Program Schedule
Tuesday, Oct 23
| Opening and Welcome | |
| 8:30am | Martin Weisskopf Chandra Project Science |
| 8:35am | Dave King MSFC Management |
| 8:30am | Jon Morse HQs Astrophysics Division< |
| Solar System | |
| 9:00am | Konrad Dennerl (MPE) [Invited] X-rays from Comets, Venus and Mars |
| 9:30am | Ronald Elsner (NASA MSFC) The Morphology of the X-ray Emission above 2 keV from Jupiter's Aurora |
| Normal Stars | |
| Chair: Leisa Townsley | |
| 9:45am | Rachel Osten (University of Maryland/NASA GSFC) [Invited] Who's Afraid of a Stellar Superflare? |
| 10:15am | Kenji Hamaguchi (NASA/GSFC/ASD) Spatially resolving X-ray emission from a Class I Pre-Main Sequence Binary System |
| 10:30am | Scott Wolk (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory) Chandra Spitzer and VLA observations of Young Stellar Clusters. |
| 10:45am | Break |
| Normal-Galaxy Populations | |
| Chair: Mike Garcia | |
| 11:15am | Franz Bauer (Columbia University) [Invited] A Legacy Study of Stellar Lifecycles in the Galactic Center |
| 11:45am | Benjamin Williams (University of Washington) [Invited] The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33) |
| 12:15am | Douglas Swartz (NASA/MSFC) Do Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Exist in Dwarf Galaxies? |
| 12:30pm | Break |
| Surveys & AGN Searches | |
| Chair: Ann Hornschemeier | |
| 1:30pm | Marcella Brusa (Max Planck Institut fuer Extraterrestrische Physik (MPE - Garching), UMBC) [Invited] Stacking photons in deep and large X-ray surveys |
| 2:00pm | Simonetta Puccetti (ASI Science Data Center (ASDC)-INAF) Chandra COSMOS Survey Analysis |
| 2:20pm | Smita Mathur (The Ohio State University) Demographics of black holes in nearby galaxies. |
| 2:35pm | Elena Gallo (UCSB) AMUSE-Virgo: on the survival of super-massive black holes in faint spheroids |
| 2:50pm | Gregory Sivakoff (The Ohio State University) Searching for AGN in the Outskirts of Clusters |
| 3:05pm | Paul Martini (The Ohio State University) The AGN Butcher-Oemler Effect |
| 3:20pm | Break |
| Galaxies & ISM | |
| Chair: Jelle Kaastra | |
| 3:50pm | Ann Hornschemeier (NASA GSFC) Comparing X-ray emission from Ultraviolet-Luminous Galaxies and Lyman Break Galaxies |
| 4:05pm | Jimmy Irwin (University of Michigan) The Low Metallicity ISM of X-ray Faint Elliptical Galaxies |
| 4:20pm | Yangsen Yao (MIT) Limits on Hot Galactic Halo Gas from X-ray Absorption Lines |
| SN & SNR | |
| Chair: Dan Patnaude | |
| 4:35pm | Cara Rakowski (Naval Research Lab (NRC fellow)) [Invited] Shock Physics in SNRs: an observational perspective |
| 5:05pm | Daniel Dewey (MIT Kavli Institute) HETG spectral-imaging of SN 1987A |
| 5:25pm | Stefan Immler (NASA/CRESST GSFC) X-Ray Emission from Supernovae as Probes of Stellar Environments |
| 5:40pm | Stephen Reynolds (North Carolina State University) A Deep Chandra Observation of Kepler's Supernova Remnant: An Anomalous Type Ia Supernova |
| 6:00pm | Adjourn Day-1 oral sessions |
| 6:00pm | Poster reception |
Wednesday, Oct 24
| SNR, GRB, & Isolated NS | |
| Chair: Chryssa Kouveliotou | |
| 8:30am | Alicia Soderberg (Princeton University) [Invited] An X-ray View of the GRB-SN Connection |
| 8:45am | Dirk Grupe (Pennsylvania State University) The late-time light curves of GRB X-ray afterglows with Chandra |
| 9:00am | Patrick Slane (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Chandra and Spitzer Constraints on the Evolution of G54.1+0.3 and 3C 58 |
| 9:15am | ANNE LEMIERE (CFA-Harvard) CHANDRA OBSERVATION OF HESSJ1640-465 REVEALS AN X-RAY NEBULA AND ITS PUTATIVE PULSAR |
| 9:30am | Werner Becker (MPE-Garching) X-ray emission properties of old pulsars |
| 9:50am | Victoria Kaspi (McGill University) Target-of-Opportunity Chandra Observations of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars |
| 10:20am | Break |
| Microquasars | |
| Chair: Victoria Kaspi | |
| 10:50am | LI JI (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research) Properties of the Accretion Disk Corona in Her X-1 |
| 11:05am | Tim Kallman (NASA/GSFC, Laboratory for X-ray Astrophysics) HETG Observations of AC211 in the Globular Cluster M15 |
| 11:20am | Michael McCollough (SAO) Cygnus X-3's "Little" Friend |
| 11:35am | Naoki Isobe (RIKEN) Spectral transition of an ultra-luminous X-ray source, NGC 2403 Source 3 |
| 11:50am | Norbert S. Schulz (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research) Warm Absorbers in Galactic X-ray Binaries |
| 12:05pm | Lunch Break |
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Nick White & Harvey Tananbaum Constellation-X Town Hall |
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| AGN | |
| Chair: Gordon Garmire | |
| 1:35pm | Yasunobu Uchiyama (ISAS/JAXA) [Invited] Resolved jets in quasars and radio galaxies |
| 2:05pm | Eric Perlman (Florida Institute of Technology) Insights on Jet Physics & High Energy Emission Processes from Optical Polarimetry |
| 2:20pm | George Chartas (Penn State) Imaging AGN using gravitational microlensing |
| 2:35pm | Guido Risaliti (SAO) Chandra and XMM monitoring of NGC 1365: unveiling the structure of the compact circumnuclear absorber |
| 2:50pm | Daniel Evans (Harvard University) Probing Unification With Chandra and XMM-Newton Imaging and Spectroscopic Observations of NGC 2110 |
| 3:05pm | Break |
| AGN interaction with host galaxy | |
| Chair: Dan Evans | |
| 3:35pm | Ralph Kraft (SAO) A Deep Chandra Observation of Centaurus A |
| 3:55pm | William Forman (SAO) Modeling the Supermassive Black Hole Driven Shocks in M87 |
| 4:10pm | William Forman (SAO) Modeling the Supermassive Black Hole Driven Shocks in M87 |
| 4:25pm | Alessandro Baldi (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) The unusual X-ray morphology of NGC 4636: cavities, off-center outbursts and shocks revealed by deep Chandra observations |
| 4:40m | Adjourn Day-2 oral sessions |
| 6:00pm | Symposium Dinner at Museum of Art |
Thursday, Oct 24
| GLAST | |
| 8:30am | Frederick Baganoff (MIT Kavli Institute) How Luminous Was the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole in the Past? |
| Clusters of Galaxies | |
| Chair: Max Bonamente | |
| 9:00am | Julie McEnery (NASA/GSFC) [Invited] X-ray opportunities with GLAST |
| 9:30am | Brian McNamara (University of Waterloo) [Invited] Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies |
| 9:45am | Jan M. Vrtilek (Center for Astrophysics) X-ray and radio observations of galaxy groups: the history of AGN heating |
| 10:00am | Break |
| Cosmology | |
| Chair: Larry David | |
| 10:45am | Jack Burns (University of Colorado, Boulder) Why Do Only Some Galaxy Clusters Have Cool Cores? |
| 11:15am | Marshall Bautz (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research) [Invited] Toward cluster cosmology: A review of observational problems, progress and prospects |
| 11:30am | Adam Mantz (KIPAC/Stanford) Constraints on dark energy from the observed growth of X-ray luminous galaxy clusters |
| 11:45am | Max Bonamente (UA - Huntsville) Scaling Relations from Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect and Chandra X-ray measurements of high-redshift galaxy clusters |
| Conclusion and Thanks | |
| 12:00pm | Harvey Tananbaum Chandra X-ray Center |
| 12:05pm | Adjourn Day-3 oral sessions |
| 12:05pm | Symposium end |
