CTAO School - 2nd edition

Name: CTAO School - 2nd edition
Start: 2025-06-14T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-25T22:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

14 Jun 2025, 09:00 → 25 Jun 2025, 22:00 Europe/Berlin

Saturday 14 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  
  Introduction to gamma-ray astronomy 30m
  
  Speaker: David Green (CTAO)
  
  CTAO_School_DGreen.key
  
  CTAO_School_DGreen.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:30
  
  Time-domain astronomy 1h
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
  
  sjzhu_timeDomain_day1.pdf
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  Jetted Astrophysics 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université Paris Cité, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
  
  Cerruti_Jets_2025.pdf
Sunday 15 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 09:30 → 11:00
  
  Jetted astrophysics 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:30
  
  Time-domain astronomy 2h
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
  
  sjzhu_timeDomain_day2.pdf
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  Students' talk 30m
  - A new era for the blazar multi-wavelength studies with Rubin and CTAO 7m
    
    Speaker: Julian Hamo (IJCLab)
    
    2025_06_15_CTAO_School_Presentation.pdf
  - Timing and Spectral Signatures of X-ray Variability in TeV Blazar Mrk 421: Insights from NICER 7m
    
    Speaker: Sangeetha Kizhakkekalam
  - A Study of candidate Neutrino-emitting Seyfert galaxies with VERITAS 7m
    
    Speaker: Sanchari Kundu (The University of Alabama)
  - Particle acceleration at Ultra Fast Outflows 7m
    
    Speaker: Baptiste Le Nagat Neher
- 15:30 → 17:30
  
  Proposal session
  
  Conveners: Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), David Green (CTAO), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFAF OAS Bologna), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)
  
  CTAO_SummerSchool_ProposalWriting_Marchesi.pdf
  
  Proposal_Slides_CTAO_School.pdf
Monday 16 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 09:30 → 11:00
  
  Jetted astrophysics 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:30
  
  Time-domain astronomy 2h
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
  
  sjzhu_timeDomain_day3.pdf
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  Students' talks 30m
  - Maximization of the detection probability when following-up high energy transient sources using gamma-ray observatories 7m
    
    Speaker: Yifan Tian (DESY)
  - High-Energy Transient Follow-Ups with H.E.S.S. and Astro-COLIBRI 7m
    
    Speaker: Bernardo Cornejo (CTAO)
  - A tricky statistical search for Fast Optical Bursts 7m
    
    Speaker: Carlo Campa
  - Transient gamma-ray sky with the future Cherenkov Telescope Array and validation tests with the NectarCAM camera 7m
    
    Speaker: Anastasiia Mikhno
- 15:30 → 17:30
  
  Proposal session: Gr. 1
  
  Conveners: Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), David Green (CTAO), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFAF OAS Bologna), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)
  
  CTAO_SummerSchool_ProposalWriting_Marchesi.pdf
  
  Proposal_Slides_CTAO_School.pdf
- 15:30 → 17:30
  
  Science communication: Gr. 2
  
  Convener: Megan Grunewald (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)
Tuesday 17 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 09:30 → 11:00
  
  Time-domain astronomy 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
  
  lololgalacticstuffwtf.pdf
  
  sjzhu_timeDomain_day4a.pdf
- 11:00 → 11:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 11:30 → 13:30
  
  Jetted astrophysics 2h
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 13:30 → 15:00
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 15:00 → 15:30
  Students' talks 30m
  - Application of IA to IACTs and DM indirect detection 7m
    
    Speaker: R Alexander Cervino
    
    AlexanderCerviño_CTAOSchool.pptx.pdf
  - Probing late-time annihilations of oscillating asymmetric dark matter via rotation curves of galaxies 7m
    
    Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Tomás Olegario
  - Probing Dark Photon Dark Matter through High-Energy Gamma-Ray Spectral Attenuation with CTAO 7m
    
    Speaker: Júlia Gouvêa Mamprim
  - IGMF studies with LST 7m
    
    Speaker: Mathilde Croisonnier (IFAE)
- 15:30 → 17:30
  
  Proposal session: Gr. 2
  
  Conveners: Antonio Iuliano (INFN, (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare), Sezione di Napoli), David Green (CTAO), Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova), Paolo Da Vela (INFAF OAS Bologna), Stefano Marchesi (Universita di Bologna)
  
  CTAO_SummerSchool_ProposalWriting_Marchesi.pdf
  
  Proposal_Slides_CTAO_School.pdf
- 15:30 → 17:30
  
  Science communication: Gr. 1
  
  Convener: Megan Grunewald (Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)
Wednesday 18 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 08:00 → 16:00
  
  Travel 8h
Thursday 19 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 10:00 → 13:00
  
  Proposal writing 3h
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  Students' Talks 1h 30m
  - HESS J1745−290 spectrum explained by a transition in the diffusion regime of PeV cosmic rays in the Sgr A* accretion flow 7m
    
    Speaker: Claudio Muena
  - Gamma-ray binaries 7m
    
    Speaker: Aleksei Kuzin
  - Study of the gamma-ray variability of the binary system PSR B1259-63 7m
    
    Speaker: Iuliia Shebalkova
  - Observations of the unidentified source 1LHAASO J0056+6346u with Fermi-LAT and LST-1 7m
    
    Speaker: Alessandra Briscioli (CPPM)
  - CTAO-North Raman LIDAR 7m
    
    Speaker: Darko Kolar
  - Investigating the Effects of Symmetry Assumptions in the Instrument Response of CTAO 7m
    
    Speaker: Luca Di Bella (TU Dortmund University)
  - An event-type based analysis for LST1 7m
    
    Speaker: Silvia García Soto (CIEMAT - CTA)
  - Study on Long-Term Dark-Current Instability of Silicon Photomultipliers 7m
    
    Speaker: Ryu Kawarasaki
  - Towards highest and lowest energies for the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in Namibia 7m
    
    Speaker: Wassim Abdelraouf Si Said
  - Event reconstruction at the LST1 telescope using image-based Deep Learning models 7m
    
    Speaker: Cristian Pozo González (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA))
    
    EVEN_RECONSTRUTION_Cristian_Pozo_Gonzalez.pdf
  - Neural networks and pulsar analysis 7m
    
    Speaker: Jorge Buces Sáez (UCM)
  - Constraining Hadronic Interaction Models at TeV-scale energies with H.E.S.S. 7m
    
    Speaker: Anita Deka Baruah
- 17:00 → 18:00
  
  Day Visit to TNG 1h
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Dinner 2h
Friday 20 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 10:00 → 13:00
  
  Detection principles: EAS & Cherenkov 3h
  
  Speaker: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
  
  CTAO-School-2025-IACT-DetectionPrinciples-Main.pdf
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Design an IACT (Gr 1 + Gr 2) 1h 30m
  
  Speakers: Martin Will (Telescope Engineer), Oscar Blanch Bigas (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)
  
  MaterialForIACTInstrumentation.pdf
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  Design an IACT (Gr 1 + Gr 2) 1h 30m
  
  Speakers: Martin Will (Telescope Engineer), Oscar Blanch Bigas (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Dinner 2h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1a 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 2a 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 2b 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1d 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1b 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 2c 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 2d 1h
Saturday 21 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 00:00 → 01:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1c 1h
- 10:50 → 11:00
  
  Event reconstruction at the LST1 telescope using image-based Deep Learning models 10m
  
  Speaker: Cristian Pozo González (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA))
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  Atmosphere 2h
  
  Speaker: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Telescope Optics & Mechanics 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Giorgia Sironi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  Telescope Camera 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Daniel Kerszberg (LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3)
  
  TelescopeCamera_Kerszberg_20250621.pdf
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Dinner 2h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2c 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 2a 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 1c 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 1d 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2d 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 2b 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 1a 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  TNG Visit - Group 1b 1h
Sunday 22 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 10:00 → 18:00
  
  Free time 8h
Monday 23 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 10:50 → 11:00
  
  Neural networks and pulsar analysis 10m
  
  Speaker: Jorge Buces Sáez (UCM)
  
  Jorge_CTAOschool.pdf
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  Array operations 2h
  
  Speaker: Igor Oya (CIEMAT, Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)
  
  Array-Operations-CTAO-School-2025.pdf
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Low-level analysis 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Dr Maximilian Linhoff (CTAO)
  
  2025-06_CTAO-School_LowLevelAnalysis.pdf
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  VISIT TO THE GCT (Gr1) - VISIT LST1 (Gr2) 1h 30m
- 18:00 → 20:00
  
  Dinner 2h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2b 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 2c 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2a 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2d 1h
Tuesday 24 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 10:50 → 11:00
  
  Constraining Hadronic Interaction Models at TeV-scale energies with H.E.S.S. 10m
  
  Speaker: Anita Deka Baruah
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  High-level analysis 2h
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
  
  CTAO_School_2025_LST1_Crab_performance_analysis.pdf
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  Joint proposals with optical telescopes 1h 30m
  
  Speaker: Alicia Lopez-Oramas (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna)
  
  CTAO_School_Lopez-Oramas.pdf
- 16:00 → 16:30
  
  Coffee break 30m
- 16:30 → 18:00
  
  VISIT TO THE GCT (Gr2) - VISIT LST1 (Gr1) 1h 30m
- 18:00 → 18:20
  
  Group Photo - In front of LST 20m
- 18:20 → 20:20
  
  Dinner 2h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1b 1h
- 22:00 → 23:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1d 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1a 1h
- 23:00 → 00:00
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1c 1h
Wednesday 25 June
- Sat 14 Jun
- Sun 15 Jun
- Mon 16 Jun
- Tue 17 Jun
- Wed 18 Jun
- Thu 19 Jun
- Fri 20 Jun
- Sat 21 Jun
- Sun 22 Jun
- Mon 23 Jun
- Tue 24 Jun
- Wed 25 Jun
- 11:00 → 13:00
  
  High-level Analysis 2h
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
- 13:00 → 14:30
  
  Lunch 1h 30m
- 14:30 → 16:00
  
  High level analysis 1h 30m
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
- 16:00 → 18:00
  
  Transfer to Santa Cruz 2h
- 20:00 → 22:00
  
  Dinner at Plaza Chica, Santa Cruz 2h