Einstein Fellows Symposium 2011
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October 25-26, 2011
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
Tuesday October 25
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Eduardo Rozo |
| The SZ Signal of maxBCG Galaxy Clusters, and Multi-Wavelength Scaling Relations | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Bret Lehmer |
| X-ray Number Counts in the 4 Ms Chandra Deep Field-South: Characterizing New X-ray Source Populations | |
| 10:00- 10:20 | Jennifer Siegal-Gaskins |
| Anisotropies in the gamma-ray background measured by the Fermi-LAT | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Matthew McQuinn |
| 21cm Tomography of the High-redshift Universe |
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Xin Liu |
| The Frequency and Demographics of Dual Active Galactic Nuclei | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Tamara Bogdanovic |
| Can a Satellite Galaxy Merger Explain the Active Past of the Galactic Center? | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Kevin Schawinski |
| The Puzzle of Secular Black Hole Growth | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Amy Reines |
| Probing the Early Evolution of Massive Black Holes with Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies |
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Keynote Speaker: Chris Reynolds |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Phil Hopkins |
| How do Massive Black Holes Get their Gas? | |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Sam Gralla |
| Foundations for Gravitational Self-Force Calculations |
3:20 - 3:40 Tea
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Aurora Simionescu |
| Update on Suzaku Studies of the Outskirts of the Nearest, Brightest Galaxy Clusters | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Akos Bogdan |
| The Curious Case of NGC4342, an Optically Faint but Gas-Rich Early-Type Galaxy | |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Matthew Kunz |
| From Plasma Microphysics to Global Dynamics in Clusters of Galaxies | |
| 4:40 - 5:00 | Tony Mroczkowski |
| A Comparison of MUSTANG High-Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Imaging with X-ray and Lensing Cluster Properties | |
| 5:00 - 5:20 | Simona Giacintucci |
| Diffuse Radio Sources in Clusters of Galaxies |
Wednesday October 26
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| 9:00 - 9:20 | Ken Shen |
| The Long-Term Evolution of Double White Dwarf Mergers | |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Rubens Reis |
| Stellar Mass Black Holes - Accretion Geometry and Black Hole Spin | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Brian Metzger |
| What is the Most Promising Electromagnetic Counterpart of a Neutron Star Merger? | |
| 10:00- 10:20 | Emily Levesque |
| The Search for TZOs |
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Matthew Kerr |
| Modelling the Gamma-ray Emission of Young Pulsars | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Bence Kocsis |
| Observable Signatures of Extreme Mass-Ratio Black Hole Binaries Embedded in Thin Accretion Disks | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Boaz Katz |
| High Eccentricity Scenarios of Hot Jupiter Formation | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Ryan O'Leary |
| Finding the First Black Holes |
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
| 1:30 - 1:50 | Laura Lopez |
| Dissecting Supernova Remnants Observed by Chandra | |
| 1:50 - 2:10 | Rodrigo Fernandez |
| Transition to Explosion in Core-Collapse Supernovae | |
| 2:10 - 2:30 | Matthew Kistler |
| Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays and the Nearby Universe | |
