GSFC XMM-Newton GOF Status Report #222: XMM-NEWTON NEWS #128

[Newsletter for users of the XMM-Newton mission <xmmnews@lists.nasa.gov>]

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_/           XMM-NEWTON NEWS #128    ---    05-Sep-2011           _/
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             XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at
              ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre,
P.O. Box - Apdo. 78, 28691 Villanueva de la Canada, Madrid, Spain

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Contents:

- Conference Announcement: XMM-Newton Science Workshop 2012
   "Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories"

- XMM-Newton Conference "The X-ray Universe 2011":
   Presentations and Posters available on-line


Conference Announcement: XMM-Newton Science Workshop 2012
"Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories"
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The XMM-Newton  Science Operations Centre is organising  a workshop in
the spring of next year, with the following subject, dates and venue:

            "Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories"

                     21st - 23rd of May 2012

           XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at ESA's
           European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain

Aims and Scope of the Workshop:

Galaxy  clusters are interesting  astrophysical laboratories  to study
large-scale  physical processes  and  important probes  to assess  the
structure and  evolution of  our Universe. X-ray  observations provide
the most  detailed insight into structure,  composition, and evolution
of galaxy  clusters.

Since  the launch  of  the XMM-Newton  and  Chandra observatories  our
understanding of  galaxy clusters has  impressively improved including
paradigm changes like  the physics of cooling cluster  centres and the
description of  galaxy clusters as a  tightly constrained self-similar
family of objects. During this period galaxy clusters have also helped
to define  the quite  precisely described Concordance  Cosmology Model
and they have shown how  the intergalactic medium is enriched by heavy
elements over the  last half of the age  of the Universe. Observations
with XMM-Newton and Chandra have  been essential for this progress and
after  a little  more  than a  decade,  a detailed  picture of  galaxy
clusters has  crystallised, well worth  to be critically  reviewed and
discussed at a topical workshop.

The Workshop web page is available at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2012_science/

Details on the registration and abstract submission process as well as
on  important dates will  be posted  there and  announced in  a future
Newsletter.


XMM-Newton Conference "The X-ray Universe 2011":
Presentations and Posters available on-line
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The XMM-Newton  conference "The X-ray Universe  2011" was successfully
held  in Berlin  from  27th to  30th  June 2011,  with  more than  350
registered participants.  Presentations, posters and conference photos
are available on-line at:

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2011symposium/

Presentations and posters are also available via ADS at:

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?&ref_stems=2011xru..conf



Yours sincerely,

XMM-Newton SOC

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