Cooperative Program in Space Sciences (CPSS)
Speakers Bureau


CPSS's mission is to conduct space science research and leading-edge instrumentation development, enable research by the space science communities, and to expedite the effective dissemination of space science research, technology and data to the educational community.

As part of this mission, we provide a Speakers Bureau of staff scientists, working across the sweep of CPSS activities. Talk abstracts and speaker's contact details are viewable by clicking the title, while individual's CVs are available by clicking speaker's names. Departments interested in booking a talk for their colloquium/seminar series should contact the speaker directly.

X-ray Astronomy


Zaven Arzoumanian
  • It's All in the Timing
  • The Birth Properties of Neutron Stars
  • Robin Corbet
  • A Swarm of X-ray Pulsars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
  • Michael Corcoran
  • Eta Carinae: X-raying a Stellar Monster
  • Steve Drake
  • Coronae and Flares of Late-Type Stars: What New Results Have Chandra and XMM-Newton Observations Provided?
  • Magnetic Chemically Peculiar Stars: Do They Emit X-Rays?
  • Koji Mukai
  • X-ray Astronomy: Recent Highlights and Prospects
  • Chandra High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Cataclysmic Variables
  • Chris Shrader
  • The Unusual X-ray to Infrared Timing Properties of XTE J1118+480
  • Steve Snowden
  • The Hot Phase of the Galactic ISM
  • Martin Still
  • A Hotchpotch of Observations from the XMM-Newton Mission
  • Steve Sturner
  • RXTE Observation of Nonthermal X-ray Emission from IC 443
  • Gamma-ray Astronomy


    Robin Corbet
  • Could Gamma-Ray Bursts Lead us To ET?
  • Georg Weidenspointner
  • Shedding Light on the Dark Side of Low-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
  • The Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background
  • Yihua Zheng
  • A Radiation Belt Forecasting Model
  • Instrumentation


    Kai-Wing Chan
  • X-Ray Mirrors for the Astro-E2 Mission
  • Eric Christian
  • A Tiger in Antarctica
  • Hans Krimm
  • Swift: Catching Gamma Ray Bursts on the Fly
  • InFOCµS and the New Frontier of Scientific Ballooning
  • Yang Soong
  • Recent Advances in Segmented Thin-foil X-ray Optics
  • Organizers: Martin Still (still@gvsp.usra.edu) and David Holdridge (dhold@gvsp.usra.edu)


    Martin Still (still@gvsp.usra.edu), Last modified: Thu Aug 15 11:02:16 EDT 2002