Rencontres du Vietnam: VHEPU 2018

Scientific Program: Preliminary

Monday August 13^th
Opening Session Chairperson: Master of Ceremony
09:00 09:15	-	Welcome Jean Trân Thanh Vân (Rencontres du Vietnam)
09:15 09:30	-	Welcome by the President of the province of Binh Dinh
09:30 09:50	-	Introductory Talk Jean Ballet (AIM DAp CEA Saclay) [PPTX]
Conference photograph
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #1 Chairperson: Éric Nuss (LUPM, Montpellier)
10:30 - 11:00	-	Extreme Particle Astrophysics Roger Blandford (Stanford University) [PPTX]
11:00 - 11:30	-	Gamma-ray Pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope Lucas Guillemot (LPC2E, Orléans) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	-	The status of the Fermi-LAT gamma-ray excess at the Galactic center Richard Bartels (GRAPPA, University of Amsterdam) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Plenary Session #2 Gravitational Waves Chairperson: Gérard Fontaine (LLR, Palaiseau)
13:30 - 14:10	-	Gravitational Wave Observations: Black Holes, Neutron Stars and Tests of General Relativity Patricia Schmidt (Radboud University Nijmegen) [PDF]
14:10 - 14:40	-	The origin of coalescing compact object binaries Tomasz Bulik (Astronomical Observatory University of Warsaw) [PDF]
14:40 - 15:10	-	Gamma-ray observations of neutron star mergers Eric Burns (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt) [PPTX]
15:10 - 15:40 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #3 Gamma Ray Astronomy Chairperson: Stefan Funk (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
15:40 - 16:10	-	Testing Lorentz Invariance with Active Galactic Nuclei: current status and prospects Julien Bolmont (LPNHE - Sorbonne Université, Paris) [PDF]
16:10 - 16:40	-	Gamma-ray diffuse emission from the inner Galactic plane and the Galactic Center: evidences of a spatial dependent cosmic ray transport Dario Grasso (INFN Pisa) [PDF]
16:40 - 17:10	-	The origin of prompt emission in Gamma-Ray Bursts Lara Nava (INAF, Merate) [PDF]
17:10 - 18:00 Informal discussions and/or beach

Tuesday August 14^th
Plenary Session #4 Cosmic Rays Chairperson: Bruce Dawson (University of Adelaide)
08:30 - 09:00	-	Galaxy Cluster, Collisionless Shock Fronts and Cosmic Penalty Kicks Roger Blandford (Stanford University) [PPTX]
09:00 - 09:30	-	Air-shower observations of cosmic rays in the PeV to EeV energy range Andreas Haungs (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) [PDF]
09:30 - 10:00	-	Secondary cosmic rays in the Galaxy Fiorenza Donato (Torino University) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #5 Cosmic Rays + Dark Matter Chairperson: Emmanuel Moulin (Irfu CEA, Saclay)
10:30 - 11:00	-	The High-Energy End of the Cosmic-Ray Electron Spectrum Kathrin Egberts (Potsdam University) [PDF]
11:00 - 11:30	-	Latest Results from the Pierre Auger Observatory Bruce Dawson (University of Adelaide) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	-	Latest results and current status of the Telescope Array experiment Shoichi Ogio (Osaka City University) [PDF]
12:00 - 12:30	-	Dark Matter Theory at the TeV Scale Tracy Slatyer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge) [PDF]
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
Parallel Sessions #1: Program (13:30 - 15:00) PS1 PS2 PS3
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions #2: Program (15:30 - 17:00) PS1 PS2 PS3
17:00 - 18:00 Informal discussions and/or beach

Wednesday August 15^th
Parallel Sessions #3: Program (08:30 - 09:30) PS1 PS2
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions #4: Program (10:00 - 11:50) PS1 PS2 PS3 PS4
11:50 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 18:00 Excursions

Thursday August 16^th
Plenary Session #6 Future Instruments Chairperson: David Williams (University of California Santa Cruz)
08:30 - 09:00	-	Science with CTA Stefan Funk (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics) [PDF]
09:00 - 09:30	-	future MeV/GeV missions Julie McEnery (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt) [PDF]
09:30 - 10:00	-	The science case for a Southern Gamma-ray Survey Observatory Harm Schoorlemmer (Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #7 Neutrinos Chairperson: Masaaki Hayashida (Konan University, Kobe)
10:30 - 11:00	-	Searching for Neutrinos from Transient Sources with IceCube Thomas Kintscher (DESY, Zeuthen) [PDF]
11:00 - 11:30	-	The ANTARES neutrino telescope: main results and perspectives for KM3NeT Sergio Navas (University of Granada) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	-	Multi-messenger analysis with the ANTARES neutrino telescope Damien Dornic (CPPM, Marseille) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Plenary Session #8 Multimessenger Astronomy Chairperson: Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley and IPhT Saclay)
13:30 - 14:00	-	2017, August 17: the birth of GW-EM astronomy Noemie Globus (Racah Institute of Physics, Jerusalem) [PDF] [MP4]
14:00 - 14:30	-	Neutrino/gamma-ray connections on blazars: IceCube-170922A and TXS 0506+056 Masaaki Hayashida (Konan University, Kobe) [PDF]
14:30 - 15:00	-	Interpretation of the coincident observation of a high energy neutrino and a bright flare of blazar TXS0506+056 Shan Gao (DESY, Zeuthen) [PDF]
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #9 Gamma Ray Astronomy Chairperson: Jean Ballet (AIM DAp CEA, Saclay)
15:30 - 16:00	-	Discovering and Characterizing Gamma-ray Binaries Robin Corbet (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt) [PDF]
16:00 - 16:30	-	Fermi LAT Observations of Two Be-Pulsar Binary Systems at GeV Energies Tyrel Johnson (George Mason University, Washington) [PDF]
16:30 - 17:00	-	Physics and Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae Stephen C-Y Ng (The University of Hong Kong) [PPTX]
17:00 - 18:00 Informal discussions and/or beach
18:30 - 21:00 Conference Dinner at ICISE

Friday August 17^th
Plenary Session #10 Transients Chairperson: Damien Dornic (CPPM, Marseille)
08:30 - 09:00	-	AMON: Current and Future Research in the Era of Multimessenger Astrophysics Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [PDF]
09:00 - 09:30	-	Multi-messenger follow-ups with IACTs Clemens Hoischen (Potsdam University) [PDF]
09:30 - 10:00	-	Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy Miguel Zumalacarregui (UC Berkeley and IPhT Saclay) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:30	-	Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts from keV to GeV energies and beyond Elisabetta Bissaldi (Politecnico and INFN Bari) [PPTX]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Plenary Session #11 Gamma Ray Astronomy Chairperson: Tyrell Johnson (George Mason University, Washington)
11:00 - 11:30	-	The fourth Fermi-LAT source catalog Jean Ballet (AIM DAp CEA Saclay) [PDF]
11:30 - 12:00	-	Searching for PeVatrons in the Galaxy Igor Oya (DESY, Zeuthen) [PDF]
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Plenary Session #12 Gamma Ray Astronomy Chairperson: Kathrin Egberts (Potsdam University)
13:30 - 14:00	-	Unveiling the unresolved gamma-ray background Michela Negro (University of Torino) [PDF]
14:00 - 14:30	-	The Extragalactic Background Light, Gamma-Ray Observations, and Cosmology David Williams (University of California Santa Cruz) [PDF]
14:30 - 15:00	-	High-z Blazar SEDs Clues to Evolution in the Early Universe Hongjun An (Chungbuk National University, Cheongju) [PDF]
15:00 - 15:30	-	The HAWC Catalog of VHE sources Hugo Alberto Ayala Solares (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park) [PDF]
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 - 18:00 Informal discussions and/or beach

Saturday August 18^th
Plenary Session #13: Chairperson: Jean Trân Thanh Vân (Rencontres du Vietnam)
09:00 - 10:00	-	Concluding talk Pablo Saz Parkinson (University of California Santa Cruz and Hong Kong University) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:15	-	Closing remarks
11:30 Lunch

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