9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome
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9:20 - 9:40 | Jeremy Schnittman |
Probing the Accretion Geometry of Black Holes with X-ray Polarization |
9:40 - 10:00 | Shane Davis |
X-ray Polarization as a Probe of Strong Magnetic Fields in X-ray Binaries |
10:20 - 10:40 | John Fregeau |
X-Ray Binaries and the Binary Fraction in Galactic Globular Clusters |
10:20 - 10:40 | Edward Cackett |
Relativistic Iron Lines in Neutron Star LMXBs |
10:40 - 11:00 | Coffee |
11:00 - 11:20 | Carles Badenes |
The Stellar Ancestry of the Youngest Supernovae in the LMC |
11:20 - 11:40 | Prateek Sharma |
Accretion in Sgr A* |
11:40 - 12:00 | Orly Gnat |
Metal Ionization in Radiatively Cooling Gas and in Fast Shocks |
12:00 - 12:20 P.M. | Jonathan McKinney |
General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Accreting Black Holes and Relativistic Jet Formation |
12:20 - 2:00 | Lunch |
2:00 - 2:40 | Pat Slane |
Probing Pulsar Winds with X-rays
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2:40 - 3:00 | Jifeng Liu |
Toward the Nature of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources |
3:00 - 3:20 | Ezequiel Treister |
(Obscured) Supermassive Black Holes |
3:20 - 3:40 | Tea |
3:40 - 4:00 | Jesper Rasmussen |
A Chandra Search for Hot Halos around Quiescent Disk Galaxies |
4:00 - 4:20 | Ian Parrish |
A Tale of Two Instabilities: Buoyancy Instabilities in the Intracluster Medium |
4:20 - 4:40 | Elena Rasia |
Testing Scaling Relations in the Situation of Extreme Mergers |
4:40 - 5:00 | Norbert Werner |
Clusters of Galaxies and the Cosmic-web |