[vsnet-campaign-sn 467] (fwd) IAU Colloquium 194: Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond

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(fwd) IAU Colloquium 194: Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond

From: Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond <iau194@astrosen.unam.mx>
Subject: IAU Colloquium 194
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:15:52 -0700

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                         *First Announcement*
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                         IAU Colloquium 194
             "Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond"
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                 17-22 November 2003, La Paz, Mexico

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce an international conference on Compact
Binaries under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union
to take place in the city of La Paz, Baja California Sur,
Mexico during 17-22 November 2003. The conference site is a
quiet Mexican city nestled between the rugged desert and its
picturesque bay,  lined with beautiful beaches of the Gulf of California.


Compact interactive binaries can be found
in different classes of astrophysical objects across ages, masses,
wavelength ranges and  distances. This meeting aims to discuss the wide
variety of such objects found in our galaxy and beyond which are the
source of some of the most energetic processes studied by astrophysics.

The conference should be of interest to anyone
involved with the observational, modeling, or theoretical aspects of
close interacting binaries and their environment.


The introduction of a number of large optical telescopes in recent
years and of UV and X-ray telescopes in  orbit with unprecedented
high resolution and sensitivity is providing a new impetus for  the
study of CBs. While the  new results from these facilities have
started to appear in the literature, the qualitative breakthroughs
are expected in one or two years (by the time this conference will
be held) when a sufficient number of individual observations will
be accumulated in order to reach new conclusions.


The topics of the meeting include:

          + Interacting Binaries with Compact Primaries
                 in the Milky Way and other galaxies.

=09  + Products of Common Envelope Evolution: Symbiotic
             Stars and Planetary Nebulae Nuclei.

=09  + Ultraluminous X-ray sources

=09  + The Evolution of Close Binary Systems

=09  + Interacting compact binaries as SNIa progenitors.

          + Double degenerate binaries, AM CVn objects.

          + Cataclysmic Variables

=09  + Accretion Disks


If you would like more information about the list of subjects to be covered
at this conference, the preliminary list of topics and associated speakers,
the meeting venue you are invited to visit our web site
http://bufadora.astrosen.unam.mx/~iau194

If you would like to receive further details about this upcoming colloqui=
um
through subsequent mailings, please take a minute and submit your contact
information through our on-line interactive pre-registration form,
accessible through the web site listed above.

If you can think of colleagues, who might also be interested in this
symposium, please, forward this message to them. If you should receive
more than one copy of this announcement yourself, it as a sign that
your colleagues are thinking about you.


Scientific Organizing Committee
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Gaghik Tovmassian (chair), Jorge Casares, Phil Charles, Juan Echevarria,
Jochen Greiner, Manabu Ishida, Andrew King, Mario Livio, Edward Sion,
Paula Szkody, Brian Warner,  Dayal Wickramansinghe, Janet Wood, Lev Yungelson



Local Organizing Committee
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Sergey Zharikov, Maite Rosas, Raul Michel, Mauricio Reyes, Urania Cesenia



Contact Details
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Web page:   http://bufadora.astrosen.unam.mx/~iau194

Email:      iau194@astrosen.unam.mx

Fax:        + 52 646 1744777 (attn: Gaghik Tovmassian/Sergey Zharikov)

Phone:      + 52 646 1744580 ext 235


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                         IAU Colloquium 194
             "Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond"
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                          Dr. Gaghik Tovmassian (SOC)
=09=09  Dr. Sergei Zharikov     (LOC)

Apdo. Postal 877=09=09=09=09PO Box 439027
22800 Ensenada, B.C.=09=09=09=09San Diego, CA, 92143
Mexico=09=09=09=09=09=09=09USA

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