Symposium Program
Sunday 3 December - Friday 8 December 2006

Sunday afternoon and evening 1630-1930 Reception in the Common Room of University House

All talks will be in the Duffield Lecture Theatre at Mt Stromlo Observatory

Monday afternoon Session 3 Starburst winds Chair: Annalisa Celotti
Time	Speaker	Title
1330-1400	Joss Bland-Hawthorn	Starburst Winds
1400-1415	Jackie Cooper	Three-Dimensional Simulations of a Starburst Wind
1415-1430	Steve Tingay	The supernova remnants at the heart of the nuclear outflow in the NGC 253 starburst
1430-1445	Masao Mori	The evolution of galaxies from primeval irregulars to present-day ellipticals
1445-1500	John Everett	Does the Milky Way Launch a Large-Scale Wind?
1500-1530	Tea/Coffee
Session 4 Gamma ray bursters Chair: Annalisa Celotti
1530-1600	Paul O'Brien	GRB Jets in the Swift Era
1600-1630	Edward van den Heuvel	Boundary conditions for long GRB-Supernova models in relation to host galaxy characteristics
1630-1700	Elena Rossi	Vertical nuclear profile of hyper-accreting disk
1700-1715	Susanna Vergani	Direct GRB fireball Lorentz factor measurements through REM early afterglow observations
1715-1730	Angelo Antonelli	The Puzzling afterglow of GRB~050721: a rebrightening seen in the optical but not in the X-ray.

Tuesday Morning Session 5 Pulsar jets and winds; jets from evolved stars Chair: Ken Kellermann
Time	Speaker	Title
0900-0930	Bryan Gaensler	Observations of Pulsar Winds and Jets
0930-1000	Okkie de Jager	Pulsar Winds
1000-1015	Sergey Moiseenko	Magnetorotational supernovae, magnetorotational instability, jet formation.
1015-1030	Ed Kellogg	R Aquarii: jets from an evolved White Dwarf - Red Giant (Symbiotic) Binary
1030-1100	Tea/Coffee
Session 6 Pulsar jets and winds; jets from evolved stars (cont) Chair: Ken Kellermann
1100-1130	Elena Gallo	Galactic X-ray binary jets: facts and speculations
1130-1145	Aimee McNamara	Compton Scattering of Fe K-alpha Lines in Magnetic Cataclysmic Variables
1145-1215	Katherine Blundell	SS433
1215-1230
1230-1330	Lunch

Tuesday afternoon Session 7 YSO jets and winds Chair: Okkie de Jager
Time	Speaker	Title
1330-1400	John Bally	Jets in Herbig Haro objects
1400-1415	Tyler Bourke	Submillimeter Array and Spitzer Observations of Protostellar Outflows
1415-1430	Fabian Casse	Two-component MHD outflows around young stellar objects: Interplay between stellar winds and disc-driven jets
1430-1500	Hsien Shang	Jets in Herbig Haro objects
1500-1530	Tea/Coffee
Session 8 YSO jets and winds (cont) Chair: Okkie de Jager
1530-1545	Kee-Tae Kim	Jets and Molecular Outflows from High-Mass Protostars
1545-1600	Bringfield Stecklum	Herbig-Haro objects - tracers of the formation of low-mass stars and substellar objects
1600-1615	Chris Wright	Mid-infrared polarisation and inferred magnetic field direction toward YSOs with outflows
1615-1630	Kurt Liffman	The Stellar-Disk Electric Circuit and Bipolar Jet Flows
1630-1645	Brian Humensky	VERITAS: Status and Key Science Program

Wednesday morning Session 9 YSO and planetary disks Chair: Katherine Blundell
Time	Speaker	Title
0900-0930	Tae-Soo Pyo	Probing the Origin of the Wind/Jet from YSOs
0930-1000	Ray Jayawardhana	Disks around YSOs and Brown Dwarfs
1000-1015	Sergio Fajardo-Acosta	Studies of the Incidence of Hot Circumstellar Dust in Young Systems
1015-1030	Sarah Maddison	Gap Formation in the Dust Layer of a Protoplanetary Disk
1030-1100	Tea/Coffee
Session 10 YSO and planetary disks (cont) Chair: Katherine Blundell
1100-1130	Peter McGregor (to be presented by Michael Dopita)	Gemini observations of galactic and YSO disks and jets
1130-1200	Pawel Artymowicz	Planetary Disks
1200-1215	Grant Kennedy	Some super-Earths form in super snowstorms
1215-1230	Holly Sims	Filaments in the Galactic Center
1215-1330	Lunch

Wednesday afternoon - free

Thursday morning Session 11 AGN sub-parsec and parsec scale: Radio Chair: Zdenka Kuncic
Time	Speaker	Title
0900-0930	Ken Kellermann	Doppler Boosting, Superluminal Motion, and the Kinematics of AGN Jets
0930-0945	Andrei Lobanov	Compact jets as physical probes for sub-parsec scale regions in AGN
0945-1000	Anne Lahteenmaki	Total flux density radio observations as a tool for understanding AGN jets
1000-1015	John Kirk	SSC models of high brightness temperature radio sources
1015-1030	Phil Hardee	GRMHD/RMHD Jet Simulations & Theory
1030-1100	Tea/Coffee
Session 12 AGN sub-parsec and parsec scale: Radio (cont) Chair: Zdenka Kuncic
1100-1130	Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer	Modelling of micro-arcsecond jet components in Intraday Variable quasars
1130-1200	Jim Lovell	The MASIV Survey and AGN structure at micro-arcsecond resolution
1200-1215	Dave Jauncey	Inter-Stellar Scintillation, Scattered Size, Screen Distance and Microarcsecond Structure of the Unusual Source B0059+581
1215-1230
1230-1330	Lunch

Thursday afternoon Session 13 AGN sub-parsec scale: High energy Chair: Herman Marshall
Time	Speaker	Title
1330-1400	Martin Ward	Coronal lines, warm absorbers and X-ray winds
1400-1430	Rita Sambruna	Multi-wavelength timing of blazars
1430-1500	Stefan Wagner	Hard gamma rays from jets and winds
1500-1530	Tea/Coffee
Session 14 Magnetic fields: estimates and dynamics Chair Herman Marshall
1530-1600	Fabrizio Tavecchio	Jets on subpc and large scales
1600-1615	Geoff Bicknell	Linkage between accretion disks and blazars
1615-1645	Mark Wardle	Magnetic fields in YSO discs
1645-1700	Daniel Price	The effect of magnetic fields on the formation of circumstellar discs around young stars
1700-1715	Raquel Salmeron	Angular momentum transport in protostellar discs

Thursday evening Symposium dinner at University House 7:00 pm for 7:30 pm Meet in the Common Room for pre-dinner drinks Dinner in the Hall

Friday morning Session 15 Accretion disks and jet launching Chair: Martin Ward
Time	Speaker	Title
0900-0930	Zdenka Kuncic	Towards a new standard theory of accretion disks
0930-0945	Genaddi Bisnovatyi-Kogan	Jet confinement by magneto-torsional oscillations
0945-1000	Andrzej Maciolek-Niedzwiecki	Observational effects of the Kerr metric
1000-1030	John Hawley	General relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of black hole accretion disks and jets
1030-1100	Tea/Coffee
Session 16 Accretion disks and jets Chair: Martin Ward
1100-1130	Jonathan McKinney	Simulations of Jet Launching
1130-1145	Elmar Koerding	Common disc-jet coupling in all accreting object
1145-1200	Erin Jolley	Black Hole Accretion in Sagittarius A*: Extracting Jet Power from a Relativistic Disk
1200-1230	Julian Malzac	Jet-disk coupling
1230-1330	Lunch

Friday afternoon Session 17 ULXs Chair: Rita Sambruna
Time	Speaker	Title
1330-1400	Tim Roberts	X-ray observations of ULXs
1400-1430	Manfred Pakull	ULX bubbles
1430-1500	Roberto Soria	Accretion states and black hole masses in ULXs
1500-1530	Tea/Coffee
Session 18 Future facilities & discussion Chair: Rita Sambruna
1530-1445	John Everett	Disk Winds in AGN: An Overview of Models and Observations
1545-1615	Julie Mc Enery	GLAST observations of AGN and GRBs
1615-1645	Annalisa Celotti	Discussion

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