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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