Sunday 6th September
18.00-19.30 Welcome reception at the Master's Lodge, Trinity College
Monday 7th September
Session 1: Basic physics / simulations
09.20-09.30 Welcome09.30-10.00 Omer Blaes (UCSB) — The vertical structure of radiation dominated accretion disks
10.00-10.30 Jim Stone (Princeton) — New shearing box simulations of the MRI: stratified disks in large domains
10.30-11.00 Anders Johansen (Leiden) — Computer simulations of the Parker instability in strongly magnetised Keplerian discs
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Geoffroy Lesur (DAMTP) — The effect of non ideal MHD on MRI induced turbulent transport in accretion discs
12.00-12.30 Mario Livio (STScI) — Observations of astrophysical jets and their implications for theoretical models
12.30-12.45 Conference photograph
12.45-14.00 Lunch at Churchill College (name badges must be worn in college)
Session 2: High energy
14.00-14.30 Rob Fender (Southampton) — Observational contraints on the spin-powering of black hole jets14.30-15.00 Giuseppe Lodato (Milan) — The evolution of circumbinary discs around a SMBH binary
15.00-15.30 Chris Fragile (Charleston) — Numerical simulations of tilted black-hole accretion disks
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.30 Elena Rossi (Jerusalem) — Black Hole Binary merger: the first light
16.30-17.00 Serguei Komissarov (Leeds) — Gamma ray bursts from close binary progenitors
17.00-17.30 Discussion
19.00-19.30 Pre-dinner drinks
19.30- Conference dinner (menu)in The Old Hall, Queens' College
Tuesday 8th September
Session 3: Black hole
09.30-10.00 Steve Lubow (STScI) — Further Analysis of the Superhump Instability10.00-10.30 Christine Done (Durham) — X-ray variability of the accretion flow
10.30-11.00 Jonathan McKinney (Stanford) — Measuring black hole spin in X-ray binaries
11.00-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.00 Kris Beckwith (IoA) — The Role of Magnetic Field Topology in Black Hole Accretion Flows: Disk Structure, Jet Launching and Poloidal Flux Transport
12.00-12.30 Ian Bonnell (St. Andrews) — Galactic centre star formation
12.45-14.00 Lunch at Churchill College (name badges must be worn in college)
Session 4: Proto-planetary / star formation
14.00-14.30 Roman Rafikov (Princeton) — Gravitoturbulent accretion disks14.30-15.00 Matthew Bate (Exeter) — Radiation hydrodynamical simulations of a protoplanet embedded in a circumstellar disc
15.00-15.30 Richard Alexander (Leiden) — Giant planet migration, disc evolution, and the origin of transitional discs
15.30-16.00 Tea
16.00-16.30 Thomas Robitaille (CfA) — Large-scale SED modeling of Young Stellar Objects
16.30-17.00 Clare Dobbs (Exeter) — Spiral galaxy simulations/Star formation rates in galaxies
17.00-17.30 Discussion
