Einstein Fellows Symposium 2009 - Text Version EINSTEIN FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM

October 27, 2009

Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

For program updates, check: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2009.html


9:00 - 9:20 Welcome

9:20 - 9:40 John Fregeau White Dwarf Birth Kicks in Star Clusters

9:40 - 10:00 Rodrigo Fernandez Numerical Experiments in Core-Collapse Supernova Hydrodynamics

10:00 - 10:20 Ed Cackett Relativistic Lines and Reflection from the Inner Accretion Disks Around Neutron Stars

10:20 - 10:40 Ian Parrish Heating of Test Particles in Numerical Simulations of MHD Turbulence and the MRI

10:40 - 11:00 Coffee

11:00 - 11:20 Prateek Sharma Flares from Sgr A*

11:20 - 11:40 Bence Kocsis Gas Driven Massive Black Hole Binaries: Signatures in the nHz Gravitational Wave Background

11:40 - 12:00 Jeremy Schnittman X-ray Polarization: The Dawn of a New Age in Black Hole Astrophysics

12:00 - 12:20 Orly Gnat Metal Absorption in Conductively Evaporating Clouds

12:20 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 - 2:40 p.m. Julie McEnery Fermi at 1 Year: A New View of the High Energy Gamma-ray Sky

2:40 - 3:00 Nat Butler Probing the Early Universe with Transients

3:00 - 3:20 Brian Metzger The Central Engines of Short-Duration Gamma-ray Bursts

3:20 - 3:40 Tea

3:40 - 4:00 Eran Ofek On the Nature of Long Duration Radio Transients

4:00 - 4:20 Vasiliki Pavlidou Deciphering the Gamma-ray Background: Starforming Galaxies, AGN, and the search for Dark Matter in the GeV Band

4:20 - 4:40 Kevin Schawinski The Co-Evolution of Black Holes and their Host Galaxies

4:40 - 5:00 Ezequiel Treister The Space Density of Heavily-Obscured AGN, Star Formation and Galaxy Mergers



October 28, 2009


9:00 - 9:20 Bret Lehmer New Results from the Chandra Deep Protocluster Survey

9:20 - 9:40 Eduardo Rozo Cosmological Constraints from the maxBCG Cluster Catalog

9:40 - 10:00 Matt McQuinn Did Quasars Doubly Ionize the Intergalactic Helium at z ~ 3?

10:00 - 10:20 Jesper Rasmussen Witnessing the formation of a Brightest Cluster Galaxy

10:20 - 10:40 Coffee

10:40 - 11:00 Aurora Simionescu Metal Transport by Gas Sloshing in M87

11:00 - 11:20 Tamara Bogdanovic Cooling and Boiling at the Same time: MHD Instabilities in Galaxy Clusters

11:20 - 11:40 Norbert Werner Constraints on Turbulent Pressure in the X-ray Halos of Giant Elliptical Galaxies from Resonant Scattering

11:40 - 12:00 Uri Keshet Cold Fronts and Spiral Flows in Galaxy Clusters

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