Sixth International Fermi Symposium - Program

The Poster Session will be held in the Commonwealth Ballroom North.

Mon - Fri Block Program

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
9:00-10:30	Session 1 Opening Session	Session 5 Short Timescale Transients and Variable Sources	Session 9 Gev to TeV	Session 13 Galactic Diffuse and Cosmic-rays	Session 17 Dark Matter and New Physics
10:30-11:00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
11:00-12:30	Session 2 Multimessenger Astrophysics - Science Opportunities with Fermi	Session 6 Short/Medium Timescale Transients and Variable Sources	Session 10 Extragalactic Diffuse Emission & Extragalactic Background Light	Session 14 Particle Acceleration, Plasma Physics and Fermi	Session 18 The Inner Milky Way and the Future
12:30-2:00	Catered Lunch	Catered Lunch	Catered Lunch	Catered Lunch	(Lunch Not Provided)
2:00-3:30	Session 3 Multiwavelength Surveys - Science Opportunities with Fermi	Session 7 Long Timescale Transients and Variable Sources	Session (parallel) 11A - AGN 11B - Analysis	Session (parallel) 15A - Dark Matter/Diffuse 15B - Galactic	GammaSIG Meeting Multifrequency Workshop
3:30-4:00	Break	Break	Break	Break	Break
4:00-5:30	Session 4 Pulsars and More	Session 8 Location and Nature of Acceleration and the Gamma-ray Emission Region in AGN	Session (parallel) 12A - AGN 12B - Pulsars	Session (parallel) 16A - Dark Matter/Diffuse 16B - GRB/Solar	GammaSIG Meeting Multifrequency Workshop
7:00pm		Tooning the Extreme Cosmos (NASA HQ Auditorium)	Banquet (Galaxy Ballroom)

Full Program

Monday :: Tuesday :: Wednesday :: Thursday :: Friday

Sunday, Nov 8

3:30-6:00 pm

Registration

Monday, Nov 9

Session 1	Opening Session Chair: Julie McEnery	Commonwealth Ballroom South
9:00-9:30	Welcome
9:30-10:00	Opening Talk: Fermi in Context	Roger Blandford
10:00-10:30	Fermi Mission Status and Plans	Judy Racusin
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 2	Multimessenger Astrophysics - Science Opportunities with Fermi Chair: Peter Michelson	Commonwealth Ballroom South
11:00-11:30	IceCube's Neutrinos: The Beginning of Extra-Galactic Neutrino Astronomy	Eli Waxman
11:30-11:45	High-Fluence Blazars as Possible Sources of the IceCube PeV Neutrinos	Matthias Kadler
11:45-12:15	Gravitational Waves and Connections with Fermi	Peter Shawhan
12:15-12:30	Finding Fermi GBM Counterparts to LIGO Gravitational-Wave Candidates	Valerie Connaughton
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12:30-12:35	The Advanced Energetic Pair Telescope (AdEPT), a High Sensitivity Medium-Energy Gamma-Ray Polarimeter	Andrey Timokhin
12:35-12:40	MACHETE: A Transit Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope to Survey Half of the Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Sky	John E. Ward
12:40-12:45	The ASTRO-H mission	Yasushi Fukazawa
12:45-2:00	Catered Lunch (Cavalier)
Session 3	Multiwavelength Surveys - Science Opportunities with Fermi Chair: Dieter Hartmann	Commonwealth Ballroom South
2:00-2:30	Synergies Between Fermi and Surveys of the Radio Sky	Alexander van der Horst
2:30-3:00	Fermi and Wide Field Data Bases: from Optical to Gamma-rays	Kent Wood
3:00-3:15	The Galactic TeV Gamma-Ray Sky with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory	Hao Zhou
3:15-3:30	Blazar variability in gamma-ray and optical polarization with Fermi and Kanata telescope	Ryosuke Itoh
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 4	Pulsars and More Chair: Alice Harding	Commonwealth Ballroom South
4:00-4:15	Transitional Millisecond Pulsars: A New Class of Gamma-Ray-Emitting X-ray Binaries	Slavko Bogdanov
4:15-4:30	Continuing Chandra Monitoring of Ejecta from Gamma-ray Binary PSR B1259-63/LS 2883	Jeremy Hare
4:30-4:45	Multiwavelength Observations of the Redback Pulsar J1048+2339, Coincident with the Fermi Source 3FGL J1048.6+2338	Julia Deneva
4:45-5:00	The Einstein@Home Gamma-ray Pulsar Survey	Colin Clark
5:15-5:30	Pulsations from the Vela Pulsar down to 20GeV with H.E.S.S. II	Bronislaw Rudak
5:30-5:45	The Impact of Fermi's Education Programs 2000-2015	Lynn Cominsky

Tuesday, Nov 10

Session 5	Short Timescale Transients and Variable Sources Chair: Andrew J. Smith	Commonwealth Ballroom South
9:00-9:30	Prompt and afterglow emission from GRBs - implications and future prospects from Fermi observations	Hendrik van Eerten
9:30-9:45	Towards a Unified Model for the Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission & a New Luminosity-Hardness Relation for Cosmology	Sylvain Guiriec
9:45-10:00	Initial Results from HAWC on Gamma-Ray Bursts	Josh Wood
10:00-10:15	Energies of GRB blast waves and prompt efficiencies as implied by modeling of X-ray and GeV afterglows	Paz Beniamini
10:15-10:30	Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from Solar flares	Melissa Pesce-Rollins
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 6	Short/Medium Timescale Transients and Variable Sources Chair: Elizabeth Hays	Commonwealth Ballroom South
11:00-11:30	Shocks and Relativistic Particle Acceleration in Novae	Brian Metzger
11:30-12:00	Chasing Ripples in a Stormy Sea: Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in Fermi/GBM from Magnetars and Beyond	Daniela Huppenkothen
12:00-12:15	Resolving Thermal and Non-thermal Radio Emission in Classical Novae	Justin Linford
12:15-12:30	Fermi GBM observations during the V404 Cygni 2015 outburst	Pete Jenke
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12:30-12:35	PANGU: a sub-GeV gamma-ray detector proposed for the joint CAS-ESA misson	Meng Su
12:35-12:40	Compton-Pair Production Space Telescope: Extending Fermi-LAT Discoveries into MeV Gamma-ray Astronomy	Regina Caputo
12:40-2:00	Catered Lunch (Cavalier)
Session 7	Long Timescale Transients and Variable Sources Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara	Commonwealth Ballroom South
2:00-2:30	Taking the Long-Term View: Fermi Results from a Multi-Year Baseline	Dave Thompson
2:30-2:45	New Binaries Among Fermi Unassociated Sources	Laura Chomiuk
2:45-3:00	Particle Acceleration in Eta Carinae: the Expected and Unexpected	Matteo Balbo
3:00-3:15	Monitoring of the Radio galaxy M87 during a low emission state from 2012 to 2015 with MAGIC and Fermi	Priyadarshini Bangale
3:15-3:30	A multi-messenger search for the origin of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos with VERITAS and Fermi	Marcos Santander
3:30-4:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 8	Location and Nature of Acceleration and the Gamma-ray Emission Region in AGN Chair: Svetlana Jorstad	Commonwealth Ballroom South
4:00-4:30	Probing Blazar Jets with Fermi and Multi-waveband Observations	Alan Marscher
4:30-4:45	Why Haven't Many of the Brightest Radio Loud Blazars Been Detected by Fermi?	Matt Lister
4:45-5:00	Physics of gamma-ray loud AGN jets through high cadence, multi-frequency polarization monitoring	Ioannis Myserlis
5:00-5:15	Efficient Nonthermal Particle Acceleration during Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetically-dominated Flows	Fan Guo
5:15-5:30	Resolving the High Energy Universe with Strong Gravitational Lensing	Anna Barnacka
7:00	Tooning the Extreme Cosmos (NASA HQ Auditorium)

Wednesday, Nov 11

Session 9	Gev to TeV Chair: Abe Falcone	Commonwealth Ballroom South
9:00-9:30	Connections between GeV and TeV gamma-ray observations	Stefan Funk
9:30-9:45	Probing the High Energy Sky Above 10 GeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope	Jeremy Perkins
9:45-10:00	2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources	Marco Ajello
10:00-10:15	Resolving the Hadronic Accelerator IC 443: A Joint Study with Fermi-LAT and VERITAS	Jack Hewitt
10:15-10:30	Spectacular Gamma-ray Variability in FSRQ 3C279 during Large Outbursts	Masaaki Hayashida
10:30-10:45	A multi-wavelength Fermi campaign to test the inverse Compton model for large-scale jets	Eileen Meyer
10:45-11:15	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 10	Extragalactic Diffuse Emission & Extragalactic Background Light Chair: Dale Frail	Commonwealth Ballroom South
11:15-11:30	Constraints on the Intergalactic Magnetic Field from Gamma-Ray Observations of Blazars	Justin Finke
11:30-11:45	Resolving the high-energy Extragalactic gamma-ray Background with Fermi-LAT	Mattia Di Mauro
11:45-12:00	Lower and Upper Bounds on the Cosmic TeV Gamma-ray Background	Yoshiyuki Inoue
12:00-12:15	Measuring the Extragalactic Background Light with Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Bursts	Nicola Omodei
12:15-12:30	The Intergalactic IR Luminosity Density L(z) and the ?-ray Opacity of the Universe	Floyd Stecker
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12:30-12:35	A PCA Approach to Estimating the Background for the GRAPE Balloon Experiment	Sambid Wasti
12:35-12:40	iWF-MAXI (iSEEP Wide Field MAXI): Soft X-ray Transient Monitor on ISS	Makoto Arimoto
12:40-2:00	Catered Lunch (Cavalier)
Session 11A	AGN Chair: Jeremy Perkins	Commonwealth Ballroom South
2:00-2:15	The connection between the radio jet and the gamma-ray emission in the blazar CTA102 and the radio galaxy 3C120	Jose Gómez
2:15-2:30	A Model for the Polarization Angle Swing and Gamma-Ray Flare in 3C279	Haocheng Zhang
2:30-2:45	RoboPol: the optical polarisation properties of a gamma-ray flux limited sample of AGN	Emmanouil Angelakis
2:45-3:00	Resolving the Blazar Gamma-ray Emission Regions with Gravitational Microlensing	Ievgen Vovk
3:00-3:15	Gamma-ray Flares from the Gravitationally Lens Blazar B0218+357	Sara Buson
Session 11B	Analysis Chair: Luca Baldini	Concourse 1/2
2:00-2:15	The Second Fermi-All Sky Variability Analysis (FAVA)	Dan Kocevski
2:15-2:30	Search for Transient Gamma-ray Sources on a Monthly Timescale	Toby Burnett
2:30-2:45	The Multi-Mission, Multi-Messenger Maximum Likelihood framework	Giacomo Vianello
2:45-3:00	A Probabilistic Catalogue of Unresolved High Latitude Fermi LAT Sources Related Video: MP4	Stephen Portillo
3:00-3:15	New Software Tools and Analysis Methods Designed for an All-Sky Analysis of Gamma-Ray Emission from Dark Matter Interactions	Eric Charles
3:15-4:15	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 12A	AGN Chair: Benoit Lott	Commonwealth Ballroom South
4:15-4:30	AGN Light Curves and Periodicity. To Be or Not to Be	Stefano Ciprini
4:30-4:45	Seven Years of Gamma-ray and Multiwavelength Observations of Powerful Relativistic Jets in Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies	Filippo D'Ammando
4:45-5:00	A new look at the multi-wavelength SED of TeV LSP and ISP BL Lacs	Oliver Hervet
5:00-5:15	Hunting Distant VHE Blazars with Fermi-LAT and MAGIC: the Recent Detection of PKS 1441+25	Josefa Becerra Gonzalez
5:15-5:30	PKS 1441+25: Insights from a New Gamma-ray Quasar	Caitlin Johnson
5:30-5:45	Fermi Unassociated Sources: Recent Results on X-ray Counterpart Detection and Characterization with Swift	Abe Falcone
5:45-6:00	Dark Matter Constraints from Fermi-LAT measurement of the Isotropic Gamma-ray Background	Marco Ajello
Session 12B	Pulsars Chair: Paul Ray	Concourse 1/2
4:15-4:30	Finding the next VHE pulsar with the Fermi Large Area Telescope	Pablo Saz Parkinson
4:30-4:45	Recent Results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Project	Matthew Kerr
4:45-5:00	Monitoring Accretion Powered Pulsars with Fermi GBM	Colleen Wilson-Hodge
5:00-5:15	A Synchrotron-Self Compton Model for Pulsar Emission	Alice Harding
5:15-5:30	Kinetic modeling of pulsar magnetospheres and pulsar emission	Alexander Philippov
5:30-5:45	Probing Relativistic Shock Acceleration and Pulsar Winds with Orbitally-Modulated Emission from MSP Binaries	Zorawar Wadiasingh
7:00	Banquet (Galaxy Ballroom)

Thursday, Nov 12

Session 13	Galactic Diffuse and Cosmic-rays Chair: Jean-Marc Casandjian	Galaxy Ballroom
9:00-9:30	Interstellar Emission Modeling with Pass 8	Gulli Johannesson
9:30-9:45	The Fermi bubbles: update on multi-wavelength observations, numerical simulations, and implications to the past activities in the Galactic center	Meng Su
9:45-10:00	Disentangling the hadronic from the leptonic emission in the composite SNR G326.3-1.8	Fabio Acero
10:00-10:15	Gas, dust, and cosmic rays in the Chameleon, Taurus, and Perseus cloud complexes	Isabelle Grenier
10:15-10:30	Cosmic Ray Electron Spectrum with the Fermi LAT	Raffaella Bonino
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 14	Particle Acceleration, Plasma Physics and Fermi Chair: Matthew Baring	Galaxy Ballroom
11:00-11:30	The Journey of High-Energy Photons from Blazar Jets to the Fermi Telescope	Lorenzo Sironi
11:30-12:00	TGFs as a Laboratory for understanding particle acceleration	Ger Fitzpatrick
12:00-12:15	CRAFT: the Cosmic-Ray Analytical Fast Tool	Damiano Caprioli
12:15-12:30	High Energy Emission in Pulsar Magnetospheres: Modeling in the FERMI Era	Constantinos Kalapotharakos
12:30	USRA Poster Contest Winner Announcement
12:30-2:00	Catered Lunch (Cavalier)
Session 15A	Dark Matter/Diffuse Chair: Seth Digel	Galaxy Ballroom
2:00-2:15	Cosmic-Ray Interactions in the Sun: Implications for Dark Matter Searches	Kenny Ng
2:15-2:30	OH 18-cm Radio Emission as a Tracer for Dark Gas in the Galaxy	Ronald Allen
2:30-2:45	HAWC Blind Searches for Steady Sources	Anushka Abeysekara
2:45-3:00	Processes of Gamma Ray and Microwave Emission from the Fermi Bubbles	Vladimir Dogiel
3:00-3:15	Nonlinear Fermi Acceleration in Relativistic Shocks with Momentum Dependent Diffusion	Don Ellison
Session 15B	Galactic Chair: Chryssa Kouveliotou	Concourse 1/2
2:00-2:15	The middle-aged Supernova Remnants W44 & IC443 and Cosmic-Rays: most likely reacceleration	Martina Cardillo
2:15-2:30	Testing cosmic ray acceleration in young SNRs with Fermi-LAT data	Leonardo Di Venere
2:30-2:45	Gas Towards Gamma-Ray-Emitting Supernova Remnants	Nigel Maxted
2:45-3:00	Multiwavelength Observation of TeV Binaries with VERITAS, Fermi-LAT, and Swift-XRT	Payel Kar
3:00-3:15	Spectral Evolution of Bright Magnetar Bursts	George Younes
3:15-4:15	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 16A	Dark Matter/Diffuse Chair: Tim Linden	Galaxy Ballroom
4:15-4:30	VERITAS Observations of The Galactic Center Ridge Above 2 TeV	Andy Smith
4:30-4:45	Long-term Studies of Sgr A* with H.E.S.S.	Helen Poon
4:45-5:00	Northern Fermi Bubble with HAWC	Hugo Ayala Solares
5:00-5:15	Unveiling the Gamma-ray Source Count Distribution below the Fermi Detection Limit with Photon Statistics	Hannes-S. Zechlin
5:15-5:30	Constraints on Dark Matter Interpretations of the Galactic Center GeV Excess	Andrea Albert
5:30-5:45	New TeV Supernova Remnant Shells in the Galactic Plane Discovered with H.E.S.S.	Gerd Puehlhofer
Session 16B	GRB/Solar Chair: Michael Briggs	Concourse 1/2
4:15-4:30	Fermi-LAT observations of the gamma-ray emission from the quiescent sun - first 6 years in orbit	Nicola Giglietto
4:30-4:45	On the Sharpness of Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission Spectra	David Yu
4:45-5:00	An External Shock Origin of GRB 141028A	Michael Burgess
5:00-5:15	Time evolution of the spectral break in the high-energy extra component of GRB 090926A	Manal Yassine
5:15-5:30	Shutting down the Central Engine in Photospheric Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts	Robert Mochkovitch
5:30-5:45	Lighting up magnetic jets: 3D instabilities and energy dissipation in relativistic MHD jets Related Videos: ZIP	Omer Bromberg

Friday, Nov 13

Session 17	Dark Matter and New Physics Chair: Elliott Bloom	Commonwealth Ballroom South
9:00-9:30	Searching for Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with DES and the Fermi-LAT	Alex Drlica-Wagner
9:30-9:45	Uncovering Dark Matter Subhalos with Fermi-LAT and VERITAS	Daniel Nieto
9:45-10:00	Search for Axion-like Particle Signatures in the Gamma-Ray Spectrum of NGC 1275	Manuel Meyer
10:00-10:15	Search for Gamma-ray Emission from Dark Matter Annihilation in the Small Magellanic Cloud with the Fermi Large Area Telescope	Regina Caputo
10:15-10:30	Gamma-ray excess in the Galactic center: a closer look to the pulsar interpretation	Fiorenza Donato
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break & Poster Session (Commonwealth Ballroom North)
Session 18	The Inner Milky Way and the Future Chair: Steve Ritz	Commonwealth Ballroom South
11:00-11:30	Fear not! Observational status and interpretations of the Galactic center GeV excess	Christoph Weniger
11:30-11:45	Evidence for Unresolved Gamma-Ray Point Sources in the Inner Galaxy	Benjamin Safdi
11:45-12:00	Diffuse gamma-ray emission modeling near the Galactic Center and the 3 GeV excess	Dmitry Malyshev
12:00-12:15	On the Origin of the Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of the Galactic Centre region	Aion Viana
12:15-12:30	Improving the Scientific Potential of Pass 8: Status and Plans for a future Pass 8 Release	Matt Wood
12:30-2:00	Lunch (not provided)
2:00-5:00	Multifrequency Splinter Workshop (Concourse 2)
2:00-5:00	GammaSIG Splinter Meeting (Concourse 1)

Invited Speakers

Roger Blandford
Alex Drlica-Wagner
Ger Fitzpatrick
Stefan Funk
Daniela Huppenkothen
Gulli Johannesson
Brian Metzger
Judy Racusin
Peter Shawhan
Lorenzo Sironi
Dave Thompson
Alexander van der Horst
Hendrik van Eerten
Eli Waxman
Christoph Weniger
Kent Wood