Monday, 23th May 2016 (afternoon)

16h00 – 18h00: Pre-registration (Committee room)

 
Tuesday, 24th May 2016 (morning)
09h30 – 10h30: Arrival and registration
10h30 – 11h00: Conference opening speeches

11h00 – 12h40: INTRODUCTORY SESSION
11h00 – 11h10: Session opening and welcome by the XIPE P. I. (P. Soffitta)
11h10 – 11h40: The brief but long history of X-ray polarimetry (M. Weisskopf, invited)
11h40 – 12h10: State-of-the-art instrumentation for X-ray polarimetry (F. Muleri, invited)
12h10 – 12h40: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer mission (D. Lumb, invited)
12h40 – 14h30: Lunch break


Tuesday, 24th May 2016 (afternoon)

14h30 – 18h10: SESSION 1 - ACCELERATION MECHANISMS IN PWNe, EXTRAGALACTIC JETS, SNe AND GRBs
14h30 – 15h00: X-ray polarization and astrophysical particle accelerators (A. Marscher, invited)
15h00 – 15h30: Overview of the science case of WG 1 - Part I (J. Vink)
15h30 – 16h00: Overview of the science case of WG 1 - Part II (G. Tagliaferri)
16h00 – 16h30: Coffee break and poster viewing
16h30 – 16h50: Polarization properties of PWNe (N. Bucciantini)
16h50 – 17h10: Multi-Band Optical Polarization of Selected Blazars (S. Jorstad)
17h10 – 17h30: Expected polarisation properties of radio-loud NL-Seyfert 1 galaxies (L. Foschini)
17h30 – 17h50: Numerical simulations of blazar polarization (P. Mimica)
17h50 – 18h10: Modeling polarized emission from relativistic outflows (T. Garrigoux)

Evening: Welcome cocktail at the Valencia Town Hall


Wednesday, 25th May 2016 (morning)

09h30 – 12h50: SESSION 2 - MAGNETIC FIELDS IN CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AND NEUTRON STAR SYSTEMS
09h30 – 10h00: X-ray polarization from magnetized compact objects (A. Beloborodov, invited)
10h00 – 10h30: Overview of the science case of WG 2 - Part I (A. Santangelo)
10h30 – 11h00: Overview of the science case of WG 2 - Part II (S. Zane)
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break and poster viewing
11h30 – 11h50: Polarisation properties of pulsars (R. Mignani)
11h50 – 12h10: What can we learn from magnetar observations? (P. Cerda-Duran)
12h10 – 12h30: Polarized emission from highly-magnetized neutron stars (R. Taverna)
12h30 – 12h50: Polarized thermal emission from X-ray dim isolated neutron stars (D. Gonzales)
12h30 – 14h30: Lunch break


Wednesday, 25th May 2016 (afternoon)

14h30 – 18h10: SESSION 3 – X-RAY POLARIZATION FROM SCATTERING IN AGNs AND THE GALACTIC CENTER
14h30 – 15h00: X-ray polarization due to scattering and reprocessing(R. Antonucci, invited)
15h00 – 15h30: Overview of the science case of WG 3 - Part I (R. Goosmann)
15h30 – 16h00: Overview of the science case of WG 3 - Part II (F. Marin)
16h00 – 16h30: Coffee break and poster viewing
16h30 – 16h50: Exploring the Properties of AGN Coronas with X-ray Polarimetric Observations (H. Krawczynski)
16h50 – 17h10: On the polarization signal produced by Comptonization in accreting sources (F. Tamborra)
17h10 – 17h30: Discovery of the optical polarization flare following the X-ray giant outburst of V0332+53 (A. Slowikowska)
17h30 – 17h50: Detecting and measuring variability in X-ray polarisation properties (A. Ingram)
17h50 – 18h10: Influence of a polarized primary source on the X-ray polarization resulting from disc reflection in AGN (M. Dovciak)

Evening: Social dinner (DOWNLOAD DETAILS)


Thursday, 26th May 2016 (morning)

09h30 – 11h30: SESSION 4 - X-RAY POLARIMETRY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS: QUANTUM ELECTRODYNAMICS, STRONG AND QUANTUM GRAVITY, EXOTIC PARTICLES
09h30 – 10h00: X-ray polarimetry at the interface between astrophysics and fundamental physics (J. Heyl, invited)
10h00 – 10h30: Overview of the science case of WG 4 - Part I (G. Matt)
10h30 – 11h00: Overview of the science case of WG 4 - Part II (E. Costa)
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break and poster viewing


11h30 – 13h10: FINAL SESSION – SIMULATIONS, OTHER PROJECTS IN X-RAY POLARIMETRY AND CONCLUSIONS
11h30 – 11h50: XIPE Simulation tools (M. Pesce-Rollins, invited)
11h50 – 12h10: Ximpol: an X-ray polarimetry observation-simulation and analysis framework (L. Baldini)
12h10 – 12h30: Soft X-ray Polarimetry to Complement XIPE (H. Marshall)
12h30 – 12h50: Conference summary and closure – The future of X-ray polarimetry (P. Soffitta)

 

Poster session during all coffee breaks

P. Blay - Multiband polarimetry of X-Ray Binary systems

A.M.Bykov and Yu.A.Uvarov - Polarized synchrotron X-ray emission from supernova shells

F. Capitanio - An observation strategy for transient X-ray binaries with Xipe

P. Connell - Simulating the Gas Pixel Detector of XIPE with LEPTRACK

N. Di Lalla - A Chandra-to-XIPE converter to assess the XIPE sensitivity for extended sources

J. Escada - Gas mixture optimization for XIPE mission focal plane GPDs

L. Foschini - Quantum gravity studies with XIPE

J. Navarro Gonzalez - Hot gas in galaxy cluster and its full velocity field

A. Marinucci - A XIPE observing program for Compton-thick AGN

E. Massaro - A model for the X-ray polarization of the Crab Pulsar

L. Ji - Polarization properties during the rising phase of type-I bursts in LMXBs

H. Stiele - Energy dependence of variability and accretion geometry in black hole low mass X-ray binaries

A. Tortosa - X-ray emitting coronae in AGN: present status and perspectives for XIPE

M. Zajacek - Polarization properties of neutron star population in the Galactic center region

S. Zhang - Accretion X-ray ms pulsar as a possible probe of NS EOS