HEAD15 Meeting

Overview

HEAD 15
Annual Meeting for High Energy Astrophysics Division
Naples, FL
3 – 7 April 2016
The 15th HEAD meeting was held 3-7 April 2016 in Naples, Florida.


The 15th HEAD meeting was held 3-7 April 2016 in Naples, Florida.

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Special Sessions

Missing Baryons and the Hot Halo of the Milky Way
Phillip Kaaret

The Physics of Accretion Disks – A Joint HEAD/LAD Session
Daniel Savin

Science of X-ray Polarimetry in the 21st Century
Keith Jahoda

Time Domain Astronomy
Neil Gehrels

TeraGauss, Gigatons, and MegaKelvin: Theory and observations of accretion column physics
Rick Rothschild

The Structure of the Inner Accretion Flow of Stellar-Mass and Supermassive Black Holes
Janie Hoormann, Banafsheh Beheshtipour

Early Returns from the Astro-H Mission
Rob Petre

Gravitational Waves
Guido Mueller

Solar Wind Charge Exchange: Measurements and Models
K.D. Kuntz

The Unique Role of Very High Energy Observations in Multi-wavelength Astronomy
Valerie Connaughton

Feedback from Accreting Binaries in Cosmological Scales
Andreas Zezas
 

Town Halls

NuSTAR Town Hall
Monday, 4 April 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

GammaSIG Town Hall
Monday, 4 April 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm

PCOS Town Hall
Tuesday, 5 April 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

X-ray Sig Town Hall
Tuesday, 5 April 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
 

Events

Opening Reception
Sunday, 3 April 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Banquet
Wednesday, 6 April 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm (registration required)