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| | Saturday, February 1, 2003 |
| 8:55am |
Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT) |
Welcome to the Meeting |
| | SESSION 1, 8:55am-10:30am, Chair: Brian Warner (Cape Town) |
| 9:00am |
Gijs Nelemans (IoA/Cambridge) |
The Galactic Population of Ultracompact Binaries[Slides] |
| 9:30am |
Philipp Podsiadlowski (Oxford) |
The Formation and Evolution of Ultracompact Binaries[Slides] |
| 10:00am |
Krzysztof Belczynski (Northwestern) |
Formation and Characteristic Properties of Ultracompact Binaries in the Field[Slides] |
| 10:15am |
Natalia Ivanova (Northwestern) |
Formation of Double White Dwarfs from Thermally Unstable Progenitor Systems[Slides] |
| 10:30am |
MORNING BREAK |
| | SESSION 2, 11:00am-12:30pm, Chair: Stefanie Wachter (SIRTF/Caltech) |
| 11:00am |
Deepto Chakrabarty (MIT) |
An Overview of Ultracompact LMXBs[Slides] |
| 11:30am |
Jan-Erik Solheim (Tromsø/Oslo) |
An Overview of the AM CVn Population[Slides] |
| 12:00pm |
Sterl Phinney (Caltech) |
The Ins and Outs of White Dwarf Binaries with LISA[Slides] |
| 12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK (free lunch provided) |
| | SESSION 3, 1:30pm-3:00pm, Chair: Peter Edmonds (CfA) |
| 1:30pm |
Brian Warner (Cape Town) |
Optical Photometry of AM CVn Binaries[Slides] |
| 2:00pm |
Danny Steeghs (CfA) |
Optical Spectroscopy of AM CVn Binaries[Slides] |
| 2:30pm |
Tom Marsh (Southampton) |
Direct Impact Accretion in AM CVn Binaries[Slides] |
| 3:00pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
| | SESSION 4, 3:30pm-5:15pm, Chair: Saul Rappaport (MIT) |
| 3:30pm |
Joe Patterson (Columbia) |
Superhumps and Accretion-Disk Precession[Slides] |
| 4:00pm |
James Murray (Swinburne) |
Simulating Disks in Ultracompact Binaries |
| 4:15pm |
Michael Truss (St. Andrews) |
The Role of Tides in the Outburst of Soft X-Ray Transients[Slides] |
| 4:30pm |
Adrienne Juett (MIT) |
Neon-Rich Degenerate Donors in Ultracompact LMXBs[Slides] |
| 4:45pm |
Josh Grindlay (CfA) |
Chandra Spectroscopy of 4U 1820-30[Slides] |
| 5:00pm |
Klaus Werner (Tuebingen) |
Modeling of O/Ne-Dominated Accretion Disks in Ultracompact Binaries[Slides] |
| 5:15pm |
SESSION ENDS |
| | NOTE: Participants should make their own dinner arrangements. |
|
| | Sunday, February 2, 2003 |
| | SESSION 5, 9:00am-10:45am, Chair: Peter Jonker (IoA/Cambridge) |
| 9:00am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Hot White Dwarf Donors in Ultracompact Binaries[Slides] |
| 9:30am |
Paul Groot (Nijmegen) |
Searches for AM CVn Binaries[Slides] |
| 10:00am |
Gavin Ramsay (UCL/MSSL) |
X-Ray and Optical Observations of the 10-Minute Binary RX J1914+24[Slides] |
| 10:30am |
Gianluca Israel (INAF/Ast. Obs. Rome) |
Results from X-Ray/Optical Campaigns of RX J0806.3+1527: The Shortest Known Orbital Period Binary[Slides] |
| 10:45am |
MORNING BREAK |
| | SESSION 6, 11:00am-12:30pm, Chair: Duncan Galloway (MIT) |
| 11:00am |
Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESTEC) |
Thermonuclear X-Ray Bursts from Ultracompact LMXBs[Slides] |
| 11:30am |
Lee Homer (Washington) |
Ultracompact Binaries in Globular Clusters[Slides] |
| 12:00pm |
Andrew Cumming (UC Santa Cruz) |
Constraints from Type I Bursts on the Accreted Composition in 4U 1820-30[Slides] |
| 12:15pm |
Will Clarkson (Southampton) |
Long-Term X-Ray Properties of Ultracompact X-Ray Binaries[Slides] |
| 12:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK (free lunch provided) |
| | OPEN DISCUSSION, 1:30pm-3:00pm |
