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Saturday 21st October
Session 1: 9:00 - 10:45
9:15 - 9:45 Underground laboratories, science and Boulby mine N. Spooner
Sheffield
9:45 - 10:05 The Boulby underground facility: A virtual tour S. Paling
Sheffield
10:05 - 10:25 Boulby mine: past, present and future. D. Pybus
Boulby mine.
Session 2: 11:00 - 12:25
11:00 - 11:25 Review of direct dark matter searches N. Smith
CCLRC
11:25 - 11:45 Status of the ZEPLIN-II detector E. Daw
Sheffield
11:45 - 12:05 ZEPLIN-III: status and plans T. Sumner
Imperial College
12:05 - 12:25 The DRIFT-II directional dark matter detector A. Murphy
Edinburgh
Session 3: 13:30 - 15:10
13:30 - 13:50 Dark Matter searches with CRESST and EURECA H. Kraus
Oxford
13:50 - 14:10 ArDM - Direct Search for Dark Matter Based on Liquid Argon A. Melgarejo
Granada
14:10 - 14:30 Background studies at Boulby mine V. Kudryavtsev
Sheffield
14:30 - 14:50 ILIAS/TARI - Inter-laboratory background comparisons D. Malczewski
Silesia
14:50 - 15:10 DUSEL: An update on plans for a US national underground laboratory J. Kotcher
NSF
Session 4: 15:40 - 17:40
15:40 - 16:00 0νββ decay Review K. Zuber
Oxford.
16:00 - 16:20 Results, status and plans for COBRA K. Zuber
Oxford
16:20 - 16:40 Results, status and plans for SUPERNEMO R. Saakyan
UCL
16:40 - 17:00 0νββ decay studies with Xenon R. Luscher
CCLRC
17:00 - 17:20 CUORICINO results and the status of CUORE F. Bellini
Rome
17:20 - 17:40 Low background facilities: science, applications and demand M. Laubenstein
LNGS

Sunday 22nd October
Session 5: 9:00 - 10:35
9:00 - 9:20 Boulby Practicalities, Management and Health & Safety N. Smith
CCLRC
9:20 - 9:40 Boulby as a neutrino factory target R. Edgecock
CCLRC
9:40 - 10:00 Exploring Stars from Underground Labs: a Nuclear Perspective M. Aliotta
Edinburgh
10:00 - 10:20 SaISA - Detection of neutrinos in salt A. Connolly
UCLA
10:20 - 10:35 DUSEL, underground science and demand for underground labs D. Akerib
Case Western
Session 6: 11:00 - 12:40
11:00 - 11:20 Life in high-salt environments B. Grant
Leicester
11:20 - 11:40 Death and longevity at the salinity limits of life T. McGenity
Essex
11:40 - 12:00 Life in Rocks or The Other ‘Dark Matter’ C. Cockell
Open University
12:00 - 12:20 Radon & rock deformation: the underground labs as possible strainmeters W. Plastino
Rome
12:20 - 12:40 Outreach at Boulby P. Edwards
Durham
Session 7: 13:40 - 15:20
13:40 - 14:00 GLACIER/LAGUNA - proton decay and neutrino physics N. Spooner
Sheffield
14:00 - 14:20 LENA - Low Energy Neutrino Astronomy T. Marrodan
Munich
14:20 - 14:40 TPC Axion Detection M. Kuster
Darmstadt
14:40 - 15:00 New ideas for large area veto detectors J. Mcmillan
Sheffield
Session 8: 15:20 - 16:40
15:20 - 15:40 PPARC and the development of industrial use of facilities G. White
PPARC
15:40 - 16:00 Devlopment of low-background devices & the role of low background facilities. R. McAlpine
Electron Tubes
16:00 - 16:20 Low radioactivity techniques at Modane P. Loaiza
Modane
16:20 - 16:40 Summary and Thanks N. Spooner
Sheffield