CHANDRA ELECTRONIC ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER 34


One announcement :

1.  Conference: MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES


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Item 1. Conference: MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES 
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               THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT - 17 April 2006
          -- MAKING THE MOST OF THE GREAT OBSERVATORIES --
		 May 22-24, 2006      Pasadena, CA
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  ***  EARLY REGISTRATION CLOSES April 21 **  REGISTER NOW !!!  ***
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       REGISTER AT http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/mtgs/greatobs
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The Chandra, HST and Spitzer observatories are sponsoring a workshop to
be held at the Pasadena Hilton from May 22-24 2006. The primary goal is to
focus the astronomical community's attention on the scientific priorities
for the Great Observatories over the next few years.
We want to emphasize both joint/multi-mission scientific programs, and
programs that lay foundations for the future.  Key questions
we hope to address are:

* What are the pressing issues of the day?
* What would we really regret not doing with Chandra/HST/Spitzer before
   the missions end?

The workshop, which will be limited to no more than 120 participants,
will provide a series of review talks, each covering a broad area of
astrophysics outlined as follows:

* Planets and planetary systems -- Drake Deming, GSFC
* Stars: the main-sequence and beyond -- Jim Liebert, Arizona
* Nearby galaxies and stellar populations -- Rob Kennicutt, IoA/UofA
* Galaxy formation and the high redshift universe -- Michael Strauss, Princeton
* Star formation and the ISM -- Ed Churchwell, Wisconsin
* Galaxy clusters and the IGM -- Megan Donahue, Michigan State
* AGN and QSOs -- Niel Brandt, Penn State
* Cosmology -- David Weinberg, Ohio State
* Workshop Summaries and a View to the Future -- Richard Ellis, Caltech
and Meg Urry, Yale

Each review talk will be mirrored in breakout discussion sessions,
designed to enable active participation by all attendees. We will also
hold panel-led general discussions that will focus on preparing for the
science programs that will be undertaken by future ground- and space-based
projects, including ALMA, Con-X, JWST, Herschel, GSMT and other future
missions and projects.  Jeff Hayes, the NASA Program Executive for
Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer will provide a 'View from Inside the Beltway'
on Wednesday morning.

The meeting will also accommodate poster presentations, with time for
brief (1 minute/1 transparency) oral summaries. We encourage posters
highlighting current or future use of the 3 Great Observatories and also
synergies between current and/or future missions. There will be no
plenary contributed talks, although we encourage participants to
prepare key arguments for the individual discussion sessions.

More information, registration and the preliminary program are
available at: http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/mtgs/greatobs

See the conference poster at:  
  http://ssc.spitzer.caltech.edu/mtgs/greatobs/img/MaySymposium2006.jpg



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