RAGtime conference is in full swing

  • Jan Novotný
  • 20.10.2020
This Monday, 19th of October the 22nd RAGtime international conference started on the Institute of Physics in Opava, which is being held online this year. This year's attendance is among the highest in the history of the conference, with 85 participants and 40 contributions. Online seminars on Zoom will be held until this Friday. After each seminar a discussion will be held in the video conference itself and in it's chat.
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The scientific focus of the workshop is traditionally devoted mainly to problems of relativistic physics of black holes and neutron or quark stars. This year, special attention will be paid to confronting theoretical models with up-to-date observations available through both electromagnetic and gravitational wave window to the Universe. This year, the workshop will be especially dedicated to Professor Zdeněk Stuchlík and his work as a celebration of his 70th birthday.

Among the most interesting seminars are:

  • „The effective potential in Newton's, Einstein's theories and beyond“ by profesor Marerk Abramowicz from Warsaw, active on (among other) the University of Gothenburg in Sweden and the Silesian University in Opava.
  • „Monitoring M87* in 2009-2017 with the EHT“ by Maciek Wielguse from Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • „Variability in accretion flows: Comparison of numerical simulations with observations“ by Dr Deepika Bollimpali, CAMK, Poland.
  • „Linear algebra and nonlinear diskoseismology“ by Jiří Horák from the Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic.
  • „Global numerical simulations of geometrically thin accretion disks“ by Bhupendra Mishra friom the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA.
  • „Neutron-star crusts, mountains and gravitational waves“ by professor John Miller from the University of Oxford, UK.

You can find out more about the conference at: ragtime.physics.cz Recordings of all seminars will be made available later online.

(Author: Mgr. Debora Lančová)