The Variable Universe
A Celebration of Bohdan Paczyński

Princeton, NJ, USA
Memorial Service - 09.28.07 - 3 PM

In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to
The Brain Tumor Society - 124 Watertown Street - Suite 3H - Watertown, MA 02472 - USA

Symposium - 09.29.07 & 09.30.07

Talks given during the symposium are now available on the program webpage.
The final list of participants can be found here.
 

During this three-day event, we will celebrate Bohdan Paczyński's life and his major contributions to many branches of astrophysics. A memorial service will be held on Friday in the Princeton University Chapel, and a two-day symposium covering the many areas Bohdan contributed to will follow on the Princeton University campus on Saturday and Sunday. Talks will be given by nine invited speakers, and space will be provided to accommodate poster presentations by participants.

• Stellar evolution
• Variable stars
• Accretion disks
• Gamma-ray bursts
• MACHOs and gravitational micro-lensing

• Marek Abramowicz (Goteborg University, Sweden)
• Charles Alcock (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA, USA)
• Andrew Gould (Ohio State University, USA)
• Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, USA)
• Tsvi Piran (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• Grzegorz Pojmański (Warsaw University Observatory, Poland)
• George Preston (Carnegie Observatories, USA)
• Virginia Trimble (UC Irvine, USA)
• Andrzej Udalski (Warsaw University Observatory, Poland)

There is no registration fee for this event.
Registration is now closed.

Directions to Princeton can be found here.
A map of the Princeton University campus is available here.
Though we do not have enough funds to cover travel or lodging expenses, accommodation has been reserved at preferential rates at the following hotels.
When booking, indicate that you will be attending the Astrophysical Sciences - Paczyński Variable Universe Conference.

• David Spergel (Princeton University)
• Jerry Ostriker (Princeton University)
• Bruce Draine (Princeton University)

Please, address all questions to schaos@princeton.edu.
For technical difficulties, e-mail fraisse@astro.princeton.edu for support.

 
You can download a full size PDF version of this poster here.