Announcement of the COSPAR Symposium E1.2

[Michael Arida <arida@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>]

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This message contains some essential information and the program of
the COSPAR symposium E1.2, entitled:

"X-ray and gamma-ray signatures of black holes and weakly magnetized
neutron stars"

19-20 July 2000 (Wednesday-Thursday), during the COSPAR Scientific
Assembly in Warsaw, Poland.

Note that the dates and duration have been changed with respect to the
original COSPAR announcement. The duration is now 2 full days. With
the above dates, it now follows the COSPAR symposium E1.1, "New vistas
from X-ray observatories", 17-18 July.

Important deadlines:

10 January 2000: submission of abstracts for contributions.
1 May 2000: pre-registration at reduced rates.
1 May 2000: hotel reservations.

For Details See:  

http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

The main scientific organizer, Andrzej Zdziarski, can be contacted at:
aaz@camk.edu.pl


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Confirmed invited talks:

1.
Accretion disks around black holes: recent results
M. Abramowicz

2.
Accretion disk models of luminous black holes
A. Beloborodov

3.
The role of the boundary layer in accretion onto a neutron star
W. Kluzniak

4.
Black holes and neutron stars in quiescence
R. Rutledge

5.
Mechanisms of outbursts in black hole transients
A. King

6.
Spectra of ionized accretion disks
A. Fabian

7.
Fourier-resolved spectroscopy and correlation between noise and reflection in
X-ray binaries
M. Gilfanov

8.
X-ray spectra of accreting neutron stars
D. Barret

9.
X-gamma-ray observations of black hole binaries
C. Done

10.
The soft state of black-hole binaries
P. Coppi

11.
Theories of state transitions in X-ray binaries
R. Svensson

12.
X-ray spectra of Seyferts and NLSy 1s: comparison to black-hole binaries
P. Zycki

13.
X-ray variability of AGNs and correlations with the spectral properties
K. Nandra

14.
Spectral variability and time lags in accreting black holes and neutron stars
J. Poutanen

15.
QPOs and noise in black hole and neutron star binaries
R. Wijnands

16.
QPOs in X-ray bursters
T. Strohmayer

17.
Correlations between spectral and temporal properties of black holes and
neutron stars
M. van der Klis

18.
Models of kHz QPOs in neutron stars
D. Psaltis

19.
Accreting ms pulsars and evolution of LMXBs
D. Chakrabarty


The scientific organizing committee:

Andrzej A. Zdziarski (Poland), Marek Abramowicz (Sweden), Angela Bazzano
(Italy), Bozena Czerny (Poland), Chris Done (UK), Ken Ebisawa (USA), Andy
Fabian (UK), Anne Kinney (USA), Juri Poutanen (Sweden), Roland Svensson
(Sweden), Yasuo Tanaka (Japan), Michiel van der Klis (Netherlands).

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