Programme:
Session
Chair: Riaan Steenkamp (UNAM) |
| 09:15 |
Comments
on Organisation (Okkie de Jager) |
| 09:18 |
Official
Welcome (Lazarus Hangula or his Delegate from UNAM) |
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The
H.E.S.S. Experiment |
09:30 |
The
making of H.E.S.S. (G. Fontaine) |
10:15 |
First
physics with H.E.S.S. (C. Masterson) |
| 11:00 |
Coffee
break
Artist's
impression of the million solar mass black hole in the center
of our galaxy showing matter spiralling into the center,
resulting in the formation of a jet due to a dynamo effect.
Courtesy of the Chandra X-ray Observatory's X-ray Astronomy
Field Guide. The gamma-rays from Sagittarius
A* as seen by H.E.S.S. may origininate near the
event horizon of this supermassive black hole, as explained
by Aharonian
and Neronov.
|
| |
Physics
Overview |
Session
Chair: Paula
Chadwick (University of Durham) |
| 11:40 |
High
energy gamma ray sources: Present and future challenges (J.
Silk) |
| 12:30 |
Science
and Technology in Namibia
(A. van Kent) |
| 12:45 |
Lunch |
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Partners
of H.E.S.S. observing the Southern Sky |
Session
Chair: Michael Punch (PCC Collège de France)
|
14:00 |
Fishing
for neutrinos – Science, technology and politics (U.
Katz) |
| 14:50 |
Designing
and building the world's largest cosmic-ray experiment (A.
Watson) |
| 15:40 |
Coffee
break |
Session
Chair: Werner Hofmann (MPIK)
|
| 16:20 |
The
Square Kilometer Array radio telescope in South Africa
(J. Jonas)
|
| 17:10 |
The
Status of SALT
(D. Buckley)
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