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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