Aim

Exploration of the high-energy Universe is making dramatic progress in recent years. X-ray and gamma-ray observations are revealing new sources in an exponential fashion. The observations of cosmic rays have also achieved great precision. We have also witnessed the discovery of high-energy neutrinos traveling from the extragalactic Universe. In addition, direct detection of gravitational waves is on the horizon. Most of these cosmic multi-messengers are powered by central engines, such as black holes and neutron stars. Theoretical understanding of central engines and related processes is vital in these exciting fields of high-energy astrophysics and astroparticle physics. In order to exchange new ideas, we organize this school-like workshop as part of annual activities in KEK.

This school-like workshop consists of lectures and short talks. We invite renowned lecturers and each of them will give us 3 or 4 lectures (~80 min/lecture). Some lectures will be given on the whiteboard. We have also short talks to encourage communication among participants. The total number of participants are limited to about 40. The main participants are expected to be PhD course students and postdocs.

  • Relativistic jet
  • Black hole and disk
  • Stellar explosion
  • Particle acceleration

Invited Lecturers (* to be confirmed)

Martin Lemoine (IAP)
Amir Levinson (Tel Aviv)
Christopher D. Matzner (Toronto)
Aleksander Sadowski (MIT)

Particle acceleration
Relativistic jet
Stellar explosion
Black hole and disk

Confirmed Invited Speakers of Short Talks

Aya Bamba (Aoyama)
Takashi Hosokawa (Tokyo)
Yoshiyuki Inoue (JAXA)
Norita Kawanaka (Tokyo)
Akira Mizuta (Riken)
Yutaka Ohira (Aoyama)
Yuichiro Sekiguchi (Toho)


SOC

Katsuaki Asano (ICRR)
Kunihito Ioka (KEK)
Shota Kisaka (KEK)
Hideo Kodama (KEK)
Kazunori Kohri (KEK)
Sanshiro Shibata (KEK)
Ryo Yamazaki (Aoyama)

LOC

Kunihito Ioka (KEK)
Shota Kisaka (KEK)
Hideo Kodama (KEK)
Kazunori Kohri (KEK)
Sanshiro Shibata (KEK)

Contact

Secretary: Junko Ishida <junko (at) post.kek.jp>
Theory Center, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Studies
KEK (High Energy Accelerator Research Organization)
1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan

Supported by

KEK
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 26287051
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research 24000004
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas 24103006
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A) 26247042