The Future of Research on Cosmic Gamma Rays

Aug 26, 2015, 12:30 PM → Aug 29, 2015, 12:00 PM Etc/GMT-1

Hotel Taburiente, Los Cancajos

Alessandro De Angelis, Angelo Antonelli, Razmik Mirzoyan

Wednesday, August 26

12:30 PM → 5:00 PM Registration

pictures Conference_Picture.pdf

2:00 PM → 6:30 PM Introduction; Current results & facilities 1

Introduction; current results

Convener: Dr Angelo Antonelli (INAF Roma)

2:00 PM Introduction

Speaker: Prof. Alessandro De Angelis (INFN Padova and IST/LIP Lisboa)

Slides rodi

2:30 PM AGILE

Speaker: Dr Carlotta Pittori (ASI Data Center, Roma)

Slides rodi

3:00 PM Fermi

Speaker: Dr Sara Buson (NASA Goddard)

Slides rodi

3:30 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM H.E.S.S.

Speaker: Prof. Christian Stegmann (DESY Zeuthen)

Slides rodi

4:30 PM VERITAS

Speaker: Prof. Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Tech)

Slides rodi

5:00 PM MAGIC

Speaker: Dr Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)

Slides MAGIC-HL-LP-Mirzoyan-26-Aug-15-s.pdf

5:30 PM ARGO

Speaker: Prof. Rinaldo Santonico (INFN and University Roma 2)

Slides rodi

6:00 PM HAWC

Speaker: Prof. Andres Sandoval (UNAM Mexico)

Slides rodi

Thursday, August 27

9:00 AM → 12:15 PM Current results & facilities 2

Convener: Dr Emilio Molinari (TNG La Palma)

9:00 AM FACT - Alerts from TeV Gamma Rays in the Context of Multimessenger Astrophysics

Speaker: Dr Daniela Dorner (Wurzburg University)

Slides fact-s.pdf

9:30 AM Microlensing and emission region size for gravitationally lensed VHE sources

Speaker: Dr Ievgen Vovk (MPI Munich)

Slides Microlensing_[Kompatibilitätsmodus]-s.pdf

9:50 AM VHE sources and intergalactic magnetic fields

Speaker: Dr Ievgen Vovk (MPI Munich)

Slides IGMF.pdf

10:10 AM Coffee break

10:35 AM Extragalactic Background Light: status report

Speaker: Prof. Alberto Franceschini (Universita di Padova)

Slides Franceschini-s.pdf

11:05 AM Fermi-LAT detection of gamma-ray pulsars above 10 GeV

Speaker: Dr Pablo Saz Parkinson (Hong Kong University/UCSC)

Slides 150827_Saz_Parkinson-s.pdf

11:35 AM Multi-TeV to PeV gamma-ray astronomy: motivation and strategies

Speaker: Dr Martin Tluczykont (Hamburg University)

Slides LaPalma_FutureOfGamma_2015_Tluczykont-s.pdf

12:15 PM → 7:30 PM Visit to Observatorio de Roque de los Muchachos

8:00 PM → 10:30 PM Workshop Dinner

Friday, August 28

9:30 AM → 12:45 PM The multimessenger view

Convener: Prof. Antonio Masiero (INFN)

9:30 AM Gamma ray astrophysics: the relation with cosmic rays and neutrino astrophysics

Speaker: Dr Roberto Aloisio (GSSI l'Aquila)

Slides Aloisio-c-s.pdf

10:00 AM Direct and accelerator dark matter searches: complementarity to indirect searches

Speaker: Dr Mario Antonelli (Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati dell'INFN)

Slides Antonelli_gammaray_lapalma-c-s.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM The future of neutrino physics

Speaker: Dr Mauro Mezzetto (INFN Padova)

Slides Mezzetto-La_Palma-s.pdf

11:30 AM Neutrinos in multimessenger astrophysics

Speaker: Prof. Antonio Capone (Universita di Roma and INFN)

Slides 2015_LaPalma_capone-s.pdf

12:00 PM The scientific tasks of the new generation instruments in different energy bands

Speaker: Prof. Felix Aharonian (Dublin & Heidelberg)

Slides zLaPalma_2015.pdf

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch Buffet

2:00 PM → 6:30 PM Future experiments

Future experiments

Convener: Prof. Mario Pimenta (LIP/IST Lisboa)

2:00 PM The Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Dr Jurgen Knödlseder (IRAP Paris)

Slides cta-knodlseder-v2-s.pdf

2:30 PM Galactic physics with CTA

Speaker: Dr Ryan Chaves (CNRS Montpelier)

Slides Chaves2015_LaPalma_CTAGalactic_v3-s.pdf

3:00 PM Extragalactic physics with CTA

Speaker: Dr Anthony Brown (Durham University)

Slides CTA_EXGAL_Brown_topresent-s.pdf

3:30 PM Fundamental physics (dark matter searches in particular) with CTA

Speaker: Dr Hannes Zechlin (University of Torino)

Slides cta_dmfund_zechlin-s.pdf

4:00 PM Coffee break

4:30 PM LHAASO

Speaker: Dr Francesco Simeone (University of Roma)

Slides Simeone_28_8_2015-c-s.pdf

5:00 PM LATTES - A New Gamma Detector at High Altitude in South America

Speaker: Dr Ronald Shellard (CBPF Rio de Janeiro)

Slides LATTES_Shellard-s.pdf

5:30 PM MACHETE: a transit Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope to survey half of the VHE gamma ray sky

Speaker: Dr Juan Cortina (IFAE Barcelona)

Slides LP2015_MACHETE_JCortina_v2s.pdf

6:00 PM X-ray polarimetry: a new diagnostic tool for gamma-ray emitters

Speaker: Dr Enrico Costa (IAPS/INAF and ASI)

Slides ECOSTA_LAPALMA_2015-s.pdf

Saturday, August 29

9:30 AM → 12:00 PM Future; final remarks

Convener: Prof. Giovanni Busetto (Universita di Padova)

9:30 AM Design and Optimization of a large field of view RPC array for high-energy gamma-rays detection

Speaker: Dr Bernardo Tome (LIP Lisboa)

Slides Tome-LaPalma-2015-s.pdf

9:50 AM Km3net

Speaker: Dr Piera Sapienza (LNS Catania)

Slides KM3NeT_La_Palma_2015_Rev-c-s.pdf

10:20 AM DAMPE (and HERD)

Speaker: Prof. Ivan De Mitri (Universita del Salento, Lecce)

Slides DAMPE-HERD-DeMitri-LaPalma-2015-s.pdf

10:50 AM Gamma400

Speaker: Prof. Denis Bastieri (University of Padova)

Slides g400.lapalma-s.pdf

11:20 AM ASTRI

Speaker: Dr Stefano Vercellone (INAF Palermo)

Slides Vercellone_ASTRI_LaPalma_20150829_indico-s.pdf

11:50 AM Closing remarks

Speaker: Dr Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI Munich)

Slides Final-remarks-Mirzoyan-s.pdf