1st CTA Science Symposium

6 May 2019, 12:00 → 9 May 2019, 15:25 Europe/Berlin

Teatro Duse (Italy, Bologna)

Monday, 6 May

14:00 → 14:25 Welcome

Speaker: Federico Ferrini (CTAO gGmbH)

14:25 → 14:50 Setting the stage

Speaker: Werner Hofmann (MPIK)

2019_05_Bologna_CTA_Symp_16_9_V5.pdf

15:45 → 16:20 Project status (including operations)

Speaker: Wolfgang Wild (CTAO)

2019-05-06_CTA_Status_WWild_dupl2.pdf

16:20 → 17:00 CTA in the context of astrophysics in the 2020s

Speaker: Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford)

190506CTA.pdf

Tuesday, 7 May

09:00 → 09:30 Space-based gamma-ray detectors

Speaker: Julie McEnery

space_based_cta.pdf

09:30 → 10:00 Imaging Array Cherenkov Telescopes

Speaker: Jamie Holder (University of Delaware)

IACTs_Holder_CTAsymposium_Bologna2019.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Large field of view ground-based detectors

Speaker: Petra Hüntemeyer

LFoV-Detectors-PHH-1stCTASymp.pdf

11:00 → 11:28 Introduction to Key Science Projects and Particle acceleration in CTA

Speaker: Prof. Rene Ong (UCLA)

CTA-Symposium-May2019-Ong-v6-upload.pdf

11:28 → 11:50 New physics in Key Science Projects

Speaker: Prof. Subir Sarkar (University of Oxford)

Sarkar_NewPhysicsKSP_Bologna19.pdf

11:50 → 12:25 MeV / GeV neutrinos

Speaker: Takaaki Kajita (ICRR, Univeristy of Tokyo)

190507 CTAsymposium Kajita.pdf

12:25 → 13:00 TeV / PeV neutrinos

Speaker: Francis Halzen

Bologna_Halzen.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 Gravitational wave astronomy

Speaker: Rai Weiss

cta_bologna_2019.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Radio Astronomy

Speaker: Robert Laing

Laing_CTAMeeting.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Optical and infrared astronomy

Speaker: Matthias Steinmetz (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

CTA2019.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy

Speaker: Reinhard Genzel

IR-MM-CTA-Symposium-Bologna-2019.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 X-ray astronomy

Speaker: Luigi Piro

Athena_VHE_Bologna19_Piro.pdf

Wednesday, 8 May

09:00 → 09:25 Simulations and laboratory experiments

Speaker: Frederico Fiuza

fiuzaCTA2019.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 Theory and astrophysical observations

Speaker: Anne Decourchelle

Talk_Anne Decourchelle_symposiumCTA.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Particle acceleration by kinetic instabilities in accretion disks

Speaker: Mario Riquelme

MRiquelme_CTABologna_nomovies.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Experimental analogue of UHECR transport with a laser-produced turbulent magnetized plasma

Speaker: Gianluca Gregori

CTS_GG_2019.pdf

11:30 → 11:55 Pulsars and their nebulae

Speaker: Anatoly Spitkovsky

CTAsympBolognaAS.pdf

11:55 → 12:20 Accreting compact objects

Speaker: Chris Done

chrisdone_cta19new.pdf

12:20 → 12:45 Gamma-ray bursts

Speaker: Giancarlo Ghirlanda

Ghirlanda_GRB_CTASYMP_2019.pdf

12:45 → 12:58 The microquasars of the Cygnus region: gamma-ray emission and perspectives with CTA

Speaker: Giovanni Piano

GPiano_CTA_cygnus_microquasars.pdf

12:58 → 13:11 3D simulations of pulsar bow shock nebulae

Speaker: Barbara Olmi

BOlmi_CTAsymp.pdf

13:11 → 13:24 Discovery of Late-Time Very High Energy Emission from a Gamma-ray Burst Afterglow

Speaker: Edna L. Ruiz Velasco

14:20 → 14:45 Non-thermal emission from active galaxies

Speaker: Gabriele Ghisellini

ghisellini.pdf

14:45 → 15:10 Compact objects and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Speaker: Andrew Taylor

CTA_UHECR_Bologna_AT.pdf

15:10 → 15:25 Neutrinos from TXS 0506+056

Speaker: Silke Britzen

bologna_britzen1.pdf

15:25 → 15:40 Locating the blazar zone

Speaker: Elina Lindfors (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku)

locatingblazarzone.pdf

15:40 → 15:55 VLBI location of the sites of high-energy emission production in AGN

Speaker: Nick MacDonald

MacDonald.pdf

15:55 → 16:10 The high-energy view of the outflow from the Galactic Center

Speaker: Gabriele Ponti

PontiCTABologna19.pdf

16:40 → 17:05 Star-forming system with focus on Galactic Center

Speaker: Roland Crocker

Crocker_CTA_Bologna_2019.pdf

17:05 → 17:30 Role of cosmic rays in galaxy evolution

Speaker: Volker Springel

slides_springel.pdf

17:30 → 17:45 Cosmic Ray Production to above 100 PeV in Compact Galactic Star Clusters

Speaker: Don Ellison

Ellison_CTA.pdf

17:45 → 18:00 High-mass protostellar jets: a new class of gamma-ray sources

Speaker: Anabella Araudo

Araudo.pdf

Thursday, 9 May

09:00 → 09:25 Probing intergalactic magnetic fields

Speaker: Rafael Alves Batista

20190509-RAB.pdf

09:25 → 09:50 Constraining the Extragalactic Background Light

Speaker: Marco Ajello

EBL_CTA_2019_ajello.pdf

09:50 → 10:10 Testing cosmology and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Speaker: Manuel Meyer (Stanford University)

cta-symp-mmeyer_cta_style.pdf

10:10 → 10:30 Testing primordial axion-driven cosmic magnetogenisis with CTA

Speaker: Francesco Miniati

CTA 2019.pdf

11:00 → 11:40 Dark matter and Lorentz Invariance Violation

Speaker: John Ellis (King's College London)

CTASymposiumTA.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Stellar intensity interferometry measurements with CTA

Speaker: Michael Daniel (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

CTA_Symposium_IntensityInterferometry.pdf

12:00 → 12:20 Event Horizon Telescope

Speaker: Maciek Wielgus

EHT_Wielgus_Bologna.pdf

12:20 → 12:40 Neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea: the present and the future

Speaker: Maurizio Spurio

NeutrinoTel_CTA_2019_43.pdf

12:40 → 13:00 How can CTA perform best in the changing gravitational wave follow-up landscape?

Speaker: Imre Bartos

Bartos_CTA_Symposium_Bologna_2019May9.pdf

14:30 → 15:00 The ESO programme

Speaker: Prof. Xavier Barcons (ESO)

ESO Programme - CTA- 20190509.pdf

15:00 → 15:25 Where do we go from here?

Speaker: Catherine Cesarsky (SAp, CEA Saclay)

CTA Symposium rapporteur talk.pdf