Scientific Program

Time

Topic/Title

Presenter

Institute

April 20-21, 2013     Registration

April 22, 2013         Senior Lectures               Room: ChangAnTing

8:55 - 9:00

Welcome speech

Shuang-Nan Zhang

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

Wei Zhao

Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics of CAS

Session 1     Chair: Shuang-Nan Zhang           

9:00 - 9:50

High Energy sources (observations)

Isabelle Grenier

University of Paris Diderot

9:50 - 10:40

Results from TeV astronomy

Yves Gallant

CNRS

10:40 -11:00

Tea Break

11:00 - 11:50

Cosmic Rays (Auger)

Tom Paul

Northeastern University

11:50 - 12:40

Neutrinos

Albrecht Karle

University of Wisconsin-Madison

12:40-14:00

Lunch Break

Session 2     Chair: Albrecht Karle

14:00 - 14:50

Status of MMA in China: TIBET shower array, Radio telescopes, HXMT, SVOM

Shuang-Nan Zhang

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

14:50 - 15:40

Palomar Transient Factory (PTF)

MansiKasliwal

Carnegie Institution for Science

15:40 -16:00

Tea Break

16:00 - 16:50 

Submm Astronomy (ALMA & CCAT)

John Carpenter

California Institute of Technology

16:50 - 17:40

Gravitational Waves

Bruce Allen

Albert Einstein Institute

Evening lecture                                 Room: ChangAnTing

19:30 - 20:20

How not to give a talk

Ralph Wijers

University of Amsterdam

April 23, 2013

Mini-Workshop Themes :Particle Acceleration Mechanisms　

Session 3     Chair: KlaraSchure   Room: ChangAnTing

9:00 - 9:50

Particle acceleration

Luke Drury

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

9:50 - 10:30

Relativistic shocks

Lorenzo Sironi

Harvard University

10:30 -11:00

Discussion and Tea Break

11:00 - 11:40

Acceleration of particles in AGN

Felix Spanier

LehrstuhlfürAstronomie, UniversitätWürzburg

11:40 - 12:00

Blazar Anti-sequence of Spectral variation within Individual Blazars: Cases for Mrk 501 and 3C 279

Jin Zhang

National Astronomical Observatory of China，CAS)

12:00- 12:20

Study of the scatter in single-epoch virial  mass and correlation between CIV and Hbeta line width for low-luminosity AGNs

Rui She and Hong Li

Tsinghua University

12:20 -14:00

Lunch Break

Session 4    Chair: Lorenzo Sironi               Room: ChangAnTing

14:00 - 14:40

Non-thermal emission and electron acceleration in young supernovae

Keiichi Maeda

Kavli IPMU, U. Tokyo

14:40 - 15:10

Magnetic field amplification and maximum cosmic ray energy in supernova remnants

KlaraSchure

University of Oxford

15:10 - 15:30

Unveiling the Super-orbital modulation of LS I+61303 in X-rays

Jian Li

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

15:30 -16:00

Discussion and Tea Break

16:00 - 16:40

Particle acceleration in turbulent medium

Huirong Yan

Kavli Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Peking University

16:40 - 17:00

A new supersoft X-ray progenitor model for the particular type Ia supernovae

IminhajiAblimit

Nanjing University

17:00 - 17:20

Search for gamma-ray emission from four accreting millisecond pulsars with Fermi/LAT

Yi Xing

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

Evening Lecture

19:30 - 20:20

Life with Nature

Leslie Sage

Nature

April 24, 2013

Mini-Workshop Themes :High Energy Sources: PSRs, SNR, SNe, GRBs, AGN

Session 5     Chair: Zigao Dai                   Room: ChangAnTing

9:00 - 9:50

Theory of High Energy Sources I

Alice Harding

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

9:50 - 10:30

TBD

ChryssaKouveliotou

NASA

10:30 -10:50

Tea Break

10:50 - 11:20

Neutrino messenger approach for studying gamma-ray bursts and sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays

Xiangyu Wang

Nanjing University

11:20 - 11:40

Bright broad-band afterglows of gravitational wave bursts from

binary neutron star mergers as a probe of millisecond magnetars

Xuefeng Wu

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

11:40 - 12:00

NS-NS merger: forming a short-living (~100 s ) supramassive

neutron star (SMNS)

Yizhong Fan

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

12:00 - 12:20

On the X-ray emission mechanisms of short bursts from magnetars

Lin Lin

Sabanci University

12:20 -14:00

Lunch Break

Session 6     Chair: Xiangyu Wang              Room: ChangAnTing

14:00 - 14:50

Theory of High Energy Sources II: Supernova Remnants,  Gamma-Ray Bursts and Blazars

Matthew Baring

Rice University

14:50 - 15:30

Neutrino astronomy in the transient universe

ShunsakuHoriuchi

UC Irvine

15:30 - 16:00

Evidence for Gamma-ray Jets in Our Milky Way

Meng-Su Su

MIT

16:00 -16:20

Tea Break

16:20 - 16:40

Diffuse PeV neutrino emission from Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies

Haoning He

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

16:40 - 17:00

Cosmological evolution of AGNs in galaxy clusters and groups

Lian Tao

Tsinghua University

17:00 - 17:20

Central black hole masses in ultraluminous X-ray sources

Xinlin Zhou

National Astronomical Observatory of China，CAS

17:20 -17:40

r-mode instability in new born neutron stars

Yunwei Yu

Central China Normal University

17:40–18:00

The mass distribution of millisecond pulsars

Chengmin Zhang

National Astronomical Observatory of China，CAS

April 25, 2013

Mini-Workshop Themes :  Wide-field Astronomy: Transients

Session 7     Chair:Matthew Baring            Room: ChangAnTing

9:00-9:30

Transient Events Detected in the Pan-STARRS Optical Sky Survey

Martin Ward

Durham University

9:30-10:00

Transient Science with SkyMapper and the Next Generation of Ground-based Surveys

Fang Yuan

Australian National University

10:00-10:15

Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory: system and first results

Yi Cao

California Institute of Technology

10:15-10:45

Wide-field transient searches: the impact of new discoveries on theory

NozomuTominaga

Konan University

10:45 -11:05

Tea Break

11:05-11:35

X-ray transients

Rudi Wijnands

University of Amsterdam

11:35-11:50

Demography of Faint X-ray Sources in Galactic Bulge and Globular Clusters

XiaojieXu

Nanjing University

11:50-12:05

Type-I burst as probe of the XRB corona

Long Ji

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

12:05 -14:00

Lunch Break

Session 8     Chair: Wijnands Rudi              Room: ChangAnTing

14:00-14:30

Timing X-ray Transients

Michiel van der Klis

University of Amsterdam

14:30-14:45

Probing SMBH mass and spin in X-ray tidal disruption events and the case study of Swift J2058+05

Wenda Zhang

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

14:45-15:00

Low-mass X-ray Binary Transients in the RXTE era: Outbursts Properties and Challenges to Accretion Theory

Zhen Yan

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

15:00-15:15

Mission concepts of X-ray transients search under study at NAOC-IHEP

Weimin Yuan

National Astronomical Observatory of China，CAS

15:15 -15:35

Tea Break

15:35-16:05

Radio transients and the next generation of wide-field searches

Macquart Jean-pierre

Curtin University

16:05-16:35

Transient Universe and Gravitational Wave Astronomy

Sergey Klimenko

University of Florida

16:35-17:05

Multi-messenger astronomy with Swift

Phil Evans

University of Leicester/Swift

17:05-18:20

Poster Session        Chair：Ralph Wijers

The extreme universe and extreme physics to be viewed with XTP

Shu Zhang

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

Fast co-evolving behavior of the corona with type-I X-ray bursts

Yu-Peng Chen

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

Molecular Environment toward the Supernova Remnant IC443

Yang Su

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

A two-step energy injection explanation for the rebrightenings of the multi-band afterglow of GRB 081029

Yongbo Yu

Nanjing University

Two Types of Magnetic Reconnection in Coronal Bright Points and the Corresponding Magnetic Configuration

Qingmin Zhang

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

Finding a Precessional Disk around the Obscured Supergiant X-ray Binary IGR~J16318-4848

Jingzhi Yan

Purple Mountain Observation, CAS

Evolution of characteristic time scales during the outbursts of the black hole transient GX 339-4

Sheng-mingZheng

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

Durations of spectral state transitions in X-ray binaries and the implications

Hui Zhang

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

The last three outbursts of H 1743-322 observed by RXTE in its latest service phase

Jianeng Zhou

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

Study of X-ray Dust Scattering Halo of IGR J17544-2619

Junjie Mao

National Astronomical Observatory of China，CAS

The study of the circumstance of type B quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) phenomena

HanqinGao

Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS

The Chemical Evolution of Mn in the Local Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

Menquan Liu

Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, CAS

Possible primary-electron-spectrum hardening at ~240 GeV:

Implications for AMS-02 observation and the physical origin of cosmic

ray excesses

LeiFeng

Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS

Measuring spin of accreting supermassive black holes in AGN

James Collinson

Durham University

April 26, 2013   One-day Tour