Chandra Announcement: Invited Speakers, Closing of Poster Abstract Submission, and CIAO Hack Day

[Tingle, Evan]

Chandra's Dynamic Universe August 18–20, 2026 Cambridge, MA https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/cdu2026/ Invited Speakers, Closing of Poster Abstract Submission, and CIAO Hack Day  We are delighted to announce the invited speakers for the Chandra Science Workshop on Chandra’s Dynamic Universe to be held in Cambridge, MA USA from August 18-20, 2026:  Javier Garcia (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) Ehud Behar (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)  Tyler Holland-Ashford (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)  Wen-fai Fong (Northwestern University)  Peter G. Jonker (Radbound University)  Nayana AJ (University of California, Berkeley)  Andrew Mummery (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)  Riccardo Arcodia (Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University) Claudio Ricci (University of Geneva) Daniel Kocevski (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) Invited speakers will cover various topics including black holes, neutron stars, X-ray binaries, stellar physics and exoplanets, supernova remnants and planetary nebulae, Gamma-ray bursts, fast X-ray transients, supernovae and fast blue optical transients, active galactic nuclei, quasi-periodic eruptions, and tidal disruption events.  Please note that the last chance for contributing poster abstract submissions for the Chandra science workshop, “Chandra's Dynamic Universe,” is Thursday, June 18, 2026. All abstracts submitted by this deadline will be considered for poster presentations.  Please submit your poster abstracts at the following link: https://cxc.harvard.edu/cdo/cdu2026/abstsub.html Preceding the workshop is the first Chandra/CIAO Hack Day on Monday, August 17, 2026. Please bring your Chandra/CIAO data analysis questions, scripts, notebooks, or new analysis ideas to discuss with CXC experts.  Please register for the CIAO Hack Day by August 7, 2026 using this form:  https://forms.gle/EtAZ8FJKZnXNnBbn9 Important upcoming deadlines are: Poster Presentation Abstract Deadline June 18, 2026 Regular Registration Deadline July 10, 2026 CIAO Hack Day Registration Deadline August 7, 2026 Start of the Workshop August 18, 2026 If you have any questions or requests related to the workshop, please do not hesitate to contact us at cxcwo...@cfa.harvard.edu.