Program

of the 4th International Workshop on THE HIGHEST ENERGY COSMIC RAYS AND THEIR SOURCES
Moscow, Russia, May 20-22, 2008.

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Tuesday, May 20

  1. 10:30 &mdash 10:45   Opening  [Presentation]
  2. 10:45 &mdash 11:45   Pierre Sokolsky, HiRes experiment  [Presentation]

    3. Coffee Break. 11:45 - 12:15

  3. 12:15 &mdash 13:00   John Matthews, The Telescope Array (TA/TALE) experiment  [Presentation]

    4. Lunch. 13:00 - 14:00

  4. 14:00 &mdash 15:00   Serguei Vorobiov, The status, results and the future prospects of the Pierre Auger Observatory (Part I)  [Presentation]
  5. 15:00 &mdash 15:30   Peter Tinyakov, On the interpretation of the cosmic-ray anisotropy at ultra-high energies  [Presentation]

    6. Coffee Break. 15:30 - 16:00

  6. 16:00 &mdash 16:30   Leonid Dedenko, The cosmic ray luminosity of the nearby active galactic nuclei  [Presentation]
  7. 16:30 &mdash 17:00   Sergey Troitsky, Physical conditions in potential UHECR accelerators  [Presentation]
  8. 17:00 &mdash 17:30   Sergey Ostapchenko, High energy radiation from Centaurus A  [Presentation]
  9. 17:30 &mdash 18:00   Igor Tkachev, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray production in the polar cap regions of black hole magnetospheres  [Presentation]

Wednesday, May 21

  1. 10:30 &mdash 11:30   Vasily Prosin, Study of Primary Cosmic Rays with EAS Cerenkov Light in Tunka Valley (Tunka-25 and Tunka-133 arrays)  [Presentation]

    2. Coffee Break. 11:30 - 12:00

  2. 12:00 &mdash 12:30   Dmitry Podgrudkov, The time pulses of signals in scintillator detectors from extensive air showers with energies above 10**8 GeV  [Presentation]
  3. 12:30 &mdash 13:00   Grigory Rubtsov, Timing-related observables for UHECR composition studies  [Presentation]

    4. Lunch. 13:00 - 14:00

  4. 14:00 &mdash 15:00   Serguei Vorobiov, The status, results and the future prospects of the Pierre Auger Observatory (Part II)  [Presentation]
  5. 15:00 &mdash 15:30   Gordon Thomson, Comparing Cosmic Ray Showers to Simulations  [Presentation]

    6. Coffee Break. 15:30 - 16:00

  6. 16:00 &mdash 16:30   Dmitry Gorbunov, Study of chemical composition with muon content  [Presentation]
  7. 16:30 &mdash 17:00   Artem Sabourov, Extensive air shower estimates and the possibility to obtain the UHECR mass composition.  [Presentation]
  8. 17:00 &mdash 18:00   Sergey Ostapchenko, Muon component of high energy air showers: puzzles and prospects  [Presentation]

Thursday, May 22

  1. 10:30 &mdash 11:30   Boris Khrenov, TUS/KLYPVE program for observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays from Space  [Presentation]

    2. Coffee Break. 11:30 - 12:00

  2. 12:00 &mdash 12:30   Yuri Stenkin, On the PRISMA project (proposal)  [Presentation]
  3. 12:30 &mdash 13:00   Vladimir Yakovlev, Tachyons in extensive air showers?  [Presentation]

    4. Lunch. 13:00 - 14:00

  4. 14:00 &mdash 14:30   Askhat Gazizov, Diffusion of ultra high energy particles in expanding universe  [Presentation]
  5. 14:30 &mdash 15:00   Oleg Kalashev, Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays and the GeV-TeV Diffuse Gamma-Ray Flux  [Presentation]
  6. 15:00 &mdash 15:30   Dmitri Semikoz, Constraining the cosmic ray source spectrum from observations in the GZK regime  [Presentation]

    7. Coffee Break. 15:30 - 16:00

  7. 16:00 &mdash 16:50   Vladimir Aynutdinov, Status of Baikal neutrino experiment  [Presentation]
  8. 16:50 &mdash 17:30   Konstantin Belov, Search for the UHE neutrinos high above the Antarctic ice shield - The ANITA experiment  [Presentation]
  9. 17:30 &mdash 17:35   Closing

    10. Seminar dinner. 18:00 -