Programme for QU4 symposium

Wednesday April 16, 2014

09.00 opening and welcome

09.00 - 09.45 Nick van Eijndhoven IceCube : The Birth of Neutrino Astronomy
09.45 - 10.30 Elina Lindfors - Cherenkov Telescope Array - A Sensitive Probe of the Extreme Universe

10.30 - 11.00 coffee and registration

11.00 - 11.45 Jeroen van Tilburg - Probing the TeV scale with flavour transitions at the LHC
11.45 - 12.05 Robyn Sanderson - Weighing and measuring the Milky Way
12.05 - 12.25 Pim Schellart - Using radio emission to study cosmic rays
12.25 - 12.45 Ivonne Zavala - The Dark Sector of the Universe on a D-brane

12.45 - 14.00 lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Pilar Ruiz-Lapente - Type Ia supernovae : progenitors and the determination of dark energy
14.45 - 15.30 Wolfgang Gradl - Probing the strong interaction in e+e- collisions

15.30 - 16.00 coffee

16.00 - 16.45 Holger Waalkens - Scattering monodromy
16.45 - 17.05 Mayerlin Nunez Portela - Single Ion Spectroscopy: Towards Measuring Atomic Parity Violation
17.05 - 17.25 Hans Buist - The effects of a smoothly growing galaxy on the evolution and properties streams

18.30           drinks

Thursday April 17, 2014

9.00 - 9.45 Albert de Roeck - Beyond the Large Hadron Collider
9.45 - 10.30 Alain Blondel - Neutrino physics, now and in the future

10.30 - 11.00 coffee

11.00 - 11.45 Fred Jegerlehner - About the role of the Higgs boson in the early universe
11.45 - 12.05 Keri Vos - Limits on Lorentz violation in weak decays
12.05 - 12.25 Auke Sytema - First test of Lorentz invariance in the weak decay of polarized nuclei
12.25 - 12.45 Inti Pelupessy - The Astrophysical Multi-purpose Software Environment

12.45 - 14.00 lunch

14.00 - 14.45 Carlos Frenk - Cosmology in our backyard
14.45 - 15.30 Alexey Boyarsky - The hunt for dark matter

15.30 - 16.00 coffee

16.00 - 17.00 Jeroen Koelemeij - Accurate clocks based on atoms and molecules: what is hiding behind the next decimal? (Note: this will take place in the Nijenborgh 4 building across the road)