REGISTRATION | ABSTRACT SUBMISSION | PARTICIPANTS | PROGRAM | INFORMATION FOR SPEAKERS
LOFT SIMULATOR AND RESPONSE FILES | VENUE | ACCOMMODATION | PHOTO GROUP
LOFT, the Large Observatory For X-ray Timing, is a newly proposed space mission that will answer fundamental questions about the motion of matter orbiting close to the event horizon of a black hole, and the state of matter in neutron stars. LOFT was recently selected by ESA as one of the four M3 mission candidates that will compete for a launch opportunity at the start of the 2020s.
During this assessment phase we need to make a full study of the exciting science that could be done with such a telescope, and solidify the relationship between the science goals and the technical requirements.
To do this, and to solicit full involvement from the wider astronomical community in this opportunity, there will be a LOFT Science meeting on October 26-28 this year at the Science Park in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There will be a mix of invited reviews, contributed talks, and discussion sessions, to ensure that innovative science ideas get full exposure.
LOC | SOC | |
Anna Watts | Chair: Anna Watts, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Michiel van der Klis | Co-Chair: Luigi Stella, INAF-OA Roma, Italy | |
Rudy Wijnands | Co-Chair: Michiel van der Klis, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
Diego Altamirano | ||
Caroline D'Angelo | Didier Barret, IRAP, France | |
Nathalie Degenaar | Roger Blandford, Stanford University, USA | |
Daniela Huppenkothen | Enrico Bozzo, ISDC, Switzerland | |
Maithili Kalamkar | Joao Braga, INPE, Brazil | |
Peter Bult | Soren Brandt, DTU, Denmark | |
Deepto Chakrabarty, MIT, USA | ||
To contact the LOC | Andrew Fabian, Cambridge University, UK | |
please email | Marco Feroci, INAF-IASF Roma & INFN Tor Vergata, Italy | |
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | Jan-Willem den Herder, SRON, Netherlands | |
Margarita Hernanz, IEEC-CSIC Barcelona, Spain | ||
Rene Hudec, Prague Astron. Institute, Czech Republic | ||
Juhani Huovelin, University of Helsinki, Finland | ||
Peter Jonker, SRON, Netherlands | ||
Chryssa Kouveliotou, NASA MSFC, USA | ||
Cole Miller, University of Maryland, USA | ||
Nanda Rea, IEEC-CSIC Barcelona, Spain | ||
Andrea Santangelo, University of Tuebingen, Germany | ||
Tod Strohmayer, NASA GSFC, USA | ||
Rashid Sunyaev, MPA Garching, Germany and Space Research Institute, Russia | ||
Philip Uttley, University of Southampton, UK | ||
Andrea Vacchi, INFN Trieste, Italy | ||
Rudy Wijnands, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands | ||
Joern Wilms, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany | ||
Silvia Zane, MSSL, UK
Andrzej Zdziarski, Copenicus Astronomical Center, Poland
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