Name: Gamma Connection: Building the CTAO community in Latin America
Start: 2026-12-09T13:00:00-03:00
End: 2026-12-12T17:00:00-03:00
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Gamma Connection: Building the CTAO community in Latin America

from Wednesday, 9 December 2026 (13:00) to Saturday, 12 December 2026 (17:00)

Monday, 7 December 2026
Tuesday, 8 December 2026
Wednesday, 9 December 2026

13:00 Welcome light lunch
Welcome light lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Status and Future Perspectives in Gamma-Ray Astronomy
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Gamma-ray astronomy in the MWL/MM - Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

15:00 CTAO performance - David Green (CTAO)

15:30 SWGO performance - Claudio Dib (CCTVal, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Status and Future Perspectives in Gamma-Ray Astronomy
16:30 - 17:55
Contributions

16:30 CTAO as open observatory - Ivana Batković (CTAO Project Science Office)

16:52 LST-1 highlights - Alicia Lopez-Oramas (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna)

17:22 Demo session: taking ASTRI data from Chile - Mauricio Araya (CCTVal, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)
Thursday, 10 December 2026
09:00 Cosmic-Ray Physics
09:00 - 10:40
Contributions

09:00 Diffuse emission - Quentin REMY (MPIK Heidelberg)

09:30 State-of-art results in PeVatrons searches - Jim Hinton (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik)

10:00 Microquasar remnants in the CTAO era: hidden PeVatrons and extended gamma-ray emission - Leandro Abaroa

10:22 Halo Hunting Around PSR J0622+3749 in the CTAO Era - Samik Dutta
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:10
11:10 Cosmic-Ray Physics
11:10 - 13:02
Contributions

11:10 Exploring the connection between the central source HESS J1745-290 and Sgr A* as a possible PeVatron - Claudio Muena

11:25 High-Energy Emission Analysis from the Galactic Center Region with HAWC and IceCube - Sohyoun Yun Carcamo

11:40 A Search for New Classes of Gamma-ray Galactic Sources - Maria Victoria del Valle (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisico, e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo)

12:17 Highlights on the UHE cosmic rays field - Geraldina Golup

12:47 Gamma-Ray Emission from Fornax A and Its Possible Connection to UHECRs - Victor Barbosa Martins (Ruhr Uni Bochum (RUB))
13:02 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:02 - 14:00
14:00 Extreme Astrophysical Environments
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Highlights on GRBs in gamma rays (alternative to the hadronic emission) - Arnau Aguasca-Cabot (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

14:30 AGN variability from radio to X-rays: how can gamma rays help completing the picture? - Paulina Lira

15:00 Seyfert galaxies & neutrinos - Lucas Manuel Pasquevich

15:15 From Gamma-ray Absorption Features to Neutrinos: Tracing the Environments of BL Lac Objects - Luca Foffano (INAF - IAPS - Rome)

15:30 Particle Acceleration and Cooling Rates in FR0 jets - Bernardo Da Silva

15:45 Simulations of TeV blazar halos for the CTAO - Constanza Domínguez
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Extreme Astrophysical Environments
16:30 - 17:30
Contributions

16:30 The Non-Thermal Engine of NGC 4278: Radio Structures and CTAO prospects - Paula Kornecki (Universidad de Chile)

16:45 The Non-Thermal Engine of NGC 4278: Radio Structures and CTAO prospects - Walter Max-Moerbeck (Universidad de Chile)

17:00 Characterization of blazar variability in the radio and gamma-ray bands - Antonella Zavala Cerda

17:15 Long-Term Monitoring High-Quality Spectral Sample, and Flare Follow-up programs - José Mendez
Friday, 11 December 2026
09:00 Fundamental Physics
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Integalactic Magnetic Fields - Paolo Da Vela (INFAF OAS Bologna)

09:30 Review: search of DM in gamma-rays - Ivana Batković (CTAO Project Science Office)

10:00 Search for Dark Matter in the Era of the CTAO and SWGO Experiment - Ana Clara Da Rocha e Silvia

10:15 SWGO Sensitivity to Dark-Matter Spikes Around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes - David Alonso Luzquiños Saavedra
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Fundamental Physics
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Probing Dark Matter Models in the Galactic Centre: Sensitivity Prospects and Model Discrimination with SWGO - Simranjeet Kaur

11:15 Very special relativity - Jorge Alfaro

11:30 Plasma Energization in the Stratified Collisionless Magnetorotational Instability - Astor Sandoval

11:45 Gamma/Hadron Separation Using Graph Neural Networks for The SWGO Observatory - Erick Mpangi Musungu

12:00 Results from the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Upgraded Camera - Orisvaldo Salviano Neto (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:15 Multitask learning for stereoscopic reconstruction of gamma-ray showers in CTAO’s LSTs - Derlei Jurandir da Silva
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Synergies and Opportunities
14:00 - 16:35
Contributions

14:00 Synergies CTAO - SWGO - Bruno Khélifi (APC, Université Paris Diderot-IN2P3/CNRS)

14:30 Synergies CTAO - VLT - Mar Carretero-Castrillo (ICCUBB)

15:00 Synergies CTAO - ALMA - Paola Andreani (ESO)

15:30 Synergies CTAO - Centimeter Radio Facilities - Paula Benaglia

16:00 Synergies CTAO - Gravitational Waves - Riccardo Sturani
16:35 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:35 - 17:05
17:05 Synergies and Opportunities: Synergies and Opportunities
Synergies and Opportunities
17:05 - 18:05
Contributions

17:05 How to request CTAO observing time - Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

17:27 The Latin American Centre for Physics: opportunities - Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)
Saturday, 12 December 2026

09:00 Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data

09:00 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data

11:00 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00

14:00 Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data

14:00 - 17:00