| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Jeremy Heyl: | Low Mass X-ray Binaries May Be Important
LIGO Sources After All |
| 9:20 - 9:40 |
Eric Agol: | Microlensing and Occultation of Main Sequence
Stars by White Dwarf and Planetary Companions |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Ming Feng Gu: | Dielectronic Recombination and Resonant
Excitation Effects on Iron L-shell Emission in Collisionally
Ionized and Photoionized Plasmas |
| 10:00 - 10:20 |
Masao Sako: | Line Scattering and the Bowen Fluorescence
Mechanism in Optically Thick, Highly Ionized
Media (PowerPoint Slides) |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Coffee |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Anatoly Spitkovsky : | Formation of Relativistic Outflows |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Eric Pfahl: | Low-Luminosity X-ray Sources in the Galactic Bulge |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Li-Xin
Li: | The Giant X-Ray Flare of NGC 5905: Tidal Disruption
of a Star, a Brown Dwarf, or a Planet? |
| 11:40 - 12:00 |
Julia Lee : | Probing Black Hole systems with Chandra:
The HETGS View of the Microquasar GRS 1915+105 (PowerPoint Slides) |
| 12:00 - 1:20p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:20 - 2:00 | Keynote Speaker: | Leon van Speybroeck: Examples of
Significant Chandra Imaging Observations |
| 2:00 - 2:20 |
Jacco Vink: | XMM-Newton RGS Spectra of SN1006 and RCW 86 |
| 2:20 - 2:40 |
David Strickland: | Hot Gas in the Halos of Star-forming
Disk Galaxies: Quantifying Supernova Feedback at Work |
| 2:40 - 3:00 |
Ann Hornschemeier: | The Stellar Content of the Chandra
Deep Field-North (PowerPoint Slides)
|
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Tea |
| 3:20 - 3:40 |
Elizabeth L. Blanton: | Extended Radio Sources in
Clusters of Galaxies (PowerPoint Slides) |
| 3:40 - 4:00 |
Licia Verde: | Can Clusters of Galaxies be used as
"Standard Candles"? (PowerPoint Slides) |
| 4:00 - 4:20 |
Andisheh Mahdavi: | A Different Dark Matter Potential for
Modeling Cluster Atmospheres (PowerPoint Slides) |
| 4:20 - 5:00 | Erik Reese: | Exploring the X-ray Isophotal
Size-Temperature Relation in Galaxy
Clusters |
