2nd International Conference on Astrophysics and Particle Physics November 13-15, 2017 San Antonio, Texas, USA

Steven Weinberg is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin. His research on elementary particle physics and cosmology has been honored with the Nobel Prize in Physics, the National Medal of Science, the Benjamin Franklin Medal of the American Philosophical Society, the Dannie Heinemann Prize for Mathematical Physics, and numerous other awards. He has been elected to the National Academy of Science and Britain's Royal Society and other academies, and holds sixteen honorary doctoral degrees. He has written over 300 scientific articles, and six treatises on general relativity, quantum field theory, cosmology, and quantum mechanics. Among his books for general readers are Dreams of a Final Theory and The First Three Minutes, and two collections of published essays, Facing Up: Science and its Cultural Adversaries, and Lake Views: This World and the Universe. Many of these essays first appeared in The New York Review of Books. For this writing, he has received the Lewis Thomas Award for the Scientist as Poet and other awards. His latest book, To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science, was published in 2015. Educated at Cornell, Copenhagen, and Princeton, he taught at Columbia, Berkeley, M.I.T. and Harvard, where he was Higgins Professor of Physics, before coming to Texas in 1982.

particle physics, quantum field theory, gravity, supersymmetry, superstrings and cosmology.

Prof. Vasily Yu. Belashov, PhD (Radiophysics), Doctor of Science (Physics and Mathematics). Main fields: theory and numerical simulation of the dynamics of multi-dimensional nonlinear waves, solitons and vortex structures in plasmas and other dispersive media. Presently, he is Professor in the Kazan Federal University. He was Coordinator of studies on the International Program “Solar Terminator” (1987-1992), and took part in Programs WITS/WAGS and STEP. He is author of 288 publications. Main books: Solitary Waves in Dispersive Complex Media. Theory, Simulation, Applications. Springer-Verlag GmbH, 2005; The KP Equation and its Generalizations. Theory and Applications. Magadan, NEISRI FEB RAS, 1997.

Theory and numerical simulation of dynamics of multi-dimensional wave structures of soliton and vortex types in continuous complex media.

After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, in New York City, Professor Golub received the BscEE degree from The City College in 1959. He then went to MIT where he received the MscEE degree in 1961 and the PhD (Physics) degree in 1968. During his period at MIT he was supported by an NSF fellowship and then by an industry funded fellowship. His thesis work, concerned with decelerating Ammonia molecules in order to increase the interaction time was carried out in the Atomic Beam Laboratory of Profs. J R Zacharias and JG King. From 1967-68 he was an instructor at Brandeis University where he worked in the atomic beam laboratory of Edgar Lipworth working on problems concerning the interaction of atoms with e-m fields. In Sept. 1968 he moved to the molecular beam lab of K F Smith at the University of Sussex, England, where he was introduced to neutron physics, in particular the search for an electric dipole moment (EDM) of the neutron. His interest in Ultra Cold Neurons (UCN) was stimulated by the desire to improve the sensitivity of edm searches and it was while he was at Sussex that he co-invented a new class of non-thermal equilibrium UCN sources ('superthermal sources'). During this period he helped initiate the UCN program at the then new Intitut Laue Langevin (ILL) in Grenoble, France and designed the first UCN edm experiment to be carried out at that institute. In 1980 he moved to the Technical University Munich (T. U. M.), in Germany and continued his work at ILL where he constructed the first superthermal UCN source based on superfluid He4 and invented a new kind of neutron scattering method to study properties of the superfluid. During this time he co-invented a new kind of neutron scattering instrument using cold neutrons (Neutron Resonance Spin Echo). There are currently 5 or 6 instruments around the world based on this principle. From 1985-86 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich where he worked on detection of solar neutrinos and dark matter returning to the T. U. M. in 1986. In 1991 he moved to the Technical University of Berlin and the Hahn Meitner Institute (HMI) where he built a cold neutron beam for fundamental physics that was used for several experiments studying symmetry violation in the weak interaction and fission. He developed the basic ideas for the current edm search being carried out by a collaboration led by LANL, doing some basic investigations of the properties of Helium 4 as a scintillator for neutron detection and worked on an NRSE instrument that was installed at HMI.

Astrophysics, Particle Physics

Andrew Bacher has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from the California Institute of Technology and NSF-sponsored postdoctoral studies at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. He is the a Profssor of Physics (emeritus) at Indiana University. He has published more than 300 papers in refereed journals and has served on program committees at the Los Alamos Meson Facility, the MIT-Bates Electron Scattering Facility and the TRIUMF Meson Faciltiy in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Nuclear Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Akio Kawauchi has completed his PhD at the age of 28 years from Osaka City University. After working as an assistant, an associate and a full professors of Osaka City University & a director of Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute, he is currently a specially appointed professor & a honorary professor of Osaka City University as well as a honorary director of Osaka City University Advanced Mathematical Institute. In 1978-1980, he was a member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton N.J. USA. He has published more than 100 papers or books and is the author of the book “A Survey of Knot Theory”, Birkhäuser, Basel-Boston-Berlin, (1996).

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

Professor Ghassan Halasa retired from University of Jordan as professor of electrical engineering. His early education was in physics. Dr Halasa is a Fulbright Scholar at Murray State University in 2004; and a visiting professor at Western Michigan University in 2008. Most of his recent published work was in electrical engineering in the field of renewable energy. Recently, he published a book as an alternative to the big bang theory.

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

X. D. Li (born in 1951 in China), Ph.D. from Université de Montréal (1993); M.S. from Nankai University (1981), B.S. from Tianjin University (1977). He is a professor in NUDT reseaching and teaching in the fields of polymer chemistry, material chemistry and physics, crystal and structure chemistry and physics.

Astrophysics and Particle Physics

1989.09.01-1991.06.30: Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy. PhD in Physics in June 1994 – Experimental particle physics. Thesis: Tau decay into three pseudo-scalars and upper limit of tau neutrino mass. 1991.09.01-1994.06.30:Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy. MSc in Physics in June 1991– Experimental particle physics. Thesis: Spin-parity analysis of J/®wf2(1270) using the BES detector. 1988.09.01-1988.06.30:Department of Physics, Nanning, Guangxi province, P.C. China. BSc in Physics in June 1988. Thesis: Simulation of neutron resonance absorption in media.

Experimental neutrino phyiscs and search for new phyiscs beyond the Standard Model is a very important research direction in particle physics and nuclear phyiscs. I am interested the following fields: (1) Detection of Supernova neutrion and cross-sections of low energy neutrino interaction.(2) Determination of neutrino mixing angles. (3) Neutrino oscillation study using long base line accelator neutrino. (4) Search for CP violation and evidence of new phyiscs beyond the Standard Model using rare kaon decay. (5) Determination of strange quark mass and Vus in CKM matrix using the strangeness tau lepton decay.

Neil Spooner is the Professor of The University of Sheffield

Dark Matter and the Universe

Ephraim Suhir is on the faculty of the Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, and Technical University, Vienna, Austria. He is also CEO of the Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA. Ephraim is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); IEEE Life Fellow; Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS), the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) . Dr. Suhir has authored about 400 publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 2004 ASME Worcester Read Warner Medal for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering (he is the third Russian American, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award); and 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products.

Probabilistic Methods in Reliability Engineering; Analytical (Mathematical) Modeling in Applied Science and Engineering; Photonics, Fiber Optics, Mechanics of Optical Fibers; Shock and Vibration Analyses and Testing; Thermal Stress Analysis, Embedded Systems; “Human-in-the-Loop”: Human-Equipment-Environment Interaction

Antona Lipovka has his expertise in astrophysics, cosmology, molecular spectroscopy, theoretical physics and solid state physics as well. Since 2013 he is working on the fundamentals of quantum physics, and the union of gravity with quantum theory.

Astrophysics, cosmology, molecular spectroscopy, theoretical physics and solid state physics

Lukasz Andrzej Glinka, born on October 5, 1984 in Poland, is internationally recognized as a voluntary editor and reviewer at the think tanks of open-access journals, science author, non-fiction and philosophy writer. He is the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Astrophysics and Aerospace Technology of the OMICS Group, and an Organizing Committee Member to the International Conference on Astrophysics and Particle Physics, December 8-10, 2016, Dallas, Texas, USA. He gave more than 25 oral presentations to scientific conferences, either authored or co-authored more than 40 journal articles and papers, and authored 4 books in science and humanities among which one can find a comprehensive monograph in theoretical physics and applied mathematics. He holds BSc in physics from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia, is a biographee of Marquis Who's Who, and a member at the American Association of International Researchers which belongs to the American Research Institute for Policy Development.

Cultural Study, Ethics and Moral Philosophy, Mathematical Physics, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Psychology of Emotions, Pure and Applied Mathematics, Social Science, Theoretical Cosmology, Theoretical Physics