Thursday, November 13, 2008, 16:00
WHGA Auditorium
A. Biland, ETH Zürich
Abstract:
In the past four years, the Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging
Cherenkov telescope (MAGIC) found an unexpected richness of galactic and
extragalagtic sources radiating at energies >100 GeV. In this talk I
will explain how Cherenkov telescopes work and present some of the most
interesting recent MAGIC results about new sources and source-classes as
well as prospects for fundamental physics in regimes not available in
the laboratory.
At the end, I will give a short overview about the near- and mid-future plans of the Cherenkov community.