Program Schedule
Tuesday, November 1
| 6:00 - 9:00 | Symposium Registration and Dinner Reception |
Wednesday, November 2
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast, Registration and Poster Set-up |
| 8:30 - 8:45 | Harvey Tananbaum (SAO) Welcome Remarks |
| Theme: Life Cycles of Stars | |
| Chair: Paul Plucinsky | |
| 8:45 - 9:20 | Patrick Slane (SAO) [Invited] A Detailed Study of the Pulsar Wind Nebula 3C 58 |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Nat Butler (UC Berkeley) X-ray Eyes on the Brightest Explosions in the Universe: Probing the GRB Afterglow Emission Mechanism with Chandra |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Michael Stage (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) Estimating the Rates of Electron Acceleration in SNR Shocks using Chandra |
| 9:50 - 10:20 | Break & Poster Viewing |
| 10:20 - 10:55 | Sangwook Park (Penn State Univ.) [Invited] Supernova 1987A at the Age of 18: An On-Going Life Story by Chandra |
| 10:55 - 11:30 | Giuseppina Micela (INAF - Osservatorio Astr. di Palermo)
[Invited] The Chandra Orion Ultradeep Project (COUP) |
| Chair: Harvey Tananbaum | |
| 11:30 - 12:05 | Paul Reid (SAO) [Invited] X-Ray Optics: Past, Present and Future |
| 12:05 - 2:05 | Lunch Break |
| 12:50 - 1:50 | Special Session by the Chandra EPO Group: Enhancing Chandra Images for Publication and Public Outreach |
| Chair: Leisa Townsley | |
| 2:05 - 2:20 | Jeremy Drake (SAO) Neon and the Problem of the Sun and Stars, the Universe and Everything |
| 2:20 - 2:35 | Jeffrey L. Linsky (JILA/Univ. of Colorado and NIST) Chandra and VLT Observations of Young Stellar Objects in the Eagle Nebula |
| 2:35 - 2:50 | Nancy Brickhouse (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) An Episodic Heating Model for Stellar Coronae: Spectral Diagnostics of Non-Equilibrium Ionization |
| 2:50 - 3:25 | Jürgen Schmitt (Hamburg Sternwarte) [Invited] High Resolution X-ray Spectra of Classical T Tauri Stars |
| 3:25 - 3:40 |
One-minute Oral Poster Presentations
Chairs: Ann Hornschemeier and Dan Schwartz |
| 3:40 - 4:10 | Break & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Leisa Townsley | |
| 4:10 - 4:25 | Joachim Krautter (Landessternwarte) Chandra Monitoring of Nova V4743 Sgr |
| 4:25 - 4:40 | Jeno Sokoloski (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) X-Ray Jets from White Dwarfs -- Detection of the Collimated Outflow from CH Cygni with Chandra |
| Chair: Harvey Tananbaum | |
| 4:40 - 5:15 | Richard Kelley (NASA/GSFC) and Kazuhisa Mitsuda
(ISAS/JAXA) [Invited] The Suzaku X-Ray Observatory |
| 5:15 - 5:30 |
One-minute Oral Poster Presentations
Chairs: Ann Hornschemeier and Dan Schwartz |
| 5:30 - 8:00 | Poster Viewing with Cocktails |
Thursday, November 3
| Theme: Energy Cycles and Outflows | |
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Rita Sambruna | |
| 8:30 - 9:05 | Jane Turner (UMBC/GSFC) [Invited] Key Results in X-ray Spectroscopy of AGN |
| 9:05 - 9:20 | Martin Weisskopf (NASA/MSFC) The First Chandra Field: The Discovery of "Leon X-1" |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Jenny E. Greene (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) X-ray Properties of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Active Galaxies |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Sera Markoff (MIT Kavli Institute) A Bridge from Sgr A* to LLAGN: Results from a 300ks Simultaneous Multiwavelength Campaign on M81* with the Chandra HETGS |
| 9:50 - 10:35 | Break & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Antonella Fruscione | |
| 10:35 - 11:10 | Diana Worrall (Univ. of Bristol) [Invited] Radio Galaxies, Jets, and their Environments |
| 11:10 - 11:25 | Rita Sambruna (GFSC) Deceleration in AGN jets |
| 11:25 - 11:40 | Aneta Siemiginowska (SAO/CXC) Chandra Deep Imaging of a Large Scale Jet in the z=1 Quasar PKS 1127-145 |
| 11:40 - 11:55 | Nancy A. Levenson (Univ. of Kentucky) Penetrating the Deep Cover of Compton Thick AGN |
| 11:55 - 12:10 | Christopher Reynolds (Univ. of Maryland, College Park) Iron K-band Features in the 522ks Chandra/HETGS Spectrum of MCG-6-30-15: a Narrow View of the Broad Iron Line |
| 12:10 - 12:25 | Roberto Soria (SAO) Why are they not AGN? |
| 12:25 - 1:45 | Lunch Break |
| Chair: Nick White | |
| 1:45 - 2:20 | Sarah Gallagher (UCLA) [Invited] AGN Outflows: Agents of Galaxy Feedback |
| 2:20 - 2:35 | James Reeves (NASA/GSFC/JHU) High Velocity Outflows in Near Eddington AGN |
| 2:35 - 2:50 | Farhad Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern Univ.) The Nature of Simultaneous near-IR and X-ray Flares from Sgr A* at the Galactic center |
| 2:50 - 3:05 | Saeqa Vrtilek (SAO) The Chandra View of X-ray Binaries |
| 3:05 - 3:20 | Jon Miller (Univ. of Michigan) Accretion Disk Winds in Black Hole X-ray Binaries |
| 3:20 - 3:35 | Herman Marshall (MIT Kavli Institute) Modeling the Relativistic Jets in SS 433 Using Chandra X-ray Spectroscopy |
| 3:35 - 4:00 | Break & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Dan Schwartz | |
| 4:00 - 4:35 | Christine Jones (SAO) [Invited] Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Hot Gas in Galaxies and Clusters |
| 4:35 - 4:50 | Steven Allen (KIPAC (Stanford/SLAC)) Dark Energy Studies with the Largest, Relaxed Galaxy Clusters |
| 4:50 - 5:05 | Alexey Vikhlinin (SAO) Cosmology with the Chandra Cluster Data |
| 5:05 - 5:20 | Max Bonamente (UAH-NASA/NSSTC) Measurement of the Cosmic Distance Scale from Chandra X-ray Imaging and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Data of High Redshift Clusters of Galaxies |
| 5:20 - 5:35 | Michael Wise (MIT Kavli Institute) Supercavities in the Hydra A Cluster: ICM Heating and the AGN Duty Cycle |
| 5:35 - 5:50 | Tracy Clarke (Naval Research Laboratory) Ghost Cavities in Cluster Cores Viewed with Chandra and the VLA |
| 6:30 - 10:30 |
Conference Dinner at the Museum
of Science
Update: At 7:30 PM, commemorative remarks will be made at the Current Science and Technology Stage in the Blue Wing of the Museum. |
Friday, November 4
| 7:00 - 8:30 | Continental Breakfast & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Randall Smith | |
| 8:30 - 9:05 | Maxim Markevitch (SAO) [Invited] Insights on Physics of Gas and Dark Matter from Cluster Mergers |
| 9:05 - 9:20 | Smita Mathur (The Ohio State Univ.) Galactic Halo or Local Group Intergalactic Medium? |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Fabrizio Nicastro (SAO/UNAM) - Presented by Martin Elvis (SAO) Detections of the Warm Hot Intergalactic Medium |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Andrzej Soltan (Copernicus Astronomical Center) Study of the Soft X-ray Emission by Warm/Hot Intergalactic Medium |
| 9:50 - 10:05 | Joel Bregman (Univ. of Michigan) Where are the Baryons in the Local Group? |
| 10:05 - 10:50 | Break & Poster Viewing |
| Chair: Norbert Schulz | |
| 10:50 - 11:05 | Yangsen Yao (MIT/UMASS) X-raying the Multi-phase ISM along the Sightline to the Galactic Center |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Q. Daniel Wang (Univ. of Massachusetts) Chandra View of the Hot Interstellar Medium |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | David Ballantyne (CITA, Univ. of Arizona) Connecting Galaxy Formation, Star Formation and the X-ray Background |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Stephen Murray (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Using AGN to Observe the Growth of the Cosmic Web |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Anton Koekemoer (STScI) First Results from the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey |
| 12:05 - 1:35 |
Lunch Break
All posters that have not been taken down by noon will be discarded. |
| Theme: Populations in the High Energy Universe | |
| Chair: Ann Hornschemeier | |
| 1:35 - 2:10 | Douglas Swartz (USRA NASA/MSFC) [Invited] Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Nearby Galaxies |
| 2:10 - 2:25 | Pranab Ghosh (Tata Institute) Cosmic Star Formation History and Chandra Deep Field Studies |
| 2:25 - 2:40 | Michael Garcia (SAO) The Chandra M31 Campaign: Some Surprises and M31* |
| 2:40 - 2:55 | Marat Gilfanov (MPA, Garching) Populations of Compact X-ray Sources in Galaxies |
| 2:55 - 3:30 | K.D. Kuntz (JHU/NASA-GSFC-LHEA) [Invited] The M101 Ms |
| 3:30 - 4:00 | Break |
| 4:00 - 4:15 | Anil Bhardwaj (NASA/MSFC) - Presented by Ronald Elsner (NASA/MSFC) X-Ray Emission from the Saturn System |
| 4:15 - 4:30 | Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (UCL Mullard Space Science
Lab.) XMM-Newton Observations of X-ray Emission from Jupiter |
