Timings

We will start at 9:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and at 0930 on Thursday (a very slight concession to post-conference-dinner heads.). We will finish around 17:30 on Tuesday and Thursday. On Wednesday we will finish at lunchtime, and have a free afternoon. On Friday we will finish mid-afternoon. Lunch will be provided on all four days, including the Wednesday. There will also be coffee breaks of course, but Nic likes to be delightfully vague about when they are.

Registration

At the Monday evening reception we will have the name badges available. (Wear them!) On Tuesday morning we will have full registration - tick your name, collect your badge if you haven’t already, pick up conference swag. Should take about 20 seconds.

Science Programme

We are deliberately leaving some flexibility/discussion time in the programme, and so have set out the structure as a “block programme” as shown below.

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Here is a two page summary including titles and some approximate timings.

And here is the booklet of talk/poster abstracts.

Discussion sessions

These are evolving, but look likely to be:

Tuesday: “Lets not re-invent the [AGN crisis] wheel”
Wednesay: “Current roadblocks in Accretion Disk Theory”
Thursday: “Grumpy Questions Answered”
Friday: “Crisis? What Crisis”

Hopefully these titles give quite a lot of flexibility.

Social Programme

Welcome Reception: Monday, 5:00-7:00pm at the Higgs Center for Innovation on the ROE site. Drinks (alcoholic and soft) will be provided. Some nibbles too.

Free afternoon: Wednesday afternoon has been left open. You can carry on scientific discussions, or self-organise outings - whatever you like!

Conference Dinner: Wednesday, 8:30pm at Vittoria on the Bridge, 19 George IV Bridge. If you have booked but haven’t yet made your menu choice, please asap at the online survey link. We still have space available for `Plus Ones’, family members and other guests, but let us know as soon as possible at quasarsincrisis@gmail.com. The full menu is £50. The ‘Young Adults’ menu is £35.

Other possible visits/events: For those interested in some history, we could arrange some private viewings of the famous Crawford collection of ancient astronomical books, and perhaps a visit to Calton Hill, the historic home of the Royal Observatory.