===== Meeting I =====

Date: January 16, 2009

Place: Utrecht, Buys Ballot Laboratorium (BBL) Room 505 [[http://www1.phys.uu.nl/departement/directions/|Travel directions]]

Program:

10:30-11:00 **coffee**

11:00-12:30 **Session 1** 

  * Introduction to what is done where
    * Rudy Wijnands (Amsterdam) "Compact binary research in Amsterdam" (25min)
    * Onno Pols/Frank Verbunt (Utrecht) "Compact binary research in Utrecht (theory)" (15min)
    * Peter Jonker (SRON Utrect) "Compact binary research in Utrecht (observations)" (15min)
    * Paul Groot (Nijmegen) "Compact binary research in Nijmegen" (20min)
    * Mariano Mendez (Groningen) "Compact binary research in Groningen" (15 min)

12:30-13:30 **lunch** (in Minnaertgebouw at own cost, **you need a chip card to pay**)

13:30-15:00 **Session 2**

  * Contributed talks (15 min each including questions)
    * Anna Watts (Amsterdam) "Constraining LMXB parameters in support of gravitational wave searches"
    * Diego Altamirano (Amsterdam) "Discovery of the Intermittent accretion-powered X-ray pulsars and  their implications"
    * Alessandro Patruno (Amsterdam) "Coherent studies of accreting millisecond pulsars: current status and future prospects"
    * Beike Hiemstra (Groningen) "Truncated accretion disks in the low/hard state" 
    * Matt Wood (Nijmegen) "Direct impact accretion in ultra-compact AM CVn binaries"

15:00-15:30 **coffee/tea break**

15:30-17:00 **Session 3**

  * General discussion: the big questions and possible synergies

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For the sessions we solicit contributions, both in terms of talks as well as 
general discussion topics, that could fill up one session (preferably with 
suggestions of speakers). Please e-mail you contributions to Gijs Nelemans 
(nelemans@astro.ru.nl) and Frank Verbunt (verbunt@astro.uu.nl)