New Visions of the X-ray Universe
in the XMM-Newton and Chandra era

26-30 November 2001
ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands

Spectrum of the radio-quiet quasar IRAS 13349+2438 registered with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer on board XMM-Newton.	NASA/McGill/V.Kaspi et al. A pulsar in the center of the G11.2-0.3 supernova remnant observed with Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer.	XMM-Newton mosaics of the Coma cluster of galaxies obtained with the European Photon Imaging Camera.

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Scope

The Symposium focused on the new results emerging from ESA's XMM-Newton Observatory, NASA's Chandra Observatory, and other missions, with the aim of providing a coherent view of recent progress in high energy astrophysics.

The XMM-Newton and Chandra space observatories are now providing the Science Community with new observational data of overwhelming importance for our understanding of the Universe. Compared to their predecessors, this new generation of X-ray observatories combines a larger collecting area with a higher spatial and spectral resolution. This allows the scientific community to perform detailed morphological studies, spectral-imaging and medium- to high-resolution spectroscopy on a large number of X-ray sources that were previously inaccessible at such a level of detail and accuracy. It is these results, which provide new visions of the X-ray Universe.

Scientific Organising Committee:

Mike Watson	University of Leicester, UK (chair)
Monique Arnaud	CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Saclay, F
Bernd Aschenbach	MPE Garching, D
Xavier Barcons	IFCA (CSIC-UC), Santander, E
Andy Fabian	IoA, Cambridge, UK
Richard Griffiths	Carnegie Mellon University, US
Guenther Hasinger	AIP Potsdam/MPE Garching, D
Jelle Kaastra	SRON, Utrecht, NL
Steve Kahn	Columbia University, US
Thierry Montmerle	CEA/DSM/DAPNIA, Saclay, F
Roberto Pallavicini	OAPA, Palermo, I
Giorgio Palumbo	ASI, Rome, I
Liz Puchnarewicz	MSSL, University College London, UK
Marten van Kerkwijk	Utrecht University, NL

Local Organising Committee:

F. Jansen

P. Gondoin

G. Elfering

Conference Secretariat

ESTEC Conference Bureau
P.O.Box 299
2200 AG Noordwijk
The Netherlands

Scientific Program

The detailed program, including abstracts, and the time table are available in pdf format.

The Symposium was organised as follows. Each day of the five day meeting there have been one or more plenary sessions in the main auditorium. In the afternoons of two days, there were parallel workshops and a poster sessions.

Invited Speakers

Werner Becker	MPE, Garching, Germany
Johan Bleeker	Utrecht University, NL
Hans Böhringer	MPE Garching, Germany
Bert Brinkman	SRON, NL
Anne Decourchelle	SAp Saclay, France
Manuel Güdel	ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Guenther Hasinger	AIP Potsdam/MPE Garching, Germany
David Helfland	Columbia University, NY, USA
Fred Jansen	ESTEC, Netherlands
Hideyo Kunieda	JAXA, Japan
Keith Mason	UCL-MSSL, UK
Thierry Montmerle	SAp Saclay, France
Richard Mushotzky	NASA-GSFC, USA
Frits Paerels	Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, USA
Robert Petre	NASA, USA
Wolfgang Pietsch	MPE, Garching, Germany
Ken Pounds	University of Leicester, UK
Martin Turner	University of Leicester, UK
Daniel Q. Wang	University of Massachusetts - Amherst, USA
Robert Warwick	Univ.of Leicester, UK

Plenary sessions:

Session A Project & Instrument Overviews	Day 1 (am) & Day 2 (pm)
Session B Optically thin plasmas B.1 Stellar coronae & stellar winds B.2 SNRs B.3 Clusters of galaxies	Days 1 & 2
Session C Accretion and outflows C.1 X-ray binaries C.2 AGN	Days 2 & 3
Session D Neutron star and white dwarf emission	Day 3
Session E The nearby Universe E.1 Galactic diffuse emission and source populations E.2 Star-forming regions & star clusters E.3 Local galaxies	Days 4 & 5
Session F The X-ray background	Day 5
Session G Future missions & instruments	Day 5

Workshops and Poster Sessions

Each workshop had a coordinator who was responsible, in conjunction with the Scientific Organising Committee, for the workshop's programme.

Workshop WA2 XMM instrument calibration (coordinator: Dave Lumb)	Day 2
Workshop WB1 X-ray surveys and follow-up programmes (coordinator: Mike Watson)	Day 4
Workshop WB2 Plasma processes, diagnostics & code (coordinator: Jelle Kaastra)	Day 4
Workshop WA3/WB3 XMM Data analysis workshops I/II (coordinator: Christian Erd)	Day 2, 4
Poster session I posters related to sessions A,B,C (changeover day 3)	Days 1-3
Poster session II posters related to sessions D,E,F,G (changeover day 3)	Days 3-5

No conference proceedings were published

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