Day 1: January 17th
CTA & SCT: Innovation
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Wystan Benbow (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
09:10 - 09:35 The Cherenkov Telescope Array Werner Hofmann (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)
09:38 - 10:08 The Journey towards CTA in the U.S. David Williams (University of California, Santa Cruz)
10:10 - 10:30 The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope: From an Idea to the Prototype Vladimir Vassiliev (University of California Los Angeles)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:18 Construction and Initial Commissioning of the pSCT Camera Justin Vandenbroucke (University of Wisconsin)
11:20 - 11:38 Upgrading the pSCT Camera to a Wide-field, Low-threshold Instrument Riccardo Paoletti (University of Sienna & INFN Pisa)
11:40 - 12:00 The Davies-Cotton MST: The Cousin of the SCT Markus Garczarczyk (DESY)
12:02 - 12:22 ASTRI: A Dual-Mirror Perspective for the Small Size Telescopes Towards CTAO Giovanni Pareschi (Brera Astronomical Observatory)
12:24 - 12:44 The Synergy Between the Gamma Cherenkov Telescope and the SCT Hiroyasu Tajima (ISEE / Nagoya University) for Akira Okumura (ISEE / Nagoya University)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
Late afternoon: pSCT Celebrations and Festivities at FLWO / VERITAS site
14:30 Buses boarding at Westward Look Lobby Entrance~16:00 Scientific tours of VERITAS @ FLWO
~16:45 Scientific visit to the pSCT begins
~17:00 Group photo at the pSCT
~17:35 Moving demonstration of the pSCT
~17:45 Buses boarding to depart FLWO for Green Valley Recreation Center
~18:00 Arrive Green Valley Recreation Center (Santa Rita Springs location; Anza room); Refreshments served
Address = 921 W Rio Fuerte, Green Valley, AZ
~18:30 Dinner served
~19:30 Informal presentations, including historical FLWO / SAO history presentation by Wystan Benbow
~20:30 Buses depart for Westward Look Lobby Entrance
~22:00 Buses arrive Westward Look Lobby Entrance
Day 2: January 18th
CTA & SCT: Multi-messenger Context
08:30 - 09:00 Coffee09:00 - 09:20 Highlights and Open Questions from the Current Generation of IACTs Jamie Holder (University of Delaware)
09:22 - 09:42 Fermi & CTA Synergies Eric Charles (SLAC) for Regina Caputo (NASA/GSFC)
09:45 - 10:05 The keV to TeV Sky: CTA & Multi-Wavelength Prospects Greg Madejski (SLAC)
10:07 - 10:27 HAWC Discoveries Point to an Exciting CTA Future Brenda Dingus (LANL)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:20 IceCube & Multi-Messenger Astrophysics Albrecht Karle (University of Wisconsin)
11:22 - 11:42 LSST and CTA Synergies Keith Bechtol (University of Wisconsin)
11:45 - 12:05 Strategies for the Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Transients with CTA Szabi Marka (Columbia University)
12:07 - 12:27 Frontiers in Particle Astrophysics - Prospects for CTA Stefano Profumo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
12:30 Meeting Close
14:00 pSCT Consortium Meeting (Internal)