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                       BREAKING THE LIMITS
           Super-Eddington Accretion on Compact Objects

                  Arbatax (OG), Sardinia, Italy
                      September 19-23, 2016

Email: supereddington2016@oa-cagliari.inaf.it
Website: http://matteobachetti.github.io/supereddington2016

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RATIONALE AND PROGRAM
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Recent years have seen an increasing interest of the astronomical community
on the topic of super-Eddington accretion on compact objects, which can
apply to a variety of systems, such as supermassive black holes, black hole
binaries, ULXs, neutron stars. Moreover, the possibility that the Eddington
limit may be violated can have important implications for the related topics
of black hole growth, galaxy evolution and AGN feedback.

This workshop will be an opportunity to compare recent observations with
state-of-the-art theoretical modeling of super-Eddington flows, and to
discuss the cosmological implications of this regime of accretion.

Tentative list of sessions:
Accretion and ejection physics
Black hole growth and galaxy evolution
Active Galactic Nuclei and quasars
Galactic super-Eddington black holes and neutron stars
Ultraluminous X-ray sources
Gamma-ray bursts and tidal disruption events
New and future observatories: ASTRO-H, NICER, Astrosat, Athena, JWST, SKA, …


ORGANIZING COMMITTEES
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## Scientific Organizing Committee

Matteo Bachetti (co-chair) - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Paola Castangia - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Tiziana di Salvo - University of Palermo, Italy
Chris Done - Durham University, UK
Fiona Harrison - California Institute of Technology, USA
Andrew King - University of Leicester, UK
Rodrigo Nemmen - University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ken Ohsuga - National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Japan
Alberto Pellizzoni - INAF Cagliari, Italy
Katja Pottschmidt - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Chris Reynolds - University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Joe Silk - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France
Alexander Tchekhovskoy - University of California, Berkeley, USA
Francesco Tombesi (chair) - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Marta Volonteri - Institut de Astrophysique de Paris, France

## Local Organizing Committee

Matteo Bachetti (chair)
Marta Burgay
Tiziana Coiana
Elise Egron
Noemi Iacolina
Andrea Tarchi
Alessio Trois

REGISTRATION
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A registration form will be available on the website soon
(http://goo.gl/rCXUkG). The conference fee is expected to be around
250 euros for early registers, and the early registration deadline, yet to
be decided, should be around the end of May.

VENUE
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The conference will be held at the Arbatax Park Resort, in Arbatax (OG), a
small town along the beautiful east coast of Sardinia. This resort offers a
variety of lodging solutions and discounted prices for conference
participants (as low as ~60E/night for the basic solution). Participants are
encouraged to use these offers for convenience.

This is the website of the Arbatax Park Resort:

http://www.arbataxpark.com/en/

The Travel Information page on the conference website will be updated soon.

SOCIAL EVENTS
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Besides the traditional social dinner, during this workshop we will organize
a visit to the recently commissioned Sardinia Radio Telescope
(http://srt.inaf.it), a 64-m antenna for Radio Astronomy, Geodynamical
studies and Space science, with active surface and bleeding-edge technology,
able to work either in single dish or in VLBI mode.

-- Francesco Tombesi and Matteo Bachetti
   on behalf of the SOC