Workshop scientific programme
| Tuesday 11th July 2006 | |||||||
| 10:00 | Registration | ||||||
| 10:25 | Welcome and introduction | Mat Page (UCL/MSSL) | |||||
| Session 1: Clusters, galaxies and AGN (Chair: Mike Watson) | |||||||
| 10:30 | The XMM Cluster Survey | Matt Hilton (Liverpool John Moores) | |||||
| 10:50 | Tracing gas motions in the Centaurus Cluster | James Graham (Cambridge) | |||||
| 11:10 | The evolution of the ISM in post-merger galaxies | Anne Sansom (Lancashire) | |||||
| 11:30 | Relating accretion rate and jet power in elliptical galaxies | Robert Dunn (Cambridge) | |||||
| 11:50 | AGN heating in cores of galaxy groups | Nazirah Jetha (Birmingham) | |||||
| 12:10 | AGN line-width and black hole timing | Ian McHardy (Southampton) | |||||
| 12:30 | X-ray and optical variability of AGN as observed with XMM-Newton | Rebecca Smith (Leicester) | |||||
| 12:50 | The 2XMMp catalogue | Mike Watson (Leicester) | |||||
| 12:55 | Lunch, discussions, poster viewing | ||||||
| Session 2: AGN, galaxies, gamma-ray and un-identified objects (Chair: Tim Roberts) | |||||||
| 14:10 | Bolometric corrections for AGN and studies of the X-ray background | Ranjan Vasudevan (Cambridge) | |||||
| 14:25 | The environment of AGN at z~1 | Antonis Georgakakis (Imperial College) | |||||
| 14:40 | The evolution and demographics of obscured AGN | Tom Dwelly (Southampton) | |||||
| 15:00 | XMM-Newton observations of unidentified gamma-ray objects | Roberto Mignani (UCL/MSSL) | |||||
| 15:20 | Artificial variability in XMM-Newton observations of M31 X-ray sources, and beyond | Robin Barnard (Open University) | |||||
| 15:40 | Tea, discussions, poster viewing | ||||||
| Session 3: Binary objects (Chair: Peter Wheatley) | |||||||
| 16:00 | The 2005 Outburst of GRO J1655-40 - Swift observations of a black hole X-ray transient | Catherine Brocksopp (UCL/MSSL) | |||||
| 16:15 | The nature of the close magnetic white dwarf + brown dwarf binary SDSS J121209.31+013627.7 | Matt Burleigh (Leicester) | |||||
| 16:30 | Hidden magnetic accretors in Cataclysmic Variables: latest results from XMM-Newton | Darren Baskill (Leicester) | |||||
| 16:50 | Ultra-compact binaries | Gavin Ramsay (UCL/MSSL) | |||||
| 17:10 | Swift observations of the 2006 outburst of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi | Michael Bode (Liverpool John Moores) | |||||
| 17:30 | Reception | ||||||
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