CORSIKA SCHOOL 2008

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Tuesday, 25.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
Afternoon	Arrival at the school	-	-
16:00	Opening remarks/welcome reception	30 min	-
16:30	Open problems in cosmic rays and astrophysics	60 min	T. Stanev
18:00	dinner	-	-
19:30	Impressions from early days of air shower simulations	60 min	M. Hillas

 

Wednesday, 26.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
09:00	Electromagnetic showers, cascade eqs. part 1	60 min	P. Lipari
10:15	coffee break	-	-
10:45	Phenomenology of hadronic interactions	45 min	R. Engel
11:45	Introduction to CORSIKA and historical review	30 min	D. Heck
12:30	lunch	-	-
14:00	Phenomenology of hadronic showers	45 min	R. Engel
15:00	Measurement methods: Ne-Nmu	45 min	A. Haungs
16:00	coffee break	-	-
16:30	Installation and extraction options of CORSIKA	30 min	T. Pierog
17:15	CORSIKA input file and standard binary output format	30 min	T. Pierog
19:00	dinner	-	-
20:30	Hands-on exercise with CORSIKA	45 min	T. Pierog & D. Heck

 

Thursday, 27.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
09:00	Electromagnetic showers, cascade eqs. part 2	60 min	P. Lipari
10:15	coffee break	-	-
10:45	Review of hadronic interaction models	60 min	T. Pierog
12:00	Fluctuations/universality of air showers, numerical studies	30 min	P. Billoir
12:45	lunch	-	-
14:00	Measurement methods: emulsion chambers	40 min	J. Kempa
14:55	Measurement methods: muon bundles	20 min	R. Kokoulin
15:20	Measurement methods: muon bundles	20 min	T. Stanev
15:45	CORSIKA energy deposit and histograms	20 min	D. Heck
16:15	coffee break	-	-
16:45	Influence of hadronic interaction models on simulated showers: a phenomenological comparison	60 min	D. Heck
18:00	CORSIKA output format: COAST interface	20 min	R. Ulrich
18:30	CORSIKA shower animations	30 min	J. Oehlschläger / R. Engel
19:15	dinner	-	-
20:30	Hands-on exercises: histogramming with COAST	30 min	R. Ulrich

 

Friday, 28.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
09:00	Electromagnetic showers, cascade eqs. part 3	60 min	P. Lipari
10:15	coffee break	-	-
10:45	Measurement methods: hadronic calorimeters	30 min	A. Castellina / A. Haungs
11.30	Photon-induced showers	45 min	M. Risse
12:30	lunch	-	-
14:00	Measurement methods: fluorescence telescopes	30 min	M. Unger
14:45	Measurement methods: Cherenkov telescopes	30 min	G. Maier
15:30	Thinning methods, optimum thinning	20 min	M. Risse
16:00	coffee break	-	-
16:30	Un-thinning and open questions (pdf) (ppt)	45 min	P. Billoir
17:30	Hybrid simulations and CONEX	45 min	T. Pierog
19:30	Conference dinner	-	-

 

 

Saturday, 29.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
09:00	Physics of inclined showers (pdf) (ppt)	45 min	P. Billoir
10:00	Curved atmosphere option in CORSIKA	20 min	D. Heck
10:30	coffee break	-	-
11:00	Neutrino-induced showers	45 min	D. Gora
12:00	Radio signal detection and simulation (pdf) (ppt)	45 min	T. Huege
13:00	lunch	-	-
14:20	Measurement methods: non-imaging Cherenkov techniques	25 min	G. Navarra
14:55	Measurement methods: water-Cherenkov surface detector arrays	30 min	G. Navarra
15:45	Radio signal simulation with REAS2 (pdf) (ppt)	20 min	T. Huege
16:15	Atmosphere physics and atmospheres in CORSIKA (pdf) (ppt)	20 min	B. Keilhauer
16:45	Closing remarks	-	-
17:30	Visit of Christmas Market in Freudenstadt	-	-
20:00	dinner	-	-

 

Sunday, 30.11.2008

Time	Subject	Duration	Lecturer
Morning	departure	-	-