[vsnet-alert 10243] 14th North American Workshop on CVs and related objects

[Daisaku NOGAMI]

Dear colleagues,

We would be very happy if many of you are interested in the following
announcement on the next CV meeting.

Best regards,
Daisaku Nogami

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Wild Stars in the Old West II: The 14th North American Workshop on
Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects 15-19 March 2009, University
of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona

It has been ten years since the last North American Workshop on
Cataclysmic Variables and nearly five years since the last
international meeting on cataclysmic variables and their kin. Of
particular interest since these last meetings are new results based on
observational platforms such as GALEX, Spitzer, Chandra, XMM INTEGRAL
and Swift/BAT, large surveys such as SDSS and planned Pan-STARRS and
LSST, smaller but equally important surveys such as All Sky Automated
Survey ASAS), Catalina Sky Survey, "Pi of the Sky", ROTSE, results
from large aperture ground-based telescopes, theoretical advances, and
evolutionary relationships of CVs to other binary stars.

Wild Stars in the Old West II plans to cover all topics within the
area of CVs and related objects (observational and theoretical) with
sessions driven by the interest of those planning to attend.

Participants will have the option to present a 20 minute talk, give a
poster, or both. The meeting proceedings will be published
"electronically" and all participants can contribute with very liberal
page limits. The meeting plans to have plenty of time for poster
viewing and collaborative gatherings as well as discussion during the
oral sessions.

March is an outstanding month to enjoy the great Arizona weather and
the Tucson area offers numerous outdoor and indoor sight seeing and
historical activities to enjoy.

Information on meeting registration and details, abstract submission,
local information (hotels, tours, attractions, etc.) is available at
the meeting website: http://www.noao.edu/meetings/wildstars2/

The Scientific organizing committee (SOC) is:

    * Lars Bildsten (UCSB)
    * Boris Gaensicke (Warwick)
    * Tom Harrison (NMSU)
    * Steve B. Howell (NOAO, Chair)
    * James Liebert (University of Arizona)
    * Domitilla de Martino (INAF)
    * Paul A. Mason (UTEP/NMSU)
    * Koji Mukai (NASA/GSFC)
    * Daisaku Nogami (Kyoto)
    * Edward M. Sion (Villanova)
    * Paula Szkody (University of Washington)


The local organizing committee (LOC) for this meeting is:

    * Steve B. Howell (NOAO)
    * Thomas E. Harrison (NMSU)
    * James Liebert (University of Arizona)
    * Donald Hoard (SSC)
    * Paul A. Mason (UTEP/NMSU)