Royal Astronomical Society Meeting

One-day meeting on

The Highly Energetic Universe

December 12th 2008, Burlington House, London


(Meeting poster)


Organisers: Paul O'Brien (University of Leicester), David Bersier (Liverpool John Moores University).



Abstract


The most dynamic sources of energy in the Universe are often strong emitters of X-rays, gamma-rays and cosmic rays. Missions such as Swift and Fermi plus ground-based facilities such as MAGIC and HESS provide data which both challenge and extend our understanding of a variety of compact-object powered astronomical sources, including gamma-ray bursts, blazars and pulsars. This 1-day RAS meeting will present the latest results to the community and enhance the UK exploitation of the data from the missions and related ground-based facilities.

Programme

(Clicking on a title will give you either the abstract or the whole talk as delivered)

All talks are in the RAS Lecture Theatre, Burlington House

Morning

10:30 - 11:00 Tsvi Piran
(The Hebrew University, Israel)		 High Energy Astrophysical Sources - A Theoretical Overview
11:00 - 11:30 James Reeves
(Keele University)
talk given by Lance Miller 		Reflections on Active Galaxies with Suzaku (talk)
11:30 - 12:00 Julie McEnery
(GSFC) 		Early Results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (abstract)
12:00 - 12:30 Richard Mushotzky
(GSFC) 		The Hard X-ray View of the AGN Sky - Results from the BAT Hard X-ray Survey
12:30 - 13:00 Tony Dean
(University of Southampton) 		INTEGRAL View of Pulsar Wind Nebulae (abstract)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

Afternoon

14:00 - 14:30 Sam Nolan
(Durham University) 		The Gamma-Ray Sky seen with H.E.S.S. (abstract, talk)
14:30 - 15:00 Razmik Mirzoyan
(MPI, Munich, Germany) 		MAGIC Unveiling the VHE Gamma Ray Sky (abstract, talk)
15:00 - 15:30 Jim Hinton
(University of Leeds)		 The future of ground-based gamma-ray astronomy (talk)
15:30 Tea

Posters


We encourage participants to present posters. They will be displayed for the whole day.
Abstracts for posters are here.

Directions


The meeting will be held at the RAS headquarters in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London. Burlington house is a couple of hundred metres from both Green Park and Piccadilly Circus tube stations, and a 10-15 minute walk from Oxford Circus.
For directions to Burlington House, click here.



Contact


Contact the organisers:
Paul O'Brien (pto 'at' star.le.ac.uk) and David Bersier (dfb 'at' astro.livjm.ac.uk)




Last updated on Nov 3 2008