The Joint Space Science Institute at the University of Maryland and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is hosting a conference on "Putting Accretion Theory to the Test" on November 4-6, 2013, in historic Annapolis, Maryland. The meeting will bring together both theorists and observers in order to discuss the physics of accretion disks in the full range of astrophysical settings. Goals of this meeting are (1) Summarize the current state-of-the-art in observations of both steady and transient accretion phenomena as well as accretion disk theory and simulations, (2) Compare and contrast black hole and neutron star disks with white dwarf and protostellar disks in order to elucidate the role of relativistic physics, (3) Identify key observational and theoretical challenges for future work. The format of the meeting will encourage discussion and interaction. (from the homepage.)

The Rencontres de Moriond session on Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe will review the subject 4 years after the last edition. The main topics of the conference are: Origin and Propagation of Cosmic Rays, Compact Objects High Energy Cosmic Rays, Gamma Ray Astronomy, Gamma Ray Bursts, High Energy Neutrino Astronomy, Dark Matter searches and Nature and Origin of Dark Matter. The conference will include both review and contributed talks and will be organized only in plenary sessions (from the homepage.)

Black Hole Universe 2012 is the final conference of ITN 215212 "Black Hole Universe". The aim of this conference is to bring together theorists and observers interested in the science of supermassive and stellar-mass black holes. The workshop follows a series of successful summer schools and the 2011 workshop on Black Hole Astrophysics in Winchester. Our aim is to provide an overview of the most important subjects in black hole astrophysics through a series of 40 minute long review talks and 20 minute long scientific talks. [...] In line with the theme of our network, we will cover all types of accreting astrophysical black holes, from X-ray binary systems through ULXs to AGN, with a particular emphasis on making connections across the mass and luminosity scales based on the common physics between them. (from the homepage.)

Workshop to learn extraction of data from the XMM-Newton satellite and general introduction in X-ray data analysis with the software ISIS. Topics covered were also plotting with the SLxfig module and confidence level calculation with the SLmpi module.

A workshop to present the state-of-the-art in theory and data interpretation, primarily aimed at young researchers (graduate students and postdocs) and those wnating a wide-ranging introduction to the latest developments. homepage

The symposium is the third international meeting in the series "The X-ray Universe". The intention is to gather a general collection of research in high energy astrophysics. The symposium will provide a showcase for results, discoveries and expectations from current and future X-ray missions. homepage

The Symposium is aimed at putting the various communities devoted to the study of relativistic jets in closer contact and allow for a detailed comparison of all sources containing jets such as Microquasars, Active Galactic Nuclei, and Gamma-Ray Bursts. homepage

The COSPAR Assembly is the biggest interdisciplinary scientific convention on space research.

Different methods of studying strong gravity effects around astrophysical black holes of all masses (line and continuum spectroscopy, timing, polarimetry, imaging) have been discussed and compared during this conference. homepage