Cerencov Telescope Array Symposium
The first symposium will focus on the novel investigations CTA will bring to the field and its synergies with other wavebands and messengers.
It will also cover instrument characteristics, analysis tools and opportunities for guest investigators and how coordinated observations with CTA will have a significant impact on the exciting new era of multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics.
Bologna, Teatro Duse, Via Cartoleria 42, Bologna
Monday 6 May
12:30 - 14:00 Welcome light lunch
Welcome and Introduction to CTA
14:00 - 14:25 Welcome - Federico Ferrini (MD CTAO), Francesco Raphaël Frieri (DG Regione ER)
14:25 – 15:15 CTA - Setting the stage - Werner Hofmann
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee break
CTA Status and Context
15:45 – 16:20 CTAO Project status (including operations) - Wolfgang Wild
16:20 – 17:00 CTA in the context of astrophysics in the 2020s - Roger Blandford
Tuesday 7 May
Current Gamma-Ray Telescopes
09:00 – 09:30 Space-based gamma-ray detectors - Julie McEnery
09:30 – 10:00 Imaging Array Cherenkov Telescopes - Jamie Holder
10:00 - 10:30 Large field of view ground-based detectors - Petra Hüntemeyer
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
The key science projects of CTA and Multiwavelength / Multi-Messenger astronomy
11:00 – 11:28 Introduction to Key Science Projects and Particle acceleration in CTA - Rene Ong
11:28 – 11: 50 New physics in Key Science Projects - Subir Sarkar
11:50 – 12:25 MeV / GeV neutrinos - Takaaki Kajita
12:25 – 13:00 TeV / PeV neutrinos - Francis Halzen
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch break
Multiwavelength and Multi-messenger observations and their relation to CTA
14:30 – 15:00 Gravitational wave astronomy - Rai Weiss
15:00 – 15:30 Radio astronomy - Robert Laing
15:30 – 16:00 Optical and infrared astronomy - Matthias Steinmetz
16:00 – 16:30 Millimeter and sub-millimeter astronomy - Reinhard Genzel
16:30 – 17:00 X-ray astronomy - Luigi Piro
18:00 – 20:00 Poster session at Palazzo Re Enzo
20:00 Gala Dinner
Wednesday 8 May
Science topic: Particle acceleration
09:00 – 09:25 Simulations and laboratory experiments - Federico Fiuza
09:25 – 09:50 Theory and astrophysical observations - Anne Decourchelle
09:50 – 10:10 Particle acceleration by kinetic instabilities in accretion disks – Mario Riquelme
10:10 – 10:30 Experimental analogue of UHECR transport with a laser-produced turbulent magnetized plasma – Gianluca Gregori
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
Science topic: Compact objects and relativistic outflows I
11:00 – 11:25 Pulsars and their nebulae - Anatoky Spitkovsky
11:25 – 11:50 Accreting compact objects - Chris Done
11:50 – 12:15 Gamma-ray bursts - Giancarlo Ghirlanda
12:15 – 12:28 The microquasars of the Cygnus region: gamma-ray emission and perspectives with CTA – Giovanni Piano
12:28 – 12:41 3D simulations of pulsar bow shock nebulae – Barbara Olmi
12:41 - 12:54 Hot topic - tbd
12:54 – 14:20 Lunch break
Science topic: Compact objects and relativistic outflows II
14:20 – 14:45 Non-thermal emission from active galaxies - Gabriele Ghisellini
14:45 – 15:10 Compact objects and Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays - Andrew Taylor
15:10 – 15:25 Neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 - Silke Britzen
15:25 – 15:40 Locating the blazar zone - Elina Lindfors
15:40 – 15:55 VLBI location of the sites of high-energy emission production in AGN - Anton Zensus
15:55 – 16:10 The high-energy view of the outflow from the Galactic Center - Gabriele Ponti
16:10 – 16:40 Coffee break
Science topic: Star-forming systems
16:40 – 17:05 Star-forming system with focus on Galactic Center - Roland Crocker
17:05 – 17:30 Role of cosmic rays in galaxy evolution - Volker Springel
17:30 – 17:45 Cosmic Ray Production to above 100 PeV in Compact Galactic Star Clusters - Don Ellison
17:45 – 18:00 High-mass protostellar jets: a new class of gamma-ray sources - Anabella Araudo
Thursday 9 May
Science topic: Gamma rays as cosmic probes and fundamental physics
09:00 – 09:25 Probing intergalactic magnetic fields - Andrii Neronov
09:25 – 09:50 Constraining the Extragalactic Background Light - Marco Ajello
09:50 – 10:10 Testing cosmology and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Manuel Meyer
10:10 – 10:30 Testing primordial axion-driven cosmic magnetogenisis with CTA - Francesco Miniati
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:40 Dark matter and Lorentz Invariance Violation - John Ellis
Science topic: Other MM/MWL facilities
11:40 – 12:00 Stellar intensity interferometry measurements with CTA - Michael Daniel
12:00 – 12:20 Event Horizon Telescope - Maciek Wielgus
12:20 – 12:40 Neutrino telescopes in the Mediterranean Sea: the present and the future - Maurizio Spurio
12:40 – 13:00 How can CTA perform best in the changing gravitational wave follow-up landscape? - Imre Bartos
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:00 The ESO programme – Xavier Barcons
Summary and outlook
15:00 – 15:25 Rapporteur – Catherine Cesarsky
Where do we go from here?