Workshop on Ghost Particle Hunting: Neutrino Physics and its Applications to World Peace

Apr 28, 2025, 4:00 PM → May 2, 2025, 5:00 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center/Second-226 - Pacific Room (East-West Center)

Jelena Maricic (University of Hawaii, High Energy Physics Group)

With a Tribute to Professor John Learned

Advances in neutrino physics in the last decades have brought breakthroughs in Beyond Standard Model Physics with the discovery of neutrino oscillations and mass; detection of supernovae, extragalactic and galactic neutrinos that shone light on the inner workings of our Universe;  and applications of neutrinos for preserving World Peace. Many of these advances carry signature contributions from Professor John Learned This workshop will bring experts from different areas of neutrino physics to  discuss  the next steps in neutrino physics and detector technology.

                   

    

 Invited speakers:

Art McDonald                    Francis Halzen                          

Robert Svoboda               Mark Vagins

Giorgio Gratta                  Richard Bionta

Hye-Sook Park                Albrecht Karle

Hiroko Watanabe            Jon Coleman

Viacheslav Li                   Jeff Wilkes

Paschal Coyle                 Leonidas Resvanis

Peter Gorham                 

Mon, April 28

5:00 PM → 7:00 PM Welcome reception

Tue, April 29

9:00 AM → 9:10 AM University of Hawaii Greetings

9:10 AM → 9:20 AM Research highlights at the University of Hawaii

9:20 AM → 9:50 AM John Learned: novel ideas about ghost particles

Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

9:50 AM → 10:30 AM Solar Neutrino Puzzle

Speaker: Art McDonald (Queens University)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Morning coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:45 AM Neutrino Oscillations - discovery with SuperK, connections with John Learned discovery with SuperK, status and future outlook

Speaker: Mark Messier (Indiana University)

11:45 AM → 12:30 PM IMB and discovery of 1987A supernovae neutrinos

Speaker: Robert Svoboda

12:30 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Modern perspectives on Stellar Collapse

Speaker: Adam Burrows (Princeton University)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Physics constraints from SN1987A detection

Speaker: Shirley Li (University of California Irvine)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM IMB, to SuperK to GadZooks and DSNB

Speaker: Mark Vagins (UC Irvine)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffe Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Modern searches for supernovae

Speaker: Prof. Daniel Pershey (Florida State University)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM The road to radio-detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos

Speaker: Peter Gorham (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Hawaii)

6:30 PM → 9:30 PM Social dinner

Wed, April 30

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Construction of IMB and searching for proton decay

Speakers: Hye Sook Park (LLNL), Richard Bionta (LLNL)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Neutrino Telescopes

Speaker: Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM John Learned: the story of DUMAND

Speaker: Dan O'Connor (University of Hawaii Hilo)

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:15 PM DUMAND contributions in the field

Speaker: Leonidas Resvanis (University of Athens)

2:15 PM → 2:45 PM Underwater neutrino projects - KM3NeT

Speaker: Paschal Coyle (CPPM)

2:45 PM → 3:00 PM Cosmic ray measurements at Haleakala

Speaker: TBD

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Searches of UHE neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory: recent results and future prospects

Speaker: Roberto Mussa

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 4:15 PM Measurements at Lake Chelen

Speaker: TBD

4:15 PM → 4:30 PM Measurements on Mt. Evens

Speaker: Jeff Wilkes (University of Washington)

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM SPEAR/SLAC pioneering e-e+ Physics and the APOCRYPHA

Speaker: Leonidas Resvanis (University of Athens)

Thu, May 1

9:00 AM → 12:00 PM Small group discussions

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Lunch break

1:00 PM → 4:00 PM Small group discussions

Fri, May 2

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM Strange Nonchaotic Stars and Galactic Communication

Speaker: TBD

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Acoustic detection in SOUND + Scintillator distributed imaging

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Neutrino Oscillations - reactor: Discovery with KamLAND, status and future outlook

Speaker: Jason Detwiler (University of Washington)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Geoneutrinos (KamLAND, Hanohano, OBD)

Speaker: Hiroko Watanabe (Tohoku University)

11:30 AM → 12:00 PM Frequentist approach to neutrino mass ordering and JUNO reactor neutrino experiment

Speaker: TBD

12:00 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:00 PM Reactor monitoring - overview

Speaker: Adam Bernstein

2:00 PM → 2:30 PM Remote reactor monitoring (WATCHMAN and other intiatives)

Speaker: Jonathan Coleman (University of Liverpool)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM NuLat and short baseline initiatives

Speaker: Bruce Vogelaar (TBC) (Virginia Tech)

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Neutrinos in Action: From Research on miniTimeCube to Shaping the World Nonproliferation Landscape

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Open floor for all