Name: From 9 to 40: the SST Telescopes and Gamma-Ray Science with ASTRI and CTAO
Start: 2026-07-20T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-07-24T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Haus Sexten

Monday, 20 July 2026
09:00 Introduction
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

09:00 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (Invited) - David Green (CTAO)

09:30 The ASTRI Mini-Array: Current Status of the Project (Invited) - Gino Tosti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 The CTA-SST project (Invited) - Gianpiero Tagliaferri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Congress House
11:00 The context of gamma-ray astronomy
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:00 Some Interesting Aspects of IACT Design, Also Relevant for Intensity Interferometry (Invited) - Razmik Mirzoyan (MPI Munich)

11:30 The context of gamma-ray astronomy from ground (Invited) - Ulisses Barres de Almeida (Brazilian Center for Physics Research (CBPF))

12:00 The context of gamma-ray astronomy from space (Invited) - Marco Tavani (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Congress House
14:00 IACT observations towards CTAO
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

14:00 First results from LST1 (Invited) - Alessandro Carosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:30 Early results from ASTRI (Invited) - Stefano Vercellone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

15:00 An Overview of the SST-1M Telescopes: Design, Calibration and Results (Invited) - Thomas Tavernier (FZU)
15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Congress House
16:00 Multi-wavelength synergies
16:00 - 17:35
Room: Congress House
Contributions

16:00 Jetted AGN at TeV: slopes, peaks and valleys from Hz to PeV (Invited) - Giulia Migliori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:30 Towards a renewed view of compact radio sources in the galactic plane - Marcello Giroletti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 ASTRI Mini-Array flying with Cygnus - Camilla Quartiroli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
09:00 Galactic sources under the eyes of SSTs
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

09:00 Exploring the Milky Way with LHAASO and LACT (Invited) - ruizhi yang

09:30 Supernova remnants and PeVatrons - Silvia Celli (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:50 Extended PeVatron candidates with ASTRI Mini-Array and CTAO - Alan Sunny (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:10 The Gamma-ray binaries as a primary scientific target for the ASTRI Mini-Array - Nicola La Palombara (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Congress House
11:00 Galactic sources under the eyes of SSTs
11:00 - 11:20
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:00 Extreme pulsars in the multi-TeV range - Giovanni Ceribella (MPI Munich)
11:20 Cameras, detectors and electronics
11:20 - 12:40
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:20 Status of the SST Camera (Invited) - Richard White

11:50 Mass Production and On-Site Deployment of the 10.4° Wide-Field SiPM Cherenkov Cameras for the ASTRI Mini-Array (Invited) - Giovanni Contino (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:20 QCAMi on Tenerife: Comparing Data to Simulations - Simon Lee (The University of Adelaide)
12:40 Lunch

12:40 - 14:40
Room: Congress House

14:40 Free afternoon

14:40 - 19:40
Room: Congress House
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
09:00 Extragalactic sources and emission models
09:00 - 10:10
Room: Congress House
Contributions

09:00 Extragalactic gamma-ray sources and hadronic models (Invited) - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)

09:30 Rapid blazar flares seen with ASTRI and CTAO - Andreas Zech (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris - PSL, CNRS, 5 pl. Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon)

09:50 ASTRI Mini-Array preliminary results on extra-galactic sources - Stefano Vercellone (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:10 Group picture

10:10 - 10:30
Room: Congress House

10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Congress House
11:00 Telescopes, optics and control
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:00 The Schwarzschild–Couder Optical Design of ASTRI: Opportunities and Challenges (Invited) - Giorgia Sironi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:30 Quality control activities during the manufacturing of the mechanical structures of the Small Size Telescopes for CTAO - Nicola La Palombara (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 The SCADA Software System of the ASTRI Mini-Array: Architecture, Control Workflow, and Operational Integration - Gabriele Panebianco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 Beyond ASTRI: the CTA++/ASTRI10 and Wi-FI SuperCAT projects - Giovanni Pareschi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Congress House
14:00 Highlight Talk
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Congress House
Contributions

14:00 The science of SSTs from ASTRI to CTAO-SST array (Highlight Talk) - Jim Hinton
15:00 Discussion

15:00 - 15:30
Room: Congress House

15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Congress House
16:00 Cosmic Rays and their accelerators
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

16:00 Key Processes in Cosmic-Ray and Gamma-Ray Acceleration and Propagation (Invited) - Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino

16:30 Probing Cosmic-Ray Diffusion Regimes and $\gamma$-ray emission in Young Massive Stellar Clusters with 3D MHD Simulations - Lucas Barreto-Mota (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofísica e Ciências Atmosféricas - Universidade de São Paulo)

16:50 Cosmic ray acceleration by turbulent magnetic reconnection in relativistic jets - Petros Stefanou (IAG-USP)
Thursday, 23 July 2026
09:00 Transient phenomena at TeV energies
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

09:00 Gamma-Ray Bursts at Very High Energies (VHE): entering a new era (Invited) - Davide Miceli (University & INFN Padova)

09:30 The ASTRI Mini-Array follow-up of transient events in the TeV band - Alessandro Carosi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

09:50 Reassessing high-energy emission correlations in gamma-ray bursts using a large, homogeneous sample of X-ray afterglows - Alessandro Armando Vigliano (University of Trieste - INFN Trieste)

10:10 Gamma-Ray Burst Pair Echoes as Probes of the Intergalactic Magnetic Field in the CTAO Era - Paolo Da Vela (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Congress House
11:00 Data Analysis
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:00 Analysis of IACT data in the ML era. (Invited) - Bruno Khelifi

11:30 Recent developments in the ASTRI Project simulation system - Fausto Casaburo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11:50 New time-based parameters for the ASTRI Mini-Array gamma/hadron discrimination - Valentina La Parola (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:10 Optical calibration of ASTRI Mini Array telescopes with muon rings - Teresa Mineo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 14:00
Room: Congress House
14:00 Large SST arrays under new perspectives
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

14:00 Stellar Intensity Interferometry: Past, Present, and Future Prospects with Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes (Invited) - Luca Zampieri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

14:30 Implementing very narrow-band, sub-nanosecond Intensity Interferometry on the ASTRI Mini-Array - Michele Fiori (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)) Michele Fiori (Università degli studi di Padova)

14:50 Divergent Subarray Pointing for Wide-Field VHE Multi-Messenger follow-up with CTAO-SST and ASTRI - Samanta Morales (INFN - Trieste)

15:10 The Color of Cherenkov Light - What can INDACO do for your TeV Universe? - Anna Wolter (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:00
Room: Congress House
16:00 Multi-messenger synergies
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

16:00 The landscape of multi-messenger astrophysics (Invited) - Maria Grazia Bernardini (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:30 When and Where to Look: Optimizing CTAO Observations of Gravitational wave counterparts - Antonio Stamerra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

16:50 "The Origin of Cosmic Rays: the importance of a "multi-community"" - Martina Cardillo (INAF- IAPS)
Friday, 24 July 2026
09:00 Fundamental physics at TeV energies
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Congress House
Contributions

09:00 Searching for LIV effects with SSTs (Invited) - Tomislav Terzić (University of Rijeka, Faculty of Physics)

09:30 Gamma-gamma interactions, the EBL & cosmological studies with SSTs - Alberto Franceschini (UNIPD)

10:00 Indirect dark-matter searches with gamma-rays experiments: status and future plans from 300 KeV to 100 TeV - Aldo Morselli (INFN Roma Tor Vergata) Aldo Morselli
10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00
Room: Congress House
11:00 Wrap up and Discussion
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Congress House
Contributions

11:00 Wrap-up talk & Discussion - TBD