High Energy Cosmic and Gamma Rays Session

Tuesday, 17 December 1996, 2:00-6:15 pm

Preliminary Program

Chairs: Jim Cronin (Chicago), Alan Watson (Leeds)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Jim Cronin, jwc@uchep.uchicago.edu



Speakers


Indicated times include discussion.

Session I: 2-4 pm

2:00 T C Weekes (Smithsonian Astrophysical Inst.) 'Gamma-ray Astronomy above 50 GeV' (30 min)
2:30 J H Buckley (Smithsonian Astrophysical Inst.) 'Constraints on the origin of cosmic rays from TeV gamma-ray observations' (20 min)
2:50 R Ong (University of Chicago) 'Development of the STACEE project' (20 min)
3:10 H. Meyer (Wuppertal) 'Obeservation of nearby AGN's with Hegra and Airobicc' (20 min)
3:30 J A Simpson (University of Chicago) 'Stable and Unstable Isotopes at GeV energies' (15 min)
3:45 G. Schatz (Forschungscentrum Karlsruhe) 'Status Report of the Kaskade Experiment to measure cosmic ray composition at 10**14 to 10**16 eV' (15 min)
4:00 Break (15 min)

Session II: 4:15-6:15 pm

4:15 B. Nilson (Lousiana State University) 'New results on cosmic ray composition from the JACEE collaboration' (20 min)
4:35 C L Pryke (University of Chicago) 'Status of the Auger project' (20 min)
4:55 J E Horvath (University of Sao Paolo) 'Trajectories of Very High Energy Cosmic Rays' (15 min)
5:10 K Thielheim (University of Kiel) 'Cosmic-Ray Acceleration at Ultra-High energies' (15 min)
5:25 M Giller (University of Lodz) 'Cosmic-Ray acceleration by pulsar winds' (15 min)
5:40 J. Rachen (Pennsylvania State) 'Propagation of the highest energy cosmic rays' (15 min)
5:55 R. Opher (University of Sao Paulo) 'A unified model for ultrahigh energy cosmic rays' (15 min)


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