Name	E_mail_Address	Scientific_Session	Contribution_type	Title	Authors_affiliations	Abstract	
Alexander / Tal	tal.alexander@weizmann.ac.il	EAS Symp.6:Dynamics of Galaxies and Galactic Nuclei.	invited	The Galactic Center as a laboratory for stellar relaxation processes near a massive black hole	Weizmann Institute of Science	The massive Galactic black hole and the stars around it are a unique laboratory for studying how relaxation processes lead to close interactions of stars and compact remnants with the central massive black hole. I will review new results on the processes of loss-cone refilling by massive perturbers, resonant relaxation and mass segregation; describe observational evidence that these processes play a role in the Galactic Center; and discuss some of the cosmic implications, in particular for the rate and
nature of gravitational wave emission from compact
objects inspiraling into massive black holes.