HEAD16 Meeting
Overview
HEAD
16
Annual Meeting for High Energy Astrophysics Division
Sun Valley, ID
20
–
24 August 2017

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