With support from:
The Wenner-Gren Foundations
The Swedish Research Council
Stockholm University
Conference Program

Monday, March 24
AfternoonArrival
20.00Dinner

Tuesday, March 25 
8.00Breakfast
Session 1. Chair: Juri Poutanen
Simulations of accretion discs
9.05-9.50Julian Krolik: Magnetohydrodynamic simulations of accretion discs (ppt)
9.50-10.35Omer Blaes: Radiation-dominated accretion (ppt)
10.35-10.55Break
10.55-11.40Shin Mineshige: Modeling super-Eddington accretion (ppt)
Ultra- and hyperluminous X-ray sources
11.40-12.05Jari Kajava: Spectral properties of ultra-luminous X-ray sources
12.10Lunch
Session 2. Chair: Marat Gilfanov
16.10-16.35Pavel Abolmasov: Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and their nebulae
16.35-17.20Andrei Beloborodov: Hyper-Eddington accretion
Jets
17.20-17.40Maxim Barkov: Accretion of a massive magnetized torus to rotating black hole, neutrino cooling influence and initial magnetic field topology
17.40-18.00Break
18.00-18.45 Serguei Komissarov: Launching the jets: disc or the black hole?
18.45-19.05 Alexander Tchekhovskoy: Lorentz factor scaling along AGN jets - RMHD simulations and analytical solutions
19.05-19.50 Rob Fender: Are AGNs just scaled up stellar-mass black holes? (ppt)
20.00Dinner

Wednesday, March 26
8.00Breakfast
Session 3. Chair: Paolo Coppi
Black hole spectral properties and radiative mechanisms
9.00-9.45Chris Done: X-ray observations of black holes (ppt)
9.45-10.30 Marek Gierlinski: Truncated disc and X-ray spectral states of black hole binaries (ppt)
10.30-10.50Break
10.50-11.35Prateek Sharma: Electron heating in accretion flows (pdf)
11.35-12.10Indrek Vurm: Electron thermalization and emission of magnetized compact sources (ppt)
12.15Lunch
13.00Excursions, free time
20.30Dinner

Thursday, March 27
8.00Breakfast
Session 4. Chair: Chris Done
Variability
9.00-9.45Mike Revnivtsev: Origin of short-term aperiodic variability in X-ray binaries (pdf)
9.45-10.05Barbara Ferreira: Oscillations in accretion discs around black holes (ppt)
10.05-10.30Magnus Axelsson: Variability in Cygnus X-1 (pdf)
10.30-10.50Break
10.50-11.35Marat Gilfanov: X-ray variability, viscous time-scale and Lindblad resonances in LMXBs (pdf)
11.35-11.55Gabriel Török: 3:2 controversy and a bit of underlying physics (ppt)
12.00Lunch
Session 5. Chair: Julian Krolik
16.15-16.35Odele Straub: Epicyclic oscillations of non-slender accretion tori in Kerr metric (pdf)
16.35-16.55Pavel Bakala: Dipole magnetic field on a Schwarzschild background and related epicyclic frequencies (ppt)
Boundary layers
16.55-17.35Valery Suleimanov: Structure and the spectra of the neutron star spreading layer
17.35-18.00Break
18.00-18.25Juri Poutanen: Time-dependent simulations of the spreading layer
18.25-19.10Brian Warner: What white dwarf variability teach us about accretion (on to neutron stars)?
19.10-19.45Discussion on oscillations in accreting neutron stars and white dwarfs
20.00Dinner

Friday, March 28
8.00Breakfast
Session 6. Chair: Omer Blaes
Magnetic accretion
9.00-9.45Maurizio Falanga: Accreting millisecond pulsars in outbursts (ppt)
9.45-10.15Tiziana Di Salvo: Timing of accreting millisecond pulsars: a review (ppt)
10.15-10.35Luciano Burderi: Orbital evolution of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.04 (ppt)
10.35-11.05Break
11.05-11.50Marina Romanova: Accretion to a magnetized neutron star (ppt)
12.00Lunch
Session 7. Chair: Shin Mineshige
16.00-16.35Wlodek Kluzniak: Magnetically torqued accretion discs
16.35-16.55Askar Ibragimov: Modelling the 2002 outburst of SAX J1808
16.55-17.20Erik Kuulkers: The INTEGRAL Galactic bulge monitoring program (ppt)
17.20-17.50Alexander Lutovinov: X-ray pulsars through the eyes of INTEGRAL (ppt)
17.50-18.20Break
Wind accreting sources
18.20-19.05Chris Mauche: Physics of wind-fed accretion (pdf)
19.05-19.30Linnea Hjalmarsdotter: Accretion in Cygnus X-3
19.30-19.50Jacob Trier Frederiksen: Stochastically induced GRB wakefield processes (pdf)
19.50-20.10Discussion on magnetic accretion
20.30Conference banquet

Saturday, March 29
8.00Breakfast
Session 8. Chair: Brian Warner
9.00-9.40Gordon Ogilvie: Warped and eccentric discs around compact objects (pdf)
9.40-10.00Stefania Carpano: The extragalactic Wolf-Rayet/black hole X-ray binary candidates (pdf)
The future
10.00-10.25Mozsi Kiss: PoGOLite (pdf)
10.25-10.55Break
10.55-11.15Anatoly Iyudin: GRIPS, The mission with a promise for different tastes, and varying scientific interests
Summary
11.15-12.00Paolo Coppi: The progress in the field in the last 10 years
12.15Lunch
20.00Dinner

Sunday, March 30
8.00Breakfast
Departure
Posters:
Pavel AbolmasovThe observational appearance of a supercritical accretion flow with an optically-thick wind
Rubens ReisConstraining the black hole spin of GX 339-4: A new reflection
Marja AnnalaConstraints on the neutron star equation of state from the profile statistics of X-ray pulsars