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Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories
ESAC, Spain, 21^st - 23^rd May 2012


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The European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) is organising an XMM-Newton Science workshop

Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories
from 21st to 23rd May 2012
European Space Astronomy Centre
Madrid, Spain

http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2012_science

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Aims and Scope of the Meeting

Galaxy clusters are interesting astrophysical laboratories to study large-scale physical processes and important probes to assess the structure and evolution of our Universe. X-ray observations provide the most detailed insight into structure, composition, and evolution of galaxy clusters.

Since the launch of the XMM-Newton and Chandra observatories, our understanding of galaxy clusters has impressively improved including paradigm changes like the physics of cooling cluster centres and the description of galaxy clusters as a tightly constrained self-similar family of objects. During this period, galaxy clusters have also helped to define the quite precisely described Concordance Cosmology Model, and they have shown how the intergalactic medium is enriched by heavy elements over the last half of the age of the Universe. Observations with XMM-Newton, Chandra and SUZAKU have been essential for this progress and after a little more than a decade, a detailed picture of galaxy clusters has crystallised, well worth to be critically reviewed and discussed at a topical workshop.

Scientific Organising Committee

Hans Boehringer (Chair)	MPE, Garching, Germany
Xavier Barcons	Inst de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Spain
Stefano Borgani	Università di Trieste, Italy
Marcus Brueggen	Jakobs Universität, Bremen, Germany
Andy Fabian	University of Cambridge, UK
William Forman	Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Jelle Kaastra	SRON, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Silvano Molendi	INAF IASF, Milano, Italy
Takaya Ohashi	Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Kristian Pedersen	Niels Bohr Institute/Copenhagen University, Denmark
Manolis Plionis	National Observatory Athens, Greece
Trevor Ponman	University of Birmingham, UK
Gabriel Pratt	CEA Saclay, France
Craig Sarazin	University Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Norbert Schartel (Co-chair)	XMM-Newton SOC, Madrid, Spain

Local Organising Committee

J.U. Ness (Chair), M. Arpizou, M. Ehle, A.L. Longinotti and M. Stuhlinger
(XMM-Newton Science Operations Centre, European Space Astronomy Centre, Madrid, Spain)

Important Dates

(subject to changes)

16th January 2012	Second announcement:
	Opening of registration & abstract submission
2nd March 2012	Abstract submission deadline
End March 2012	Decision about accepted presentations
27th April 2012	Registration deadline

Abstracts and Registration

A registration fee of 50 € will be charged that includes

• Coffee breaks
• Shuttle bus from Madrid to ESAC
• A printed issue of the refereed conference proceedings

Abstracts can be submitted between 16^th January and 2^nd March. Decisions about accepted presentations (talks and posters) will be communicated about one month before the registration deadline, which will be 27^th April.

Venue and Accommodation

The workshop will be held at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), Villafranca del Castillo, Madrid, Spain.

A block booking has been made in several hotels in Madrid. Details will be given on the conference web page and in the second announcement.

A shuttle bus service between Madrid and ESAC will be provided. Pick up point and booking of the service will be announced.

Contact

Local Organising Committee:

   

Up-to-date information will be available via the conference web page:

    http://xmm.esac.esa.int/external/xmm_science/workshops/2012_science/