Scientific Program - XEUS Workshop at MPE - March 11-13, 2002

We have reserved 10 minutes for discussions and short oral contributions after most talks.
We invite our poster contributors to prepare up to 2 transparencies for short oral presentations.



Monday
Chair G. Palumbo
09:40-09:50 Welcome G. Hasinger
09:50-10:00 Introduction M. Turner
10:00-10:20 First stars and QSOs T. Abel
10:30-10:50 Gamma-Ray Bursts L. Piro
11:00-11.30 Coffee
11:30-11.50 X-ray observations of first QSOs G. Hasinger
12:00-12:20 Hard X-ray surveys and the X-ray background A. Comastri
12:30-12:50 The X-ray Evolution of Galaxies: Implications for XEUS N. White
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Chair H. Böhringer
14:00-14:20 Binaries and ULX in nearby galaxies R. Griffiths
14:30-14:50 Chandra observations of luminous galaxies I. Georgantopoulos
15:00-15:20 Growth of halos - Building Clusters M. Arnaud
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:20 High redshift Sunyaev-Zeldovich clusters and XEUS R. Kneissl
16:30-16:50 Absorption/Emission Spectroscopy of Intergalactic Oxygen F. Paerels
17:00-17:20 Chandra and FUSE discovery of Local IGM Filament F. Nicastro
17:30-17:50 Detecting tenuous gas via resonance absorption lines with XEUS X. Barcons
18:00-18:20 WHIM in emission; large FoV E. Churazov


Tuesday
Chair J. Trümper
09:00-09:20 The ESA Science Programme D. Southwood
09:30-09:50 The ESA ISS programme J. Feustel-Büechl
10:00-10:20 The XEUS mission A. Parmar
10:30-10:50 The XEUS telescope D. Willingale
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-11:45 The hard X-ray option for XEUS Telescope using multilayer Y. Ogasaka
11:50-12:05 Alternative mirror technologies O. Citterio
12:10-12:30 Cryogenic detectors (NFI) H. Hoevers
12:35-12:55 The Wide Field Imager for XEUS L. Strüder
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Chair Y. Tanaka
14:00-14:20 XEUS observations of hard X-ray sources H. Inoue
14:30-14:50 General Relativity from NS and BH M. van der Klis
15:00-15:20 The equation of state measured from fast timing observations of X-ray bursts C. Miller
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:00-16:20 Highly Resolved X-ray Spectra with Chandra N. Schulz
16:30-16:50 AGN Iron lines - the complex picture from XMM-Newton & Chandra P. O'Brien
17:00-17:20 High resolution spectroscopy of nearby AGN J. Kaastra
17:30-17:50 Fe-line reverberation revisited A. Fabian
18:00-18:20 Relativistic iron line of GRS 1915+105 G. Matt
19:00-21:00 Beer and Brez'n Party at MPE
Wednesday
Chair B. Aschenbach
09:00-09:20 Fast Timing capability D. Barret
09:30-09:45 WFI Field-of-view tradeoff M. Turner
09:50-10:05 The importance of X-ray spectroscopy in the 0.1-0.5 keV energy range T. Boller
10:10-10:25 Scientific and technical aspects of a low energy imaging spectrometer for XEUS R. Lieu
10:30-10:45 X-ray Polarimetry in the XEUS Era E. Costa
10:50:11:05 Very High Energy Resolution F. Paerels
11:10-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:30 Discussion, short contributions
 R. Sunyaev
12:30-12:50 Rapporteur talk J. Bleeker
End of workshop / Lunch
14:00-17:00 XEUS Steering Committee Meeting XSTC
in parallel
15:00-17:00 Visit of the MPE Solid State Lab All
XMM-Newton archive demo during breaks by M. Guainazzi

Poster and short oral contributions

Registrations without talk or poster requests