2006: Relativistic Universe

3rd Annual German-Japanese Colloquium

Jointly organized by JSPS and MPE

Date: February 27 – March 1, 2006
Venue: Wildbad Kreuth

PROGRAM

February 27th: Galactic Sources

13:50 Welcome address
• Y. Tanaka
• G. Hasinger
14:00 Review: The Galactic Center: The Nearest Laboratory for Studying Supermassive Black Holes
F. Eisenhauer
14:45 Galactic Center
Y. Maeda
15:15 Extended X-ray Emission in the Galactic Center
P. Predehl
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Review: Galactic Ridge
K. Ebisawa
17:00 Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission: Puzzle Solved
M. Revnivtsev
17:30 CVs
M. Ishida

February 28th: Galactic Sources, GRBs, AGN

09:00 Review: GRBs (with SWIFT)
N. Kawai
09:45 INTEGRAL Highlights on GRBs
A. von Kienlin
10:15 Emission Components in the X-ray Binaries
T. Dotani
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 High-Energy Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs
Th. Rauch
11:45 X-ray Diagnostics of the Acceleration Process in SNRs
A. Bamba
12:15  Lunch
14:00 BHs and ULXs
A. Kubota
14:30 Review: HESS Highlights
S. Wagner
15:15 Starburst Galaxies
T. Tsuru
15:45 Coffee Break
16:15 Review: Emission-Line Regions in AGN and BH Masses
W. Kollatschny
17:00 Rapid-X-ray Spectral Variability in NGC4395
K. Iwasawa
17:30 Radio-loud NL Type I Quasars and the Radio-Loud Radio-Quiet Bimodality of AGN
S. Komossa

March 1st: AGN, Clusters, Surveys, Instrumentation

09:00 Review: Non-Thermal Phenomena and NeXT
T. Takahashi
09:45 Present and Future Opportunities for Multi-wavelength Observations from the Point of X-ray Astronomy
T. Boller
10:15 AGN with SWIFT
M. Ajello
10:45 Coffee Break
11:15 Review: The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in the Universe
G. Hasinger
12:00 The X-ray Background: Remaining Issues
Y. Ueda
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Highlights from the GEMS Project
L. Wisotzki
14:30 Exploring the Scaling Relations of the REFLEX-DXL Galaxy Clusters at z~0.3
Y. Zhang
15:00 Review: WHIM (and Calorimeters)
R. Fujimoto
15:45 Coffee Break
16:55 Detectors
E. Miyata
17:25 (Detectors of) eROSITA
N. Meidinger