CTA LINK Meeting Buenos Aires

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

Palacio San Martín

Monday, 19 November

1 Registration and coffee

2 Welcome talk

3 Front-line Astroparticle Physics: the Grand Picture

4 CTA Science and Project Overview

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

5 Active Galactic Nuclei: a CTA perspective

6 Performance of CTA

Speaker: Dr Gernot Maier (DESY)

12:30 Lunch

7 Cosmic-Ray Research: the Grand Picture

8 Galactic Cosmic Rays (exp.)

9 Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (exp.)

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

10 Cosmic Ray Composition and Charged Particle Astronomy

16:20 Coffee break

11 Gamma Ray Bursts

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

12 Gamma-ray Binaries: Astrophysical Scenarios

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

13 Resolving Milagro Diffuse TeV Sources with VERITAS

Tuesday, 20 November

14 AMIGA at the Auger Observatory: The PMT Testing Facilities and their Application in CTA

Speaker: Dr Manuel Platino (ITeDA)

15 Performance and Upgrade Plans of the Pierre Auger Observatory Surface Detectors

16 Search for dark matter

17 The ANDESLAB Project

11:10 Coffee break

18 Update on the Neutrinoless Nuclear Matrix Elements

19 PeV Neutrinos from the Propagation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

20 Detection of Neutrinos from Micro-Quasars

12:45 Lunch

21 Overview of Gamma Astronomy in the GeV-TeV Range

22 Gamma Ray Flares of the Crab Nebula

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

23 The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma Ray Observatory

15:40 Coffee break and Poster Session

24 The Multi-Messenger Approach

20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 21 November

25 Gamma, Neutrino, and Positron Emission from Galactic Jet Sources

26 Protons or Heavy Nuclei: That is the question

27 Centaurus A

Speaker: Clementina Medina (CEA)

10:00 Coffee break

28 Cosmic Magnetic Fields

29 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)

30 The Role of Magnetic Reconnection for Acceleration of Cosmic Rays

11:40 Lunch

31 MWL Observations of Galactic Cosmic Ray Sources

32 Gamma-ray Sources and Supernova Remnants

33 Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Capabilities for Multi-Messenger Time-Domain Astronomy

Speaker: Valerie Connaughton (Alabama)

34 Implementing ApP Projects: Challenges and Solutions; Report from the ASPERA Workshop @ Gran Sasso, 18-19 Oct

35 Summary of the Symposium

15:30 Coffee & Departure