RAGtime No 3

A WORKSHOP ON PROCESSES IN THE VICINITY OF BLACK HOLES AND NEUTRON STARS,
Opava, Monday 8th - Wednesday 10th October 2001,
Faculty of Philosophy and Science,
Silesian University at Opava,
Czech Republic

Sponsored by Massag Bílovec and JČMF.

Contents

Basic info

Where:

Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University at Opava, Czech Republic

Organized by:

The Relativistic Astrophysics Group

How to contact organizers:

see section `How to contact us'

, or contact the secretary of the conference by phone +420 653 684 292, or via Email addresses
physics@fpf.slu.cz

Conference fee:

not set yet.

Accomodation:

available either in a hotel or a cheap accomodation in a student hostel. Details will be provided upon request.

Opening event spacetime coordinates:

(Monday 8th October at 17:00, Dept. of Physics' Laboratory of Multimedia).

Sign:

You can download a piece of ragtime music composed by one of the students, Jakub Říčan, in a low, middle, and high quality.

Bozena Czerny: Copernicus Astronomical Institute, Warsaw, Poland
Stanislav Hledík: Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic (LOC)
Vladimír Karas: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Jiří Langer: Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Antonio Lanza: SISSA, Trieste, Italy
John Miller: Oxford, UK; SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Petr Slaný: Technical University, Ostrava; Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic
Roman Strzondala: Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic
Zdeněk Stuchlík: Silesian University, Opava, Czech Republic (LOC chairman)

Students

On periodic phenomena in accretion neutron stars: MICHAL BURSA (Prague, Czech Republic)
Two-phase accretion onto black holes and the possible signature of marginally stable orbit: BOZENA CZERNY (Warsaw, Poland)
A force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole: MICHAL DOVčIAK (Prague, Czech Republic)
Stellar dynamics and other evidence for black holes in galactic nuclei: VLADIMíR KARAS (Prague, Czech Republic)
Multigrid computations in relativistic astrophysics: ANTONIO LANZA (SISSA, Trieste)
Neutron star instabilities and relativistic shocks: JOHN MILLER (Oxford, UK; SISSA, Trieste, Italy)
Some aspects of Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes relevant to accretion processes: PETR SLANý (Ostrava, Opava, Czech Republic)
Role of repulsive cosmological constant in accretion onto black holes: ZDENěK STUCHLíK (Opava, Czech Republic)

Monday 8th October

17:00: Opening ceremony
17:15: Zdeněk Stuchlík: Role of repulsive cosmological constant in accretion onto black holes
18:15: Students' Discussion Forum

Tuesday 9th October

9:00: J. Miller: Neutron star instabilities and relativistic shocks
10:00: Jakub Říčan:
10:20: Coffee break
10:30: Students' Discussion Forum
12:00: Lunch
15:30: V. Karas: Stellar dynamics and other evidence for black holes in galactic nuclei
16:30: Coffee break
17:00: B. Czerny: Two-phase accretion onto black holes and the possible signature of marginally stable orbit
18:00: Students' Discussion Forum
19:00: Evening party at bar `Astron'

Wednesday 10th October

8:30: Petr Slaný: Some aspects of Kerr-de Sitter spacetimes relevant to accretion processes
9:00: M. Dovčiak: A force-free magnetosphere around a Kerr black hole
9:30: M. Bursa: On periodic phenomena in accretion neutron stars
10:00: Coffee break and Students' Discussion Forum

Clickable map of the Czech Republic (in Czech):
http://www.mapy.cz/
Official website of the town Opava (in Czech):
http://www.opava-city.cz/
Train and bus connection (in Czech, English and German):
http://idos.datis.cdrail.cz/

S. Hledik / 2002-05-20