Talks

People Involved

7^th International Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter in Astro & Particle physics,
Christchurch (New Zealand) - January 2009

• Alfio Rizzo : Search for dark matter with AMANDA and IceCube detectors (pdf)

IDM 2008,
Stockholm (Sweden) - August 2008

• Catherine De Clercq : Dark Matter Searches with AMANDA and IceCube (pdf)

4^th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe,
Cairo (Egypt) - June 2008

• Alfio Rizzo : Search for Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope and Prospects for IceCube (pdf)

6^th International Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter in Astro & Particle physics,
Sydney (Australia) - September 2007

• Alfio Rizzo : Search for Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope and Prospects for IceCube (pdf)

6^th International Workshop on New Worlds in Astroparticle Physics,
Faro (Portugal) - September 2007

• Daniel Bertrand : From AMANDA to IceCube (ppt)

Joint Belgian Dutch German Summer School,
Spa (Belgium) - September 2007

• Mathieu Labare : An introduction to neutrino Point Source search with AMANDA-IceCube Telescope (pdf)

The 2007 Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics,
Manchester (England) - July 2007

• Bruny Baret : Astroparticle physics with the AMANDA neutrino telescope (pdf)

30^th International Cosmic Ray Conference,
Merida, Yucatan, (Mexico) - July 2007

• Daan Hubert : Search for the neutralino dark matter with the AMANDA neutrino telescope (pdf)

Belgian Physical Society,
Antwerpen (Belgium) - May 2007

• Mathieu Labare : Search for high energy neutrino Point Source signal with AMANDA-IceCube Telescope (pdf)

Congres Leraars Wetenschappen,
Leuven, (Belgium) - 18 November 06

• Catherine De Clercq : IceCube: neutrino's vangen op Antarctica (pdf)

Workshop on Exotic Physics with Neutrino Telescopes
Uppsala, (Sweden), September 20-22, 2006

• Daan Hubert : WIMP searches with AMANDA (ppt)

SUSY06 conference, Irvine (USA), 12-17 June 06

• Catherine De Clercq : Search for Dark Matter with AMANDA and IceCube (pdf)

Seminarie 1BFYS VUB - 24 March 06

• Catherine De Clercq : IceCube: ontmoeting tussen astronomie en deeltjesfysica op de Zuidpool (pdf)

7^th UCLA Symposium on Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe,
Los Angeles (USA) - February 2006

• Daan Hubert : Neutralino dark matter searches with neutrino telescopes: AMANDA results and IceCube prospects (pdf)

The Cracow Epiphany Conference on Neutrinos and Dark Matter, Cracow (Poland) - January 2006

• Bruny Baret : The AMANDA & IceCube neutrino telescopes and Dark Matter searches (ppt,sxi,pdf)

29^th International Cosmic Ray Conference,
Pune (India) - August 2005

• Daan Hubert : Search for the neutralino dark matter with the AMANDA neutrino detector (pdf)

IUAP-PAI Meeting,
Mons-Hainaut - December 2004

• Daniel Bertrand : The IceCube Experiment (ppt)

Joint Belgian-Dutch-German Summer School,
Gent - September 2004

• Daan Hubert : Parametrising Optical Properties of Deep Antarctic Ice with Neural Networks (ppt)

SCAR 2004 conference, Bremen, 25-31 July 2004

• Catherine De Clercq : Results from AMANDA - neutrino astronomy at the South Pole (pdf)

BPS International Scientific Meeting,
Mons-Hainaut - May 2004

• Daan Hubert : Modelling optical properties of deep Antarctic ice with neural networks (ppt)

Journées Jeunes Chercheurs,
La Roche-en-Ardennes (Belgium) - December 2003

• Daan Hubert : Dark Matter Search with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope (ps.gz)

Joint Belgian-Dutch-German Summer School,
Bonn - September 2003

• Daan Hubert : Dark Matter Search with the AMANDA Neutrino Telescope (ps.gz)

Belgian Meetings

Brussels 15-05-2009

• Alfio Rizzo : "Status of the Solar WIMPs analyis, towards a combined 04-05-06 analysis (pdf)"
• Arne van Overloop : "IT40 Simulation Verification + alternative reconstructions (pdf)"
• Tom Feusels : "Muon bundle energy reconstruction of IceTop-IceCube coincident events (pdf)"

Brussels 23-10-2008

• Freija Descamps : "SPATS analysis update and 2008/2009 pinger season"
• Alfio Rizzo : "Short report on ongoing 2004 Solar Wimps analysis"
• Yasser Abdou : "Simulation of UHE Neutrino in Ice"
• Mathieu Labare : " The FDR Procedure in 10 minutes" - "FDR Data Challenge, what's new since Utrecht"

Brussels 08-09-2008

• Sabrina Bechet : Identification of tau neutrino in IceCube (pdf)
• Olbren Depaepe : Search for Kaluza-Klein dark matter in the center of the Sun with iceCube (pdf)
• Tom Feusels : IceTop/InIce coincidences to study mass composition of cosmic rays(pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Solar neutralinos 2001-2003 (pdf)

Brussels 19-06-2007

• Alfio Rizzo : A preliminary comparison DAta-MC with the new simulation program AMASIM-opt5 (pdf).
• Mathieu Labare : FDR studies summary(pdf).
• Freija Descamps : SPATS status(pdf).
• Arne Van Overloop : (pdf).

Brussels 21-02-2007

• Alfio Rizzo : Experiment vs Simulation. Comparison of Monte Carlo with 2004 and 2005 Amanda Data(pdf).
• Daan Hubert : 01-03 data stability: final results? (pdf)
• Olbren Dapaepe : search for KK with AMANDA: status of work (ppt)
• Thierry Castermans : TWR study in Mons status (pdf)

Brussels 19-01-2006

• Alfio Rizzo : A preliminary strategy to compare 2004 and 2005 data
• Daan Hubert : 2001 2003 L1 L2 fitering
• Freija Descamps : S.P.A.T.S. status and outlook
• Mathieu Labare : Update on FDR method for pointsource analysis
• Arne Van Overloop : IceTop correlations: simulation status
• Arne Van Overloop : Complementary plots

Brussels 27-11-2006

• Alfio Rizzo : To refilter or not to refilter 2000-2004 data, that is...
• Alfio Rizzo : A quick guide to Amasim-opt2
• Arne Van Overerloop : Fluctuation study via simulation
• Patrick Berghaus : Diffuse perspective and PS
• Daan Hubert : L1/L2 Solar wimps processing and possible discussion on Likelyhood Ratio cut optimisation

Mons-Hainaut 06-06-2006

• Georges Kohnen : IceCube Offline Database Overview (ppt)
• Freija Descamps : Acoustic Neutrino Detection (pdf)

Ghent 09-03-2006

• Daan Hubert : Stringy L2 filtering for WIMPS (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : GenN++:Generator of neutrino nucleon interactions (pdf)
• Arne Van Overloop : Icetop Status (pdf)

Mons-Hainaut 16-11-2005

• Daan Hubert : Preparing Monte Carlo (pdf)
• Thierry Castermans : Reconstruction of TWR events with Siegliende: angular resolution study (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : Dom Monitoring and testing status (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : Use of the "False Discovery Rate" controlling method for point sources search (pdf)

Brussels 19-10-2005

• Bruny Baret : Miscellanous news from DAQ/DOMs (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : WIMP summary (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Monte Carlo generator and Dark Matter search (pdf)
• Thierry Castermans : ICEREC workshop summary
• Patrick Berghaus : PS status/Analysis summary (pdf)

Brussels 25-07-2005

• Bruny Baret : DOM monitoring and testing, status and plans (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Search for neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA neutrino detector (pdf)

Ghent 20-06-2005

• Patrick Berghaus : B10 PS Search (pdf)

Mons-Hainaut 17-05-2005

• Thierry Castermans : A new technique of hit extraction from TWR using deconvolution by FFT (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : anis-nusim-dark matter (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : Dom Testing and monitoring status (pdf)

Brussels 15-04-2005

• Patrick Berghaus : This Won't Take Long (pdf)
• Georges Kohnen : IceCube Software Overview (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Montecarlo WIMPs Analysis: Effective Area and Volume at Trigger level (pdf)

Brussels 11-03-2005

• Thierry Castermans : Towards inclusion of inhomogeneous ice in reconstruction of events with TWR (pdf)
• Patrick Berghaus : Just Another PS Update (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Hunting for the perfect weight (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : DOMs Monitoring (pdf)
• Arne Van Overloop : Using simu2002 and analyse the generated data (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Montecarlo analysis from AMASIM to the L1 trigger (pdf)

Ghent 28-01-2005

• Patrick Berghaus : Update on PS 97-99 (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Montecarlo simulation from WimpSimp to AMASIM (pdf)

Brussels 15-12-2004

• Patrick Berghaus : B10 Point Source News (pdf)

Mons-Hainaut 29-10-2004

• Thierry Castermans : Exploiting TWR information in reconstruction of events (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : The search for neutralino dark matter with the AMANDA-B10 detector (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Status of PhotonicsNN (pdf)

Collaboration Meetings

Madison - April 2008

• Alfio Rizzo : Status of 2004 Solar WIMP Analysis (pdf)
• Mathieu Labare : False Discovery Rate controlling procedure applied to point source search (pdf)
• Sabrina Bechet : Detection of nu_tau via tau-->mu decay (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Solar WIMPs 2001-2003: L3 and sensitivities for 250s (pdf)

Gent - October 2007

• Alfio Rizzo : Status of 2004 Solar WIMPs Analysis Status of 2004 Solar WIMPs Analysis (pdf)
• Bruny Baret and Mathieu Labare : Potential of False Discovery Rate controlling procedure for Point Source search (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Neutralino weights and effective volumes (pdf)

Lake Geneva - April 2007

• Daan Hubert : Status: Solar neutralinos 2001-2003 (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : False Discovery Rate controlling procedure & Binned Point Source search (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Experiment vs Simulation: Comparison of Monte Carlo with 2004 and 2005 Amanda Data (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : To Refilter or not to refilter 2000-2004 data? That's the question... (pdf)

DESY Zeuthen - October 2006

• Patrick Berghaus : B10 PS Analysis (pdf)
• Patrick Berghaus : B10 PS Analysis movie (mpg)
• Patrick Berghaus : Never mind the Point Sources: here's the Diffuse Limit (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Towards L3 solar WIMPs (pdf)
• Mathieu Labare : Control of False Discovery Rate method for Point Sources Analysis (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Solar WIMPs 2004 Analysis: Status and Outlook (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : Proposal for Combined 00-05 WIMPs Analysis (pdf)

Baton Rouge - April 2006

• Bruny Baret : A GUI for real-time DOM monitoring (pdf)
• Bruny Baret : Using «False Discovery Rate» Controlling procedure for pointsource search (pdf)
• Patrick Berghaus : B10 Refiltering for Point Source Search (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Solar WIMPs, an update (pdf)
• Alfio Rizzo : GenN++: Generator of neutrino nucleon interactions (pdf)

London - September 2005

• Patrick Berghaus : B10 Refiltering (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Neutrino generators and dark matter Monte Carlo (pdf)

Berkeley - March 2005

• Patrick Berghaus : Point Sources 97-99 (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Solar neutralinos 00-03 (pdf)

Uppsala - September 2004

• Patrick Berghaus : B10 Point Source Search (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Status of PhotonicsNN (pdf)

Wuppertal - June 2004

• Patrick Berghaus : Combined Point Source Analysis Plans 97-99 (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Status of PhotonicsNN and implementation in PSI (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : The Search for Neutralino Dark Matter with the AMANDA-B10 Detector (pdf)

Bartol - March 2004

• Daan Hubert : Update on PHOTONICS table fitting (pdf)

Mons - September 2003

• Othmane Bouhali : Recent status of Brussels 99 Amanda point source analysis (???)
• Daan Hubert : Very brief status of level2 Photonics table fitting (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : Possible Future Developments of Sieglinde (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : Determination of systematic uncertainties on upper limits in upper limits in the 99 WIMP analysis (pdf)

Madison - June 2003

• Peter Niessen : Sieglinde: Practical Usage (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : Starting a New Monopole Analysis (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : NN Implementation of Photonics-Results (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : Low Energy Losses in AMASIM (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : Overview of the Earth WIMP analysis using the 1999 data (pdf)

Laguna Beach - March 2003

• Daniel Bertrand : Cosmic Ray Experiment for Secondary Schools (pdf)
• Othmane Bouhali : Brussels 99 point source analysis (pdf)
• Catherine De Clercq : Outreach activities of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (pdf)
• Daan Hubert : Introduction to 2001 solar WIMP analysis (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : Calibration and Databases in Sieglinde (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : Search for WIMPS coming from the center of the earth with the AMANDA detector using 15.5% of the 99 data (pdf)

Berlin - September 2002

• Othmane Bouhali : ???
• Peter Niessen : ???
• Philip Olbrechts : ???

Stockholm - June 2002

• Catherine De Clercq : Brussels group: Personnel and activities (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : Status of angular sensitivity measurements (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : An overview over recoos (pdf)
• Peter Niessen : MC mass01 1999 - status (pdf)
• Philip Olbrechts : Status of WIMP analysis using 97 and 99 data (pdf)