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
  
  Lunch
- 1
  
  Introduction to gamma-ray astronomy
  
  Speaker: David Green (CTAO)
  
  CTAO_School_DGreen.key
  
  CTAO_School_DGreen.pdf
- 2
  
  Time-domain astronomy
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
  
  sjzhu_timeDomain_day1.pdf
- 3
  
  Jetted Astrophysics
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université Paris Cité, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
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
- 4
  
  Jetted astrophysics
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- 5
  
  Time-domain astronomy
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- 6
  Students' talk
  - a) A new era for the blazar multi-wavelength studies with Rubin and CTAO
    
    Speaker: Julian Hamo (IJCLab)
    
    2025_06_15_CTAO_School_Presentation.pdf
  - b) Timing and Spectral Signatures of X-ray Variability in TeV Blazar Mrk 421: Insights from NICER
    
    Speaker: Sangeetha Kizhakkekalam
  - c) A Study of candidate Neutrino-emitting Seyfert galaxies with VERITAS
    
    Speaker: Sanchari Kundu (The University of Alabama)
  - d) Particle acceleration at Ultra Fast Outflows
    
    Speaker: Baptiste Le Nagat Neher
- 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)
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
- 7
  
  Jetted astrophysics
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- 8
  
  Time-domain astronomy
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- 9
  Students' talks
  - a) Maximization of the detection probability when following-up high energy transient sources using gamma-ray observatories
    
    Speaker: Yifan Tian (DESY)
  - b) High-Energy Transient Follow-Ups with H.E.S.S. and Astro-COLIBRI
    
    Speaker: Bernardo Cornejo (CTAO)
  - c) A tricky statistical search for Fast Optical Bursts
    
    Speaker: Carlo Campa
  - d) Transient gamma-ray sky with the future Cherenkov Telescope Array and validation tests with the NectarCAM camera
    
    Speaker: Anastasiia Mikhno
- 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)
- 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
- 10
  
  Time-domain astronomy
  
  Speaker: Sylvia Zhu (DESY)
- 11:00
  
  Coffee break
- 11
  
  Jetted astrophysics
  
  Speaker: Matteo Cerruti (Université de Paris, Astroparticule et Cosmologie (APC))
- 13:30
  
  Lunch
- 12
  Students' talks
  - a) Application of IA to IACTs and DM indirect detection
    
    Speaker: R Alexander Cervino
  - b) Probing late-time annihilations of oscillating asymmetric dark matter via rotation curves of galaxies
    
    Speaker: Marcos Vinicius Tomás Olegario
  - c) Probing Dark Photon Dark Matter through High-Energy Gamma-Ray Spectral Attenuation with CTAO
    
    Speaker: Júlia Gouvêa Mamprim
  - d) IGMF studies with LST
    
    Speaker: Mathilde Croisonnier (IFAE)
- 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)
- 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
  
  Travel
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
- 13
  
  Proposal writing
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 14
  Students' Talks
  - a) HESS J1745−290 spectrum explained by a transition in the diffusion regime of PeV cosmic rays in the Sgr A* accretion flow
    
    Speaker: Claudio Muena
  - b) Gamma-ray binaries
    
    Speaker: Aleksei Kuzin
  - c) Study of the gamma-ray variability of the binary system PSR B1259-63
    
    Speaker: Iuliia Shebalkova
  - d) Observations of the unidentified source 1LHAASO J0056+6346u with Fermi-LAT and LST-1
    
    Speaker: Alessandra Briscioli (CPPM)
  - e) CTAO-North Raman LIDAR
    
    Speaker: Darko Kolar
  - f) Investigating the Effects of Symmetry Assumptions in the Instrument Response of CTAO
    
    Speaker: Luca Di Bella (TU Dortmund University)
  - g) An event-type based analysis for LST1
    
    Speaker: Silvia García Soto (CIEMAT - CTA)
  - h) Study on Long-Term Dark-Current Instability of Silicon Photomultipliers
    
    Speaker: Ryu Kawarasaki
  - i) Towards highest and lowest energies for the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in Namibia
    
    Speaker: Wassim Abdelraouf Si Said
  - j) Event reconstruction at the LST1 telescope using image-based Deep Learning models
    
    Speaker: Cristian Pozo González (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA))
  - k) Neural networks and pulsar analysis
    
    Speaker: Jorge Buces Sáez (UCM)
  - l) Constraining Hadronic Interaction Models at TeV-scale energies with H.E.S.S.
    
    Speaker: Anita Deka Baruah
- 15
  
  Day Visit to TNG
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
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
- 16
  
  Detection principles: EAS & Cherenkov
  
  Speaker: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 17
  
  Design an IACT (Gr 1 + Gr 2)
  
  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
  
  Coffee break
- 18
  
  Design an IACT (Gr 1 + Gr 2)
  
  Speakers: Martin Will (Telescope Engineer), Oscar Blanch Bigas (Institut de Fisica d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology)
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
- 19
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1b
- 20
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1a
- 21
  
  TNG Visit - Group 2a + Group 2b
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
- 22
  
  Atmosphere
  
  Speaker: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 23
  
  Telescope Optics & Mechanics
  
  Speaker: Giorgia Sironi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
- 16:00
  
  Coffee break
- 24
  
  Telescope Camera
  
  Speaker: Daniel Kerszberg (LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3)
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
- 25
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2b
- 26
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 2a
- 27
  
  TNG Visit - Group 1a + Group 1b
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
  
  Free time
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
- 28
  
  Array operations
  
  Speaker: Igor Oya (CIEMAT, Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 29
  
  Low-level analysis
  
  Speaker: Dr Maximilian Linhoff (CTAO)
- 16:00
  
  Coffee break
- 30
  
  VISIT TO THE GCT (Gr1) - VISIT LST1 (Gr2)
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
- 31
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 2a
- 32
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 2b
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
- 33
  
  High-level analysis
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 34
  
  High-level analysis
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
- 16:00
  
  Coffee break
- 35
  
  VISIT TO THE GCT (Gr2) - VISIT LST1 (Gr1)
- 18:00
  
  Dinner
- 36
  
  LST-1 Visit - Group 1a
- 37
  
  MAGIC Visit - Group 1b
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
- 38
  
  Joint proposals with optical telescopes
  
  Speaker: Alicia Lopez-Oramas (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna)
- 13:00
  
  Lunch
- 39
  
  High level analysis
  
  Speakers: Atreyee Sinha (UCM, Madrid), Daniel Morcuende (CTAO), Dr Kirsty Feijen (The Astroparticle and Cosmology laboratory)
- 16:00
  
  Transfer to Santa Cruz
- 20:00
  
  Dinner at Plaza Chica, Santa Cruz

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CTAO School - 2nd edition