Wednesday, March 22, 2000
8:25 Welcome and Announcements
8:30 - 10:15 Galactic Source Rapid Variability I (chair - Psaltis):
Michiel van der Klis Rapid X-ray Variability in XRBs
(30+5, invited)
Tod Strohmayer Burst Oscillations and Their Implications
(25+5, invited)
Mike Muno Bursts and Oscillations from KS 1731-260
(10+3, contributed)
Peter Jonker 1 Hz QPOs in three dipper low-mass X-ray binaries
(10+3, contributed)
Craig Markwardt Measurement of Energy-Dependent Lags in Four Galactic
Low Mass X-ray Binary Systems (10+3, contributed)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee and Snacks - Poster Viewing
10:45 - 12:30 Galactic Source Rapid Variability II (chair - Lamb):
Ron Remillard X-ray QPOs in Black Hole Binaries (30+5, invited)
Robert V. Wagoner Relativistic diskoseismology II: Corrugation modes
(12+3, contributed)
John Tomsick Detection of QPOs from GRS 1915+105 at Energies Up to 60
keV with PCA and HEXTE (12+3, contributed)
Greg Sobczak Creating order out of chaos: Characterizing the QPO
behavior of the X-ray Nova XTE J1550-564
(12+3, contributed)
Thomas Maccarone Time Domain Analysis of Variability in Cygnus X-1
(12+3, contributed)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:45 AGN Variability (chair - Remillard)
Rick Edelson RXTE Variability Studies of Active Galaxies
(20+5, invited)
Ian McHardy RXTE-related multi-waveband variability of Blazars,
particularly 3C273 (20+5, invited)
Phil Uttley AGN timing studies with RXTE: highlights of the
Southampton monitoring program (8+2, contributed)
Mike Eracleous The Hard X-ray Variability of 3C 390.3
(8+2, contributed)
Rita Sambruna Mapping the inner jets of blazars through correlated
multiwavelength variability (20+5, invited)
Giovanni Fossati The very high X-ray (and TeV) state of Mkn421 in
May 1996: the RXTE view (8+2, contributed)
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee break - Poster viewing
4:15 - 6:00 X-ray Pulsars and Magnetic Accretors (chair - Bildsten)
Deepto Chakrabarty X-Ray Pulsars (25+5, invited)
Dong Lai Magnetically Driven Disk Warping, Precession and
Resonances with implications for X-ray Pulsars and QPOs
in LMXBs (12+3, contributed)
William A. Heindl Cyclotron Lines from Magnetic Neutron Stars
(20+5, invited)
Rudy Wijnands The 2000 Outburst of the Millisecond X-ray Pulsar SAX
J1808.4-3658 (10+2, contributed)
Alan M. Levine RXTE Discovery of the Orbit of X Persei
(10+2, contributed)
Matt Scott Her X-1: A Neutron Star Pulse Emission Region Resolved By
A Precessing Inner Disk Occultation (10+2, contributed)
Thursday, March 23, 2000
8:30 - 10:15 Millisecond Variability and New Probes of Fundamental Physics (chair - Chakrabarty)
Fred Lamb Theories of kHz variability (25+5, invited)
Dimitrios Psaltis Relativistic effects and Millisecond Variability
(20+5, invited)
Mariano Mendez Further observational constraints to models of the kHz
QPOs in LMXBs (10+3, contributed)
Lev Titarchuk Timing Spectroscopy of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the
Low-Mass X-ray Neutron Star Binaries (10+3, contributed)
Draza Markovic General Relativistic Effects and QPOs in X-Ray Binaries
(10+3, contributed)
Shigeki Miyaji Magneto-Rotational Instability of Accretion Disks and
kHz QPO (10+3, contributed)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee and Snacks - Poster viewing
10:45 - 12:30 Nucelar Burning on Neutron Stars: New Insights and Theoretical Challenges (chair - Strohmayer)
Lars Bildsten Nuclear Burning on Neutron Stars (20+5, invited)
Andrew Cumming Rotational Evolution during Type I X-Ray Bursts
(20+5,invited)
Michael Zingale 2-dimensional Helium Detonations on the Surface of
Neutron Stars, (15+3, contributed).
Jean in 't Zand The X-ray burster population in the Galactic bulge
(10+2, contributed)
Eric Ford Relativistic Signatures in Fast Timing Signals with RXTE
(10+3, contributed)
Nitya R. Nath Least-Squares Fits of Oscillations in X-Ray Bursts:
Determination of Upper Bound of Compactness for LMXB
Neutron Stars (10+3, contributed)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:45 Magnetars, SGRs, and AXPs (chair - Heindl)
Chryssa Kouveliotou On the spin properties of Soft Gamma Repeaters
(20+5, invited)
Vicky Kaspi Anomalous X-ray Pulsars (20+5, invited)
Robert Duncan Soft Gamma Repeater Spin down Evolution and the August
27 Event (15+5, invited)
Dave Marsden Alternatives to Superstrong Magnetic Fields
(15+5, invited)
M. Ali Alpar Dim Thermal Neutron Stars, Anomalous X-ray Pulsars:
Propellers and Accretors with Conventional Magnetic
Fields? (8+2, contributed)
Peter M. Woods Timing Noise in SGR 1806-20 (8+2, contributed)
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee - Poster viewing
4:15 - 6:00 White Dwarf Systems - IPs, Polars, Dwarf Novae (chair - TBD)
Coel Hellier Magnetic CVs (25+5, invited)
Peter Wheatley X-ray observations of dwarf nova outbursts
(25+5, invited)
Eric Schlegel An Outburst of SS Cyg (10+5, contributed)
Koji Mukai The Early X-ray Emission from V382 Velorum: An Internal
Shock Model (10+5, contributed)
Michael Wolff V2301 Ophiucus: An Eclipsing AM Herculis Object
(10+5, contributed)
Friday March 24, 2000
8:30 - 10:15 Multiwavelength Studies and the Disk-Jet Connection (chair - Swank)
Rob Fender Multiwavelength Studies and the Disk-Jet connection
(25+5, invited)
Bob Hjellming The Radio Counterparts of X-ray Transients Discovered by
the RXTE (15+5, contributed)
Jeff McClintock X-ray/UV Variability of V404 Cyg and A0620-00 in
Quiescence (10+3, contributed)
Lee Homer A Warped, Precessing Disc in the X-ray Dipper X1916-053?
(10+3, contributed)
Kieran O`Brien Correlated X-ray and optical variability in X-ray
Binaries 10+3, contributed)
Donald Smith ASM Light Curves for Two Gamma-Ray Bursts
(10+3, contributed)
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee and Snacks - Poster viewing
10:45 - 12:30 Spectral and Timing Diagnostics of Accretion Flows I: XRBs, Connections to AGN (chair - Barret)
Mike Nowak Spectral and Timing Diagnostics of Accretion in XRBs
(20+5, invited)
Joern Wilms Spectral and Timing States in BH Binaries (15+5, invited)
Chris Done Relativistic Iron Lines from Galactic BH (15+5, invited)
Sergei Nayakshin X-ray Illuminated Ionized Skin of Accretion Disks
(8+2, contributed)
Warren Focke RXTE Studies of the New X-ray Transient XTE J1859+226
(8+2, contributed)
Marek Gierlinski RXTE observations of the millisecond pulsar SAX
J1808.4-3658 (8+2, contributed)
Stephane Corbel Accretion-ejection in the black hole candidate GX 339-4
(8+2, contributed)
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:45 Spectral Diagnostics of Accretion Flows II: AGN (chair - Edelson)
Kim Weaver X-ray Spectral Variability Studies of Seyfert Galaxies
with RXTE (25+5, invited)
Kirpal Nandra Multi-wavelength variability of Seyfert galaxies
(15+5, invited)
Andrezj Zdziarski Fe K lines and Compton reflection in Seyfert 1s: average
properties and correlations (12+3, contributed)
Karen Leighly X-ray and Optical Observations of the Bright Seyfert 2
Galaxy NGC 6300 (12+3, contributed)
Greg Madejski Rapid Hard X-ray Variability of the Heavily Absorbed
Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 4945 (12+3, contributed)
Julia Lee The X-ray behaviour of Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15:
Reflection, Abundance, and Variability
(12+3, contributed)
3:45 - 4:15 Coffee - Poster viewing
4:15 - 6:00 The Future of X-ray Timing (chair - van der Klis)
Jean Swank Poster Review (20, invited)
Didier Barret EXTRA : The Experiment for X-ray Timing and Relativistic
Astrophysics (20+5, invited)
Phil Kaaret Future X-Ray Timing Missions (20+5, invited)
Cole Miller Future Science from kHz Variability (20+5, invited)
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