Volume 26, April 2007 - Upcoming Meetings

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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/

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

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.