Division Meeting at the XXX General Assembly:

Vienna, Austria, 24 and 27 August 2018

President:

Chryssa Kouveliotou - George Washington University - Washington DC (USA)

Programme:

Abstract list for Div.D
Poster list for Div.D

Friday, 24. Aug.

Session 1
Division D - Business Meeting: State, Highlights and Issues
10:30 - C. Kouveliotou
11:00 - M. Branchesi
11:30 - A. Gal Yam

Session 2
13:30 - Shoemaker, David (Recent LIGO results on Gravitational Waves)
14:00 - Branchesi, Marica (GW170817: multi-messenger observations of a binary neutron star merger)
14:30 - Malesani, Daniele (Spectroscopic observations of the kilonova associated with GW170817)

Session 3
15:30 - Zhang, Shuang-Nan (HXMT Status and Highlights)
16:00 - Kramer, Michael (The Transient Radio Universe)
16:30 - Xiong, Shaolin (HXMT GW-EM counterparts & GECAM)
16:50 - Guan, Ju (HXMT Galactic scanning survey)
17:05 - Schwartz, Dan (Search for X-ray Beacons)
17:20 - Shi, ChangSheng (Superstrong B-fields of neutron stars in Be XRBs)
17:35 - Kawai, Nobuyuki (X-ray transients observed by MAXI)
17:50 - Shastri, Prajval (Multi-epoch observations of the Blazar 1ES2344+514 using ASTROSAT, GMRT, Fermi and WEBT)
18:05 - García, Beatriz (Pierre Auger highlights)

Monday, 27. Aug.

Session 4
10:30 - Weisskopf, Martin (IXPE)
11:00 - Tashiro, Makoto (XARM)
11:30 - Li, Di (FAST)

Session 5
13:30 - Pavlov, George (Pulsar & PWN Review)
14:00 - Gendreau, Keith (NICER Highlights)
14:30 - Lockman, Felix (Insights into the Fermi Bubbles from Neutral Hydrogen Observations)

Session 6
15:30 - Coughlin, Eric (IAU PhD Awardee; Failed Supernovae and Fallback Accretion)
16:00 - Voisin, Guillaume (IAU PhD Awardee: Quantum electrodynamics mechanisms in the pulsar magnetosphere: synchrocurvature radiation and γγ->e+e- pairs)
16:30 - Stiele, Holger (NuSTAR view of the central region of M31)
16:45 - Kang, Hyesung (Acceleration of Cosmic Ray Electrons at Shocks in Merging Galaxy Clusters)

Contact:
Chryssa Kouveliotou
ckouveliotou@email.gwu.edu