XMM-Newton-NEWS

Second Announcement, 01-Feb-2008

The X-ray Universe 2008

Granada, Spain
27-30 May 2008

Organised by the
European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
of the
European Space Agency (ESA)

The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organising a major astrophysical conference from Tuesday 27th to Friday 30th May 2008 in the city of Granada, Andalusia, Spain.

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2008-symposium/

Aims and Scope of the Meeting

The conference will be a successor to the "The X-ray Universe 2005" meeting held in 2005 near Madrid. The conference is intended to encompass a broad range of high energy astrophysics topics and we hope that it will provide a showcase for results and discoveries not only from XMM-Newton, Chandra and Suzaku but also from other current missions; the scientific potential of future projects like XEUS should be discussed at the conference.

Session topics will include:

Stars, White Dwarfs & Solar System
White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, CVs, ULXs & Black Holes
Supernovae, SNRs, Diffuse Emission & Isolated Neutron Stars
Galaxies & Galactic Surveys
Active Galactic Nuclei
Groups of Galaxies, Clusters of Galaxies and Superclusters
Cosmology & Extragalactic Deep Fields
Future X-ray Missions

Invited Speakers

Monique Arnaud		CEA Saclay, France
Marc Audard		ISDC/Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
Niel Brandt		Penn State U., USA
Andrea Comastri		INAF-OA Bologna, Italy
Luigina Ferretti		INAF-IRA Bologna, Italy
Martin Guerrero		IAA-CSIC Granada, Spain
Frank Haberl		MPE Garching, Germany
Jack Hughes		Rutgers, State U. New Jersey, USA
Katsuji Koyama		U. Kyoto, Japan
Yair Krongold		UNAM, Mexico
Brian McNamara		U. Waterloo, Canada
Mariano Mendez		U. Groningen, The Netherlands
Giovanni Miniutti		Laboratoire APC Paris, France
Yae Naze		U. Liege, Belgium
Jan-Uwe Ness		Arizona State U., USA
Delphine Porquet		ULP Strasbourg, France
Gerd Puehlhofer		ZAH-LSW Heidelberg, Germany
Tim Roberts		Durham U., United Kingdom
Norbert Schartel		XMM-Newton SOC, ESA
Martin Turner		U. Leicester, United Kingdom
Phil Uttley		U. Southampton, United Kingdom

Scientific Organising Committee

Xavier Barcons (Chair)	IFCA (CSIC-UC) Santander, Spain
Norbert Schartel (co-chair)	XMM-Newton SOC, ESA
Steve Allen	Stanford U., USA
Marc Audard	ISDC/Geneva Observatory, Switzerland
Jean Ballet	CEA Saclay, France
Thomas Boller	MPE Garching, Germany
Niel Brandt	Penn State U., USA
Massimo Cappi	IASF Bologna, Italy
Diana Hannikainen	TKK/Metsahovi Radio Observatory, Finland
Margarida Hernanz	ICE(CSIC) & IEEC, Barcelona, Spain
Giorgio Matt	U. Roma Tre, Italy
Mariano Mendez	U. Groningen, The Netherlands
Kirpal Nandra	Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Arvind Parmar	ESTEC, ESA
Delphine Porquet	ULP Strasbourg, France
Gregor Rauw	U. Liege, Belgium
Tim Roberts	Durham U., United Kingdom
Sabine Schindler	U. Innsbruck, Austria
Axel Schwope	AI Potsdam, Germany
Yoshihiro Ueda	U. Kyoto, Japan
Jacco Vink	U. Utrecht, The Netherlands

Local Organising Committee

M. Ehle (Chair), M. Diaz Trigo (co-Chair), B. Altieri, M. Arpizou, R. Bailey, C. Gabriel, M.A. Guerrero (IAA-CSIC), A. Ibarra, N. Loiseau, J. Masegosa (IAA-CSIC), J.R. Muñoz, E. Ojero, A.M.T. Pollock, M. Santos-Lleo, R. Saxton

Conference Venue

The conference will be held in the Granada Exhibition and Conference Centre:

http://www.pcgr.org

For further information on Granada, please refer to the conference web page:

https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2008-symposium/

Hotel Information

Rooms can easily be booked through the Hotel web pages or with the help of the Conference Bureau when registering for the conference.

Lunches

Lunches will be served at the Conference Centre on all days of the conference and are included in the registration fee. If participants need a special diet, they should let us know when registering.

Social Events

The Conference dinner will be held on one of the evenings at the "Carmen de los Martires" Palace. Please let us know if you would like to participate in this event when registering.

We plan to organise a guided tour through "La Alhambra" of Granada for one of the evenings during the conference. Further information will be provided in a future announcement.

Contributed Papers

Papers for presentation will be selected on the basis of half a page abstracts with a maximum of 200 words.

Abstracts should be submitted *before the 7th of March* via an online-submission form available at:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2008-symposium/

Authors will be notified of the decision of the Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) early April 2008. Authors whose papers or posters have been accepted will receive further instructions and informations on presentation facilities available at the Conference Centre.

Accepted abstracts will be included in an abstract booklet, to be circulated at the start of the conference.

Registration Form

Please submit the registration form to register for the conference *before the 29th of March*.

Web forms are available at: http://www.congrex.nl/08a13/

A registration fee of 325 Euro for early registration is asked and includes:

Conference kit and abstract booklet
All lunches and coffee breaks during the conference
Use of the conference centre rooms and facilities
Internet access

For late registrations, after the 29th of March, the fee will be 375 Euro.

Grants

A limited amount of financial support will be provided to cover costs of participation in the conference.

It is a requirement that the applicant submits an abstract for a planned poster presentation or for a talk. Application for Grants should be sent *before the 7th of March* via an online-submission form available at:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2008-symposium/

Applicants will be notified early April 2008.

Contact

ESA Conference Bureau
P.O. Box 299
2200 AG Noordwijk
The Netherlands

Phone +31 71 565 5005
Fax +31 71 565 5658
E-mail esa.conference.bureau@esa.int

Conference web page:
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2008-symposium/

E-mail:

xru2008@sciops.esa.int for questions related to the scientific organisation, abstract submission and grant application

esa.conference.bureau@esa.int for all other questions