The Energetic Cosmos:
     from Suzaku to Astro-H

Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan 29 June - 2 July 2009

Programme

Time table

The rough time line is shown in the following table. The suzaku conference starts at the afternoon of 29 June and ends at 2 July 2009. The IXO meeting will be held just after the suzaku conference.

29 June

(Mon)

30 June

(Tue)

1 July

(Wed)

2 July

(Thu)

3 July

(Fri)

Morning (I) Topic E
8:30-10:15
Topic B
8:30-10:15
Topic A

8:30-10:15

IXO meeting

8:30-10:10

Coffee break & Poster

Morning (II) (local meeting) Topic E
10:45-12:25
Topic B
10:45-12:25
Topic A
Topic G

10:45-12:25

IXO meeting

10:30-12:25

Lunch & Poster Registration Lunch & Poster

12:30-14:30

Lunch

12:25-13:50

IXO meeting

13:50-14:45

Afternoon (I) Opening
Topic F

14:30-16:15

Topic E
Topic D

14:30-16:15

Topic B
Topic C

14:30-16:00

Topic G
14:30-16:20
IXO meeting

15:05-16:15

Coffee break & Poster

Sun Set Cruise
Afternoon (II) Topic F
16:45-18:30
Topic D
16:45-18:30
Topic C
16:30-18:00
Evening Poster

18:30-19:30

Banquet

19:00-21:00


  • Topic A
    • Particle acceleration in cosmic shocks and jets
  • Topic B
    • X-ray diagnostics of cosmic hot plasmas
  • Topic C
    • High Energy Aspects of the Milky Way
  • Topic D
    • Magnetic activity in stellar objects
  • Topic E
    • Primary and reprocessed emission from accreting objects
  • Topic F
    • X-ray views of the evolution of the universe
  • Topic G
    • Highlights from the Fermi Space Gamma-Ray Telescope
    • Status of the MAXI experiment
    • From Suzaku to ASTRO-H and other missions, and further to IXO

List of Invited and Contributed talks, Posters

Poster Program

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Presentation files

Presentation files are available from here.

[Presentations]

Oral Program

Red: Long Invited talk Blue: Short Invited talk Black: Contributed talk

last modified 26 May 2009

June 29 (Mon)

[14:30-16:15]
14:30-14:40 (10) K. Makishima: opening
14:40-15:15 (30+5) K. Mitsuda: Suzaku status
15:15-15:45 (25+5) K. Matsushita: Metal enrichment histories from galaxies to clusters
15:45-16:00 (12+3) M. Sun: ICM–ISM interaction in galaxy clusters
16:00-16:15 (12+3) E. Miller: Groups of Galaxies at Intermediate Redshift
[16:45-18:30]
16:45-17:00 (12+3) T. Ohashi: Search for WHIM with Suzaku and its future prospects
17:00-17:30 (25+5) A. Comastri: AGN Unified Scheme and Evolution
17:30-18:00 (25+5) Y. Terashima: Obscured AGN Population and its Evolution
18:00-18:15 (12+3) M. Ajello: Blazars at high energies: News from Swift/BAT and Fermi/LAT
18:15-18:30 (12+3) D. Yotenoku: The dark energy measurement in the early universe with Gamma-Ray Bursts

June 30 (Tue)

[8:30-10:15]
8:30-8:45 (12+3) Y. Fukazawa: Probe of material around the AGN central engine with Suzaku
8:45-9:00 (12+3) D. Psaltis: Testing the No-Hair Theorem of General Relativity with Iron Lines from Accreting Black Holes
9:00-9:30 (25+5) A. Fabian: The SED and X-ray spectra of AGNs
9:30-9:45 (12+3) R. Sambruna: Radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei: The Suzaku View
9:45-10:15 (25+5) C. Done: Continuua of black hole binaries and AGN
[10:45-12:25]
10:45-11:00 (12+3) H. Kunieda: Disentangling multiple components from AGN based on the temporal variability observed with Suzaku XIS and HXD
11:00-11:20 (16+4) E. Cackett: A Suzaku survey of Fe K emission lines in neutron star LMXBs
11:20-11:35 (12+3) H. Takahashi: Reflection Continuum and Fe Lines in Spectra of the Low-Mass X-ray Binary Ser X-1
11:35-11:55 (16+4) K. Makishima: Continua and Iron-K lines from Accreting Black Holes
11:55-12:10 (12+3) P. Gandhi: Rapid timing studies of black hole binaries in Optical and X-rays: correlated and non-linear variability
12:10-12:25 (12+3) G. Chartas: High Velocity Outflows in Narrow Absorption Line Quasars; The X-ray View
[14:30-16:15]
14:30-14:45 (12+3) N. Isobe: Suzaku detections of luminosity-dependent spectral changes from two ultraluminous X-ray sources, X1 and X2, in NGC 1313
14:45-15:00 (12+3) K. Nakazawa: Suzaku wide-band observation of anomalous dips in Hercules X-1
15:00-15:15 (12+3) R. Mushotzky: The Nature of the Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Sources
15:15-15:45 (25+5) R. Romani: Fermi LAT Pulsars: The New Gamma-ray View of the Pulsar Machine
15:45-16:00 (12+3) S. Tsuruta: Thermal and Nonthermal Radiation from Pulsars
16:00-16:15 (12+3) W. Iwakiri: Possible Detection of a Cyclotron Resonance Emission-Line Feature from the Accretion-Powered Pulsar 4U1626-67
[16:45-18:30]
16:45-17:15 (25+5) M. Ishida: Accreting white dwarf binaries observed with Suzaku
17:15-17:30 (12+3) D. Takei: Discovery of non-thermal emission from the classical nova V2491 Cygni
17:30-18:00 (25+5) S. Mereghetti: Soft and hard X-ray observations of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters
18:00-18:15 (12+3) T. Enoto: Suzaku Studies of the Extremely Hard Emission Components from Three Magnetars
18:15-18:30 (12+3) W. Hermsen: Observational constraints on scenarios for the production of persistent nonthermal emission in magnetospheres of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars

July 1 (Wed)

[8:30-10:15]
8:30-8:45 (12+3) A. Hayato: The Onion-like Metallicity Structure of Tycho’s Supernova Remnant as Revealed by Doppler Broadened X-ray Emission Lines
8:45-9:00 (12+3) S. Park: Suzaku Observation of the Kepler Supernova Remnant
9:00-9:30 (25+5) S. Katsuda: A Suzaku view of supernova remnants
9:30-9:45 (12+3) H. Yamaguchi: Discovery of strong radiative recombination continua from IC443 — relic of a past gamma-ray burst? –
9:45-10:15 (25+5) J. Kaastra: Progress in X-ray plasma diagnostics
[10:45-12:25]
10:45-11:05 (16+4) M. Bautz: Galaxy Clusters Near the Virial Radius
11:05-11:20 (12+3) T. Reiprich: Suzaku Studies of Galaxy Cluster Outskirts
11:20-11:40 (16+4) C. Sarazin: Thermal and Nonthermal Hard X-ray Emission from Clusters of Galaxies
11:40-11:55 (12+3) N. Ota: Extremely hot gas in the most X-ray luminous cluster RXJ1347
11:55-12:10 (12+3) A. Simionescu: Variations in chemical composition across a strong surface brightness discontinuity in the outskirt of M87
12:10-12:25 (12+3) M. Gilfanov: Unresolved emission and ionized gas in the bulge of M31
[14:30-16:00]
14:30-14:45 (12+3) J. Cuadra: Accretion of Stellar Winds on to Sgr A*
14:45-15:15 (25+5) K. Koyama: A Suzaku View of the Galacitic Diffuse X-Rays
15:15-15:30 (12+3) M. Nobukawa: Discovery of Ka lines of neutral sulfur, argon, and calcium atoms from the Galactic Center
15:30-15:45 (12+3) Y. Fukui: Correlation between high energy objects and molecular clouds in the Galaxy
15:45-16:00 (12+3) T. Mizuno: Fermi-LAT Study of Galactic Cosmic Rays by Observing Diffuse Gamma-Rays from Mid-Latitude Regions
[16:30-18:00]
16:30-16:50 (16+4) M. Revnivsev: Galactic ridge/bulge emission
16:50-17:10 (16+4) K. Ebisaawa: Suzaku Observation of Galactic Ridge and Bulge
17:10-17:25 (12+3) Y. Tanaka: Remarkable Spectral Differences in the Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission
17:25-17:55 (25+5) N. Yamasaki: Galactic soft X-ray halo revealed with Suzaku

Jul 2 (Thu)

[8:30-10:15]
8:30-8:45 (12+3) T. Tanaka: X-ray Study of Gamma-ray Binaries with Suzaku
8:45-9:15 (25+5) E. de Ona Wilhelmi: Status of the VHE astronomy with Cherenkov telescopes
9:15-9:45 (25+5) A. Bamba: Suzaku observations of Galactic TeV unID sources
9:45-10:00 (12+3) Y. Uchiyama: Fermi-LAT Discoveries of Gamma-ray Emission from the Directions of Supernova Remnants
10:00-10:15 (12+3) F. Bocchino: Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula of G54.1+0.3
[10:45-12:25]
10:45-11:15 (25+5) K. Ioka: Cosmic-Ray Positrons from Astrophysical Sources: GRBs, Pulsars, and SNRs
11:15-11:30 (12+3) S. Sugita: Timing properties of Bright Hard GRBs observed by Suzaku/WAM
11:30-12:05 (30+5) T. Kamae: Highlights from the Fermi Space Gamma-Ray Telescope
12:05-12:35 (25+5) J. Kataoka: Suzaku/Fermi Challenges to Relativistic Jets in Active Galaxy
12:35-12:50 (12+3) R. Corbet: The Fermi LAT View of Compact Objects in the Galaxy
[14:30-16:20]
14:30-14:55 (20+5) S. Ueno: The MAXI experiment
14:55-15:20 (20+5) T. Takahashi: From Suzaku to ASTRO-H
15:20-15:40 (16+4) C. Hailey: The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
15:40-16:00 (16+4) N. White: The International X-ray Observatory
16:00-16:20 (16+4) F. Fiore: Simbol-X: focusing on the hard X-ray Universe