Program

timeMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFriday
9-13Overview of Gamma-Ray AstronomyCosmic Rays Microquasars
Mini-WS
AGN Observational Cosmology
13-14.30Lunch Break
14.30-18SNRsPulsars & Plerions
Diffuse Emission & Unidentified Sources
The Sensitivity Threshold of Ground-Based Gamma-Ray AstronomyMini-WS: Gamma-Ray BlazarsObservational Cosmology
Monday, June 26
08:00-09:30
Registration
09:30-09:40
Welcome
09:40-10:20
T. Weekes (SAO) VHE Gamma-Ray Astronomy: Status and Future
10:20-11:00
N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC) GeV Gamma-Ray Astronomy in the Era of GLAST
Coffe Break
11:20-11:50
G. Kanbach (MPE, Garching) MeV/GeV Gamma-Ray Sources
11:50-12:20
M. Punch (College de France) TeV Gamma-Ray Sources

Lunch
 
14:10-14:40
D. Green (Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory) Galactic SNRs: Overview
14:40-15:10
K. Koyama (Univ. of Kyoto) Nonthermal X-Ray Emission of SNRs
15:10-15:40
N. Kawai (RIKEN, Tokyo) Nonthermal Emission from SS 433
Coffee Break
16:00-16:30
E. Berezhko (ICRA, Yakutsk) Theory of High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission of SNRs
16:30-17:00
T. Stanev (Bartol) Gamma-Ray Production Processes in SNRs
17:00-17:30
J. Paul (CEA, Saclay) Gamma-Rays from Young Star Formation Regions
17:30-18:00
M. Hillas (Univ. of Leeds) Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula
18:00-19:00
Opportunity to put up posters

Tuesday, June 27
08:30-09:10
T. Gaisser (Bartol) Origin of Cosmic Rays
09:10-09:50
F. Halzen (Univ. of Wisconsin) High Energy Neutrino Astronomy
09:50-10:20
L. O'C. Drury (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies) Diffusive Shock Acceleration in SNRs
Coffee Break
10:40-11:10
A. Achterberg (Utrecht Univ.) Particle Acceleration by Relativistic Shocks
11:10-11:40
J. Arons (Berkeley) Pulsar Wind Termination Shocks
11:40-12:10
T. Jones (Univ. of Minnesota) Winds and Accretion Shocks in Cluster of Galaxies

Lunch
 
14:10-14:40
D. Thompson (NASA/GSFC) Gamma-Ray Pulsars: Observations
14:40-15:10
A. Harding (NASA/GSFC) Gamma-Ray Pulsars: Theory
15:10-15:30
O. C. de Jager (Potchefstroom Univ.) Gamma Radiation of Pulsar-Driven Nebulae
15:30-15:50
S. Bogovalov (MEPHI, Moscow) Gamma Rays from Unshocked Pulsar Winds
15:50-16:10
L. Ball (Univ. of Sydney) Gamma Radiation of Binary Pulsars
Coffee Break
16:30-17:00
S. Hunter (NASA/GSFC)) Gamma-Radiation from the Galactic Disk
17:00-17:30
I. Grenier (University of Paris VII) Possible Sites for the Unidentified EGRET Sources
17:30-18:00
C. Dermer (Naval Research Lab.) Unidentified EGRET Sources and New Classes of GeV/TeV Emitters
18:00-19:00
Poster Session

Wednesday, June 28
08:30-09:10
F. Mirabel (CEA, Saclay) Microquasars: Overview
09:10-09:30
R. Fender (Univ. of Amsterdam) Hard X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Emission from Relativistic Jets in X-Ray Binaries
09:30-09:50
S. Chakrabarty (Bose Centre, Calcutta) Formation Jets from Shock Compressed Accretion Flows
09:50-10:10
A. Atoyan (YERPHI, Yerevan) High Energy Gamma-Rays Expected from Microquasars
10:10-11:00
Poster Session ( + Coffee)
11:00-13:00
Mini-Workshop The Sensitivity Threshold of Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astronomy

Lunch
 
14:30-17:00
Mini-Workshop on Sensitivity Threshold
17:00-18:00
Poster Session ( + Coffee)
 
19:30
Banquet

Thursday, June 29
08:30-09:10
G. V. Bicknell(ANU Astroph. Theory Centre, Canberra) Radiogalaxies and AGN: Overview
09:10-09:50
M. Sikora (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center) Theory of Gamma-Ray Blazars: Overview
09:50-10:10
R. Schlickeiser (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Kinetic Theory of Relativistic Collisionless Shocks in AGN Jets
10:10-10:30
K. Tsinganos (Univ. of Crete)Magnetohydrodynamic Origin of AGN Jets
Coffee Break
10:50-11:10
G. Pelletier (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Grenoble) Particle Acceleration and Gamma-Ray Production in AGN Jets
11:10-11:30
D. Kazanas (NASA/GSFC) Neutrinos from AGN
11:30-11:50
S. Wagner (Landessternwarte, Heidelberg) Multiwavelength Properties of Blazars
11:50-12:10
R. Mukherjee (Barnard College, Columbia Univ.) GeV (EGRET) Blazars
12:10-12:30
R. Sambruna (Pennsylvania State Univ.) Red and Blue Blazars
12:30-12:50
T. Takahashi (ISAS, Kanagawa) X-Ray studies of Blazars

Lunch
 
14:30-17:30
Mini-Workshop Gamma-Ray Blazars
 
18:00-21:00
Neckar Cruise

Friday, June 30
08:30-09:10
J. L. Puget (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale) Diffuse Cosmic Background Radiation
09:10-09:50
P. Kronberg (Univ. of Toronto) Intergalactic Magnetic Fields and Implications for Cosmic-Ray and Gamma-Ray Astronomy
09:50-10:20
J. Primack (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz)Probing Galaxy Formation with High Energy Gamma-Rays
Coffee Break
10:40-11:10
R. J. Protheroe (Univ. of Adelaide) Gamma-Rays from Dark Matter
11:10-11:40
Y. Rephaeli (Tel Aviv University) High Energy X-Ray Emission and Nonthermal Phenomena in Clusters of Galaxies
11:40-12:10
V. Ptuskin (IZMIRAN, Moscow) High Energy Cosmic Rays and Gamma Rays in Clusters of Galaxies

Lunch
 
14:10-14:30
B. Dingus (Univ. of Utah) The Highest Energy Gamma Rays Detected from Gamma-Ray Bursts
14:30-14:50
K. Mannheim (Universität Göttingen) Neutrinos from GRBs
14:50-15:10
E. Derishev (Univ. of Novgorod) High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission expected from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Coffee Break
15:30-15:50
M. Pohl (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) The Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background
15:50-16:10
V. Vassiliev (SAO) Intergalactic Absorption Features in the Spectra of Gamma Radiation from Distant Extragalactic Sources
16:10-16:30
P. Coppi (Yale)Propagation of Gamma-Rays in the Intergalactic Magnetic and Photon Fields
16:30-17:00
NN Concluding Remarks