Name: Workshop on a wide field-of-view Southern Hemisphere TeV gamma ray observatory
Start: 2016-11-10T08:00:00-06:00
End: 2016-11-12T18:00:00-06:00
Location: Hotel NH

Workshop on a wide field-of-view Southern Hemisphere TeV gamma ray observatory

from Thursday, 10 November 2016 (08:00) to Saturday, 12 November 2016 (18:00)

Monday, 7 November 2016
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Wednesday, 9 November 2016
Thursday, 10 November 2016

08:00 Registration
Registration
08:00 - 08:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
08:30
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

08:30 Welcome to Puebla and HAWC - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

08:40 Goals of the Workshop - Miguel Mostafa (Penn State)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

09:00 Recent results from H.E.S.S. - Fabian Schüssler (CEA/Irfu)

09:25 Interactions between FACT and HAWC - Daniela Dorner (Universität Würzburg)

09:50 Performance of HAWC in First Data - John Pretz (Penn State)

10:10 Interaction between HAWC and VERITAS - Udara Abeysekara (University of Utah)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Salón Estrellas
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

11:00 Recent HAWC results - Colas Rivière (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)

11:25 The Southern Fermi Bubble and Other Very Extended Emission Structures with the Southern Gamma-Ray Survey Observatory - Hugo Ayala (Michigan Technological University)

11:45 Binary Source Opportunities for a Southern Gamma-ray Observatory - Chad Brisbois (Michigan Tech)

11:55 Beyond the Standard Model with Wide-field Observatories - J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:20 The TAIGA-HiSCORE array for Gamma Astronomy beyond 10 TeV - Ralf Wischnewski (DESY)
12:30 Lunch on Your Own
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 - 14:00
Room: El Zócalo
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

14:00 The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Plans - David Williams (UC Santa Cruz)

14:30 ALTO concept and design choices - Michael Punch (LnU & APC/CNRS-IN2P3)

15:00 Simulation study for the proposed wide field-of-view gamma-ray detector array ALTO - Satyendra Thoudam (Department of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Salón Estrellas
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

16:00 LATTES: a next generation gamma-ray detector concept - Ruben Conceição (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)

16:30 ALPACA Project : 100 TeV Gamma-ray Observation in the Southern Sky - Kazumasa KAWATA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

17:00 A low-cost wide field-of-view Cherenkov Telescope - Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen University)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 21:00
Room: El Zócalo
Friday, 11 November 2016
08:30 Design Considerations and Simulations
Design Considerations and Simulations
08:30 - 10:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

08:30 Fundamental drivers for the design of a ground-particle based gamma ray observatory - Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institute für Kerphysik)

09:00 Astrophysical motivations for the construction of a wide FoV gamma-ray observatory in the southern hemisphere - Ruben Lopez-Coto (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

09:30 Semi-Analytic Simulation for a "HAWC-like" Detector - Andrew Smith (University of Maryland, College Park)

10:00 Extreme Altitude All-Sky Observatories - Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Salón Estrellas
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

11:00 Antares Modules In a Gamma-ray Observatory (AMIGO) - Fabian Schüssler (CEA/Irfu)

11:20 A muon detector using silicon based photo sensors (SiPMs) - Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen University)

11:40 Southern observatory costing and logistics - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

12:00 Modern Timing Concepts for Astroparticle Physics - Ralf Wischnewski (DESY)

12:15 Using Non-Imaging Concentrators to Reduce the Cost of WCDs - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:30 Lunch on Your Own
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 - 14:00
Room: El Zócalo
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

14:00 The development of HAWC at Sierra Negra - Alberto Carramiñana (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE)) Ibrahim Torres (INAOE)

14:30 Candidate sites in Argentina for air-shower particle detectors at high altitudes - Adrian C. Rovero (Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA))

15:00 Yachay Tech and Gamma Ray Astronomy - Hisakazu Minakata (Yachay Tech)

15:25 Brief Outline of HAWC DAQ - John Pretz (Penn State)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Salón Estrellas

16:00

16:00 - 17:30
Room: Salón Estrellas

19:00 Dinner on Your Own
Dinner on Your Own
19:00 - 21:00
Room: El Zócalo
Saturday, 12 November 2016

08:00 Visit to the HAWC Site
Visit to the HAWC Site
08:00 - 15:00
Room: Lobby