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