The First PANDA Symposium on Products of Astrophysical Outflows

30 Mar 2009, 08:00 → 3 Apr 2009, 20:00 Asia/Shanghai

Conference Hall in Hansange Hotel (Lijiang, Yunnan, China)

Kouveliotou Chryssa (NASA/MSFC) , Wang Jianmin (IHEP,CAS) , Zhang Shuangnan (Tsinghua Univ.)

We are establishing a new Symposia series aiming at establishing and fostering collaborations among young post doctoral fellows (0-6 years from graduation) from the Pacific/Asiatic scientific community with their peers across the globe. Besides enabling scientific mobility and networking, we are also aiming in providing young researchers with a forum to exchange ideas on current and future projects. To this end, the meeting will include several tutorials from senior lecturers during the first day, and three evening lectures, in the following days. The Symposia should take place every 2 years and the first three should be held in China near Panda natural reserves. The First PANDA Symposium will focus on Products of Astrophysical Outflows: Bubbles and Super Bubbles, Planetary Nebulae, Winds and Jets, AGNs, Supernovae Remnants, Magnetars, and GRBs

1st Circular PANDA20091st_announcement.pdf

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the Web Homepage http://www.ynao.ac.cn/~panda the Web Homepage

Wonderful Pictures by Nir Shaviv http://www.phys.huji.ac.il/~shaviv/pictures/lijiang/PANDA_meeting/Welcome.html

Monday, 30 March

09:00 → 09:10 Opening Remarks

C. Kouveliotou/S.-N. Zhang

09:10 → 10:10 Bubbles and Super-bubbles

Speaker: Prof. You-Hua Chu

09:10 → 17:30 Tutorial Talks

10:10 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 11:30 Supernova 1987A at Age 22

Speaker: Prof. Richard McCray (University of Colorado)

11:30 → 12:30 Supernova Remnants and Their Environments

Speaker: Prof. Slane Patrick (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:30 Sources of energy for stellar winds (LBVs, WRs)

Speaker: Prof. Nir Shaviv

15:30 → 16:30 What makes a galaxy active?

Speaker: Prof. Martin Ward

16:30 → 16:50 Coffee Break

16:50 → 17:30 AGN feedback and its cosmological effects

Speaker: Prof. Jianmin Wang (IHEP)

17:30 → 18:30 Lecture: Good talks for everyone!

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Wijers

17:30 → 18:30 Lecture: What you should avoid in your oral presentations

Tuesday, 31 March

09:00 → 09:40 3-D Numerical Simulations of Colliding-Wind Binaries

Speaker: Atsuo Okazaki (Faculty of Engineering, Hokkai-Gakuen University)

09:00 → 10:20 Stellar Winds and Planetary Nebulae

09:40 → 10:20 Dynamos and Common Envelopes in Planetary Nebula Progenitors

Speaker: Dr Jason Nordhaus (Princeton University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break and take photos

10:50 → 11:10 Neutron Star magnetic fields in the binary systems

Speaker: Prof. Chengmin Zhang (NAOC/Beijing)

11:10 → 12:30 Poster Presentations 1

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 18:00 GRB and ULXs

14:30 → 15:30 Gamma-ray bursts: introducing relativistic explosions

Speaker: Prof. Ralf Wijers

15:30 → 15:50 Observations of the Prompt High-Energy Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Speaker: Dr Sylvain Guiriec (NSSTC/UAH)

15:50 → 16:10 Studies on the Afterglow from the Receding Jet of Gamma-Ray Burst

Speaker: Dr Yong-Feng HUANG (Department of Astronmy, Nanjing University)

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 17:00 Single Power-Law Decaying XRT lightcurves and Implications for the Unified Origin of the X-rays

Speaker: Prof. Enwei Liang (Physics Department， Giangxi University)

17:00 → 17:20 Constraints on the radiation origin of GRB prompt emission by Fermi LAT observations

Speaker: Dr Xiang-Yu Wang (Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University)

17:20 → 17:40 Optical/infrared flares of GRBs

Speaker: Dr Weihong Gao (Nanjing Normal University)

17:40 → 18:00 Tidal disruption of stars by IMBHs and its applications

Speaker: Dr Lu Ye (NAOC)

Wednesday, 1 April

06:30 → 21:30 One-day Tour

6:30 Morning call

7:00-7:30 Breakfast

7:30 group at the conference hotel gate and take bus

9:00 Jade Dragon Snow Mountain

12:00 Lunch

15:30 the Baisha murals

17:30 Shuhe Old town

18:00 Dinner at Shuhe Old town

19:00 Back to the conference hotel

Thursday, 2 April

09:00 → 09:40 Measuring Expansion Rates of Supernova Remnants with Chandra and XMM-Newton

Speaker: Dr Satoru Katsuda (NASA GSFC)

09:00 → 12:30 SNRs and Their Explosions

09:40 → 10:20 What do the jets of the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant tell us about its progenitor star?

Speaker: Ms Klara Schure (Utrecht University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:30 Exciting Science with Cassiopeia A

Speaker: Dr Tracey DeLaney (MIT Kavli Institute)

11:30 → 11:50 Tools to Dissect Supernova Remnants Observed with Chandra

Speaker: Laura Lopez (University of California Santa Cruz)

11:50 → 12:30 Poster Presentations 2

12:30 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 15:10 Recent Results Obtained with AKARI on Supernova Remnants

Speaker: Prof. Bon-Chul Koo (Seoul National University)

14:30 → 16:15 SNRs and Their Environments

15:10 → 15:50 Molecular shells associated with supernova remnants

Speaker: Dr Yang Chen (Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University)

15:50 → 15:55 The Chandra View of DA 530: A Subenergetic Supernova Remnant with a Pulsar Wind Nebula?

Speaker: Ms Bing Jiang (Astronomy Department, Nanjing University)

15:55 → 16:00 Molecular environment of semicircular composite SNR 3C396

Speaker: Dr Yang Su (Purple Mountain Observatory)

16:00 → 16:05 Molecular gas environment of SNR W49B

Speakers: Dr Fabrizio Bocchino (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo) , Dr Marco Miceli (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo) , Mr Xin Zhou (Department of Astronomy,Nanjing University) , Prof. Yang Chen (Department of Astronomy,Nanjing University)

16:05 → 16:10 Stochastic Electron Acceleration in Shell-Type Supernova Remnants

Speakers: Prof. Siming Liu (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow) , Prof. Zhonghui Fan (Department of Physics, Yunnan University)

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 17:20 Observations of Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Speaker: Dr Slane Patrick (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

16:40 → 18:25 PWNe, Magnetars, and Related Sources

17:20 → 17:40 The Remarkable Radio Tail of Pulsar J1509-5850

Speaker: Dr Stephen C.-Y. Ng (The University of Sydney)

17:40 → 18:00 Timing irregularity of RRAT1819-1458

Speaker: Dr Ali Esamdin (Urumqi Observatory, BAOs, CAS)

18:00 → 18:20 Magnetic massive stars as magnetar progenitors

Speaker: Mr Ren-Yu Hu (Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University)

18:30 → 20:00 Banquet

Friday, 3 April

09:00 → 12:30 Bubbles and Jets

09:00 → 09:40 Galactic Winds and Bubbles

Speaker: Dr Jackie Cooper (Australian National University)

09:40 → 10:00 Super Bubble in the Vicinity of Starburst Galaxy NGC 3077

Speaker: Dr Zhong Wang (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

10:00 → 10:20 Discovery of supperbubbles in nearby disk galaxies

Speaker: Mr Jiangtao Li (Astronomy Department of Nanjing University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:10 Equilibrium or Non-equilibrium ionization? --- NEI code and its applications

Speaker: Dr Li Ji (MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research)

11:10 → 11:50 Outflows of Accretion Disk

Speaker: Prof. Jufu Lu

11:50 → 12:10 Jet Production and State Transitions in Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Speaker: Prof. Ding-Xiong Wang (Huazhong University of Science & Technology)

12:10 → 12:30 The hard X-ray emission from high energy sources

Speaker: Dr Shu Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics)

12:40 → 14:30 Lunch

14:30 → 16:10 Galactic winds and AGNs

14:30 → 14:50 LARGE SCALE CAVITIES SURROUNDING MICROQUASARS INFERRED FROM EVOLUTION OF THEIR RELATIVISTIC JETS

Speaker: Prof. Zhang Shuangnan (Tsinghua Univ.)

14:50 → 15:10 The Seyfert AGN RX J0136.9-3510 and the Spectral State of Super Eddington Accretion Flows

Speaker: Mr CHICHUAN JIN (Department of Physics, Durham University, UK)

15:10 → 15:30 Optical Fe II and Hbeta Emission Lines in Quasars: Evidence for Inflow as an Intermediate-line Region

Speaker: Dr Chen Hu (IHEP)

15:30 → 15:50 The structure and evolution of the two-component broad-line regions in AGNs

Speaker: Ms Zhu Ling (THCA)

15:50 → 16:10 Infrared Photometric Study of Type II Quasars

Speaker: Prof. Peisheng Chen (Yunnan Observatory)

16:10 → 16:40 Coffee Break

16:40 → 17:30 Conference Summary