FINAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

5 July Monday: Evening

1:00 - 9:00 p.m.: Registration
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.: Welcome Reception

6 July Tuesday: Morning

9:00 a.m.: Welcoming Addresses, Announcements

Session (I) Future Satellite Missions and Observations
(IA) Future high energy satellite missions
9:30 a.m.:S. Holt Near-future major high energy satellite missions (60 min.)
10:30 a.m.:Coffee Break
(IB) Related observations
11:00 a.m.:C.R. Canizares High resolution spectroscopy with the Chandra X-ray Observatory (35 min.)
11:35 a.m.:R.P. Lin Recent Satellite Observations of Solar Flares and Corona (35 min.)
12:10 p.m.:Lunch

6 July Tuesday: Afternoon

2:00 p.m.:J.H. Swank Recent observations of X-ray emission from Galactic binary neutron stars (35 min.)
2:35 p.m.:Y. Tanaka Recent X-ray observations of Galactic black holes (35 min.)
3:10 p.m.:Coffee break
3:40 p.m.:J. Trümper Recent observations of isolated neutron stars and pulsars (35 min.)
4:15 p.m.:N.E. White and H. Tananbaum X-ray spectroscopy of faint cosmic X-ray sources (20 min.)
4:35 p.m.:R. Petre, G.E. Allen, U. Hwang, J.W. Keohane, and E.V. GotthelfX-ray emission as an indicator of cosmic ray accelerations in SNRs (20 min.)
4:55 p.m.:K. A. Arnaud X-rays from clusters of galaxies (20 min.)
5:15 p.m.:Poster session
6:00 p.m.:End

7 July Wednesday: Morning

9:00 a.m.:H. Kunieda Recent satellite observations of X-ray emission from AGN (35 min.)
9:35 a.m.:L. Piro Recent developments and perspectives of gamma-ray burst observations (35 min.)
10:10 a.m.:Coffee break

Session (II) High energy phenomena in and emission from astrophysical plasmas
10:40 a.m.:R. Rosner High energy phenomena on 'normal' stars (35 min.)
11:15 a.m.:R.W. Romani Multiwavelength diagnostics of pulsar plasmas (35 min.)
11:50 a.m.:G. Pavlov Thermal radiation from neutron stars (35 min.)
12:25 p.m.:Lunch

7 July Wednesday: Afternoon

2:30 p.m.:P.C. Joss Energetic phenomena associated with accreting neutron stars (35 min.)
3:05 p.m.:H.C. Spruit Relativistic jets from compact objects (35 min.)
3:40 p.m.:Coffee break
4:10 p.m.:R. Ramaty Gamma-ray lines from solar flares (20 min.)
4:30 p.m.:K. Hirotani and S. Shibata Gamma ray emission from a pulsar magnetosphere (20 min.)
4:50 p.m.:S.B. Popov, M. Colpi, V.M. Lipunov, R. Turolla, M.E. Prokhorov, and A. Treves Population synthesis of old isolated neutron stars in the Galaxy (20 min.)
5:10 p.m.:A.O. Bentz and S. Krucher Heating events in the quiet corona (10 min.)
5:20 p.m.:P.C.H. Martens The scaling of solar flare hard x-ray emission to other flaring objects in the Universe (10 min.)
5:30 p.m.:End

8 July Thursday: Morning

9:00 a.m.:R.A. Chevalier High energy emission from supernovae and remnants (35 min.)
9:35 a.m.:F. Pacini Neutron stars in supernova remnants (35 min.)
10:10 a.m.:R. Svensson X/Gamma-rays from accreting black holes (35 min.)
10:45 a.m.:Coffee break
11:15 a.m.:A.A. Zdziarski X-rays from Seyferts and black hole binaries (20 min.)
11:35 a.m.S.W. Allen Cooling flows in clusters of galaxies (20 min.)
11:55 a.m.:R. Bandiera, E. Amato, F. Pacini, and M. SalvatiProperties of the non-thermal emission in plerions (10. min.)
12:05 p.m.:W.N. Brandt Ultrasoft active galaxies: an extreme of accretion onto supermassive black holes (10 min.)
12:15 p.m.:Lunch

8 July Thursday: Afternoon

Session (III) Effects of magnetic fields on highly energetic processes and emission from astrophysical plasmas
2:15 p.m.:D.W. Longcope Magnetic phenomena in the solar corona and flares (35 min.)
2:50 p.m.:Y. Uchida MHD processes in astrophysical disk-jet systems (35 min.)
3:25 p.m.:Coffee break
4:00 p.m.:K. Cheng A three dimensional outer magnetospheric gap model for gamma-ray pulsars (35 min.)
4:35 p.m.:M. Takahashi Accreting plasmas in black hole magnetospheres (20 min.)
4:55 p.m.:U. Torkelsson, A. Brandenburg, A. Nordlund, and R.F. SteinMagnetohydrodynamic turbulence in accretion discs (10 min.)
5:05 p.m.:M. Lyutikov, R. Blandford and G. Machabeli Coherent emission mechanisms in radio pulsars (10 min.)
5:15 p.m.:End
6:30 p.m.:Banquet

9 July Friday: Morning

9:00 a.m.:C. Thompson Physics of the soft Gamma-ray repeaters (35 min.)
9:35 a.m.:M.J. Rees Origin of magnetic fields in the early universe (35 min.)
10:10 a.m.:K. Shibata, S. Koide, T. Kudoh, and S. Aoki Jets from black hole magnetospheres (20 min.)
10:30 a.m.:S. Colgate, V. Pariev, H. Li, and H. Beckley The black hole accretion disk dynamo (20 min.)
10:50 a.m.:Coffee break
Session (IV) Particle acceleration in astrophysical plasmas
11:20 a.m.:J.A. Miller Particle acceleration in solar flares (35 min.)
11:55 a.m.:A. Achterberg Particle acceleration at astrophysical shocks (35 min.)
12:30 p.m.:Lunch

9 July Friday: Afternoon

2:30 p.m.:A.V. Olinto Ultra high energy cosmic ray accelerators (20 min.)
2:50 p.m.:Y.E. Litvinenko Electron acceleration in reconnecting current sheets on the sun and in extragalactic jets (10 min.)
3:00 p.m.:K.R. Lang Radio evidence for nonthermal particle acceleration in normal stars (10 min.)
3:10 p.m.:M.P. Leubner Wave powered relativistic electron generation in non-uniform magnetic fields (10 min.)
3:20 p.m.:Coffee break
Session (V) Physical processes in relativistic astrophysical plasmas
3:50 p.m.:A. Gruzinov (*) Electron and ion heating in astrophysical plasmas (35 min.)
4:25 p.m.:R. Sari Gamma-ray bursts and afterglow (35 min.)
5:00 p.m.:Poster session
6:00 p.m.:End

10 July Saturday: Morning

9:00 a.m.:A. MacFadyen and S. Woosley Jets in supernovae and Gamma-ray bursts (20 min.)
9:20 a.m.:T. Nakamura, K. Iwamoto, K. Nomoto, and P.A. Mazzali Hypernovae and gamma-ray bursts (20 min.)
9:40 a.m.:C. Fryer Formation rates of black hole accretion disk Gamma-ray bursts (20 min.)
10:00 a.m.:V. Krishan Stimulated production of electron-positron pairs (10 min.)
10:10 a.m.:Coffee break
Session (VI) Poster summaries
10:40 a.m.:M.J. Aschwanden Solar corona and flares (20 min.)
11:00 a.m.:Z. Wang Galactic objects (20 min.)
11:20 a.m.:W. Brinkmann Extragalactic objects (20 min.)
11:40 a.m.:D. Caditz Various physical mechanisms (20 min.)
12:00 p.m.:Lunch

10 July Saturday: Afternoon

Session (VII) Panel discussion on common physical processes and mechanisms for high energy emission from astrophysical plasmas
2:00 p.m. (90 min.)
L. Culhane:Observations
E. Parker:Solar corona and flares
M.J. Rees:Gamma-ray bursters, AGN, cosmological plasmas
M.A. Ruderman:Neutron stars, pulsars
E.J. Van den Heuvel:Galactic binary compact objects, supernovae
Session (VIII) Symposium summary and concluding remarks
3:30 p.m. (60 min.)
G. Field
4:30 p.m.:End