Einstein Fellows Symposium 2010
October 19-20, 2010 at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Welcome |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Boaz Katz |
| Radiation Mediated Shocks and SN Shock Breakouts | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Dovi Poznanski |
| An Avalanche of Extreme Supernovae | |
| 10:00- 10:20 | Emily Levesque |
| Exploring the Host Environments of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts | |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Brian Metzger |
| The Proto-Magnetar Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts |
10:40 - 11:00 Coffee
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Eran Ofek |
| Supernovae shock breakouts | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Nat Butler |
| Time Series Classification of Transients | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Matt Kistler |
| The Origins and Evolution of Ultra-Relativistic Electrons in the Milky Way | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Vasiliki Pavlidou |
| Blazars and the GLAST extragalactic gamma-ray background: understanding the guaranteed contributions to constrain the unknown and exotic. |
12:20 - 2:00 Lunch
| 2:00 - 2:40 | Keynote Speaker: Alexey Vikhlinin |
| Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters | |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | Prateek Sharma |
| Thermal instability and the cooling flow problem in galaxy clusters. | |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Simona Giacintucci |
| Large-scale diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters |
3:20 - 3:40 Tea
| 3:40 - 4:00 | Uri Keshet |
| Diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters | |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Norbert Werner |
| Feedback under the microscope - observations of physical processes in cooling cores | |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Aurora Simionescu |
| Zooming out on the X-ray brightest galaxy clusters | |
| 4:40 - 5:00 | Bence Kocsis |
| The warp of the stellar disc in the Galactic center | |
| 5:00 - 5:20 | Eduardo Rozo |
| Lensing Bias and the Weak Lensing Mass Calibration of Galaxy Clusters |
| 9:00 - 9:20 | Matthew Kerr |
| New Methods for Detecting and Characterizing Radio-loud, Gamma-ray Pulsars | |
| 9:20 - 9:40 | Rodrigo Fernandez |
| Probing Magnetar Magnetospheres with X-ray Polarization | |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Bret Lehmer |
| A Chandra Perspective on the Evolution of X-ray Binary Populations in Normal Galaxies | |
| 10:00- 10:20 | Xin Liu |
| Unveiling kpc-scale Binary Active Galactic Nuclei in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
10:20 - 10:40 Coffee
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Kevin Schawinski |
| The sudden death of the nearest quasar and other mysteries surrounding black hole growth | |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Tamara Bogdanovic |
| Signatures of supermassive black hole coalescence | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Ezequiel Triester |
| The History of Black Hole Accretion from X-ray Stacking | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Ryan O'Leary |
| The Brownian Motion of a Supermassive Black Hole after Coalescence |
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
| 1:30 - 1:50 | Matthew McQuinn |
| The Signatures of Large-scale Temperature and Intensity Fluctuations in the Lyman-alpha Forest | |
| 1:50 - 2:10 | Tony Mroczkowski |
| New High-Resolution Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations with GBT+MUSTANG | |
| 2:10 - 2:30 | Nico Yunes |
| Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems as Probes of the Universe | |
| 2:30 - 2:50 | Orly Gnat |
| Metal Absorption Columns in Partially Cooled Cosmological Shocks |
2:50 - 3:30 Tea
