Name: 7th International Fermi Symposium
Start: 2017-10-15T17:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-10-20T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Congress Center Garmisch-Partenkirchen

7th International Fermi Symposium

from Sunday, October 15, 2017 (5:00 PM) to Friday, October 20, 2017 (3:00 PM)

Monday, October 9, 2017
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Friday, October 13, 2017
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Sunday, October 15, 2017

5:00 PM Start of Registration
Start of Registration
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Monday, October 16, 2017
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Opening - Elizabeth Hays (NASA GSFC)

9:10 AM Welcome by NASA HQ - Stefan Immler (NASA Headquarters)

9:20 AM Remembering Neil Gehrels - John Nousek (Penn State University)

9:40 AM Status of Fermi - Elizabeth Hays (NASA GSFC)
10:10 AM Break
Break
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
10:40 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM Pulsars: implications from Fermi LAT observations and future prospects - Lucas Guillemot (LPC2E and Universite d'Orleans)

11:10 AM Order parameters for the high-energy spectra of pulsars - Diego Torres (ICREA & Institute of Space Sciences)

11:25 AM The first detection of a pulsar with the Atacama Large Millimetre Array - Bronislaw Rudak (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:40 AM Understanding the Pulsar High Energy Emission: Macroscopic and Kinetic Models vs. Fermi Data - Constantinos Kalapotharakos (NASA GSFC, UMCP)

11:55 AM MeV Pulsars: Modeling Spectra and Polarization - Alice Harding (NASA Goddard)
12:10 PM Catered Lunch
Catered Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM I
I
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

1:30 PM The Gamma-Ray Lobes of Centaurus A - Jeff Magill (UMD / GSFC)

1:45 PM VLBI and gamma-ray studies of TANAMI radio galaxies - Roberto Angioni (Max Planck Institute for Radioastronomy)

2:00 PM RoboPol: the optical polarisation of gamma-ray-loud and gamma-ray-quiet blazars - Emmanouil Angelakis

2:15 PM High-resolution polarization imaging of the Fermi blazars - Bindu Rani (NASA GSFC)

2:30 PM SALT ToO spectropolarimetry observations of blazars and self-consistent SED and spectropolarimetry modeling of blazars - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)

2:45 PM Gamma-rays in the radio galaxy 3C 84: A complex situation - Bindu Rani (NASA GSFC)

3:00 PM Magnetospheric Gamma-Ray Emission in AGN - Frank Rieger

3:15 PM Constraints on proton synchrotron origin of VHE gamma-rays from the extended jet of AP Librae - Nayantara Gupta (Raman Research Institute)
Pulsars II
Pulsars II
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

1:30 PM The Search for Millisecond Pulsars - Colin Clark (University of Manchester)

2:00 PM On the highest energy emission from millisecond pulsars - Pablo Saz Parkinson (The University of Hong Kong)

2:15 PM Hunting for the missing spiders - Albert Kong (National Tsing Hua University)

2:30 PM Inductive spikes from the Crab Nebula - John Kirk (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik)

2:45 PM HAWC TeV gamma-ray observations of two extended nebulae surrounding Geminga and PSR B0656+14 constrain the origin of the local positron flux - Ruben López-Coto (Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik)

3:00 PM Observing and modeling the gamma-ray emission from pulsar/pulsar wind nebula complex PSR J0205+6449/3C 58 - JIAN LI (Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC))

3:15 PM An Einstein@home blind search for gamma-ray pulsars - Jason WU (MPIfR)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
5:00 PM II
II
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

5:00 PM The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources (3FHL) - David Thompson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

5:15 PM Preliminary results from the fourth catalog of AGN Detected by the Fermi-LAT - Dario Gasparrini (SSDC & INFN PG)

5:30 PM MAGIC observations of extreme blazars: Toward clarifying the blazar sequence - Vandad Fallah Ramazani (University of Turku, Tuorla Observatory)

5:45 PM Gamma-ray Blazars at the Dawn of the Universe - Vaidehi Sharan Paliya (Clemson University)

6:00 PM On the radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission connection in Fermi blazars. - Rocco Lico (IRA/INAF and UniBO)

6:15 PM MCMC estimation of SED model parameters using multi- wavelength data of the blazar Mrk 421 - Yurika Yamada (Hiroshima University)
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

5:00 PM Galactic center GeV excess: status and interpretations - Dmitry Malyshev (ECAP)

5:30 PM Modeling the Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess - Tim Linden

6:00 PM Is the Galactic Centre Excess due to the X-shaped stellar over-density in the Galactic bulge? - Chris Gordon (University of Canterbury)

6:15 PM Monitoring the Galactic Center with MAGIC for more than 5 years - Christian Fruck (Max-Planck-Institut für Physik)
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
8:30 AM Gravitational Waves
Gravitational Waves
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Advanced LIGO/Virgo - Alexander Nitz (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

9:00 AM GBM results in the GW Era - Eric Burns (NASA GSFC/USRA)

9:30 AM INTEGRAL follow-up of the gravitational wave events - Volodymyr Savchenko (University of Geneva)

9:45 AM Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Events with the Fermi-LAT. Current Status and Prospects for the Future - Nicola Omodei

10:00 AM Off-axis short GRBs from structured jets as counterparts to GW events - Adithan Kathirgamaraju (Purdue University)

10:15 AM Analysing the light curve and spectra of the first detected kilonova - Anders Jerkstrand (MPI Astrophysik)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Binaries
Binaries
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Recent multi-wavelength studies of gamma-ray binary hosting Be star - Jumpei Takata

11:30 AM Fermi acceleration under control: $\eta$ Carinae - Matteo Balbo (University of Geneva)

11:45 AM Gamma ray emission from Cyg X-3 and Cyg X-1 - Andrzej Zdziarski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw)

12:00 PM Towards the emerging source class of γ-ray emitting colliding-wind binary systems - Klaus Reitberger (Leopold-Franzens Universität Innsbruck)

12:15 PM The population of gamma-ray binaries - Guillaume Dubus (CNRS)
12:30 PM Catered Lunch
Catered Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

2:00 PM The Gamma-ray Binary in the LMC: Implications for Populations and Further Discoveries - Robin Corbet

2:30 PM The Monster Next Door: Fermi-LAT observations of Supernova Remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud - Daniel Castro (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

2:45 PM Detection of SN 1006 and HESS J1731-347 with Fermi-LAT: a complete view of shell-type TeV SNRs - Marianne LEMOINE-GOUMARD (CENBG - CNRS/IN2P3)

3:00 PM Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of supernova remnants Kes 73 and Kes 79 - Paul Kin-Hang YEUNG (Department of Physics, University of Hamburg)

3:15 PM Disentangling hadronic from leptonic emission in the composite SNR G326.3-1.8 - Justine Devin (CNRS/IN2P3 - Laboratoire Univers et Particules de Montpellier)

3:30 PM Thermal X-ray studies on escaping of accelerated protons from SNR shocks - Hiromasa Suzuki (University of Tokyo)
Gamma-Ray Bursts
Gamma-Ray Bursts
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

2:00 PM Emission from accelerating jets in gamma-ray bursts: Radiation dominated flows with increasing mass outflow rates - Felix Ryde (Dept of Physics)

2:15 PM GRB Locations and Spectra with the BALROG - J. Michael Burgess (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)

2:30 PM The Konus-Wind catalog of gamma-ray bursts with known redshifts. I. Bursts detected in the triggered mode. - Anastasia Tsvetkova (Ioffe Institute)

2:45 PM Exploring the low-energy domain of LAT-detected GRBs id 18440 - Elisabetta Bissaldi (Politecnico & INFN Bari)

3:00 PM The Bright and the Slow - GRBs 100724B and 160509A with high-energy cutoffs at < 100MeV - Giacomo Vianello (Stanford University)

3:15 PM Magnetic versus baryonic jets for gamma-ray bursts. - Damien Begue (MPE)

3:30 PM Constraints on microphysical parameters of GRBs using HAWC - Simone Dichiara (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
3:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

4:15 PM New Extended GeV Sources in the Galactic Plane Found using 6 years of Fermi-LAT Pass 8 data - Marie-Hélène Grondin (CENBG, Université de Bordeaux/CNRS-IN2P3)

4:30 PM Resolving the Crab Nebula in TeV gamma-rays with H.E.S.S. - Markus Holler (Universität Innsbruck)

4:45 PM On the origin of gamma-ray emission toward SNR CTB 37A with Fermi-LAT - Soheila Abdollahi (Hiroshima University)

5:00 PM Similarity of $\gamma$-ray spectrum in middle aged supernova remnants interacting with molecular clouds: what can we learn? - Xiaping Tang (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

5:15 PM Diffusive shock acceleration in the young supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 - Robert Brose

5:30 PM A New Gamma-Ray Source in the Vicinity of the Galactic Supernova Remnant G306.3−0.9 - Tulun Ergin (TUBITAK Space Technologies Research Institute)
Radio Transients and Novae
Radio Transients and Novae
4:15 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

4:15 PM Fast Radio Bursts - implications for Fermi and future prospects - Manisha Caleb (University of Manchester)

4:45 PM Probing mass ejection in nova outbursts using gamma-rays - Pierrick Martin (CNRS/IRAP)

5:00 PM Gamma-ray Novae: Rare or Nearby? - Paul Morris (University of Oxford)

5:15 PM Classical Novae in the Age of Fermi - Justin Linford (The George Washington University)
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Gamma-ray astronomy across 6 decades of energy: synergy between Fermi, IACTs, and HAWC observatories - Michelle Hui (NASA/MSFC)

9:00 AM H.E.S.S. highlights - Gerd Puehlhofer (IAAT, University of Tuebingen)

9:30 AM Highlights of VERITAS observations of extragalactic objects - Martin Pohl (Universität Potsdam)

9:45 AM Recent Galactic Science Results from VERITAS on Pulsar Searches, PSR J2032+4127, and HAWC Follow-Ups - Gregory Richards

10:00 AM Improved IGMF limits from Fermi and MAGIC observations of 1ES 0229+200 - Ievgen Vovk (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

10:15 AM Evidence for cosmic ray escape: the GeV to TeV morphology of the $\gamma$-Cygni SNR with MAGIC and Fermi-$\textit{LAT}$ - Marcel C. Strzys (Max Planck Institute for Physics)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Methods
Methods
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Information field theory for gamma ray astronomy - Torsten Ensslin (MPI for Astrophysics)

11:30 AM Searches for Angular Extension in High-Latitude Fermi-LAT Sources - Regina Caputo (UMD/NASA/GSFC)

11:45 AM A new way of searching for transients: the ADWO method and its results - Zsolt Bagoly (Eotvos University)

12:00 PM Time Domain Astronomy with Fermi GBM in the Multi-messenger Era - Colleen Wilson-Hodge (NASA/MSFC)

12:15 PM An Overview of the GBM Targeted Search For Sub-threshold Emission Associated with LIGO/Virgo Detections - Daniel Kocevski (NASA/MSFC)
12:30 PM Catered Lunch
Catered Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

1:30 PM

1:30 PM - 6:30 PM

6:30 PM

6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, October 19, 2017
8:30 AM Galactic Diffuse Emission
Galactic Diffuse Emission
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Cosmic rays and the diffuse gamma-ray emission - Fiorenza Donato (Torino University)

9:00 AM Development of the Galactic Diffuse Emission Model for the LAT 4FGL Catalog Analysis - Seth Digel (KIPAC/SLAC)

9:15 AM Cosmic rays, gas, and dust in local clouds - Quentin REMY (CNRS-LUPM)

9:30 AM Diffuse X-ray emission from Loop I: Additional evidence of past activity of Galactic Center and relation to Fermi Bubbles - Masahiro Akita (Waseda.univ)

9:45 AM Spiral Arm Signatures in Fermi-LAT's spectral index map - Nir Shaviv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

10:00 AM High-energy Gamma Rays from the Milky Way: 3D Interstellar Emission Models with GALPROP - Troy Porter (Stanford University)

10:15 AM Constraining the emission of cosmic electrons from supernova remnants with flux, dipole anisotropy and radio data - Silvia Manconi (University of Torino and INFN Torino)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Cosmic rays, particle acceleration, and Fermi constraints on star and galaxy formation - Christoph Pfrommer (Leibniz Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

11:30 AM Radio and Gamma-Ray Constraints on the Wind, Magnetic Field, and Cosmic Rays along the minor axis of the starburst M82 - Benjamin Buckman (The Ohio State University)

11:45 AM X-ray to gamma-ray virial shock signal from the Coma cluster - Uri Keshet (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

12:00 PM The Extragalactic Background Light in the Fermi Era - Marco Ajello (Clemson University)

12:15 PM Measuring the Cosmic Star Formation Rate Density with Fermi-LAT - Justin Finke (US Naval Research Laboratory)

12:30 PM 10 yrs AGILE - Marco Tavani
12:50 PM Catered Lunch
Catered Lunch
12:50 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM III
III
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

2:00 PM The remarkable gamma-ray flaring activity of CTA 102 as seen by the Fermi-LAT - Sara Buson (NASA-GSFC)

2:15 PM Detection of intra-day variability in FSRQ CTA 102 during high state - Amit Shukla (University of Würzburg)

2:30 PM Unravelling the complex behaviour of our closest very-high-energy gamma-ray blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501 - David Paneque (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

2:45 PM The FSRQ PKS 1510-089: The Gamma-ray–Synchrotron Connection - Felix Jankowsky (LSW Heidelberg)

3:00 PM Orphan $\gamma$-ray Flares and Stationary Sheaths of Blazar Jets - Nicholas MacDonald (MPIfR)

3:15 PM Long-Term Study of the Light Curve of PKS 1510-089 in GeV energies - RAJ PRINCE (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, INDIA)

3:30 PM Blazar Radio and Optical Survey (BROS): A New Catalog of Blazar Candidates - Yasuyuki Tanaka (Hiroshima)

3:45 PM THE ORIGINS OF THE GAMMA-RAY FLUX VARIATION OF NGC1275 ANALYZED WITH 8-YEAR FERMI-LAT OBSERVATION - Kazuhisa Tanada (Waseda University)
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

2:00 PM Exploring the full information content of the extragalactic gamma-ray sky maps - Alessandro Cuoco (RWTH Aachen TTK)

2:30 PM Measuring the Galaxy Luminosity Density out to z~6 with Fermi-LAT - Kari Helgason (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

2:45 PM The Density of Blazars above 100 MeV and the Origin of the Extragalactic Gamma-ray Background - lea marcotulli (clemson university)

3:00 PM Extragalactic Background Light Measurements from a Combined Likelihood Analysis of Blazars Detected with the MAGIC Telescopes - Alberto Dominguez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

3:15 PM Study of the anisotropy of the unresolved gamma-ray background - Michela Negro

3:30 PM Updated Fermi-LAT Constraints on the Extragalactic Background Light - Thomas Armstrong (University of Oxford)

3:45 PM Deriving the contribution of point sources to the Extragalactic gamma-ray background with efficiency corrections and photon statistics - MATTIA DI MAURO (Stanford University)
4:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM Catalogs
Catalogs
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GaPa/1-1 - Olympiasaal
Contributions

4:30 PM Improving the Fermi LAT source catalog and interstellar emission model - Jean Ballet (DAp/AIM, CEA Saclay)

5:00 PM The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV): observing astrophysical accelerators in real time - Rolf Buehler (DESY)

5:15 PM Effects of Biases of the Interstellar Emission Models on Point Source Finding and Characterization with the Fermi-LAT - Eric Charles (SLAC)

5:30 PM The First Catalog of Low Energy Fermi-LAT sources - Giacomo Principe (ECAP, Erlangen Nuernberg University)

5:45 PM Calorimeter-less gamma-ray telescopes: Optimal measurement of charged particle momentum from multiple scattering by Bayesian analysis of filtering innovations. - Denis Bernard (LLR, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS/IN2P3)
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: GaPa/2-1 - Konzertsaal
Contributions

4:30 PM Indirect Axion and Axionlike Particle Searches at Gamma-Ray Energies - Manuel Meyer

5:00 PM Dark matter theory: implications and future prospects for Fermi - Pat Scott (Imperial College London)

5:30 PM Probing the nature of dark matter with gamma rays: what we learned from the LAT and prospects for the CTA - Gabrijela Zaharijas (University of Nova Gorica)

5:45 PM Limits on Dark Matter annihilation signal from dwarf galaxies with prior-free astrophysical factors - Andrea Chiappo (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University)
Friday, October 20, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of the Sun: The first ten years - Melissa Pesce-Rollins (INFN-Pisa)

9:00 AM Search for GeV neutrinos associated with solar flares with IceCube - Gwenhaël de Wasseige

9:15 AM Origin of cosmic neutrinos in the Fermi context - Walter Winter (DESY)

9:45 AM A minimal model for extragalactic cosmic rays and neutrinos - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

10:15 AM On the Detection Potential of Short Blazar Flares for Current Neutrino Telescopes - Michael Kreter (University of Wuerzburg)
10:30 AM Break
Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM The Path from COSI to COSI-X - Andreas Zoglauer (UC Berkeley)

11:15 AM Polarimetry and high angular resolution gamma-ray observations in the MeV regime using a novel detector concept - Deirdre Horan (LLR / Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS / IN2P3)

11:30 AM All-Sky Medium Energy Gamma-ray Observatory (AMEGO) - A discovery mission for the MeV gamma-ray band - Jeremy Perkins (NASA/GSFC)

11:45 AM Viability of a nano-satellite Compton space telescope - Francesco Berlato (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics)

12:00 PM Monitoring of gamma-ray burst with a fleet of nanosatellites - Masanori Ohno (Hiroshima University)
12:15 PM
12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

12:15 PM Remembering Nanni Bignami - Marco Tavani

12:30 PM Concluding Remarks - Julie McEnery (NASA/GSFC)