Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments #6

from Wednesday 8 October 2008 (08:00) to Friday 10 October 2008 (20:00)
Padova

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
8 Oct 2008
9 Oct 2008
10 Oct 2008
AM
09:00
Instruments 2 (until 11:00) (Centro Congressi Pietro d'Abano)
10:00 Status and recent results of MAGIC - Dr Javier Rico (ICREA/IFAE)  
10:30 VERITAS - Status and results of the 2007/2008 season - Dr Matthias Beilicke (Washington University)  
11:00 --- coffee break ---
11:30
Galactic Sources 1 (until 12:50)
11:30 The time evolution of pulsar wind nebulae in the GeV-TeV domain - Prof. Ocker Cornelis de Jager (North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa)  
11:50 Massive stars in colliding wind systems: the high-energy gamma-ray perspective - Dr Anita Reimer (Stanford University)  
12:10 Supernova remnants interact with molecular clouds and reveal accelerated hadrons - Fabrice Feinstein (Université Montpellier 2)  
12:30 The GeV to TeV view of SNR IC443: predictions for GLAST - Dr Ana Yaiza Rodriguez Marrero (IEEC-CSIC)  
09:00
Instruments 3 (until 11:00)
09:00 The hunt for cosmic sources with IceCube - Elisa Bernardini (DESY)  
11:00 --- coffie break ---
11:30
GRB, esotic and future 1 (until 12:50)
11:50 GRB observations with new generation IACTs in the GLAST era - Dr Stefano Covino (INAF / Brera)  
12:30 Exploring Quantum Gravity with Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Instruments - Prospects and Limitations - Dr Robert Wagner (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München)  
PM
14:30
Instruments 1 (until 16:30) (Aula A - Physics Dept. - Padova University)
15:50 GeV - TeV Multiwavelength Opportunities - David Thompson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, on behalf of the Fermi LAT collaboration)  
12:50 --- lunch ---
14:30
Galactic Sources 2 (until 15:40)
14:45 Detection of pulsed gamma rays above 25 GeV from the Crab Pulsar with the MAGIC Telescope - Michael Rissi (ETH Zuerich, CH-8093 Switzerland) Maxim Shayduk (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, D-80805 Muenchen)  
15:05 Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars - Dr Pablo Saz Parkinson (University of California, Santa Cruz)  
15:40
Extragalactic Sources 1 (until 16:20)
16:00 Formation of hard VHE gamma-ray spectra of blazars due to internal photon-photon absorption - Dmitry Khangulyan (MPI f. Kernphysik, Heidelberg)  
16:20 --- coffee break ---
16:50
Extragalactic Sources 2 (until 18:30)
16:50 The blazar sequence: prospects for GeV and TeV observations - Dr Fabrizio Tavecchio (INAF)  
17:20 Gamma ray emission and particle acceleration in galaxy clusters - Dr Gianfranco Brunetti (INAF-IRA, Bologna)  
18:10 Constraints on Extragalactic Background Light from Cherenkov telescopes: status and perspectives for the next 5 years - Daniel Mazin (IFAE, Barcelona)  
20:30 --- social dinner at "La Piroga", Selvazzano Dentro - Padova ---
12:50 --- lunch ---
14:30
GRB, esotic and future 2 (until 16:30)
15:00 GRIPS: Gamma-Ray Burst Investigation via Polarimetry and Spectroscopy - Dr Kanbach Gottfried (MPE, Garching)  
15:50 Indirect search for Dark Matter with Fermi from the Galactic Center - Dr Vincenzo Vitale (Dip. Fisica Roma 2)  
16:10 Cosmic Ray Nuclei in the Galaxy and their secondary products: a new comprehensive model. - Dr Dario Grasso (INFN, Pisa)  
16:30 --- break ---
17:00
GRB, esotic and future 3 (until 17:40)
17:00 Acceleration of UHE Protons at Cluster Accretion Shocks and Related Non-thermal Emission - Giulia Vannoni (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg)  
17:20 On the level of the cosmic ray sea flux. - Dr Sabrina Casanova (Max Planck fuer Kernphysik)  
17:40 --- concluding remarks ---