2nd announcement of the workshop on:

EVOLUTION OF COMPACT BINARIES

in Vina del Mar - Valparaiso, Chile -- 6th to 11th March 2011

The workshop is organised jointly by ESO and Universidad de Valparaiso

Contact email: binary-evolution-2011@eso.org
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Webpage: http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2011/Binary_Evolution2011.html
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For details on the scope of the workshop etc., please read the 
1st announcement: 
http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2011/Binary_Evolution2011/FirstAnnouncement.txt

Registration:
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Registration is open at 
http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2011/Binary_Evolution2011/registration-open.html

The conference fee is 250 Eur (50 Eur for students) which also includes
all social activities including conference dinner.

Due to the recent problems with the ESO-internet, people could only 
start registering end of December (with a few exceptions). For this reason, 
we have decided to keep the registration open until 28th January. 

Invited Speakers:
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Boris Gänsicke (tbc) - Introduction to Cataclysmic Variables 
Phil Charles (tbc) - Introduction to Low Mass X-ray Binaries
Sylvain Chaty - Introduction to High Mass X-ray Binaries
Ian Bonnell (tbc) - Formation of close binaries
Natasha Ivanova - Common Envelopes
Mark van de Sluys - Gravitational braking and radiation
Jean-Francois Donati (tbc) - Magnetic Braking
Christian Knigge (tbc) - Evolution of donor stars
Thomas Tauris - Binary pulsars
Fritz Röpke (tbc) - SNe Ia as final stage of binary evolution
Enrico Ramirez - Gamma Ray Bursts as final stage of binary evolution

Scientific Program:
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We will work on the details of the program once we have closed the
registration and received all the abstracts. 

Social Activities:
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A cocktail is planned for Sunday evening (6th March). 
Wednesday afternoon, we will have a walk around Valparaiso visiting 
several sites and possibly a boat-trip through the harbour. 
In the evening will be the conference dinner in Valparaiso.

SOC:
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Jarrod Hurley, AU
Andrew King, UK
Ulrich Kolb, UK 
Mario Livio, USA 
Felix Mirabel, France
Linda Schmidtobreick, ESO 
Matthias Schreiber, Chile  

LOC:
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Moira Evans, Centro de Astrofisica de Valparaiso
Maria Eugenia Gomez, ESO  
Paulina Jiron, ESO 
Elena Mason, ESO 
Kieran O'Brien, UCSB 
Retha Pretorius, ESO
Alberto Rebassa, U. de Valparaiso
Linda Schmidtobreick (chair), ESO
Matthias Schreiber (chair), U. de Valparaiso 
Claus Tappert, U. de Valparaiso
Maja Vuckovic, ESO
Monica Zorotovic, ESO-PUC