100 Years Cosmic Rays – Anniversary of Their Discovery by <br>V. F. Hess

5 Aug 2012, 19:00 → 8 Aug 2012, 18:45 Europe/Berlin

Die Bühne, Bad Saarow/Pieskow

Sunday 5 August

1 Registration and Welcome

Monday 6 August

2 Welcome

3 V.Hess - Remarks on his Personal Life

Speaker: William Breisky (Hess' Grandchild)

4 Overview: Early Developments 1912 - 1950

Speaker: Jim Cronin

Slides Cronin_Bad_Saarow.ppt

5 Conductivity of Air - C.T.R.Wilson, J.Elster, H.Geitel, A.Gockel, D.Pacini, Th.Wulf

Speaker: Alessandro de Angelis

Slides De_Angelis_12HistoryBerlin.pptx

10:45 Coffee Break

6 From Atmospheric Electricity to Cosmic Rays: A. Gockel's Pioneering Investigations

Speaker: Jan Lacki

Slides lacki_gockel_saarow_final.pptx

7 V.Hess' Scientific Life

Speaker: Dr Peter Schuster

Slides Schuster-Hess_Berlin_NEU_3.pps

8 W. Kolhörster (1887-1945) Pioneer of Cosmic Ray Research in Germany

Speakers: Dieter Fick, Dieter Hoffmann

Slides Hoffmann_KohlhörsterSaarow7,2012.ppt

12:45 Lunch Break

9 Birth cries and Heat Death: Cosmic Rays and Cosmological Speculations in the 1920's

Speaker: Arthuro Russo

10 C.T.R. Wilson and the Detector Development

Speaker: Malcolm Longair

Slides Longair.pptx

11 Skobeltzyn and the Early Years of Cosmic Particle Physics in the Soviet Union

Speaker: Galina Bazilevskya

Slides Bazilevskaya_Skobeltsyn.ppt

12 My Meeting with D.V. Skobeltzyn

Speaker: Venyamin Berezinsky

13 From Cosmic Ray Physics to Cosmic Ray Astronomy. Bruno Rossi and the Opening of New Windows on the Universe

Speaker: Luisa Bonolis

Slides Bonolis_RossiBerlino.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

14 Early Developments: Particle Physics Aspects

Speaker: Claus Grupen

Slides Grupen-saarow.pdf

15 Early Days of Cherenkov Emission and Measurements

Speaker: Razmik Mirzoyan

Slides Mirzoyan_Early-Cherenkov-Bad-Saarow.ppt

16 VHANESSA Mission - Victor Hess Airballoon New Expedition Searching Signals of Astroparticles

Speaker: Guaita Cesare

Slides Cesare_VHANESSAxBerlino.ppt

18:00 Balloon Flights (if the weather allows)

17 Public Lecture (in German): Die kosmische Strahlung - Elementarteilchen aus dem Weltall

Speaker: Christian Stegmann

Slides AllesGuteKommtVonOben.pptx

Tuesday 7 August

05:00 Balloon Flights (if the weather allows)

18 Chasing the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays: from 1948 to the Present

Speaker: Alan Watson

Slides 2012_08_Watson_Hess_Meeting_Bad_Saarow.pptx

19 Understanding Galactic Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Arnold Wolfendale

Slides Wolfendale_Understanding_Galactic_Cosmic_Rays.ppt

20 Extragalactic Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Venyamin Berezinsky

Slides Berezinsky_hess-12.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

21 Cosmic Rays and Accelerator Physics

Speaker: Ralph Engel

Slides Engel-Hess-100-Web.pdf

22 Direct Cosmic-Ray Measurements with Balloons and in Space: An Overview

Speaker: Dietrich Mueller

13:00 Lunch Break

23 High Energy Gamma Satellite Experiments

Speaker: Marco Tavani

Slides Tavani_207_V.Hess_CR_Conference_Bad_Saarow_Aug-2012_03.pdf

24 High Energy Gamma Sources

Speaker: Felix Aharonian

Slides Aharonian_HESS100.pdf

25 Overview: Evolution of IACTs

Speaker: Manel Martinez

15:45 Coffee Break

17:00 Unveiling of an Erratic Block with Name and Date of the Discovery

18:30 Boat Tour on the Scharmuetzel Lake

20:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday 8 August

26 X-Ray Astronomy

Speaker: Andrea Santangelo

Slides Santangelo_presentationweb.pdf

27 Nonthermal Radio Astronomy

Speaker: Ronald Ekers

Slides Ekers_RDE_Hess100_radio.pdf

28 Cosmic Electrons

Speaker: Piergiorgio Picozza

Slides Picozza_HESS-Cenenary-electrons.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

29 Overview Low Energy Neutrinos: From Kamiokande to a Megaton Detector

Speaker: Yoichiro Suzuki

Slides Suzuki_120808-LowE_Nu-CR100yrs.pdf

30 Overview High Energy Astronomy - Past, Present, Future

Speaker: Francis Halzen

Slides Halzen.pdf

31 Major Astronomical Facilities

Speaker: Catherine Cesarsky

Slides CesarskyHess0712.pdf

13:00 Lunch Break

32 Theoretical Understanding: Cosmic Rays, Sun and Heliosphere

Speaker: J. Randy Jokipii

Slides jokipii_modulation_hess_12_a.pdf

33 Overview Experimental Development: Cosmic Rays, Sun and Heliosphere

Speaker: Harm Moraal

Slides bad_saarow_moraal.pdf

34 Cosmic Rays and Space Weather

Speaker: Erwin Flueckiger

Slides 2012-Flueckiger_BadSaarow-EOF-compr.pdf

16:00 Coffee Break

35 Cosmic Rays, Weather and Climate

Speaker: Jasper Kirkby

36 Cosmic Rays and Terrestrial Life

Speaker: Dimitra Atri

Slides Atri_100_Review.pdf

37 Intercontinental Round Table Discussion : Future of Cosmic Ray Physics

Speaker: not assigned yet

Slides Wolfendale.pdf