Dear Colleagues, I plan to organize a five, or six, days (not necessarily Monday-Friday) Workshop on "High frequency QPOs, theory and observations". Place: the Wojnowice Castle near Wroclaw in Poland. Time: sometime around mid September 2005. The suggested list of participants: Professors: ---------------- 1. Marek Abramowicz.......Gothenburg, Sweden 2. Omer Blaes.............Santa Barbara, USA 3. Axel Brandenburg.......Nordita, Denmark 4. Vladimir Karas.........Prague, Czech Republic 5. Shoji Kato.............Nara, Japan 6. Michiel van der Klis...Amsterdam, Holland 7. Wlodek Kluzniak........Zielona Gora, Poland 8. William Lee............Mexico City, Mexico 9. Jeff McClintock........Harvard, USA 10. Ron Remillard..........MIT, USA 11. Zdenek Stuchlik........Opava, Czech Republic 12. Bob Wagoner............Stanford, USA Students: ----------------- 13. Michal Bursa...........Prague, Czech Republic 14. Jirka Horak............Prague, Czech Republic 15. Paola Rebusco..........Munich, Germany 16. Gabriel Torok..........Opava, Czech Republic 17. Eva Sramkova...........Opava, Czech Republic The number of participants is strictly limited to 16, which is the number of rooms at the Castle. You are much welcome to come with a private guest, but for guests you will pay yourselves. (The total cost of an additional bed and all meals, was last year significantly less than 100 Euro per day.) I will cover all local expenses for all participants. Specifically, this includes: transport Wroclaw - Wojnowice - Wroclaw (there is an international airport in Wroclaw with connections to Munich, Frankfurt, Copenhagen and Warsaw), a single occupancy room with a private bathroom at the Castle, breakfast, lunch, dinner plus coffees, cakes and refreshments all day at the Castle. I will certainly NOT be able to cover foreign travel expenses for professors, but I may be able to do so for one or two students. There will be no registration fee, no proceedings, no committees, no social program. Only three one-hour invited lectures each day (each participant is therefore also an invited speaker). The Workshop will have its own web page. The Wojnowice Castle is a lovely place, full of art and with its own posh atmosphere. We will have our own lecture hall reserved only for us (with a free internet access), but anyone of us may meet in the evening, in the main hall, some interesting guests of Sir Francis Oborski who come often to the Castle: painters, philosophers, mathematicians, opera and pop singers. Sir Francis is the master of the Castle. Sir Francis' chef and cooks are a legend in the whole Lower Silesia Province of Poland. They will be cooking for us. You may visit my homepage http://fy.chalmers.se/~marek and click the link "Conferences" and then "Wojnowice", to see memories of the pervious Wojnowice Castle Workshop that I organized in 2004. From there, there is also a link to the web page of the Castle itself (in English and in Polish), at http://www.zamekwojnowice.ig.pl/ I would appreciate it very much if you could accept my invitation to participate in the Wojnowice Workshop. The precise dates will be fixed according to our preferences, needs, arrangements and timetables. Please, suggest the most convenient time for you. Late August or early October are quite possible. However, in the last week of September there is a traditional "Open University" series of public lectures in Warsaw in which I participate now for several years, and for this reason the last week of September is not a convenient time. I like to know your preferences concerning the possible dates reasonably early in order to book rooms at the Castle. Therefore, I would apreciate an early answer. Best regards, Marek ================================================== Marek A. Abramowicz, Professor of Astrophysics at Göteborg University ================================================== phone +46 31772 3135, fax +46 31772 3204 http://fy.chalmers.se/~marek ================================================== Postal address: Theoretical Physics Chalmers University 412-96 Göteborg, Sweden ==================================================