Program

5. December

17.30	Registration starts
18:00 – 22.00	Welcome Cocktail

6. December

9.00 – 9.20	Opening workshop and Welcome notes: CTU representative, Ministry of Transport representative and Rene Hudec [#pdf]
9.20 – 9.35	Vaclav Kobera – Space Activities in the Czech Republic [#pdf]

Session on Astrophysics with X-Ray Telescopes

Session chair: Rene Hudec

9.40 – 10.00	John Nousek – X-ray Optics: The Hinge of Fate for X-ray Astrophysics
10.10 – 10.30	Mikhail Pavlinsky – SRG astrophysical project
10.40 – 11.10	Coffee Break
11.10 – 11.50	John Nousek – Swift after Seven Years: What will the next four years bring?
12.00 – 12.20	Vojtech Simon – The Importance of X-ray Monitoring of Astrophysical Sources with X-ray Telescopes [#pdf]
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch

Session on ESA LOFT

Session chair: Paul Reid

13.30 – 13.50	Rene Hudec – X-ray Astronomy Mission ESA LOFT and Czech Participation [#pdf]
14.00 – 14.20	Vojtech Petracek – Silicon Drift Detectors for the LOFT Mission
14.30 – 15.00	Coffee Break

Session on Lobster Eye

Session chair: Mikhail Pavlinsky

15.00 – 15.20	Vladimir Tichy – NANOX – proposed nano-satellite X-ray sky monitor [#pdf]
15.30 – 15.50	Vojtech Simon – Astrophysical Aspects of Lobster Eye X-Ray Telescopes [#pdf]
16.00 – 16.20	Scott Barthlemy – The Lobster Mission
16.30	End of Session

7. December

Session on X-Ray Optics - Glass

Session chair: John Nousek

9.00 – 9.20	Dan Schwartz – The Square Meter Arcsecond Resolution Telescope
9.30 – 10.00	Gianpiero Tagliaferri – X-ray mirror development at Brera: hot slumping of glass plates and thin monolithic glass shels
10.10 – 10.30	Martin Mika – Dynamics of glass thermal forming for X-ray space telescopes
10.40 – 11.10	Coffee Break

Session on X-Ray Optics - Silicon wafers

Session chair: Yuichiro Ezoe

11.10 – 11.40	Ladislav Pina – Thermally formed Si wafers as X-ray mirrors
11.50 – 12.05	Rene Hudec – Stack of silicon wafers; mechanical point of view
12.15 – 13.30	Lunch

Session on X-Ray Optics

Session chair: Scott Barthelmy

13.30 – 14.00	Rene Hudec – X-ray Optics in the Czech Republic: a Review
14.10 – 15.00	Coffee Break + poster session
15.10	End of Session

Conference dinner at http://www.chateaumelnik.eu

16.15	Departure to Melnik castle
17.00	Several kinds of wine tasting in the wine cellars of Lobkowicz
18.00	Conference dinner in the castle restaurant
21.30	Arrival to Lana

Poster Session

14.10 – 15.00	Ingo Kreykenbohm – The eROSITA pre-processing and NRTA software
	Frantisek Novotny – Alternative Technologies of glass foil forming
	Rene Hudec – Kirkpatrick-Baez X-Ray Optics for IXO/ATHENA as Cost Effective Alternative
	Johannes Holzl – Observing Galaxy Clusters with eROSITA: Simulations
	Christoph Grossberger – Recognition of hot pixels on CCDs in the eROSITA Near Real Time Analysis
	Ondrej Jankovsky – Thermal forming os silicon for X-ray space telescopes

8. December

Session on X-Ray Optics

Session chair: Peter Friedrich

9.00 – 9.30	Will Zhang – Next generation X-ray Optics
9.40 – 10.00	Paul Reid – Development of adjustable grazing incidence X-ray optics
10.10 – 10.40	Coffee Break

Session chair: Dan Schwartz

10.40 – 11.00	Adolf Inneman – Novel Design of Astronomical X-ray Optics
11.10 – 11.30	Yuchiro Ezoe – Progress in MEMS X-ray optics
11.40 – 12.00	Kiranmayee Kilaru – Surface profile corrections of replicated X-ray optics through differential deposition
12.10 – 13.30	Lunch

Session chair: Will Zhang

13.30 – 14.00	Peter Friedrich - eROSITA project & X-ray Optics
14.10 – 14.40	Rene Hudec - Kirkpatrick-Baez X-ray Optics
14.50 – 15.10	CoffeeBreak
15.10 – 16.10	Round table discussion
16.10 – 16.40	Concluding Remarks

End of the Workshop

International Workshop on Astronomical X–Ray Optics