Physics of Astrophysical Outflows and Accretion Disks(Conference)

Coordinators: O. Blaes, C. Gammie, H. Spruit

May 23, 2005 - May 27, 2005

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Monday, May 23, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - C. Gammie
8:45am David Gross
(KITP Director) 		Welcome
9:00am Mitch Begelman
(JILA) 		Issues and Challenges in Jets, Outflows and Disks
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
10:00am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Anatoly Spitkovsky
(UCB) 		Pulsar Winds
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
12:00pm Niccolo Bucciantini
(UCB) 		MHD Models of Pulsar Winds
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - M. Begelman
2:00pm Serguei Komissarov
(Leeds) 		Simulations of Black Hole Magnetospheres
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
3:00pm Marina Romanova
(Cornell) 		Accretion and Outflows from the Vicinity of Magnetized Stars
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:15pm Davide Lazzati
(JILA) 		Jets in AGN, GRB$apos;s and Microquasars
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
5:00pm Andrei Beloborodov
(Columbia) 		GRB Accretion Disks, Outflows, and External Blast Waves
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
5:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - J. Hawley
9:00am Andrew Wilson
(UMD) 		Observational Overview of Extragalactic Jets
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
9:45am Denise Gabuzda
(Cork) 		Polarization in Jets
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Ryoji Matsumoto
(Chiba U) 		Simulations of Jets
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - O. Blaes
2:00pm Richard Lovelace
(Cornell) 		Explosive Formation of Poynting Jets
To be presented by Marina Romanova
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
2:30pm Mark Wardle
(Macquarie) 		Finite Conductivity Effects in Protostellar Disks and Jets
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
3:00pm Sergei Bogovalev
(Moscow) 		Collimation of relativistic Jets
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:15pm Arieh Konigl
(Chicago) 		Hydromagnetic Driving of Jets
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
4:45pm Peggy Varniere
(Chicago) 		Accretion-ejection Instability
[10 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
5:00pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

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Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - C. Done
9:00am Hui Li
(Los Alamos) 		Jets as Expanding Spheromaks
[10 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
9:15am David Ballantyne
(CITA) 		Accretion Geometry in Radio-Loud Active Galaxies
[10 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
9:30am Ron Remillard
(MIT) 		Observations of QPO$apos;s in X-ray Binaries
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Chris Fragile
(UCSB) 		Tilted Thick-Disk Accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole
[10 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
11:45am Jeremy Schnittman
(MIT) 		Imaging Black Hole QPO Models
[10 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
12:00pm Smita Mathur
(OSU) 		Absorbing Outflows in AGNs: X-ray and UV Signatures
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30pm FREE AFTERNOON SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI

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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - R. Remillard
9:00am Danny Steeghs
(CfA) 		Structure of Accretion Disks from Tomographic Imaging
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
10:00am Mike Eracleous
(PSU) 		Emission Lines from the Outer Disk
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Jon Miller
(CfA) 		Observations of Relativistically Broadened Iron K-alpha Lines
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
11:45am Chris Done
(Durham) 		Testing Accretion Disk Theory Using X-ray Spectra
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - J. Arons
2:00pm John Hawley
(Virginia) 		Global Relativistic MRI Simulations
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
3:00pm Daniel Proga
(Princeton) 		Dynamics of Winds from Luminous Accretion Disks
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Neal Turner
(JPL) 		Radiation MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
5:00pm Julian Krolik
(JHU) 		MRI Thermodynamics in Optically Thick, Gas Pressured Dominated Disks
[20 minute talk plus 10 minute discussion]
5:30pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:30pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

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Friday, May 27, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - H. Spruit
9:00am Bill Dorland
(UMD) 		Experimental Observations of the MRI
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
9:45am Jeremy Goodman
(Princeton) 		The Princeton MRI Experiment
[30 minute talk plus 15 minute discussion]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Eliot Quataert
(UCB) 		Radiation Pressure Supported Disks on 100 pc Scales
[40 minute talk plus 20 minute discussion]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - J. Goodman
2:00pm Pierre-Yves Longaretti
(Grenoble) 		Hydrodynamic (in)stability of Accretion Disks
[15 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
2:20pm Joe Barranco
(KITP) 		Vortices in Disks
[15 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
2:40pm Bryan Johnson
(UIUC) 		Stability of Stratified Disks
[15 minute talk plus 5 minute discussion]
3:00pm CONFERENCE END
3:15pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

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