Organizers:
A. Baha Balantekin
baha@nucth.physics.wisc.edu

Venya Berezinsky
venya.berezinsky@lngs.infn.it

Kate Scholberg
schol@phy.duke.edu

John F. Wilkerson
jfw@u.washington.edu

Program Coordinator:
Laura Lee
lee@phys.washington.edu
(206) 685-3509

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Workshop on
EXPLORING THE PHYSICS FRONTIER AT THE DEEP UNDERGROUND LABORATORIES
Institute for Nuclear Theory
University of Washington, Seattle

June 23 to 24, 2005



Workshop Schedule:
Thursday
 
8.30-9.30: Registration
9.30-9.35: Welcome
 
Double Beta Decay Session:
 
9.35-9.55:   H. Robertson, Univ of WA - Introduction to Double Beta Decay
9.55-10.25:  J. Wilkerson, Univ of WA, Majorana
10.25-10.55: J. Wodin, Stanford, EXO
 
10.55-11.25: Coffee Break
 
11.25-11.55: H. Ejiri, RCNP, Osaka Univ, Double Beta Decay, MOON Status and DBD Matrix elements
11.55-12.25: R. Maruyama, UC Berkeley/LBNL, CUORE
 
Dark matter session:
 
14.25-14.55: Rupak Mahapatra, UC Santa Barbara, CDMS
14.55-15.25: Dan McKinsey, Yale, XENON 
15.25-15.55: Andrew Hime, LANL, DEAP
 
15.55-16.25: Break
 
16.25-16.55:  Bernard Sadoulet, UC Berkeley, DUSEL Solicitation 1 Overview Talk
16.55-17.25:  Vitaly Kudryavtsev, Univ of Sheffield "Background studies for
              underground particle physics experiments".
17.25-17.55:  Rik Gran -- Long baseline neutrinos
17:55-18:15:  Yuri Efremenko, U. Tenn. - "Neutrino physics at the
              Spallation Neutron Source"
 
 
Friday
 
Future Solar Neutrinos
 
8.15-8.45:  Mark Chen, SNO+
8.45-9.15:  Raju Raghavan -- Future low energy solar nus
9.15-9.45:  Dan McKinsey, Yale  pp solar neutrinos  CLEAN
9.45-10.15: Kazumi Ishii, KamLAND
 
10.15-10.45: Coffee Break
 
Supernovae:
 
10:45-11.15: Cecilia Lunardini, INT -- supernova neutrinos, theory
11.15-11.45: Kate Scholberg, Duke Univ, Supernova Neutrino Detection
11.45-12.15: Fabrice Fleurot, Laurentian Univ -- supernova alert
12.15-12.35: Terry Walker, Ohio State Univ, Implications of the
             Supernova Neutrino Background

Related Developments
                                                                                             
14.30-15.00:  Karsten Heeger, LBNL,- Theta_13
15.00-15.30:  Axions, Darin Kinion, LLNL
15.30-16.00:  Yuri Kamyshkov, U. Tenn. - Searches for neutron-antineutron
              transition and other (B-L) violating processes at DUSEL facilities.
16.00-16.30:  Nicole Bell, Caltech - "Neutrino Signatures in Cosmology"
                                                                                             
16.30-17.00:  Coffee Break
                                                                                             
Theoretical Developments  
                                                                                           
17.00-17.30: Boris Kayser, Majorana Neutrinos