Dates: March 22-24, 2000

As the pre-eminent large-area X-ray timing mission to date, NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has proven a powerful and highly flexible tool for studying the variability of the X-ray sky over  a wide range of time scales and X-ray energies.  In order to bring together a diverse mix of researchers working with RXTE data, we are pleased to announce "ROSSI 2000", a three day meeting to be held Wednesday through Friday, March 22-24, 2000, at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.  The meeting will focus on the wealth of rich new data 
collected from RXTE, which provides us a window into the physics of extreme gravity near neutron stars and black holes.  Our aim is to bring together observers and theorists studying both Galactic and extragalactic sources, to explore the connections between them in a broad astrophysical context.

Prospective attendees are encouraged to contact us via email with their name,  institution and a preliminary paper or abstract title. A second announcement with further details will be  posted here by late October. 

Contacts:

Tod Strohmayer (NASA/GSFC)  (email: rossi2000@lheamail.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT)
Rick Edelson (Leicester/UCLA)
(on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee)

Organizers: 

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, RXTE Users Group
 

Technical Rep: Eunice Eng, eunice.eng@gsfc.nasa.gov, (301)-286-6043