The advent of a new generation of X-ray polarimeters, to be combined with large area X-ray telescopes, has renewed interests in the X-ray polarimetry, as demonstrated by the several polarimetric missions recently proposed. The possibility to have a X-ray polarimetric mission operating in the near future is indeed concrete, not forgetting that a polarimeter is one of the focal plane instruments of IXO.

After more than four years from the last X-ray Polarimetry workshop (February 2004), we believe it is time to organize a conference with the aim of discussing the present status and perspectives of instruments as well as to review and discuss the theoretical models. We would like not only to gather the community actively involved in X-ray polarimetry (both on the instrumental and theoretical sides), but also and foremost to stimulate the interest in a wider community, which so far was relatively uninterested because of the lack of observational perspectives.

X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop

Jointly organized by the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC), NASA/GSFC Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

held at SLAC, Stanford, California, 9-11 February 2004

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/polar/polar.html

Date

 April 27^th - 30^th, 2009

Location

Center for American Studies
32, via Michelangelo Caetani
00186 Roma