Welcome to NOW 2012 !

Gianluigi Fogli NOW 2012 - Conca Specchiulla, September 10th, 2012

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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

The second edition (2000) has been organized here in Conca Specchiulla, with the typical structure of a conference …

Proceedings appeared as Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 100 (2001)


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The third edition

The third edition (2004) has been presented as an adventurous trip around known and unknown lands of the neutrino world…



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Fourth edition

The fourth edition (2006) has been introduced through an armillary sphere, whose “armillae” were called to represent different regions of a “neutrino-centered” system …



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In 2007 a reason of pride for us …


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Fifth edition

For the fifth edition (2008) we have chosen as theme the five Platonic solids, by relating them to different sectors of the

neutrino physics …



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Sixth edition

For the sixth edition (2010) the theme has been inspired by the Tree of Life, the mosaic of the Otranto Cathedral …



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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 …

Session # 1 Absolute Neutrino Mass ScaleSession # 3

Oscillations at high energies

Session # 2 Oscillations at low energies

Session # 4 Messengers of the Universe

Session # 5 Messengers of new Physics

Neutrino Oscillation Workshop MMXII


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Other symbols are inserted in the Neutrino Rose Window, related to the five sessions:

Session # 1 Absolute Neutrino Mass ScaleSession # 3

Oscillations at high energies

Session # 2 Oscillations at low energies

Session # 4 Messengers of the Universe

Session # 5 Messengers of new Physics

Neutrino Oscillation Workshop MMXII

the first two mass eigenstates

the indices of the matrix element Uei

the indices of the matrix element

Ua3

the indices of the m and t flavors

the indices of sterile and heavy n

the indices of the left and right states


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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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Absolute Neutrino Mass Scales

Experimental searches of 0nu2beta decay Oliviero Cremonesi

Neutrinoless double beta decay and particles physics Werner Rodejohann

Direct neutrino mass searches Guido DrexlinConstraining neutrino physics with cosmology Alessandro MelchiorriLeptogenesis and neutrino masses Serguey Petcov

Conveners: Silvia CapelliPasquale Di Bari

First Sector

Chair of the plenary session: Ettore Fiorini


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Oscillations at Low Energies

Daya Bay: results and perspectives Xiaonan Li

RENO: results and perspectives Seon-Hee Seo

Double Chooz: results and perspectives Arthur FrankeNeutrino from the Sun and from radioactive sources Aldo Ianni

Neutrino Physics and Earth sciences Gianni Fiorentini

Conveners: Kate ScholbergFrancesco Villante

Second Sector

Chair of the plenary session: Frank Avignone


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Oscillations at High Energies

Conveners: Srubabati GoswamiMarcello Messina

Third Sector

T2K results and perspectives Gabriella Catanesi

The NOvA experiment Mathew Muether

LBL projects and neutrino CP violation in Europe Silvia Pascoli

Short-baseline oscillations of high-energy neutrinos Luca Stanco

Neutrino flavor appearance at Gran Sasso: results Lucia Votanoand perspectives

Experimental search for the “LSND anomaly” with Carlo RubbiaIcarus in the CNGS beam

Chair of the plenary session: Koichiro Nishikawa


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Messengers of the Universe

IceCube Francis Halzen

Sterile neutrinos and dark matter Manfred Lindner

New technologies for neutrino detection David SeckelCharged cosmic rays and neutrinos Michael Kachelriess

Multimessenger astronomy and neutrinos Shin’ichiro Ando

Conveners: Elisa BernardiniPasquale Serpico

Fourth Sector

Chair of the plenary session: Maria Teresa Muciaccia


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Messengers of New Physics

Leptonic flavor structures Zhi-zhong Xing

The Hyper-Kamiokande project Masato Shiozawa

Large volume detectors with LAr (and scintillators) André RubbiaStatus of sterile neutrinos Carlo Giunti

Nonstandard neutrino interactions Tommy Ohlsson

Conveners: Alessandra TonazzoPatrick Huber

Fifth Sector

Chair of the plenary session: Maurizio Lusignoli


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Concluding Remarks

The Neutrino Rose Window

Neutrino physics: perspectives by

Atsuto Suzuki


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This evening a special plenary session will be devoted to a very interesting subject:

Vulcanoes and muons

by

Paolo Strolin

A Special Talk


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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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Milla at the first edition of NOW in Conca

Specchiulla

NOW 2000


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Milla at the second edition of NOW in Conca Specchiulla

NOW 2004


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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.

Thanks to all of you !

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.

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