CLAF/ICTP-SAIFR Latin-American Astroparticle Physics School

 

August 11 – 15, 2025

ICTP-SAIFR, São Paulo, Brazil

ICTP-SAIFR/IFT-UNESP

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Astroparticle Physics is undergoing a major global revolution, with a number of breakthrough results coming from currently operational or recently-upgraded facilities, and with the near-future construction of new observatories for ground-based gamma-ray astronomy and astrophysical neutrinos. Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, which explores the universe over a broad energy range from 30 GeV to beyond the PeV scale, has established itself as the cornerstone of the field, studying the role of cosmic rays in astrophysics, searching for dark matter and probing fundamental physics in space.
 
The currently operational Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) and the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC), together with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) and the Southern Wide-Field Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO), whose start of construction is expected as early as 2026, will form a worldwide network surveying the entire sky with almost continuous coverage in the search for the most energetic phenomena in the universe. Both HAWC, located in Mexico, and CTAO and SWGO, which will have sites in Chile, involve a large number of Latin-American researchers from dozens of institutes across the continent, making the field particularly attractive for students and young researchers from the region.

The purpose of this school, which is jointly organised by the Latin-American Center for Physics (CLAF) and the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) is to train Latin-American students in the science and tools of these two major facilities for astroparticle physics on the continent, covering a broad range of topics from Multi-Messenger to High-Energy Astrophysics. The students will also have the chance to work directly with the tools developed for CTAO and SWGO data analysis, through dedicated hands-on training activities and proposed challenge-projects. 

This event will occur after the V Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology and the IX High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO IX in Rio) Conference.

Organisers:

  • Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF & CLAF, Brazil)
  • Carola Dobrigkeit (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  • Claudio Dib (UTFSM, Chile)
  • Gustavo E. Romero (IAR, Argentina)
  • Rogério Rosenfeld (IFT-UNESP & ICTP-SAIFR, Brazil)

There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for travel and local expenses.

 

 

 

Click HERE for online application
Application deadline: May 29, 2025

Lecturers

Lecturers

  • Rafael Alves-Batista (IAP, France): UHE Cosmic-Rays
  • Elisabetta Bissaldi (INFN and University of Bari, Italy): TeV GRBs and Gravitational Waves
  • Markus Boettcher (NWU, South Africa): AGNs and Multi-Messenger Neutrinos
  • Michele Doro (INFN and University of Padova, Italy): Dark Matter & Fundamental Physics
  • Gustavo Romero (IAR, Argentina): TeV Galactic Astrophysics
Seminars
  • (TBC) Felix Aharonian (DIAS, Ireland) or Min Zha (IHEP, China): Air-Shower Arrays – LHAASO
  • Ulisses Barres de Almeida (CBPF, Brazil): Overview of VHE Gamma-ray Astronomy
Hands-on Activity
  • Raniere de Menezes (CBPF, Brazil): CTAO and SWGO Analysis Tools

 

Posters

 

 

Registration

 

 

Click HERE for online application
Application deadline: May 29, 2025

Program

TBA

 The schedule might be changed.

Additional Information

Attention! Some participants in ICTP-SAIFR activities have received email from fake travel agencies asking for credit card information. All communication with participants will be made by ICTP-SAIFR staff using an e-mail “@ictp-saifr.org”. We will not send any mailings about accommodation that require a credit card number or any sort of deposit. Also, if you are staying at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista, please confirm with the Uber/Taxi driver that the hotel is located at Rua Pamplona 83 in Bela Vista (and not in Jardim Etelvina).

BOARDING PASS: All participants, whose travel has been provided or will be reimbursed by ICTP-SAIFR, should bring the boarding pass  upon registration. The return boarding pass (PDF, if online check-in, scan or picture, if physical) should be sent to secretary@ictp-saifr.org by e-mail.

Visa information: Nationals from several countries in Latin America and Europe are exempt from tourist visa. Nationals from Australia, Canada and USA will be required to obtain a tourist e-visa for visits after April 10, 2025. Please check here which nationals need a tourist visa to enter Brazil.

Accommodation: Participants, whose accommodation will be provided by the institute, will stay at Hotel Intercity the Universe Paulista. Hotel recommendations are available here.

Poster presentation: Participants who are presenting a poster MUST BRING A PRINTED BANNER . The banner size should be at most 1 m (width) x 1,5 m (length). We do not accept A4 or A3 paper.