November 17–20, 2009

Final Agenda

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Tuesday, November 17
18:00–20:00 Opening Reception and Registration
Wednesday, November 18
07:30–08:30 Continental Breakfast
08:30–10:30 Welcome Addresses: (Chair: J. Nousek)

08:30–08:35 Daniel J. Larson, Dean of the Eberly College of Science (Penn State)

08:35–08:45 Jaya Bajpayee, Swift Program Executive (NASA)

Swift Overview:

08:45–09:00 N. Gehrels "Scientific Opportunities for Swift"

09:00–09:10 J. Nousek "Swift Operations Status and Future Plans"

Swift Instrument Status:

09:10–09:25 S. Barthelmy "BAT Status"

09:25–09:40 D. N. Burrows "XRT Status"

09:40–09:55 P. Roming "The Swift UVOT: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow"

09:55–10:10 D. Hartmann "Swift Users Group"

10:10–10:25 L. Cominsky "Swift Education and Public Outreach"
 

10:25–10:30 Announcement: Poster Competition
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00–12:30 GRBs I: Theory (Chair: D. N. Burrows)

 11:00–11:30 E. Ramirez-Ruiz "Triggering Gamma-Ray Bursts"

11:30–11:45 D. H. Hartmann "On the Origin of the Highest Gamma-Ray Bursts"

11:45–12:00 J. K. Cannizzo "Long-term Accretion Rate Modulation by an External Accretion Disk in GRBs"

12:00–12:15 A. M. Beloborodov "Photospheric Emission from GRB Jets"

12:30–14:00 Lunch Break (On your own)
Downtown Restaurants
14:00–15:30 GRBs II: Observations (Chair: L. Vetere)
13:45–14:15 J. Greiner "Swift and Long Duration
GRBs"

14:15–14:45 J. Bloom "A Redress of Short Bursts"

14:45–15:00 D. N. Burrows "Chandra Searches for Late-Time
Jet Breaks in GRB X-ray Afterglows"

15:00–15:15 B. Cenko "The Collimation and Energetics of the Brightest Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts"

15:15–15:30 D. B. Fox "Top Ten Reasons to Get Excited about the QPOGRB 090709A"
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
16:00–18:15 Supernovae and Novae (Chair: G. Chincarini)

16:00–16:30 S. Immler "Five Years of Swift Supernova Observations: What Have We Learned?"

16:30–16:45 P. Brown "Ultraviolet Properties of Supernovae"

16:45–17:15 S. Kulkarni "Palomar Transient Factory"

17:15–17:45 G. Schwarz "Classical Novae in the Swift Age"

17:45–18:00 M. F. Bode "Swift Observations of Extragalactic Recurrent Novae"

18:00–18:15 S. Starrfield "Swift Observations of Classical Novae in Outburst: The Demise of the Constant Bolometric Luminosity Paradigm"
Adjourn for the Day
Thursday, November 19
07:30–08:30 Continental Breakfast
08:30–10:00 AGN I: Seyferts (Chair: N. Brandt)

08:30–09:00 I. McHardy "Variability of Seyfert Galaxies as Seen by Swift"

09:00–09:15 D. Grupe "Swift Observations of the Spectral Energy Distributions in Soft  X-ray Selected AGN"

09:15–09:30 R. Vasudevan "The Swift/BAT 9-Month Catalogue: Determining the Total Luminous Power Output of AGN"

09:30–09:45 L. Winter "Spectroscopic Properties of the Swift BAT Detected AGNs"

09:45–10:00 J. Wu "A Catalog of Quasars with Simultaneous UV, Optical, and X-ray Observations by Swift"
10:00–10:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
10:30–12:15 AGN II:  Blazars (Chair: D. Grupe) 

10:30–11:00 R. Sambruna "Swift Contributions to Blazar Studies – and More"

11:00–11:15 J. Grube "Multi-wavelength Observations of Flaring Blazars with Swift, Fermi, and VERITAS"

Galaxies and Clusters (Chair: D. Grupe)

11:15–11:30 C. Gronwall "Deep Ultraviolet Imaging of the Chandra Deep Field South with the Swift UV/Optical Telescope"

11:30–11:45 A. Moretti "Swift XRT Observations of Galaxy Clusters' Outer Regions"

11:45–12:00 E. Hoversten "Swift UV/Optical Telescope Ultraviolet Imaging of the Star-Forming Regions of M81"

12:00–12:15 P. O'Brien "Extragalactic Science using MAXI+Swift"

12:15–13:45 Lunch Break (On your own)
13:45–15:15 Transients (Chair: J. Osborne)

13:45–14:15 J. Tomsick "Catching Galactic X-ray Transients in the Act"

14:15–14:30 C. Markwardt"The Value of Swift for Low Luminosity Low Mass X-ray Binaries"

14:30–14:45 N. Degenaar "Swift as a Key Tool to Study Underluminous X-ray Transients"

14:45–15:00 P. Romano "The True Colors of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: the Swift View"

15:00–15:15 M. Reynolds "Galactic X-ray Binaries as Observed by Swift"
15:00–15:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session
15:45–17:00 Surveys  (Chair: C. Gronwall)

15:45–16:15 M. Ajello "The Role of Swift in All Sky Surveys"

16:15–16:30 J. Tueller "Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Survey: Analysis Procedures and Results"

16:30–16:45 P. Evans "Swift Identification of New X-ray Sources Discovered by the XMM Newton Slew Survey"

16:45–17:00 S. Puccetti "The Swift-XRT Deep Serendipitous Survey"
17:00–17:05 Announcement of the winner of the poster competition (Prizes will be given during the banquet.)
17:05–18:00 Free Time
18:00–19:00 Cash Bar
19:00–21:30 Conference Banquet
Friday, November 20
07:30–08:30 Continental Breakfast
08:30–08:45 Poster Winners Five-Minute Talks
08:45–10:00 Swift and Other Observatories (Chair: D. H. Hartmann)

 08:45–09:15 P. Caraveo "AGILE/FERMI and Swift Connection"

09:15–09:30 C. A. Wilson-Hodge "Fermi GBM: Highlights from the First Year"

09:30–09:45 H. Tomida "Current Status and Initial Results of MAXI on the International Space Station"

09:45–10:00 M. S. Tashiro "GRB Observations with Suzaku and Strategy of ASTROH"
10:00–10:45 Coffee Break and Birthday Cake
10:45–12:15 Surveys, Comets and HE from Stars (Chair: S. Starrfield)

10:45–11:15 G. Israel "Magnetar Flares and Flashes in the Swift Era"

11:15–11:45 D. Bodewits "Swift Observations of Cometary X-ray and UV Emission"

11:45–12:15 J. Sokoloski "High Energy Emission from Stars"
12:15–12:30 Closing Remarks: Neil Gehrels and John Nousek
12:30 Conference Adjournment