Gamma Connection: Building the CTAO community in Latin America

9 Dec 2026, 13:00 → 12 Dec 2026, 17:00 America/Santiago

Wednesday 9 December

13:00 Welcome light lunch

Status and Future Perspectives in Gamma-Ray Astronomy

1 Gamma-ray astronomy in the MWL/MM

Speaker: Dr Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

2 CTAO performance

Speaker: David Green (CTAO)

3 SWGO performance

Speaker: Claudio Dib (CCTVal, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

16:00 Coffee break

Status and Future Perspectives in Gamma-Ray Astronomy

4 CTAO as open observatory

Speaker: Ivana Batković (CTAO Project Science Office)

5 LST-1 highlights

Speaker: Alicia Lopez-Oramas (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias and Departamento de Astrofisica, Universidad de La Laguna)

6 Demo session: taking ASTRI data from Chile

Speaker: Mauricio Araya (CCTVal, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria)

Thursday 10 December

Cosmic-Ray Physics

7 Diffuse emission

Speaker: Quentin REMY (MPIK Heidelberg)

8 State-of-art results in PeVatrons searches

Speaker: Jim Hinton (Max-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik)

9 Microquasar remnants in the CTAO era: hidden PeVatrons and extended gamma-ray emission

Speaker: Leandro Abaroa

10 Halo Hunting Around PSR J0622+3749 in the CTAO Era

Speaker: Samik Dutta

10:40 Coffee break

Cosmic-Ray Physics

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

Speaker: Claudio Muena

12 High-Energy Emission Analysis from the Galactic Center Region with HAWC and IceCube

Speaker: Sohyoun Yun Carcamo

13 A Search for New Classes of Gamma-ray Galactic Sources

Speaker: Maria Victoria del Valle (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisico, e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo)

14 Highlights on the UHE cosmic rays field

Speaker: Geraldina Golup

15 Gamma-Ray Emission from Fornax A and Its Possible Connection to UHECRs

Speaker: Victor Barbosa Martins (Ruhr Uni Bochum (RUB))

13:02 Lunch break

Extreme Astrophysical Environments

16 Highlights on GRBs in gamma rays (alternative to the hadronic emission)

Speaker: Arnau Aguasca-Cabot (Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE))

17 AGN variability from radio to X-rays: how can gamma rays help completing the picture?

Speaker: Paulina Lira

18 Seyfert galaxies & neutrinos

Speaker: Lucas Manuel Pasquevich

19 From Gamma-ray Absorption Features to Neutrinos: Tracing the Environments of BL Lac Objects

Speaker: Dr Luca Foffano (INAF - IAPS - Rome)

20 Particle Acceleration and Cooling Rates in FR0 jets

Speaker: Bernardo Da Silva

21 Simulations of TeV blazar halos for the CTAO

Speaker: Constanza Domínguez

16:00 Coffee break

Extreme Astrophysical Environments

22 The Non-Thermal Engine of NGC 4278: Radio Structures and CTAO prospects

Speaker: Paula Kornecki (Universidad de Chile)

23 The Non-Thermal Engine of NGC 4278: Radio Structures and CTAO prospects

Speaker: Walter Max-Moerbeck (Universidad de Chile)

24 Characterization of blazar variability in the radio and gamma-ray bands

Speaker: Antonella Zavala Cerda

25 Long-Term Monitoring High-Quality Spectral Sample, and Flare Follow-up programs

Speaker: José Mendez

Friday 11 December

Fundamental Physics

26 Integalactic Magnetic Fields

Speaker: Paolo Da Vela (INFAF OAS Bologna)

27 Review: search of DM in gamma-rays

Speaker: Ivana Batković (CTAO Project Science Office)

28 Search for Dark Matter in the Era of the CTAO and SWGO Experiment

Speaker: Ana Clara Da Rocha e Silvia

29 SWGO Sensitivity to Dark-Matter Spikes Around Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Speaker: David Alonso Luzquiños Saavedra

10:30 Coffee break

Fundamental Physics

30 Probing Dark Matter Models in the Galactic Centre: Sensitivity Prospects and Model Discrimination with SWGO

Speaker: Simranjeet Kaur

31 Very special relativity

Speaker: Jorge Alfaro

32 Plasma Energization in the Stratified Collisionless Magnetorotational Instability

Speaker: Astor Sandoval

33 Gamma/Hadron Separation Using Graph Neural Networks for The SWGO Observatory

Speaker: Erick Mpangi Musungu

34 Results from the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope Upgraded Camera

Speaker: Orisvaldo Salviano Neto (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

35 Multitask learning for stereoscopic reconstruction of gamma-ray showers in CTAO’s LSTs

Speaker: Derlei Jurandir da Silva

13:00 Lunch break

Synergies and Opportunities

36 Synergies CTAO - SWGO

Speaker: Bruno Khélifi (APC, Université Paris Diderot-IN2P3/CNRS)

37 Synergies CTAO - VLT

Speaker: Mar Carretero-Castrillo (ICCUBB)

38 Synergies CTAO - ALMA

Speaker: Paola Andreani (ESO)

39 Synergies CTAO - Centimeter Radio Facilities

Speaker: Paula Benaglia

40 Synergies CTAO - Gravitational Waves

Speaker: Riccardo Sturani

16:35 Coffee break

Synergies and Opportunities

41 How to request CTAO observing time

Speaker: Dr Roberta Zanin (CTAO)

42 The Latin American Centre for Physics: opportunities

Speaker: Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

Saturday 12 December

Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data

10:30 Coffee break

Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data

13:00 Lunch break

Hands-On: How to analyse CTAO data