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11th International Fermi Symposium - Program (Preliminary)

Program :: Posters :: Presenter Instructions

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

Monday, September 9
Plenary 1: Introductory Session and Recent Developments
9:00 am - 9:10 am Chris Reynolds Introductory Remarks
9:10 am - 9:30 am Elizabeth Hays Fermi Status
9:30 am - 10:00 am Adi Foord A High-Energy Perspective on Merging SMBHs
10:00 am - 10:30 am Songzhan Chen Highlight results of LHAASO on extragalactic VHE gamma-ray sources
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 2: Pulsars
11:00 am - 11:30 am Tinn Thongmeearkom Finding Gamma-ray Redback Pulsars with TRAPUM on MeerKAT
11:30 am - 11:45 am Nazma Islam Multi-wavelength observations of the Candidate Redback 4FGL 1702.7-5655
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Zorawar Wadiasingh MSPs are likely PeV accelerators as Demonstrated by Fermi-LAT
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Benoit Cerutti Gamma-ray pulsars: Comparison between global PIC simulations and the Fermi catalog
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Matthew Kerr Do Gamma-ray Pulsars Mode Switch?
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
Plenary 3: Blazars
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Ioannis Liodakis AGN in the discovery era of X-ray polarimetry
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Andrea Gokus Uncovering extreme blazar flares at cosmic dawn
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Alberto Dominguez Advancements in the Hubble Constant Estimation via Gamma-Ray Attenuation
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Sarah Wagner High-energy variability of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Daewon Kim The Role of VLBI in LAT studies of Gamma-ray bright AGN
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 4: Multimessenger Sources
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Samuele Ronchini Current and future role of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for multi-messenger astronomy
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Lorenzo Scotton Fermi-GBM follow-up of gravitational waves during O4
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Niccolo' Di Lalla Follow-up of Gravitational-Waves with Fermi-LAT and First Results from O4
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Naoko Kurahashi Neilson Neutrino Astronomy and Fermi: The Past, The Present, and The Future
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Qi Feng X-ray and Gamma-ray Follow-up Observations of IceCube Astrophysical Neutrino Alerts

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Tuesday, September 10
Plenary 5: Gamma-ray Bursts and Other Transients
9:00 am - 9:15 Nicola Omodei GRB 221009A: the B.O.A.T that Shines in Gamma-rays
9:15 am - 9:30 am Jin-Ping Zhu Formation of GW230529 from Isolated Binary Evolution and Its Electromagnetic Counterparts
9:30 am - 9:45 am Rodolfo Barniol Duran The striped jet model: From the central engine to gamma-rays in GRBs
9:45 am - 10:00 am Monica Barnard Modeling multiwavelength afterglows detected from the VHE-GRB population with NAIMA
10:00 am - 10:15 am Aaron Trigg Unveiling Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flares with Fermi GBM: A Comparative Study of GRB 231115A and GRB 180128A
10:15 am - 10:30 am Matthew Baring Comptonized Relativistic Winds in Magnetar Giant Flares
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 6: Diffuse Emission
11:00 am - 11:30 am Kartick Sarkar Fermi Bubbles: past, present, and the future
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Alexander (Sasha) Kashlinsky Probing the dipole of the gamma-ray background
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Sohyoun Yun-Cárcamo Observation of Ultra-High-Energy Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center PeVatron with the HAWC Observatory
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Tsunefumi Mizuno Study of local clouds using HI line profile
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
  Parallel 7A: Blazars Parallel 7B: Pulsars
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Markus Boettcher Effects of non-continuous inverse-Compton cooling in blazars Pablo Saz Parkinson X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations of the mode-changing gamma-ray pulsar PSR J2021+4026
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Axel Arbet-Engels Results from the first combined VHE and X-ray polarization measurements of TeV blazars Constantinos Kalapotharakos Revolutionizing the inference of mass, radius, and magnetic field structure of neutron stars using NICER and Fermi-LAT data
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Jorge Otero Santos The most ancient VHE blazar yet: detection of FSRQ OP313 at z=0.997 with LST-1 Alex Lange The Vela pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula Vela-X using 13 years of Fermi-LAT Observations
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Eileen Meyer The surprising steadiness of Fermi blazars Dimitrios Skiathas Exploration of electromagnetic outflows of inspiraling binary neutron stars
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Garima Rajguru Mapping the Cosmic Evolution of Fermi Blazars Anu Kundu The retarded multipolar magnetic field of millisecond pulsar J0030+0451
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Svetlana Jorstad Dramatic Multi-Wavelength Activity of BL Lacertae in 2020-2023 Rishi Babu HAWC Study of the extended TeV emission from HESS J1813-178
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session
  Parallel 8A: Bright Gamma-ray Bursts Parallel 8B: Supernova Remnants and Other Galactic Sources
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Sarah Dalessi Fermi-GBM Observations of Recent Extraordinarily Bright Gamma-ray Bursts: GRB 221009A, GRB 230307A, and GRB 230812B John (Jack) Hewitt Radio-dim, gamma-ray-bright supernova remnants
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Lucia Tian Joint Analysis of GRB 221009A Late-Time Emission Using Fermi-LAT and HAWC Brian Humensky Resolving the gamma-ray SNR IC 443 with Fermi LAT and VERITAS
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Rachel Procter-Murphy The IceCube search for neutrinos from GRB 221009A Jooyun Woo Multi-epoch spectroscopy of Cassiopeia A using the 14-year Fermi-LAT and VERITAS data
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Paolo Da Vela Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic from Fermi-LAT observations of GRB 221009A Sajan Kumar Investigating the origin of gamma-ray emission from the unidentified PeVatron LHAASO J2108+5157 using data from VERITAS, HAWC, Fermi-LAT and XMM- Newton
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Rahul Gupta A detailed time-resolved and energy-resolved spectro-polarimetric study of bright GRBs observed using Fermi and AstroSat Paul Fauverge Recent Fermi novae in a multi-wavelength context
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Soumya Gupta Exploring the radiation mechanism of extremely energetic GRB 230307A using Specto- polarimetry observations Ava Webber A Systematic Study of Galactic Star-Forming Regions

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Wednesday, September 11
Plenary 9: Dark Matter
9:00 am - 9:30 am Benjamin R. Safdi The Impact of the Fermi LAT on the Search for Particle Dark Matter
9:30 am - 10:00 am Milena Crnogorcevic Fermi Listens for WISPers: Past, Present, and Future of Fermi's Axion-like Particle Searches
10:00 am - 10:15 am Antonio Circiello Constraining Dark Matter Annihilation with Fermi-LAT Observations of Ultra-Faint Compact Stellar Systems
10:15 am - 10:30 am Silvia Manconi The Galactic center excess at the highest energies: morphology and photon-count statistics
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 10: Unassociated Sources
11:00 am - 11:15 am Benoit Lott Low-latitude unassociated Fermi-LAT sources: a long-standing puzzle
11:15 am - 11:30 am Scott Joffre The Second Fermi-LAT low-energy catalog (2FLE)
11:30 am - 11:45 am Abe Falcone New Counterparts to Previously Unidentified Fermi Gamma-ray Sources
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Marco Turchetta Discovery of two new spider pulsar candidates in previously unassociated Fermi-LAT sources
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Joanna Berteaud Multiwavelength identification of millisecond pulsar candidates in the Galactic bulge
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Tulun Ergin Searching for HAWC Counterparts of "Dark" Sources Reported in the 1st LHAASO Source Catalog
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
  Parallel 11A: Neutrinos and Gamma-rays Parallel 11B: Dark Matter and Diffuse
1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Stephen Sclafani Correlation of High Energy Neutrinos with Fermi-LAT diffuse emission templates Deheng Song Robust inference of the Galactic center excess spatial morphology
1:45 pm - 2:00 pm Mehr Nisa Search for Astrophysical Neutrinos from 4FGL Galactic Plane Sources with the Pion Bump Signature Chris Karwin Legacy Analysis of Dark Matter Annihilation from the Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with 14 Years of Fermi-LAT Data
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Abhishek Desai Multi-Messenger and Multi-Wavelength Studies with Active Galactic Nuclei Thomas Venville A search for dark matter annihilation from the Sagittarius Dwarf and Stream
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Sara Buson Hadronic processes at work in 5BZB J0630- 2406 Peter Marinos Variability of the Galactic CRs and Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Predicted with GALPROP
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Sam Hori Stacking Search for IceCube Neutrinos from Fermi-LAT Active Galactic Nuclei Francesco Loparco Search for line-like and box-like features in the Galactic gamma-ray spectra with the Fermi LAT
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Marco Ajello MeV Studies of Hadronic Emission in Nearby Seyfert Galaxies Jeremy Schnittman The Distribution and Annihilation of Dark Matter Around Black Holes
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session
  Parallel 12A: Gamma-ray Bursts Parallel 12B: Active Galactic Nuclei
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Davide Depalo Systematic time-resolved analysis of Gamma- Ray Bursts detected by Fermi-GBM Janeth Valverde A history of extreme explosions: GeV flares in Fermi-LAT variable sources
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm Michael Moss The Durations and Fluences of High-z GRBs are Underestimated Pablo Penil Multiwavelength Analysis of Fermi-LAT Blazars Exhibiting Hints of Periodicity
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Soebur Razzaque On non-detection of Gamma-Ray Bursts in three compact binary merger events detected by LIGO Ao Zhang Search for anisotropic pair halos associated with blazar jets
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Cecilia Chirenti Evidence for a strong 19.5 Hz gamma-ray flux oscillation from GRB 211211A Ettore Bronzini Fermi-LAT analysis of the CSO NGC 4278 detected by LHAASO
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Pi Nuessle A Novel GRB Progenitor Classifier Based on Fermi-GBM Prompt Emission Properties Pazit Rabinowitz An unbiased survey of high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects by VERITAS
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Sarah Chastain Constraints on Short Gamma-Ray Burst Physics and Their Host Galaxies from Systematic Radio Follow-up Campaigns Nikita Khatiya Characterizing the γ-ray Emission from Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei

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Thursday, September 12
Plenary 13: Solar System
9:00 am - 9:30 am Alessandro Bruno Gamma-ray Emission and Solar Energetic Particles
9:30 am - 9:45 am Parshad Patel Lorentz Invariance Violation with Absorption of Astrophysical Gamma-rays by Solar Photons
9:45 am - 10:00 am Francesco Loparco The gamma-ray Moon seen by the Fermi LAT
10:00 am - 10:15 am Michael Briggs The 3rd Fermi-GBM Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash Catalog
10:15 am - 10:30 am Andrea Gokus A look into the sustainability and inclusiveness of astronomy meetings
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 14: Analysis Techniques
11:00 am - 11:30 am Bruno Khélifi Open analysis librairies for the high-energy astrophysics
11:30 am - 11:45 am Adam Goldstein The Gamma-ray Data Tools: An open-source generalized analysis toolkit for space-based gamma-ray instruments
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Adrien Laviron Polarimetry of the Vela pulsar with the Fermi-LAT: First results
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Peter Veres The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor as a Polarimeter
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Tyler Parsotan A Comprehensive Python Pipeline for Swift BAT Data Analysis
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch
Plenary 15: Pulsar Wind Nebulae
1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Niccolo' Bucciantini Pulsar Wind Nebulae: the present status and future prospects
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm Moaz Abdelmaguid Multi-wavelength Modelling of the Pulsar Wind Nebula Kes 75
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm Valentina Richard Romei Enhanced high-energy emission in a pulsar wind interacting with a companion
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm Jason Alford Cosmic Ray Leptons Escaping from CTA 1?
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Matt Roth TeV halo physics with HAWC
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session
Plenary 16: Galactic Sources
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Alexander Philippov Pulsar magnetospheres and their radiation
4:00 pm - 4:15 pm Xiaojie Wang Microquasars Detections with HAWC: Exploring the Intriguing V4641 Sgr
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Teddy Cheung The population of gamma-ray emitting novae
4:30 pm - 4:45 pm Elias Aydi New insights into novae - a new class of Galactic particle accelerators established by Fermi
4:45 pm - 5:00 pm Hugo Ayala Gamma-ray Observations of the IC 443 region with HAWC

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Friday, September 13
Plenary 17: Missions and Infrastructure
9:00 am - 9:30 am Michelle Hui Future of gamma-ray science in space
9:30 am - 9:45 am Jeremy Perkins BurstCube: A CubeSat for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
9:45 am - 10:00 am Israel Martinez-Castellanos The Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI): opportunities for joint analyses with Fermi
10:00 am - 10:15 am Daniel Kocevski The StarBurst Multimessenger Pioneer
10:15 am - 10:30 am Vidushi Sharma General Coordinates Network (GCN): New GCN Notices and Machine Readability of Circulars
10:30 am - 11:00 am Coffee Break
Plenary 18: Future Missions and Instruments
11:00 am - 11:15 am Nicholas White Using High Redshift GRB to Directly Measure Reionization and Early Metal Enrichment
11:15 am - 11:30 am Kun Hu First Results from the 2024 Flight of the XL-Calibur Hard X-ray Polarimetry Mission
11:30 am - 11:45 am Zachary Metzler The ComPair Balloon Instrument and Flight
11:45 am - 12:00 pm Nabin Poudyal Enhancing Astrophysical MeV Gamma-Ray Detection with GRAMS
12:00 pm - 12:15 pm Yuya Nakamura GRAINE: Balloon-borne emulsion telescope project for the sub-GeV/GeV gamma-ray observation with a high angular resolution and a polarization sensitivity
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm Adrien Laviron The performance of silicon-pixel-based trackers for the polarimetry of gamma-rays converting to e+e- pairs
12:30 pm - 12:35 pm SOC & LOC Closing Remarks
12:35 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch on your own
Gamma-ray Science Interest Group / Future in Gamma-rays Science Analysis Group Meeting (Location: Physical Sciences Complex Room 3150)
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm TBD TBD

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