The Galactic Center Black Hole Laboratory conference

November certainly closes the 2013 observing session during which the compact dusty S-cluster object (DSO - often also called gas cloud G2) will probably have passed massive Black Hole associated with Sagittarius A* (SgrA*) at the center of the Milky Way. This event has spawned great activities in observing the Galactic Center covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio, via infrared to X-ray wavelengths using telescopes across the world. Hence, in Granada we look forward to conclude the presumably fruitful research session on SgrA*.

The conference was organized by the COST Action MP0905 "Black Holes in a Violent Universe". It was also supported by and linked to the COST Action MP1104 - "Polarization as a tool to study the Solar System and Beyond", the FP7 action "Probing Strong Gravity by Black Holes Across the Range of Masses", and the collaborative research center SFB956 "Conditions and Impact of Star Formation -Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Laboratory Research".

Event website: http://galacticcenter.iaa.es/

Antxon Alberdi was the co-chair of the conference, together with Rainer Schödel. The rest of the local organizing committee (LOC) was formed by the GEARS team members Francesco Costagliola, Rubén Herrero-Illana, and Mónica Rodríguez.