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X-ray Polarimetry Workshop
Schedule
| Day | Topic | Speaker | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 02/09/2004 | 09:00 | welcome | Roger Blandford | 00:15 |
| 09:15 | Polarization signatures of high energy processes | Matthew Baring | 00:30 | |
| 09:45 | Polarization effects near Black holes | Avery Broderick | 00:30 | |
| 10:15 | Break | 00:30 | ||
| 10:45 | Polarization effects of scattering in disk atmospheres | Juri Poutanen | 00:30 | |
| 11:15 | Polarization signatures of reflection | Giorgio Matt | 00:30 | |
| 11:45 | X-ray Scattering Polarimeters: An Overview | Martin Weisskopf | 00:30 | |
| 12:15 | The X-ray Polarimetry Experiment (XPE) | B. Ramsey | 00:20 | |
| 12:35 | Lunch | 01:00 | ||
| 13:35 | High Energy Polarization of Blazar Jets | Davide Lazzati | 00:30 | |
| 14:05 | Jets and galactic black holes | Paolo Coppi | 00:30 | |
| 14:35 | Status and Future Prospects for Gamma ray Polarimetry | Mark McConnell | 00:30 | |
| 15:05 | Simulation Techniques for Polarized Photons | Francesco Longo | 00:30 | |
| 15:35 | Break | 00:30 | ||
| 16:05 | Hard X-ray Polarization and Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares | Gordon Emslie | 00:30 | |
| 16:35 | RHESSI: solar flare polarimetry | David Smith | 00:20 | |
| 16:55 | Pogo | Tune Kamae | 00:20 | |
| 17:15 | SGD | T. Takahashi | 00:20 | |
| 17:35 | X-ray Polarimeter using Optical Imaging Capillary Gas Proportional Counter | Hirohisa Sakurai | 00:20 | |
| 17:55 | The NCT Balloon-borne Gamma-Ray Polarimeter | Steven Boggs | 00:15 | |
| 18:10 | End of first day | |||
| 02/10/2004 | 09:00 | Particle Accelerator Sources and Measurements of X-ray Polarization | Roger Carr | 00:30 |
| 09:30 | Theory and Observation of Atomic Spectral Line Polarization | Martin Laming | 00:30 | |
| 10:00 | Multilayers | Herman Marshall | 00:20 | |
| 10:20 | Break | 00:30 | ||
| 10:50 | Theoretical prediction of polarization in gamma-ray burst sources | Jonathan Granot | 00:30 | |
| 11:20 | RHESSI GRB Polarization Observations | Steven Boggs | 00:20 | |
| 11:40 | Re-analysis of Polarization in the Gamma-ray Flux of GRB021206 | Robert Rutledge | 00:20 | |
| 12:00 | Discussion | 00:15 | ||
| 12:15 | Lunch | 01:00 | ||
| 13:15 | Implications of Polarization in GRBs and parsec scale AGN Jets | Maxim Lyutikov | 00:20 | |
| 13:35 | Bragg crystal polarimeters | Herb Schnopper | 00:30 | |
| 14:05 | The Stellar X-ray Polarimeter | Philip Kaaret | 00:20 | |
| 14:25 | PRIZE The Polarization Explorer | Eric Silver | 00:20 | |
| 14:45 | Performance of a Thick Silicon Gamma-Ray Polarimeter | Steve Nelson | 00:15 | |
| 15:00 | New Developments in Liquid Xenon Polarimeters | Elena Aprile | 00:15 | |
| 15:15 | AGN Structure from Multiwavelength Polarization Properties | Martin Elvis | 00:15 | |
| 15:30 | Break | 00:30 | ||
| 16:00 | X-ray Polarimetry as a Probe of Emission Geometry in Compact Objects | Lev Titarchuk | 00:15 | |
| 16:15 | Gamma-ray Polarimetry in the Pair Production Regime | Peter Bloser | 00:15 | |
| 16:30 | Polarization properties of NS Atmospheres and cyclotron features | Dong Lai | 00:40 | |
| 17:10 | Polarization properties of Rotation Powered Pulsars in Polar Cap Models | Alice Harding | 00:20 | |
| 17:30 | Pulsar Polarization from the Outer Gap | Roger Romani | 00:20 | |
| 17:50 | End of second day | |||
| 02/11/2004 | 08:30 | Shell-type supernova-remnants: X-ray/radio polarization connection | Steve Reynolds | 00:30 |
| 09:00 | Pulsar Wind Nebulae | George Pavlov | 00:30 | |
| 09:30 | Polarization of X-ray Emission Lines from Clusters of Galaxies | Evgeny Churazov | 00:30 | |
| 10:00 | Break | 00:30 | ||
| 10:30 | Photoelectric X-ray polarimetry with Gas Detectors | Ronaldo Bellazini | 00:30 | |
| 11:00 | A SMEX Advanced X-ray Polarimeter | Jean Swank | 00:20 | |
| 11:20 | Polarimetry with Xeus | Enrico Costa | 00:20 | |
| 12:00 | Development of an X-ray polarimeter with a gas detector, Mu-PIC | Masaru Ueno | 00:15 | |
| 12:15 | Rapporteur | Andy Fabian/Bob Novick | 01:00 | |
| 13:15 | Lunch | 01:00 | ||
| 14:15 | End of third day |
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