The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is jointly developed by the United States, France, Italy, Japan and Sweden and was launched on June 11, 2008. It has two instruments: the Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). It is the unique satellite on-orbit in GeV band and provides excellent opportunities for the study of high-energy radiations of celestial phenomena.
The "Fermi Asian Network Workshop (FAN)" was established in 2010 to promote collaborations among the high energy astrophysicists in Asia with particular focus on using the data obtained with Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for observational and theoretical investigations. It has been successfully held alternately among Chinese Hong Kong, Chinese Taiwan, China mainland areas and South Korea in the past few years. In light of recently released 4FGL catalog using 8-years’ of LAT data, and to review our recent efforts and expand our collaboration, we will hold the 8th Fermi Asian Network Workshop (FAN8), in Zhuhai, China.
We invite participations from all astronomers interested in high energy astrophysics, particularly in Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations and related theoretical investigations. Senior and young astrophysicists, as well as undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to participate.
Main Topics
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Gravitational wave bursts and gamma-ray bursts
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Compact binaries and space-borne gravitational wave detection
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Rotation-powered pulsars and their wind nebulae
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Gamma-ray binaries
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Supernova remnants
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AGN / Galactic Center
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Gamma-ray transients
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Unidentified Fermi Objects
The workshop includes: A training on Fermi-LAT data analysis
Meeting Format
The workshop will be organized in several main SESSIONS in the first two or three days, followed by TRAINING, DISCUSSIONS and CAMPUS VISIT in the last days.
Invited Speakers
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Masahiro Teshima University of Tokyo
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Regina Caputo NASA
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Massimiliano Razzano University of Pisa
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Liming Song IHEP
Scientific Organizing Committee (SOC)
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K. S. Cheng (Co-Chair) University of Hong Kong
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Albert K. H. Kong National Tsing Hua University
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Pablo Saz Pakinson University of Hong Kong
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Jumpei Takata Huazhong Univisity of Science and Technology
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David C. Y. Hui Chungnam National University
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Stephen C. Y. Ng University of Hong Kong
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Xian Hou Yunnan Observatories, CAS, China
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Thomas P. H. Tam (Co-Chair) Sun Yat-Sen University
Local Organizing Committee (LOC):
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Thomas P. H. Tam
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Lili Yang
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Yudong Cui
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Partha Sarathi Pal
Sponsors
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National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
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Sun Yat-sen University, China
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