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

Apr 28, 2025, 4:00 PM → May 2, 2025, 6:00 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         

David Vartanyan               Viacheslav Li                   Jeffrey Wilkes

Paschal Coyle                   Leonidas Resvanis          Peter Gorham             

Daniel Pershey                  Michael Hippke             Adam Bernstein

Roberto Mussa                 Mark Messier                  Jason Detwiler             

Kevin Croker                    Shirley Li                          David Nygren

Daniel O'Connor              Veronica Bindi                 Jelena Maricic

 

             

Mon, April 28

Welcome reception at the Outrigger Canoe Club in Waikiki

Tue, April 29

8:30 AM Morning coffee and refreshments

Session chair: Tom Browder

1 Greetings and Research Highlights from the Vice President for Research and Innovation Syrmos

Speaker: Vassilis Syrmos (University of Hawaii)

2 Sponsor: Nalu Scientific

Speaker: Isar Mostafanezhad (Nalu Scientific)

3 Logistics for the workshop

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

Logistics.pdf

4 John Learned: novel ideas about ghost particles

Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin)

5 Solar Neutrino Puzzle

Speaker: Art McDonald (Queens University)

6 Workshop Photo

10:30 AM Coffee break

Session chair: Aksel Halin

7 Neutrino Oscillations - discovery with SuperK, connections with John Learned discovery with SuperK, status and future outlook

Speaker: Mark Messier (Indiana University)

learned-fest-messier.pdf

8 IMB and discovery of 1987A supernovae neutrinos

Speaker: Robert Svoboda

12:10 PM Lunch

Session chair: Jason Kumar

9 Construction of IMB and searching for proton decay

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

10 Modern perspectives on Stellar Collapse

Speaker: David Vartanyan (Carnegie Observatories)

11 Physics constraints from SN1987A detection

Speaker: Shirley Li (University of California Irvine)

3:00 PM Coffee Break

Session chair: Zepeng Li

12 IMB, to SuperK to GadZooks and DSNB

Speaker: Mark Vagins (UC Irvine)

13 Modern searches for supernovae

Speaker: Daniel Pershey (Florida State University)

14 Social dinner - John's place

Wed, April 30

8:30 AM Morning Coffee and Refreshments

Session chair: Bob Svoboda

15 John Learned: the story of DUMAND

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

16 DUMAND contributions in the field

Speaker: Leonidas Resvanis (University of Athens)

Nestor FINAL 25.4.25.pdf

Nestor FINAL 25.4.25.pptx

17 Zoom Greetings

10:30 AM Coffee break

Session chair: Linda Kelley

18 Underwater neutrino projects - KM3NeT

Speaker: Paschal Coyle (CPPM)

19 Neutrino Telescopes

Speaker: Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

20 The Analog to Digital Conversion of IceCube

Speaker: David Nygren (University of Texas at Alrington)

12:30 PM Lunch

Session chair: Ralph Becker-Szengy

21 Measurements at Lake Chelen

Speaker: Jeff Wilkes (University of Washington)

22 Measurements on Mt. Evens

Speaker: Jeff Wilkes (University of Washington)

23 Cosmic ray measurements at Haleakala

Speaker: Veronica Bindi (University of Hawaii)

24 Searches of UHE neutrinos at the Pierre Auger Observatory: recent results and future prospects

Speaker: Roberto Mussa

3:30 PM Coffee break

Session chair: Greg Tarle

25 The road to radio-detection of ultra-high energy neutrinos

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

26 Neutrino mass constraints from DESI

Speaker: Kevin Croker (Arizona State University)

Thu, May 1

Small group discussions

12:00 PM Lunch break

Small group discussions

Fri, May 2

8:30 AM Morning Coffee and Refreshments

Session chair: Cherrill Spencer

27 Strange Nonchaotic Stars and Galactic Communication

Speakers: Michael Hippke, TBD

28 SPEAR/SLAC pioneering e-e+ Physics and the APOCRYPHA

Speaker: Leonidas Resvanis (University of Athens)

29 Acoustic detection in SOUND + Scintillator distributed imaging

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

10:30 AM Coffee break

Session chair: William McDonough

30 Scintillator distributed imaging

Speaker: Giorgio Gratta (Stanford University)

31 Neutrino Oscillations - reactor: Discovery with KamLAND, status and future outlook

Speaker: Jason Detwiler (University of Washington)

12:00 PM Lunch

Session chair: Shigenobu Matsuno

32 Geoneutrinos (KamLAND, Hanohano, OBD)

Speaker: Hiroko Watanabe (Tohoku University)

33 Frequentist approach to neutrino mass ordering and JUNO reactor neutrino experiment

Speaker: Benda Xu (Tsinghua University)

34 JUNO detector - technology

Speaker: Prof. Wei Wang (Sun Yat-sen University)

35 Overview of reactor monitoring and WATCHMAN project

Speaker: Adam Bernstein

3:20 PM Coffee break

Session chair: Steve Dye

36 NuLat and short baseline initiatives

Speaker: Brian Crow (University of Hawaii)

37 Neutrinos in Action: From Research on miniTimeCube to Shaping the World Nonproliferation Landscape

Speaker: Viacheslav Li (LLNL)

38 Open floor for all