Conference in memory of Veniamin Sergeyevich Berezinsky

1 Oct 2024, 09:00 → 3 Oct 2024, 18:00 Europe/Rome

Rectorate/Building-Auditorium (GSSI)

Carmelo Evoli (GSSI and INFN), Michael Kachelriess (NTNU, Trondheim), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI), Roberto Aloisio (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

We will hold a conference on October 1-3 to honour the life and work of Veniamin Sergeyevich Berezinsky, whose activity in the past fifty years has been a driving force and a reference beacon for many researchers in Astroparticle and Particle Physics.

List of speakers

• Alessandro Bettini | University of Padova and INFN
• Zurab Berezhiani | University of L'Aquila and INFN
• Denise Boncioli | University of L'Aquila and INFN
• Alessandro Bottino | University of Torino - remote
• Antonella Castellina | INAF/INFN Torino
• Damiano Caprioli | University of Chicago
• Pasquale Di Bari | Southampton University
• Vyacheslav Dokuchaev | Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS
• Vladimir Dogiel | Lebedev Institute of Physics, Moscow
• Alexander D. Dolgov | Novosibirsk State University
• Nicolao Fornengo | University of Torino and INFN
• Stefano Gabici | APC, Paris
• Askhat Z. Gazizov | LNGS
• Dario Grasso | INFN Pisa
• Francis Halzen | University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Andrei Linde | Stanford University - remote
• Viktor A. Matveev | INR 
• Giulia Pagliaroli | LNGS/INFN
• Vladimir S. Ptuskin | IZMIRAN, Moscow, Russia
• Elisa Resconi | TUM, Munich
• Alexei Smirnov | MPI für Kernphysik
• Peter Tiniakov | U. Brussels
• Francesco Vissani | INFN LNGS
• Alan A. Watson | University of Leeds

241001_Conference_Veniamin_Sergeevich_Berezinsky.pdf

Tuesday, 1 October

09:00 → 09:40 Venya Berezinsky: Some memories and his impact on the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray field

Speaker: Alan Watson (University of Leeds, UK)

09:40 → 10:20 Invited talk

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:30 Latest results from the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Antonella Castellina (INAF/INFN)

11:30 → 12:10 Latest results from the Telescope Array

Speaker: Peter Tiniakov (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)

12:10 → 12:50 Theoretical aspects of UHECR transport

Speaker: Askhat Z. Gazizov (LNGS)

12:50 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:10 On astrophysical solution(s) to ultra high energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Denise Boncioli (University of L'Aquila and INFN-LNGS)

15:10 → 15:50 UHE Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from AGN jets

Speaker: Damiano Caprioli (University of Chicago)

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee Break

16:20 → 17:00 Galactic Cosmic Ray Transport

Speaker: Vladimir Dogiel (P.N. Lebeden Institute of Physics, Moscow)

17:00 → 17:40 The physics of galactic cosmic-ray sources

Speaker: Stefano Gabici (APC Paris)

Wednesday, 2 October

09:00 → 09:40 IceCube: The First Decade of Neutrino Astronomy

Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

09:40 → 10:20 Supersymmetric Dark Matter: From Historical Foundations to Future Challenges

Speaker: Nicolao Fornengo (University of Torino and INFN/Torino)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:30 Primordial Black Holes

Speaker: Alexander D. Dolgov (Novosibirsk State University and BLTP JINR)

11:30 → 12:10 Dark Matter Clustering

Speaker: Vyacheslav Dokuchaev (Institute for Nuclear Research of RAS)

12:10 → 12:50 Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and Dark Matter

Speaker: Zurab Berezhiani (University of L'Aquila)

12:50 → 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 → 15:10 Historical perspective on Physics at INR and the work of Veniamin Sergeevich

Speaker: Victor Matveev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research)

15:10 → 15:50 A historical perspective on the Gran Sasso National Laboratory

Speaker: Alessandro Bettini (Padua University and INFN)

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee break

16:20 → 17:00 Remembering Venya

Speaker: Alessandro Bottino (Università di Torino and Accademia delle Scienze di Torino)

Thursday, 3 October

09:00 → 09:40 Neutrino Oscillations: Now and Then

Speaker: Alexei Smirnov (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik, Heidelberg)

09:40 → 10:20 The Discovery of Extragalactic Neutrino Sources

Speaker: Elisa Resconi (Technical University of Munich)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:30 The Galactic Neutrino diffuse emission

Speaker: Dario Grasso (INFN, Pisa)

11:30 → 12:10 Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae

Speaker: Giulia Pagliaroli (INFN-LNGS)

12:10 → 12:50 Origin of matter in the universe

Speaker: Pasquale Di Bari (University of Southampton)

12:50 → 15:10 Lunch break

15:10 → 15:50 Superheavy dark matter: from the invention to precise predictions

Speaker: Michael Kachelriess (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

15:50 → 16:30 TBA

Speaker: Pasquale Blasi (GSSI)

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 → 17:40 Inflationary cosmology: past, present and future

Speaker: Andrei Linde (Stanford University)