The programme as a PDF file can be found here.
Tuesday, 4 September
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast, registration & wake up coffee 10:00 - 10:10 Welcome address Session I: History 10:10 - 10:50 Introductory Talk by Jean-Pierre Lasota-Hirszowicz download 10:50 - 11:00 break/cold drinks 11:00 - 11:40 Yoji Osaki: "A brief history of the disk instability model for the dwarf nova outburst" download ‘Round table’ discussion & recollections (J. Cannizzo, F. Meyer, E. Meyer-Hoffmeister, Y. Osaki, J. Smak) 12:30 - 14:00 lunch Session II: Dwarf novae and related binaries I 14:00 - 14:40 John Cannizzo: "The Thermal-Viscous Limit Cycle Model in Dwarf Novae" download 1st movie 2nd movie 14:40 - 15:20 Józef Smak: "Dwarf Nova Superoutbursts" 15.20 - 16:00 Brian Warner: "The nature of superhumps" download 16:00 - 16:30 coffee break 16:30 - 17:10 Solen Balman: "X-ray Observations of Dwarf Novae in quiescence and Outburst" download 17:10 - 17:30 Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka: "IX Draconis - a curious ER UMa-type dwarf nova" download 17:30 - 18:10 Polina Zemko: "ER UMa - Dwarf Novae persistently switching from positive to negative superhumps" download
Wednesday, 5 September
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast & wake up coffee Session III: Dwarf novae and related binaries II 10:00 - 10:40 Danny Steeghs: "Maping the mass flow between the two stellar components in binary systems" 10:40 - 11:20 Graham Wynn: "Duplicating discs: simulations of accretion discs in binary stars" 11:20 - 11:30 break/cold drinks 11:30 - 12:10 Gavin Ramsay: "Outbursts in AM CVn binaries" download 12:10 - 12:30 Joanna Mikołajewska: "Mass transfer and accretion in symbiotic binaries" download 12:30 - 14:00 lunch Session IV: Disk instability in X-ray binaries 14:00 - 14:40 Andrew King: "Disc instability in soft X-ray transients" download 14:40 - 15:00 Konstantin Malanchev: "Non-stationary disk accretion in Soft X-ray transients" download Free afternoon
Thursday, 6 September
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast & wake up coffee Session V: Radiation-pressure instability in black hole systems I 10:00 - 10:40 Agnieszka Janiuk: "Radiation pressure instability in the accreting black hole systems" 10:40 - 11:20 Olivier Godet: "Constraining the accretion flow evolution around the best intermediate mass black hole candidate HLX-1 in the ESO 243-49 galaxy" download 11:20 - 11:30 break/cold drinks 11:30 - 12:10 Ken Ohsuga: "Simulations of the radiation-presure disk instability" 12:10 - 12:30 Viacheslav Zhuravlev: "Optimal transient growth in keplerian discs via variational technique" download 12:30 - 14:00 lunch Session VI: Radiation-pressure instability in black hole systems II 14:00 - 14:40 Omer Blaes: "MRI Simulations and the Thermal-Viscous Instability" download 14:40 - 15:10 Włodek Kluźniak: "Thermal stability of accretion disks with delayed heating" 15:10 - 15:40 Aleksander Sądowski: "Outflows and convective stability of accretion disks based on GRMHD simulations of ADAFs" download 15:40 - 16:00 TBD 16:00 - 16:30 coffee break Session VII: Variability of AGNs 16:30 - 17:10 Ewa Szuszkiewicz: "Variability as a powerful diagnostic of AGN" 17:10 - 17:30 Marek Nikolajuk: "Low covering factor of the BLR in weak emission-line quasars" download 17:30 - 17:50 Marek Jamrozy: "Recurrent activity in extragalactic radio sources" 17:50 - 18:10 Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska: "Intermittent activity of radio-loud BAL quasar 1045+352" 18:30 NCAC Medal Award Ceremony
Friday, 7 September
9:00 - 10:00 Breakfast & wake up coffee Session VIII: Close binaries & future observations 10:00 - 10:40 Christian Knigge: "Disc stability vs close binary evolution" download 10:40 - 11:20 Didier Barret: "Future of X-ray observations" 11:20 - 12:00 General discussion & conference summary End of the meeting 12:30 Departure for Wilanów