Abstract
The International Conference on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Activities, ARENA 2006 was jointly hosted by the Universities of Northumbria and Sheffield at the City of Newcastle Campus of the University of Northumbria in June 2006.
ARENA 2006 was the latest in a series of meetings which have addressed, either separately or jointly, the use of radio and acoustic sensors for the detection of highly relativistic particles. Previous successful meetings have taken place in Los Angeles (RADHEP, 2000), Stanford (2003) and DESY Zeuthen (ARENA 2005).
A total of 50 scientists from across Europe, the US and Japan attended the conference presenting status reports and results from a number of projects and initiatives spread as far afield as the Sweden and the South Pole. The talks presented at the meeting and the proceedings contained herein represent a `snapshot' of the status of the fields of acoustic and radio detection at the time of the conference.
The three day meeting also included two invited talks by Dr Paula Chadwick and Dr Johannes Knapp who gave excellent summaries of the related astroparticle physics fields of high energy gamma ray detection and high energy cosmic ray detection respectively.
As well as a full academic agenda there were social events including a Medieval themed conference banquet at Lumley Castle and a civic reception kindly provided by the Lord Mayor of Newcastle and hosted at the Mansion House.
Thanks must go to the International Advisory Board members for their input and guidance, the Local Organising Committee for their hard work in bringing everything together and finally the delegates for the stimulating, enthusiastic and enjoyable spirit in which ARENA 2006 took place.
Lee Thompson
| G. Anton, Erlangen | D. Besson, Kansas |
| J. Blümer, Karlsruhe | A. Capone, Rome |
| H. Falcke, Bonn | P. Gorham, Hawaii |
| G. Gratta, Stanford | F. Halzen, Madison |
| J. Learned, Hawaii | R. Nahnhauer, Zeuthen |
| A. Rostovtzev, Moscow | D. Saltzberg, Los Angeles |
| L. Thompson, Sheffield | F. Vannucci, Paris |
| S. Danaher, Northumbria | C. Rhodes, Imperial College London |
| J. Perkin, Sheffield | T. Sloan, Lancaster |
| L. Thompson, Sheffield | D. Waters, University College London |
| Joseph Allen, Northumbria University, UK | Miguel Ardid, Univ. Polit. de Valencia, Spain |
| Thomas Asch, IPE, FZKa, Germany | Karl-Heinz Becker, BU Wuppertal, Germany |
| Dave Besson, U. of Kansas, USA | Simon Bevan, University College London, UK |
| Manuel Bou Cabo, Politecnic University Valencia, Spain | Sebastian Böser, DESY Zeuthen, Germany |
| Antonio Capone, University La Sapienza and INFN, Italy | Paula Chadwick, University of Durham, UK |
| Masami Chiba, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan | Amy Connolly, UCLA, USA |
| Sean Danaher, Northumbria University, UK | Giulia De Bonis, Univ. Rome `La Sapienza', Italy |
| Freija Descamps, University of Gent, Belgium | Kay Graf, University of Erlangen, Germany |
| Andreas Haungs, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany | Kara Hoffman, University of Maryland, USA |
| Stephen Hoover, UCLA, USA | Tim Huege, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Paula Gina Isar, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany | Timo Karg, BU Wuppertal, Germany |
| Johannes Knapp, University of Leeds, UK | Robert Lahmann, University of Erlangen, Germany |
| Mark Lancaster, University College London, UK | Vladimir Lyashuk, ITEP, Russia |
| Radovan Milincic, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA | Rolf Nahnhauer, DESY, Zeuthen, Germany |
| Christopher Naumann, University of Erlangen, Germany | Valentin Niess, CPPM |
| Jonathan Perkin, University of Sheffield, UK | Steve Ralph, University of Sheffield, UK |
| Christopher Rhodes, Imperial College London, UK | Carsten Richardt, University of Erlangen, Germany |
| Karsten Salomon, University of Erlangen, Germany | Olaf Scholten, KVI/University of Groningen, Netherlands |
| Terry Sloan, University of Lancaster, UK | Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah, USA |
| Lee Thompson, University of Sheffield, UK | Omar Veledar, Northumbria University, UK |
| David Waters, UCL, USA | Dawn Williams, Pennsylvania State University, USA |
| Igor Zheleznykh, Institute for Nuclear Research, Russia |
