9:00 - 9:20 | a.m. | Welcome |
9:20 - 9:40 | Anatoly Spitkovsky: | Dynamics of Nuclear Burning During Type I X-ray Bursts: Effects of Rotation and Magnetic Fields |
9:40 - 10:00 | Peter
Jonker: | Following a Black Hole Soft X-ray Transient Towards
Quiescence in Radio and X-Rays (PowerPoint Slides) |
10:00 - 10:20 | Eric
Pfahl: | Probing the Spacetime Around Sgr A* with Radio Pulsars |
10:20 - 10:40 | Li-Xin
Li: | Instability in Accretion Disks and Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries |
10:40 - 11:00 | | Coffee |
11:00 - 11:20 | Ann Hornschemeier: | X-ray Probes of Star-Formation Outside the Local Universe |
11:20 - 11:40 | Taotao
Fang: | Probing the Soft X-ray
Emission from the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium (PowerPoint Slides) |
11:40 - 12:00 | Elizabeth
Blanton: | Chandra
Observations of Radio Sources in Clusters: Impact on the ICM and
Probes of High-Z Systems(PowerPoint Slides) |
12:00 - 1:20 | p.m. | Lunch |
1:20 - 2:00 | Keynote
Speaker: | Martin Weisskopf: The Development of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
2:00 - 2:20 | Mateusz
Ruszkowski: | Hot Times
for Cooling Flows (PowerPoint Slides) |
2:20 - 2:40 | Andi
Mahdavi: | Cluster Mass Profiles from X-ray and Optical Data |
2:40 - 3:00 | Erik
Reese: | Determining the
Cosmic Distance Scale with Galaxy Clusters (PowerPoint Slides) |
3:00 - 3:20 | | Tea |
3:20 - 3:40 | Sebastian
Heinz: | Baby Beams and Jumbo Jets: Investigating the Relationship between Microquasars and AGNs |
3:40 - 4:00 | Julia
Lee: | The Chandra HETGS High Resolution View of `Broad' Iron Line Seyferts |
4:00 - 4:20 | Enrico
Ramirez-Ruiz: | Basic ingredients for the Biggest Blasts in the Cosmos |
4:20 - 4:40 | Masao
Sako: | Statistical Significances of X-ray Emission Line Detections in the Afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts |