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Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

 

Workshop programme (may be subject to change)

UK Time (BST)

Speaker Title Time
Monday 17th May
12:00 Roman Rafikov
(University Of Cambridge, DAMTP)

Welcome

5
 

Session Chair:

Brian Metzger
 
12:05 Tsvi Piran
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Distorted disks in Tidal Disruption Events 30+10
12:45 Chi-Ho Chan
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Magnetorotational instability in eccentric disks 15+5
13:05 Pavel Ivanov
(PN Lebedev Physical Institute)
The evolution of a twisted accretion disc formed after a tidal disruption event 15+5
13:25 JJ Zanazzi
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Eccentric Tidal Disruption Event Disks around Supermassive Black Holes: Dynamics and Thermal Emission 15+5
13:45 Boris Gaensike
(University of Warwick)
Planetary systems around white dwarfs: tidal disruptions and distorted dynamical discs 30+10
14:25

Break

  55
  Session Chair: Dimitri Veras  
15:20 Christopher Manser
(Imperial College London)
Why are gaseous debris discs around white dwarfs so rare? 15+5
15:40 Uri Malamud
(Tel-Aviv University / Technion Institute)
A new hybrid SPH-analytical method for disc formation through tidal disruption of planetary bodies 15+5
16:00 Sasha Tchekhovskoy
(Northwestern University)
Simulations of tilted black hole accretion flows 30+10
16:40 Christopher White
(Princeton)
Observable Consequences of Warps and Twists in Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Disks 15+5
17:00 Janosz Dewberry
(Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
Rapid variability in eccentric accretion discs 15+5
17:20 Discussion session 1
Moderator:
Dong Lai
TDE, black hole and white dwarf related issues 40
18:00 Close    
       
Tuesday 18th May
  Session Chair: Giuseppe Lodato  
12:00 Daniel Price
(Monash University)
Rocking shows in broken circumbinary discs 15+5
12:20 Anna Laws
(University of Exeter)

Arms, rings and warps: Structured dust observed with GPI

15+5
12:40 Stefano Facchini
(ESO)
Linking inner and outer disks via photometry and high angular resolution imaging 15+5
13:00 Rebecca Martin
(University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
Misaligned disks in and around binary star systems 30+10
13:40 Poster session 1 Poster information available here 40
14:20 Break   60
  Session Chair: Yuri Levin  
15:20 John Magorrian
(University of Oxford)
The eccentric disc of M31 30+10
16:00 Ann-Marie Madigan
(University of Colorado Boulder)
A Lopsided Solar System? 15+5
16:20 Scott Tremaine
(IAS)
Lopsided Galactic Nuclei 30+10
17:00 Discussion session 2
Moderator:     
Nienke van der Marel
Distortions in protoplanetary disks 40
17:40 Close    
       
Wednesday 19th May
  Session Chair: Myriam Benisty  
12:00 Gordon Ogilvie
(University of Cambridge, DAMTP)
Hydrodynamic theory of warped and eccentric discs 30+10
12:40 Stefan Kraus
(University of Exeter)

Disk tearing in a young triple star system with misaligned disk/orbit plane

15+5
13:00 Simon Casassus
(Universidad de Chile)
Warps in transition disks 15+5
13:20 Giovanni Rosotti
(Leiden University)
Spirals in gas and dust 15+5
13:40 Poster session 2 Poster information available here 40
14:20 Break   60
  Session Chair: Rebecca Martin  
15:20 Nienke van der Marel
(University of Victoria)

On the diversity of observed asymmetries and spiral arms in protoplanetary disks

30+10
16:00 Matthew Coleman
(IAS)
Spiral Density Waves Generated in the Boundary Layer 15+5
16:20 Zhaohuan Zhu
(UNLV)
Spirals in protoplanetary discs 30+10
17:00 Discussion session 3
Moderator:
Henrik Latter
Numerics, theory, and observations of warped 
(and eccentric) disks 
what are we getting right 
and what are we getting wrong?
40
17:40 Close    
       
Thursday 20th May
  Session Chair: Willy Kley  
12:00 John Papaloizou
(University Of Cambridge, DAMTP)
Dynamics of thin planetary rings 30+10
12:40 Enrico Ragusa
(University of Leicester)
Eccentric circumbinary discs: when “eccentric” means conventional 15+5
13:00 Davide Gerosa
(University of Birmingham)
Warped accretion discs with LISA 15+5
13:20 Dong Lai
(Cornell University)

Circumbinary Accretion: from Supermassive Binary Black Holes to Circumbinary Planets

30+10
14:00 Diego Munoz
(Northwestern University)
Long-Lived Eccentricities in Circumbinary Disks: Linear Theory and Simulations 15+5
14:20 Break   60
  Session Chair: Mark Wyatt  
15:20 Jean Teyssandier
(University of Namur)
A Simplified Model for the Secular Dynamics of Eccentric Discs and Applications to Planet-Disc Interactions 15+5
15:40 Philippe Thebault
(L'Observatoire de Paris - LESIA)
Perturbed debris disks 30+10
16:20 Rajika Kuruwita
(University of Copenhagen)
Simulating accretion and evolution during binary star formation 15+5
16:40 Kedron Silsbee
(MPE)
Planet Formation in Binaries 15+5
17:00 Cristobal Petrovich
(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Disk-planets interactions in misaligned discs: consequences for planetary orbits 15+5
17:20

Giuseppe Lodato
(Universita' degli Studi di Milano)

A dynamical measurement of the disc mass in Elias 2-27

15+5
17:40 Closing words/Summary Roman Rafikov 20
18:00 Close