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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin Number 16.

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Contents:

1. Chandra Calibration Workshop: Registration

2. Workshop: "X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era
   (with an emphasis on Targets of Opportunity)"

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Item 1. CHANDRA CALIBRATION WORKSHOP: REGISTRATION
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A web site with information about the calibration workshop to be held
in Cambridge on Nov 6 and 7 is now available at

http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccw_02/

Registration as well as abstract submission can be done through
this site.   

In conjunction with the calibration workshop, CIAO expert workshops
will be held on Nov 5 and Nov 8.


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Item 2.  Workshop: "X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era"
         (with an emphasis on Targets of Opportunity)"
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We are pleased to announce a new workshop dedicated to recent results
from Chandra and XMM-Newton and addressing the present and future role
of triggering.

"X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era (with an emphasis on
Targets of Opportunity)"


Workshop goals:
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* To identify the scientific topics of greatest interest, and to
  explore directions for this field as the Chandra and XMM-Newton
  missions mature.

* To articulate the present and future role of triggering in this
  field.

* To review progress in the study of X-ray binaries with Chandra and
  XMM-Newton.

* To facilitate dialogue between observers, theorists, and observatory
  personnel.



Information:
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Full information regarding this workshop can be found at the official
conference website:  

http://cxc.harvard.edu/xrbconf/

Some of the important details:

Dates: 
       
       Abstracts        2002 October 3

       Registration     2002 October 3

       Final Program    2002 October 17

       Workshop         2002 November 14-15


Location: MIT Draper Labs Extension, Cambridge, MA, USA

Participation: We can accept at most 100 participants.  There is no
               registration fee and no official conference hotel.

Talks: Invited talks will cover the current X-ray, radio, and optical
       monitoring campaigns, and the monitoring capacity of planned
       observatories.  Contributed talks (20 slots, 20 min each) will
       be selected from the abstracts submitted.  Hour-long open
       sessions will follow each section of contributed talks to
       facilitate related discussions.


Preliminary Program:
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November 14

09:00    Introductory talk (Phil Charles)

09:30    Contributions from the RXTE All Sky Monitor (Ron Remillard)

10:10    Radio monitoring, Radio-X-ray connection (Michael Rupen)

10:40    Break (15 min. for coffee, 45 min. of open projector,
         discussion)

11:40    Optical monitoring, Optical-X-ray connection (Charles Bailyn)

12:10    Lunch
                                                   
13:30    6 science talks @ 20 minutes each 

15:30    Break (same format as before, open discussion)

16:30    6 science talks @ 20 minutes each 

18:30    End of day 1 sessions.
                                                      
                                                                    
November 15

09:00    LOFAR (Jacqueline Hewitt)

09:30    Monitoring with Integral (Chris Shrader)

10:00    Monitoring with Swift (Craig Markwardt)

10:30    Break (same format as before....)

11:30    3 science talks @ 20 min each 

12:30    Lunch
                      
14:00    6 science talks @ 20 min each

16:00    break (30 minutes for coffee and fruit)

16:30    Summary and Discussion (Tananbaum, White, King, Jansen,
         Swank)

18:30    end

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Please email us with any questions or comments, and register on-line
at the conference WWW site.

Jon M. Miller (MIT/SAO)  Michael R. Garcia (SAO)
jmm@space.mit.edu        garcia@head-cfa.harvard.edu   

(co-organizers)

(Workshop supported by the Chandra X-ray Center)

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