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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin Number 25.

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Contents:

1. CIAO 3.0.1 Patch Released
   
2. CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
 

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Item 1. CIAO 3.0.1 Patch Released - 16 September 2003
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++ The CIAO 3.0.1 patch (requiring CIAO3.0 installed) is now available 
to download from:

http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/download_ciao_reg.html

The CIAO 3.0.1 patch includes some important bug fixes to the Data Model 
library and Sherpa. Read the patch release notes 
(http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/releasenotes/) for full details.

++ If you have never installed CIAO3.0 in your system, you should 
download the "full" CIAO3.0.1 installation which includes CIAO3.0 and 
the patch.

++ Everything is also accessible on the European mirror site at:

http://chandra.ledas.ac.uk/ciao/download_ciao_reg.html

As always please send questions and requests for enhancements
to the CXC HELPDESK.

Antonella Fruscione (for the CIAO development team)



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Item 2. CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM 
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			October 8, 2003

	Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

   For program updates, check: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2003.html

 9:00 -  9:20  a.m.  Welcome

 9:20 -  9:40        Anatoly Spitkovsky:  Dynamics of Nuclear Burning During  
                     Type I X-ray Bursts: Effects of Rotation and Magnetic Fields

 9:40 - 10:00        Peter Jonker:  Following a Black Hole Soft X-ray Transient 
                     Towards Quiescence in Radio and X-Rays
		                                                            

10:00 - 10:20        Eric Pfahl:  Probing the Spacetime Around Sgr A* with 
                     Radio Pulsars

10:20 - 10:40        Li-Xin Li: Instability in Accretion Disks and Quasi-Periodic 
                     Oscillations in X-Ray Binaries

10:40 - 11:00        Coffee  


11:00 - 11:20        Ann Hornschemeier: X-ray Probes of Star-Formation Outside the 
                     Local Universe        

11:20 - 11:40        Taotao Fang:  Probing the Soft X-ray Emission from the Warm-Hot
                     Intergalactic Medium 

11:40 - 12:00        Elizabeth Blanton: Chandra Observations of Radio Sources in 
                     Clusters: Impact on the ICM and Probes of High-Z Systems 


12:00 - 1:20 p.m.    Lunch    

1:20 - 2:00          Keynote Speaker: Martin Weisskopf:  The Development of the 
                     Chandra X-Ray Observatory

2:00 - 2:20          Mateusz Ruskowski: Heating of Galaxy Clusters

2:20 - 2:40          Andi Mahdavi: Cluster Mass Profiles from X-ray and Optical Data 

2:40 - 3:00          Erik Reese:  Determining the Cosmic Distance Scale with 
                     Galaxy Clusters

3:00 - 3:20          Tea

3:20 - 3:40          Sebastian Heinz: Baby Beams and Jumbo Jets: Investigating the 
                     Relationship between Microquasars and AGNs 

3:40 - 4:00          Julia Lee:  The Chandra HETGS high resolution
                     view of `broad' iron line Seyferts   

 
4:00 - 4:20          Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz: Basic ingredients for the Biggest Blasts 
                     in the Cosmos 

4:20 - 4:40          Masao Sako "Statistical Significances of X-ray Emission Line  
                     Detections in the Afterglows of Gamma-ray Bursts" 

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