Astrophysics + MAGIC

26 Jun 2018, 18:30 → 29 Jun 2018, 23:00 Europe/Lisbon

H10 Hotel Taburiente Playa

We cordially invite you to attend the A+M    'Astrophysics and MAGIC (A+M)' Conference, which will focus on presentations highlighting the technical and scientific accomplishments in physics of cosmic and gamma rays, in cosmology, neutrino and gravitational waves and the newly born multi-messenger astronomy. We consider a scientific conference to be a most suitable setting for celebrating 15 years of MAGIC IACT operation.

The event will take place on June 26th - 29th, 2018, at H10 Hotel Taburiente Playa, La Palma, Canary Islands.

If you want to join us, please register on this webpage.

Conference Photo Conference Photo

Tuesday, 26 June

18:30 → 21:00 Welcome Reception+Registration

Wednesday, 27 June

09:00 → 09:30 Registration

09:30 → 09:45 Welcome

Speakers: Prof. Rafael Rebolo (IAC), Razmik Mirzoyan (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

09:45 → 10:30 The Beginning and Construction of MAGIC

09:45 The Beginning and Construction of MAGIC

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

Slides Mirzoyan-MAGIC-Project-27-Jun-18.pdf

10:30 → 11:30 The History of MAGIC Through the Spokespersons' Eyes

10:30 Spokesperson views: Manel Martinez

Speaker: Prof. Manel Martinez (IFAE)

Slides Four_billboard_messages_for_Photosensor_Companies-Manel_Martinez.pdf

10:45 Spokesperson's views: Masahiro Teshima

Speaker: Masahiro Teshima (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides SPs'_View_Teshima.pptx

11:00 Spokesperson's views: Mose Mariotti

Speaker: Prof. Mose Mariotti (INFN and Univ of Padova)

Slides 15_years_memory_mose.pdf 15_years_memory_mose.pptx

11:15 Spokesperson's views: Juan Cortina

Speaker: Dr Juan Cortina (IFAE)

Slides Spokesmen_talks_JCortina.pdf Spokesmen_talks_JCortina.pptx

11:30 → 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 → 13:10 Historical Scientific Highlights and (subjective) Impressions from 15 Years of MAGIC Operation

12:00 Scientific Highlights: Josep M. Paredes

Speaker: Prof. Josep M. Paredes (Universitat de Barcelona)

Slides Paredes_MAGIC.pdf Paredes_MAGIC.pptx

12:10 Scientific Highlights: Adrian Biland

Speaker: Adrian Biland (ETH Zurich)

Slides Biland_15yr.pdf

12:20 Scientific Highlights: David Paneque

Speaker: David Paneque (MPI)

Slides Paneque_MWMrks_v2_Web.pdf

12:30 Scientific Highlights: Angelo Antonelli

Speaker: Dr Lucio Angelo Antonelli (INAF-OAR and ASDC)

Slides MAGIC_15years_transients.pdf MAGIC_15years_transients.pptx

12:40 Scientific Highlights: Alessandro de Angelis

Speaker: Alessandro De Angelis (INFN)

Slides DeA.pdf DeA.pptx

12:50 Scientific Highlights: Victoria Fonseca

Speaker: Prof. MariaVictoria Fonseca (UCM)

Slides 15YearsMagic-MVFonseca.pdf 15YearsMagic-MVFonseca.ppt

13:00 Scientific Highlights: Wlodek Bednarek

Speaker: Prof. Wlodek Bednarek (University of Lodz)

Slides wbednarek_magic.pdf

13:10 → 14:30 Lunchtime

14:30 → 15:00 Multi-Messenger Astronomy

14:30 Neutrino Aspects of Multimessenger Astronomy

Speaker: Francis Halzen (University of Wisconsin - Madison)

Slides magic10_halzen.pdf magic10_halzen.pptx

15:00 → 19:30 Reports from Various Astro-Particle Physics Experiments

15:00 Fermi

Speaker: Julie McEnery (NASA / GSFC)

15:30 HESS

Speaker: Christian Stegmann (DESY)

Slides 201806-HESS-LaPalma-Stegmann-Handout.pdf

16:00 Science Highlights from VERITAS

Speaker: Stefan Schlenstedt (DESY)

Slides 180627-VERITAS-at15MAGIC.pdf

16:30 Coffee

17:00 AMS

Speaker: Dr Ramon J. Garcia Lopez (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

Slides AMS_at_MAGIC_meeting_La_Palma_2018_2.pdf

17:30 Interpretation of the Cosmic Ray Positron and Antiproton Fluxes

Speaker: Paolo Lipari (INFN Rome)

Slides lipari_magic.pdf

18:00 HAWC

Speaker: Andrés Sandoval (IF - UNAM)

18:30 Recent Progress in Understanding Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Ralph Engel (I K P - K I T)

Slides UHECR-MAGIC-LaPalma-2018.pdf

Thursday, 28 June

08:35 → 12:35 Astroparticle Physics with Galactic and Extragalactic Objects

09:00 Tests for Lorentz Invariance Violation

Speaker: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia (University of Naples)

Slides gacMAGICmeeting.pdf

09:30 The Role of Gamma-rays and Hard X-rays in the Understanding of AGN Jets

Speaker: Greg Madejski (Stanfort / KIPAC / SLAC)

Slides Madejski_MAGIC_2018.pdf

10:00 The MAGIC of FSRQs

Speaker: Julian Sitarek (University of Łódź)

Slides 2018-06_MAGIC_of_FSRQs.pdf

10:30 Multi-wavelength characterization of the most extreme X-ray outburst from Mrk 501

Speaker: Dr Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC))

Slides Mrk501_MAGIC15y_jbecerra_v1_web.pdf

10:45 Coffee

11:10 Microquasar Jets and Gamma-ray Emission

Speaker: Felix Mirabel (CEA Saclay)

Slides Mirabel_La-Palma1.pdf

11:40 Unveiling the VHE Emission from Pulsars with the MAGIC SumTrigger

Speakers: Dr Marcos López (UC Madrid), Dr Thomas Schweizer (MPI)

Slides MAGIC15yr_pulsars_mlopez.pdf

12:00 Very-High-Energy Emission from Rotation-Powered Pulsars

Speaker: Alice Harding (NASA GSFC)

Slides Harding_MAGIC2018.pdf Harding_MAGIC2018.pptx

12:45 → 19:31 Visit the MAGIC Telescopes

12:45 Departure from H10 Taburiente Playa to ORM

by chartered bus

14:30 Coffee, refreshments at ORM

15:15 End of Lunch and bus/walk to MAGIC site

15:30 Short celebration ceremony

Speakers: Alessandro De Angelis (INFN), Dr Antonio Stamerra (INAF-Roma and Scuola Normale Superiore - Pisa), Prof. Manel Martinez (IFAE), Prof. Masahiro Teshima (MPI), Dr Razmik Mirzoyan (Max-Planck-Institute for Physics)

16:00 Guided tours MAGIC (Guests and Newcomers)

16:00 Press Time (interviews at MAGIC site)

16:30 Departure Bus 1 to Cancajos

by chartered bus; Arrival at Taburiente Playa ~ 19:30

17:00 Departure Bus 2 for Roque and Cancajos

Newcomers, Guests, Hosts

18:00 appr. arrival Cancajos Bus 1

19:30 appr. arrival Cancajos Bus 2

Friday, 29 June

09:00 → 10:30 Astroparticle Physics with Extragalactic Objects (and Cosmic Rays)

09:00 A Comment on Very-High-Energy Photonuclear Reactions

Speaker: leo stodolsky (mpi)

Slides lap.pdf

09:30 Extragalactic Background Light and the Transparency of the Universe to Gamma-rays

Speaker: Alberto Franceschini (University of Padua)

Slides Franceschini_LaPalma2018.pdf

10:00 Hunting extreme blazars with the MAGIC telescopes

Speakers: Dr Elisa Prandini (Padova University), Dr Katsuaki Asano (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University)

Slides 2018.06_EHBLs_PrandiniAsano_LaPalma.pdf

10:15 The MAGIC Pieces in the Radio Galaxies Puzzle: Fast Flares from IC310 and NGC1275

Speaker: David Paneque (MPI)

Slides Paneque_RadioGalWithMAGIC.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 12:40 Astroparticle Physics with Galactic Objects (and Cosmic Rays)

11:00 Binaries in Gamma-rays: Years of MAGIC

Speaker: Guillaume Dubus (CNRS IPAG)

Slides LaPalma_dubus.pdf

11:30 A MAGIC View into the Galactic Center Region

Speaker: Dr Christian Fruck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)

11:50 In a search for cosmic PeVatrons: MAGIC large zenith angle observations

Speaker: Dr Ievgen Vovk (MPI for Physics)

12:10 Cosmic Ray Composition with IACTs

Speaker: Andrii Neronov (University of Geneva)

Slides MAGIC_conference_2018_neronov.pdf MAGIC_conference_2018_neronov.pptx

12:40 → 14:00 Lunchtime

14:00 → 15:50 Astroparticle and Fundamental Physics

14:00 A New Era in the Quest for Dark Matter

Speaker: Gianfranco Bertone (GRAPPA)

Slides Bertone_MAGIC.pdf

14:30 Dark Matter Searches with MAGIC

Speaker: Dr Michele Doro (University and INFN Padova)

Slides doro_2018_M15.pdf

15:00 Gravitational Waves and Multi-messenger Astronomy: the New Exploration of the Universe

Speaker: Barbara Patricelli

Slides

• antenna-patterns.mp4
• Barbara-MAGIC2018.pdf
• GBM-GW170817.mp4
• kilonova.mp4
• Zooming.mp4

15:30 Searches for Fast Transients with MAGIC

Speaker: Dr Koji Noda (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, The University of Tokyo)

Slides 180629M15-Transients-Koji-vFinal.pdf

15:50 → 16:20 Coffee

16:20 → 18:00 Outlook into the Future

16:20 IceCube

Speaker: Prof. Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Slides Karle_Magic_symposium.pdf

16:50 VHE Gamma Ray Astronomy on the High Altitude Ground for Three Decades

Speaker: Zhen Cao (caozh@ihep.ac.cn)

Slides ZhenCao.pdf

17:20 CTA, with Focus on LST

Speaker: Masahiro Teshima (Max Planck for Physics)

Slides 2018_0629_CTA_LST.pdf

18:00 → 18:30 Round Table

19:30 → 22:30 Dinner and Discussions