Tuesday Jan 7th






9:30:00

Inauguration

Jacek Chodorowicz Przemyslaw Bobak

Session 1

Chair: Tomek


9:45

talk 1

Marek Abramowicz "Black hole accretion in the plunge-in region"

10:15

talk 2

Tal Alexander, Supra-exponential seed black hole growth in the early universe

10:45

talk 3

Re'em Sari, Newtonian and Relativistic Supernovae Shock Breakout

11:15

Coffee break


11:45

talk 4

Jacek Niemiec "Kinetic studies of nonrelativistic astrophysical shocks"

12:15

talk 5

Wlodek Kluzniak, Millisecond X-ray variability, a signature of strong gravity?

12:45

lunch break





Session 2

Chair Avishai Dekel


14:00

talk 6

Eran Ofek, The Palomar Transient Factory

14:30

talk 7

Dorota Rosinska “Orbital and epicyclic frequencies around rotating compact objects"

15:00

Talk 8

Yuri Lyubarski A model for short extragalactic radio bursts

15:30

Coffee break


16:00

Talk 9

Michal Bejger ,,Energetic particle collisions near black-hole horizons"

16:30

talk 10

Hagai Perez, Formation and evolution of nuclear stellar clusters


end of day 1


19:00:00

Dinner ?

TBD







Wed Jan 8th



Session 3

Chair: Wlodek


9:30

talk 11

Yossi Shvartzvald microlensing

10:00

talk 12

Tomasz Bulik, Measuring cosmological parameters with ET

10:30

talk 13

Glennys Farrar, Constrained Simulation of the Bullet Cluster

11:00

Coffee


11:30

talk 14

Rafal Moderski, "Very high energy astrophysics with Cherenkov telescopes"

12:00

talk 15

Bronek Rudak, Prospects for Studies of the local Universe with CTA

12:30

talk 16

Dan Maoz, The progenitors of Type-Ia supernovae

13:00

lunch break



Chair: Reem Sari


14:00

talk 17

Andrzej Udalski, given by Lukasz Wyrzykowski, OGLE-IV Survey

14:30

talk 18

Lukasz Wyrzykowski. Transient sky with OGLE, Gaia and beyond.

15:00

coffee break


15:30

talk 19

Tsevi Mazeh, The discovery of the first BEAMING exo-planet in the lightcurve of the Kepler satellite

16:00

talk 20

Nir Shaviv, The super Eddington precursors of type II supernovae

16:30

talk 21

Tsvi Piran, Implications of the Macronova associated with GRB 130603B on nucleosynthesis and binary mergers





end of day 2


19:00:00

dinner?








Thursday jan 9th








Trip to Jerusalem