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Neutron Stars and Black Holes in Star Clusters: Thursday | Friday
All talks are in Small Hall. Posters will be displayed in Terrace I.
| THURSDAY PM |
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| 14:00-15:30 Session 1: Modeling Star Clusters [Chair: Douglas Heggie] |
August 17, 2006 |
| Piet Hut (USA) |
Direct N-body Simulations [20] |
| John Fregeau (USA) |
Monte Carlo Simulations [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
C. Boily, G. Fahlman, J. Fregeau, P. Hut, J. Makino, R. Spurzem, E. Vesperini |
| 16:00-17:30 Session 2: Stellar and Binary Evolution in Clusters [Chair: Onno Pols] |
| Francesca D'antona (Italy) |
Binary Evolution [20] |
| Natasha Ivanova (Canada) |
Population Synthesis with Dynamics [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
F. D'antona, N. Ivanova, S. Justham, A. Sills, E. van den Heuvel |
| FRIDAY AM |
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| 9:00-10:30 Session 3: Pulsars in Globular Clusters [Chair: Ingrid Stairs] |
August 18, 2006 |
| Alessandro Corongiu (Italy) |
Parkes Observations of Radio Pulsars in Clusters [20] |
| Scott Ransom (USA) |
GBT Observations of Radio Pulsars in Clusters [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
M. Burgay, A. Corongiu, N. Ivanova, D. Pooley, S. Ransom, F. Verbunt |
| 11:00-12:30 Session 4: X-Ray Sources in Galactic Clusters [Chair: Frank Verbunt] |
| Craig Heinke (USA) |
Chandra Observations of X-ray Sources in Clusters [20] |
| Natalie Webb (France) |
XMM-Newton Observations of X-ray Sources in Clusters [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
C. Heinke, C. Knigge, D. Pooley, N. Webb |
| FRIDAY PM |
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| 14:00-15:30 Session 5: Extragalactic X-ray Sources in Clusters [Chair: Craig Sarazin] |
August 18, 2006 |
| Pepi Fabbiano (USA) |
Overview of X-ray Binary Observations in other Galaxies [20] |
| Tom Maccarone (UK) |
X-ray Source - Globular Cluster Association in Elliptical Galaxies [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
G. Fabbiano, A. Kong, T. Maccarone, R. Soria, F. Verbunt, A. Zezas |
| 16:00-17:30 Session 6: Massive Black Holes in Clusters [Chair: Sungsoo Kim] |
| Karl Gebhardt (USA) |
Observational Evidence for Massive Black Holes in Clusters [20] |
| Holger Baumgardt (Germany) |
N-body simulations of IMBH Formation [20] |
| Panel discussion [30] |
H. Baumgardt, K. Gebhardt, C. Heinke, N. Ivanova, J. Makino, S. McMillan, R. Spurzem, A. Zezas |
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