Program

Please allow 5 minutes of discussion in your allocated time!
(I.e., a 20-minute slot comprises 15 minutes presentation and 5 minutes discussion.)

Monday, August 6


12:30-14:30   Arrival, registration and lunch

Afternoon session (Chair: A. Veledina)
14:30   Welcome from the organizers
14:40-15:15   J. Nättilä - Astrophysics of accretion vs nuclear physics of neutron stars
15:15-15:35   T. Salmi - Bayesian parameter constraints for neutron star masses and radii using X-ray timing observations of accretion-powered millisecond pulsars
15:35-16:10   P. Kaaret - Ultraluminous X-ray sources

Discussion and coffee break

16.45-17:20   S. Tsygankov - Propeller effect in X-ray pulsars and ULXs
17:20-17:40   A. Lutovinov - Be/X-ray pulsars in quiescence

18:45   Welcome dinner


Tuesday, August 7


Morning session (Chair: J. Poutanen)
9:00-9:35   P. Charles - Review and comparison of V404 Cyg outbursts
9:35-10:10   A.A. Zdziarski - The puzzle of Cyg X-3
10:10-10:30   M. Kimura - Broad-band spectral fitting including irradiation effect in BHB XTE J1859+226
10:30-10:50   I. Kosenkov - Superhump period of the BH XRB GX 339-4

Discussion and coffee break

11:20-11:55   P. Uttley - X-ray spectral-timing of X-ray binaries
11:55-12:30   B. De Marco - Reverberation in X-ray binaries
12:30-12:50   M. Axelsson - Breaking spectral degeneracy in Cyg X-1 using rapid variability

LUNCH

Afternoon session (Chair: B. De Marco)
14:30-14:50   R. Mahmoud - Spectral-timing models: The key to XRB accretion
14:50-15:10   A. Semena - Timing analysis of the GRS 1739-278 BH system with NuSTAR
15:10-15:30   A. Veledina - Timing of non-thermal particles in hot accretion flows

Discussion and coffee break

16:10-16:45   P. Gandhi - Multiwavelength fast timing observations
16:45-17:05   J. Paice - MAXI J1820+070: Millisecond Multiwavelength Timing of one of the Brightest Transients Ever

18:45   Dinner


Wednesday, August 8


Morning session (Chair: P. Gandhi)
9:00-9:35   E. Kalemci - Insights into accretion from long-term optical, IR and X-ray variability
9:35-9:55   A. Shaw - Unraveling the mysteries of Swift J1753.5-0127: The black hole that just wouldn’t stay quiet
9:55-10:30   J. Poutanen - Polarisation as a tool to study accreting compact objects

Discussion and coffee break

11:00-11:20   H. Takahashi - Hard X-ray polarization measurements of Cygnus X-1 by PoGO+
11:20-11:55   A. Rao - AstroSat results
11:55-12:30   M. Shidatsu - MAXI results on XRBs
12:30-12:50   S. Yamada - ASTRO-H/Hitomi and the next mission

LUNCH

Afternoon
14:45   Walking tour of Sigtuna

16:15   Afternoon coffee in the hotel restaurant

17:00   Departure for conference dinner


Thursday, August 9


Morning session (Chair: A.A. Zdziarski)
9:30-10:05   C. Done - Accretion and ejection around black holes
10:05-10:25   A. Niedzwiecki - Relativistic reflection in Cyg X-1 and NGC 4151, and the truncation radii of their accretion disks
10:25-10:45   B. Liu - Accretion around BH: a new geometry for wind-fed accretion
10:45-11:05   E. Qiao - A systematic study of the condensation of the corona and the application for Γ_2-10keV-L_bol/L_Edd correlation in luminous AGN

Discussion and coffee break

11:30-12:05   L. Miller - Analysis of AGN variability
12:05-12:25   M. Mizumoto - X-ray reverberation lags of the Fe-K line due to AGN winds
12:25-12:45   R. Matsumoto - Formation of soft X-ray emitting regions in Seyfert galaxies
12:45-13:05   H. Noda - Soft X-ray Excess Variation Driving Changing-Look AGN

LUNCH

Afternoon session (Chair: C. Done)
14:15-14:50   O. Blaes - Understanding the microphysics of accretion discs
14:50-15:25   A. Beloborodov - Magnetic flares in accretion disc coronae
15:25-15:45   P. Pjanka - Global simulations of X-ray binary accretion disks
15:45-16:05   M. Machida - Global MHD simulations of accretion disks using CANS+

Discussion and coffee break

16:30-17:05   J. Stone - Radiation-dominated accretion disks
17:05-17:25   T. Igarashi - Radiation MHD simulations of hard-to-soft state transitions in BH accretion flows
17:25-18:00   A. Brandenburg - The nature of convection in disks

18:45   Dinner


Friday, August 10


Morning session (Chair: O. Blaes)
9:00-9:35   K. Ohsuga - Radiation-MHD simulations of super-Eddington accretion flows and outflows
9:35-10:10   T. Kawashima - Supercritical accretion flows in ULXs
10:10-10:30   W. Kluzniak - Global radiative GRMHD simulations of thick and thin accretion disks
10:30-10:50   M. Liska - GRMHD simulations of highly tilted (thin) accretion disks

Discussion and coffee break

11:20-11:55   A. Tchekhovskoy - General relativistic MHD jet simulations
11:55-12:15   T. Ohmura - Two-temperature MHD simulations of the jet propagation from XRBs
11:15-12:35   H. Sakemi - Magnetic field analysis of the bow and terminal shock of the SS433 jet
12:35-12:55   K. Chatterjee - The first very high resolution studies of the magnetic field driven acceleration in large scale relativistic jets
12:55-13:10   Concluding remarks

End of workshop