Institut für Astronomie & Astrophysik

Program

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Thursday July 15
09:15 - 09:30 A. Santangelo Welcome Address
09:30 - 10:00 R. Staubert Hard X-ray Astronomy in Tübingen -
from balloon observations to MIR-HEXE and Integral
10:00 - 10:30 J. Trümper The Golden Age of X-ray Astronomy: From Fresnel zone plates to ROSAT
10:30 - 11:00 G. Hasinger The Golden Age of X-ray Astronomy: from ROSAT to eROSITA
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee-Break
11:30 - 12:00 P. Predehl eROSITA - A new X-ray all sky survey
12:00 - 12:30 A. Parmar The International X-ray Observatory
Lunch
14:15 - 14:45 N. Kappelmann UV Astronomy with WSO
14:45 - 15:15 A. von Kienlin Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope: Science Highlights
15:15 - 15:45 A. Santangelo The JEM-EUSO Mission
15:45 - 16:05 E. Virgilli Extending the passband of focusing hard X-ray telescopes
16:05 - 16:30 Coffee-Break
16:30 - 16:50 E. Caroli An entirely focusing broad band X-/gamma-ray mission
16:50 - 17:20 G. Pühlhofer Highlights of TeV Astrophysics
17:20 - 17:50 M. Teshima Experimental challenges for next generation VHE and UHE observatory
20:30 Conference Dinner at the 'Forelle'
Friday July 16
09:30 - 10:00 G. Pareschi X-ray optics for the new decade
10:00 - 10:30 L. Strüder The Wide Field Imager onboard IXO
10:30 - 11:00 L. Ravera The HTRS onboard IXO
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee-Break
11:30 - 12:00 P. Lechner Semiconductor detectors for IXO and more
12:00 - 12:30 R. Rothschild CZT detector status and the MIRAX mission
12:30 - 13:00 K. Pottschmidt ASTRO-H and GEMS
Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 G. Tagliaferri NHXM: a New Hard X-ray Imaging and Polarimetric Mission
14:30 - 15:00 P. Ferrando From Simbol-X to a new hard X-ray mission
15:00 - 15:30 J. Wilms Beyond RXTE- Science with High Resolution Timing
15:30 - 15:50 D. Klochkov Galactic compact objects with eROSITA
15:50 - 16:10 J. Trümper The quiescent X-ray emission of AXPs and SGRs
16:10 - 16:30 Coffee-Break
16:30 - 16:50 I. Kreykenbohm Scarcely Known X-ray Pulsars
16:50 - 17:10 R. Staubert An old friend: Her X-1
17:10 - 17:30 N. von Krusenstiern Engineering & Operations in Space Mission Design, now & then
17:30 - 17:50 C. Tenzer Continuing experimental high energy astrophysics in Tübingen
18:30 Party celebrating the 65th birthdays of E. Kendziorra & K. Lehmann