The Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) project is a new generation multi-component instrument, located at 4410 meters of altitude in the Sichuan province of China, with the aim to study with unprecedented sensitivity the spectrum, the composition and the anisotropy of cosmic rays in the energy range between 1012 and 1018 eV. It will also act simultaneously as a wide aperture (one stereoradiant), continuously-operated gamma ray telescope in the energy range between 1011 and 1015 eV.

The construction of the observatory already started from 2017 April, and the instrument is expected to be partly working around the end of year 2018. At this moment, we are organizing the 8th version of the Workshops on CR detection at High Altitudes to discuss various science cases that can be carried out with LHAASO.

This year, the workshop will be held at Shanghai Astronomical Observatory (SHAO), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, in 2017 December 10—13.