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Invited speakers

The congress will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Monday October 1st and will end at 1 p.m. on Friday 5th October.

Invited speakers include:

Hans Böhringer MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
Johan Bleeker SRON, Space Research Organization, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Laura Brenneman Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, USA
Anne Decourchelle CEA, Service d’Astrophysique, Saclay, France
Andy Fabian Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
Rob Fender University of Southampton, UK
Riccardo Giacconi Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Gabriele Ghisellini INAF/Osservatorio di Brera, Italy
Roberto Gilli INAF/Osservatorio di Bologna, Italy
Jeanette Gladstone University of Alberta, Canada
Fiona Harrison California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
Kazuo Makishima University of Tokyo, Japan
Maxim Markevitch Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, USA
Steven Murray Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Kirpal Nandra MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
Rob Petre NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, USA
Tsvi Piran Racah Institute of Physics - The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Luigi Piro INAF/Ist. Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, Roma, Italy
Peter Predehl MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
Ken Pounds University of Leicester, UK
Nanda Rea CSIC-IEEC Inst. of Space Science, Barcelona, Spain
Martin Rees Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK
James Reeves Keele University, Staffordshire, UK
Piero Rosati ESO, European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany
Jürgen Schmitt Hamburg University, Germany
Luigi Stella INAF/Osservatorio di Roma, Italy
Rashid Sunayev MPI für Astrophysik, Garching, Germany & Moscow Space Research Institute, Russia
Tadayuki Takahashi JAXA Inst. of Space & Astronautical Science, Tokyo Japan
Yasuo Tanaka MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
Alexander Tchekhovskoy Princeton University, USA
Ezequiel Treister University of Hawaii
Joachim Truemper MPI für Extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany
Alexey Vikhlinin SRI Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia & Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, Cambridge, USA

A special session will be devoted to the history of X-ray astronomy through its many achievements.
Dust echos around magnetar 1E 1547 seen by XMM satellite. Credits: IASF-MI - A.Tiengo and S.Mereghetti.