First results from
Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Saturday March 7, 2009, Tokyo Tech, Ookayama, Tokyo, Japan

PROGRAM

Time

Title or topic

Speaker

09:55 Opening Nobuyuki Kawai (Tokyo Tech)

Fermi mission

10:00 Japanese contribution: Development of Silicon sensor for LAT Takashi Ohsugi (Hiroshima)
10:10 LAT Overview Peter Michelson (Stanford)
10:30 Key Features of the LAT Design and Performance Bill Atwood (UC Santa Cruz)
10:50 Fermi Gamma Burst Monitor Overview Valerie Connaughton (UA Huntsville)
11:10 Mission Overview and Data Release Plans Steve Ritz (NASA/GSFC)

Fermi science

11:30 Pulsar results Kent Wood (NRL)
12:05 TeV connection +PWN/SNR Stefan Funk (Stanford)
12:30-13:30

Lunch break

13:30 AGN Gino Tosti (INFN Perugia)
14:05 GRB Jonathan Granot (Hertfordshire)
14:40 Binaries Takaaki Tanaka (Stanford)
15:05-15:25

Tea break

15:25 Dark matter and new physics Simona Murgia (SLAC/KIPAC)
15:50 Galactic diffuse gamma rays Troy Porter (UC Santa Cruz)

Japanese programs and science

16:20 CALET: HE CR electrons Shoji Torii (Waseda)
16:45 Molecular clouds radio survey Toshikazu Ohnishi (Nagoya)
17:10 Suzaku (Galactic diffuse X-rays) Aya Bamba (ISAS/JAXA)
17:35 MAXI: X-ray ASM Tatehiro Mihara (RIKEN)
18:00 end of the meeting
18:30-20:30

Buffet reception at 100th Anniversary Hall