15th High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting Naples, Florida Sunday, 3 April :00 pm Registration, 3:00 pm 7:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker
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1 Sunday, 3 April :00 pm Registration, 3:00 pm 7:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker Ready, 3:00 pm 7:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 (back of room) 7:00 pm Opening Reception, 7:00 pm 8:30 pm, Vista Ballroom
2 Monday, 4 April :30 am Registration, 7:30 am 6:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker Ready Desk, 7:30 am 5:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 (back of room) 8:30 am 100 AGN I, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms 5 10:30 am 101 Galaxy Clusters, 10:30 am 12:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 12:00 pm Lunch Break, 12:00 pm 1:30 pm (on your own ) 12:30 pm 122 NuSTAR Town Hall, 12:30 pm 1:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 1:30 pm 102 Dissertation Prize Talk: Accretion driven outflows across the black hole mass scale, Ashley King (KIPAC/Stanford University), 1:30 pm 2:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 2:00 pm 103 Time Domain Astronomy, 2:00 pm 3:30 pm, Royal Palms Feedback from Accreting Binaries in Cosmological Scales, 2:00 pm 3:30 pm, Royal Palms 3 4:00 pm 105 Stellar Compact I, 4:00 pm 5:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 5:30 pm Happy Hour & Poster Viewing, 5:30 pm 6:30 pm, Orchid Ballroom 106 AGNs Poster Session 114 Isolated Nss Poster Session 107 Astroparticles, Cosmic Rays, and Neutrinos Poster Session 115 Laboratory Astrophysics and Data Analysis Poster Session 108 Cosmic Backgrounds and Deep Surveys Poster Session 116 Missions & Instruments Poster Session 109 Galactic Black Holes Poster Session 117 Solar and Stellar Poster Session 110 Galaxies and ISM Poster Session 118 Supernovae and Supernova Remnants Poster Session 111 Galaxy Clusters Poster Session 119 WDs & CVs Poster Session 112 Gamma Ray Bursts Poster Session 120 XRBs and Population Surveys Poster Session 113 Gravitational Waves Poster Session 7:00 pm 121 GammaSIG Town Hall, 7:00 pm 10:00 pm, Royal Palms 5
3 Tuesday, 5 April :00 am Registration, 8:00 am 5:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker Ready Desk, 8:00 am 5:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 (back of room) 8:30 am 200 Solar Wind Charge Exchange: Measurements and Models, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms TeraGauss, Gigatons, and MegaKelvin: Theory and Observations of Accretion Column Physics, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms 3 10:30 am 202 The Structure of the Inner Accretion Flow of Stellar Mass and Supermassive Black Holes, 10:30 am 12:00 pm, Royal Palms Missing Baryons and the Hot Halo of the Milky Way, 10:30 am 12:00 pm, Royal Palms 3 12:00 pm Lunch Break, 12:00 pm 1:30 pm (on your own ) 12:30 pm 204 PCOS Town Hall, 12:30 pm 1:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 1:30 pm 205 Plenary Talk: Observation of Gravitational Waves in Advanced LIGO, Laura Cadonati (Georgia Tech), 1:30 pm 2:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 2:00 pm 206 Early Results from Astro H, 2:00 pm 3:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 4:00 pm 207 Stellar Compact II, 4:00 pm 5:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 5:30 pm Happy Hour & Poster Viewing, 5:30 pm 6:30 pm, Orchid Ballroom 7:00 pm 208 X ray Sig Town Hall, 7:00 pm 10:00 pm, Royal Palms 5
4 Wednesday, 6 April :00 am Registration, 8:00 am 5:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker Ready Desk, 8:00 am 5:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 (back of room) 8:30 am 300 The Physics of Accretion Disks: A Joint HEAD/LAD Session, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms Gravitational Waves, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms 3 10:30 am 302 Missions & Instruments, 10:30 am 12:15 pm, Royal Palms 5 12:15 pm Lunch Break, 12:15 pm 1:30 pm (on your own ) 1:30 pm 303 Mid Career Prize Talk: In the Ring with Circinus X 1: A Three Round Struggle to Reveal its Secrets, Sebastian Heinz (Univ. of Wisconsin), 1:30 pm 2:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 2:00 pm 304 Science of X ray Polarimetry in the 21st Century, 2:00 pm 3:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 4:00 pm 306 SNR/GRB/Gravitational Waves, 4:00 pm 6:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 6:00 pm Happy Hour & Poster Viewing, 6:00 pm 6:30 pm, Orchid Ballroom 7:00 pm Banquet, 7:00 pm 8:30 pm, Sunset Veranda (registration required )
5 Thursday, 7 April :00 am 8:30 am 10:00 am 10:30 am 12:30 pm 1:30 pm 3:00 PM 15th High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting Registration, 8:00 am 12:00 pm, Royal Palms Foyer Speaker Ready Desk, 8:00 am 3:00 pm, Royal Palms 5 (back of room) 400 AGN II, 8:30 am 10:00 am, Royal Palms 5 Break, 10:00 am 10:30 am, Orchid Ballroom 401 The Unique Role of Very High Energy Observations in Multi Wavelength Astronomy, 10:30 am 12:30 pm, Royal Palms 5 Lunch Break, 12:30 pm 1:30 pm (on your own ) 402 Dark Matter, ISM, Galaxies, 1:30 pm 3:00 pm, Royal Palms Rapporteur Plenary Talk: 3:00 pm 3:30 pm, Royal Palms 5
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