Tenth International Fermi Symposium

from Sunday 9 October 2022 (12:00) to Saturday 15 October 2022 (14:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Oct 2022
11 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022
AM
09:00
Opening - Soebur Razzaque (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Opening Remarks - 1 - Soebur Razzaque   ()
09:15 Opening Remarks - 2 - Markus Boettcher   ()
09:30 Fermi Mission Talk - Judy Racusin (NASA/GSFC)   ()
10:00 Diversity and Equity in the Multimessenger Era - Ellen Bechtol (UW-Madison / WIPAC)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary 1 - Markus Boettcher (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Optical Follow-up of X-ray and Gamma-ray Transients - David Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory)   ()
11:30 Radio Astronomy in South Africa - Sharmila Goedhart (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)   ()
12:00 EHT observations of the supermassive black hole in the Galactic Center - Freek Roelofs   ()
09:00
Plenary 3 - Patrizia Caraveo (INAF-IASF Milano) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Looking at the X-ray sky with polarized lenses - Alberto Manfreda   ()
09:30 The Galactic population of canonical pulsars - Ludmilla Dirson   ()
09:45 Interpreting the high-energy sub-exponentially cutoff spectral shape of the Vela pulsar - Christo Venter   ()
10:00 Searching for Gravitational Waves with Gamma Rays - Matthew Kerr   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
10:30
Poster session (until 11:00) ()
10:30 Inverse Compton emission from relativistic particles accelerated at shear layers in relativistic jets - Mr Tej Bahadur Chand (Centre for Space Research, North-West University Potchefstroom, South Africa)   ()
10:30 Multi-messenger characterization of Mrk501 during historically low X-ray and γ-ray activity - Lea Alina Heckmann (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, D-80805 München, Germany)   ()
10:31 Detection of transient quasi-periodic flux modulation at gamma-rays from blazar PKS 0903-57 - Mr ABHRADEEP ROY (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India)   ()
10:31 Multi-wavelength study of blazars at redshift z>~1 observed by H.E.S.S. - Ogochukwu Chibueze (NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY, POTCHEFSTROOM, SOUTH AFRICA)   ()
10:32 Flare States Modeling and Spectral Study of S5 1044+71 - Anshu Chatterjee (TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH)   ()
10:32 Multiwavelength study of 2020 and 2021 flares of S5 1803+784 - Joseph Omojola   ()
10:33 Radiation and polarization signatures from magnetic reconnection in blazars - Dr Haocheng Zhang (NPP Fellow/NASA GSFC)   ()
10:33 X-ray and MeV polarization signatures as a probe for hadronic signatures in blazars - Dr Haocheng Zhang (NPP Fellow/NASA GSFC)   ()
10:34 Results from optical spectropolarimetric & photometric observations of blazars - Joleen Barnard   ()
10:34 SALT Spectropolarimetric Pipeline Comparisons - Mr Justin Cooper (University of the Free State)   ()
10:35 Modelled light curve variability due to blob injection in RMHD jet simulations - Daniel Kulik (University of the Free State)   ()
10:35 The first GeV flare of the radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PKS 2004–447 - Andrea Gokus (Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory/ECAP)   ()
10:36 Constraining magnetic fields and gamma-ray production zones in blazar jets by fitting the broad-band spectral energy distribution. - Mr Mfuphi Ntshatsha (University of Johannesburg)   ()
10:36 Gamma-ray emission from extended jets of LLAGNs - NGC315 and NGC4261 - Gunjan Tomar (Raman Research Institute)   ()
10:37 A hadonic synchrotron mirror model for blazars - Application to 3C279 - Laenita Lorraine Oberholzer   ()
10:37 One-HaLe model for the SED of blazars and the curious case of CGRaBS J0211+1051 - Pranjupriya Goswami (North-West University) Dr Sunil Chandra (South African Astronomical Observatory, Cape Town)   ()
10:38 GRB 201216C: A TeV Detected Gamma-ray burst at z=1.1 - Mr Amit Kumar (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences) Amit Kumar (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences)   ()
10:38 Neural Networks for Estimation of Gamma-Ray Burst Redshifts - Tamador Aldowma (Johannesburg University, Omdurman Islamic University)   ()
10:39 Deep Search for and Investigations of Untriggered Gamma-Ray Transient Events Using Fermi/GBM Data - Özge Keskin (Sabancı University)   ()
10:40 The properties of the outflow and prompt emission of 14 LAT GRBs - Saeeda Sajjad (Institute of Space Technology (IST), Islamabad Pakistan, Space and Astrophysics Research Lab (SARL), National Center for GIS and Space Applications (NCGSA), Islamabad, Pakistan)   ()
10:41 Modelling external inverse Compton emission of gamma-ray burst afterglows in the very-high-energy regime - Dr Monica Barnard (University of Johannesburg)   ()
10:41 The MAGIC VHE GRB program - Francesco Longo   ()
10:42 Anisotropic diffusion cannot explain TeV halos - Pedro De la Torre Luque   ()
10:43 Particle acceleration in core-collapse supernova remnant expanding inside a wind bubble - Robert B.   ()
10:44 On the origin of the complex energy-dependent structure of HESS J1702-420 - Dr Masha Chernyakova (DCU)   ()
10:45 Particle Acceleration at Reflected Shocks in Supernovae Remnants - Mr Jacobus Frederik le Roux (North-West University)   ()
10:47 Searching the COMPTEL Data for Sources of the Fermi-LAT 1FLE Catalog - Dr Werner Collmar (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)   ()
10:47 Simulating the Operations and Observations of BurstCube - Pi Nuessle (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)   ()
10:48 Progress of a future space Japanese mission for GRB observations: HiZ-GUNDAM - Makoto Arimoto   ()
10:49 Synergies between SKA and LSST surveys - Nomthendeleko Motha   ()
10:50 Next incremental release of the Fermi LAT source catalog - Jean Ballet   ()
10:51 The LAT view on VHE sources - Prof. Stefan Wagner (LSW, ZAH, U Heidelberg)   ()
10:52 Burst Properties of Two Magnetars: SGR J1818.0-1607 and PSR J1846.4-0258 - mete uzuner (Sabancı University)   ()
10:53 A Morphological Study and of the Light Curves of Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsars - Ms Hend Hamed (North-West University)   ()
10:54 Radio pulsations from LS I 61 303 - Diego F Torres   ()
10:55 Modelling the observability of neutrinos from quiescent blazars with KM3NeT - Bhuti Nkosi (University of the Witwatersrand, KM3NeT Group)   ()
10:56 The Fermi-LAT/GBM Mentoring Program (MP) - Giovanna Senatore   ()
10:57 Exotic dark matter searches in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the MAGIC telescopes: From secluded and branon DM to probing DM annihilation into neutrinos - Tjark Miener (IPARCOS, UCM)   ()
10:58 Properties of Coronal Mass Ejection and Type II Solar Radio Burst Associated with Sustained >100 MeV Gamma-ray Emission Event Observed by FERMI/LAT - Pertti Makela (The Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD, USA)   ()
10:59 Multi-messenger Astrophysics Master Class: Gamma Rays - Lynn Cominsky   ()
11:00
Plenary 4 - benoit Lott (LPI2B) (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Multi-wavelength emission of blazars: connecting theories with observations - Dr Haocheng Zhang (NPP Fellow/NASA GSFC)   ()
11:30 High-energy neutrino sources and their electromagnetic counterparts in the Fermi-LAT era - Simone Garrappa   ()
12:00 Physics of neutrino emission from blazars - Markus Boettcher   ()
12:15 Bridging the Gap - The first sensitive 20-200 MeV catalog - Lea Marcotulli (Yale University)   ()
12:30 A multi-wavelength spectral characterization of extreme BL Lacertae blazar candidates hidden in the 4FGL catalog. - Mireia Nievas   ()
12:45 Multi-wavelength Study of Radio Galaxies in MeerKAT fields - Dakalo Phuravhathu (North Weat University)   ()
09:00
Plenary 5 -Dr Regina Caputo (GSFC/UMCP) (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Fermi/eRosita bubbles as relics of the past activity of Sgr A* - Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang   ()
09:30 Indirect Dark Matter Searches with Fermi-LAT - Christopher Michael Karwin   ()
10:00 Gamm-ray Emission from the Sun - Dr Nat Gopalswamy (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary 6 - Makoto Arimoto (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Electromagnetic radiation from binary neutron star mergers - Tsvi Piran (The Hebrew University)   ()
11:30 Very-high-energy gamma rays from gamma-ray bursts - Sylvia Jiechen Zhu   ()
12:00 Fermi GBM - 14 years in operation - Andreas von Kienlin (MPE)   ()
12:15 Searching for GRB Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Events from the Third Gravitational Wave Observing Run with Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT - Joshua Wood (NASA/MSFC)   ()
12:30 Onset of particle acceleration during the prompt phase in GRBs - Felix Ryde   ()
12:45 Probing into emission mechanisms of GRBs using time-resolved spectra and polarization studies - Rahul Gupta (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263002, India)   ()
09:00
Excursions (until 17:30) ()
09:00
Parallel 11 - Stefan Wagner (until 10:30) ()
09:00 eROSITA on SRG - Andreas von Kienlin (MPE)   ()
09:15 The Galactic diffuse gamma-ray emission meets the PeV frontier - Pedro De la Torre Luque   ()
09:30 Implications from 3-dimensional modeling of gamma-ray signatures in the Galactic Center - Julien Dörner (Ruhr University Bochum)   ()
09:45 Investigating the nature of the 4FGL soft Galactic unassociated sources - benoit Lott (LPI2B)   ()
10:00 Gas and Cosmic-Ray Properties in the MBM 53-55 Molecular Clouds and the Pegasus Loop as Revealed by HI Line Profiles, Dust, and Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Data - Tsunefumi Mizuno   ()
10:15 _   ()
09:00
Parallel 12 (until 10:30) ()
09:00 Pulse fitting of short GRBs with known redshift detected by Fermi Gamma Ray Burst Monitor - Ms Dimakatso Jeannett Maheso (University of Johannesburg)   ()
09:15 Demystifying the Prompt Emission of Gamma Ray Bursts - Tyler Parsotan   ()
09:30 Radiation-mediated shocks in gamma-ray bursts observed by Fermi - Dr Filip Samuelsson   ()
09:45 Photons' scattering in a relativistic plasma with velocity shear: generation of high energy power-law spectra - Asaf Pe'er   ()
10:00 Implications of Cutoff observed in Fermi-LAT GRBs spectrum - Vikas Chand (Astrophysics Research Center of the Open University, Israel, Ra'anana)   ()
10:15 Studying the viewing geometry of sGRBs and central engine using prompt emission - Vidushi Sharma   ()
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Plenary 7 - Jean Ballet (until 13:00) ()
11:00 Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data using Machine Learning - Dr Michelle Lochner (University of the Western Cape/ South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)   ()
11:30 Multi-wavelength data analysis with the threeML framework - Nicola Omodei (Stanford University)   ()
11:45 The Fermi Light Curve Repository - Dan Kocevski   ()
12:00 Identifying multiwavelength counterparts to astrophysical neutrino events - Dr Marcos Santander (University of Alabama)   ()
12:15 General Coordinates Network (GCN): NASA’s Next Generation Time-Domain and Multimessenger Astronomy Alert System - Dr Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC)   ()
12:30 Astro-COLIBRI - Patrick Reichherzer   ()
12:45 easyFermi: a graphical interface for performing Fermi-LAT data analyses - Raniere Menezes (Universidade de São Paulo)   ()
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary 2 - Andrzej Zdziarski (until 15:30) ()
14:00 The Crab Nebula：an electron PeVatron or super Pevatron of cosmic rays? - Zhen Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China)   ()
14:30 Revealing time-resolved hadronic particle acceleration in the recurrent nova RS Ophuichi with H.E.S.S. - Stefan Wagner   ()
15:00 Evidence of hadronic origin of the gamma-ray emission from the nova RS Oph by the MAGIC telescopes - David Green   ()
15:15 Pursuing gamma-ray emitting pulsar wind nebulae with the Fermi-LAT - Jordan Eagle (Goddard Space Flight Center)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Parallel 1 - Christo Venter (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Joint Pulsar Studies with the FAST Radio Telescope and the Fermi LAT - Dr Pablo Saz Parkinson (University of California, Santa Cruz)   ()
16:15 _   ()
16:30 The high-energy gamma-ray emission of globular clusters - Addy Evans   ()
16:45 Origin of pulsar radio emission - Andrey Timokhin (University of Zielona Góra)   ()
17:00 _   ()
17:15 Constraining the multipolar magnetic field of millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 via NICER X-ray light curve fitting - Anu Kundu   ()
16:00
Parallel 2 - Pieter Meintjes (University of the Free State) (until 17:30) ()
16:00 X and gamma ray correlations in the SNR RX J1713.7-3946 - Jean Ballet   ()
16:15 Comparisons of astrometric GeV and TeV observations - Prof. Stefan Wagner (LSW, ZAH, U Heidelberg.)   ()
16:30 Study of maximum electron energy of sub-PeV pulsar wind nebulae by multiwavelength modelling - Jagdish Joshi   ()
16:45 Gamma-ray emission from young supernova remnants in dense, structured circumstellar environments - Robert B.   ()
17:00 Leptonic Nonthermal Emission from Supernova Remnants Evolving in the Circumstellar Magnetic Field - Iurii Sushch (North-West University, South Africa)   ()
17:15 SN 2016iyc: A Type IIb supernova arising from a low-mass progenitor - Amar Aryan   ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Parallel 3 - Hartmut Winkler (University of Johannesburg) (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Recent VERITAS Blazar Highlights - Megan Splettstoesser   ()
14:15 Studying the multi-wavelength properties of gamma-ray flaring blazars at redshift > 3 - Andrea Gokus (Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory/ECAP)   ()
14:30 Southern African Large Telescope Spectroscopy of Fermi-LAT Blazars - Eli Kasai (University of Namibia)   ()
14:45 The variety of extreme blazars in the AstroSat view - Pranjupriya Goswami (North-West University)   ()
15:00 Modeling the Multi-wavelength Polarization and Spectral Energy Distributions of Blazars - Hester Schutte   ()
15:15 Effects of non-continuous losses during inverse Compton cooling in blazars - Anton Dmytriiev (North-West University)   ()
14:00
Parallel 4 - David Buckley (South African Astronomical Observatory) (until 15:30) ()
14:00 Observation of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 with the H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS telescopes - Daniela Hadasch   ()
14:15 The unexpected multiwavelength behaviour of PSR B1259-63 during 2021 periastron passage. - Dr Masha Chernyakova (DCU)   ()
14:30 Physical implications of gamma-ray emission from Cyg X-3 - Andrzej Zdziarski   ()
14:45 Gamma-gamma absorption in gamma-ray binaries - Brian van Soelen   ()
15:00 Analysing the orbital solutions of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 with new radial velocity measurements from SALT - Ms Natalie Matchett (University of the Free State)   ()
15:15 Shaken, not stirred: test particles in binary black hole mergers. - Pieter Van der Merwe   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Parallel 5 - Marcos Santander (University of Alabama) (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Modeling TXS 0506+056 for AMEGO-X - Tiffany Lewis   ()
16:15 Searches for neutrino point sources with IceCube - Chiara Bellenghi (Technical University Munich)   ()
16:30 Modeling multiwavelength emission from the blazar TXS 0506+056 - Dr Saikat Das (Center for Gravitational Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University)   ()
16:45 Blazars beyond the "Blob" - Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC)   ()
17:00 ExHaLe-jet: Modeling blazar jets with an extended hadro-leptonic radiation code - Michael Zacharias (LSW Heidelberg)   ()
17:15 The blazar hadronic code comparison project - Natalia Żywucka   ()
16:00
Parallel 6 -Dr Andrey Timokhin (University of Zielona Góra) (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Visualizing the pulsar population using graph theory - Diego F Torres (ICREA & ICE, CSIC)   ()
16:15 Gamma-ray Eclipses and Orbital Modulation Transitions in the Candidate Redback 4FGL J1702.7-5655 - Robin Corbet   ()
16:30 Modelling the high-energy curvature radiation for the Vela pulsar using a general particle dynamics approach. - Louis du Plessis   ()
16:45 Statistical Goodness and Utility: Lessons learned from multiband pulsar light curve fits - Albertus Seyffert   ()
17:00 ENHANCEMENTS AND OPERATION OF AN ACCRETING PULSAR PROGRAM Over the last 11 years USING GBM DATA - Peter Jenke (University of Alabama in Huntsville)   ()
17:15 _   ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Poster session (until 14:15) ()
14:15
Parallel 7 - Christopher Michael Karwin (until 15:30) ()
14:15 Detection forecasts for annihilating DM in M31 and M33 galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Miltiadis Michailidis   ()
14:30 Connecting astrophysics and the LHC with anomalies - Geoff Beck   ()
14:45 The GeV Galactic Center Excess in 2022 - Dr Ilias Cholis (Oakland University)   ()
15:00 Constraining the Dark Matter annihilation cross section with a combined analysis of dwarf spheroidal galaxy observations from Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS - Tjark Miener (IPARCOS, UCM)   ()
15:15 Solar dark matter scattering constraints with the Fermi Large Area Telescope - Davide Serini (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))   ()
14:15
Parallel 8 - Nicola Omodei (Stanford University) (until 15:30) ()
14:15 Fermi LAT observation of the Moon - Francesco Loparco (Universita e INFN, Bari (IT))   ()
14:30 Study of gamma rays from the Small Solar System Bodies with the Fermi-LAT data - Mr Salvatore De Gaetano (INFN sezione di Bari, Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro")   ()
14:45 _   ()
15:00 Investigation of Coronal Mass Ejection Driven Shock in Relation to the Fermi-LAT Long-Duration Solar Flares using Data-driven Global MHD Simulations - Meng Jin   ()
15:15 Cosmic Ray Electron Transport and Radiation in the Inner Heliosphere and X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations of the Quiet Sun - Vahe' Petrosian (Stanford University)   ()
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Parallel 10 -Dr Andreas von Kienlin (MPE) (until 17:45) ()
16:00 GeV emission from a compact binary merger - Alessio Mei (Gran Sasso Science Institute)   ()
16:15 The Gravitational Wave-Gamma Ray Burst Working Group and InterPlanetary Network in O4 - Eric Burns   ()
16:30 Discovery of high-energy gamma-ray emission from a reverse shock of GRB 180720B - Makoto Arimoto   ()
16:45 Intergalactic magnetic field studies by means of the gamma-ray emission from GRB 190114C - Francesco Longo   ()
17:00 A wind environment and Lorentz factors of tens explain gamma-ray bursts X-ray plateau - Dr Hüsne Dereli Bégué (Bar-Ilan University)   ()
17:15 The Search for Extra-Galactic Magnetar Giant Flares in Fermi GBM Data - Aaron Trigg   ()
17:30 Hunting the gamma-ray emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Fermi-LAT - Francesco Longo (University and INFN Trieste)   ()
16:00
Parallel 9 - Andrew Chen (until 17:45) ()
16:00 Redshift Determination of the Hard spectrum Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Blazars detectable with CTA - Paolo GOLDONI (APC/IRFU)   ()
16:15 Investigating the temporal behaviour of simulated multi-wavelength blazar variability for coloured noise variations. - Hannes Thiersen   ()
16:30 Significant detection of Quasi-periodic Oscillation in gamma-ray blazar - Raj Prince   ()
16:45 Search for periodicities in irregularly-sampled AGNs with a time-domain approach - Héctor Rueda (IRFU - CEA Paris-Saclay)   ()
17:00 High energy emission component and population of gamma-ray emitting radio galaxies - Yasushi Fukazawa   ()
17:15 A search for Centaurus A-like features in the spectra of Fermi-LAT-detected radio galaxies - CAMERON,BOYD RULTEN (Durham University)   ()
17:30 A study of the lobes of the radio galaxy Hydra A using MeerKAT observations - Mika Naidoo   ()
17:30 --- Free Time ---
18:30
Banquet at the Carnivore (until 21:00) ()
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Plenary 8 - Judy Racusin (NASA/GSFC) (until 16:00) ()
14:00 Future Science enabled by COSI: the Compton Spectrometer and Imager - Michela Negro   ()
14:30 The Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM) - Cori Fletcher   ()
14:45 Polarimetry of gamma rays converting to e+e- pairs: performance of silicon strip detectors-based telescopes - Denis Robert Leon Bernard (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))   ()
15:00 THE ASTRI MINI-ARRAY AT THE OBSERVATORIO DEL TEIDE - Prof. Patrizia Caraveo (INAF-IASF Milano)   ()
15:15 BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gamma-Ray Counterparts to Gravitational Waves - Pi Nuessle (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)   ()
15:30 AMEGO-X Mission Overview - Regina Caputo (NASA/GSFC)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee Break ---
16:30
Plenary 9 - Soebur Razzaque (until 17:00) ()
16:30 The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Perspectives - Francesco Longo   ()
16:45 The Southern Wide field-of-view Gamma-ray Observatory - Francesco Longo   ()
17:00
Closing - Soebur Razzaque (until 17:30) ()
17:00 Equity and diversity in science - Debra Meyer (University of Johannesburg)   ()
17:15 Closing remarks - Soebur Razzaque   ()