5 January - 3 July 1998
Organisers: J Goodman (Princeton); JCB Papaloizou (QMW); JE Pringle (Cambridge); JA Sellwood (Rutgers)
This summer school, directed towards advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and researchers is intended to cover the physical processes that occur in Astrophysical Discs. Hydromagnetic processes, turbulence, and external forcing will be considered. Discs in the context of active galactic nuclei, galaxy discs, protostars and close binary systems will be discussed.
Bar at Wolfson Court
09.00-10.30 Registration
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.55 T Marsh (Southampton) CV discs observed
11.55-12.30 F Verbunt (Utrecht) X-ray binaries
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.55 J Hawley (Virginia) Angular momentum transport
14.55-15.30 J Sellwood (Rutgers) Turbulence in extended HI disks around galaxies
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.55 A Toomre (MIT) Swing amplification
16.55-17.30 AM Fridman (Russian Academy of Science) Vortices
17.30-18.30 Wine reception
09.00-09.55 C Chandler (Cambridge) Observation of circumstellar disks and jets
09.55-10.30 PJ Armitage (Toronto) Disc dispersal around young stars
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.55 M Livio (Space Telescope Science Institute) Instabilities and limit cycles
11.55-12.30 C Gammie (Harvard) Instabilities in protostellar discs
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.55 J Pringle (Cambridge) General physics of warps
14.55-15.30 GI Ogilvie (Cambridge) Nonlinear fluid dynamics of warped discs
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.55 JCB Papaloizou (Queen Mary and Westfield) Theory of protostellar discs
16.55-17.30 C Terquem (California) Observable effects in warped protostellar discs
19.30- Conference dinner at Sidney Sussex College
09.00-10.00 J Sellwood (Rutgers) Stability and evolution of disc galaxies
10.00-10.30 Coffee
10.30-11.30 JP Leahy (Nuffield Radio Astronomy Lab) Phenomenology of AGN
11.30-12.30 L Tacconi (MPI) Galactic nuclear discs
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Poster session
15.00-16.00 R Blandford (Caltech) Relativistic accretion
16.00-16.30 Tea
16.30-17.30 R Blandford (Caltech) Jets in AGN
18.00-19.15 Reception at Cambridge University Press Bookstore
09.00-09.55 I Yi (IAS) Advection-dominated accretion flows
09.55-10.30 P Natarajan (Toronto) Formation of massive BHs in galaxies
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.55 R Pudritz (Macmaster) Jets in protostellar systems
11.55-12.30 E Ostriker (Maryland) Selfsimilar jets
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.55 DNC Lin (California) Disc-planet interactions
14.55-15.30 A Toomre (MIT) Two well-known interactions
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.55 P Nicholson (Cornell) Planetary rings
16.55-17.30 S Sridhar (Pune) Models of self-gravitating eccentric discs
17.30-18.30 Wine reception
09.00-09.55 L Sparke (Wisconsin-Madison) Warps with self-gravity
09.55-10.30 R Nelson (Queen Mary and Westfield) Bending waves in low-mass gas discs
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-11.55 G Laughlin (UC Berkeley) Nonlinear waves
11.55-12.30 L Athanassoula (Obs de Marseille) Galaxy interactions
End of meeting