LB&B II: Meeting Agenda

Talk lengths: 35+5 Review, 25+5 Invited, 15+5 Contributed

Registration

(in Grand Ballroom A&B) ISM Overview: Magnetic Fields, Molecular Clouds, and Interstellar Bubbles

8:00 - 9:00: Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00 - 9:35: Carl Heiles - The LHB-Local Cavity interface and Other Bubbles
9:40 - 10:05: You-Hua Chu - The observation of ISM Bubbles in the Galaxy and Beyond
10:10 - 10:35: Jane Arthur - Bubbles in the ISM
10:40 - 11:10: Break
11:10 - 11:25: B-G Andersson - The Magnetic Pressure in the Local Bubble Wall towards 1,b ~ 300, 0
11:30 - 11:45: Susan Lepri - The Solar Wind as an Astrophysical Laboratory
11:50 - 14:00: Lunch

Local ISM: The Physical Conditions of Nearby Gas

14:00 - 14:35: Ed Jenkins - The physical conditions of the nearby gas
14:40 - 15:05: Jon Slavin - The Most Local ISM
15:10 - 15:35: Merav Opher - LISM, Heliosphere and Solar Wind Models
15:40 - 16:10: Break
16:10 - 16:25: Greg Brown - Measurements of X-ray Spectral Signatures of Charge Exchange
16:30 - 16:45: Steve Snowden - XMM-Newton Observation of Magnetoscheath SWCX Emission
16:50 - 17:05: Dennis Bodewits - Chandra Comet Observations During the Last Solar Cycle

Modeling the LHB & ISM

8:00 - 9:00: Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35: Don Cox - Theoretical Models of the LHB, LB interfaces with other structures, possible formation scenarios for the LB
9:40 - 10:05: Sally Oey - The Power Problem of Bubbles
10:10 - 10:35: Dieter Breitschwerdt - Modeling the Local Hot Bubble
10:40 - 11:10: Break
11:10 - 11:25: Nicole Wityk - Probing the Galaxy with Superbubbles: Three Dimensional Simulations
11:30 - 11:45: Seth Redfield(J. Linsky) - Structure, Dynamics, and Physical Properties of the Warm LISM Within the Local Bubble
11:50 - 12:05: Terrance Gaetz - X-ray Observations of the Vela SNR Ejecta Fragments
12:05 - 14:00: Lunch

Observation and Models of Distant Hot Gas: Superbubbles & Galactic Halo

14:00 - 14:35: Robin Shelton - Observations and Models of Distant Hot Gas in the Galactic Halo
14:40 - 15:05: Daniel Wang - Global Hot Gas in and Around the Galaxy
15:10 - 15:25: Anjali Gupta - Sources of Contamination in the Emission from the Local Bubble
15:40 - 16:10: Break
16:10 - 16:25: Paul Plucinsky - The Monogem Ring: A Nearby SNR Similar to the Local Bubble?
16:20 - 16:35: Eric Miller - The North Polar Spur: Detection of Nitrogen Enhancement with Suzaku
18:00 - 21:00: Reception & Conference Dinner (in Riverview Room)

The Local Bubble in X-rays

8:00 - 9:00: Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:35: Kip Kuntz - Review of the X-ray evidence for the LHB
9:40 - 10:05: Dan McCammon(Randall Smith) - Observations of the Local Hot Bubble - Future Missions (SXG)
10:10 - 10:35: Noriko Yamasaki - Suzaku Detection of the Charge Exchange Emission and Observations for Soft X-ray Diffuse Emissions
10:40 - 11:10: Break
11:10 - 11:35: Massimiliano Galeazzi - Shadowing Studies in the Moderate (CCD) Resolution Era
11:40 - 11:55: Brad Wargelin - Separating Local and Cosmic Soft X-ray Emission in the Chandra Deep Field - South
12:00 - 14:00: Lunch

Charge Exchange

14:00 - 14:35: Tom Cravens - Solar Wind Charge Exchange Contributions to the Diffuse X-ray Background
14:40 - 15:05: Dimitra Koutroumpa - The Spectrum of Solar Wind Charge Exchange Emission
15:10 - 15:35: Michael Collier - Observation of Solar Wind Charge Emission - Future Missions (MagEx, CODEX)
15:40 - 16:10: Break
16:10 - 16:25: Ina Robertson - Solar Wind Charge Exchange and the ROSAT Sky Maps
16:30 - 16:45: David Henley - Observing Solar Wind Charge Exchange from a Coronal Mass Ejection
16:50 - 17:05: Jennifer Carter - Identifying Solar Wind Charge Exchange Emission in XMM-Newton Observations
17:10 - 17:25: W. Van Dyke Dixon - The FUSE Survey of the Diffuse O VI Emission from the ISM

Local Bubble & Local Cavity in other wavebands

7:30 - 8:30: Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:55: Jeff Linsky - Results from the ISSI Workshop: "From the Outer Heliosphere to the Local Bubble: Comparison of New Observations with Theory."
9:00 - 9:25: Bill Oegerle - The O VI Issue, Part I
9:30 - 9:55: Martin Barstow - The O VI Issue, Part II
10:00 - 10:15: Shauna Sallmen - FUSE Observations of the Loop I/Local Bubble Interaction Region
10:20 - 10:35: Michael Kowalski - Future EUV Observations of the ISM
10:40 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 12:00: Don Cox / Barry Welsh - The Local Cavity : Hot or Not?