Jean-Pierre Lasota Conference

JPL JPL X-ray binaries, accretion disks and compact stars

Welcome to the website of the special conference in honour of Jean-Pierre Lasota.

The conference was held from Sunday October 7, to Saturday 13 October, 2007, at the Trzebieszowice Castle in Lower Silesia in Poland.



Scientific Organizing Committee: Marek Abramowicz, Didier Barret, Andrew King, Jozef Smak

The full program may be found here or by clicking "Program" above. Some of the presentations have also been made available (including Agnieszka's after-dinner talk!).

The proceedings will be published in New Astronomy reviews. Details can be found on the program page.

Thanks to Eric Gourgoulhon and Phil Charles, some PICTURES FROM THE CONFERENCE may be found here.
The participants list is here.
The black hole picture above was made by Jean-Alain Marck at DARC/Meudon.
The conference photo, courtesy of Phil Charles.

Conference Photo