May 7, time and place TBA: Cyndi Froning, CASA, University of Colorado: "Studying Disk Accretion and Outflows: FUV Spectroscopy of Compact Binary Systems"

Our understanding of the physics of accretion and outflows in  compact binary systems has advanced much in recent years, fueled in part by observations of cataclysmic variables and related systems with HST,  FUSE, Chandra, and XMM. I will review recent results from FUV observational studies of cataclysmic variables and discuss what they reveal about the structure and properties of the inner accretion disk, the disk-white dwarf boundary region, and disk winds. Finally, I will present future directions for research in this area to improve our picture of accretion physics.