila)

14:00 → 15:00 Theoretical calculation of nuclear reactions of interest for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis

Speaker: Alex Gnech (GSSI)

GNECH-slides.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila), Chair
Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Sergio Petrera (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Massimo Mannarelli (INFN-LNGS)
Sergio Cristallo (INAF - Osservatorio d'Abruzzo)

Substitutes: Pasquale Blasi (GSSI-L'Aquila), Marica Branchesi (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Sonia Bacca (Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany)
Christian Forssén (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Nunzio Itaco (Università della Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Caserta)

Advisor: Laura Marcucci (Università di Pisa)
Co-advisor: Michele Viviani (INFN Pisa)

16:00 → 17:00 Open problems in neutrino astrophysics

Speaker: Carlo Mascaretti (GSSI)

MASCARETTI-slides.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Discussion

Defense Committee:
Ivan De Mitri (GSSI-L'Aquila), Chair
Giulia Pagliaroli (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Sergio Petrera (GSSI-L'Aquila)
Massimo Mannarelli (INFN-LNGS)
Sergio Cristallo (INAF - Osservatorio d'Abruzzo)

Substitutes: Pasquale Blasi (GSSI-L'Aquila), Marica Branchesi (GSSI-L'Aquila)

External Reviewers:
Markus Ahlers (Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark)
Paolo Lipari (INFN Roma)
Maurizio Spurio (Università di Bologna)

Advisor: Francesco Vissani (GSSI-L'Aquila)