Einstein Fellows Symposium 2010
October 19-20, 2010 at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome |
9:20 - 9:40 | Boaz Katz |
Radiation Mediated Shocks and SN Shock Breakouts | |
9:40 - 10:00 | Dovi Poznanski |
An Avalanche of Extreme Supernovae | |
10:00- 10:20 | Emily Levesque |
Exploring the Host Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
10:20 - 10:40 | Brian Metzger |
The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts |
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 11:20 | Eran 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 - 3:00 | Prateek Sharma |
Thermal instability and the cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters. | |
3:00 - 3:20 | Simona 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 - 5:00 | Bence Kocsis |
The warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic center | |
5:00 - 5:20 | Eduardo Rozo |
Lensing Bias and the Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of Galaxy Clusters |
9:00 - 9:20 | Matthew Kerr |
New Methods for Detecting and Characterizing Radio-loud, Gamma-ray Pulsars | |
9:20 - 9:40 | Rodrigo Fernandez |
Probing Magnetar Magnetospheres with X-ray Polarization | |
9:40 - 10:00 | Bret Lehmer |
A Chandra Perspective on the Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations in Normal Galaxies | |
10:00- 10:20 | Xin Liu |
Unveiling kpc-scale Binary Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
10:40 - 11:00 | Kevin Schawinski |
The sudden death of the nearest quasar and other mysteries surrounding black hole growth | |
11:00 - 11:20 | Tamara Bogdanovic |
Signatures of supermassive black hole coalescence | |
11:20 - 11:40 | Ezequiel Triester |
The History of Black Hole Accretion from X-ray Stacking | |
11:40 - 12:00 | Ryan O'Leary |
The Brownian Motion of a Supermassive Black Hole after Coalescence |
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 - 1:50 | Matthew McQuinn |
The Signatures of Large-scale Temperature and Intensity Fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha Forest | |
1:50 - 2:10 | Tony Mroczkowski |
New High-Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations with GBT+MUSTANG | |
2:10 - 2:30 | Nico Yunes |
Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems as Probes of the Universe | |
2:30 - 2:50 | Orly Gnat |
Metal Absorption Columns in Partially Cooled Cosmological Shocks |
2:50 - 3:30 Tea