Scientific Program

The School Program can be downloaded here as a PDF file.

Opening

• Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (Chair of the SPSAS-HighAstro)
• Laerte Sodre (Director of IAG-USP)

Mini-Course Lectures

The school SPSAS-HighAstro will firstly contain Mini-Courses (Lectures) of 3 hours each that will cover six fundamental topics.

• Lecture I: Non-thermal radiation magneto-hydrodynamics (MHD) in gamma-ray sources (supernova remnants, pulsar winds, black holes, and jets): Alexander Tchekhovskoy (University of California - Berkeley, USA) --- PDF PART 1, --- PDF PARTS 2 and 3
• Lecture II: Cosmic ray propagation: Vladimir Ptuskin (IZMIRAN - Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) --- PDF LINK
• Lecture III: Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission From Celestial Objects measured with Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes: Razmik Mirzoyan (Max Planck Institute for Physics - Munich, Germany) --- PDF PART 1, --- PDF PART 2
• Lecture IV: Gamma-Ray data analysis with Cherenkov Telescopes: Gernot Maier (DESY Zeuthen, Germany) --- PDF LINK
• Lecturer V: Radiation processes in high energy astrophysics: Roberto Aloisio (INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy) --- PDF LINK
• Lecturer VI: Cosmic ray acceleration: Pasquale Blasi (INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy) --- PDF PART 1, --- PDF PART 2

Key Talks

SPSAS-HighAstro will secondly include Review Lectures (Key Talks) of 1.30 hours each, to complement the fundamental topics discussed in the mini-course lectures.

• Key Talk 1: Space versus Ground Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy with FERMI and CTA: Julie McEnery (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA) --- PPTX LINK
• Key Talk 2: Unveiling the Gamma-Ray Universe with the CTA: the Key Science Program: Stefano Vercellone (INAF - IASF Palermo Observatory, Italy) --- PDF LINK
• Key Talk 3: Particle Diffusion in Turbulent Media: Huirong Yan (DESY Zeuthen, University of Potsdam, Germany) --- PDF LINK
• Key Talk 4: Particle Acceleration by Magnetic Reconnection: Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino (IAG - USP, Brazil) --- PDF LINK

Invited Talks

SPSAS-HighAstro will thirdly include Invited Talks, each lasting from 45 min to 1 hour. These will focus on the CTA project and the science that will be developed for the CTA, as well as other aspects of high-energy astrophysics, non-thermal processes, and multi-messengers in the Universe.

• Invited Talk 1: ASTRI Mini-Array - a CTA Precursor: Giovanni Pareschi (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy)
• Invited Talk 2: FAPESP: Science in Sao Paulo and Brazil: Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (FAPESP, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Invited Talk 3: Brazilian Participation in the CTA: Vitor de Souza (IFSC - USP, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Invited Talk 4: Active Galactic Nuclei seen with Gamma-Rays: Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, LAFEX, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Invited Talk 5: The different ways of searching for Dark Matter: Fabio Iocco (ICTP - SAIFR, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Invited Talk 6: High Energy Messengers of the Non-thermal Universe - from X- and gamma-rays to gravitational waves: Ricardo Sturani (IIP - UFRN, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Invited Talk 7: AUGER Project: Ronald C. Shellard (CBPF, Brazil) --- PDF LINK

Hands-On Activities

Finally, there will be Hands-On Activities during the afternoon sessions for providing the participants with practical training. Students will perform theoretical exercises, and simulations of the detection and treatment of gamma-ray data using the tools employed in the FERMI and CTA collaborations, as well as numerical simulations of MHD processes in high-energy astrophysical sources. The coordinators of these hands-on activities will be:

• Hands-On I: Alexander Tchekhovskoy (University of California - Berkeley, USA) --- GitHub HARMPI Exercises
• Hands-On II: Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, Brazil) --- PDF LINK
• Hands-On III: Rodrigo Nemmen (IAG - USP, Brazil) --- GitHub Tutorial for Fermi LAT Analysis
• Hands-On IV: Rodrigo Nemmen (IAG - USP, Brazil)
• Hands-On V: Pasquale Blasi (INAF - Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy) --- Exercises: Particle Acceleration at Shocks
  Razmik Mirzoyan (Max Planck Institute for Physics, Germany) --- Exercise: Can a human eye see an air shower in Cherenkov light?
  Stefano Vercellone (INAF - IASF Palermo, Italy) --- CTA Observational Proposal Template TEX, Proposal Template PDF
• Hands-On VI: Grzegorz Kowal (EACH - USP & UnicSul, Brazil) --- GitHub Tutorial for Particle Acceleration

Two of the Hands-On activities: II and V, will take place in the same Lecture Hall - Auditorium G.

The other four Hands-On activities: I, III, IV and VI, will take place in 4 computer laboratories after an introduction in the Lecture Hall. The participants will be divided into 4 groups, each assigned to one of the computer room. The following persons will be present as monitors in the computer rooms to invigilate the activities:

• Paramita Barai, Luis Kadowaki, Pankaj Kushwaha, Chandra Singh (IAG - USP, Brazil)

Posters

SPSAS-HighAstro will include poster sessions with the presentation of the works of the participating students. Poster abstracts can be submitted during Registration.

Visit

There will be technical visits on Saturday (27 May 2017) to the laboratories LNLS (Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratoy) and INPE (National Institute of Space Research). Further details will be posted soon.

Certificate

Participants will receive a certificate from the Universidade de São Paulo/IAG-USP acknowledging their participation in the SPSAS-HighAstro School, provided that they attend all the sessions of the program described above through all the days.