XEUS Con-X artistic impression Workshop scientific programme



Monday 27th March 2006

08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome and introduction Alan Smith (UCL/MSSL)

Session 1: Plasma Modelling (Chair: Jelle Kaastra)

09:10 Emission Measure and Column Density Distributions Ehud Behar (Technion)
09:40 Recent Laboratory Astrophysics Work with the LLNL Electron Beam Ion Trap Ming Feng Gu (Stanford University)

Session 2: Future Missions (Chair: Alan Smith)

10:10 Future X-ray Spectroscopy Missions Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON)

10:40 Coffee, discussions, poster viewing (and further registration)

11:15 The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission - XEUS Arvind Parmar (ESA/ESTEC)
11:45 The Constellation-X Mission Nicholas White (NASA/GSFC)

Session 3: Clusters of Galaxies and the WHIM (Chair: Mat Page)

12:15 Past, Present and Future Prospects of High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Clusters of Galaxies Jelle Kaastra (SRON)

12:45 Discussions, poster viewing

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Soft X-ray Excess Emission from Clusters of Galaxies - The Need for High Resolution Spectroscopy to Solve This Puzzle Richard Lieu (University of Alabama)
14:15 X-ray Spectroscopy from the XMM-Newton Cluster Survey Kathy Romer (Sussex University)
14:30 High Resolution Spectroscopy of the Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium: Current Evidence and Future Prospects Fabrizio Nicastro (CfA/IA-UNAM)

Session 4: Active Galactic Nuclei (Chair: Graziella Branduardi-Raymont)

15:00 X-ray Emission Lines in Active Galactic Nuclei Mat Page (UCL/MSSL)
15:30 High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Seyfert Galaxies: Why Key Science is in the Details Tracey Jane Turner (UMBC)

16:00 Tea, discussions, poster viewing

16:30 The Future for Warm Absorbers Alex Blustin (UCL/MSSL)
16:45 A Sample of RGS Spectra of Nearby Obscured AGN Matteo Guainazzi (ESA/ESAC)
17:00 A New Model for the Warm Absorber in NGC3783: A Single Medium in Total Pressure Equilibrium Anabela Goncalves (Paris Observatory)

Session 5: Galaxies and the ISM (Chair: Fabrizio Nicastro)

17:15 Gaseous Abundances in M82 Piero Ranalli (RIKEN)
17:30 X-ray Absorption Surveys with Chandra and Constellation-X Norbert Schulz (MIT)

17:45 Discussions, poster viewing

19:30 Workshop dinner

Tuesday 28th March 2006

Session 6: Stellar Coronae, and Planets (Chair: Gregor Rauw)

09:00 X-ray Spectroscopy of Cool Stars Manuel Güdel (PSI)
09:30 Alpha Centauri and the Problem of the Solar Neon Abundance Jürgen Schmitt (Hamburg Observatory)
09:45 Densities in Classical T Tauri Stars Jan-Uwe Ness (Arizona State University)
10:00 Determining Coronal Structure in Active Binary Stars David Huenemoerder (MIT)
10:15 Coronal Variability on Active (RS CVn) Binary Stars from Chandra HETGS Spectroscopy Alexander Brown (CASA, University of Colorado)

10:30 Coffee, discussions, poster viewing

11:00 X-ray Flare Modeling in the Single Giant HR9024 Paola Testa (MIT)
11:15 Today's Limits of Spectroscopic Diagnostics with Chandra and XMM-Newton in View of Temperature and Density Changes during Stellar Flares Urmila Mitra-Kraev (University of Sheffield)
11:30 XMM-Newton Spectroscopy of Jupiter Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (UCL/MSSL)
11:45 High Resolution Imaging X-ray Spectroscopy of Mars Konrad Dennerl (MPE Garching)

Session 7: Hot Stars (Chair: Manuel Güdel)

12:00 High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Early-Type Stars Gregor Rauw (Universite de Liege) and Andy Pollock (ESA/ESAC)
12:30 X-ray Spectroscopy of Stellar Winds Lidia Oskinova (Potsdam University)

12:45 Discussions, poster viewing

13:00 Lunch

Session 8: X-ray Binaries (Chair: Jean Cottam)

14:00 High Resolution Spectroscopy of X-ray Binaries Frits Paerels (Columbia University)
14:30 High Resolution Spectroscopy of Photoionized Accretion-disk Winds in Galactic X-ray Binaries Mariano Mendez (SRON)
14:45 Spectral Changes During Dipping in Low-mass X-ray Binaries Due to Highly-ionized Absorbers Maria Diaz Trigo (ESA/ESTEC)
15:00 High Resolution X-ray Spectra of Magnetic CVs Vadim Burwitz (MPE Garching)
15:15 The SS433 Jets: Fraternal or Identical Twins? Herman Marshall (MIT Kavli Institute)

15:30 Closing remarks and general discussion Mark Cropper (UCL/MSSL)
15:45 Tea and good-byes


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