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, November 10, 2016 (8:00 AM) to Saturday, November 12, 2016 (6:00 PM)

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

8:00 AM Registration
Registration
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Salón Estrellas
8:30 AM Welcome and Introductions
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

8:30 AM Welcome to Puebla and HAWC - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

8:40 AM Goals of the Workshop - Miguel Mostafa (Penn State)
9:00 AM Results from Current Experiments
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

9:00 AM Recent results from H.E.S.S. - Fabian Schüssler (CEA/Irfu)

9:25 AM Interactions between FACT and HAWC - Daniela Dorner (Universität Würzburg)

9:50 AM Performance of HAWC in First Data - John Pretz (Penn State)

10:10 AM Interaction between HAWC and VERITAS - Udara Abeysekara (University of Utah)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Salón Estrellas
11:00 AM Wide FOV Gamma Ray Science
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:20 PM The TAIGA-HiSCORE array for Gamma Astronomy beyond 10 TeV - Ralf Wischnewski (DESY)
12:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: El Zócalo
2:00 PM Future Detectors
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

2:00 PM The Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Plans - David Williams (UC Santa Cruz)

2:30 PM ALTO concept and design choices - Michael Punch (LnU & APC/CNRS-IN2P3)

3:00 PM 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)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas
4:00 PM Future Detectors
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

4:00 PM LATTES: a next generation gamma-ray detector concept - Ruben Conceição (LIP - Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas)

4:30 PM ALPACA Project : 100 TeV Gamma-ray Observation in the Southern Sky - Kazumasa KAWATA (ICRR, University of Tokyo)

5:00 PM A low-cost wide field-of-view Cherenkov Telescope - Thomas Bretz (RWTH Aachen University)
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: El Zócalo
Friday, November 11, 2016
8:30 AM Motivation for a Wide-FOV Observatory: Design Considerations and Simulations
Design Considerations and Simulations
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

8:30 AM Fundamental drivers for the design of a ground-particle based gamma ray observatory - Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institute für Kerphysik)

9:00 AM 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)

9:30 AM Semi-Analytic Simulation for a "HAWC-like" Detector - Andrew Smith (University of Maryland, College Park)

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

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

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

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

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

12:15 PM Using Non-Imaging Concentrators to Reduce the Cost of WCDs - Segev BenZvi (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)
12:30 PM Lunch on Your Own
Lunch on Your Own
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: El Zócalo
2:00 PM Site
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas
Contributions

2:00 PM The development of HAWC at Sierra Negra - Alberto Carramiñana (Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE)) Ibrahim Torres (INAOE)

2:30 PM 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))

3:00 PM Yachay Tech and Gamma Ray Astronomy - Hisakazu Minakata (Yachay Tech)

3:25 PM Brief Outline of HAWC DAQ - John Pretz (Penn State)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas

4:00 PM Funding, Preparation, General Discussion

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Salón Estrellas

7:00 PM Dinner on Your Own
Dinner on Your Own
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: El Zócalo
Saturday, November 12, 2016

8:00 AM Visit to the HAWC Site
Visit to the HAWC Site
8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lobby

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