8th Annual October Astrophysics Conference in Maryland
Bulletin No. 1 April 1, 1997
Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems:
Some Like It Hot
October 13-15, 1997
College Park, Maryland
International
Advisory Committee:
M. Abramowicz (Goeteborg)
R. Blandford (Pasadena)
C. Canizares (Cambridge, MA)
A. Dar (Haifa) Scientific
A. Dressler (Pasadena) Organizing Committee:
G. Hasinger (Potsdam) M. Abramowicz (Goeteborg)
S. Holt (Greenbelt) R. Blandford (Cal Tech)
J. Peebles (Princeton) G. Hasinger (Potsdam)
R. McCray (Boulder) S. Holt (GSFC)
J. Peebles (Princeton) T. Kallman (GSFC)
M. Rees (Cambridge, UK) J. Stone (UMCP)
V. Rubin (Washington) R. Sunyaev (IKI/MPI)
J. Silk (Berkeley) J. Swank (GSFC)
D. Spergel (Princeton) V. Trimble (UMCP/UCI)
R. Sunyaev (Moscow) N. White (GSFC)
A. Szalay (Budapest) A. Wilson (UMCP)
Y. Tanaka (Tokyo)
S. Tremaine (Toronto)
S. White (Garching)
I. Place and Date
The Conference will be held at the University Conference Center at the
University of Maryland, College Park, MD. It will run for three days,
Monday through Wednesday, October 13-15, 1997.
II. Purpose of the Conference
This will be the eighth in a series of topical conferences that are
arranged each autumn by scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center
and the University of Maryland. Each of the conferences is devoted to
a single topic in astrophysics research, and is organized to elicit the
free discussion of ideas. We anticipate that this year's conference,
entitled Accretion Processes in Astrophysical Systems: Some Like It Hot,
will be as successful as were the seven previous conferences: After the
First Three Minutes, Testing the AGN Paradigm, Back to the Galaxy, The
Evolution of X-Ray Binaries, Dark Matter, Cosmic Abundances, and Star
Formation Near and Far.
THE INFORMATION IN THIS BULLETIN CAN BE OBTAINED VIA
ANONYMOUS FTP FROM HOST ftp.astro.umd.edu
IN THE FILE pub/october/info
OR AT THE WWW URL http://www.astro.umd.edu
III. Scientific Organization
The conference will be devoted to the discussion of new data and ideas
associated with accretion processes on all scales. It will be organized
into sessions that are 2 to 2-1/2 hours in duration. A typical session
will include two or three formal invited talks (each about 30-minutes) and
might also include a few 5 to 10-min oral contributions selected by the
session chair from submitted poster abstracts. The chair will encourage
free discussion of the session topic, including one minute for each
poster author to advertise his/her poster with one viewgraph.
Preliminary Programme (All Invitees Confirmed)
Session #1 -- Introduction
Virginia Trimble -- Early Astrophysical Accretion:
The Approach to the Irrationality Horizon
Ramesh Narayan -- Current Issues
Session #2 -- Physical Processes (theory)
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
Session #3 -- Global Disk Structure (theory)
Steve Balbus -- Transport Mechanisms
Charles Gammie -- Simulations
Roland Svensson -- Spectral modelling
Sessions #4, 5 -- AGN (theory and observations)
Omer Blaes -- AGN Theory (incl Lyman Jump)
Andrew Wilson -- Water Vapor Megamasers in Galactic Nuclei
Anuradha Koratkor -- UV/Optical Observations
Andy Fabian -- X-Ray Observations
Greg Madejski -- Broad-Band X/Gamma Continua
Sessions #6, 7 -- Neutron Stars and Galactic Black Holes
Cole Miller -- QPO Models
Michiel van der Klis -- New QPO Results
Jeff McClintock -- X-Ray Transients
Lars Bildsten -- Rotation and Torques in Accreting Neutron Stars
John Blondin -- Disk-Stream Interaction in Binaries
Jean-Pierrre Lasota -- Disk Instability Models
Session #8 -- White Dwarf Systems (CVs, Novae)
Keith Horne -- Observational Constraints on Accretion
Ethan Vishniac -- Disk Instabilities and Cooling Fronts
Mark Cropper -- Magnetic Systems
Sessions #9, 10 -- Stellar and Protostellar systems
Eve Ostriker -- Theory of Accretion and Protostars
Nuria Calvet -- Young Stellar Objects
John Bally -- Observations of Outflows and Disks in pre-MS Systems
Adam Frank -- Herbig-Haro Objects
Summary/Rapporteur
Colin Norman
FTP FILE FOR PROGRAMME UPDATES: pub/october/agenda
IV. Posters
Registrants are encouraged to utilize posters to communicate their ideas.
There will be ample room for poster display in the informal area where
coffee and tea are served each day, and light refreshments will be
provided for a poster perusal session on Monday evening until 10 PM.
POSTER SPACE IS NOT GUARANTEED UNLESS THE ABSTRACT IS
RECEIVED WITH A COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM, WHICH
INCLUDES THE REGISTRATION FEE, BY SEPTEMBER 15, 1997.
V. Proceedings
As with the first seven October conferences, the published Proceedings
will include all invited talks, poster papers (not just abstracts), and
other discussion contributions that are submitted to the editors in
either camera-ready or electronically-transmitted forms. All manuscripts
are expected to be received by the editors by December 15, 1997 in order
that we can maintain our tradition of providing each registrant with a
hardcover copy of the Proceedings within eight months of the conference.
FTP FILE FOR STYLE INFO: pub/october/style
FTP FILE WITH LaTeX MACRO: pub/october/macro
FTP FILE WITH SAMPLE LaTeX MACRO: pub/october/example.tex
FTP FILE WITH SAMPLE POSTSCRIPT FIGURE: pub/october/examplefig.eps
FTP FILE WITH EPS FIGURE STYLE FILE: pub/october/epsfig.sty
FTP FILE WITH TABLE STYLE FILE: pub/october/longtable.sty
VI. Accommodations
College Park is close to the city of Washington, DC, but the Baltimore-
Washington International Airport is closer than either National or Dulles
Airports (although transportation can be arranged from any of the three).
Check http://www.astro.umd.edu/october for more local information.
Since public transportation to the university is not convenient, shuttle
buses will be operated between the College Park Holiday Inn and Quality
Inn and the site of the conference, the University Conference Center on
the campus of the University of Maryland. Shuttle schedules will be
available at all three locations. Lunches will be provided at the
conference, so that private cars will not be necessary for full-time
conference participants. Parking will be available for those who prefer
to use private cars.
FTP FILE FOR TRANSPORTATION INFO: pub/october/transportation
The local organizing committee has arranged for blocks of rooms to be
available for conference participants at the University Conference Center
(a full-service hotel), the Holiday Inn and the Quality Inn. Following
are phone numbers and daily rates (which we believe, but cannot
guarantee, to be current) for singles and doubles at these hotels.
Please contact the hotels DIRECTLY for reservations, and indicate that
you are an attendee of the October Astrophysics Conference at the
University Conference Center.
HOTEL PHONE NUMBER SINGLE DOUBLE
University Conference Center (301) 985-7310 $ 79 $ 94
Holiday Inn (800) 872-5564 or (301) 345-6700 $ 72 $ 72
Quality Inn (301) 864-5820 $ 54 $ 59
VI. Registration
The Registration Fee for pre-registered (prior to September 15, 1997)
attendees will be $220. The fee for late registrants will be $260.
There are no reduced rates for students (or others). The registration
fee includes lunches and light refreshments served throughout the
conference (including an informal reception on the evening of Monday
October 13), a banquet on Tuesday evening October 14, a souvenir T-shirt,
a book bag that you will use for years, and one copy of the published
(hardcover) Proceedings.
The registration form below will be used for planning purposes. Please
include an ABSTRACT for any formal contribution that you would like to
make to the conference. All such contributions should be assumed to be
posters unless the organizing committee requests an oral presentation.
IN ORDER TO BE GIVEN CONSIDERATION F0R A SHORT
ORAL CONTRIBUTION, YOUR ABSTRACT MUST BE RECEIVED
WITH A COMPLETED REGISTRATION FORM BY AUGUST 1, 1997.
SELECTIONS OF SHORT ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS WILL BE MADE
BY THE SESSION CHAIRS IN EARLY SEPTEMBER. YOU WILL
BE CONTACTED VIA E-MAIL BY SEPTEMBER 15, 1997 IF YOU
HAVE BEEN SELECTED (YOU WILL NOT BE CONTACTED IF YOU
ARE NOT SELECTED, BUT YOU WILL STILL BE WELCOME TO
PRESENT A ONE MINUTE, ONE VIEWGRAPH POSTER DESCRIPTION).
For additional information, including arranging accommodations for
individuals with disabilities or special requirements:
E-MAIL: october@astro.umd.edu
TELEPHONE: 301-405-1507
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Early Pre-registration for ACCRETION PROCESSES IN ASTROPHYSICAL
SYSTEMS: SOME LIKE IT HOT
DEADLINE for Early Pre-Registration: August 1, 1997
Name (as preferred on nametag) ________________________________________
Organizational affiliation ____________________________________________
Mailing Address________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
E-mail address_________________________________________________________
Are you expecting to present a paper/poster? yes ___ no ___
With which session(s) should your paper be associated? ________
(please use session NUMBER(S) in the preliminary programme)
Your check for the $220 pre-registration fee should be payable to:
University of Maryland
If you plan to attend the Conference, please send this form to:
October Conference
Astronomy Department
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
NOTE: Registration forms and abstracts can be E-mailed to:
october@astro.umd.edu
but they will not be considered for short oral presentations unless the
pre-registration fee is received by AUGUST 1, 1997, or have guaranteed
poster space if not received by SEPTEMBER 15, 1997.
Last updated on 4-15-97 by Susan Lehr.
october@astro.umd.edu