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October 23, 2000
| 8:45 - 9:00 a.m. | Welcome |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Keynote Speaker: Ramesh Narayan: Chandra Observations of Quiescent X-ray Binaries |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Ann Esin: Evidence for Truncated Thin Disk in Low State of New X-Ray Nova XTE J1118+480 |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Rudy Wijnands: The Neutron Star Spin Frequency in the X-ray Transient and Eclipsing LMXB MXB 1659-298 |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Tiziana DiMatteo: Accretion onto Nearby Supermassive Black Holes and Chandra Constraints on the Dominant Cluster Galaxy NGC 6166 |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Coffee |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Markus Boettcher: Coupled Fokker-Planck/Monte-Carlo Simulations of X-ray Spectra and Variability of Accreting Compact Objects |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Jeremy Heyl: Neutron Star Cooling for High B Fields |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Kristen Menou: Viscosity Mechanisms in Accretion Disks |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Eliot Quataert: Ionization, Magneto-rotational and Gravitational Instabilities in AGN Disks |
| 12:00 - 1:20 p.m. | Lunch |
| 1:20 - 1:40 | Ming Feng Gu: Experimental Studies of X-ray Line Formation In Iron L-shell Ions: Resonant Processes and Direct Excitation |
| 1:40 - 2:00 | Jacco Vink: Thermal vs Non-thermal X-ray Emission from Young Supernova Remnants |
| 2:00 - 2:20 | Ed Moran: Seyfert 2 Galaxies: Unification and the X-ray Background |
| 2:20 - 2:40 | Amy Barger: The Nature of the Hard X-ray Background Sources |
| 2:40 - 3:00 | David Buote: Oxygen Absorption in Cooling Flows |
| 3:00 - 3:20 | Tea |
| 3:20 - 3:40 | Jimmy Irwin: First Chandra Results From X-ray Faint Early-type Galaxies |
| 3:40 - 4:00 | David Strickland: The Cosmological Impact of Starburst-driven Superwinds |
| 4:00 - 4:20 | Eric Agol: The Eddington Ratio in Seyfert Galaxies |
| 4:20 - 4:40 | Joe Mohr: A Joint X-ray and Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect Analysis of the 'Cooling Flow' in Abell 478 |
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