Unveiling the physical conditions around black holes is one of the major astrophysical challenges of the 21^st century. Indeed we are still at the dawn of black hole astrophysics and very little about these objects is understood:

• What are the geometry, dynamics and energetics of the accretion flow onto the black hole?
• How can the accretion of material onto the black hole be simultaneously intimately related to violent relativistic ejecta and/or powerful self-confined persistent jets?
• What are the processes at the origin of the fascinating hysteresis cycles observed in some X ray binaries?

This 5-day workshop (limited to 70 participants to ease discussions) aims at gathering theorists, observers and specialists of the field, discussing the latest results and reviewing the current state of our understanding of the physics of these sources.

Large dedicated time will be devoted to the following specific points :

• Global evolution of XrB in outburst
• Unification CV-BH-NS-ULX-AGN
• Ejections in XRBs (jets and winds)
• Structure and dynamics of accretion flows from temporal approaches
• Instrumental panorama including projects
  

The program will be organized in sessions centered around a limited number of invited reviews, with contributed presentations and ample time for discussion. Young researchers will be encouraged to contribute.

The following persons have accepted to give review talks:

• A. Zdziarski (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Varsaw, Poland)
• B. De Marco (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Varsaw, Poland))
• G. Dubus (Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble, Grenoble, France)
• D. Proga (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA)
• P. Uttley (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, Amsterdam, NL)
• R. Fender (Oxford University, UK)
• J. Wilms (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
• S. Corbel (Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Modelling Laboratory, Paris/Saclay, France)
  
• M. Diaz-Trigo (European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany)
• M. Moscibrodzka (Radboud University, Nijmegen, NL)
  
• E. Körding (Radboud University, Netherlands)
• J. Miller-Jones (Curtin University, Australia)
  

January 2017: First circular

April 2017: Second circular

Early April 2017: Abtract submission opens

Mid-May 2017: Deadline for abstract submission

End of May 2017: Notification of selected contributions

Beginning of June 2017: Registration opens

July 2017: Registration closes

25 September 2017: Workshop begins

Sponsors

Organizing Institutes:

Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG, Grenoble)

Institute of Research in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP, Toulouse)

Astrophysique, Instrumentation Modelisation (AIM, Paris-Saclay)

SOC: microquasar-soc@sciencesconf.org

LOC: microquasar-loc@sciencesconf.org