Einstein Fellows Symposium 2010

October 19-20, 2010 at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics


Tuesday October 19
9:00 - 9:20Welcome
9:20 - 9:40Boaz Katz
Radiation Mediated Shocks and SN Shock Breakouts
9:40 - 10:00Dovi Poznanski
An Avalanche of Extreme Supernovae
10:00- 10:20Emily Levesque
Exploring the Host Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
10:20 - 10:40Brian Metzger
The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:20Eran Ofek
Supernovae shock breakouts
11:20 - 11:40 Nat Butler
Time Series Classification of Transients
11:40 - 12:00 Matt Kistler
The Origins and Evolution of Ultra-Relativistic Electrons in the Milky Way
12:00 - 12:20 Vasiliki Pavlidou
Blazars and the GLAST extragalactic gamma-ray background: understanding the guaranteed contributions to constrain the unknown and exotic.

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:40 Keynote Speaker: Alexey Vikhlinin
Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters
2:40 - 3:00Prateek Sharma
Thermal instability and the cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters.
3:00 - 3:20Simona Giacintucci
Large-scale diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters

3:20 - 3:40 Tea

3:40 - 4:00 Uri Keshet
Diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters
4:00 - 4:20 Norbert Werner
Feedback under the microscope - observations of physical processes in cooling cores
4:20 - 4:40 Aurora Simionescu
Zooming out on the X-ray brightest galaxy clusters
4:40 - 5:00Bence Kocsis
The warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic center
5:00 - 5:20Eduardo Rozo
Lensing Bias and the Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of Galaxy Clusters



Wednesday October 20
9:00 - 9:20Matthew Kerr
New Methods for Detecting and Characterizing Radio-loud, Gamma-ray Pulsars
9:20 - 9:40Rodrigo Fernandez
Probing Magnetar Magnetospheres with X-ray Polarization
9:40 - 10:00Bret Lehmer
A Chandra Perspective on the Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations in Normal Galaxies
10:00- 10:20Xin Liu
Unveiling kpc-scale Binary Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee

10:40 - 11:00Kevin Schawinski
The sudden death of the nearest quasar and other mysteries surrounding black hole growth
11:00 - 11:20Tamara Bogdanovic
Signatures of supermassive black hole coalescence
11:20 - 11:40Ezequiel Triester
The History of Black Hole Accretion from X-ray Stacking
11:40 - 12:00Ryan O'Leary
The Brownian Motion of a Supermassive Black Hole after Coalescence

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 1:50Matthew McQuinn
The Signatures of Large-scale Temperature and Intensity Fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha Forest
1:50 - 2:10Tony Mroczkowski
New High-Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations with GBT+MUSTANG
2:10 - 2:30Nico Yunes
Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems as Probes of the Universe
2:30 - 2:50Orly Gnat
Metal Absorption Columns in Partially Cooled Cosmological Shocks

2:50 - 3:30 Tea