12th Astroparticle Physics Science Fair 2025/2026: High Energy

Tuesday 17 Feb 2026, 09:00 → 14:00 Europe/Rome

Seminar Room (Zenith Bld) (GSSI)

Adriano Di Giovanni (Gran Sasso Science Institute), Carmelo Evoli (GSSI and INFN), Elisabetta Baracchini (Gran Sasso Science Institute), Emanuele Sobacchi (GSSI), Felicia Barbato, Ivan De Mitri (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN), Pasquale Blasi (GSSI), Roberto Aloisio (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

09:30 → 10:00 Review on HE Theoretical activities

Speaker: Roberto Aloisio (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

10:00 → 10:30 Review on HE Experimental Activities

Speaker: Ivan De Mitri (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN)

GSSI-CR-EXP-feb2026.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 13:00 Poster session

11:05 Searching for the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

Speaker: Luciana Andrade Dourado (GSSI and INFN-LNGS)

20260217_LAD_ScienceFair.pdf

11:10 Ultra-High-Energy Messengers as Probes of Physics Beyond the Standard Model

Speaker: Antonio Ambrosone (GSSI and INFN LNGS)

11:15 The Ziré detector on board of the NUSES mission

Speakers: Sindorjon Ashurov (GSSI and INFN), Melissa Baiocchi (GSSI and INFN), Diptiranjan Pattanaik (GSSI and INFN)

Zire_ScienceFair_2026.pdf

11:20 Crystal Eye & WINK: Innovating Hardware for the Space Detection of X and Gamma Rays

Speakers: Felicia Barbato (GSSI and INFN), Melissa Baiocchi (GSSI), Matteo Tambone (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI))

Copy of Hardware-scienceFairPoster-A0.pptx.pdf

11:25 The Environment of TeV Halo Sources

Speaker: Lioni-Moana Bourguinat (GSSI)

11:30 Diffusive Shock Acceleration and Cosmic-Ray Driven Instabilities

Speaker: Antonio Capanema (GSSI and INFN)

11:35 The Pierre Auger Observatory: a window for the highest-energies in the Universe

Speaker: Fabio Convenga (GSSI & LNGS)

11:40 The Galactic Very-High-Energy Sky

Speaker: Luis Enrique Espinosa Castro (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Poster_ScienceFair2026.pdf

11:45 Galactic cosmic rays with 10 years of DAMPE data

Speakers: Elisabetta Casilli (GSSI and INFN), Sara Fogliacco (GSSI)

Poster_Science_Fair_DAMPE_2026.pdf

11:50 The NUSES space mission: enabling new technologies and observation modes

Speakers: Giulio Fontanella (Gran Sasso Science Institute), Pierpaolo Savina (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI), Via Iacobucci 2, I-67100 L’Aquila, Italy)

NUSES_SiPM_Poster_Science_Fair_2026.pdf

11:55 UHE particles in the presence of Lorentz Invariance Violation

Speaker: Matteo Giammarco (University of L'Aquila and INFN-LNGS)

Auger - UHE.pdf

12:00 HERD space mission: Probing the Galactic Cosmic Ray frontier

Speakers: Dimitrios Kyratzis (Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) and INFN-LNGS), Irene Cagnoli (GSSI)

HERD Poster Science Fair 2026.pdf

12:05 Suppressed Diffusion and Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Bubble

Speaker: Ben Li (GSSI and INFN)

12:10 The possible contribution of microquasars to the cosmic ray proton ”knee”

Speaker: Chun Khai Loo (GSSI and INFN)

12:15 Multimessenger Studies with the Pierre Auger Observatory

Speaker: Costanza Marinelli (GSSI and INFN)

Auger - Multimessenger Studies at Pierre Auger Observatory.pdf

12:20 Terzina on board NUSES: a pathfinder for EAS Cherenkov Light Detection from space

Speakers: Abhijit Roy (GSSI and INFN), Rodrigo Alberto Torres Saavedra (Gran Sasso Science Institute), Caterina Trimarelli (Università dell'Aquila)

FINAL - All Names - HE Science Fair 2026 Poster - Terzina.pdf

12:25 Sub-Orbital Multi-Messenger Multi-Detector: The Case of POEMMA-Balloon with Radio (PBR)

Speakers: Abhijit Roy (GSSI and INFN), Caterina Trimarelli (GSSI and INFN), Caterina Trimarelli (Università dell'Aquila), Rodrigo Alberto Torres Saavedra (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

ScienceFair_PBR.pdf

12:30 Crystal Eye: Science with an all-sky monitor in keV-MeV

Speakers: Melissa Baiocchi (GSSI and INFN), Felicia Barbato (GSSI and INFN), Elisabetta Casilli (GSSI and INFN), Ritabrata Sarkar (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

CE-scienceFairPoster-A0.pdf

12:35 SpaceItUp Project: SiPM based detectors for ionizing radiation in space

Speakers: Caterina Trimarelli (Università dell'Aquila), Caterina Trimarelli (GSSI and INFN)

SIU Days Poster.pdf

12:40 Inferring properties of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray sources with Information Field Theory

Speaker: Igor Vaiman (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

GSSI Science Fair IFT x UHECR.pdf