2007 Xiang Shan Workshop

Deep spectroscopy and modeling of emission line nebulae

Xiang Shan, Beijing, April 16 - 18 2007

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The workshop will be held from April 16 - 18, 2007 at Wo Fo Shan Zhuang (Villa of Recumbent Buddha) inside the Beijing Botanic Garden by Xiang Shan (Fragrant Hills), about 6 kilometers from the campus of Peking University.

We can accommodate a total of about 30 participants and aim to cover the following topics:

1. Interpretation of 2D and 3D deep spectroscopy of Galactic and extragalactic planetary nebulae and H II regions at all wavebands, from the X-ray to the infrared
2. Atomic data and diagnostics
3. 1D and 3D photoionization modeling

We are also taking the opportunity of the meeting to mark the recent retirement from University College London of Professor Pete Storey, much of whose research has focussed on these topics.

Talks of short periods (15-20 mins) will be arranged around a number of themes, followed by free discussion. Potential themes include:

1) Unresolved issues affecting the interpretation of nebular spectra
2) HII regions, HII galaxies and planetary nebulae: similarities and differences
3) Deep spectroscopy: advantages and challenges for different spectral regions
4) 3D spectroscopy and 3D modelling
5) Forbidden line and recombination line abundances
6) Abundance determinations in the absence of electron temperature diagnostics
7) Atomic data: reliability and future needs for photoionization, recombination, collisional and charge exchange data
8) Temperature fluctuations, origins and effects
9) Clumps: direct and indirect evidence; new probes for their presence?
10) Modelling: effects of clumps and multiple exciting sources on the structure and spectra of nebulae

Comments and suggestions are welcome to amend items to the list.

Participants

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Name	Institute	E-mail address

Mike Barlow	University College London, UK	mjb[put at here]star.ucl.ac.uk

Manuel Bautista	Centro de Fisica, IVIC, Venezuela	bautista[put at here]kant.ivic.ve

Jeronimo Bernard-Salas	Cornell University, USA	jbs[put at here]isc.astro.cornell.edu

Gregory Brunner	Rice University, USA	gbrunner[put at here]rice.edu

John Danziger	Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, INAF, Italy	danziger[put at here]oats.inaf.it

Reginald James Dufour	Rice University, USA	rjd[put at here]rice.edu

Barbara Ercolano	Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, USA	bercolano[put at here]head.cfa.harvard.edu

Cesar Esteban	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain	cel[put at here]iac.es

Katrina Exter	Space Telescope Science Institute, USA	kexter[put at here]stsci.edu

Gary J. Ferland	University of Kentucky, USA	gary[put at here]pa.uky.edu

Jorge Garcia Rojas	Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain	jogarcia[put at here]iac.es

Patrick Harrington	University of Maryland, USA	jph[put at here]astro.umd.edu

Carolina Kehrig	Observatorio Nacional de Rio de Janeiro	kehrig[put at here]on.br

Sun Kwok	University of Hong Kong	sunkwok[put at here]hku.hk

Jia-ming Li	Shanghai Jiaotong University, P. R. China	lijm[put at here]sjtu.edu.cn

Xiao-wei Liu	Peking University, P. R China	liuxw[put at here]bac.pku.edu.cn

Francesca Matteucci	Trieste University, Italy	matteucci[put at here]ts.astro.it

Christophe Morisset	Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	morisset[put at here]astroscu.unam.mx

Miriam Pena	Univ. Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	miriam[put at here]astroscu.unam.mx

Daniel Pequignot	Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, France	Daniel.Pequignot[put at here]obspm.fr

Stuart Pottasch	Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Netherlands	pottasch[put at here]astro.rug.nl

Martin Matthias Roth	Astrophysikalisches Institut Potsdam, Germany	mmroth[put at here]aip.de

Robert H. Rubin	NASA/Ames Research Center, USA	rubin[put at here]cygnus.arc.nasa.gov

Grazyna Stasinska	Observatoire de Meudon	grazyna.stasinska[put at here]obspm.fr

Nick Sterling	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA.	sterling[put at here]milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov

Pete Storey	University College London, UK	pjs[put at here]star.ucl.ac.uk

Jose Manuel Vilchez	Instituto de Astrofısica de Andaluia, Spain	jvm[put at here]iaa.es

Jianmin Wang	Institute of High Energy Physics, China	wangjm[put at here]mail.ihep.ac.cn

Roger Wesson	University College London, UK	wesson[put at here]star.ucl.ac.uk

Robert Williams	Space Telescope Science Institute, USA	wms[put at here]stsci.edu

Yong Zhang	University of Hong Kong, P. R. China	zhangy[put at here]bac.pku.edu.cn

Visa information

Participants requiring assistance on entrance visa to China, please send the following infomation to bwaw[put at here]bac.pku.edu.cn. An official invitation letter for visa application will be sent to you.
1) Passport Number:
2) Issuance date & place:
3) Issuance authority:
4) Expiration date:
5) Nationality:
6) Date and place of birth:
7) Occupation and position:
8) Arrival and departure dates:
9) A short resume:

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Optical spectrum of NGC 7027 (Zhang et al. 2005)

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