Program for the III LASF4RI for HECAP Symposium

August 26-29

Principia Institute, São Paulo

Monday August 26

Opening

Rogerio Rosenfeld and Luciano Maiani

Session I: Funding agencies for HECAP in Latin America

Ricardo Galvão - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil)

Sylvio Canuto - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP, Brazil)

Rafael Anta - Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID)

Sharapyia Kakimova - Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID, Chile)

Ana Patricia Torres -  Consejo Nacional de Humanidades, Ciencias y Tecnología (CONAHCYT, Mexico)

Federico Sanchez - Comisión Nacional de Energía Atómica (CNEA, Argentina)

Enrique Pazos - Secretaría Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia (SENACYT, Guatemala)

Session II: Latin American Participation in HEP Infrastructures

Martijn Mulders (CERN)

Lia Merminga (FERMILAB)

Session III: Open discussion on the role of the Strategy Planning in a coordinated funding of HECAP activities in Latin America

Tuesday August 27

Session IV: Future colliders

Yifang Wang - Circular Electron Positron Collider (CEPC)

Christophe Grojean - Future Circular Collider (FCC)

Session V: Strategic Planning in HECAP

Hitoshi Murayama - Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5) in the US

Paris Sphicas - European Particle Physics Strategy Strategy

Kétévi Assamagan - African Strategy for Fundamental and Applied Physics

Marta Losada - Latin American Strategy

Session VI: White Paper Presentation - Regional Inputs

14:00-14:20 - A Venezuelan input to the Latin American Strategy for Research Infrastructures (LASF4RI) 2024 - Reina Camacho, Gladis Magris Crestini and Arturo Sánchez

14:20-14:40 - Ecuadorian HECAP Groups Update to LASF4RI - Edgar Carrera

14:40-15:00 - Talk transferred

15:00-15:20 - Contribution from Buenos Aires and La Plata groups to the Latin American Strategy Forum for Research Infrastructure - Fernando Monticelli

15:20-15:40 - The National Institute for Science and Technology CERN-Brasil - Marcelo Munhoz

15:40-16:00 - Brazilian Report on Dark Matter 2024 - Farinaldo Queiroz

Session VII: White Paper Presentation - LHC experiments

16:30-16:50 - The Study of the Quark-Gluon Plasma with the ALICE-LHC Experiment -  Mauro Cosentino

16:50-17:10 - Physics exploration with the LHCb experiment - Murilo Rangel

17:10-17:30 - The ATLAS Brazil : Status and Perspectives for the HL-LHC Era - Marco Leite

Wednesday August 28

Session VIII: White Paper Presentation - Future Developments

9:00-9:20 - Update of the Brazilian Participation in the Next-Generation Collider Experiments - Thiago Tomei

9:20-9:40 - Machine Learning in HEP - Andre Sznajder

9:40-10:00 - The glue that binds us all – Latin America and the Electron-Ion Collider - Bruno El-Bennich

10:00-10:20 -  Latin American Contribution to JUNO - Pietro Chimenti

Session IX: Gravitational Waves

11:00-11:20 - The South American Gravitational Wave Observatory (SAGO) White Paper - Odylio Aguiar  

11:20-11:40 - Mexican group in Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Wave Detection via Data Analysis - Claudia Moreno

11:40-12:00 - Gravitational Wave Science - Riccardo Sturani

Session X: White Paper Presentation - Neutrinos

14:00-14:20 - Coherent Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering Experiment (CONNIE) - Carla Bonifazi 

14:20-14:40 - Latin American Contributions to the NOvA Experiment - Ricardo Gomes

14:40-15:00 -  Neutrino Astronomy in the Peruvian Andes with TAMBO - Carlos Argüeles

15:00-15:20 - DUNE in the context of LASF4RI - the Colombian case - an update - Deywis Moreno

15:20-15:40 - From Safeguards Application to Fundamental Physics: Advancements in Reactor Neutrino Detection with the Brazilian ν-Angra Experiment - Ernesto Kemp

15:40-16:00 - GRAND: Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection - Rafael Batista

Session XI: New infrastructure proposals

16:30-17:00 - Luciano Maiani

The puzzle of Exotic Hadrons: and the revival of Charm-Tau factories

17:00-17:20 - Pierluigi Campana

ICFA, HEP in Latin America and technology of small LINACs

17:20 - 17:40 - Hélio da Motta

Brazilian Effort on Liquid Argon Detectors for Neutrino Physics

Thursday August 29

Session XII: White Paper Presentation - High Energy Astrophysics

9:00-9:20 - The Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO): Construction of the SSTs and LSTs - Diego Falceta-Gonçalves

9:20-9:40 - The ASTRI MINI-ARRAY: a Precursor for the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO) - Elisabete  de Gouveia Dal Pino

9:40-10:00 - Southern Wide-field-of-view Gamma-ray Observatory (SWGO) - Ulisses Barres de Almeida

10:00-10:20 -  The Latin American Giant Observatory - Luis A. Nunez

Session XIII: White Paper Presentation - Quantum materials and sensors

11:00-11:20 - LAMBDA: A World-Class Particle Physics Lab in South America - Dario Rodrigues

11:20-11:40 - Future Rare Events Searches with Low-Temperature Detectors and Quantum Sensors in Latin America - Pedro V Guillaumon

11:40-12:00 - Quantum Materials at the Interface between Condensed Matter and High Energy Physics - Alfredo Raya

Session XIV: White Paper Presentation - Cosmology and others

14:00-14:20 - Cosmology with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument and its Extension: Latin American Participation - Alma Gonzalez and  Jaime Forero-Romero

14:20-14:40 - LSST@LATAM - Rogerio Rosenfeld

14:40-15:00 - LSST-MX: Mexican Participation in the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time - Alma Gonzalez 

15:00-15:20 - The Group of Theoretical Physics (GI-FT) of the Escuela Politécnica Nacional - Marcelo Anda

15:20-15:40 - From LA-CoNGA to EL-BONGÓ : lessons learned and perspectives for physics and higher education in the Andes and in Central America - José Ocariz

15:40-16:00 - An empirical case and ongoing efforts on Transversal Computer Strategies & Services for Scientific and Training efforts for the LASF4RI - Arturo Sanchez

16:00-16:20 - Central American HECAP input to the Latin American Strategy for Research Infrastructures - Melissa Cruz