The symposium "Six Years of Science with Chandra" (dedicated to Leon van Speybroeck), will be held at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA from Wednesday, 2 November to Friday, 4 November 2005. The meeting will highlight key science results from the first six years of operation of the Chandra X-ray Observatory with emphasis on recent results. Contributions covering recent results from the XMM-Newton Observatory will also be presented.

More details are available at http://cxc.harvard.edu/symposium_2005/.

Antonella Fruscione

The 4th X-ray Astronomy School will be held in Cambridge, MA on August 14-19, 2005. See the web page for more information: http://xrayschool.gsfc.nasa.gov.

With the launch of Chandra and XMM-Newton, X-ray astronomy is becoming increasingly important for research into many topics in astrophysics. The X-ray astronomy school is intended for graduate students and recent post-docs who want to understand the intricacies of X-ray astroonomy. The lectures will cover the characteristics of X-ray detectors with particular emphasis on implications for correct interpretation of the data. They will also cover the basic physics related to the X-ray emission processes and a review of science addressed in X-ray astronomy (i.e., clusters of galaxies, AGN, CVs, pulsars, X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, stars).

Aneta Siemiginowska

Chandra-Related Meetings Planned for the Next Year
Keep an eye on the CXC webpage, http://cxc.harvard.edu/ for more details.

• Star Formation in the Era of Three Great Observatories
  July 13-15, 2005
  Cambridge, MA
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/stars05/
• X-ray Astronomy School
  August 14-21, 2005
  Cambridge, MA
• Chandra Users' Committee Meeting
  October, 2005
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/cuc/index.html
• Chandra Fellows Symposium
  October, 2005
  Cambridge, MA
• Calibration Workshop
  October 31 and November 1, 2005
  Cambridge, MA
• Six Years of Chandra Science Symposium
  November 2-4, 2005
  Cambridge, MA
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/symposium_2005/

Previous Chandra-related meetings:

• X-ray Astrophysical Plasma Diagnostics
  November 15-17, 2004
  Cambridge, MA
  http://itamp.harvard.edu/xdap.html
• Third Chandra Calibration Workshop 2004
  October 27-28, 2004
  Cambridge, MA
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccw/proceedings/04_proc/
• Chandra Fellows Symposium
  October 13, 2004
  Cambridge, MA
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2004.html
• Galaxies Viewed With Chandra
  July 7-9, 2004
  Cambridge, MA
  http://cxc.harvard.edu/gals04/

The 2005 Chandra Calibration Workshop will be held on Oct. 31 and Nov. 1, immediately preceding the 6 Years of Chandra Symposium. Presentations are solicited on various aspects of Chandra caliration and its applications to data analysis. Please contact ccw@head.cfa.harvard.edu. More details are available at http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccw/index05.htm.

Vinay Kashyap