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Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei

their Diagnostics, Demography, and Formation

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.

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.

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.

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