Scientific Program
The congress will begin at 09:00
on Monday October 1st and will end at 13:00 on Friday 5th October. |
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MONDAY OCTOBER 1 |
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X-RAY SOURCES IN THE GALAXY | ||
| Chairperson: L. Maraschi | ||
| 09 00 - 09 35 | Welcome addresses | |
| REES | FOREWORD - Few words about X-ray Astronomy: Past and Future | |
| 09 35 - 10 00 | SCHMITT | X-ray astronomy of stars  (5 Mb)
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| 10 10 - 10 35 | YAMAGUCHI | Element abundances in Supernova Remnants |
 10 45 - 11 15 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: P. Caraveo | ||
| 11 15 - 11 25 | Weisskopf | Monitoring of the Crab Nebula with Chandra and HST |
| 11 30 - 11 55 | REA | Neutron Stars with huge magnetic Storms (5,8 Mb) |
| 12 05 - 12 15 | Nakagawa | Wide-Band Spectra of Magnetar Burst and Persistent Emission |
| 12 20 - 12 30 | Nakano | Solving Age Discrepancy between Magnetars and Associated Supernova Remnants |
| 12 35 - 12 45 | Israel | The multi-wavelength monitoring of magnetar outbursts |
| 12 50 - 13 00 | Marelli | X-ray properties of the Fermi/LAT Pulsars (872 Kb) |
13 05 - 14 30 LUNCH | ||
| Chairperson: G. Trinchieri | ||
| 14 30 - 14 55 | FENDER | Galactic Black Holes |
| 15 05 - 15 15 | Eckart | The broad band properties of X-ray flares from Sagittarius A* |
| 15 20 - 15 45 | GLADSTONE | Ultra Luminous X-ray sources (ULX) (9,7 Mb) |
| 15 55 - 16 05 | Farrell | Bridging the Gap Between Stellar Mass and Supermassive Black Holes |
16 10 - 16 40 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: H. Inoue | ||
| 16 40 - 16 50 | Middleton | X-ray/radio coupling revealing the presence of a stellar-mass black hole in a ULX |
| 16 55 - 17 05 | Roberts | ULXs and accretion physics around the Eddington limit (2,4 Mb)
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| 17 10 - 17 20 | Mapelli | X-ray binaries powered by massive stellar black holes |
| 17 25 - 17 35 | Haberl | The XMM-Newton survey of the Small Magellanic Clouds - results and future prospects (4 Mb) |
| 17 40 - 17 50 | Costantini | Characterizing the chemistry of interstellar dust: the X-ray view |
TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 | ||
ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND THE X-RAY BACKGROUND | ||
| Chairperson: L. Stella | ||
| 09 00 - 09 25 | MAKISHIMA | From Sco X-1 to Magnetars - past, present, and future of X-ray studies of neutron stars |
| 09 35 - 10 00 | REEVES | Iron Lines and Outflows From Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 10 10 - 10 20 | Cappi | Ultra Fast Outflows (aka UFOs) from AGNs to QSOs |
10 25 - 11 00 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: K. Ebisawa | ||
| 11 00 - 11 10 | Noda | Model-Independent Decomposition of Broad-Band Suzaku Spectra of AGNs into Primary Continua and Secondary Components |
| 11 15 - 11 25 | Zoghbi | Decoding black hole echoes |
| 11 30 - 11 40 | De Marco | Soft X-ray lags and the correlation with black hole mass in radio quiet AGN (1,6 Mb) |
| 11 45 - 11 55 | Ishibashi | The physical origin of the X-ray variability scaling in accreting black holes |
| 12 00 - 12 10 | Lohfink | Tackling the soft X-ray excess in AGN with variability studies |
| 12 15 - 12 40 | HARRISON | Nu star - First preliminary results |
13 00 - 14 30 LUNCH | ||
| Chairperson: R. Della Ceca | ||
| 14 30 - 14 55 | GILLI | The cosmic X-ray background: abundance and evolution of hidden black holes |
| 15 05 - 15 15 | Comastri | Deep X-ray spectroscopy of obscured AGN in the ultra-deep XMM surveys of the Chandra Deep Field South (CDFS) |
| 15 20 - 15 30 | Page | X-ray and submillimetre observations of star-forming QSOs in the epoch of galaxy formation |
| 15 35 - 15 45 | Merloni | Accreting supermassive black holes in the COSMOS field and the connection to their host galaxies (3,6 Mb) |
15 50 - 16 20 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: A. Fabian | ||
| 16 20 - 16 45 | TREISTER | The Cosmic History of Black Hole Growth |
| 16 55 - 17 20 | BRENNEMAN | NuSTAR’'s View of AGN (11 Mb) |
| 17 30 - 17 40 | Georgantopoulos | X-ray background synthesis models in the era of Nustar |
| 17 45 - 17 55 | Del Moro | New insights on the distant AGN population (8,4 Mb) |
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3 | ||
FEEDBACK -- RELATIVISTC JETS -- GRB | ||
| Chairperson: A. Merloni | ||
| 09 00 - 09 25 | FABIAN | Feedback |
| 09 35 - 09 45 | Yu Wang | Central gas entropy excess as a direct evidence for AGN feedback in galaxy groups and clusters. |
| 09 50 - 10 00 | Mitsuishi | X-ray Properties of the Starburst-Driven Outflow in NGC 253 (4,6 Mb)
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| 10 05 - 10 15 | Ranalli | X-ray gaseous emission in star forming galaxies (1,34 Mb)
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10 20 - 10 50 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: S. Mereghetti | ||
| 10 50 - 11 15 | GHISELLINI | High redshift blazars (8,5 Mb)
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| 11 25 - 11 50 | TCHEKHOVSKOY | GRMHD simulations of relativistic jets in AGN (4 Mb)
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| 12 00 - 12 25 | PIRAN | Gamma Ray Bursts |
| 12 35 - 13 00 | TAKAHASHI | ASTRO - H |
13 10 - 14 40 LUNCH | ||
| Chairperson: G. Setti | ||
| 14 40 - 18 40 | HISTORIC SESSION with contributions from: | |
| 14 40 - 15 10 | Riccardo Giacconi | A Start in X-ray Astronomy |
| 15 15 - 15 45 | Yasuo Tanaka | My early days in X-ray Astronomy |
| 15 50 - 16 20 | Joachim Trümper | The history of X-ray Astronomy in Germany (6,1 Mb)
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16 25 - 16 55 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: G. Setti | ||
| 16 55 - 17 25 | Mike Watson | The Development of X-ray Astronomy in the UK (9,1 Mb)
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| 17 30 - 18 00 | Johan Bleeker | From zone plates to microcalorimeters: 50 years of cosmic X-ray spectroscopy at SRON (2,7 Mb)
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| 18 05 - 18 35 | Luigi Piro | BeppoSAX : History and Legacy |
20 00 CONFERENCE DINNER | ||
THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 | ||
CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES | ||
| Chairperson: I. Gioia | ||
| 09 00 - 09 25 | ROSATI | Future X-ray surveys of clusters and multi-wavelength synergies |
| 09 35 - 10 00 | MARKEVITCH | Shocks and cold fronts in galaxy clusters (11,4 Mb)
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| 10 10 - 10 20 | Gastaldello | X-ray Groups from the Core to the Outskirts with Chandra XMM and Suzaku |
10 30 - 11 00 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: A. Cavaliere | ||
| 11 00 - 11 25 | POINTECOUTEAU | The Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect (7,4 Mb)
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| 11 35 - 12 00 | BÖHRINGER | Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies |
| 12 10 - 12 20 | Tozzi |
A scientific case for future X-ray astronomy: high-z galaxy clusters (2,6 Mb)
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| 12 25 - 12 55 | PREDEHL | The eROSITA Mission (4,8 Mb)
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13 00 - 14 30 LUNCH | ||
| Chairperson: J. Trümper | ||
| 14 30 - 16 00 | FUTURE MISSIONS: | |
| 14 30 - 14 50 | Gorenstein | High Angular Resolution X-ray Astronomy In the Next 50 years |
| 15 00 - 15 20 | Pavlinsky | ART-XC/SRG |
| 15 30 - 15 50 | Stella | LOFT |
| 16 00 - on | POSTER SESSION & COCKTAIL (more information will follow) | |
FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 | ||
FUTURE MISSIONS | ||
| Chairperson: G. Pareschi | ||
| 09 00 - 09 20 | Murray | WFXT |
| 09 30 - 09 50 | Nandra | ATHENA |
| 10 00 - 10 20 | Vikhlinin | SMART-X: square meter, arcsecond resolution X-ray telescope for the 2020’s |
| 10 30 - 10 50 | Petre | AXSIO |
11 00 - 11 30 COFFEE | ||
| Chairperson: M. Urry | ||
| 11 30 - 13 00 | Open discussion: The future of X-ray astronomy | |