Overview

The 16th HEAD meeting was held 20-24 August 2017 in Sun Valley, Idaho.

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Events

Sunday, 20 August

• 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Public Talk by Rachel Osten
• 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: Opening Reception
• 8:30 pm - 9:30 pm: Film Screening - Black Suns: An Astrophysics Adventure

Monday, 21 August

• 9:30 am - 1:00 pm: Eclipse Viewing
• 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm: X-ray SIG Meeting

Tuesday, 22 August

• 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: PCOS Town Hall
• 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm: Banquet

Thursday, 24 August

• 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Gamma-ray SIG Town Hall
• 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm: Closing Reception

Invited Speakers

• Public Talk – Sunday, 20 August
  Rachel Osten, STScI
• 2017 HEAD Mid-Career Prize – Tuesday, 22 August
  Jon Miller, University of Michigan
• 2017 HEAD Dissertation Prize – Wednesday, 23 August
  Eric Coughlin, University of California, Berkeley
• Plenary Talk – Thursday, 24 August
  David Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz

Special Sessions

• First Results from NICER: X-ray Astrophysics from the International Space Station
  Keith Gendreau and Zaven Arzoumanian
• Synergies with the Millihertz Gravitational Wave Universe
  Ira Thorpe
• The First Black Holes in the Universe
  Zoltan Haiman
• The Very High Energy Universe as Viewed with VERITAS and HAWC
  Reshmi Mukherjee
• From Stars to Accretion Disks: Why Are Coronae So Hot?
  Jeremy Schnittman
• The Future of Spectral-Timing of Compact Objects
  Erin Kara
• Cosmic Ray Feedback: From Supernova Remnants to Galaxy Clusters
  Mateusz Ruszkowski
• AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
  Joseph Silk
• High-Energy and Multiwavelength Polarimetry: Current Status and New Frontiers
  John Tomsick and Henric Krawczynski
• ULX Pulsars
  Fiona Harrison
• Advances in Bayesian Astrostatistics: Applications to High-Energy Astrophysics
  Aneta Siemiginowska
• Diagnosing Astrophysics of Collisional Plasmas – A Joint HEAD/LAD Session
  Randall Smith