Scope of the meeting

This gives former trainees the opportunity to explain in a presentation what they are doing now and see what we are currently doing at ESAC regarding training, gives the new trainees some ideas of what one can do after the training, and allows everyone to do some networking and have a small party.

Since 2004 a trainee project has been carried out at ESAC where young scientists participate in a space project scientifically operated from the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC). Trainees from various universities and the ESA Young Graduate Trainee Programme are involved.

The trainees as of now have been from the following universities:

• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• University of Bonn (Germany)
• University of Tuebingen (Germany)
• University of Warwick (England)
• Technical University of Aachen (Germany)
• Institute of Technology, Linköping (Sweden)

In 2007 we had in addition students from the following places:

• Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
• Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy)
• University of Leicester (United Kingdom)
  
• Institute of Technology, Linköping (Sweden)
• University of Erlangen/Nuremberg (Germany)
  
• Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
• Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
  
• Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
  

Programme

Trainee in year	Participants	Topic	Institute
	Marcus Kirsch	Welcome	ESAC
2004	Jenny Carter	Solar Wind Charge Exchange	University of Leicester (UK)
2007	Beatriz Mingo	WHIMs along the line of sight to Markarian 421	Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
2007	Alicia Martinez	Using likelihood statistics as goodness-of-fit measures in X-ray astronomy	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
		coffee break
2006	Antonio M. Carrillo	Timing analysis of various pulsars using XMM-Newton	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2005	Isabel Caballero	Spectral and Timing analysis of the Be/X-ray binary A0535+26	University of Tuebingen (Germany)
2007	Harsit Patel	XMM-Newton Cross-Calibration	University of Leicester (UK)
2007	Jonathan Gimeno	Model PSF effects of pile-up on 3D	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2006	Laura Barragan	INTEGRAL spectra of Galactic Bulge sources	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2006	Pieter Jan Baeck	INTEGRAL Visualisation Tool & Explorer
2007	Celia Perez	A study of gamma-ray selected AGN with INTEGRAL	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2007	Martin Willitsch	Search for thermonuclear X-ray bursts in neutron star	Technische Universität Wien (Austria)
		lunch break
2004	Florencia Jimenez	Quasars at quite high redshift	Instituto de Física de Cantabria
2006	Nuria Fonseca	Multi-wavelength analysis with AGN	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2007	Pablo Cassatella	XMM-Newton Observation of 1ES 1615+061	Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy)
		coffee break
2006	Gustaf Winroth	Organic Semiconductors for Future Space Applications	UCL London
2007	Jose V. Hernandez	VO compliance of the Open Cluster Database	Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Spain)
2007	Adolfo Vazquez	Security Scripts for the Computer Support Group	Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
2007	Francisco Galindo	Age scales in open clusters: how far can we go?	Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain)
2005	Anne Wellbrock	Topside interactions with the Titan atmosphere	UCL London
2007	Manfred Hanke	The stellar wind in Vela X-1	Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
	Marcus Kirsch	Closing
		Conference Dinner

The meeting was organised by Marcus Kirsch (ESA) and sponsored by ESAC & INSA.