XMM-Newton-NEWS


XMM-Newton-NEWS  #128,    05-Sep-2011

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Conference Announcement: XMM-Newton Science Workshop 2012 "Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories"

The XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre is organising a workshop in the spring of next year, with the following subject, dates and venue:

"Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories"

21st - 23rd of May 2012

XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre at ESA's
European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain

Aims and Scope of the Workshop:

Galaxy clusters are interesting astrophysical laboratories to study large-scale physical processes and important probes to assess the structure and evolution of our Universe. X-ray observations provide the most detailed insight into structure, composition, and evolution of galaxy clusters.

Since the launch of the XMM-Newton and Chandra observatories our understanding of galaxy clusters has impressively improved including paradigm changes like the physics of cooling cluster centres and the description of galaxy clusters as a tightly constrained self-similar family of objects. During this period galaxy clusters have also helped to define the quite precisely described Concordance Cosmology Model and they have shown how the intergalactic medium is enriched by heavy elements over the last half of the age of the Universe. Observations with XMM-Newton and Chandra have been essential for this progress and after a little more than a decade, a detailed picture of galaxy clusters has crystallised, well worth to be critically reviewed and discussed at a topical workshop.

The Workshop web page is available at:

     https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2012-workshop/

Details on the registration and abstract submission process as well as on important dates will be posted there and announced in a future Newsletter.

XMM-Newton Conference "The X-ray Universe 2011": Presentations and Posters available on-line

The XMM-Newton conference "The X-ray Universe 2011" was successfully held in Berlin from 27th to 30th June 2011, with more than 350 registered participants. Presentations, posters and conference photos are available on-line at:

     https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/xmm-newton/2011-symposium/

Presentations and posters are also available via ADS at:

    http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?&ref_stems=2011xru..conf




Yours sincerely,
XMM-Newton SOC