Welcome to NOW 2012 !
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A brief historical note on NOW
Seventh edition of the NOW Conference series.
Started in 1998 as a topical workshop after the first indications
of neutrino oscillations at Neutrino ‘98 (Takayama, Japan).
The first edition was held in Amsterdam (NIKHEF, 1998).
All the other editions have been held here in Conca Specchiulla.
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What remains of the first edition …
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The second edition (2000) has been organized here in Conca
Specchiulla, with the typical structure of a conference …
The second edition
Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 100 (2001)
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The third edition (2004) has been presented as an adventurous trip
around known and unknown lands of the neutrino world…
The third edition
Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 145 (2005)
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The fourth edition (2006) has been introduced through an armillary
sphere, whose “armillae” were called to represent different regions
of a “neutrino-centered” system …
Fourth edition
Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 168 (2007)
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In 2007 a reason of pride for us …
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For the fifth edition (2008) we have chosen as theme the five Platonic
solids, by relating them to different sectors of the neutrino physics …
Fifth edition
Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 188 (2009)
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For the sixth edition (2010) the theme has been inspired by the
Tree of Life, the mosaic of the Otranto Cathedral …
Sixth edition
Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 217 (2011)
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The present edition (2012) is inspired to the Rose Window of the
Otranto Cathedral, re-interpreted as a Neutrino Rose Window …
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Indeed, the sectors of the Neutrino Rose Window are used to display the
subjects of each the five sessions of our workshop … together with its title
…
Neutrino Oscillation Workshop MMXII
Session # 5
Messengers of new Physics
Session # 4
Messengers of the Universe
Session # 2
Oscillations at low energies
Session # 3
Oscillations at high energies
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Other symbols are inserted in the Neutrino Rose Window, related to the
five sessions:
the indices of the left
and right states
Neutrino Oscillation Workshop MMXII
Session # 5
Messengers of new Physics
the indices of
sterile and heavy n
Session # 4
Messengers of the Universe
the indices of the m
and t flavors
the indices of the
matrix element Uei
the first two mass
eigenstates
Session # 2
Oscillations at low energies
Session # 3
Oscillations at high energies
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Absolute Neutrino Mass Scale
the indices of the
matrix element Ua3
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An interesting Question
Who is the author of the Neutrino Rose
Window (and of all the posters of the
previous editions) ?
Eligio Lisi !
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A quick look to the NOW program
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First Sector
Absolute Neutrino Mass Scales
Conveners:
Silvia Capelli
Pasquale Di Bari
Chair of the plenary session: Ettore Fiorini
Experimental searches of 0nu2beta decay
Oliviero Cremonesi
Neutrinoless double beta decay and particles physics
Werner Rodejohann
Direct neutrino mass searches
Guido Drexlin
Constraining neutrino physics with cosmology
Alessandro Melchiorri
Leptogenesis and neutrino masses
Serguey Petcov
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Second Sector
Oscillations at Low Energies
Conveners:
Kate Scholberg
Francesco Villante
Chair of the plenary session: Frank Avignone
Daya Bay: results and perspectives
Xiaonan Li
RENO: results and perspectives
Seon-Hee Seo
Double Chooz: results and perspectives
Arthur Franke
Neutrino from the Sun and from radioactive sources
Aldo Ianni
Neutrino Physics and Earth sciences
Gianni Fiorentini
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Third Sector
Oscillations at High Energies
Conveners:
Srubabati Goswami
Marcello Messina
Chair of the plenary session: Koichiro Nishikawa
T2K results and perspectives
Gabriella Catanesi
The NOvA experiment
Mathew Muether
LBL projects and neutrino CP violation in Europe
Silvia Pascoli
Neutrino flavor appearance at Gran Sasso: results
and perspectives
Lucia Votano
Short-baseline oscillations of high-energy neutrinos
Luca Stanco
Experimental search for the “LSND anomaly” with
Icarus in the CNGS beam
Carlo Rubbia
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Fourth Sector
Messengers of the Universe
Conveners:
Elisa Bernardini
Pasquale Serpico
Chair of the plenary session: Maria Teresa Muciaccia
IceCube
Francis Halzen
Sterile neutrinos and dark matter
Manfred Lindner
New technologies for neutrino detection
David Seckel
Charged cosmic rays and neutrinos
Michael Kachelriess
Multimessenger astronomy and neutrinos
Shin’ichiro Ando
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Fifth Sector
Messengers of New Physics
Conveners:
Alessandra Tonazzo
Patrick Huber
Chair of the plenary session: Maurizio Lusignoli
Leptonic flavor structures
Zhi-zhong Xing
The Hyper-Kamiokande project
Masato Shiozawa
Large volume detectors with LAr (and scintillators)
André Rubbia
Status of sterile neutrinos
Carlo Giunti
Nonstandard neutrino interactions
Tommy Ohlsson
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The Neutrino Rose Window
Concluding Remarks
Neutrino physics: perspectives
by
Atsuto Suzuki
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A Special Talk
This evening a special plenary session
will be devoted to a very interesting
subject:
Vulcanoes and muons
by
Paolo Strolin
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Remembering Milla
Let us now pause to remember Milla - Milla Baldo Ceolin. She
cannot attend NOW anymore, but for all of us she is still
present in our hearths.
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Milla has been a great friend of NOW. She has been among
those who have promoted and supported the NOW series, and
we have always received from her encouragement and
suggestions.
Milla has attended almost all the editions of NOW, always
sitting in the first row to follow closely the talks. Let me
remind you her participation through some pictures taken at
the previous editions:
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NOW 2000
Milla at the first edition of
NOW in Conca Specchiulla
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NOW 2004
Milla at the second edition of
NOW in Conca Specchiulla
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NOW 2008
Milla at the coffee
break of NOW 2008
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NOW 2008
As chairperson
at NOW 2008
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NOW 2010
Again as chairperson at the last
edition of NOW, two years ago
NOW 2010 has been the last
conference attended by Milla
In the Fall of 2010, the first
symptoms of her disease
appeared…
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We do not intend to remember Milla only because of her
scientific career, even though she has been one of the most
important physicists in Italy in the last fifty years – an
outstanding scientist at world level.
We want to remember Milla also for her human qualities, for her
enthusiasm, for her role of guidance in the field of neutrino
physics worldwide.
So, we dedicate this edition of NOW - NOW 2012 - to Milla
Baldo Ceolin.
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In particular, we will dedicate to Milla the Introduction to the
Proceedings of NOW 2012, with a brief memory of her
personality and of her role in neutrino physics.
All those who have memories of Milla and want to share them
with us, are asked to write brief note, to tell an episode, or just
to share a thought about her. Send your memories to us
([email protected]): we will include them in the Proceedings.
Our brief introduction and your notes will remain as a testimony
of the relevance of her figure in neutrino physics and of the
friendship which she was surrounded from.
Thanks to all of you !
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