Aim

Exploration of the high-energy Universe has experienced dramatic progress in recent years, spearheaded by the latest generation of X-ray and gamma-ray instruments. This trend looks to continue in the next decades, with a variety of advanced, new facilities being planned. Although the scientific link between the neighboring energy bands of X-rays and gamma rays has been invariably crucial, the growth and diversification of the fields has meant that the inter-communication nowadays among the respective communities is not always ideal. With a special focus on next-generation observatories of the near future such as the Cherenkov Telescope Array and ASTRO-H, this workshop aims to bring together experts in X-ray and gamma-ray astrophysics, in order to overview the latest observational and theoretical developments and intensify the inherently synergistic interplay between these fields.

  • Gamma-ray universe: HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS, Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), etc.
  • X-ray universe: Chandra, XMM-Newton, Suzaku, NuStar, ASTRO-H, MAXI, etc.
  • Theory
  • Galactic sources: Supernova remnant, Pulsar, Pulsar wind nebula, Binary, Galactic center, Fermi bubble
  • Extragalactic sources: Gamma-ray burst, Active galactic nucleus, Star burst galaxy, Cluster, Background, Cosmic ray, Dark matter

Invited Speakers (* to be confirmed)

Shinichiro Ando (GRAPPA)
Gianfranco Brunetti (INAF)
Joseph Gelfand (NYU)
Alice K. Harding (NASA/GSFC)
Fiona A. Harrison (Caltech)
Yoshiyuki Inoue (SLAC)
Nobuyuki Kawai (Titech)
Jun Kataoka (Waseda)
Dmitry Khangulyan (JAXA)
Katsuji Koyama (Kyoto)

Brian Lacki (NRAO/IAS)
Kazuo Makishima (Tokyo)
Paul O'Brien (Leicester)
Gerd Puehlhofer (Tuebingen)
Anatoly Spitkovsky (Princeton)
Tadayuki Takahashi (JAXA)
Marco Tavani (IASF-Roma/INAF)
Masahiro Teshima (ICRR, MPP)
Yasunobu Uchiyama (Rikkyo)
Meg Urry (Yale)

SOC

Felix Aharonian (Dublin, MPI Heiderberg)
Aya Bamba (Aoyama)
Patrizia Caraveo (INAF)
Valerie Connaughton (NASA-MSFC)
Stefan Funk (SLAC)
Jim Hinton (Leicester)
Werner Hofmann (MPI)
Dieter Horns (Hamburg)
Susumu Inoue (MPIK/ICRR)
Kunihito Ioka (KEK; Chair)
Katsuji Koyama (Kyoto)
Henric Krawczynski (Washington)
Grzegorz M. Madejski (SLAC, KIPAC)
Kazuo Makishima (Tokyo)
 Hironori Matsumoto (Nagoya)
Koji Mori (Miyazaki)
Shigehiro Nagataki (RIKEN)
Patrick Slane (CfA)
Luigi Stella (INAF)
Tadayuki Takahashi (JAXA)
Yukikatsu Terada (Saitama)
Masahiro Teshima (ICRR, MPP)
Diego F. Torres (CSIC-IEEC, ICREA)
Tomonori Totani (Tokyo)
Meg Urry (Yale)
Jacco Vink (Amsterdam)
Stefan Wagner (MPI Heidelberg)
Roland Walter (Geneve)

LOC

Kunihito Ioka (KEK)
Kazunori Kohri (KEK)
Hajime Takami (KEK)
Tamao Shishido (KEK)

Contact

Secretary: Tamao Shishido <tamawo (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

The Fujihara Foundation of Science
European Union, within the Framework Programme 7: Preparatory Phase of the Cerenkov Telescope Array, INFRA-2010-2.2.10 / 262053
KEK