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Announcements of Upcoming Meetings
Notice that this list is not meant to be all-inclusive, but concentrates
on meetings of potential interest to X-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and
gravitational astrophysicists. The HEASARC also maintains a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics meetings.
Updates, corrections, and/or suggestions about meetings should be sent to
drake@olegacy.gsfc.nasa.gov
Other Sources of Information on Upcoming Meetings
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Liz Bryson's list of International Astronomy meetings
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Space Calendar
2009 January 28 - 29:
International X-Ray Observatory Science Meeting
2009 February 1 - 7:
30 Years of Magnetars: New Frontiers (2009 Aspen
Winter Conference on Astrophysics
2009 February 1 - 8:
Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe (44th Rencontres de Moriond)
2009 March 17 - 18:
High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy School
2009 March 19 - 20:
3rd High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy Workshop
2009 March 30 - April 1:
STScI Conference on Observational Signatures of Black Hole Mergers
2009 March 30 - April 3:
The First PANDA Symposium on Products of Astrophysical Outflows
2009 April 27 - 30:
The coming of Age of X-ray Polarimetry
2009 May 2 - 5:
2009 "April" American Physical Society Meeting
2009 May 13 - 15:
RICAP09 2nd Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle Physics
2009 May 18 - 20:
Supersoft X-ray Sources - New Developments
2009 June 1 - 5:
The Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and
Clusters
2009 June 22 - 26:
Accretion and Ejection in AGN: A Global View
2009 June 28 - July 3:
The Many Faces of Centaurus A
2009 June 29 - July 2:
The Energetic Cosmos: from Suzaku to ASTRO-H (3rd Suzaku
Conference)
2009 July 13 - 17:
TeV Particle Astrophysics 2009
2009 August 3 - 5:
NEUTRON STARS: TIMING IN AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT: JOINT DISCUSSION AT THE
XXVII IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2009 August 6 - 7:
HOT INTERSTELLAR MATTER IN ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES: JOINT DISCUSSION AT THE
XXVII IAU GENERAL ASSEMBLY
2009 August 10 - 14:
IAU Symposium 267: Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes: Feeding
and Feedback
2009 September 7 - 11:
X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multiwavelength Approach and Future
Perspectives
2009 September 22 - 25:
Ten Years of Science with Chandra Symposium
2009 October 4 - 8:
4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ASTRONOMY AND RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS:
New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe in the AUGER, LHC,
FAIR/GSI and GEO/LIGO Era
2010 March 1 - 4:
High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Meeting
2009 March 26 - 27:
Beyond JWST: The Next Steps in UV-Optical-NIR Space Astronomy
2009 May 4 - 7:
The search for Life in the Universe (Spring 2009 STScI Symposium)
2009 June 7 - 11:
American Astronomical Society Meeting 214
2009 August 3 - 14:
IAU XXVII General Assembly
2010 January 3 - 7:
American Astronomical Society Meeting 215
2009 March 22 - 26:
16th Atomic Processes in Plasmas Conference: APiP-2009
High Energy Astrophysics meetings
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International X-Ray Observatory (IXO)
Science Meeting
- Dates: 2009 January 28 - 29
- Deadline for Online Registration: 2009 January 14
- Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The meeting will focus on preparing for the upcoming U.S. Decadal
Survey, and will feature presentations by the Science Definition Team,
the Instrument Working Group, the Telescope Working Group, and the
ESA, JAXA and NASA projects. There will be updates on the mission
configuration from both the recent ESA Concurrent Design Facility (CDF)
and the NASA Mission Design Lab (MDL) efforts.
The overall science goals of the IXO mission will be discussed and the
status of preparing the science case for submission to the Decadal
Survey will be presented.
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30 Years of Magnetars: New Frontiers (2009 Aspen
Winter Conference on Astrophysics
- Dates: 2009 February 1 - 7
- Deadline for Submitting Applications: Still Open
- Place: Aspen, Colorado, USA
Neutron stars are born when a massive star ends its life in a core-collapse
supernova explosion. All the physical conditions in these objects are extreme.
With central densities 5-10 times larger than the nuclear density, they
represent one of the densest forms of matter in the universe. Moreover,
neutron stars are the strongest known magnets. Their surface magnetic field,
normally in the TeraGauss range, may reach values 1000 times higher in the
so-called "magnetars", largely exceeding the critical field above which
effects of nonlinear quantum electrodynamics become important. Therefore,
neutron stars provide excellent laboratories to probe the properties of matter
under conditions that can not be observed in ground-based experiments, or in
most astrophysical environments.
Multi-wavelength observations have changed dramatically our vision of neutron
stars, very much the same way a panchromatic view of the world compares to a
black and white one. Originally discovered as pulsars, Isolated Neutron Stars
(INSs) have now been observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, up
to high-energy gamma-rays, and they exhibit a complex and much diverse
phenomenology. In particular, high energy observations unveiled peculiar
classes of radio silent INSs, whose existence would have passed unnoticed
otherwise, e.g. Soft Gamma Repeaters (SGRs), Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (AXPs),
Central Compact Objects (CCOs) in supernova remnants and X-ray Dim Isolated
Neutron Stars (XDINSs). It is presently unknown whether the phenomenology we
observe in these different sources and our classification thereof reflects
differences in intrinsic properties (for example progenitors with different
masses, or different spin periods and/or magnetic field strengths at birth)
or is a consequence of evolution. Explaining the different INSs
manifestations, the physics behind them, and the relations among different
INSs types is one of the most challenging goals in compact objects
astrophysics and offers the key to the ultimate understanding of the endpoints
of massive star evolution.
The most extreme INS subgroup is that of AXPs and SGRs. Both these types of
sources undergo periods of erratic bursting activity, and the latter even
emit giant flares, hyper-energetic events which can outshine for a fraction
of a second the entire Galaxy. There is strong evidence that these flares
excite torsional mode oscillations in the neutron star crust that could
provide unique insight into the equation of state of these highly-magnetized
stars. These sources are, in fact, currently believed to be the strongest
magnets in the cosmos, hosting NSs with a magnetic field as large as 1e14 -
1e15 G.
* Isolated neutron stars/magnetars observations at different wavelenghts
* Isolated neutron stars/magnetars progenitors and evolution
* Physics in ultra-strong magnetic fields
* Physics in neutron stars interior
* Models for the quiescent and transient emission from magnetars and
isolated neutron stars
* New missions and future perspectives
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Very High Energy Phenomena in the
Universe (44th Rencontres de Moriond)
- Dates: 2009 February 1- 8
- Deadline for Registration: 2009 January 1
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2009 January 10
- Place: La Thuile, Val d'Aosta, Italy
The topics covered will include:
- Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
- Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays
- Compact Objects
- Gamma Ray Astronomy
- Gamma Ray Bursts
- High Energy Neutrino Astronomy
- Dark Matter
- Extra Dimensions
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High-Resolution
X-ray Spectroscopy School
- Dates: 2009 March 17 - 18
- Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: 2009 February 1
- Place: Dorking, Surrey, UK
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3rd High-Resolution
X-ray Spectroscopy Workshop
- Dates: 2009 March 19 - 20
- Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: 2009 February 1
- Place: Dorking, Surrey, UK
The 'new beginning' with the integration of XEUS and Con-X into IXO, the
many other X-ray astronomy missions under study aimed at high spectral
resolution, together with the high quality data that XMM-Newton and
Chandra will hopefully continue to procure for a while yet, promise
further expansion and strengthening of the high resolution X-ray
spectroscopy field. We therefore invite you to attend the high resolution
X-ray spectroscopy workshop, to take place on 19-20 March 2009 at the
UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.
For the first time this year we will also be running a 'high resolution
X-ray spectroscopy school', prior to the workshop, on 17-18 March 2009.
Aimed at PhD students and postdocs working both in and outside X-ray
astronomy, it will be an opportunity to learn the principles and
practice of high resolution X-ray spectroscopy as applied to a range
of stellar, Galactic and extragalactic sources.
For further details, a list of the invited speakers, and registration, see:
http://www.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/~ajb/workshop3/.
There will be a limited number of places, so we advise participants to
register as soon as possible.
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Observational Signatures of Black Hole Mergers (STScI Conference)
- Dates: 2007 March 30 - April 1
- Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Motivated by recent advances in numerical relativity and with an eye
towards the future of gravitational wave observatories, we are pleased
to announce a conference on the observational signatures of
supermassive black hole mergers, including electromagnetic signals
detectable today. The primary goal of this meeting is
to bring together theorists and observers from a number of different
fields and foster the communication that is critical for moving
forward in actually detecting and characterizing the properties of
merging black holes over a wide range of time-scales. To this end, the
conference will be structured around a relatively small number of
plenary sessions with a large amount of time dedicated for
discussion. The topice to be covered are:
Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers and Evolution
Black Hole Merger Mechanisms ("The Final Parsec Problem")
Gravitational Waves
Electromagnetic Counterparts
Gravitational Recoil
Imprint on Galaxy Structure
Spin as a Probe of Black Hole Evolution
Next-generation Observatories
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First PANDA Symposium on Products
of Astrophysical Outflows
- Dates; 2009 March 30 - April 3
- Deadline for Early Registration: 2009 February 15
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2009 February 20
- Place: Lijiang, Yunnan, China
This is the first of a new Symposia series aimed at establishing and fostering
collaborations among young post doctoral fellows (0-6 years from graduation)
from the Pacific/Asiatic scientific community with their peers across the
globe. Besides enabling scientific mobility and networking, the organizers are
also aiming in providing young researchers with a forum to exchange ideas on
current and future projects. To this end, the meeting will include several
tutorials from senior lecturers during the first day, and three evening
lectures, in the following days. The Symposia should take place every 2 years
and the first three should be held in China near Panda natural reserves.
Topics include:
* Bubbles and Super Bubbles
* Planetary Nebulae
* Stellar Winds and Jets
* AGNs
* Supernovae Remnants
* Magnetars and GRBs
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The coming of Age of
X-ray Polarimetry
- Dates: 2009 April 27 - 30
- Deadline for Regular Registration: Now through 2009 February 28
- Deadline for Late Registration: 2009 March 1 - April 27
- Place: Rome, Italy
The advent of a new generation of X-ray polarimeters, to be combined with
large area X-ray telescopes, has renewed interests in the X-ray polarimetry,
as demonstrated by the several polarimetric missions recently proposed to
various space agencies. The possibility to have a X-ray polarimetric mission
operating in the near future is indeed concrete, not forgetting that a
polarimeter is one of the candidate instruments to be part of the focal
plane of the International X-Ray Observatory (IXO). After more than four
years from the last X-ray Polarimetry Workshop (February 2004),
the organizers believe it is time to hold a conference
with the aim of discussing the present status and perspectives of
instruments as well as to review and discuss the theoretical models. They
would like not only to gather the community actively involved in X-ray
polarimetry (both on the instrumental and theoretical sides), but also and
foremost to stimulate the interest in a wider community, hampered so far by
the lack of observational perspectives.
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2009 "April"
American Physical Society Meeting
- Dates: 2009 May 2 - 5
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: 2009 January 9 at 5:00 pm EST
- Deadline for Housing Reservations: 2009 February 13 or April 1 (?)
- Deadline for Early Bird Registration: 2009 February 27
- Deadline for Late Registration: 2009 April 3
- Place: Denver, Colorado, USA
The theme of this year's "April APS" meeting will be "New Eyes on the
Universe: 400 years since Galileo's Telescope". The April Meeting,
which brings together nuclear, particle, gravitational, accelerator,
plasma, and astrophysicists, will have a strong focus on astrophysics
this year, featuring 4 astrophysics plenary talks (of the 9 total), 19
invited sessions on astrophysical topics and two town meetings (JDEM
and the Decadal Survey).
Some activities related to the Astronomy 2010 decadal survey will be
held at this meeting. A special Town Hall session will be held
on Monday night May 4th and two invited sessions will be held on
Tuesday May 5th entitled New Facilities in Particle Astrophysics I & II.
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RICAP09 2nd Roma International
Conference on Astro-Particle Physics
- Dates: 2009 May 13 - 15
- Place: Frascati, Rome, Italy
RICAP09 (Roma International Conference on Astro-Particle Physics) is the
second edition of a series of International Conferences entirely
dedicated to high energy cosmic rays study, organized by the three
public Universities and INFN Sections in Rome (University and INFN of
Roma La Sapienza, University and INFN of Roma Tor Vergata and University
and INFN of Roma Tre).
In these institutions there is an intense activity on Astro-Particle
physics, visible in the participation to major experimental projects in
the field (AGILE, AMS, ANTARES, ARGO, AUGER, FERMI, NEMO, PAMELA, ...)
and in a deep and fruitful theoretical work.
The Conference will be held every two years. The first edition was held
at the University of Roma La Sapienza, the second edition will be hosted by
the University of Roma Tor Vergata and the third edition will be at
Roma Tre.
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Supersoft X-ray Sources - New Developments
- Dates: 2009 May 18 - 20
- Place: Villafranca, near Madrid, Spain
After the discovery of supersoft X-ray sources (SSS) with the Einstein
Observatory, the detection of about a dozen luminous SSS in the Magellanic
Clouds in the ROSAT all-sky survey data established luminous SSS as a class
of objects. Later, ROSAT pointed observations revealed SSS also in the Milky
Way and other nearby galaxies.
XMM-Newton and Chandra have been in orbit for about one decade. High-resolution
X-ray spectra of SSS are crucial for our understanding of the emission process
in these systems. With their high-sensitivity instrumentation SSS can be
investigated in more distant galaxies. XMM-Newton and Chandra surveys of M 31
revealed that most SSS in M 31 are identified with optical novae with various
durations of the SSS state lasting from months to more than 10 years.
Monitoring observations with Swift allow us to investigate the spectral
evolution during the SSS state.
The aim of the workshop is to summarise the present status of
supersoft X-ray sources research from the observational as
well as the theoretical side in order to identify the most critical
unsolved problems.
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The Monster's Fiery Breath: Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and
Clusters
- Dates: 2009 June 1 - 5
- Pre-Registration: Open
- Place: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
The past decade has shown that black hole growth and the formation of large
scale structure are intimately linked. With the astrophysical community
having largely converged on this view, the scientific task at hand is
to determine the nature, strength, and ultimate relevance of this link.
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the Chandra X-ray Observatory, which
has been instrumental in demonstrating the importance of feedback and in
anticipation of the first year of GLAST, which will be instrumental in
making the next step towards a consistent picture of how black hole growth
and large scale structure formation are coupled, as well as the next
generation of low frequency radio telescopes, the 2009 Wisconsin meeting
on feedback from galaxies to clusters will bring together a broad group
of researchers with one common goal: To lay the path for the next decade
of work on feedback in structure formation.
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Accretion and Ejection in AGN: A
Global View
- Dates: 2009 Jun 22 - 26
- Deadline for Pre-Registration: 2009 January 14
- Deadline for Registration and Abstract Submission: 2009 April 15
- Place: Como, Italy
The workshop will cover major observational and theoretical aspects
of fuelling, accretion disks, outflows and relativistic jets in AGN,
with emphasis on their interconnection and relation to environment.
These topics are essentially multiwavelength in nature but rely
especially on the high-energy side of the electromagnetic spectrum
(X-rays, GeV and TeV gamma-rays). In particular, results from the
AGILE and FERMI Gamma-Ray Telescopes and the second generation
of Cherenkov telescope arrays will be presented.
The covered topics will include:
* Fueling supermassive black holes and AGN activity
* Accretion "modes"
* Accretion Disks and Outflows
* News from AGILE/FERMI and Cherenkov Telescopes
* Jets - Structure and emission mechanisms at small and large scale
* Radio-quiet vs. radio-loud AGN: what makes the difference?
* Feed back from radio-loud/radio-quiet AGN
* Accretion and ejection: a balance?
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The Many Faces of
Centaurus A
- Dates: 2009 June 28 - July 3
- Deadline for Registration:2009 February - April
- Place: Sydney, Australia
This conference aims to bring together a broad range of astronomers and
high-energy physicists that traditionally form separate research communities
but are all involved in some way in the detailed studies of the very nearby,
active, massive galaxy Centaurus A/NGC 5128. Since its discovery as a radio
source 60 years ago, the radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) has attracted
great interest from the international astrophysics and high energy physics
communities, and yet this will be the first conference devoted to this
intriguing source.
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The Energetic Cosmos: from Suzaku to ASTRO-H (3rd Suzaku
Conference)
- Dates: 2009 June 29 - July 2
- Deadline for Pre-Registration: 2009 January 13
- Deadline for Registration and Abstract Submission: 2009 March 16
- Deadline for Hotel Booking: 2009 April 13
- Place: Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan
Since the launch on 2005 July 10, the cosmic X-ray satellite Suzaku
has been operating successfully under a close Japan-US collaboration.
Thanks to the unprecedented broad-band coverage provided by the
XRT+XIS and the HXD, aided by their low backgrounds and good energy
responses, a large amount of scientific results are accumulating.
In the International Year of Astronomy 2009,
it is our hope to harvest them, and assemble them into novel
research paradigms that innovate our view of The Energetic Cosmos.
These attempts will further strengthen the ASTRO-H (previously known
as NeXT) project, Suzaku's successor, which is making a steady
progress toward its launch around 2013. Our scope also includes
NuStar and Simbol-X, and further extends to the genuine one-world
X-ray mission, IXO. At the same time, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space
Telescope is producing excellent initial results. The MAXI (Monitor
of All-Sky X-ray Image) experiment, to be onboard the ISS Japan
Experimental Module, is also ready for launch in May 2009.
Given these plentiful high-energy astrophysics results, the
3rd Suzaku conference has been organized. This conference follows the first
one held at Kyoto/Japan in December 2006, and the second at
San Diego/California in December 2007. The conference will be organized so
as to highlight common physics among different types of objects, rather than
treating them separately. Focusing mainly on the results obtained with Suzaku,
the conference will also cover new results from related missions, Chandra,
XMM-Newton, INTEGRAL, Swift, Fermi, and others.
Topics to be covered include:
- Particle acceleration in cosmic shocks and jets (SNRs, Blazars,GRBs,..)
- X-ray diagnostics of cosmic hot plasmas (Galactic diffuse, SNRs,
clusters,..)
- Magnetic activities in stellar objects (pulsars/magnetars, WDs,
stellar flares,.. )
- Primary and reprocessed emissions from accreting objects (BHBs,LMXBs,
ULXs, AGNs, ..)
- X-ray views of the evolution of the universe (GRBs, AGNs, clusters, ..)
- Highlights from the Fermi Space Gamma-Ray Telescope
- Status of the MAXI experiment
- From Suzaku to ASTRO-H and other missions, and further to IXO
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TeV Particle Astrophysics 2009
- Dates: 2009 July 13 - 17
- Place: Menlo Park, California, USA
In 2009 the Large Hadron Collider is scheduled to start exploring the TeV
frontier searching for signals of Physics beyond the Standard Model.
Meanwhile satellite experiments exploring high energy, Fermi GLAST and Pamela,
and a number of ground based TeV telescopes have been in operation for some
time. In addition, underground direct detection experiments contiunue to make
considerable progress in exploring limits on dark matter. This Meeting will
focus on the contributions of astrophysical observations, direct detection
experiments, and TeV accelerator results, that are probing fundamental physics
at the TeV scale of particle physics. The aim of the meeting is to enable
understanding of what we have and can learn from recent and upcoming
experiments exploring the TeV scale and above.
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NEUTRON STARS: TIMING IN AN EXTREME ENVIRONMENT: JOINT DISCUSSION
AT THE XXVII IAU GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
- Dates: 2009 August 3 - 5
- Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Astronomical systems harboring a neutron star, from isolated and binary radio
pulsars to magnetars and accreting X-ray binaries, constitute a unique tool
for the study of matter under extreme conditions. Testing General Relativity
in the strong-field regime and the determination of the equation of state of
neutron matter are major goals which appear more and more within reach. The
availability of high-energy missions such as XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku
for energy spectra and RossiXTE for fast time variability, as well as the
discovery of a new binary radio pulsar, have spurred these lines of research.
The results from high-energy Cherenkov experiments like MAGIC and HESS are
opening a new window to study the extreme environment close to compact objects.
Agile and GLAST will be fully operational, providing an unprecedented view of
this type of systems. The proposed Joint Discussion aims at getting together
experts in these fields for an analysis of the current situation and a view
toward future prospects. 2009 will be the fourteenth year of operation of
RossiXTE and it will mark the 10-year anniversary of the launch of XMM-Newton
and Chandra. The Indian satellite for X-ray astronomy ASTROSAT will be in
orbit, providing crucial fast-timing information. In addition, ESA, NASA and
JAXA are currently analyzing the possibility of joining forces by merging the
two major X-ray programs (Constellation-X and XEUS) into one large mission
and we expect that the conclusions reached in this JD will help shape up the
science program for it. All these constitute an ideal milestone for such a
meeting. The proposed program includes ten major topics for which two
solicited talks are envisioned, together with a small number of selected
contributed talks. An additional session, distributed through the two days,
will address future instrumentation for timing analysis. A poster session is
also envisioned. A IAU JD provides an ideal setting for such a meeting and
will allow discussions focused to these topics. Although the emphasis is on
time variability, all aspects will be addressed, from radio observations to
high-resolution spectra and high-energy emission.
The principal topics to be discussed:
* quasi-periodic oscillations from mHz to kHz
* X-ray bursts and superbursts
* millisecond X-ray pulsars
* AXP/SGR and magnetars
* isolated neutron stars
* very-high energy emission from neutron stars
* gravitational waves from neutron stars
* neutron-star equation of state and strong gravity
* future instrumentation for timing
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Hot Interstellar
Matter in Elliptical Galaxies, Joint Discussion 8 at the
IAU XXVII General
Assembly
- Dates: 2009 August 6 - 7
- Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The physical properties of the hot interstellar matter in elliptical galaxies
are directly related with the formation and evolution of elliptical galaxies
via star formation episodes, environmental effects such as stripping, infall,
and mergers, and growth of super-massiveblack holes. While the recent
successful Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray space missions have provided
a large amount of high quality observational data on the hot ISM in
elliptical galaxies, a number of important issues are still poorly understood,
including the metal abundance discrepancy in some X-ray faint galaxies,
the deviation from the solar abundance ratio of alpha elements, the wide
range of hot gas contents for a given stellar mass, the effects of
AGN-feedback on the dynamics and energetics of the hot ISM. This conference is
intended to review the observational constraints available on the physical
properties of the hot ISM and to confront the predictions of the latest
simulations and analytical models of the dynamical/chemical evolution
with observations.
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IAU Symposium 267: Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes: Feeding
and Feedback
- Dates: 2009 August 10 - 14
- Deadline for Abstract Submission for Contributed Talks: 2009 February 2
- Deadline for Early Registration: 2009 March 1
- Deadline for Regular Registration: 2009 July 24
- Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
It is now widely recognized that nuclear activity is an important
ingredient in shaping the evolution of galaxies. With the advent of
techniques for estimating AGN black hole masses, even at large
redshifts, and the availability of large quasar samples over a broad
range of redshifts and selected at wavelengths ranging from the radio to
the X-ray, the field has undergone transformational change. A major
focus has become observational and theoretical investigation of nuclear
activity in the context of the galactic environment, which can be
described in terms of "feeding" and "feedback." AGN feeding is
tightly correlated with redshift-dependent star formation in the host
galaxy. AGN feedback, in the form of relativistic jets, massive winds,
and intense radiation, has been invoked to solve a broad range of
problems that arise in Cold Dark Matter-based models of galaxy
formation: setting the critical mass scale for galaxies, regulating
cooling in clusters, and shutting down star formation. Such feedback,
feeding, and their mutual interaction might possibly account for the
tight relationship between galactic bulge mass and central black hole mass.
The purpose of the symposium is to bring together researchers, both
theorists and observers, from different specializations to better define
the current global landscape and to motivate new lines of research. The
timing of this symposium is propitious: HST is expected to be in its
first full cycle after SM4 refurbishment, and ALMA, JWST, and LSST will
be on the near-term horizon. The scientific program is as follows:
Session 1. The first galaxies and black holes
Session 2. Quasar and supermassive black hole demographics
Session 3. Multi-wavelength properties of AGN and their hosts
Session 4. Black hole masses, scaling relationships, and their evolution
Session 5. Accretion and feeding
Session 6. Outflows and feedback
Session 7. The Big Picture: Large-scale effects of feedback on galaxies and
their environment
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X-ray Astronomy 2009:
Present Status, Multiwavelength Approach and Future Perspectives
- Dates: 2009 September 7 - 11
- Deadline for Early Registration and Abstract Submission: 2009 May 1
- Deadline for Final Registration: 2009 July 1
- Place: Bologna, Italy
Third in a decadal series of X-ray astronomy conferences in Bologna, this
meeting will highlight the contribution of XMM-Newton and Chandra
observatories, ten years after their launch. Emphasis will be given on cosmic
source multiwavelength studies and associated synergies with major facilities
at all wavelengths, and on the perspectives for future high energy
astrophysics missions.
The main scientific issues to be addressed are:
* STELLAR OBJECTS AND SUPERNOVA REMNANTS
- Cool and hot stars
- Star-forming regions
- Neutron Stars
- Supernovae and SN remnants and pulsar wind nebulae
- Pulsars and Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters
* BLACK HOLES AND COMPACT OBJECTS
- Matter under extreme conditions
- Physics of Accretion and Ejection
- X-rays as probes of General Relativity
- Particle acceleration
- Evolution of Super-massive Black Holes
- Black Hole-Galaxy Co-Evolution and Feedback processes
* GALAXIES AND CLUSTERS OF GALAXIES
- Star formation across cosmic time
- Physical processes in clusters and groups
- Metal enrichement of the ICM
- Interaction of cluster components
- WHIM
- Clusters of galaxies as cosmological probes
* PRESENT and FUTURE MISSIONS
- XMM, Chandra, Suzaku
- RossiXTE, INTEGRAL, Swift
- Simbol X, NuStar, EXIST, ASTRO-H
- JANUS, GEMS, WFXT
- IXO
- Synergies with other wavelengths.
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Ten Years of Science with
Chandra Symposium
- Dates: 2009 September 22 - 25
- Place: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
The fifth in a series, this meeting will highlight key science results from
the first ten years of operation of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. To stay
informed about the Symposium, subscribe to the mailing list. Send email to
majordomo@head.cfa.harvard.edu with "subscribe chandra10" (without the
quotation marks) in the body of the message.
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4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ASTRONOMY
AND RELATIVISTIC ASTROPHYSICS (IWARA 2009):
New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe in the AUGER, LHC,
FAIR/GSI and GEO/LIGO Era
- Dates: 2009 October 4 - 8
- Place: Maresias, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The main purpose of the event is to offer new opportunities for personal and
professional growth of our students. For this reason, we feel it is very
important to keep the series of meetings that began in 2003 in which
astrophysicists, astronomers and scientists working in nuclear,
and high-energy particle physics, for the first time in this series, meet with
the intention of showing the latest results on a variety of topics involving
new phenomena and new states of matter in the universe and therefore interact
with their peers from around the world. The previous IWARA
meetings were in 2003 (Olinda, Pernambuco, Brazil), 2005 (Natal, Rio Grande do
Norte, Brazil), and 2007, Joao Pessoa, Paraiba, Brazil).
"New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe' is the motto of this
event. The topics of the workshop include General Relativity, Gravitation,
Cosmology, Heavy Ion Collisions and the Quark-Gluon Plasma, White Dwarfs,
Neutron Stars and Pulsars, Black Holes, Gamma Ray Bursts, High-Energy Cosmic
Rays, Gravitational Waves, Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Strange Matter and
Strange Stars, Antimatter and Ion Research, and Cosmic Matter in the
Laboratory. Related topics are welcome.
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High Energy Astrophysics
Division (HEAD) of the AAS Meeting
- Dates: 2010 March 1 - 4
- Place: Hawaii, USA
Other Selected Astronomy, Physics and Space Science
meetings
-
Beyond
JWST: The Next Steps in UV-Optical-NIR Space Astronomy
- Dates: 2009 March 26 - 27
- Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA) is sponsoring
a workshop to engage the UV/optical/Near-IR (UVOIR) astronomy community to
discuss its long-term goals for space-based astronomy and astrophysics. The
meeting will provide the community with an opportunity to look forward on a
25-year horizon to identify the scientific opportunities enabled by large and
very large space telescopes and to outline a path forward that will form the
basis for a community-led report to the NRC 2010 Decadal Review Committee.
The focus of the workshop program will be heavily science-based with topics
covering:
- Detection & Characterization of Exoplanets
- Solar System
- Local Galactic Neighborhood
- Star Formation and Evolution
- IGM and Chemical Evolution of Universe
- Galaxy Formation & Evolution
- Cosmology: Dark Matter/Lensing/Dark Energy
Representatives from NASA Astrophysics Mission Concept Studies that are
relevant to UVOIR space astrophysics are also being invited to give short
presentations. Additional presentations will include NASA and ESA long-range
plans and advanced technological possibilities for UVOIR telescopes.
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The
Search for Life in the Universe (Spring 2009 STScI Symposium)
- Dates: 2009 May 4 - 7
- Deadline for Early Registration: 2009 March 1
- Place: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
The concept that life might exist elsewhere besides the Earth has
intrigued humankind for centuries. Technology has now enabled this
fundamental question to be pursued with substantial international
scientific vigor. Within the Solar System several Mars probes, as
well probes to the moons of Jupiter (Europa) and Saturn (Titan),
are being developed with specific emphasis on the development of
in-situ instrumentation to detect the presence of life. Beyond the
Solar System, the search for life signs has gained momentum with
the rapid growth in the number of known exoplanets. While the
detection of exoplanets is challenging conventional views of planet
formation, it has also created opportunities for new observational
methods to detect and characterize habitability and bio-signatures.
And the study of life on Earth has revealed surprising constraints
on the limits of life with the discovery of extremophiles capable
of surviving in near-freezing, near-boiling, non-aqueous, or high
radiation environments.
The STScI 2009 Spring Symposium will divide discussion of the
motivations and expectations for the search for life in the universe
into three distance domains that each require markedly different
observational approaches and speakers from multiple disciplines:
detecting Life within 50 AU of Earth, detecting life within 100 pc
of Earth, and detecting life beyond 100 pc from Earth.
The program will consist of invited talks and contributed posters. Specific
scientific themes have been selected for each day:
May 4 (day 1): "Milepost Zero: Life on Earth"
May 5 (day 2): "The Search for Life Within 50 A.U"
May 6 (day 3): "The Search for Life Within 100 pc"
May 7 (day 4): "The Search for Life in the Galaxy"
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American
Astronomical Society Meeting 214
- Dates: 2009 June 7 - 11
- Place: Pasadena, California, USA
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IAU XXVII General
Assembly
- Dates: 2009 August 3 - 14
- Registration: OPEN
- Deadline for Travel Grant Applications and Abstract Submission: 2009 March
1
- Place: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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American
Astronomical Society Meeting 215
- Dates: 2010 January 3 - 7
- Place: Washington, DC, USA
Selected Astronomy-related Technology (e.g., Detectors)
meetings
- None
Selected Astronomy-related Physics, Computational,
Data Analysis, Software or Statistics meetings
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16th Atomic Processes
in Plasmas Conference: ApiP-2009
- Dates: 2009 March 22 - 26
- Deadline for Abstract Submission and Early Registration: 2009 January 16
- Deadline for Final Registration: 2009 March 16
- Place: Monterey, California, USA
Topics covered:
High-energy density physics
* laser and pulsed-power facilities
* fast-ignition and inertial fusion
Astrophysical plasmas
Magnetic-fusion plasmas
* ITER, DIII-D, JET, etc.
Bench-top scale plasmas
* table-top lasers, EBITs
Next generation light sources
* LCLS, DESY, free-electron lasers
Fundamental atomic data
Fundamental modeling and Plasma diagnostics
Selected Space Science-related Education and Public
Outreach meetings
- None
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