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COST Action CA18108
Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
SLIDE 2 What is a COST Action
More info: https://www.cost.eu/cost-actions/what-are-cost-actions/
COST is an European organization funding COST Actions.
38 Full Member countries, including → 22 Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) → 1 Cooperating Member country (Israel) → 1 Partner Member country (South Africa) (not shown)
16 Near Neighbour Countries∗ (Algeria, Armenia,
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Kosovo, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine)
COST Action: a four-year project for researchers from different
communities to learn about each other’s work and cooperate on a goal, by funding: Workshops, conferences and working group meetings Training Schools Short Term Scientific Missions Conference Grants for young† researchers from ITCs
∗technically not members
†≤ PhD + 8 yr
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COST Action CA18108
Quantum gravity phenomenology in the multi-messenger approach
Main aim: to investigate possible signatures predicted by quantum gravity models in
the observation of different cosmic messengers, by creating the conditions for a close collaboration between theorists and the various experimental communities involved in the detection of such cosmic messengers. Keywords Lorentz invariance violation and deformation gamma-ray astronomy cosmic neutrinos UHE cosmic rays gravitational waves
CSO approval: 13 November 2018 Start date: 14 March 2019 End date: 13 March 2023
Action chair
José Manuel Carmona (U. of Zaragoza, Spain)
Action vice-chair
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (U. of Naples, It.)
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Action members
As of 18 November 2019
COST Full Member countries
Spain
50 people
Italy
19 people
Netherlands
17 people
France
13 people
Serbia
13 people
Romania
12 people
Germany
11 people
Croatia
8 people
Slovenia
7 people
United Kingdom
7 people
Hungary
6 people
Greece
5 people
Poland
5 people
and 6+7 more 16+15 people
(red: Inclusiveness Target Countries)
COST Cooperating Member country
Israel
3 people
COST Near Neighbour Countries
Armenia
3 people
International Partner Countries
United States
3 people
Canada
2 people
Chile
2 people
China
1 person
Iran
1 person
Japan
1 person
Kuwait
1 person
(Total: 221 people)
SLIDE 5 Working groups
WG1 ← → WG2 ← → [WG3 ← → WG4 ← → WG5 ← → WG6]
Theory
Working Group 1: Theoretical frameworks
for QG effects below Planck energy (99 m.)
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Christian Pfeiffer (University of Tartu, Estonia)
V
Giulia Gubitosi (University of Burgos, Spain) Working Group 2: Phenomenology of
quantum gravity (98 members)
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Flavio Mercati (University of Naples, Italy)
V
Stefano Liberati (SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
(The same person can be in several WGs at once.)
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Leader
V
Vice-leader Experiments
Working Group 3: Gamma rays (45 members)
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Dijana Dominis Prester (U. of Rijeka, Croatia)
V
Julian Sitarek (University of Łód´
z, Poland)
Working Group 4: Neutrinos (49 members)
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Rodrigo Gracia Ruiz (IPHC, Strasbourg, Fr.)
V
Carlos Pérez de los Heros (Upps. U., Swed.) Working Group 5: Cosmic rays (33 members)
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Armando di Matteo (INFN Torino, Turin, Italy)
V
Günter Sigl (University of Hamburg, Germany) Working Group 6: Gravitational waves (81 m.)
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Tanja Hinderer (U. of Amsterdam, Netherl.)
V
Germano Nardini (Univ. of Stavanger, Norway)
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Committee for outreach and gender activities
19 members Science Communication Manager: Mariam Tórtola
(IFIC, Valencia, Spain)
Coming soon:
Outreach newsletter YouTube channel
1st Action meeting (BCN, Oct 2019)
Public lectures Web
qg-mm.unizar.es
Facebook
@COSTQGMM
Twitter
@COST_QGMM
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Who can join
People affiliated to institutions in:
* COST Full Member countries
not yet in the Action (Albania, Austria, Cyprus,
Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Slovakia, Turkey)
† COST Full Member countries
already in the Action (≈ rest of Europe)
‡ COST Cooperating Member country (Israel) § COST Partner Member country (South Africa) ¶ COST Near Neighbour Countries
(≈ former USSR + North Africa + Middle East)
| | International Partner Countries
(everywhere else)
†,‡ can immediately join the Action
(after approval by Action chair, vice-chair, or one WG leader).
*,§,¶,| | need to be approved by the Action
Management Committee first.
*,†,‡,¶ can be reimbursed for meetings and
for Short-Term Scientific Missions (which anyone in the Action can host).
§,| | must pay their own travel expenses
(unless invited as a trainer to a Training School).
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How to join
New members welcome, especially experts on: modelling of high-energy sources (e.g. AGNs, GRBs), to disentangle propagation effects from intrinsic source properties atmospheric monitoring (e.g. of aerosols via LIDARs), to improve telescope systematics Are you interested? (Or do you know someone who might be?) Fill the form at https://qg-mm.unizar.es/?page_id=140 with: Your full name and e-mail address Your current affiliation and country Which working group(s) you would like to join Your research interests and how you can contribute to the Action (1 or 2 sentences)
Next meeting: Annual conference, 10–13 March 2020, Granada, Spain
