NERABAM PROGRAM

Oct 19th 2005

Center for Astrophysics




09:30-10:00


Coffee & Doughnuts

10:00-10:05

Garcia/Steeghs

Welcome remarks




10:05-10:30

Charles Bailyn (Yale)

Optical/IR monitoring of X-ray binaries

10:30-10:55

Ron Remillard (MIT)

The future of X-ray all-sky monitors

10:55-11:15

Mike Garcia (CfA)

The Constellation X mission

11:15-11:30

Peter Bloser (UNH)

The CASTER black hole finder probe

11:30-11:40

Jaesub Hong (CfA)

EXIST

11:40-11:55


discussion on future missions

11:55-12:20

Joe Patterson (Columbia)

Substellar secondaries in Cataclysmic Variables

12:20-12:35

Edwin Kellogg (CfA)

R Aquarii

12:35-12:45

Danny Steeghs (CfA)

Accreting double white dwarfs

12:45-13:00

Margarita Karovska (CfA)

Multi-wavelength observations of the Mira AB system




13:00 – 14:30


LUNCH




14:30-14:45

Dipankar Maitra (Yale)

X-ray and optical observations of Aql X-1

14:45-15:00

Mike McCollough (CfA)

An update on Cyg X-3

15:00-15:15

Norbert Schulz (MIT)

Clouds, winds and jets in cir X-1

15:15-15:30

Josh Grindlay (CfA)

ChamPlane

15:30-15:45


discussion

15:45-16:00

Lorenzo Faccioli (Upenn)

Post-main sequence circularization of massive binaries

16:00-16:15

Herman Marshall (MIT)

HETGS observations of SS433

16:15-16:30

Alan Levine (MIT)

Orbital periodicities in RXTE/ASM data

16:30-16:45

Andrew Cantrell (Yale)

Emission lines in accreting binaries

16:45-17:00


discussion




17:00-18:00


open discussion, unscheduled contributions etc.