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Öffentlicher Abendvortrag

Prof. Dr. Reinhard Genzel:
"Massive schwarze Löcher und Galaxien"
7. Dezember, 19.30 Uhr
Stadthalle Heidelberg

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Texas 2008

Conference Program

Monday, December 6
Morning On-Site Registration open (8:00)
Welcome (9:15-9:35)
Invited plenary talks:
9:35-10:10 Joe Silk: "Dark Matter"
10:10-10:45 Avi Loeb: "How did the First Stars and Galaxies form?"
Coffee Break
Invited plenary talks:
11:20-11:55 Mark Sullivan: "Dark Energy and Cosmic Acceleration"
11:55-12:30 Joel Primack: "Diffusive Extragalactic Background Light"
Lunch Break
Afternoon Parallel Sessions (14:00-18:00)
14:00-15:30 P3, P5, P8
Coffee Break + Poster Session
16:00-18:00 P3, P5, P8
Evening Poster Dinner Session and Highlight Session

Tuesday, December 7
Morning On-Site Registration open (8:00)
Invited plenary talks:
9:00-9:35 Michael Kramer: "Tests of General Relativity"
9:35-10:10 Joan Centrella: "Gravitational Waves and Multi-Messenger Astronomy "
10:10-10:45 Andrew Fabian: "Feedback from supermassive black holes and growth of structure"
Coffee Break
Invited plenary talks:
11:20-11:55 Elena Gallo: "Jets in binary systems"
11:55-12:30 Julie McEnery: "Highlights from Fermi"
Lunch Break
Afternoon Parallel Sessions (14:00-18:00)
14:00-15:30 P1, P2, P4
Coffee Break + Poster Session
16:00-18:00 P1, P2, P4
Evening Public Evening Lecture (in German), Conference Center (19:30)

Wednesday, December 8
Morning Invited plenary talks:
9:00-9:35 Rainer Beck: "Cosmic Magnetic Fields: Observations and Prospects"
9:35-10:10 Hans Böhringer: "Galaxy Clusters as Cosmological Probes"
10:10-10:45 Rashid Sunyaev: "Cosmic Microwave Radiation and Hot Gas in Cluster of Galaxies"
Coffee Break
Invited plenary talks:
11:20-11:55 Vladimir Ptuskin: "Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays"
11:55-12:30 Zhen Cao: "Cosmic Ray Experiments in the Era of LHC"
Lunch Break
Afternoon Free Afternoon
Evening Classical Evening Concert, Jesuitenkirche (20:00)

Thursday, December 9
Morning Invited plenary talks:
9:00-9:35 Gabriele Ghisellini: "AGN jets - from largest to smallest scales"
9:35-10:10 Alicia Soderberg: "Supernova explosions and related transients"
10:10-10:45 Vladimir Zirakashvili: "Nonthermal processes in supernova remnants"
Coffee Break
Invited plenary talks:
11:20-11:55 Tadayuki Takahashi: "Future X-ray Missions to study Relativistic Astrophysics"
11:55-12:30 Virginia Trimble: "Posters from the Edge of the Universe"
Lunch Break
Afternoon Parallel Sessions (14:00-18:00):
14:00-15:30 P6, P7, P9
Coffee Break + Poster Session
16:00-18:00 P6, P7, P9
Evening Conference Dinner (19:00)

Friday, December 10
Morning Invited plenary talks:
9:00-9:35 Henk Spruit: "Theory of magnetically powered jets"
9:35-10:10 Luke Drury: "Particle acceleration theory"
IUPAP young scientist prize winner talks:
10:10-10:25 Poonam Chandra: "The most distance explosions in the Universe"
10:25-10:40 Thomas Schweizer: "Crab in gamma-rays"
Coffee Break
Highlight reports:
11:20-12:40 Parallel sessions P1-P4
Lunch Break
Afternoon Highlight reports:
14:00-15:40 Parallel sessions P5-P9
Concluding remarks (F. Aharonian)