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Organizing Committee

David B. Cline (UCLA), Barry Barish (Caltech),
Jordan Goodman (UMD),
Vernon Barger (U. Wisc.), E.W. Beier (UPENN), Hitoshi Murayama (UC Berkeley), Hank Sobel (UCI), Nicholas Samios (BNL)

3rd BNL/UCLA Workshop on Multipurpose Detectors for Proton Decay and VLBL Neutrino Physics


February 28 and March 1, 2005
Faculty Center, UCLA


Preliminary Agenda

Monday February 28 (Morning and afternoon sessions)

- Role of Proton Decay in GUT theories: D.V. Nanopolous (Texas A&M)
- Predictions for proton decay: J. Pati (U. Maryland)
- Liquid Argon Detector for Supernova Studies and Variation of Neutrino Masses with Density of the Medium: Danny Marfatia (KU)
- Sub-leading effects in atmospheric neutrinos: Sergio Palomares-Ruiz (Vanderbilt)
- Three family models from the heterotic string: Stuart Raby (Ohio State)
- Discussion on DUSEL and APS study: Moderator: Nick Samios (BNL)
- Progress on reactor theta_13 experiment: Stuart Freedman (LBL)
- BNL neutrino beam status: Milind Diwan (BNL)
- Water Cherenkov simulation studies on backgrounds and resolution: Chiaki Yanagisawa (SUNY)
- New possibilities for physics at the TeV scale: Yasunori Nomura (LBL)

Tuesday March 1 (morning session only)

- Summary of developments on liquid argon technology: David Cline (UCLA)
- Large liquid scintillator technology: Raju Raghavan (LSU)
- Deep underground accelerator and detector facilities for studying neutrino physics: Takahashi Hiroshi (Brookhaven)
- UNO: Chiaki Yanagisawa (SUNY)
- Discussion on R&D items