Meetings
Annual meetings of Prague Relativistic Astrophysics Group
2016 (Bramberg am Wildkogel, Austria, 11–18 June 2016) 2015 (Kiel, Germany, 14–18 September 2015) 2014 (Mandling, Austria, 19–26 July 2014) 2013 (Kiel, Germany, 6–8 August 2013) 2012 (Heiligenblut, Austria, 11–18 August 2012) 2011 (Ginzling, Austria, 6–13 August 2011) 2010 (Gargellen, Austria, 14–21 August 2010) 2009 (Leogang, Austria, 14–21 June 2009) 2008 (Fügen, Austria, 23–30 August 2008)
Cologne–Prague–Kiel (CPK) Meetings
Recent discoveries in Galactic center and AGN physics have been achieved through high-resolution observations. These need to be compared to theoretical and computational models. CPK workshops bring together members of our groups to support their long-term collaboration since 2013 (the first Meeting took place in Kiel); other interested participants are most welcome. The Meeting of 2015 (Prague, 9–10 November 2015) could be considered as particularly symbolic because of an (almost) precise coincidence with 100th anniversary of Einstein's General Relativity; see Program 2015. The Meeting of 2016 (Cologne, 30 November–02 December 2016, overlapping with the traditional Cologne/Bonn Christmas markets:) – see Program 2016.
FERO Meetings
Titled Finding Extreme Relativistic Objects (FERO), this series of workshops aims at a systematic analysis of well defined samples of high quality X-ray observations of nearby X-ray bright AGNs to study the signature of X-ray illuminated relativistic accretion disks in the spectral and timing domain. We organised the 1st Meeting in European Space Astronomy Center, Villafranca del Castillo in February 2008. The 6th Meeting was hosted by Prague Relativistic Astrophysics group in late summer 2012. The 8th Meeting was held in Southern Moravia in September 2016.
StrongGravity Kick-off Meeting
The starting kick-off meeting of our new StrongGravity project is hosted by Prague Relativistic Astrophysics group on 26–27 February 2013. This five year EU-FP7 project brings together scientists from seven top European research institutions and universities, including the Astronomical Institute in Prague.
Conference on Relativity and Gravitation
At the end of June 2012, a conference "Relativity and Gravitation – 100 years after Einstein in Prague" will be held in Prague and our group participates on its organization. The main theme of this meeting is to summarize the development in the theory of general of relativity and its applications is astronomy and cosmology over past 100 years.
Conference on Probing Strong Gravity
In February 2010 we organized an international conference "Probing Strong Gravity Near Black Holes". The meeting discussed approaches to study strong gravity effects near black holes of all masses, including mainly line and continuum spectroscopy, timing, polarimetry and imaging.
IAU General Assembly in Prague
Symposium Black Holes — from Stars to Galaxies at the 26th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Prague (21–25 August 2006). Proceedings can be ordered from Cambridge University Press.