MODEST-6 tentative schedule:   Monday   |   Tuesday   |   Wednesday   |   Poster Papers

MONDAY AM: Methods [Chair: Piet Hut]

August 29, 2005

Piet Hut	Introduction to MODEST [5]
Holger Baumgardt	Direct N-body Codes [20]	[.pdf]
Stefan Harfst	GRAPE Clusters: Beyond the Million-Body Problem [5]	[.ppt]
John Fregeau	Monte Carlo Simulations [20]	[.pdf]
Gordon Drukier	Update on Fokker-Planck Codes [10]	[.pdf]
Natasha Ivanova	Population Synthesis with Dynamics [20]	[.ppt]
Mike Shara	Direct N-body Simulations with Binary Star Evolution [20]	[.ppt]

MONDAY PM: Star Formation, Young Clusters and Binaries [Chair: Farhad Zadeh]

John Bally	Star Formation in Clusters [20]	[.ppt]
Soeren Larsen	Observations of Young Extragalactic Star Clusters [20]	[.pdf]
Steve Zepf	The Mass Function of Globular Cluster Systems [5]	[.ppt]
Mark Gieles	Physical Upper Limit to the Masses of Star Clusters [5]	[.pdf]
Jay Gallagher	Starbursts and Super Star Clusters [20]	[.ppt]
Linda Smith	A Young Super Star Cluster in M82 [5]	[.ppt]
Julia Greissl	Constraining the IMF in Starbursts [5]	[.ppt]
Adrienne Cool	Observations of Binaries in Globular Clusters [20]	[.ppt]
Hans Zinnecker	Binaries in the Orion Trapezium Cluster [5]
Linda Sparke	Disks in Eccentric Binary Systems [5]	[.ppt]

MONDAY Parallel Discussions

Modeling of Open Clusters	Bob Mathieu, Alison Sills
Binary Star Formation and Initial Binary Fractions	Hans Zinnecker
Optical/UV IDs of Exotic Binaries in GCs	Craig Heinke

TUESDAY AM: White Dwarfs and Neutron Stars [Chair: Ron Webbink]

August 30, 2005

Scott Ransom	Radio Pulsars in Globular Clusters [20]	[.pdf]
Mike Muno	A Magnetar in Westerlund 1 [5]	[.ppt]
Christian Knigge	FUV Observations of Globular Clusters [20]	[.ppt]
Andrea Dieball	An Ultracompact X-ray Binary in M 15 [5]	[.ppt]
Harvey Richer	Observations of White Dwarfs in Clusters [20]
Brad Hansen	A Puzzling White Dwarf Luminosity Function in NGC 6791 [5]
Craig Heinke	47 Tuc: Putting it all together [20]	[.pdf]

TUESDAY PM: X-ray Sources in Clusters [Chair: Steinn Sigurdsson]

Dave Pooley	X-Ray Sources in Galactic Globular Clusters [20]	[.pdf]
Tom Maccarone	X-Ray Sources in Extragalactic Clusters [15]	[.ppt]
Andres Jordan	The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey [10]
Arunav Kundu	Are Field X-ray Binaries Formed in Clusters? [5]	[.pdf]
Jimmy Irwin	LMXBs in Early-type Galaxies [5]	[.pdf]
Andreas Zezas	Observations of ULXs [20]
Marina Orio	X-ray Sources in and around the Bulge of M31 [5]	[.ppt]
Paola Mucciarelli	The ULX Source NGC 1313 X-2 [5]	[.ppt]
Vicky Kalogera	Theoretical Models of X-Ray Sources in Clusters [20]	[.ppt]

TUESDAY Parallel Discussions

Planets in Star Clusters	Fred Rasio, Steinn Sigurdsson
HB/EHB/sdBs and Abundance Anomalies in GCs	Giampaolo Piotto
Extragalactic LMXB/Cluster Connection and   LMXB Formation	Jimmy Irwin, Andreas Zezas

WEDNESDAY AM: Black Holes [Chair: Linda Sparke]

August 31, 2005

Mike Rich	Observational Evidence for Central Massive Black Holes [20]
Remco van den Bosch	Update on M15 [5]	[.ppt]
Eva Noyola	Evidence for a Black Hole in Omega Cen [5]	[.ppt]
Enrico Vesperini	Simulations of Young Star Clusters [5]
David Merritt	Dynamics of Star Clusters around Massive Black Holes [20]	[.ppt]
Cole Miller	Gravitational Wave Sources from Dense Star Clusters [20]	[.ppt]
Richard   O'Shaughnessy	Merging Black Hole Binaries from Star Clusters [5]	[.pdf]
Marta Volonteri	Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei [20]	[.pdf]

WEDNESDAY PM: Stellar Collisions [Chair: Giampaolo Piotto]

Francesco Ferraro	Observations of Blue Stragglers [20]	[.ppt]
Mike Shara	Spectral Observations of Blue Stragglers [10]	[.ppt]
Alison Sills	Hydrodynamics of Stellar Collisions [20]	[.ppt]
Jamie Lombardi	Formation of Ultracompact XRBs [5]	[.ppt]
Marc Freitag	Runaway Collisions in Dense Clusters [20]	[.pdf]
Steve McMillan	Runaway Collisions and IMBH Formation in the Galactic Center [5]

WEDNESDAY Parallel Discussions

ULXs	Vicky Kalogera, Cole Miller, Andreas Zezas
Stellar Collisions	Jamie Lombardi, Hans Zinnecker
Future of Combined Stellar Evolution + N-Body Modeling	Piet Hut, Natasha Ivanova

POSTER PAPERS

Giacomo Beccari	Star Counts in the Globular Gluster NGC6266 (M62): Blue Stragglers vs Millisecond Pulsars
Hans-Peter Bischof	A New Visualization System for Dense Stellar Systems
Laura Blecha	Dynamics of IMBHs in Dense Cluster Cores
Tamara Bogdanovic	Observational Signatures of Massive Black Holes
Sourav Chatterjee	Formation of the PSR 1620-26 Triple System in M4
Hui-Chen Chen	Open Clusters in a Dispersing Molecular Cloud
Andrea Dieball	An Ultracompact X-ray Binary in M 15
Mark Gieles	The Effect of Molecular Clouds on the Evolution of Star Clusters
Stefan Harfst	GRAPE Clusters: Beyond the Million-Body Problem
Miroslav Micic	TBD
Kenneth Moody	Eccentricity Perturbations via the Kozai Mechanism from Jovian-Mass Objects
Ryan O'Leary	Dynamical Evolution of Black Holes in Dense Clusters
Jeremy Sepinsky	XRBs in SSCs: Supernova Kick Dynamics
Remco van den Bosch	Triaxial Orbit-Based Schwarzschild Models
Marc van der Sluys	Creating Ultracompact X-ray Binaries in Globular Clusters
Chris Waters	The Mass Function of Globular Clusters in M87