Neutrino Astrophysics

The Victor Rothschild Memorial Symposia

All lectures will take place at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies,
at the Edmond J. Safra, Givat Ram Campus

General Director: Steven Weinberg, University of Texas at Austin

The school will discuss theoretical aspects of neutrino astrophysics as related to recent experimental results. The lectures are on the fundamentals of solar model theories, including nuclear reactions, radiative opacities, equations of state, and various plasma effects. Another series of lectures will present the basic elements of MSW theory and show its relation to solar neutrino experiments, to the theory of supernova explosions and to atmosphere neutrinos. These lectures will also place MSW theory, and its related extensions, in the context of other recent developments in weak interaction theory. 

In addition, special lectures will be given on the status and plans of individual neutrino experiments, with some discussion of the possibilities of new terrestrial tests using reactors and accelerators. Also, special lectures on astronomical sources of high-energy neutrinos and on the ratio of electron-neutrinos to muon neutrinos in atmospheric neutrino experiments will be presented.