All events are at the Institute of Astronomy, Madingley Road, Cambridge, unless otherwise noted.
Time | Session |
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17.00 - 19.00 | Registration / Canapes & Wine |
Time | Session |
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08.00 - 09.00 | Light breakfast / Registration |
09.00 - 09.10 | Welcome (C.Reynolds and G.Efstathiou) |
Session 1: AGN, obscured accretion, normal galaxies and the Cosmic X-ray Background (Chair: Martin Ward) | |
09.10 - 09.50 | Recent Results from the Deepest X-ray Surveys: Adventuring Through the Distant X-ray Universe (N.Brandt) |
09.50 - 10.30 | Accretion, obscuration and the X-ray background (X.Barcons) |
10.30 - 10.50 | Lifting the Veil of Distant Compton-thick AGNs (D.Alexander) |
10.50 - 11.20 | COFFEE / Registration |
11.20 - 11.40 | PG1211 revisited (K.Pounds) |
11.40 - 12.00 | The Intrinsic Properties of AGN (R.Mushotzky) |
12.00 - 12.20 | X-ray properties of luminous infrared galaxies in the local Universe (K.Iwasawa) |
12.20 - 12.40 | Galaxies in the X-ray Band (A.Hornschemeier) |
12.40 - 14.00 | LUNCH |
Session 2: Stellar and supermassive black holes (Chair: Phil Uttley) | |
14.00 - 14.40 | The Nuclear Star Cluster and Central Massive Black Hole (R.Genzel) |
14.40 - 15.00 | MCG -6-30-15: The (X-ray) Dirt on Dust (J.Lee) |
15.00 - 15.20 | Beyond the Cavallo-Fabian-Rees (CFR) luminosity variability limit in magnetars (L.Stella) |
15.20 - 15.40 | New results from 1H0707-495 (Andy Fabian) |
15.40 - 16.10 | COFFEE |
16.10 - 16.30 | Coupling of accretion states and relativistic jets in accreting black holes (R.Fender) |
16.30 - 16.50 | X-ray variability of stellar and supermassive black holes (S.Vaughan) |
16.50 - 17.30 | An X-ray QPO in the AGN RE J1034+396 (C.Done) |
19.00 - 20.00 | Drinks Reception at Darwin College Hosted by Andy Fabian |
Time | Session |
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08.00 - 09.00 | Light breakfast |
Session 3: Accretion and jet physics (Chair: Phil Charles) | |
09.00 - 09.40 | Growing Supermassive Stars and Black Holes by Accretion (M.Begelman) |
09.40 - 10.20 | On the jet vs disc connection (and disconnection) (A.Celotti) |
10.20 - 10.40 | Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, Spiral galaxies and Magnetars (G.Ghisellini) |
10.40 - 11.10 | COFFEE |
11.10 - 11.30 | The MRI and MTI: Recent Progress (J.Stone) |
11.30 - 11.50 | Thermal Stability of Radiation-Dominated Accretion Disks (J.Krolik) |
11.50 - 12.10 | A Jet is a Jet: Comparing microquasars to AGN jets (S.Heinz) |
12.10 - 12.30 | Testing black hole astrophysics across the mass spectrum (A.Merloni) |
12.30 - 12.45 | CONFERENCE PHOTOGRAPH |
12.45 - 14.00 | LUNCH |
Session 4: Clusters and Cosmology (Chair: Brian McNamara) | |
14.00 - 14.40 | The (very) small scale structure of DM halos (S.White) |
14.40 - 15.00 | The density structure of cold dark matter halos (C.Frenk) |
15.00 - 15.20 | Simulations of galaxy clusters (P.Thomas) |
15.20 - 15.40 | The Revealing Dust: Compact Galaxy Groups in the Mid-Infrared (S.Gallagher) |
15.40 - 16.10 | COFFEE |
16.10 - 16.50 | X-ray cluster cosmology (S.Allen) |
16.50 - 17.00 | X-ray Observations at the Virial Radius of Galaxy Clusters (M.George) |
17.00 - 17.20 | Dark energy constraints from growth of structure: results from the 400 deg2 X-ray cluster survey (A.Vikhlinin, presented by C.Jones) |
17.20 - 17.40 | A New Technique to Find Clusters of Galaxies in the XMM-Newton and Chandra Archive (J.Peterson) |
19.00 - 20.00 | Drinks Reception at Trinity College Master's Lodge Hosted by Martin Rees |
Time | Session |
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08.00 - 09.00 | Light breakfast |
Session 5: Cooling core clusters (Chair: Joel Bregman) | |
09.00 - 09.40 | X-ray Observations of Clusters of Galaxies and Cool Cores (C.Sarazin) |
09.40 - 10.20 | Cool Cores in Clusters of Galaxies (H.Böhringer) |
10.20 - 10.40 | Cold gas in cluster cores - past, present and future (A.Edge) |
10.40 - 11.10 | COFFEE |
11.10 - 11.30 | The evolution of the cooling cores in X-ray galaxy clusters (S.Ettori) |
11.30 - 11.50 | The environment of a z=2 forming brightest cluster galaxy (N.Hatch) |
11.50 - 12.10 | New HST observations of NGC1275 (R.Johnstone) |
12.10 - 12.30 | Deep X-ray imaging and spectroscopy of cluster cores (J.Sanders) |
12.30 - 14.00 | LUNCH |
FREE AFTERNOON |
Time | Session |
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08.00 - 09.00 | Light breakfast |
Session 8: Future of high-energy astrophysics (Chair: Chris Reynolds) | |
09.00 - 09.30 | The Constellation-X Observatory (N.White) |
09.30 - 10.00 | The future of high-energy astrophysics (G.Hasinger) |
10.00 - 10.30 | Two challenges of the international mission NeXT (H.Kunieda) |
10.30 - 11.00 | COFFEE |
11.00 - 11.30 | New Directions in Gamma Ray Astronomy (R.Blandford) |
Session 9: Wrap Up | |
11.30 - 12.00 | C.Canizares |
12.00 - 12.30 | M.Rees |
12.30 - | LUNCH |
Dress code for evening receptions and conference banquet is "casual, smart, for summer".