XMM 25th Anniversary Conference

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UPDATE: This Conference has been cancelled. We are examining options for postponement.

The XMM-Newton Guest Observer Facility is organizing a 25th Anniversary science conference to be held 19 – 22 May in Baltimore, MD.

This conference will focus on currently exciting XMM-Newton science, synergies between XMM and other missions, and implications for the future. We are planning invited and contributed speakers and poster sessions. We especially encourage those new to the field of X-ray astronomy to attend. There is no registration fee for this conference.

 

Sessions currently structured as follows:

• Time domain science with XMM-Newton
• The astrophysics of quasi-periodic signals
• The history of XMM-Newton and current context
• Hot off the Press! The latest high-profile results from XMM-Newton
• Exoplanet habitability and stellar science – an X-ray view
• Active galactic nuclei, starbursts, and outflows
• Clusters and Groups of Galaxies
• The physics of Supernovae Remnants
• XMM-Newton and our solar system
• X-ray binaries, compact objects, and ultraluminous X-ray sources
• How XMM-Newton complements XRISM, NuSTAR, NICER, IXPE
• XMM-Newton as a multi-wavelength partner
• How XMM-Newton supports large surveys – Rubin, Roman, Webb, Euclid
• Looking to the future:  NewAthena / AXIS

 

Confirmed Invited Speakers:
Dennis Bodewits (Auburn)
Niel Brandt (Penn State)
Joheen Chakraborty (MIT)
Sanskriti Das (Stanford)
Efrain Gatuzz (MPE)
Suvi Gezari (STScI/JHU)
Ann Hornschemeier-Cardiff (NASA/GSFC)
Ehud Behar (Technion)
George King (U. Mich)
Erik Kuulkers (ESA)
Richard Mushotzky (UMCP)
Rachel Osten (STScI/JHU)
DJ Pasham (MIT)
Norbert Schartel (ESA)
Brian Williams (NASA/GSFC)
Mike Arida (Adnet Systems, Inc.)
Anna Ogorzalek (UMCP)
Francesca Civano (NASA/GSFC)
Ewan O’Sullivan (Harvard & Smithsonian CfA)
Fan Zou (U. Mich)
Stefano Ettori (INAF-OAS Bologna)
Chris Reynolds (UMCP)
Pragati Pradhan (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.)

 

Science Organizing Committee:

Kim Weaver              (Chair, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Laura Brenneman    (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)
Marc Gagné              (West Chester University)
Jimmy Irwin               (University of Alabama)
Peter Kosec              (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian)
Renee Ludlam          (Wayne State University)
Megan Masterson    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Jon Miller                   (University of Michigan)
Frits Paerels             (Columbia University)
Yuanyuan Su            (University of Kentucky)
Ming Sun                   (University of Alabama, Huntsville)

Local Organizing Committee:

Lynne Valencic         (Chair, Johns Hopkins University)
Jenna Cann              (University of Maryland Baltimore County)
Kimberly Engle         (Adnet Systems, Inc.)
Aaliyah Kerr              (Southeastern Universities Research Assoc.)
Miranda McCarthy   (Southeastern Universities Research Assoc.)
Ryan Pfeifle              (Oak Ridge Associated Universities)
Kim Weaver              (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Brian Williams           (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Mihoko Yukita           (Johns Hopkins University)
Abdu Zoghbi             (University of Maryland College Park)