Monitoring the high-energy sky with small satellites
2022 September 6-8
Brno, Czech Republic
Location
Brno is the second-largest city in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the South Moravian Region with a population of almost 400.000 people. It is a modern city with a focus on high-technology industry, trade, science, information technology, research, and innovation with business incubators and centres of excellence in science. Brno is a city of universities with more than 86,000 students and 3 university campuses. Most of the Czech space industrial companies are located in the Brno technological park. It is a dynamic lively city with plenty of restaurants, shops, and cultural centres.
Venue
The Brno Observatory and Planetarium is a modern and architecturally beautiful venue in a hilltop park, with great views, in the middle of Brno, is ideal for medium size conferences. It provides modern audiovisual equipment, excellent Wi-Fi connection, and additional rooms for side meetings and discussions. The venue provides much-needed flexibility, including the possibility of organising a hybrid event, with part of the participants connected remotely.
Travel
While Brno only has a small international airport, it has direct train/bus connections to larger airports in nearby Vienna and Prague. Both Flixbus and Regiojet operate frequent buses between Vienna Airport and Brno, as well as between Brno and Prague. For trains, please check out the website of the Czech railways . Regiojet also operates trains. If you would need to get to Vienna early in the morning, it is possible to get a taxi for around 140 EUR.
The Main Railway station (Brno Hlavní nádraží) is located in the city center close to Náměstí Svobody. When you travel from Brno Hlavní nádraží to the meeting venue - Observatory and Planetarium Brno (Hvězdárna a planetárium Brno) - the easiest is to take tram number 4 to the square at the top of Kraví hora - Náměstí Míru. The Brno Planetarium and Observatory is then within 5 minutes of walking distance across the nearby park (see the map below).
Regarding COVID-19, there are no restrictions or obligations to enter the Czech Republic. The obligation to prove infection-free status has been suspended, masks are not required in shops, public places, and public transport. However, we would like to remind you that participation at events with a large number of people presents an increased risk for COVID-19 transmission.
To limit the transmission risk, we recommend the following guidelines:
anyone experiencing symptoms (fever, cough, etc.) should get tested as soon as possible and only enter the venue with a negative test result and having a mask on
we encourage participants to bring their own self-test kit (or to buy one upon arrival) and to get tested before the start of the conference
the use of masks is not required, but recommended inside the venue
Program
Tuesday, September 6
Chair:Andrea Sanna
8:55-9:00 Norbert Werner - Welcome notes
9:00-9:30 Elisabetta Bissaldi - Gamma Ray Burst Science
9:30-10:00 Oli Roberts - Magnetars and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
10:00-10:30 Michele Lavagna - Distributed architectures in high-energy astrophysics
Coffee Break 30 min
Chair:Varun Bhalerao
11:00-11:15 Fabrizio Fiore - HERMES
11:15-11:30 Jeremy Perkins - BurstCube
11:30-11:45 Ming Zeng - GRID
11:45-12:00 Jakub Ripa - GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2
12:00-12:15 Roi Rahin - GALI
12:15-12:30 Rachel Dunwoody - EIRSAT-1
Lunch (12:30 - 13:50)
Chair:Fabrizio Fiore
13:50-14:10 Leo Singer - New GCN
14:10-14:30 Eric Burns - Joint Localization between gamma-rays & GW, new IPN
14:30-14:50 Israel Martinez - Pipelines and response functions
14:50-15:10 Adam Goldstein - GBM data analysis tools
15:10-15:30 Aaron Tohuvavohu - Follow-up coordination
15:30:15:50 Martin Jelinek - GRB followup with robotic telescopes
Coffee break 20 min
Chair:Ehud Behar
16:10-16:30 Klaus Schilling - Satellite formations for astronomical observations
16:30-16:50 Robert Mearns - Overview of inter-satellite communication (challenges and opportunities)
16:50-17:10 András Pál - The SatNOGS network
17:10-17:30 Fabrizio Fiore - A new equatorial ground station for HERMES and small HEA missions
Wednesday, September 7
Chair:Jeremy Perkins
9:00-9:15 Matthew Kerr - GlowBug
9:15-9:30 Adam Goldstein - MoonBeam
9:30-9:45 Hsiang-Kuang Chang - GTM
9:45-10:00 Dan Kocevski - Starburst
10:00-10:15 Abe Falcone - BlackCAT
10:15-10:30 Norbert Werner - QUVIK
Coffee Break 30 min
Chair:Sheila McBreen
11:00-11:20 Hiromitsu Takahashi - In-orbit degradation of the Hamamatsu MPPCs (SiPMs)
11:20-11:40 Lee Mitchell - Low-Earth background and SiPM detectors
11:40-12:00 David Murphy - Authorisations and other paper-work challenges
12:00-12:20 Ming Zeng - Educational experience with the GRID mission
12:20-12:40 Lorraine Hanlon - Educational experience with the EIRSAT-1 mission
Chair:Judith Racusin
15:45-16:00 Michael Briggs - Fermi GBM GRB localization algorithm
16:00-16:15 Michael Burges - A statistical approach to GRB triangulation
16:15-16:30 Sharon Mitrani - Sky localization of long gamma ray bursts from an orbiting satellite
Moving to Mendel’s monastery, visit and dinner in a nearby brewery
Chair:Andras Pal
11:00-11:15 Stéphane Schanne - SVOM
11:15-11:30 Andrew Inglis - Solar flare science with smallsats: possibilities and challenges
11:30-11:45 Lian Tao - Introducing CATCH: the Chasing All Transients Constellation Hunters
11:45-12:00 Julia Salh - The GALI-ISS Mission - a Gamma-ray Burst Localizing Instrument
12:00-12:15 Philippe Laurent - COMPOL: a gamma-ray polarimeter in a 3U nanosat
12:15-12:30 Alexey Uliyanov - The COMCUBE project for GRB polarimetry
Lunch (12:30 - 14:00)
Thursday (14:00 - 15:00): Breakout Session 1
Coffee (15:00-15:10)
Thursday (15:10 - 16:10): Breakout Session 2
Thursday (16:10 - 17:30): Reports from the Breakout and discussion (80 min)
Topics of breakout session focussed on standardisation:
Group 1: Data Sharing (common formats etc.)
Group 2: Communications (Including utilisation of amateur networks)
Group 3: Hardware development
Group 4: Software Development
Science Organizing Committee
Ehud Behar (Technion)
Varun Bhalerao (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay)
Abe Falcone (Penn State)
Fabrizio Fiore (INAF Trieste)
Sheila McBreen (University College Dublin)
Andras Pal (Konkoly Observatory)
Jeremy Perkins (NASA GSFC)
Judith Racusin (NASA GSFC)
Andrea Sanna (University of Cagliari)
Michele Trenti (University of Melbourne)
Norbert Werner (Masaryk University)
Yoichi Yatsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Ming Zeng (Tsingua University)
Lolowa Alkindi (NYU Abu Dhabi) - Online
Jean-Luc Atteia (IRAP - Toulouse - France) - Online
Merlin Barschke (DESY) - Online
Ehud Behar (Technion) - In person
Varun Bhalerao (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) - In person
Elisabetta Bissaldi (Politecnico and INFN Bari) - In person
Terri Brandt (NASA Headquarters ) - Online
Jean-Paul Breuer (Masaryk University) - In person
Michael Briggs (University of Alabama in Huntsville) - In person
J. Michael Burgess (MPE) - In person
Eric Burns (Louisiana State University) - In person
Hsiang-Kuang Chang (National Tsing Hua University) - In person
Vladimír Dániel (Czech Aerospace Research Centre) - In person
Cuán de Barra (University College Dublin ) - In person
Jan Dražka (VZLU) - In person
Rachel Dunwoody (University College Dublin) - In person
Abe Falcone (Penn State) - Online
Fabrizio Fiore (INAF Trieste) - In person
Afshin Foroutan (Department of Physics Sharif University of Technology) - Online
Yatsushi Fukazawa (Hiroshima University) - In person
Abhijeet Ghodgaonkar (IITB) - Online
Olivier Godet (IRAP) - Online
Adam Goldstein (USRA) - In person
Alejandro Guzman (Tübingen University) - In person
Lorraine Hanlon (University College Dublin ) - In person
Rupali Hatte (University of Mumbai ) - Online
Paul James Hedderman (University of Tübingen) - In person
Michelle Hui (NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center) - Online
Andrew Inglis (The Catholic University of America / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - In person
Martin Javorka (Zaitra) - In person
Martin Jelinek (Astronomical Insitute of the Czech Republic) - In person
Jakub Kapus (Spacemanic) - In person
Taishu Kayanoki (Hiroshima University) - In person
Matthew Kerr (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Online
Daniel Kocevski (NASA) - In person
Merlin Kole (University of Geneva) - In person
Irfan Kuvvetli (DTU Space, Technical University of Denmark) - Online
Jakub Lajmon (GROUNDCOM.SPACE) - In person
Philippe Laurent (CEA/DRF/IRFU/DAp) - Online
Michele Lavagna (POLIMI) - In person
Václav Lazar (Brno University of Technology) - In person
Giulio Lucchetta (IFAE-BIST) - In person
Joseph Mangan (University College Dublin) - In person
Israel Martinez-Castellanos (UMD/NASA-GSFC) - In person
Sujay Mate (TIFR Mumbai) - Online
Sheila McBreen (University College Dublin) - In person
Robert Mearns (University of Melbourne) - In person
Laszlo Meszaros (Konkoly Observatory) - In person
Lee Mitchell (US Naval Research Laboratory) - Online
Sharon Mitrani (Technion) - In person
Teruaki Morishita (Hiroshima University) - In person
Filip Munz (Masaryk University) - In person
David Murphy (University College Dublin ) - In person
Ryota Niwa (Hiroshima university) - In person
Pi Nuessle (NASA Goddard/George Washington University) - In person
Andras Pal (Konkoly Observatory) - In person
Igor Paulíček (GROUNDCOM.SPACE) - In person
Jeremy Perkins (NASA GSFC) - In person
Samuel Pliego Caballero (University of Tübingen) - In person
Tomáš Plšek (Masaryk University) - In person
Nicolas Produit (university of Geneva) - In person
Judith Racusin (NASA/GSFC) - In person
Roi Rahin (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology) - In person
Alessandro Riggio (Università degli Studi di Cagliari) - Online
Jakub Ripa (Masaryk University) - In person
Oli Roberts (NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center) - In person
Julia Salh (Technion) - In person
Andrea Sanna (University of Cagliari) - In person
Stéphane Schanne (CEA) - In person
Klaus Schilling (Zentrum für Telematik) - Online
Leo Singer (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) - In person
Hiromitsu Takahashi (Hiroshima University) - In person
Lian Tao (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) - Online
Aaron Tohuvavohu (University of Toronto) - In person
Michele Trenti (University of Melbourne) - Online
Anastasia Tsvetkova (University of Cagliari) - Online
Alexey Uliyanov (University College Dublin) - In person
Inna Uwarowa (SAB Aerospace s.r.o.) - In person
Jan Vaclavik (TOPTEC) - In person
Jan Vaverka (SAB Aerospace) - In person
Norbert Werner (Masaryk University) - In person
Shaolin Xiong (Institute of High Energy Physics) - Online
Kazutaka Yamaoka (Nagoya Univ. ) - Online
Yoichi Yatsu (Tokyo Institute of Technology) - Online
Michal Zajaček (Masaryk University) - In person
Ming Zeng (Tsingua University) - Online
Location
Brno Observatory and Planetarium
Kraví hora 522/2, 616 00 Brno-střed Czech Republic