Programme of the 8th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland
Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems:
Some Like It Hot
International Advisory Committee:
M. Abramowicz, R. Blandford, C. Canizares, A. Dar, A. Dressler,
G. Hasinger, S. Holt,
R. McCray, J. Peebles, M. Rees, V. Rubin, J. Silk,
D. Spergel, R. Sunyaev, A. Szalay,
Y. Tanaka, S. Tremaine, S. White
Monday, October 13, 1997
08:30 -- Session #1 -- Introduction -- Chair: S. Holt
- Virginia Trimble -- Early Astrophysical Accretion: The Approach to the
Irrationality Horizon
- Ramesh Narayan -- Current Issues
10:00 -- Coffee and pastries provided in poster area
10:30 -- Session #2 -- Physical Processes (Theory) -- Chair: R. Sunyaev
- Roger Blandford -- Connection Between Jets and Accretion Disks
- Marek Abramowicz -- Structure and Internal Dynamics of Accretion Disks
- Jim Stone -- Dynamics at the Inner Edge: Star-Disk Interaction
- Poster Review and Discussion
12:30 -- Lunch provided at the conference site
14:00 -- Session #3 -- Global Disk Structure (Theory) -- Chair: D. Spergel
- Steve Balbus -- Transport Mechanisms
- Charles Gammie -- Simulations
- Juri Poutanen -- Spectral Modelling
- Poster Review and Discussion
16:00 -- Tea and pastries provided in the poster area
16:30 -- Session #4 -- AGN I -- Chair: J. Krolik
- Omer Blaes -- AGN Theory (incl Lyman Jump)
- Anuradha Koratkor -- UV/Optical Observations
- Greg Madejski -- Broad-Band X-Gamma Continua
- Poster Review and Discussion
18:30 -- Poster Session -- munchies provided until about 21:00
Tuesday, October 14, 1997
08:00 -- Session #5 -- AGN II -- Chair: R. Mushotzky
- Jerry Ostriker -- Effects of Radiative Preheating on Advection Dominated
Accretion Flows
- Andrew Wilson -- Water Vapor Megamasers in Galactic Nuclei
- Andy Fabian -- X-Ray Observations
- Poster Review and Discussion
10:00 -- Coffee and pastries provided in poster area
10:30 -- Session #6 -- Neutron Stars and Galactic BHs I -- Chair: N. White
- Lars Bildsten -- Rotation and Torques in Accreting Neutron Stars
- John Blondin -- Disk-Stream Interaction in Binaries
- Jeff McClintock -- X-Ray Transients
- Poster Review and Discussion
12:30 -- Lunch provided at the conference site
14:00 -- Session #7 -- Neutron Stars and Galactic BHs II -- Chair: J. Swank
- Jean-Pierrre Lasota -- Disk Instability Models
- Michiel van der Klis -- New QPO Results
- Cole Miller -- QPO Models
- Poster Review and Discussion
16:00 -- Tea and pastries provided in poster area
16:30 -- Session #8 -- White Dwarf Systems -- Chair: T. Kallman
- Keith Horne -- Observational Constraints on Accretion
- Ethan Vishniac -- Disk Instabilities and Cooling Fronts
- Mark Cropper -- Magnetic Systems
- Poster Review and Discussion
19:00 -- Conference Banquet (provided at the conference site)
- Neil Gehrels (Banquet Speaker)
Wednesday, October 15, 1997
08:30 -- Session #9 -- Stellar and Protostellar Systems I -- Chair: S. Vogel
- Eve Ostriker -- Theory of Accretion and Protostars
- Nuria Calvet -- Young Stellar Objects
- Poster Review and Discussion
10:00 -- Coffee and pastries provided in poster area
10:30 -- Session #10 -- Stellar and Protostellar Systems II -- Chair: L. Mundy
- Adam Frank -- Herbig-Haro Objects
- John Bally -- Observations of Outflows and Disks in pre-MS Systems
12:00 -- Summary/Rapporteur
12:45 -- Lunch provided at the conference site
Last updated on 9-17-97 by Susan Lehr.
october@astro.umd.edu