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Chandra Fellows Symposium

The Chandra Fellows Symposium will be Oct. 17, 2008 and held at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM

October 17, 2008

Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

For program updates, check: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2008.html

The webcast is available for download in three parts. Note: RealPlayer required.
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

9:00 - 9:20Welcome
9:20 - 9:40Jeremy Schnittman Probing the Accretion Geometry of Black Holes with X-ray Polarization
9:40 - 10:00Shane Davis X-ray Polarization as a Probe of Strong Magnetic Fields in X-ray Binaries
10:20 - 10:40John Fregeau X-Ray Binaries and the Binary Fraction in Galactic Globular Clusters
10:20 - 10:40 Edward Cackett Relativistic Iron Lines in Neutron Star LMXBs
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:20 Carles Badenes The Stellar Ancestry of the Youngest Supernovae in the LMC
11:20 - 11:40 Prateek Sharma Accretion in Sgr A*
11:40 - 12:00 Orly Gnat Metal Ionization in Radiatively Cooling Gas and in Fast Shocks
12:00 - 12:20 P.M. Jonathan McKinney General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accreting Black Holes and Relativistic Jet Formation
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 2:40 Pat Slane Probing Pulsar Winds with X-rays (pdf)
2:40 - 3:00 Jifeng Liu Toward the Nature of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
3:00 - 3:20 Ezequiel Treister (Obscured) Supermassive Black Holes
3:20 - 3:40 Tea
3:40 - 4:00 Jesper Rasmussen A Chandra Search for Hot Halos around Quiescent Disk Galaxies
4:00 - 4:20 Ian Parrish A Tale of Two Instabilities: Buoyancy Instabilities in the Intracluster Medium
4:20 - 4:40 Elena Rasia Testing Scaling Relations in the Situation of Extreme Mergers
4:40 - 5:00 Norbert Werner Clusters of Galaxies and the Cosmic-web






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