Cherenkov Telescope Array Australia :
Consortium Workshop 7
University of Adelaide, North Terrace campus : 4 - 6 December 2018
Programme
Remote connection via Zoom: https://adelaide.zoom.us/j/801812412
Tuesday 4 December:
- 08:45 Coffee/tea
- 09:00 CTA status and opportunities for Australia - Gavin Rowell (U. Adel.)
- 09:30 CTA Observatory - James Murray (AAL)
- 09:45 Propagation and radiation of accelerated particles in SNRs with clumpy structure - Silvia Celli (MPIK, Germany)
- 10:15 Morning tea
- 10:30 The Gamma-Ray -- Radio connection - Phil Edwards (CSIRO - CASS)
- 11:00 CTA and MWL Linkages - Stefan Wagner (LSW, Heidelberg)
- 11:30 Gamma Ray Emission from Centaurus A - Geoff Bicknell (ANU)
- 12:00 MWA/HESS + Magellanic SNRs - Miroslav Filipovic (WSU)
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:00 Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from UTMOST - Vivek Gupta (Swinburne)
- 13:30 The discovery of Fast radio bursts with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder - Shivani Bhandari (Swinburne) via zoom
- 14:00 Update on studies of high energy air showers using CTA - Jose Bellido (U. Adel)
- 14:30 Afternoon tea
- 14:45 -- Discussion 1 -- (Future CTA Funding, CoE ideas..) --
- 15:15 The Mopra CO Survey (is finally finished) - Catherine Braiding (UNSW, TeamMopra)
- 15:45 Radio and mm studies of the molecular ISM - Maria Cunningham (UNSW)
- 16:15 CTA requirement for Optical coverage - Elena Lindfors (Turku) - via zoom
- 16:45 Optical Polarimetry to Support CTA Science - Jeremy Bailey (UNSW)
- 17:15 -- Discussion 2 --
- 18:15 back to hotels...
- 19:00 Dinner (British Hotel/Pub, map)
Wednesday 5 December:
- 08:45 Coffee/tea
- 09:00 Neutrino astronomy with IceCube, and multi-messenger observations of the blazar TXS 0506+056 - Gary Hill (U. Adel)
- 09:30 KM3NeT: synergies with CTA - Clancy James (Curtin)
- 10:00 Morning tea
- 10:15 CTA dark matter discovery prospects by GAMBIT - Csaba Balazs (Monash)
- 10:45 Recent results on supersymmetric dark matter - Martin White (U. Adel)
- 11:15 High Energy Phenomenology of the Galactic Centre in Anticipation of the Next Generation of Gamma-ray Detectors - Roland Crocker (ANU)
- 11:45 Evidence for Filamentary Collapse of the ``Nessie'' Infrared Dark Cloud - David Allingham (U. Newcastle)
- 12:15 Lunch
- 13:00 Mopra CO CMZ survey and comparisons with HESS - Rebecca Blackwell (U. Adel)
- 13:30 Clumps towards SNRs and the inhomogenous ISM: Updates from the Nagoya SNR workshop - Nigel Maxted (UNSW)
- 14:00 CO Studies of Galactic / Magellanic Gamma-ray SNRs using ALMA - Hidetoshi Sano (U. Nagoya)
- 14:30 Afternoon Tea
- 14:45 Future of CO surveys in the era of CTA - Graeme Wong (WSU)
- 15:15 LMC SNRs in the era of CTA - Fabien Voisin (U. Adel)
- 15:45 -- Discussion 3 --
- 16:15 Workshop wrap-up and close
- CTA School - Sabrina Einecke (U. Adel)
- 16:30 Welcome and Overview of the CTA School
- 16:35 Introduction to Gamma-Ray Analysis of CTA Data
- 17:00 Laptop preparations...
- 19:00 Dinner (TBA)
Thursday 6 December (CTA School):
- 09:00 Coffee/tea
- 09.15 Hands-on session
- 10:15 Morning tea
- 10:30 Hands-on session
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:00 Hands-on session
- 14:30 Afternoon tea
- 14:45 -- School wrap-up --
- approx. 15:00 CTA School close