Program
International Workshop on Astronomical X-Ray Optics 2008
Villa Lanna, Prague
December 2. – 6.
2. December
15.00 Registration starts
16.00 Welcome Cocktail
3. December
I. Session on Astrophysics with Astronomical X-ray Telescopes
8.45 – 9.00 Opening workshop and Welcome notes
9.00 – 9.30 Martin Elvis - The Discovery Space Argument for Large High Resolution X-ray Optics
9.40 – 10.10 Giuseppina Fabbiano - X-ray observations of galaxies
10.20 – 10.40 Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.00 Vadim Arefiev - X-ray variability and viscous time scale at accretion disks
11.10 – 11.35 Petr Hadrava - X-ray and H_alpha variability of Cyg X-1
11.45 – 12.15 Vojtech Simon - Long-term activity of binary X-ray sources: the importance of monitoring
12.25 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.30 Ingo Kreykenbohm - Highly structured wind in Vela X-1
14.40 – 15.10 Jiri Horak - Polarization from radiatively accelerated flows
15.20 – 16.00 Coffee Break + poster session
16.00 - 16.45 Randall L. McEntaffer - High Resolution Soft X-ray Spectroscopy of Supernova Remnants
16.55 - 17.15 Dick Willingale - X-ray Telescopes in Action
17.25 - 17.55 Martin Elvis - Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei with a large area, high resolution X-ray Telescope
Poster Session
15.20 - 16.00
Jiri Svoboda - Comparison of relativistic iron line models
Tomáš Pecháček - Hot-spot model for accretion disc variability as random process
Matus Kocka - Robotic optical telescopes as ground-based support for X-ray telescopes
Vladimir Karas - X-ray spectra and polarization from accreting black holes -- Signatures of a rotating black hole
Monika Vongehr - Experimental and ongoing studies on segmented X-Ray optics made of slumped glass
Martina Landova - Thermal Forming of Glass Foils for X-ray Space Telescopes
Michaela Skulinova - Alternative materials in view of new light weight X-ray optics
4. December
II. Session on Astronomical X-Ray Optics
9.00 – 9.30 Rene Hudec - Astronomical X-Ray Optics in the Czech Republic: Past, Present, Future
9.35 – 10.05 William W. Zhang - Lightweight and High Angular Resolution X-Ray Optics for the International X-ray Observatory
10.10 – 10.30 Rene Hudec- New Technologies for Future Space X-Ray Telescopes
10.35 – 10.55 Coffee Break
10.55 - 11.25 Libor Sveda - Lobster Eye Imaging Properties
11.30 - 12.00 Daniele Spiga - SIMBOL-X: A FORMATION FLIGHT MISSION WITH AN UNPRECEDENTED IMAGING CAPABILITY IN THE 0.5-80 KEV ENERGY BAND BASED ON NI ELECTROFORMED OPTICS
12.05 - 12.25 Brian Ramsey - New Developments for Electroformed Nickel Optics
12.30 - 12.45 Veronika Semencova - Galvanoplastic replication
12.55 – 14.15 Lunch
14.30 – Departure to the Astronomical Institute in Ondrejov followed by the visit of Chateau Komorni Hradek where the Chateau tour, Concert and then Conference dinner will take place. Estimated return to Prague is around 12 p.m.
5. December
II. Session on Anomical X-Ray Optics
9.00 - 9.10 Rene Hudec - Active X-ray optics
9.15 - 9.45 Martin Hromcik - Control systems for adaptive X-ray optics
9.50 - 10.20 Dan Schwartz - Generation-X telescope: measurement of on-orbit adjustment data
10.25 - 10.40 George Fraser - Advances in lead silicate glass microchannel plate optics
10.45 - 11.05 Coffee Break
11.05 - 11.25 Richard Willingale - Kirkpatrick-Baez Silicon Stacks for IXO or similar applications
11.30 - 11.50 Jan Sik - Advanced Si wafers for X-ray telescopes
11.55 - 12.10 Rene Hudec - Wide-Field Lobster-Eye X-Ray Telescopes & MFO Optics
12.15 - 12. 35 Paul Reid - Development of advanced grazing incidence optics at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
12.40 – 13.50 Lunch
13.50 – 14.10 Ondrej Gedeon - Changes in glass irradiated with an electron beam
14.15 – 14.40 Yuichiro Ezoe - Development of hot plastic deformation of silicon for X-ray pore optics
14.45 – 15.05 Coffee Break
15.05 – 15.25 Webster Cash - Reflection Grating Optics
15.30 – 15.50 Mauro Ghigo - Slumped glass option for making the IXO mirrors
15.55 – 16.15 Martin Mika - Aspects of Glass Foils Thermal Forming for X-ray Telescopes Mirrors
16.45 - Guided Excursion "Astronomical Prague" led by Dr. Alena Solcova, specialists for the history of Astronomy in Prague
6. December
II. Session on Astronomical X-Ray Optics
9.00 – 11.30 Round table discussion
11.30 – 12.00 Conclusions and closing of the workshop