CXCSponsored Workshops

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CXC-Sponsored Workshops Symposia

• Paul Green
• For the Chandra Directors Office

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Workshops/Symposia at CXC

• Chandra Fellows Symposium
• Chandra Science Workshops
• 2N Years of Science with Chandra
• CIAO Workshop
• CAL Workshop
• X-ray Astronomy School
• Miscellaneous Chandra-related science conferences
• Full list of Chandra-sponsored workshops and
  symposia at http//cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/past-conf.h
  tml

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Chandra Fellows Symposia

• One day symposium, 14 fellows participate
• Once/year in October at CfA (6 so far since 1999)
• Organized by Nancy Evans (CDO).
• Fellows present highlights of their work
• to each other and to local audience.
• This years agenda
• http//cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2004.html

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Chandra Science Workshops

• 2-3 day workshop, 100 participants
• Once/year in summer, in Cambridge
• Organized by moi for CDO
• Goals are to focus Chandra science by
• identifying the most pressing scientific
  questions in an area and
• debating good Chandra strategies to answer them.

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Chandra Science Workshops

• 2002 X-ray Binaries in the Chandra and
  XMM-Newton Era
• http//cxc.harvard.edu/xrbconf/
• 2004 Galaxies Viewed with Chandra
• http/cxc.harvard.edu/gals04
• 2005 Star Formation in the Era of Three Great
  Observatories
• http/cxc.harvard.edu/stars05

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Choosing Chandra Science Workshop Topics

• Solicit input from user community
• Examine oversubscription by category
• Avoid conflict with other scheduled meetings
• Consider upcoming opportunities challenges

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2N Years of Science with Chandra

• 3 day conference, once/year in the Fall
• Covers all Chandra science topics, some
  instrument/programmatic topics
• Organized/hosted by CXC or MSFC
• Two Years of Science with Chandra, D.C., Sep
  5-7, 2001
• Four Years of Chandra Observations A tribute to
  Riccardo Giacconi MSFC, Sep 16-18, 2003
• Six Years of Science with Chandra, Cambridge, Nov
  2005
• (Antonella Fruscione)

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CIAO Workshops

• 2-3 day workshop, once/year
• Introductory and advanced talks on X-ray data
  analysis and statistics
• Talks on calibration and aspect issues related to
  data analysis
• Advanced sessions on specific topics grating
  analysis, extended source analysis, etc
• Hands-on data reduction
• Organized by SDS (Elvis, now McDowell)
• 5 so far, time of year varies. None currently
  scheduled.
• Typically 30 participants
• Info at http//cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/

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CAL Workshops

• 2 day workshop, once/year, Fall _at_CXC
• Organized by Hank Donnelly for CAL
• Comprehensive discussion of calibration topics by
  CAL and other CXC scientists

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X-ray Astronomy School

• For grad students recent postdocs
• Co-sponsored by CXC, GSFC, USRA
• Fall 2001 (GSFC), 2002 (Berkeley Springs, WV),
  2003 (Wallops Island, VA)
• Lectures review
• science of x-ray-emitting celestial objects
• production mechanisms
• detectors technologies
• data analysis (spectral, imaging, and timing
  analysis).

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Other Supported Meetings

• X-ray Astrophysical Plasma Diagnostics -
  Cambridge, MA November 15-17, 2004
• X-Ray and Radio Connections - Santa Fe NM,
  February 3-6, 2004
• High Energy Astrophysics Data Center Coordination
  (HEADCC) Workshop
• Nov 13, 2002
• The High-Energy Universe at Sharp Focus A
  Symposium of Chandra Science, July 16-18, 2001