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)
Hotel NH (Salón Estrellas)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
10 Nov 2016
11 Nov 2016
12 Nov 2016
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
08:30
Welcome and Introductions (until 09:00) (Salón Estrellas)
08:30 Welcome to Puebla and HAWC - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salón Estrellas)
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08:40 Goals of the Workshop - Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State)   (Salón Estrellas)
09:00
Results from Current Experiments - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu) (until 10:30) (Salón Estrellas)
09:00 Recent results from H.E.S.S. - Dr Fabian Schüssler (CEA/Irfu)   (Salón Estrellas)
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09:25 Interactions between FACT and HAWC - Dr Daniela Dorner (Universität Würzburg)   (Salón Estrellas)
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09:50 Performance of HAWC in First Data - John Pretz (Penn State)   (Salón Estrellas)
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10:10 Interaction between HAWC and VERITAS - Dr Udara Abeysekara (University of Utah)   (Salón Estrellas)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Wide FOV Gamma Ray Science -Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State) (until 12:30) (Salón Estrellas)
11:00 Recent HAWC results - Colas Rivière (Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA)   (Salón Estrellas)
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11:25 The Southern Fermi Bubble and Other Very Extended Emission Structures with the Southern Gamma-Ray Survey Observatory - Mr Hugo Ayala (Michigan Technological University)   (Salón Estrellas)
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11:45 Binary Source Opportunities for a Southern Gamma-ray Observatory - Mr Chad Brisbois (Michigan Tech)   (Salón Estrellas)
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11:55 Beyond the Standard Model with Wide-field Observatories - Dr J. Patrick Harding (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   (Salón Estrellas)
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12:20 The TAIGA-HiSCORE array for Gamma Astronomy beyond 10 TeV - Dr Ralf Wischnewski (DESY)   (Salón Estrellas)
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08:30
Motivation for a Wide-FOV Observatory -Prof. Miguel Mostafa (Penn State) (until 10:30) (Salón Estrellas)
08:30 Fundamental drivers for the design of a ground-particle based gamma ray observatory - Dr Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institute für Kerphysik)   (Salón Estrellas)
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09:00 Astrophysical motivations for the construction of a wide FoV gamma-ray observatory in the southern hemisphere - Dr Ruben Lopez-Coto (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)   (Salón Estrellas)
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09:30 Semi-Analytic Simulation for a "HAWC-like" Detector - Andrew Smith (University of Maryland, College Park)   (Salón Estrellas)
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10:00 Extreme Altitude All-Sky Observatories - Dr Gus Sinnis (Los Alamos National Laboratory)   (Salón Estrellas)
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10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00
Hardware - Andrew Smith (University of Maryland, College Park) (until 12:30) (Salón Estrellas)
11:00 Antares Modules In a Gamma-ray Observatory (AMIGO) - Dr Fabian Schüssler (CEA/Irfu)   (Salón Estrellas)
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11:20 A muon detector using silicon based photo sensors (SiPMs) - Prof. Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen University)   (Salón Estrellas)
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11:40 Southern observatory costing and logistics - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)   (Salón Estrellas)
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12:00 Modern Timing Concepts for Astroparticle Physics - Dr Ralf Wischnewski (DESY)   (Salón Estrellas)
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12:15 Using Non-Imaging Concentrators to Reduce the Cost of WCDs - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Salón Estrellas)
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08:00 --- Visit to the HAWC Site ---
PM
12:30 --- Lunch on Your Own ---
14:00
Future Detectors - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison) (until 15:30) (Salón Estrellas)
14:00 The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Plans - David Williams (UC Santa Cruz)   (Salón Estrellas)
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14:30 ALTO concept and design choices - Dr Michael Punch (LnU & APC/CNRS-IN2P3)   (Salón Estrellas)
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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)   (Salón Estrellas)
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15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Future Detectors - Tom Weisgarber (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu) (until 17:30) (Salón Estrellas)
16:00 LATTES: a next generation gamma-ray detector concept - Dr Ruben Conceição (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)   (Salón Estrellas)
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16:30 ALPACA Project : 100 TeV Gamma-ray Observation in the Southern Sky - Dr Kazumasa KAWATA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)   (Salón Estrellas)
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17:00 A low-cost wide field-of-view Cherenkov Telescope - Prof. Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen University)   (Salón Estrellas)
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19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:30 --- Lunch on Your Own ---
14:00
Site - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu) (until 15:30) (Salón Estrellas)
14:00 The development of HAWC at Sierra Negra - Dr Ibrahim Torres (INAOE) Dr Alberto Carramiñana (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE))   (Salón Estrellas)
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14:30 Candidate sites in Argentina for air-shower particle detectors at high altitudes - Dr Adrian C. Rovero (Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio (IAFE, CONICET-UBA))   (Salón Estrellas)
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15:00 Yachay Tech and Gamma Ray Astronomy - Prof. Hisakazu Minakata (Yachay Tech)   (Salón Estrellas)
15:25 Brief Outline of HAWC DAQ - John Pretz (Penn State)   (Salón Estrellas)
15:30 --- Coffee Break ---
16:00
Funding, Preparation, General Discussion (until 17:30) (Salón Estrellas)
19:00 --- Dinner on Your Own ---