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KITP Conference: Physics of Astrophysical Outflows and Accretion Disks (May 23-27, 2005)
Coordinators: O. Blaes, C. Gammie, H. Spruit

Monday, May 23, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - C. Gammie

8:45am David Gross
(KITP Director)
Welcome [Aud][Cam]
9:00am Mitch Begelman
(JILA)
Issues and Challenges in Jets, Outflows and Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Anatoly Spitkovsky
(KIPAC)
Pulsar Winds[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Niccolo Bucciantini
(UCB)
MHD Models of Pulsar Winds[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - M. Begelman

2:00pm Serguei Komissarov
(Leeds)
Simulations of Black Hole Magnetospheres[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Marina Romanova
(Cornell)
Accretion and Outflows from the Vicinity of Magnetized Stars[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:15pm Davide Lazzati
(JILA)
Jets in AGN, GRB's and Microquasars[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Andrei Beloborodov
(Columbia)
GRB Accretion Disks, Outflows, and External Blast Waves[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Tuesday, May 24, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - J. Hawley

9:00am Andrew Wilson
(UMD)
Observational Overview of Extragalactic Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Denise Gabuzda
(Cork)
Polarization in Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Ryoji Matsumoto
(Chiba U)
Simulations of Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - O. Blaes

2:00pm Richard Lovelace
Marina Romanova

(Cornell)
Explosive Formation of Poynting Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Mark Wardle
(Macquarie)
Finite Conductivity Effects in Protostellar Disks and Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Sergei Bogovalov
(Moscow)
Collimation of relativistic Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:15pm Arieh Konigl
(Chicago)
Hydromagnetic Driving of Jets[Slides][Aud][Cam]
4:45pm Peggy Varnière
(Rochester)
Accretion-ejection Instability[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - C. Done

9:00am Hui Li
(Los Alamos)
Jets as Expanding Spheromaks[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
9:15am David Ballantyne
(CITA)
Accretion Geometry in Radio-Loud Active Galaxies[Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Ron Remillard
(MIT)
Observations of QPO's in X-ray Binaries[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Chris Fragile
(UCSB)
Tilted Thick-Disk Accretion onto a Kerr Black Hole[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
11:45am Jeremy Schnittman
(MIT)
Imaging Black Hole QPO Models[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Smita Mathur
(OSU)
Absorbing Outflows in AGNs: X-ray and UV Signatures[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK
1:30pm FREE AFTERNOON SHUTTLE AVAILABLE TO BWSCI


Thursday, May 26, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - R. Remillard

9:00am Danny Steeghs
(CfA)
Structure of Accretion Disks from Tomographic Imaging[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Mike Eracleous
(PSU)
Emission Lines from the Outer Disk[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Jon Miller
(CfA)
Observations of Relativistically Broadened Iron K-alpha Lines[Aud][Cam]
11:45am Chris Done
(Durham)
Testing Accretion Disk Theory Using X-ray Spectra[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - J. Arons

2:00pm John Hawley
(Virginia)
Global Relativistic MRI Simulations[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Daniel Proga
(Princeton)
Dynamics of Winds from Luminous Accretion Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Neal Turner
(JPL)
Radiation MHD Simulations of Accretion Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Julian Krolik
(JHU)
MRI Thermodynamics in Optically Thick, Gas Pressured Dominated Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:30pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:30pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Friday, May 27, 2005

Morning Session
Session Chair - H. Spruit

9:00am Bill Dorland
(UMD)
Experimental Observations of the MRI[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
9:45am Jeremy Goodman
(Princeton)
The Princeton MRI Experiment[Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:30am Eliot Quataert
(UCB)
Radiation Pressure Supported Disks on 100 pc Scales[Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session
Session Chair - J. Goodman

2:00pm Pierre-Yves Longaretti
(Grenoble)
Hydrodynamic (in)stability of Accretion Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:20pm Joe Barranco
(KITP)
Vortices in Disks[Slides][Vid][Aud][Cam]
2:40pm Bryan Johnson
(UIUC)
Stability of Stratified Disks[Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm CONFERENCE END
3:15pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI