CTA LINK Meeting Buenos Aires

Nov 19, 2012, 9:00 AM → Nov 21, 2012, 4:40 PM Europe/Berlin

Palacio San Martín

Mon, November 19

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Registration and coffee

10:00 AM → 10:15 AM Welcome talk

10:15 AM → 11:00 AM Front-line Astroparticle Physics: the Grand Picture

11:00 AM → 11:40 AM CTA Science and Project Overview

Speaker: Stefan Funk (SLAC National Accelerator Center and Stanford University)

11:40 AM → 12:05 PM Active Galactic Nuclei: a CTA perspective

12:05 PM → 12:30 PM Performance of CTA

Speaker: Dr Gernot Maier (DESY)

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 3:10 PM Cosmic-Ray Research: the Grand Picture

3:10 PM → 3:35 PM Galactic Cosmic Rays (exp.)

3:35 PM → 4:00 PM Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (exp.)

Speaker: Mr Edivaldo Moura Santos (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

4:00 PM → 4:20 PM Cosmic Ray Composition and Charged Particle Astronomy

4:20 PM → 4:50 PM Coffee break

4:50 PM → 5:20 PM Gamma Ray Bursts

Speaker: Dr Susumu Inoue (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, University of Tokyo)

5:20 PM → 5:40 PM Gamma-ray Binaries: Astrophysical Scenarios

Speaker: Dr Felix Mirabel (IRFU-CEA-Saclay)

5:40 PM → 6:00 PM Resolving Milagro Diffuse TeV Sources with VERITAS

Tue, November 20

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM AMIGA at the Auger Observatory: The PMT Testing Facilities and their Application in CTA

Speaker: Dr Manuel Platino (ITeDA)

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM Performance and Upgrade Plans of the Pierre Auger Observatory Surface Detectors

10:10 AM → 10:40 AM Search for dark matter

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM The ANDESLAB Project

11:10 AM → 11:35 AM Coffee break

11:35 AM → 11:55 AM Update on the Neutrinoless Nuclear Matrix Elements

11:55 AM → 12:20 PM PeV Neutrinos from the Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

12:20 PM → 12:45 PM Detection of Neutrinos from Micro-Quasars

12:45 PM → 2:20 PM Lunch

2:20 PM → 3:00 PM Overview of Gamma Astronomy in the GeV-TeV Range

3:00 PM → 3:20 PM Gamma Ray Flares of the Crab Nebula

Speaker: Prof. Marco Tavani (INAF-IAPS and University of Rome Tor Vergata)

3:20 PM → 3:40 PM The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory

3:40 PM → 5:20 PM Coffee break and Poster Session

5:20 PM → 6:00 PM The Multi-Messenger Approach

8:00 PM → 11:00 PM Dinner

Wed, November 21

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM Gamma, Neutrino, and Positron Emission from Galactic Jet Sources

9:20 AM → 9:40 AM Protons or Heavy Nuclei: That is the question

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Centaurus A

Speaker: Clementina Medina (CEA)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee break

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Cosmic Magnetic Fields

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Cosmic Ray Acceleration in Magnetic Reconnection Sites: From Solar Flares to AGNs and GRBs

Speaker: Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino (University of São Paulo, IAG-USP)

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM The Role of Magnetic Reconnection for Acceleration of Cosmic Rays

11:40 AM → 1:10 PM Lunch

1:10 PM → 1:50 PM MWL Observations of Galactic Cosmic Ray Sources

1:50 PM → 2:10 PM Gamma-ray Sources and Supernova Remnants

2:10 PM → 2:30 PM Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Capabilities for Multi-Messenger Time-Domain Astronomy

Speaker: Valerie Connaughton (Alabama)

2:30 PM → 3:00 PM Implementing ApP Projects: Challenges and Solutions; Report from the ASPERA Workshop @ Gran Sasso, 18-19 Oct

3:00 PM → 3:30 PM Summary of the Symposium

3:30 PM → 4:10 PM Coffee & Departure