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Welcome to the Chandra X-ray Center's Electronic News Bulletin Number 32.

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Contents:

1.  CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
   
2.  Chandra Calibration Workshop 2004

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Item 1.  CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
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We welcome interested people to join us for the annual Chandra 
Fellows Symposium.  Details below.




		     CHANDRA FELLOWS SYMPOSIUM

			October 13, 2004

	Phillips Auditorium, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

   For program updates, check: http://cxc.harvard.edu/fellows/program_2004.html

 9:00 -  9:20    Welcome

 9:20 -  9:40    Julia Lee           Can we Determine the Grain Composition of the ISM
                                     using Chandra and Astro E2 ?                       


 9:40 -  10:00   Eric Pfahl          Dynamics of Black Holes and Binaries in the 
                                     Galactic Center  


10:00 - 10:20    Peter Jonker        Neutron Star Masses from Quiescent X-ray Observations 
                                     and Phase Resolved Optical Spectroscopy   
     
10:20 - 10:40    Anatoly Spitkovsky  Pulsar under Stress: the Magnetosphere of 
                                     Binary Pulsar J0737B

10:40 - 11:00    Coffee  


11:00 - 11:20    David Pooley        Globular Cluster X-ray Sources: the 
                                     Keys to Cluster Dynamical Evolution
                  

11:20 - 11:40    Taotao Fang         X-ray Study of the Local Hot Gas


11:40 - 12:00    Sebastian  Heinz    The Big Dig: Exercises in Excavation Using 
                                     Relativistic Jets

12:00 - 12:20    Mateusz Ruszkowski  Simulations of AGN Feedback in the 
                                     Cosmological Context 

12:20 - 1:40  p.m.    Lunch    
                                

1:40 - 2:00      Franz Bauer         The Evolving AGN population in the Chandra Deep Fields

2:00 - 2:20      Doron Chelouche     Mass Ejection from Quasars: New Perspectives 
                                     from the X-rays

2:20 - 2:40      Benjamin Maughan    The X-ray Properties of High-Redshift  
                                     Galaxy Clusters 

2:40 - 3:00      Enrico Ramierez-Ruiz The Hydrodynamics of Dead Collapsars
               

3:00 - 3:20          Tea

3:20 - 3:40      Weiqun Zhang        Numerical Simulations of the Collapsar Model for 
                                     Gamma-Ray Bursts   
               

3:40 - 4:30      Claude Canizares    Keynote:  Nanometers to Megaparsecs:  The Inside 
                                     Story Behind the Making of the Chandra HETG 




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Item 2.   Chandra Calibration Workshop 2004

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It't that time of year again!

Please join us at the third annual CHANDRA Calibration Workshop.
Members of the CHANDRA Science Center Calibration team will be on hand
to present their latest and greatest efforts to characterize the
performance of Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS), the High
Resolution Camera (HRC), and the Low and High Energy Transmission
Gratings (LETG and HETG).

The workshop is intended to enhance the diffusion of knowledge about
the performance of the instruments, as well as to encourage the entire
community to contribute to the performance models. There will be
poster presentations, round table discussions as well as sessions of
talks that the community is invited to actively participate in.

Registration is free and we would appreciate it if you could register
as soon as possible so that we can include you in our calculations of
the food.  The nominal deadline for abstracts was October 1st, but we
will continue to accept any submissions on a space available basis.

So the details:
 
    When: The Calibration Workshop will be held on October 25th and
    26th.
 
    Where: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Commander in
    Cambridge just down the street from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
    for Astrophysics, in close proximity to MIT and downtown Boston.
 
    More Information: The web page (http://cxc.harvard.edu/ccw) is
    up and waiting for your registrations/submissions. Other
    interesting details (including the proceedings from the last two
    years) can also be found there.

We look forward to seeing you in October!

Hank Donnelly


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