Theory of Accretion Disks

Abstract

Conference Photograph.- Preface.- List of Participants.- Welcoming Address.- Observational Evidence for Accretion Disks in Galactic Nuclei.- The Low-Frequency Spectra of Accretion Disks in Active Galactic Nuclei: The Dark Side of the Big Blue Bump.- Observational Constraints on Viscosity in the AGN Accretion Discs.- Accretion Disk Magnetohydrodynamics and the Origin of Jets.- Formation of Relativistic MHD Jets in the Magnetosphere of Accretion Disks.- Nonsteady MHD Jets from Magnetized Accretion Disks - Sweeping-Magnetic-Twist Mechanism -.- Statistical Modelling of IR/UV Spectra in AGN.- Formation and Evolution of the Solar Nebula.- Angular Momentum Transport in Protostellar Disks.- Protostellar Discs.- Formation of Viscous Protostellar Accretion Disks.- Formation and Structure of Protostellar Accretion Disks.- Merging White Dwarfs, Disk Formation and Type I Super-Novae.- Variability of Active Galactic Nuclei and Galactic QPO Sources: A Diagnosis.- Nonlinear Pulsation in the Transonic Region of Geometrically Thin Accretion Disks.- One-Armed Oscillations Of Disks and Their Applications.- Thermal and Tidal Instabilities in Accretion Disks of Dwarf Novae.- Hydrodynamic Simulation of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Variables.- Simulations of Accretion Flow in Close Binary Stars.- Viscous Evolution of Accretion Discs in the Quiescence of Dwarf Novae.- Black Hole Accretion Disc Instability and Soft X-Ray Transients.- Non-Axisymmetric Shear Instabilities in Thick Accretion Disks.- Instabilities of Accretion Flows Caused by the Interaction of Internal Gravity Modes.- Simulations of Three-Dimensional Slender Tori.- Accretion Disks in Low Mass X-Ray Binaries.- Reflected Accretion Disk Emission Lines in Cataclysmic Variables.- The Structure of the Boundary Layer of Accretion Disks in Cataclysmic Binaries.- The Dynamics of Twisted Accretion Discs.- A Free Accretion Disk in Sn 1987A?.- The Spectra of Relativistic Accretion Disks.- The Compact Object in SS433: Neutron Star or Black Hole?.- Physics of Accretion by Spiral Shock Waves.- Spiral Shocks in Accretion Disks: A Preliminary Numerical Study.- Mass Transfer by Tidally Induced Spiral Shocks in an Accretion Disc.- Accretion Disks and the Link Between an AGN and its Host Galaxy.- Large-Scale Accretion Flows in AGN.- The Disk Accretion of a Tidally Disrupted Star onto a Massive Black Hole.- Line Radiation from Stationary Accretion Disks.- Continuum Spectra of Accretion Discs.- Influence of Radiative Transfer on the Vertical Structure of Accretion Disks.- Dusty Disks and the Infrared Emission from AGN.