6th Hel.A.S. Astrophysics Summer School

24 Aug 2026, 09:00 → 28 Aug 2026, 18:00 Europe/Athens

Department of Physics, NKUA

Description

The Hellenic Astronomical Society (Hel.A.S.), in collaboration with the  Department of Physics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), under the initiative to offer knowledge and scientific training to the younger members, graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers of the Society, is organizing the 6^th Summer School on "Multi-messenger Astronomy".

The main topics to be addressed are: 

• Gravitational waves
• Cosmic rays at low and ultra high energies
• Astrophysical neutrinos 
• Gamma-rays and X-rays
• Machine learning and deep learning applications 
  
  

Confirmed lecturers (alphabetical order): 

• Sara Buson (University of Wurzburg/DESY Zeuthen, Germany)
• Matteo Cerruti (APC University Paris Cite, France)
• Maria Gerontidou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 
• Nikolaos Karnesis (National Observatory of Athens, Greece) 
• Foteini Oikonomou (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway) 
• Maria Petropoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
• Niharika Sravan (Drexel University, USA)
• Katerina Tzamarioudaki (NCSR Demokritos, Greece)
• Georgios Vasilopoulos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) 

 

Sponsors

Monday 24 August

09:00 → 09:30 Registration with coffee

09:30 → 09:45 Welcoming address by HelAS President

09:45 → 11:00 Summer School Jamboree

Round-table introduction of participants

11:00 → 12:00 Lectures: Astrophysics with VHE gamma-rays (CTA) - M. Cerruti

12:00 → 13:00 Lectures: Astrophysics with GeV gamma rays (Fermi) - S. Buson

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 15:30 Lectures: X-ray missions current and future - G. Vasilopoulos

15:30 → 16:30 Lectures: VHE gamma-ray detection and analysis - M. Cerruti

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:30 Labs: GammaPy - M. Cerruti

Tuesday 25 August

09:00 → 10:00 Lectures: UHECRs: experimental results and astrophysical importance - F. Oikonomou

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:30 Lectures: Astrophysical sources of UHECRs - F. Oikonomou

11:30 → 12:30 Lectures: Astrophysical high-energy neutrinos - M. Petropoulou

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Student Talks

15:00 → 16:00 Lectures: Modeling of astrophysical neutrino sources - M. Petropoulou

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Labs: Source modeling with LeHaMoC - M. Petropoulou

Wednesday 26 August

09:00 → 10:00 Lectures: Cross correlation studies of neutrino and gamma-ray sources - S. Buson

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:30 Labs: TBD - S. Buson

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Student Talks

15:00 → 16:00 Lectures: X-ray time-domain astrophysics - G. Vasilopoulos

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Labs: Transient source characterization - G. Vasilopoulos

Thursday 27 August

09:30 → 10:30 Lectures: Gravitational waves and astrophysical importance - N. Karnesis

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Lectures: Gravitational wave detection and analysis - N. Karnesis

12:00 → 13:00 Student Talks

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:30 Labs: Gravitational wave analysis - N. Karnesis

16:30 → 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 → 18:00 Lectures: Cosmic Rays at Earth - M. Gerontidou

18:00 → 19:30 Visit to the Neutron Monitoring Station

Friday 28 August

09:30 → 10:30 Lectures: Neutrino detectors - K. Tzamarioudaki

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Lectures: Astrophysical neutrinos with KM3NeT - K. Tzamarioudaki

12:00 → 13:00 Lectures: Astrophysical counterparts of GW sources - N. Sravan

13:00 → 14:30 Lunch Break

14:30 → 16:30 Labs: GW counterpart identification - N. Sravan

16:30 → 17:00 Closing remarks