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IAU Symposium 290FEEDING COMPACT OBJECTS: Accretion on All Scales20 - 24 August 2012, Beijing, China |
Session 1: Monday Morning, 10:30-12:30, August 20; |
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| (Chair: Guenther Hasinger) | |||||||
| 10:30 | Tomaso Belloni Shuang-Nan Zhang |
Opening Remarks & Welcome Address | |||||
| 10:40 | Invited | Ramesh Narayan | Black Hole Spin, Accretion and Jets | ||||
| 11:10 | Felix Mirabel | Stellar Black Holes at the Dawn of the Universe | |||||
| 11:30 | Invited | Ronald Taam | The Formation and Evolution of Millisecond Pulsars in Binary Systems | ||||
| 12:00 | Invited | Christian Knigge | Cataclysmic Variables: Accretion, Outflows and Evolution | ||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
Session 2: Monday Afternoon, 14:00-15:30, August 20; |
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| (Chair: Edward van den Heuvel) | |||||||
| 14:00 | Invited | Cole Miller | Constraining neutron star masses and radii with thermonuclear X-ray bursts | ||||
| 14:30 | Thomas Tauris | On the connection between accreting X-ray and radio millisecond pulsars | |||||
| 14:45 | Michal Bejger | Formation of millisecond pulsars - magnetic torque, initial NS mass and EOS | |||||
| 15:00 | Xiangdong Li | Feeding Neutron Stars in High-Mass X-ray Binaries | |||||
| 15:15 | Gagik Tovmasian | IA UNAM Accretion disks of bounce back cataclysmic variables | |||||
| 15:30 | Break | ||||||
Session 3: Monday Afternoon, 16:00-18:00, August 20; |
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| (Chair: Brian Warner) | |||||||
| 16:00 | Paul Mason | High Speed Optical Photometry of LMXBs and CVs | |||||
| 16:20 | Valerio Ribeiro | The expansion of the nebular remnant of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi | |||||
| 16:40 | Zhanwen Han | The white dwarf accretion and type Ia supernovae | |||||
| 17:00 | D. W. Hoard | Degenerate with Dusty Disk: White Dwarf and Cataclysmic Variable in Infrared | |||||
| 17:20 | Ulf Torkelsson | The submillimeter properties of AE Aqr | |||||
| 17:40 | Edward van den Heuvel Brian Warner |
Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction | |||||
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Free Reception of Symposium 290, family members welcome also; 18:30-21:30pm, August 20; |
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Session 4: Tuesday Morning, 10:30-12:30, August 21; |
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| (Chair: Chryssa Kouveliotou) | |||||||
| 10:30 | Invited | AnnaLisa Celotti | Multi-wavelength observations of AGN: some inferences | ||||
| 11:00 | Nathalie Degenaar | Seven years of nearly-daily observations of Sgr A* with Swift | |||||
| 11:15 | Meng Su | Fermi Bubbles and Its Implications to the Accretion History of Sgr A | |||||
| 11:30 | Juri Poutanen | On the location of the gamma-ray emission in blazars | |||||
| 11:45 | Ping Zhao | Chandra Multi-wavelength Plane Survey | |||||
| 12:00 | Sheperd Doeleman | Observing Black Holes on Schwarzschild Radius Scales with the Event Horizon Telescope | |||||
| 12:15 | Roman Shcherbakov | Feeding and small-scale feedback in Low-Luminosity AGNs | |||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
Plenary Session: Wednesday Morning, 08:30-10:00, August 22 |
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| (Chair: Ramesh Narayan) | |||||||
| 08:30 | Invited | Andrew Fabian | Probing General Relativity using Accreting Black Holes | ||||
| 10:00 | Break | ||||||
Session 5: Wednesday Morning, 10:30-12:30, August 22; |
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| (Chair: Felix Mirabel) | |||||||
| 10:30 | Invited | Sera Markoff | David vs. Goliath: exploiting the black hole mass scale to constrain inflow/outflow connections | ||||
| 11:00 | Invited | Stephane Corbel | Accretion-ejection connection in accreting black holes | ||||
| 11:30 | Giovanni Fossati | Strong and weak jets and a paradigm shift in the unification of radio-loud AGNs | |||||
| 11:50 | Julien Malzac | The emission of compact jets powered by internal shocks | |||||
| 12:10 | Raffaella Morganti | Radio jets and outflows of cold gas | |||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
Session 6: Wednesday Afternoon, 14:00-15:30, August 22; |
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| (Chair: Wlodek Kluzniak) | |||||||
| 14:00 | Invited | Shuang-Nan Zhang | Identifying astrophysical black holes within the context of Einstein's general relativity | ||||
| 14:30 | Stefanie Komossa | A New Probe of Black Holes and Their Environments | |||||
| 14:50 | Roberto Soria | Mysteries of the intermediate-mass BH candidate HLX1 | |||||
| 15:10 | Sergei Fabrika | Subaru spectroscopy of optical counterparts of ultraluminous X-ray sources | |||||
| 15:30 | Break | ||||||
Session 7: Wednesday Afternoon, 16:00-18:00, August 22; |
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| (Chair: *Jean-Pierre Lasota) | |||||||
| 16:00 | Heino Falcke | Accretion and outflow in local universe ¨C first results from LOFAR | |||||
| 16:20 | Jelle Kaastra | Accretion and outflow of gas in Markarian 509 | |||||
| 16:40 | Peter Kretschmar | Understanding the Last Mile - Physics of the Accretion Column | |||||
| 17:00 | Zhiyuan Li | The Murmur Of the Hidden Monster: Variability and Accretion Of Black Hole In M31 | |||||
| 17:20 | Xuebing Wu | Outflows from Accretion Disks around Compact Objects | |||||
| 17:40 | Felix Mirabel Jean-Pierre Lasota |
Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction | |||||
Plenary Session of IAUS291: Thursday Morning, 08:30-10:00, August 23 |
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| 10:00 | Break | ||||||
Session 8: Thursday Morning, 10:30-12:30, August 23; |
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| (Chair: Ali Alpar) | |||||||
| 10:30 | Invited | Mariano Mendez | Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations in accreting neutron-star systems | ||||
| 11:00 | Invited | Deepto Chakrabarty | Accreting Millisecond Pulsars | ||||
| 11:30 | Nikolaos Kylafis | Interpretation of the hardness - intensity diagram in black-hole X-ray transients | |||||
| 11:45 | Luciano Burderi | Finding order in the chaos: coherent timing of accreting millisecond pulsars | |||||
| 12:00 | Dong Lai | Excitations of Global Oscillations in BH Accretion Disks and High-Frequency QPOs | |||||
| 12:15 | Maria Caballero-Garcia | Black Holes in Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources: X-ray Timing versus Spectroscopy | |||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
Session 9: Thursday, 14:00-15:30, August 23; |
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| (Chair: Bozena Czerny) | |||||||
| 14:00 | Invited | Marek Abramowicz | On the accretion disk of Thin, Thick, Slim and ADAF | ||||
| 14:30 | Maria Diaz Trigo | Variability of disc winds in X-ray binaries | |||||
| 14:50 | Feng Yuan | Outflow from hot accretion flows | |||||
| 15:10 | Jerome Guilet | Transport of magnetic flux and vertical structure of accretion discs | |||||
| 15:30 | Break | ||||||
Session 10: Thursday, 16:00-18:00, August 23; |
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| (Chair: Andrew Fabian) | |||||||
| 16:00 | Invited | Sebastian Heinz | From small to big: Scaling models and unification among accreting compact objects | ||||
| 16:30 | Wlodek Kluzniak | Coronal response to varying central luminosity | |||||
| 16:50 | Alexandra Veledina | Hot accretion in X-ray binaries: spectra and variability | |||||
| 17:10 | Bifang Liu | Coupling of the accretion disk and corona around black holes | |||||
| 17:25 | Paulina Lira | Accretion disks in the near-IR | |||||
| 17:40 | Ramesh Narayan Marek Abramowicz |
Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction | |||||
Session 11: Friday, 08:30-10:00, August 24; |
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| (Chair: Roger Blandford) | |||||||
| 08:30 | Invited | Chryssa Kouveliotou | Chandra and XMM-Newton observations of the environment of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 | ||||
| 09:00 | Invited | Ali Alpar | On the magnetic environments of compact objects | ||||
| 09:30 | Invited | Ryoji Matsumoto | Global Simulations of Magnetic Environments around Compact Objects | ||||
| 10:00 | Break | ||||||
Session 12: Friday Morning, 10:30-12:30, August 24; |
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| (Chair: Dipankar Bhattacharya) | |||||||
| 10:30 | Vincenzo Mainieri | Fe K emission from active galaxies beyond redshift z~1 | 10:45 | Jorge Cuadra | On the origin of the infalling gas cloud in the Galactic Centre | ||
| 11:00 | Omaira Gonzalez-Martin | X-ray variability of 104 AGNs. XMM-Newton power-spectrum density profiles | |||||
| 11:15 | Doron Chelouche | Black Hole Mass Measurements in the Era of Large Surveys | |||||
| 11:30 | Denis Leahy | Accretion disk and stream origin of the dip phenomenon in Hercules X-1 | |||||
| 11:45 | Lorena Hernandez | X-ray Variability in LINERs | |||||
| 12:00 | Bozena Czerny | Dusty origin of the Broad Line Region in active galaxies | |||||
| 12:15 | Enwei Liang | Duration Distribution of Fermi/GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts | |||||
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||||||
Session 13: Friday Afternoon, 14:00-15:30, August 24; |
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| (Chair: Don Melrose) | |||||||
| 14:00 | Marion Cadolle Bel | Overview of an extensive multi-wavelength study of GX 339-4 during its 2010 outburst | |||||
| 14:20 | Lennart van Haaften | The evolution of ultracompact X-ray binaries | |||||
| 14:40 | TBD | Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction | |||||
| 15:30 | Break | ||||||
Session 14: Friday Afternoon, 16:00-18:00, August 24; |
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| (Chair: Deepto Chakrabarty) | |||||||
| 16:00 | Invited | Kirpal Nandra | Understanding accretion with the next generation of X-ray observatories | ||||
| 16:30 | Invited | Dipankar Bhattacharya | The Astrosat Mission | ||||
| 17:00 | Invited | Tomaso Belloni | The Large Observatory for X-ray Timing (LOFT) | ||||
| 17:30 | Chryssa Kouveliotou Kirpal Nandra |
Summary Mini-workshop + Poster Introduction | |||||
| 17:50 | Mariano Mendez Chengmin Zhang |
Symposium Summary & Farewell | |||||