Program of the Conference
The Variable Universe - A Celebration of Bohdan Paczyński
Princeton, NJ, USA
Memorial Service - 09.28.07 - 3 PM
Symposium - 09.29.07 & 09.30.07
Talks given during the symposium are now
available on this page by clicking on the speakers' names.
Saturday, September 29th
Morning
Stellar Evolution and Variable Stars
9:00 George Preston:
Bohdan Paczyński: The Early Years
10:00 Marek Abramowicz:
A Few Simple Ideas Concerning Black Hole Accretion Disks
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Grzegorz Pojmański:
Bohdan's Idea of Astronomy with Very Small Telescopes: Why Do
We Need Them?
Afternoon
MACHOs and Gravitational Lensing
2:00 Charles Alcock: Bohdan and
Magellanic Cloud Microlensing
3:00 Andrew Gould:
Recent Developments in Gravitational Microlensing
4:00 Coffee break
4:30 Andrzej Udalski:
The OGLE Survey - Bohdan's and Our Great Adventure
Conference Dinner - 7 PM
Sunday, September 30th
Gamma-ray Bursts and Summary
9:00 Tsvi Piran: Bohdan's Impact on
Our Theoretical Understanding of Gamma-ray Bursts
10:00 Chryssa Kouveliotou:
Bohdan and Gamma-ray Bursts: an Observer's View
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Virginia Trimble:
Place of Bohdan Paczyński in the Astronomical History
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