FOCUSING TELESCOPES IN NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

Program

Monday 12 September
9h00	Registration
	Morning Chaiperson : Mark LEISING
	9h30	Peter VON BALLMOOS CESR Toulouse	Introduction and Welcome
	9h40	Jürgen KNOEDLSEDER CESR Toulouse	Prospects in space-based Gamma-Ray Astronomy
	10h10	Sergey SAZONOV MPI Garching	Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy
	10h40	Richard GRIFFITHS Carnegie Mellon University	AGN at High Energy and the Prospects for 511 keV annihilation lines
11h10	Coffee break
	11h40	Pierre BASTIE LSP, St Martin d'Hères	The Basic Principles of crystal diffraction
	12h10	Hubert HALLOIN MPE Garching	Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics : physics basis and simulations
	12h40	Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	Hard X-ray optics based on Bragg reflection from mosaic crystals: a review
13h00	End of Session
	Afternoon chaiperson : Fiona HARRISON
	17h00	Brian RAMSEY Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville	Replicated Nickel Optics for the Hard-X-Ray Region
	17h30	Carsten JENSEN Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	Small d-spacing WC/SIC multilayers for future hard x-ray telescope designs
	17h50	Ernst-Jan BUIS Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	On and Off-Axis Response of Grazing Gamma-Ray Optics
	18h10	Melville ULMER Northwestern University, Evanston	Progress Toward Light Wright High Angular Resolution Multilayer Coated Optics
18h30	Coffee break
	19h00	Paolo GIOMMI & S. COLAFRANCESCO ASI Science Data Center / INAF Frascati/Roma	Non-termal Cosmic Backgrounds from Blazars. Cosmological impact of gamma-ray observations of point-like and diffuse extragalactic sources.
	19h30	Andrea COMASTRI INAF, Osservat. Astronomico di Bologna	The sources of the hard X-ray / gamma-ray backgrounds
20h00	End of Session

Program List of abstracts

Tuesday 13 September
	Morning chaiperson : Pietro UBERTINI
	9h00	Didier BARRET CESR Toulouse	Focusing on X-ray binaries and microquasars
	9h30	Mark LEISING Clemson University	Focusing on Supernovae
	10h00	Margarida HERNANZ IEEC Barcelona	Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: prospects for their observation with focusing telescopes
	10h30	David SMITH Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics	Puzzles and Potential for Gamma-ray Line Observations of Solar Flare Ion Acceleration
11h00	Coffee break
	11h30	Nikolaï ABROSIMOV Institut für Kristallzünchtung, Berlin	Mosaic and Gradient Single Crystals for Gamma ray Laue Lenses
	12h00	Bob SMITHER Argonnel Natl. Laboratories, Chicago	High Diffraction Efficiency, Broadband Diffraction Crystals
12h30	End of Session
	Afternoon chaiperson : Gerry SKINNER
	14h00	Pietro UBERTINI IASF Roma	The INTEGRAL - HESS connection: a new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV
	14h30	Jean-François OLIVE CESR, Toulouse	Focusing on Pulsars
15h00	Coffee break
	15h30	Niels LUND Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	Imaging with Laue Optics
	16h00	Alessandro PISA INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (>60 keV)
	16h20	Pierre COURTOIS Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble	Copper Mosaic Crystals for Laue Lens
	16h40	Dante ROA University of California, Irvine	Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for nuclear diagnostic medicine
17h00	End of session
17h30	departure for Conference Dinner ("capitainerie", n°3 on the map, at the port of Bonifacio)

Program List of abstracts

Wednesday 14 September
	Morning chaiperson : Niels LUND
	9h00	Fionna HARRISON Caltech, Pasadena	The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
	9h30	Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission
	9h50	Fillipo FRONTERA INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	HAXTEL: a Laue lens telescope for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray (>60 keV) sky
	10h10	Peter VON BALLMOOS CESR, Toulouse	CLAIRE : First Light of a Crystal Diffraction Lens
	10h30	Nicolas BARRIERE CESR, Toulouse	MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics
	10h50	Nicola RANDO Science Payload & Adv. Concepts Office	The Gamma Ray Lens : An ESA technology reference study
11h20	Coffee break
	11h50	Jacques BORDE ASTRIUM, Toulouse	Small-sat Platforms and Formation Flying :an opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX
	12h10	Emmanuel HINGLAIS CNES, Toulouse	Distributed space segment architectures for high energy astrophysic: Similarities and specificities
	12h30	Rodolphe CLEDASSOU CNES, Toulouse	The Formation Flying mission SIMBOL-X
	12h50	Paul DUCHON CNES, Toulouse	MAX Formation Flying for nuclear astrophysics
	13h10	Michel SGHEDONI - Bertrand HUET Alcatel Alenia Space, Cannes	Recent Advances and Low cost concept for the Gamma-Ray Lens Project MAX
13h30	End of session

Program List of abstracts

Thursday 15 September
	Morning chaiperson : Fillipo FRONTERA
	9h00	Tadayuki TAKAHASHI ISAS, Kanagawa	High Sensitivity Si/CdTe Compton Telescope
	9h30	Ezio CAROLI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna	Polarisation performances of CdTe pixel detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telescopes
	9h50	Mauro QUADRINI INAF, IASF Sez Occhialini Milano	Solid state detectors for Gamma Ray Telescope Application
	10h10	Ernst Jan BUIS Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions
10h30	Coffee break
	10h50	Gerry SKINNER CESR, Toulouse	Fresnel Lenses - why not ?
	11h20	John KRIZMANIC USRA/NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt	X-ray Imaging Performance of a Phase Fresnel Lens
	11h50	Giovanni PARESCHI INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	Calibration of hard X-ray (15 50 keV) optics at the MPE test facility PANTER
	12h10	Gianluca LOFFREDO INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes
12h10	End of session
	Afternoon chaiperson : Brian RAMSEY
	14h30	Cornelia WUNDERER Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Performance of dedicated Ge Strip Compton Telescopes as gamma-Lens Focal Plane Instrumentation
	14h50	Georg WEIDENSPOINTNER CESR, Toulouse	Monte Carlo Study of Detector Concepts for the MAX Laue Lens Gamma-Ray Telescope
	15h10	Cornelia WUNDERER / Steve BOGGS Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope
	15h30	Laurent KOECHLIN OMP, Toulouse	Multiwavelenght Focusing with the Sun as Gravitational Lens
	15h50	Giovanni BIGNAMI CESR, Toulouse	Gamma-rays and cosmic visions
	16h20	Peter VON BALLMOOS CESR, Toulouse	Conclusion
16h30	End of workshop

Program List of abstracts

Update : Septembre 8th, 2005
Questions and comments : Peter von Ballmoos