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4th Fermi Asian Network (FAN) Workshop

Date July 8-12, 2013 (Mon-Fri)
Venue Lecture Theatre T4, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
Website http://www.physics.hku.hk/~astro/FAN4/Index.htm

Purpose of the Workshop:

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected over thousand gamma-ray point sources. Nature of large percentage of these sources is still unknown. Most importantly data of Fermi is publicly available. The main purposes of this workshop include (1) to discuss new findings by using the data of Fermi satellite, (2) to promote collaboration among participants, especially the high energy astrophysicists in Asia and (3) to train the postgraduate students and postdocs to use the Fermi software to discover new sources.