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Lynx Synergy Workshop
21-22 March 2017 Stanford Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA

The Lynx Synergy workshop was highlighted by a range of presentations and discussions throughout. In particular, the opening talks by Roger Blandford and Steve Kahn on “Science Questions for the 2030’s” and “Astronomy & Astrophysics in the 2030s”, respectively, were very informative and insightful. Slide presentations and/or video of the meeting are expected to be available in the near future.

21 March:
 09:00-09:15Welcome/Introduction/Logistics [R. Smith, R. Petre]
 09:15-10:45Science questions for the 2030's [R. Blandford, S. Kahn]
 10:45-11:00Break
 11:00-11:30Expected contemporaneous mission capabilities [R. Petre]
 11:30-12:00Mission level trades of representative targets [R. Smith]
 12:00-13:00Lunch
 13:00-16:00Synergy with mission-driving objectives [Chair: R. Petre]
 16:00-18:00Break into sub-groups [begin outlining and making task lists -
 figures needed, simulations needed, etc]
 19:00Dinner (TBD)
22 March:
 09:00-09:15Summary of Athena/ESO synergy meeting [A. Ptak]
 09:15-12:00Synergistic science objectives that drive mission parameters [R. Smith]
 Follow-ups of transient and multi-messenger events [B. Cenko]
 Structure of outflows vs. redshift [G. Tremblay]
 SKA, ALMA
 Binary black holes vs. size, redshift [M. Koss]
 ELT’s, JWST, LISA
 Dark Matter Characterization via Galaxy Structure [R. Smith]
 12:00-13:00Lunch
 13:00-14:00Archival synergies (HST, JWST, LSST, Chandra, ...) [TBD]
 Big data mining
 Are there Chandra observations we need right now for baselines?
 14:00-17:00Break into sub-groups, start writing draft sections & assigning action items
 17:00-18:00Wrap- up discussion: path forward and action items [R. Smith, R. Petre]