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2005
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Morning
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Session I
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Session III
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Session IV.
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Session V
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Session VI
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Afternoon
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Session I cont. + Sess. II
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Session III cont.
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Free Afternoon
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Session V cont.
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Session VII
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| Cosmology II | ||||||
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Evening
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Reception at the
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Conference Dinner at
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| Monday, 07.11.2005 | |||
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09:00 - 09:20
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Welcome Greetings | ||
| Cosmology (Chair: Norbert Schartel) | |||
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09:20 - 09:55
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Ned Wright: A Century in Cosmology (invited) | ||
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09:55 - 10:30
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Lyman Page: Measurements of the CMB: Status and New Directions (invited) | ||
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10:30 - 11:00
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing | ||
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11:00 - 11:25
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Wolfgang Hillebrandt: Cosmology from Supernovae | ||
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11:25 - 11:50
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Subhabrata Majumdar: Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters | ||
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11:50 - 12:15
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Stella Seitz: Search for MACHOS in M31: Results from WeCAPP | ||
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12:15 - 12:40
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Alain Milsztajn: Limits on galactic dark matter from EROS-2 | ||
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12:40 - 14:00
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Lunch Break | ||
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14:00 - 14:25
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Sabino Matarrese: Cosmic Acceleration without Dark Energy | ||
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14:25 - 14:50
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Carlos Martins: The Quest for Cosmological Scalar Fields | ||
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14:50 - 15:15
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Dimitrios Giannios: Spherically symmetric, static spacetimes in a tensor-vector-scalar theory | ||
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15:15 - 15:45
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing | ||
| Gravity (Chair: G. Neugebauer) | |||
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15:45 - 16:20
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Sterl Phinney: Gravitational Wave Astronomy (invited) | ||
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16:20 - 16:45
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Michael Kramer : The Double Pulsar: Unique tests of Einstein's theory of general relativity | ||
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16:45 - 17:10
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Bence Kocsis: Finding the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Standard Sirens | ||
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17:10 - 17:35
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Alberto Sesana: Orbital Decay of Massive Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Stellar Cusps: Prospects for LISA | ||
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17:35 - 18:00
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Achamveedu Gopakumar: A dependable estimate for gravitational radiation recoil associated with the coalescence of binary black holes | ||
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| Tuesday, 08.11.2005 | |||
| Black Holes I (Chair: B. Schutz) | |||
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09:00 - 09:35
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Reinhard Genzel, The Central Black Hole and Nuclear Star Cluster of the Galaxy (invited) |
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09:35 - 10:00
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Andreas Eckart, On the NIR to X-ray Variability of Sgr A* | ||
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10:00 - 10:25
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James Moran: The Polarization and Time Variability of Sgr A* at Submillimeter Wavelengths | ||
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10:25 - 10:55
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing | ||
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10:55 - 11:20
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Heino Falcke: Approaching the Event Horizon: High-Resolution Radio Interferometry of the Black Hole at the Galactic Center | ||
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11:30 - 11:55
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Jorge Cuadra: Accretion of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Centre | ||
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11:55 - 12:20
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Grigorij Beskin: Low-rate accretion onto isolated stellar-mass black holes | ||
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12:20 - 14:00
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Lunch Break | ||
| Black Holes II (Chair: Yasuo Tanaka) | |||
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14:00 - 14:35
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Marta Volonteri: The Evolution of supermassive Black Holes (invited) | ||
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14:35 - 15:00
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Ralf Bender: The Triple Nucleus and Supermassive Black Hole of M31 | ||
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15:00 - 15:25
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Wolfgang Duschl: The Cosmogony of Super-Massive Black Holes | ||
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15:25 - 15:55
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
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15:55 - 16:20
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Lucio Mayer: Multi-scale simulations of the fuelling and merging of supermassive black holes | ||
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16:20 - 16:45
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Anton Dorodnitsyn: Radiation-driven winds near BHs | ||
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16:45 - 17:10
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Andrea Merloni: The parallel lives of super-massive black holes and their host galaxies | ||
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17:10 - 17:35
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Norbert Schartel: Highlights of XMM-Newton Observations of Black Holes | ||
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| Evening Lecture (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) (Chair: Joachim Trümper) | |||
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19:00 - 21:00
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Jürgen Ehlers: Der relativistische Kosmos - was Astrophysiker aus Einsteins Ideen gemacht haben. | ||
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Wednesday, 09.11.2005 |
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| Active Galactic Nuclei (Chair: Maarten Schmidt) | |||
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09:00 - 09:35
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Hagai Netzer: Black hole mass and growth rate and metal enrichment at high redshift (invited) |
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09:35 - 10:00
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Klaus Meisenheimer: Resolving the Dust Tori in AGN with the VLT Interferometer |
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10:00 - 10:25
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Jamie Crummy: An explanation for the soft X-ray excess in quasars |
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10:25 - 10:55
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
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10:55 - 11:20
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Niel Brandt: First Results from the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South Survey |
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11:20 - 11:45
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Marcella Brusa: NH distribution of the AGN in the COSMOS/XMM survey |
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11:45 - 12:10
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Andrea Comastri: Relativistic iron lines at high redshifts |
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12:10 - 12:35
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Andrei Lobanov: Nuclear activity in galaxies driven by supermassive binary black holes |
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Excursion (free Wednesday afternoon) |
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Thursday, 10.11.2005 |
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Clusters of Galaxies (Chair: Peter Schneider) |
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09:00 - 09:25
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Andy Fabian: AGN feedback in clusters and galaxies |
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09:25 - 09:50
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Eugene Churazov: Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies: Switching from Very Bright to Very Dim |
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09:50 - 10:15
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Bill Forman: Reflections of AGN Outbursts in the Gaseous Atmospheres of M87 |
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10:15 - 10:40
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Sabine Schindler: Metal Enrichment Processes in the Intra-Cluster Medium |
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10:40 - 11:10
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
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11:10 - 11:35
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Hans Boehringer: Cosmological Tests with X-ray galaxy Clusters |
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11:35 - 12:00
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Thomas Reiprich: Studying the Nature of Dark Energy with Galaxy Clusters |
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12:00 - 12:25
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Wolfgang Kausch: The ARCRAIDER Project: A unique sample of X-ray bright, massive gravitational lensing galaxy clusters |
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12:25 - 12:50
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Gerard Williger: 24 Micron Imaging of a z=2.38 Filament |
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12:50 - 14:00
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Lunch Break | ||
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Gamma-Ray Bursts (Chair: Stefanie Komossa) |
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14:00 - 14:35
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Neil Gehrels: Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries by Swift (invited) |
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14:35 - 15:00
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Lorenzo Amati: The correlation between nFn peak energy and radiated energy in Gamma--Ray Bursts |
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15:00 - 15:25
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Henk Spruit: Short Gamma-ray Bursts from X-ray Binaries |
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15:25 - 15:55
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
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15:55 - 16:20
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Kenichiro Nakazato: Gravitational Collapse and Neutrino Emission of Population III Massive Stars |
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16:20 - 16:45
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Remo Ruffini: Baryonic loading and e+e- rate equation in GRB sources |
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16:45 - 17:10
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Tadayuki Takahashi: Status of the Suzaku Mission | ||
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17:10 - 17:35
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Karl Mannheim: The Extragalactic Background above GeV Energies - HBLs or Dark Matter? | ||
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17:35 - 18:00
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Free for a surprise talk |
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Friday, 11.11.2005 |
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X-ray Binaries, Jets (Chair: Laura Maraschi) |
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09:00 - 09:35
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Felix Mirabel: Microquasars (invited) |
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09:35 - 10:00
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Tomaso Belloni: Accretion and relativistic jets in galactic microquasars |
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10:00 - 10:25
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Marek Abramovicz: QPOs: Einstein's gravity non-linear resonances |
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10:25 - 10:55
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Coffee Break and Poster Viewing |
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10:55 - 11:20
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Max Camendzind: 30 Years of Blandford-Znajek Process: are Jets Driven by the Ergosphere |
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11:20 - 11:45
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Shinji Koide: General Relativistic Simulations of Jet Formation in a Kerr Black Hole Magnetosphere |
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11:45 - 12:10
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Herman Marshall: Modelling the Relativistic Jets in SS 433 Using Chandra X-ray Spectroscopy |
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12:10 - 12:35
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Anton Zensus: Extragalactic relativistic jets and nuclear regions in galaxies |
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12:35 - 14:00
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Lunch Break |
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| Wrap-up | |||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Roger Blandford: Conference Summary | ||
| End of Conference | |||