Indirect Dark Matter Searches and Cosmic Ray Transport in the Era of AMS The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is installed on the International Space Station (ISS) since May 2011. AMS is a complex particle detector designed to precisely measure the fluxes of cosmic rays between 0.5 GeV and a few...
High-energy neutrinos from AGN? With the advent of multi-messenger observatories, neutrino astronomy is turning into a helpful tool to investigate and put limits on the contribution of the known astrophysical objects to the diffuse neutrino background. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have long been suggested among the candidate sources of cosmic...
Exploring extreme states of matter with an ultra-bright X-ray free-electron laser In this talk, we will review recent progress in high-energy density physics using the world’s brightest X-ray source, the Linac Coherent Light Source, SLAC's free electron X-ray laser. These experiments investigate laser-driven matter in extreme conditions where powerful X-ray...
The VO And Why It Matters To You In the most technical words, the Virtual Observatory (VO) is an effort to enable uniform and efficient access to astronomical data. With more glitz, it is like the Web and Google, only for data. In this talk I will try to convince...