🥳 Today we got the abstracts for all the contributed talks for a symposium that I am co-organizing the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting. 50 abstracts for about ~10-12 slots, it's going to be hard to decide who gets to speak! But why organize a session at all? 1/5
My favorite thing at conferences is to learn new things, find new interesting implications of my own work, and to get to know people with whom I can work on these new ideas. So this is what I am aiming at when organizing a session. 2/5
The big European Astronomical Society meetings are great for that because they bring together people working in different fields. Last year, we were very successful bringing together people working on "clumpy" accretion in different types of objects:
https://twitter.com/vicgrinberg/status/12769291118738022423/5
This year, a different group is organizing a session where we discuss the birth (in supernova explosions), life (as accreting X-ray binaries where black holes gets material of the companion star) and death (in mergers observed through gravitational waves) of black holes. 4/5 
I myself work on the "life" part, so I am there to learn about birth and death! I also mentioned my self-organized collaborations last time. This session grew out of one of those collabs, when we sat down and asked ourselves what we want to know more about! 5/5
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