Program Schedule
The invited speakers are shown in bold.
Monday, 21 September
| Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m. | Chandra Calibration Review Registration Opens | ||
| 10:00 a.m. | - | 12:30 p.m. | Morning Session |
| 12:30 p.m. | - | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Posters may be displayed after 1:00 p.m. |
| 1:30 p.m. | - | 3:25 p.m. | Afternoon Session I |
| 3:25 p.m. | - | 4:15 p.m. | Break; Poster Viewing |
| 4:15 p.m. | - | 5:15 p.m. | Afternoon Session II |
| 5:15 p.m. | - | 6:00 p.m. | Summary and Discussion |
| 7:00 p.m. | - | 9:00 p.m. | Chandra's First Decade of Discovery Reception and Registration |
Tuesday, 22 September
| Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:30 a.m. | Chandra's First Decade of Discovery Registration & Hospitality Center Opens | ||
| 7:00 a.m. | - | 9:00 a.m. | Coffee & Breakfast in the poster rooms |
| 9:00 a.m. | - | 9:05 a.m. | Opening and Welcome |
| 9:05 a.m. | - | 9:35 a.m. | Jon Morse, Director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters
The NASA Astrophysics Program |
| Session 1: Stars and Star Formation (Chair: Scott Wolk) | |||
| 9:35 a.m. | - | 10:10 a.m. | Eric D. Feigelson (Pennsylvania State University)
X-ray studies of star and planet formation |
| 10:10 a.m. | - | 10:25 a.m. | Rosaria Bonito (DSFA-UNIPA-INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo)
Modeling the X-ray emission from jets observed with Chandra |
| 10:25 a.m. | - | 10:40 a.m. | Joel Kastner (Rochester Institute of Technology)
X-rays from Planetary Nebulae: a Decade of Insight from Chandra |
| 10:40 a.m. | - | 10:55 a.m. | Leisa Townsley (Penn State University)
The Chandra Carina Complex Project |
| 10:55 a.m. | - | 11:15 a.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 2: High resolution Stellar Spectroscopy (Chair: Dave Huenemoerder) | |||
| 11:15 a.m. | - | 11:50 a.m. | Paola Testa (SAO)
X-ray emission processes in stars and their immediate environment |
| 11:50 a.m. | - | 12:05 p.m. | Lidia Oskinova (University of Potsdam)
The Shocking Truth about Massive Stars |
| 12:05 p.m. | - | 12:20 p.m. | Andy Pollock (XMM-SOC European Space Agency)
Collisionless plasmas in WR140, Eta Carinae and other colliding-wind systems. |
| 12:20 p.m. | - | 12:35 p.m. | Nancy Brickhouse (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
Discovery of an Accretion-Fed Corona in an Accreting Young Star |
| 12:35 p.m. | - | 1:35 p.m. | Lunch in the Harborview Ballroom |
| Session 3: The Cosmic Evolution of AGN (Chair: Marcella Brusa) | |||
| 1:35 p.m. | - | 2:10 p.m. | Niel Brandt (Pennsylvania State University)
Supermassive Black Hole Growth Over Cosmic Time: X-ray Constraints on the Demographics and Physics of Active Galaxies |
| 2:10 p.m. | - | 2:25 p.m. | Paul J. Green (SAO/CXC)
The X-ray AGN Fraction and an AGN-Starformation Sequence from the Chandra Multiwavelength Project |
| 2:25 p.m. | - | 2:40 p.m. | Nico Cappelluti (MPE/UMBC)
AGN as tracers of the Large scale structure: the golden contribution of Chandra |
| 2:40 p.m. | - | 2:55 p.m. | Martin Elvis (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The Chandra COSMOS Survey: Early Results |
| 2:55 p.m. | - | 3:10 p.m. | Elena Gallo (MIT)
AMUSE-Virgo: the complete nuclear X-ray census |
| 3:10 p.m. | - | 3:25 p.m. | Elise Laird (Imperial College London)
Results from the AEGIS-X survey of the Extended Groth Strip |
| 3:25 p.m. | - | 4:15 p.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 4: The History of Chandra (Chair: Harvey Tananbaum) | |||
| 4:15 p.m. | - | 4:50 p.m. | Martin C. Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC)
On the Making of Chandra |
| 4:50 p.m. | - | 5:05 p.m. | Bob Burke (NGST) Historical Remembrances of the Chandra X-ray Observatory: How Partnerships Created Success |
| 5:05 p.m. | - | 5:20 p.m. | Gordon Garmire (PSU) Reflections on the Development of the Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS) |
| 5:20 p.m. | - | 5:35 p.m. | Steve Murray (SAO) Development of the HRC and Selected Science Highlights and Surprises |
| 5:35 p.m. | - | 5:50 p.m. | Claude Canizares (MIT) Development of the HETG and Selected Science Highlights and Surprises |
| 5:50 p.m. | - | 6:30 p.m. | The STS-93 Crew: Eileen Collins, Jeff Ashby, Cady Coleman, Steve Hawley, Michel Tognini The Chandra Experience as Recollected by the STS-93 Crew |
| 7:00 p.m. | - | 8:00 p.m. | Reception in Poster and Exhibit Ballrooms |
Wednesday, 23 September
| Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | - | 9:00 a.m. | Coffee & Breakfast in the poster rooms |
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration & Hospitality Center Opens | ||
| Session 5: Keynote (Chair: Martin C. Weisskopf) | |||
| 9:00 a.m. | - | 9:35 a.m. | Keynote: Riccardo Giacconi (Johns Hopkins University) |
| 9:35 a.m. | - | 9:50 a.m. | Marat Gilfanov (Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics)
Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae in early type galaxies. |
| 9:50 a.m. | - | 10:05 a.m. | Albert Kong (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
M31 in the Chandra Era: A High Definition Movie of a Nearby Galaxy |
| 10:05 a.m. | - | 10:20 a.m. | Andreas Zezas (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, University of Crete (Greece))
X-ray source populations in nearby spiral and star-forming galaxies |
| 10:20 a.m. | - | 11:00 a.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 6: Supernova Remnants (Chair: Dave Pooley) | |||
| 11:00 a.m. | - | 11:35 a.m. | Carles Badenes (Tel-Aviv University)
X-Ray Studies of Supernova Remnants: The Persistence of Memory |
| 11:35 a.m. | - | 11:50 a.m. | Kazimierz Borkowski (North Carolina State University)
New Deep X-ray and Radio Observations of G1.9+0.3 |
| 11:50 a.m. | - | 12:05 p.m. | Jae-Joon Lee (Pennsylvania State University)
A Half-Megasecond Chandra Observation of the Oxygen-rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8 |
| 12:05 p.m. | - | 12:20 p.m. | Sangwook Park (Penn State University)
SNR 1987A: Ten Years of Chandra Monitoring |
| 12:20 p.m. | - | 12:35 p.m. | David Burrows (Penn State University)
Chandra Searches for Late-Time Jet Breaks in GRB X-ray Afterglows |
| 12:35 p.m. | - | 1:35 p.m. | Lunch in the Harborview Ballroom |
| Session 7: Galaxy Clusters - Cosmology (Chair: Dave Burrows) | |||
| 1:35 p.m. | - | 2:10 p.m. | Alexey A. Vikhlinin (SAO)
Studies of Dark Energy with Chandra |
| 2:10 p.m. | - | 2:25 p.m. | Thomas Culverhouse (University of Chicago)
Chandra and SZA Observations of Clusters of Galaxies at z>1 |
| 2:25 p.m. | - | 2:40 p.m. | Nicole Hasler (UA Huntsville)
Cosmology Independent Measurement of the Gas Mass Fraction Using Chandra X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Measurements of High Redshift Clusters |
| 2:40 p.m. | - | 2:55 p.m. | Adam Mantz (Stanford/SLAC)
Constraints on Cosmology and X-ray Scaling Relations from the Growth of Massive Galaxy Clusters |
| 2:55 p.m. | - | 3:10 p.m. | Anja von der Linden (KIPAC/Stanford)
Weighing the giants: X-ray and weak lensing studies measurements of the most massive clusters |
| 3:10 p.m. | - | 3:55 p.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 8: Galaxy Clusters - Feedback, Galaxy Surveys, and Current & Future Missions (Chair: Dan Evans) | |||
| 3:55 p.m. | - | 4:30 p.m. | Elizabeth Blanton (Boston University)
AGN Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies |
| 4:30 p.m. | - | 4:45 p.m. | Myriam Gitti (SAO-CfA)
AGN feedback in galaxy groups: The case of HCG 62 |
| 4:45 p.m. | - | 5:00 p.m. | Rupal Mittal (AIfA (Bonn) / RIT (Rochester))
A detailed analysis of the cores of HIFLUGCS galaxy clusters: ICM cooling and AGN heating |
| 5:00 p.m. | - | 5:15 p.m. | Ralph Tuellmann (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): A Chandra Legacy Program |
| 5:15 p.m. | - | 5:30 p.m. | Norbert Schartel (XMM-Newton SOC, ESA)
Ten Years XMM-Newton: Scientific Achievements and Future Prospects |
| 5:30 p.m. | - | 5:45 p.m. | Randall Smith (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
The International X-ray Observatory |
| 5:45 p.m. | - | 6:00 p.m. | Daniel Stern (JPL/Caltech)
NuSTAR: The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array |
Thursday, 24 September
| Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | - | 9:00 a.m. | Coffee & Breakfast in the poster rooms |
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration & Hospitality Center Opens | ||
| Session 9 : Compact Objects (Chair: Antonella Fruscione) | |||
| 9:00 a.m. | - | 9:35 a.m. | Victoria Kaspi (McGill University)
Chandra's Contribution Toward "Grand Unification": Unravelling the Surprising Diversity in Neutron Stars |
| 9:35 a.m. | - | 9:50 a.m. | Derek Fox (Pennsylvania State University)
Discovering X-ray Bright Neutron Stars for Current and Next-Generation Observatories |
| 9:50 a.m. | - | 10:05 a.m. | Joseph Gelfand (New York University)
Modeling the Dynamical and Radiative Evolution of a Pulsar Wind Nebula inside a Supernova Remnant |
| 10:05 a.m. | - | 10:20 a.m. | George Pavlov (Pennsylvania State University)
Chandra Observations of the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula |
| 10:20 a.m. | - | 10:35 a.m. | Craig Heinke (University of Alberta)
A Carbon Atmosphere for the Cassiopeia A Neutron Star |
| 10:35 a.m. | - | 11:00 a.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 10: Globular Clusters (Chair: Victoria Kaspi) | |||
| 11:00 a.m. | - | 11:35 a.m. | David Pooley (University of Wisconsin)
Globular Cluster X-ray Sources |
| 11:35 a.m. | - | 11:50 a.m. | Tom Maccarone (University of Southampton)
Extragalactic Globular Clusters with Chandra |
| 11:50 a.m. | - | 12:10 p.m. | Slavko Bogdanov (McGill University)
Deep Chandra Studies of Millisecond Pulsars in Globular Clusters |
| 12:30 p.m. | - | 5:00 p.m. | Spirit of Boston lunch cruise
(Board ship at 12:30 p.m.) |
Friday, 25 September
| Time | Event | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 7:00 a.m. | - | 9:00 a.m. | Coffee & Breakfast in the poster rooms |
| 7:30 a.m. | Registration & Hospitality Center Opens | ||
| Session 11: The Galactic Center (Chair: Doug Swartz) | |||
| 9:00 a.m. | - | 9:35 a.m. | Sera Markoff (API, University of Amsterdam)
Revelations in our own backyard: Chandra's unique Galactic center discoveries |
| 9:35 a.m. | - | 9:50 a.m. | Peter Jonker (SRON & CfA)
The Galactic Bulge Survey: finding eclipsing X-ray binaries and understanding the Galactic X-ray binary population |
| 9:50 a.m. | - | 10:05 a.m. | Carey Lisse (Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory)
Chandra Studies of Planets and Comets in the X-ray |
| 10:05 a.m. | - | 10:50 a.m. | Break; Poster and Exhibit Viewing |
| Session 12: Resolved AGN Jet Structures (Chair: Roberto Soria) | |||
| 10:50 a.m. | - | 11:25 a.m. | Daniel A. Schwartz (SAO)
Resolved Jet Structures |
| 11:25 a.m. | - | 11:40 a.m. | Daniel Evans (MIT)
Spatially Resolved Chandra HETG Spectroscopy of the NLR Ionization Cone in NGC 1068 |
| 11:40 a.m. | - | 11:55 a.m. | Joseph Neilsen (Harvard University, CfA)
The HETGS View of the Microquasar GRS 1915+105: Fast Spectral Variability and the Disk-Jet Connection |
| 11:55 a.m. | - | 12:10 p.m. | Paul Nulsen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Centaurus A: Interaction of a Radio Source with its Environment |
| 12:10 p.m. | - | 12:25 p.m. | Elisa Costantini (SRON, Netherland Institute for Space Research)
Exploring the kingdom of an AGN: Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of Mrk279 |
| 12:25 p.m. | - | 1:30 p.m. | Lunch in the Harborview Ballroom
Poster Removal and Exhibit Breakdown |
| Session 13: Normal Galaxies (Chair: Derek Fox) | |||
| 1:30 p.m. | - | 2:05 p.m. | Q. Daniel Wang (University of Massachusetts)
X-raying galaxies: A Chandra Legacy |
| 2:05 p.m. | - | 2:20 p.m. | Christine Jones (SAO)
Chandra observations of AGN Outbursts in "normal" Early-type Galaxies |
| 2:20 p.m. | - | 2:35 p.m. | Marie Machacek (SAO)
NGC7618 and UGC12491: Gas-Dynamics in the Nearby Merger of Two Sub-groups |
| 2:35 p.m. | - | 2:50 p.m. | Carolin Cardamone (Yale University)
AGN on the color-magnitude diagram: Results from a Deep Medium Band Survey with the Subaru Telescope in the MUSYC-ECDFS Region |
| 2:50 p.m. | - | 3:05 p.m. | Stefano Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre)
Beyond the Unification Models in AGN: the BLR in the X-rays |
| 3:05 p.m. | - | 3:20 p.m. | Tahir Yaqoob (Johns Hopkins University)
New Perspectives on Compton-thick AGN |
| 3:20 p.m. | - | 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| Session 14: Accretion, Winds and Outflows (Chair: Mike Nowak) | |||
| 3:45 p.m. | - | 4:20 p.m. | Julia C. Lee (Harvard University)
X-ray Spectroscopic Studies of Outflows: A Chandra High Resolution Legacy |
| 4:20 p.m. | - | 4:35 p.m. | Roberto Soria (University College London)
Accretion states of ultraluminous X-ray sources |
| 4:35 p.m. | - | 4:50 p.m. | Manfred Hanke (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Spectroscopy of the photoionized wind and absorption dips in the Cyg X-1 system |
| 4:50 p.m. | - | 5:05 p.m. | Tassos Fragos (Northwestern University)
Modeling X-ray binary populations in elliptical galaxies. |
