CTA LINK Meeting Buenos Aires

19 Nov 2012, 09:00 → 21 Nov 2012, 16:40 Europe/Berlin

Palacio San Martín

Monday, 19 November

09:00 → 10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome talk

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

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

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

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

12:05 → 12:30 Performance of CTA

Speaker: Dr Gernot Maier (DESY)

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:10 Cosmic-Ray Research: the Grand Picture

15:10 → 15:35 Galactic Cosmic Rays (exp.)

15:35 → 16:00 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (exp.)

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

16:00 → 16:20 Cosmic Ray Composition and Charged Particle Astronomy

16:20 → 16:50 Coffee break

16:50 → 17:20 Gamma Ray Bursts

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

17:20 → 17:40 Gamma-ray Binaries: Astrophysical Scenarios

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

17:40 → 18:00 Resolving Milagro Diffuse TeV Sources with VERITAS

Tuesday, 20 November

09:30 → 09:50 AMIGA at the Auger Observatory: The PMT Testing Facilities and their Application in CTA

Speaker: Dr Manuel Platino (ITeDA)

09:50 → 10:10 Performance and Upgrade Plans of the Pierre Auger Observatory Surface Detectors

10:10 → 10:40 Search for dark matter

10:40 → 11:10 The ANDESLAB Project

11:10 → 11:35 Coffee break

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

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

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

12:45 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 15:00 Overview of Gamma Astronomy in the GeV-TeV Range

15:00 → 15:20 Gamma Ray Flares of the Crab Nebula

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

15:20 → 15:40 The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory

15:40 → 17:20 Coffee break and Poster Session

17:20 → 18:00 The Multi-Messenger Approach

20:00 → 23:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 21 November

09:00 → 09:20 Gamma, Neutrino, and Positron Emission from Galactic Jet Sources

09:20 → 09:40 Protons or Heavy Nuclei: That is the question

09:40 → 10:00 Centaurus A

Speaker: Clementina Medina (CEA)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:00 Cosmic Magnetic Fields

11:00 → 11:20 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 → 11:40 The Role of Magnetic Reconnection for Acceleration of Cosmic Rays

11:40 → 13:10 Lunch

13:10 → 13:50 MWL Observations of Galactic Cosmic Ray Sources

13:50 → 14:10 Gamma-ray Sources and Supernova Remnants

14:10 → 14:30 Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Capabilities for Multi-Messenger Time-Domain Astronomy

Speaker: Valerie Connaughton (Alabama)

14:30 → 15:00 Implementing ApP Projects: Challenges and Solutions; Report from the ASPERA Workshop @ Gran Sasso, 18-19 Oct

15:00 → 15:30 Summary of the Symposium

15:30 → 16:10 Coffee & Departure