This school is intended to provide an overview about a variety of topic centered around the problem of cosmic-ray transport in the Galaxy and non-thermal diffuse emissions. We will provide both dedicated seminars and hands-on sessions on the modeling and computation of cosmic-ray propagation and the correlated non-thermal emissions in different astrophysical environments. In particular, the event will feature a detailed presentation of the state-of-the-art theoretical and numerical tools to calculate relevant astro-particle quantities (production of gamma-ray, radio or neutrino emission, as well as the signals produced by dark matter), especially focused on the broad applicability of the DRAGON2 code.

This event will be held at the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Madrid (Spain) from October 8th to October 10th 2025. The organizing committee of the workshop will be composed by the current main developers of the code: Daniele Gaggero (researcher at INFN Pisa), Silvio Sergio Cerri (researcher at Lagrange Laboratory - Observatoire Côte d'Azur, in Nice) and Pedro De la Torre Luque (Juan de la Cierva postdoc at UAM and IFT), along with Miguel Ángel Sánchez-Conde (associate professor at UAM and IFT).

The school will have a duration of three days, in which the first two days will be dedicated to lectures (during the morning), covering cosmic-ray related physics  (astrophysical plasmas, particle interactions, computational techniques, etc) and discussing the status of current observations of Galactic diffuse emissions (radio, X-ray, neutrino and gamma-ray diffuse backgrounds) and hands-on sessions (during he afternoon), while the third day will be dedicated to a number of invited talks about the use of diffuse emissions for indirect dark matter searches and the DRAGON2 code beyond the study of cosmic-ray propagation.

Due to organizational constraints, the attendance is limited to 50 participants.  

Registration deadline: 29 September 2025

Step 1 - Registration request: here

Step 2 - Registration payment: here (follow instructions in the page)

The registration fee is 200€ and includes coffee breaks, lunch during the three days of the school and a social dinner. By registering, the participants agree to follow the code of conduct.

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Topics:

• Cosmic-ray phenomenology
  
  
• Plasma turbulence and connections to cosmic rays
  
  
• Theory of cosmic-ray scattering
  
  
• Cosmic-ray interaction with the interstellar medium
  
  
• Multiwavelength and multimessenger diffuse emissions
  
  
• Dark-matter indirect search with astroparticles

- Balaji, Shyam (King's College London, UK)

- Cerri, Silvio Sergio (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France)

- De La Torre Luque, Pedro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)

- Dekker, Ariane (Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics, Chicago)

- Evoli, Carmelo (Gran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila, Italy)

- Gaggero, Daniele (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy)

- Grasso, Dario (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy)

- Kantzas, Dimitrios (LAPTH, Annecy, France)

- Koechler, Jordan (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Torino, Italy)

- Linden, Tim (OKC, Stockholm University, Sweden)

- Orlando, Elena (INFN Trieste, Standford University)

- Recchia, Sarah (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Firenze, Italy)

- Reynoso-Cordova, Javier (Alberta University, Canada)

- Rocamora, Manuel (Universität Innsbruck, Austria)

- Rubiño Martin, Jose Alberto (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain)

- Zuriaga-Puig, Jaume (Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)

• De La Torre Luque, Pedro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)
• Sánchez-Conde, Miguel Ángel (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)

• Cerri, Silvio Sergio (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Nice, France)
  
• De La Torre Luque, Pedro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)
• Gaggero, Daniele (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Pisa, Italy)
• Sánchez-Conde, Miguel Ángel (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid & Instituto de Física Teórica, Madrid, Spain)