Black Holes: Theory Confronts Reality, Three Years LaterCoordinators: Omer Blaes, Roger Blandford, Doug Eardley, Ann Esin, Karl Gebhardt, Scott Hughes, Jean-Pierre Lasota, Kristin Miller, Chris ReynoldsFebruary 25, 2002 - February 28, 2002 |
Focus and Scope:The conference marks the three year anniversary of a similar conference which kicked off the Spring 1999 ITP program on Black Hole Astrophysics. We will take a fresh look at the field, highlighting the progress which was initiated by the ITP program as well as the remaining outstanding questions. The conference will have a substantial observational component, as the new X-ray satellites Chandra and XMM-Newton, as well as ten meter class optical telescopes such as Keck are flooding the community with data of unprecedented quality on black hole sources. Numerical simulations provide an increasingly important theoretical tool and will be well covered too. The conference is also timed to coincide with the ITP program on Solar Magnetism and Related Astrophysics, since there is a strong commonality between solar and accretion-disk magnetic phenomena.In addition to the invited talks, which are primarily by young people in the field, there will be space for contributions in the form of poster papers. Confirmed Speakers:Eric Agol(Caltech), James Chiang(GSFC), Guillaume Dubus(Caltech), Ann Esin(Caltech), Rob Fender(Amsterdam), Laura Ferrarese(Rutgers), Charles Gammie(Illinois), Karl Gebhardt(Texas), Sarah Gibson(NCAR), Eric Gourgoulhon(Meudon), Freddy Hansen(Cal Tech), Scott Hughes(ITP), Vicky Kalogera(Northwestern), Tiziana di Matteo(Harvard), Kristen Menou(Princeton), Cole Miller(University of Maryland), Kristen Miller(UCSB), Sergei Nayakshin(MPA), Simon Portegies Zwart(MIT), Dimitrios Psaltis(MIT), Eliot Quataert(UC Berkeley), James Reeves(Leicester), Chris Reynolds(Colorado), Neal Turner(Maryland), Rudi Wijnands(MIT), |
