Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei - Scientific Programme
Day 1: Monday 6 September 1999
| 08:15 | Bus transportation from Garching to ESO (leaving from the Maibaum) | |||
| 08:30 | Workshop registration at the ESO Headquarters | |||
| 09:30 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |||
| Session I. Setting the stage | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 09:40 | R. Giacconi (R) | Black Holes: A Historical and Future Perspective. | ||
| 10:15 | M.C. Begelman (R) | General Overview: Black Holes in the Universe. | ||
| 10:50 | Coffee | |||
| Session II. Black-hole diagnostics: dynamical evidence | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 11:20 | P.A. Charles (R) | Black Holes in X-ray Binaries. | ||
| 11:55 | A. Eckart (R) | The Dark Mass in the Center of the Milky Way. | ||
| 12:30 | P.T. de Zeeuw (R) | Dynamical Evidence for the Presence of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxy Centers. | ||
| 13:05 | Lunch | |||
| Session II. Black-hole diagnostics: dynamical evidence (continued) | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 14:15 | G. Srinivasan (I) | On the Maximum Mass of Neutron Stars. | ||
| 14:40 | M.H. van Kerkwijk (I) | Observed Neutron Star Masses. | ||
| 15:05 | E.T. Harlaftis (C) | Weighing Black Holes Using the Largest Optical Telescopes. | ||
| 15:20 | A.M. Ghez (I) | Observing the Fastest Moving Stars in our Galaxy: Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way. | ||
| 15:45 | Coffee/Tea | |||
| 16:15 | K. Gebhardt (I) | Recent results on the Orbital Structure around Supermassive Black Holes. | ||
| 16:40 | R. Bacon (I) | A Supermassive Black Hole and Asymmetries in the M31 Double Nucleus. | ||
| 17:05 | E.J. Schreier (I) | Centaurus A: The Supermassive Black Hole in the Nearest AGN. | ||
| 17:30 | E. Emsellem (C) | Gas/Stars Coupling in the Nuclei of Early-type Galaxies: Diagnostics for Supermassive Black Holes. | ||
| 17:45 | A. Renzini (I) | Quasi-silent Supermassive Black Holes: the Case of NGC 4552. | ||
| 18:10 | Welcome Reception (in room with POSTERS displayed). | |||
| 19:30 | Busses leave for hotels. | |||
Day 2: Tuesday 7 September 1999
| 08:15 | Bus transportation from Garching to ESO (leaving from the Maibaum) | |||
| Session III. Black-hole Phenomenology: Variability, Jets, Disks and Accretion Tori | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 08:30 | R. Sunyaev (R) | Disk Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars without Strong Magnetic Field: Similarities and Differences. | ||
| 09:05 | T. Belloni (I) | X-ray Variability of Neutron Stars vs. Black Holes. | ||
| 09:30 | Y. Tanaka (I) | X-ray Spectra of Neutron Stars vs. Black Holes. | ||
| 09:55 | J.P. Lasota (I) | Why Tend BH X-ray Binaries to be Transients? | ||
| 11:00 | Coffee | |||
| 10:50 | I.F. Mirabel (I) | Microquasars in our Galaxy. | ||
| 11:15 | R.P. Fender (I) | New Results on Jets in Galactic X-ray Sources. | ||
| 11:40 | A. Celotti (R) | Models for Jet Formation. | ||
| 12:15 | A.R. King (C) | Super-Eddington Mass Transfer, Jet Sources, and SS 433. | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| Session III. Black-hole Phenomenology: Variability, Jets, Disks and Accretion Tori (continued) | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 13:30 | E.S. Phinney (R) | Black Holes and AGN at the Highest Redshifts. | ||
| 14:05 | A.C. Fabian (I) | Black Hole Accretion Disks. | ||
| 14:30 | R. Narayan (R) | Advection-dominated Accretion Flows. | ||
| 15:05 | H. Falcke (C) | Radio Cores in Low-Luminosity AGN and Binary Black Holes: ADAFs or Jets? | ||
| 15:20 | Coffee/Tea | |||
| POSTER SESSION | ||||
| Session IV. Black-hole Demography | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 16:30 | K.A. van der Hucht (C) | The Galactic Distribution of Wolf-Rayet Stars: Possible Black-Hole Progenitors. | ||
| 16:45 | R.P. van der Marel (I) | Constraints on the Presence of a Central Black Hole in M15. | ||
| 17:10 | S.F. Portegies Zwart (I) | Numerical Simulations of Globular Clusters: Theoretical Constraints on the Black Hole Formation. | ||
| 17:35 | H.W. Rix (I) | Black Holes in the Nuclei of Spirals: A Spectroscopic Survey with HST. | ||
| 18:00 | A. Marconi (C) | The Black Hole versus Bulge Mass Relationship in Spiral Galaxies. | ||
| 18:15 | M. Freitag (C) | Dynamical Evolution of Galactic Central Clusters Hosting Massive Black Holes. | ||
| 18:45 | Busses leave for hotels. | |||
Day 3: Wednesday 8 September 1999
| 08:15 | Bus transportation from Garching to ESO (leaving from the Maibaum) | |||
| Session V. Black-hole Formation | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 08:30 | M.J. Rees (R) | Scenarios for the Formation of Black Holes. | ||
| 09:05 | N. Langer (I) | The Advanced Evolution of Massive Stars. | ||
| 09:30 | S.E. Woosley (I) | Black Hole Formation in Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae. | ||
| 09:55 | F. Verbunt (R) | Binary Evolution and Black Hole Formation. | ||
| 10:30 | Coffee | |||
| 11:00 | V. Kalogera (I) | Formation of BH X-ray Binaries with Low-mass Donor Stars. | ||
| 11:25 | L. Kaper (C) | Empirical Lower Mass Limit for Black-hole Formation in a Massive Binary. | ||
| 11:40 | S. Wellstein (C) | Implications of Massive Close Binaries for Black Hole Formation and Supernovae. | ||
| 11:55 | C. Fryer (C) | Black Hole Formation: Predictions from Core-collapse and Accretion Induced Collapse Mechanisms. | ||
| 12:10 | F. Rasio (I) | Numerical Simulations of Mergers of Double Neutron Stars and Black Holes. | ||
| 12:35 | Lunch | |||
| Session V. Black-hole Formation (continued) | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 13:30 | J.A. van Paradijs (R) | Gamma-ray Bursts in Relation to Black Hole Formation. | ||
| 14:05 | A. MacFadyen (C) | Accreting Black Holes in Asymmetric Supernovae and Gamma Ray Bursts. | ||
| 14:20 | M.G. Hähnelt (I) | High-Redshift Galaxies, their Active Nuclei and Central Black Holes. | ||
| 14:45 | S.D.M. White (I) | The Galaxy Formation Connection. | ||
| 15:10 | G. Kauffmann (I) | Unified Models for the Formation of Galaxies, Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars. | ||
| 15:35 | Coffee/Tea | |||
| Session VI. New Developments in Astronomical Instrumentation for Black-hole Research | ||||
| Chairman: | ||||
| 16:00 | R. Olling (C) | Black Hole Results from STIS | ||
| 16:15 | N. Thatte (C) | SINFONI - Galaxy Dynamics at 0.05'' Resolution with the VLT. | ||
| 16:30 | N.R. Trams (C) | Gamma-ray Observations of Black Holes: The Prospects of INTEGRAL | ||
| 16:45 MODERATED DISCUSSION | ||||
| 17:45 | E.P.J. van den Heuvel | Workshop Summary | ||
| 18:30 | Busses leave for hotels. | |||