Scientific Program (June 22)
20/30/40 min talks include 5/7/10 min for discussion, respectively
MONDAY, June 29
Arrival, dinner at 19:00
TUESDAY, June 30
8:00
breakfast
9:00
Opening remarks
Roland Svensson
Chair: Igor Novikov
9:10
I) INTRODUCTION TO THE SUBJECT
Mitch Begelman
II) STELLAR MASS BLACK HOLES
9:50
Broad-band X/gamma ray spectra of Galactic black holes and Seyferts
Andrzej Zdziarski
10:30
break
11:20
Physics of fluorescence and Compton reflection close to the black holes:
observations and theory for Seyfert galaxies and Galactic black holes
Chris Reynolds
12:00
X-ray spectra of Galactic black holes
Ken Ebisawa
12:40
Geometry of accretion in soft X-ray transients
Piotr Zycki
13:00
lunch
Chair: Annalisa Celotti
14:30
Hard X-ray/gamma-ray observations of Galactic black holes
Eric Grove
15:10
Relativistic disc reflection in Cyg X-1
Chris Done
15:30
Accretion disc models
Andrei Beloborodov
16:10
break
16:50
Global structure and spectra of Galactic black hole accretion discs
Edison Liang
17:30
RXTE monitoring observations of the black hole candidate and superluminal
source GRS 1915+105
Jochen Greiner
17:50
Rings in the RXTE 2-colour diagram of the superluminal source GRS 1915+105 (20min)
Osmi Vilhu
18:30
dinner
WEDNESDAY, July 1
8:00
breakfast
Chair: Chuck Dermer
9:00
Particle acceleration mechanisms
Hui Li
9:40
Thermalization mechanisms
Roland Svensson
10:20
Relativistic Compton upscattering in accretion flows and jets
Dimitrios Psaltis
10:40
break
11:20
Physics of hybrid (thermal/non-thermal) plasmas
Paolo Coppi
12:00
Spectral state transitions in accreting black holes
Juri Poutanen
12:40
Accretion discs with advection
Andrzej Zdziarski
13:00
lunch
Chair: Roland Svensson
14:30
A new, inhomogeneous equilibrium for accretion discs around black holes
Julian Krolik
15:10
Numerical models of rotating accretion flows around black holes
Igor Igumenshchev
15:30
Galactic black holes: variability studies and modelling
Wei Cui
16:10
break
16:50
Accretion discs in the context of self-organized criticality
Shin Mineshige
17:30
Monte-Carlo simulations on the rapid aperiodic variability
of Galactic black-hole candidates
Markus Böttcher
17:50
Implications of RXTE observations of Cyg X-1 and GX 339-4 for corona and
ADAF models (20min)
Mike Nowak
18:30
dinner
THURSDAY, July 2
8:00
breakfast
Chair: Julian Krolik
III) SEYFERTS
9:00
X/gamma-ray spectra of Seyferts and SAX observations
Giorgio Matt
9:40
RXTE data on Seyferts
Greg Madejski
10:00
Ultrasoft narrow line Seyfert 1's
Niel Brandt
10:40
break
11:10
Accretion discs in AGNs: predictions vs observations
Omer Blaes
11:50
Multi-phase gas in AGN
Annalisa Celotti
12:20
Accreting corona models for AGN and GBH
Bozena Czerny
12:40
VLA and SCUBA observations of the cores of elliptical galaxies:
strong constraints on advection-dominated accretion flows
Tiziana Di Matteo
13:00
lunch
Afternoon:
free time, hiking
FRIDAY, July 3
8:00
breakfast
Chair: Edison Liang
9:00
Constraints on discs from the near-IR, the Ly edge, and spectropolarimetry
Ski Antonucci
9:40
Electron-positron outflows and polarization in non-blazar AGNs
Andrei Beloborodov
10:00
A supermassive black hole at the Galactic center:
ADAFs and two-temperature plasmas
Rohan Mahadevan
10:40
break
IV) PHYSICAL PROCESSES
11:20
Particle heating in advection-dominated accretion flows
Eliot Quataert
11:40
Radiative dissipation of waves in accretion discs
Eric Agol
12:00
The dynamics of turbulent viscosity
Ulf Torkelsson
12:20
Rossby wave instability in accretion discs
Hui Li
12:40
Self-shielding of X-rays and gamma rays in compact sources
Andrei Illarionov
13:00
lunch
Chair: Mitch Begelman
V) JET SOURCES
14:30
Jets - radiative mechanisms, Galactic black holes vs blazars
Gabriele Ghisellini
15:10
On structure and energetics of AGN jets
Marek Sikora
15:40
Variability and unification of blazars
Chuck Dermer
16:10
break
16:50
Relativistic outflows in gamma-ray burst sources
Boris Stern
17:20
VI) SUMMARY (60min)
Andy Fabian
END OF THE WORKSHOP
19:00
banquet
POSTERS
Broad-band spectra of Seyferts
Pawel Magdziarz
Synchrotron radiation in AGN and GBHCs
Grzegorz Wardzinski & Andrzej Zdziarski
Radiation mechanisms and geometry of Cyg X-1 in the soft state
Marek Gierlinski
Simultaneous broad band spectra of two Seyfert 2 galaxies detected with RXTE
Kirsi Malmivaara & Mika Vuori
MOST observations of radio-jet X-ray binaries
Diana Hannikainen
ASCA and RXTE observations of the Seyfert 1 galaxy MCG-6-30-15
Julia Lee
Hot super-Eddington accretion discs
Andrei Beloborodov
The giant-amplitude X-ray outburst in
NGC 5905 -- a tidal disruption event ?
S. Komossa, N. Bade, J. Greiner
Warm absorbers in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies
Stefanie Komossa, Jochen Greiner
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