Final Program
THE SUZAKU X-RAY UNIVERSE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, CA, USA
December 10-12, 2007Download: PDF
MONDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2007 8.00 a.m. Continental breakfast 8.45 a.m. Opening remarks: Rothschild, White, and Kunieda 9.00 a.m. Black Holes: Close to the Event Horizon—C. Reynolds 9.30 a.m. AGN Outflows—J. Reeves 10.00 a.m. AGN Structure: Clues from X-ray Spectral Variability—M. Elvis 10.30 a.m. Coffee break 10.45 a.m. Contribution of Compton Thick AGN to CXB—Y. Ueda 11.15 a.m. Hard X-ray Surveys and Suzaku Follow-up—R. Mushotzky 11.45 a.m. GLAST and Suzaku—R. Sambruna 12.15 p.m. Spectral Variability of Type 1 AGNs Observed with Suzaku—Y. Terashima 12.30 p.m. Lunch and poster viewing 2.00 p.m. Suzaku View of Powerful Gamma-ray Quasars and TeV Blazars—J. Kataoka 2.30 p.m. Broad Iron K Lines: The Black Hole–Neutron Star Connection—J. Miller 3.00 p.m. Continuum of Stellar Mass Black Holes—C. Done 3.30 p.m. Tea break 4.00 p.m. Fe K Accretion Disk Diagnostics from Suzaku Observations of the Liner NGC 1052—L. Brenneman 4.15 p.m. Suzaku Observations of NGC4395: Very Hard X-ray Spectrum and Strong Variability of the Smallest Known AGN—Y. Tanaka 4.30 p.m. Herschel and Suzaku—B. Latter 5.00 p.m. Highlights of Theses Featuring Suzaku (5 min. x 10)—Bulbul, Katsuda, Luna, Murphy, Nakagawa, Ohno, Tawa, Yamaguchi, Wik, Winter, et al. 6.00 p.m. Adjourn 6.15 p.m. Suzaku Data Analysis Workshop TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2007 8.30 a.m. Continental breakfast 9.00 a.m. Spatial Distribution of the Galactic Diffuse X-Rays and the Spectral/Timing Study of the 6.4-keV Clumps—K. Koyama 9.30 a.m. The Diffuse Interstellar Medium—R. Shelton 10.00 a.m. The Origin of the 6.7-keV line in the Galactic Center Region Suggested by the Suzaku and NIR data—T. Tsuru 10.15 a.m. Suzaku Detection of Nonthermal X-ray Emission in the LMC Superbubble N11—L. Maddox 10.30 a.m. Coffee break 11.00 a.m. Investigation of the Galactic Bulge Emission with Suzaku—M. Kokubun 11.15 a.m Groups of Galaxies—M. Loewenstein 11.45 a.m. Type Ia and II supernovae contributions to the metal enrichment in intra-cluster medium observed with Suzaku—K. Sato 12.00 pm Suzaku Observations of the Outskirts of A399/A401—Y. Fujita 12.15 p.m. Lunch and poster viewing 2.00 p.m. Suzaku Observations of Clusters—P. Henry 2.30 p.m. Search for Missing Baryons—T. Ohashi 3.00 p.m. Hard X-ray Emission from Clusters—Y. Fukazawa 3.30 p.m. Tea break 4.00 p.m. Suzaku XIS, HXD, and XMM-Newton Observations of Thermal and Nonthermal Emission at Large Radii in the Merging Cluster Abell 3667—C. Sarazin 4.15 p.m. Neutron Star X-ray Binaries—K. Makishima 4.45 p.m. Relativistic Iron Emission Lines in Neutron Star LMXBs as Probes of Neutron Star Radii—E. Cackett 5.00 p.m. Suzaku Observations of the X-ray Emission from Comets—G. Brown 5.15 p.m. Suzaku Wide-band All-sky Monitor Observations of GRB Prompt Emissions—K. Yamaoka 5.30 p.m. Adjourn 6.30 p.m. Conference reception WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2007 8.30 a.m. Continental breakfast 9.00 a.m. Thermal Supernova Remnants—U. Hwang 9.30 a.m. Non-thermal Supernova Remnants—A. Bamba 10.00 a.m. New Insights into Cosmic Ray Acceleration in SNRs—Y. Uchiyama 10.30 a.m. Coffee break 11.00 a.m. Discovery of the Extended X-ray Emission from the Dark Accelerator HESSJ1614-518—H. Matsumoto 11.15 a.m. Suzaku Observations of SNR RX J1713.7-3946 in the Energy Range from 0.4 keV up to 40 keV—T. Tanaka 11.30 a.m. Suzaku Observations of Accreting White Dwarf Binaries—M. Ishida 12.00 p.m. Suzaku Studies of Stellar X-ray Emission—M. Tsujimoto 12.30 p.m. Lunch and poster viewing 2.00 p.m. Observing IGR J16318-4848 with Suzaku: Probing Compton-thick Absorption— K. Pottschmidt 2.15 p.m. Suzaku Observation of Anomalous X-ray Pulsar 4U 0142+61—T. Enoto 2.30 p.m. Suzaku Current Status—T. Dotani 3.00 p.m. Tea break 3.30 p.m. Suzaku Future Impact Compact and Stellar Objects—G. Hasinger Galactic and Extragalactic Extended Objects—J. Hughes 4.30 p.m. The NeXT Mission—T. Takahashi 5.00 p.m. End of conference
