Conference program
Please leave room for 5-10 mins of questions/discussion in your talk!  
Monday
12:30 Registration
13:30WelcomeMagnus Axelsson/Mark Pearce
Session chair: Mark Pearce
13:45 Martin WeisskopfX-ray Polarimetry: from the early days to an outlook for the future
14:25 Jean-Pierre RoquesINTEGRAL/SPI results
14:50 Diego GötzINTEGRAL/IBIS results on gamma-ray polarization
15:15 COFFEE
15:45 Andrzej ZdziarskiJets in black hole binaries
16:25 Giorgio MattMeasuring the black hole spin with X-ray polarimetry
16:50 Daniela BonevaSources of X-ray polarization in accreting binary stars
17:15 End of day
17:30Welcome reception
 
Tuesday
Session chair: Enrico Costa
09:15 Hua FengPrograms of X-ray polarimetry in China
09:55 Hirokazu OdakaX-ray and gamma-ray polarimetry with ASTRO-H
10:20 Biswajit PaulThomson X-ray Polarimetry for a Small Satellite Mission
10:45 COFFEE
11:15 Francesco TamborraThe perspectives of X-ray polarimetry on accreting systems
11:40 Michal DovciakX-ray polarization in the lamp-post model of non-smooth black hole accretion disks
12:05 Lachezar FilipovPolarized radiation from accretion disks-drive indicator processes
12:30 LUNCH
Session chair: Martin Weisskopf
14:30 Fabian KislatThe X-ray Polarimeter X-Calibur
15:10 Paolo SoffittaX-ray polarimetry with the Gas Pixel Detector
15:35 Tim KallmanGEMS Instrument Performance and Science
16:00 COFFEE
16:30 Brian RamseyIXPE - the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer
16:55 Mark PearcePreliminary results from PoGOLite
17:35 End of day
 
Wednesday
Session chair: Valentina Zharkova
09:15 Nicolas ProduitPOLAR
09:40 Fabio MuleriOff-axis response of Compton and photoelectric polarimeters with a large field of view
10:05 Denis BernardHARPO: gamma-ray polarimetry for astrophysics - a window about to open?
10:30 COFFEE
11:00 Daisuke YonetokuStudy of prompt emission mechanism by the gamma-ray polarization with IKAROS-GAP
11:40 Rob PreeceGRB Spectroscopy: Clues for Magnetization
12:05 Christoffer LundmanPolarized emission from the GRB photosphere
12:30 LUNCH
Session chair: Juri Poutanen
14:00 René GoosmannPolarimetry of Active Galactic Nuclei from the infrared to the X-ray range
14:25 Frédéric MarinConstraining the layout of circumnuclear clouds with respect to the supermassive black hole in the Galactic center: outlook of X-ray polarimetry
14:50 Bindu RaniOrphan X-ray flares in blazars
15:15 COFFEE
15:45 Roberto TavernaProbing magnetars magnetosphere through X-ray polarization measurements
16:10 Anatoli IyudinPolarization measurements at X- and gamma-ray energies: expectation of emission models clarification?, or, of just another confusion?!
16:35 Alexandre PayezPolarisation from axion-photon mixing and the relevance of X-ray polarimetry
17:00 Discussion
17:20 End of session
19:15 Conference dinner
 
Thursday
Session chair: Elena Moretti
09:30 Valentina ZharkovaX-ray polarimetry of solar flares
10:10 Atsushi TakadaImaging polarization measurement above 100keV with a wide field view by electron tracking compton camera
10:35 Santosh VadawaleProspects of hard X-ray polarization measurements with Astrosat-CZTI
11:00 COFFEE
11:30 Enrico CostaX-ray polarimetry: what next?
12:10 Closing remarks
12:20 End of conference
15:30 Guided tour of Nobel Museum in Old Town (for those who wish - cost is 100 SEK/person)

Participants

Denis Bernard (LLR, Ecole Polytechnique & CNRS/IN2P3)
Daniela Boneva (Space Research and Technology Institute, Sofia)
J. Michael Burgess (KTH)
Sofia Cerón (KTH)
Maxime Chauvin (KTH)
Enrico Costa (IAPS-INAF Rome)
Michal Dovciak (Astronomical Institute AS CR, Prague)
Hua Feng (Tsinghua University)
Lachezar Filipov Space and Technology Research Institute)
René Goosmann (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)
Diego Götz CEA Saclay - Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique)
Jochen Greiner (MPE)
Anatoli Iyudin (Moscow State University)
Tim Kallman (NASA/GSFC)
Fabian Kislat (Washington University in St. Louis)
Mózsi Kiss (KTH)
Merlin Kole (KTH)
Josefin Larsson (KTH)
Stefan Larsson (Stockholm University)
Christoffer Lundman (KTH)
Radoslaw Marcinkowski (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
Frédéric Marin (Astronomical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
Giorgio Matt (Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre)
Viktor Mikhalev (KTH)
Elena Moretti (TUM)
Fabio Muleri (INAF-IAPS)
Hirokazu Odaka (ISAS/JAXA)
Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore)
Alexandre Payez (DESY, Hamburg)
Mark Pearce (KTH)
Patryk Pjanka (University of Warsaw)
Juri Poutanen (University of Turku)
Robert Preece (University of Alabama Huntsville)
Nicolas Produit (ISDC, Data Centre for Astrophysics)
Brian Ramsey (NASA/MSFC)
Bindu Rani (MPIfR)
Jean-Pierre Roques (CNRS/IRAP)
Felix Ryde (KTH)
Paolo Soffitta (IAPS/INAF)
Daniel Stern (JPL/Caltech)
Atsushi Takada (Kyoto University)
Hiromitsu Takahashi (Hiroshima University)
Francesco Tamborra (Astronomical Observatory of Strasbourg)
Roberto Taverna (Department of Physics and Astronomy - University of Padova)
Santosh Vadawale (Physical Research Laboratory, India)
Martin C. Weisskopf (NASA/NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center)
Daisuke Yonetoku (Kanazawa University)
Andrzej Zdziarski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
Valentina Zharkova (Northumbria University)