Upcoming Meetings - GCNEWS, Vol. 26, April 2007

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Volume 26, April 2007 - Upcoming Meetings

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Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-Field Monitoring of the Dynamic Radio Sky

June 12-15 2007, Kerastari, Greece

Final details

We included the full announcement last issue, but just a reminder that the registration and hotel booking is open in April, with pre-registration encouraged. Please see the webpage for more details:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/Dynamic2007/

GC2007: Celebrating 15 years of Precision Astronomy in the Galactic Center - Hot Topics and Observational Challenges

June 17-23, 2007, Ringberg Castle, Germany

In 1992, the first observations of a star in a close orbit around the supermassive blackhole at the Galactic Center were obtained. Today we know that this star, "S2", has a period of 15 years, so 2007 we can celebrate the first revolution of "S2". We are doing so by organizing a scientific workshop to be held at Schloss Ringberg (Ringberg castle), Bavaria (http://www.schloss-ringberg.de). The main focus of the conference will be stellar dynamics in the Galactic Center. A full day will also be dedicated to the topic of Sgr A*. Because accomodation is limited to 65, the meeting will not have an open registration. For more details see the conference website: http://www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/meetings/ringberg2007/index.php SOC: Tal Alexander, Fred Baganoff, Marcella Carollo, Andreas Eckart, Heino Falcke, Karl Gebhardt, Reinhard Genzel (Chair), Ortwin Gerhard, Andrea Ghez, Abraham Loeb, Mark Morris, Eliot Quataert, Mark Reid, Daniel Rouan, Jonathan Tan

A Population Explosion: The Nature and Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments

October 28-November 2 2007, St. Petersburg Beach, FL

In recent years, technological advances in X-ray astronomy have led to the discovery of a large number of previously undetected high-energy sources, increasing by an order of magnitude the known population of X-ray binaries in the Galaxy. This meeting will address the current state of observational and theoretical research into the X-ray binary population as a whole, incorporating studies of both the previously known, well-studied systems and the newly discovered populations, and examine the feedback and interaction of X-ray binaries with their environment within our own Galaxy and in external galaxies. We would especially like to highlight research on recently discovered populations of accreting binaries, including the faint hard X-ray sources in the Galactic Centre, obscured sources identified with INTEGRAL, supergiant fast X-ray transients, and extragalactic binaries.

We have established five major topics for this five-day conference, and plan to devote one day to each topic:

  1. X-ray binary jets at high and low luminosities, and their effect on the XRB environment
  2. Faint X-ray binary populations, especially the in Galactic Centre
  3. Obscured populations (INTEGRAL sources, SFXTs)
  4. Extragalactic X-ray binary populations and ULXs
  5. X-ray binary population synthesis and stellar evolution
SOC: Stefanie Wachter (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech), Reba Bandyopadhyay (University of Florida) (co-chairs), Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (University of Oxford), Philipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford), Tom Maccarone (University of Southampton), Rob Fender (University of Southampton), Michael Muno (Caltech), John Tomsick (University of California, Berkeley), Saku Vrtilek (Harvard/CfA), Phil Charles (SAAO)

The deadline for registration and submitting abstracts is 1 June 2007, using the secure server on the conference website:

http://conference.astro.ufl.edu/XRAYBIN/

Attendance at the meeting will be limited to 170 participants. For more details see the webpages.

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