Kick-off Workshop

27 Oct 2019, 19:00 → 28 Oct 2019, 20:00 Europe/Berlin

Weizmann Institute of Science

Helmholtz Weizmann International School on Multimessenger Astronomy:

Kick-off Workshop

 

Important dates

Kick-off Event 28 October 2019

Additional Events:

• Excursion of students (Sunday, the 27th)
• Formal dinner at WIS (sunday, 27th at 19h) with opening speeches

 

Location

The Kick-off Workshop will take place at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, Rehovot.

Don't hesitate to contact the organizers, if you have questions.

 

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Sunday, 27 October

19:00 → 21:00 Dinner with Opening Speaches

Prof. Dr. Daniel Zajfman, WIS president
Prof. Dr. Otmar Wiestler, president of the Helmholtz association
Prof. Dr. Gilad Perez, WIS physics PhD school director
Prof. Dr. Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors

Monday, 28 October

09:00 → 09:30 Welcome

Welcome notes

09:10 Welcome adress

Speaker: Prof. Christian Stegmann (DESY)

09:30 → 10:30 Introduction to the School

09:30 Introduction to the Helmholtz Weizmann International School on Multimessenger Astronomy

Speaker: Marek Kowalski

10:00 Open questions in Multimessenger Astronomy

Speaker: Eli Waxman

10:30 → 11:00 Group picture and Coffee

11:00 → 12:00 PhDs in Multimessenger Astronomy

11:00 Gamma-ray Burst modeling in a multi-messenger context

Speaker: Annika Rudolph

11:15 Neutrino Astronomy with IceCube

Speaker: Robert Stein

12:00 → 14:00 WIS tour and Networking Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Dedicate to research topics connected to ULTRASAT

We plan for about short ~3-5 presentations by students and advisors presenting the newly established thesis projects and seeding broad and open discussion.

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee

16:00 → 17:00 MM School PI meeting

16:00 → 17:00 MM School students meeting

18:00 → 19:30 Reception