Here is the agenda for the "16 Years of Discovery with RXTE" Symposium. For more information on events celebrating the RXTE mission, see our "16 Years of Discovery with RXTE: A Celebration of the Mission" Web page".

Agenda

Note: All talks are 15 minutes (12 min. talk + 3 min. for questions).

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Thursday, March 29, 2012

9:15AM - 11:00AM

Tod Strohmayer (5 min.)

Welcome and Introduction

Session 1: Pulsars and Magnetars
Chair: Strohmayer

Al Levine	The RXTE All-Sky Monitor in Context (pdf)
Chryssa Kouveliotou	RXTE and Magnetars: A unique story of success (ppt)
Fotis Gavriil	RXTE's Contribution to the Study of Magnetars and High Magnetic Field Rotation-Powered Pulsars
Eric Gotthelf	Young Pulsars Discovered using RXTE (key)
Frank Marshall	RXTE Observations of An Extraordinary Pulsar in the LMC (pptx)
Robin Corbet	HMXB X-ray Pulsars in the Magellanic Clouds and The Galaxy (pdf)

11:00AM - 11:30AM Coffee

11:30AM - 12:30PM

Session 2 : The Versatile PCA
Chair: Strohmayer

Will Zhang	Some Untold Stories of the PCA (pdf)
Mike Corcoran	Observing Winds in Collision with RXTE (ppt)
Craig Markwardt	Measuring the Cosmic X-ray Background With RXTE Using Lunar Occultation (ppt)
Kent Wood	RXTE Observations of Lunar Occultations of the Crab Nebula (ppt)

12:30PM - 1:45PM Lunch

1:45PM - 3:15PM

Session 3: Black Holes (I)
Chair: Marshall

Keith Jahoda	PCA calibration and Related Science (pptx)
Tomaso Belloni	Black-Hole Transients: the unique Rossi XTE legacy (pdf)
Jon Miller	RXTE and Disk Reflection in Black Holes (pdf)
Nikolai Shaposhnikov	Black Hole QPOs Phase Delays (pptx)
Mike Nowak	My Three Favorite Black Holes: How RXTE Observations of Them Still Haunt My Dreams (key)
John Tomsick	The "Help Save RXTE!" Campaigns and Catching a Giant Radio Flare from Cyg X-3 with RXTE and Fermi (pptx)

3:15PM - 3:45PM Coffee

3:45PM - 5:15PM

Session 4: AGN, Neutron Stars (I) and CVs
Chair: Swank

Ian McHardy	The crucial role of RXTE in understanding AGN X-Ray variability (pdf)
David Paneque	AGN blazar, multiwavelength campaigns (pdf)
Alex Markowitz	Multi-Time Scale Spectral Variability of AGN (pdf)
Rick Rothschild	Observational aspects of cyclotron lines (pptx)
Jeoren Homan	A new ranking scheme for neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (pdf)
Koji Mukai	RXTE Observations of Cataclysmic Variables and Symbiotic Stars (pptx

5:30PM Banquet, GSFC Rec. Center

Friday, March 30, 2012

9:15AM - 10:30AM

Session 5: Neutron Stars (II)
Chair: Markwardt

Michiel van der Klis	Millisecond timing: intentions & outcomes
M. Coleman Miller	The Implications of kHz QPOs (pdf)
Manuel Linares	Thermonuclear burning on rapidly accreting neutron stars: RXTE's legacy and recent discoveries (pdf)
Fred Lamb	Implications of High-Precision RXTE Measurements of Thermonuclear X-ray Burst Spectra
Deepto Chakrabarty	Accreting Millisecond Pulsars and RXTE (pdf)

10:30AM - 11:15AM Coffee

11:15AM - 12:30PM

Session 6: Black Holes (II), and a Crab
Chair: Tomsick

Colleen Wilson-Hodge	When a Standard Candle Flickers: Crab Nebula Variations in Hard X-rays (ppt)
Ron Remillard	RXTE Pursuit of Variability and X-ray States, plus a Few Fun Memories (ppt)
Jeff McClintock	Black Hole Spin
Diego Altamirano	IGR J17091-3624: the last treasure discovered with RXTE (pdf)
Katja Pottschmidt	Cygnus X-1 as seen by RXTE: on the edge (of transition) (pdf)

End of Symposium

Posters

1. Title: The optical ephemeris and X-ray variability of 4U 1735-44 (V926 Sco)
   Authors: A.B. Giles & K.M. Hill, University of Tasmania, School of Mathematics and Physics, Tasmania, Australia


2. Title: The RXTE AGN survey
   Author: Elizabeth Rivers (CASS, University of California, San Diego)


3. Title: The Advanced X-ray Timing Array (AXTAR)
   Authors: Paul S. Ray (NRL), Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT), Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge (MSFC), Bernard F. Phlips (NRL), Ronald A. Remillard (MIT), Alan M. Levine (MIT), Kent S. Wood (NRL), Michael T. Wolff (NRL), and the AXTAR Collaboration


4. Title: The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT): An ESA M-class Mission Concept
   Authors: Paul S. Ray (NRL) for the LOFT Collaboration


5. Title: Eta Carinae: The influence of RXTE light curves on HST/STIS and ground-based monitoring
   Author: Ted Gull (NASA/GSFC)


6. Title: Timing X-Ray Eclipses in EXO0748-676: The RXTE Legacy
   Authors: M.T. Wolff (NRL), P.L. Hertz (NASA), P.S. Ray (NRL), and K.S. Wood (NRL)


7. Title: Diskosiesmology Confronts Black Hole Spin
   Author: Bob Wagoner (Stanford University)


8. Title: 16 years of monitoring the Crab and B1509-58 pulsars
   Authors: Arnold Rots (Harvard/Smithsonian CfA) & Keith Jahoda (NASA/GSFC)


9. Title: "Every second week for fourteen years: RXTE and friends observe Cygnus X-1"
   Authors: Victoria Grinberg (Remeis Observatory & ECAP, Bamberg, Germany), Katja Pottschmidt, Moritz Boeck, Joern Wilms, Michael A. Nowak, Farid Rahoui, Paolo Coppi, John E. Davis, Manfred Hanke, Sebastian Heinz, Dean C. Hines, Julia C. Lee, Dipankar Maitra, Sera B. Markoff, Guy G. Pooley, Jerome Rodriguez, Richard E. Rothschild, Slawomir Suchy, Frank Tramper, Sarah N. Trowbridge, Philip Uttley

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