For information about events and presentations about the ALTO/COMET project in particular, please also refer to this page.
2022
October 14
PhD thesis defence 13:00-16:00
Student: Tomas Bylund, Linnaeus University
Title: Seeking the faint extremes – Detection and characterisation of extragalactic soft-spectrum gamma-ray sources and exploring methods to enhance their detection with machine learning in the 50 GeV-50 TeV energy range
June 29
diiP Workshop Day: Data Intelligence Problems and Ideas
June 23
Master thesis presentation 13:00-14:00
Student: Luigino Capone, Linnaeus University
Title: Machine learning and statistical methods to search for cosmic neutrino sources
2021
December 8
diiP Projects and Networking Day 2021
December 6
DISA Seminar: Machine Learning for Astroparticle Physics
December 1
Big Data 2021, Linnaeus University.
October 21-22
Astronomdagarna 2021 organized by our group at Linnaeus University
September the 23rd
Bachelor thesis presentation 13:00-14:00
Student: Magnus Norén, Linnaeus University
Title: Measuring the vertical muon intensity with the ALTO prototype
Recording
June the 3rd
Bachelor thesis presentation 10:30-11:30
Student: Nadja Bollström, Linnaeus University
Title: A gamma-ray study of a highly variable blazar (PKS 1510–089)
Recording
April the 16th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Kathrin Valerius, KIT – Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
Title: Probing the neutrino mass with tritium beta decay
2020
December the 11th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Pat Romano, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy
Title: A multiwavelength view of jetted AGNs
Recording
December 3-4
Big Data 2020 conference presentations
- Applying deep learning on the complex geometry of the ALTO/COMET observatory by Gasper Kukec Mezek and Tomas Bylund
- Signal Extraction using Machine Learning for the ALTO observatory by Mohanraj Senniappan
- Gamma-Ray Astronomy at DISA by Yvonne Becherini
November the 27th
DISA seminar 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Jonas Glombitza, RWTH Aachen University
Title: Generative Adversarial Networks for Physics research
Recording Presentation
November 23-25
Partikeldagarna 2020 conference presentations
- Observing soft-spectrum gamma-ray sources with the future ALTO observatory by Mohanraj Senniappan
- The next step of ALTO: The Cosmic Multiperspective Event Tracker (COMET) by Gasper Kukec Mezek
November the 6th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: John Conway, Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology
Title: The Square Kilometre Array radio telescope
Recording
October the 23rd
DISA seminar 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Vesna Lukic, Vrije Universiteit, Brussel, Belgium
Title: Deep learning in radio astronomy
Recording
October the 20th
Bachelor thesis presentation 13:00-14:00
Student: Pierre Ohlsson, Linnaeus University
Title: Gamma-ray emission and Synchrotron Self-Compton modelling of the macrolensed Quasar PKS 1830-211
Recording
October the 9th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Gabriele Ghisellini, INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy
Title: The most explosive events after the Big Bang
Recording Presentation
September the 14th
PhD halfway seminar 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Mohanraj Senniappan, Linnaeus University
Title: Optimising the detection of soft-spectrum gamma-ray sources with day & night observations
Recording
September the 3rd
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 15:30-16:30
Lecturer: Michael Daniel, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
Title: Understanding the fine structure of the Universe by testing Lorentz invariance violation with very high energy gamma rays
Recording
August the 28th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Dmitry Prokhorov, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Title: The nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A, at very high energies
Recording
August the 26th
PhD halfway seminar 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Tomas Bylund, Linnaeus University
Title: Two blazars and the quest for soft-spectrum gamma-ray sources
Recording
August the 25th
Bachelor thesis presentation 14:00-15:00
Student: Amy Beijer, Linnaeus University
Title: Gamma-ray emission study and MWL modelling of the FSRQ 3C 454.3
Recording
July the 3rd
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:15
Lecturer: Matteo Cerruti, Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Title: Gamma-ray emission from Active Galactic Nuclei
Recording
June the 12th
DISA seminar 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Andrea Tramacere, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Numerical modelling of radiative and accelerative processes
Recording
February the 21st
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 13:15-14:30
Lecturer: Dainis Dravins, Lund Observatory, Sweden
Title: Cherenkov Telescope Array: Optical astronomy & intensity interferometry
Recording
January the 23rd
“Swedish GammaPy day” consisting in two events:
DISA seminar 10:30-11:30
Lecturer: Bruno Khelifi. Astroparticule et Cosmologie, Paris, France
Title: Gammapy, an open-source software package to model and fit high-energy data
Recording
Hands-on tutorial 13:00-16:00
Lecturer: Bruno Khelifi, Astroparticule et Cosmologie Laboratory, Paris, France
Title: Open science to analyse astrophysical high-energy data with Gammapy
2019
December 5-6
Big Data 2019 conference at Linnaeus University
Blog post:
Big Data 2019 and Open Science tutorial
October 24-26
Astronomdagarna 2019
October the 22nd
Master thesis presentation 10:00-11:00
Student: Nora Valtonen-Mattila, Linnaeus University
Title: High energy gamma-ray behaviour of a potential astrophysical neutrino source: the case of TXS 0506+056
Recording
October the 4th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 10:00-11:00
Lecturer: Stefano Vercellone, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy
Title: The highest energy photons from the Universe
Recording
October 2-3
Partikeldagarna 2019
April the 10th, 2019
Gathering 15h00-16h00
Event Horizon Telescope announcement
April 6-7
Special Hackathon event
Open Science Hackathon at Linnaeus University
Blog posts:
Open Science Hackathon, April 2019
Big Data Hackathon updates
Open Science Hackathon winners!
February the 18th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 14:45-15:45
Lecturer: Martin Tluczykont, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Title: Detecting the highest energy photons from the Universe with HiSCORE-TAIGA
Recording
2018
November 29-30
Big Data 2018 conference at Linnaeus University
October 16-18
Partikeldagarna 2018
2017
December the 1st
Big Data 2017 conference at Linnaeus University
November 6-7
Partikeldagarna 2017
March the 6th
Seminar 10:30-11:30
Lecturer: Colin Carlile
Title: What can business learn from a physics professor?
2016
December the 8th
Big Data 2016 conference at Linnaeus University
October 27-28
Partikeldagarna 2016
April 18-22
International Collaboration Meeting
HESS Spring Collaboration meeting
2014
May the 16th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 14:00-15:00
Lecturer: Gus Sinnis, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Title: Astronomy at a TeraVolt with the HAWC observatory
February the 7th
Linnaeus Physics Colloquium 14:00-15:00
Lecturer: Michael Punch, (CNRS/IN2P3), Paris, France
Title: Exploring the extreme universe: the view with very-high-energy gamma-ray astronomy