Exploring the Extreme Universe Symposium: Preliminary Programme
Day 1: Tuesday July 6
Introductory session
The Vice Chancellor	Welcome
Ken Pounds	The 50 yr anniversary
1: The Galaxy and its source populations
Bob Warwick	Galactic X-ray surveys: from then to now
Jurgen Schmitt	X-ray studies of stellar populations
Martin Barstow	The ubiquity of white dwarf stars
Andy Norton	Variable Star Surveys from the EXOSAT Galactic Plane Scan to SuperWASP and beyond...
2: The low-redshift Universe
Tim Roberts	Ultra-luminous x-ray sources
Andreas Zezas	Starburst galaxies
Richard Mushotzky	AGN in the Local Universe
Martin Ward	AGN: a multi-wavelength perspective
3: The high-redshift Universe
Andrew Blain	An infrared perspective
Alastair Edge	X-ray surveys of clusters of galaxies - past, present and future
Guenther Hasinger	X-ray surveys: a historical perspective
Xavier Barcons	Riders of the lost baryons
Day 2: Wednesday July 7
4: Accretion power in binaries (parallel with session 4P)
Phil Charles	Multi-wavelength studies of X-ray binaries
Rob Fender	Is there any evidence for spin powering of jets from black holes ?
Pete Wheatley	Cataclysmic variables
Chris Done	Constraining accretion models
5: Accretion power in AGN (parallel with session 5P)
Jane Turner	X-ray signatures of circumnuclear gas in AGN
Tahir Yaqoob	X-ray Spectroscopy of Compton-thick AGN and the Infra-Red Connection
Ian McHardy	Insight from timing measurements
Ioannis Georgantopoulos	X-ray and IR methods for the detection of Compton-thick AGNs in deep fields
4P: Technological frontiers I (parallel with session 4)
George Fraser	Wide field X-ray optics
Alan Smith	Enabling technologies for X-ray Astronomy
Andrew Holland	The IXO grating spectrometer
Piet De Korte	Cryogenic detectors
5P: Technological frontiers II (parallel with session 5)
Dick Willingale	X-ray interferometry
Joe Hill	Mission concepts for a time-projection polarimeter
Richard West	SuperWasp: exoplanet detection and the data mining challenge
6: Outflows and feedback
James Reeves	Iron lines and High Velocity Outflows in AGN
Andy Fabian	Outflows and feedback
Paul Nandra	AGN and galaxy co-evolution
Andrew King	Outflows, Black Holes and Galaxies
7: Gamma-ray bursts
Neil Gehrels	GRBs in the Swift era
Andrew Levan	The host galaxies of GRBs
Olivier Godet	The SVOM GRB mission
Day 3: Thursday July 8
8: High energy missions I
KP Singh	Astrosat
Peter Predehl	Surveying the sky with eROSITA
Takaya Ohashi	The ASTRO-H Mission
9: High energy missions II
Dave Lumb	IXO
Josh Grindlay	EXIST and hard X-ray perspectives
Luigi Piro	Future Italian High Energy Astrophysics Missions
10: Future perspectives
Jim Hinton	The high energy frontier
Richard Griffiths	Dark energy surveys
Andrew Lawrence	Large area ground and space-based surveys
Martin Elvis	Plan B: Another type of X-ray Astronomy Program
11: Retrospectives of the last 50 years
Roger Cooper	The Sounding Rocket Era (video)
Nick White	The 1970s and 1980s ...
Yasuo Tanaka	The Ginga collaboration and its scientific highlights
Joachim Trumper	Looking back at ROSAT
Alan Wells	Life cycles of space instruments - 30 years from cradle to grave
Ken Pounds	Ken did not show his summary slides due to lack of time, but did show this video [courtesy the Midlands Archive for Central England (MACE; http://www.macearchive.org/)]
End of Symposium