IAUS 324: New Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics 12th-16th Sep 2016
Sunday, September 11th 16:00 - 19:00: Registration
Monday, September 12th:
8:00-17:00: Registration
Morning
9:00-9:10: Welcome Address
Topic 1. Similarity and Diversity of Black Hole Systems session chair: Andrej Čadež 9:10-9:40: Virginia Trimble: First Frontiers in Black Hole Astrophysics 9:40-10:10: Elina Lindfors: Similarity and diversity of black holes - view from the Very High Energies 10:10-10:40: Alexander Tchekhovskoy: Astrophysics of black hole powered jets 10:40-11:00: Coffee Break 11:00-11:15: Kenji Toma: Causal production of the electromagnetic energy flux and role of the negative energies in Blandford-Znajek process 11:15-11:30: Felix Mirabel: Stellar, Intermediate and supermassive black holes 11:30-11:45: Petra Sukova: Transonic structure of slowly rotating accretion flows with shocks around black holes 11:45-12:00: Akos Bogdan: What drives the growth of supermassive black holes? 12:00-12:15: Luca Zampieri: Investigating ULXs through multiwavelength variability, broadband spectra, and theoretical modelling 12:15-12:30: Charles Bailyn: Black Hole Binaries in Quiescence 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
Monday, September 12th: Afternoon
Topic 2: Gamma Ray Bursts session chair: Stefano Covino 14:00-14:30: Kunihito Ioka: Black Hole Systems as Multi-Messenger Sources 14:30-15:00: Nial Tanvir: Gamma-ray bursts: progress and problems 15:00-15:15: Željka Marija Bošnjak: Gamma-ray burst spectral evolution in the internal shock model 15:15-15:35: Coffee Break 15:35-16:05: Diego Gotz: Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization 16:05-16:20: Mikhail Garasev: Generation and decay of the magnetic field in collisionless shocks 16:20-16:35: Gavin Lamb: Low Lorentz Factor Jets from Compact Stellar Mergers: Candidate Electromagnetic Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources 16:35-16:50: Alessio Berti: Search for High Energy emission from GRBs with MAGIC 16:50-17:05: Shuqing Zhong: GRB 110530A: Peculiar Broad Bump and Delayed Plateau in Early Optical Afterglows 17:05-17:20: Enwei Liang: Liso-Ep-Gamma_0 Correlation of Gamma-Ray Bursts
17:30: Walking Tour of Ljubljana
Tuesday, September 13th:
8:00-17:00: Registration
Morning
Topic 3: Tidal Disruption Events
8:30-9:00: Brad Cenko: Observational Progress in Identifying and Characterizing Tidal Disruption Events 9:00-9:30: Enrico Ramirez Ruiz: Stellar Tidal Disruption: what can we learn and what have we learned 9:30-10:00: Pawan Kumar: Radiation mechanism and composition of relativistic jets in TDEs 10:00-10:15: Andrej Čadež: The role of electromagnetism in tidal disruption events 10:15-10:35: Coffee Break 10:35-11:05: Tal Alexander: Relativistic loss cone dynamics: Infall and inspiral rates and branching ratios 11:05-11:20: Shiho Kobayashi: Hypervelocity Stars: tidal disruption of binaries by a massive black hole 11:20-11:35: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh: Star Formation Close to the Supermassive Black Hole Sgr A* 11:35-11:50: Gabrijela Zaharijas: Fermi LAT's view of the centre of our Galaxy 11:50-12:05: Zsolt Paragi: Swift J1644+5734: the EVN view 12:05-12:20: Richard Saxton: Tidal disruption events seen in the XMM-Newton slew survey 12:20-12:35: Lukasz Wyrzykowski: TDEs in OGLE and Gaia surveys 12:35 - 14:00: Lunch Break
Tuesday, September 13th Afternoon
Topic 4: Active Galactic Nuclei session chair: Susumu Inoue
14:00-14:30: Talvikki Hovatta: Observational view of magnetic fields in AGN jets 14:30-15:00: Maxim Barkov: Ultrafast VHE Gamma-Ray Flares of AGN 15:00-15:15: Elina Lindfors: Optical and Radio variability of the Northern VHE gamma-ray emitting BL Lac objects 15:15-15:30: Josefa Becerra Gonzalez: Multi-wavelength study from radio to TeV of the most extreme X-ray flaring activity of the high-peaked BL Lac Mrk 501 15:30-15:45: Cornelia Arcaro: Monitoring of the radio galaxy M87 at Very High Energy with MAGIC during a low emission state between 2012 and 2015 15:45-16:05: Coffee Break 16:05-16:20: Stefanie Komossa: The extremes of AGN variability 16:20-16:35: Amri Wandel: X-ray fluctuation timescale and BH mass relation in AGN 16:35-16:50: Antonio Stamerra: Quasi-periodic modulation observed in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG1553+113 and its connection to its central engine 16:50-17:05: Stefano Covino: Year long oscillations of blazars 17:05-17:20: Maria Charisi: Periodic quasars from PTF as milliparsec supermassive black hole binary candidates 17:20-17:35: Vassilis Karamanavis: Radio and gamma-ray loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the spotlight 17:35-17:50: Minfeng Gu: The jet properties of radio-loud Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies 17:50-18:05: Juan Antonio Fernandez-Ontiveros: Elusive accretion discs in low luminosity AGN
18:05-19:15: Oral presentations of posters
Wednesday, September 14th
8:00-14:00: Registration
Morning
Topic 4: Active Galactic Nuclei - cont. session chair: Carole Mundell 8:30-9:00: Serguei Komissarov: Remarkable Stability of AGN Jets 9:00-9:15: Shuangliang Li: The high-efficiency jets magnetically accelerated from a thin disk in powerful lobe-dominated FRII radio galaxies 9:15-9:30: Ioana Dutan: Particle-in-cell Simulations of Global Relativistic Jets with Helical Magnetic Fields 9:30-9:45: Sunil Chandra: On the role and morphology of magnetic field during flares in blazars
9:45-10:00: Carlos Coimbra-Araújo: Magnetic AGN luminosities and ultra high energy cosmic ray luminosities 10:00-10:15: Paula Chadwick: The Energetic Particle Population in Centaurus A 10:15-10:35: Coffee Break 10:35-10:50: Bradley Peterson: AGN STORM: A Leap Forward in Reverberation Mapping 10:50-11:05: Shai Kaspi: Studying the outskirts of reverberation mapped AGNs 11:05-11:20: Krisztina Gabanyi: Searching for pairs of accreting supermassive black holes 11:20-11:35: Peter Raffai: A statistical method for detecting gravitational recoils of supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei 11:35-11:50: Geoffrey Bicknell: The critical role of Gigahertz Peak Spectrum and Compact Steep Spectrum radio sources in AGN feedback 11:50-12:05: Martin Bourne: Simulation of AGN feedback 12:05-12:20: Colin DeGraf: AGN duty cycles in the Illustris simulation 12:20-12:35: Lisa K. Steinborn: Using cosmological simulations as a laboratory for the physics of AGN
12:35-13:45: Lunch
13:45: Symposium Trip to Postojna Caves and Vipava or free afternoon
20:00-21:00: Public Lecture: Sheila Rowan: Gravitational waves: A new astronomy
Thursday, September 15th:
8:00-17:00: Registration
Topic 5: Tests of fundamental theories of physics using black hole systems session chair: Andreja Gomboc 9:00-9:30: Mark Hannam: How to measure black holes: numerical relativity and gravitational waves 9:30-9:55: Silvia Piranomonte: Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave candidates 9:55-10:10: Iain Steele/Chris Copperwheat: Spectroscopic Follow-up of Candidate Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources 10:10-10:25: Barbara De Lotto: MAGIC electromagnetic follow-up of Gravitational Wave alerts 10:25-10:45: Coffee Break 10:45-11:00: Agnieszka Janiuk: On the gamma-ray burst-gravitational wave association in GW150914 11:00-11:15: Lili Yang: Search for UHE neutrinos – in coincidence with LIGO GW150914 event – with the Pierre Auger Observatory 11:15-11:30: Hiromichi Tagawa: What was the Initial Mass of Merging Black Holes in GW150914? 11:30-11:45: Pablo Marchant: A new route towards merging massive black holes 11:45-12:10: Felix Mirabel: Binary black holes are formed in the dark 12:15-14:00: Lunch Break session chair: Kenji Toma 14:00-14:30: Priyamvada Natarajan: Unveiling the first black holes 14:30-15:00: Jutta Kunz: Black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet-dilaton theory 15:00-15:30: Giovanni Amelino-Camelia: Planck-scale-deformed symmetries and cosmological neutrinos 15:30-16:00: Robert Lasenby: Searching for ultra-light new particles with black hole superradiance 16:00-16:20: Coffee Break 16:20-16:35: Carlos Herdeiro: Kerr black holes with scalar or Proca hair 16:35-16:50: Saeede Nafoosh: Radio spectrum of Hawking emission from a primordial black hole 16:50-17:05: Viacheslav Emelyanov: QED in the background of evaporating black holes 17:05-17:20: Surajit Chattopadhyay: A study on accretion of dark energy onto Morris-Thorne Wormhole and the consequences
Thursday, September 15th: late afternoon
Topic 6: Technology Drivers and Future Capabilities
17:20-17:35: Antti Rantala: Post-Newtonian-accurate SMBH dynamics in galactic-scale numerical simulations 17:35-17:50: Pauli Pihajoki: Photon and polarization transport in general spacetimes
20:00: Symposium Dinner (and Poster competition winners announced)
Friday, September 16th:
8:00-12:00: Registration
Morning
Topic 6: Technology Drivers and Future Capabilities - cont.
9:00-9:30: Stefano Gabici: Acceleration of particles up to PeV energies at the galactic centre 9:30-10:00: Alberto Carramiñana: Black hole astrophysics with the High Altitude Water Cherenkov gamma-ray observatory 10:00-10:30: Susumu Inoue: Black Hole Astrophysics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array 10:30-10:50: Coffee Break 10:50-11:20: Kevin Meagher: Search for neutrinos from black holes with IceCube 11:20-11:50: Rene Goosmann: X-ray polarimetry: a new window on black hole systems 11:50-12:05: Željko Ivezić: LSST survey: millions and millions of quasars 12:05-12:35: Sheila Rowan: Black hole observations with Advanced LIGO: status and future plans for the Advanced detector network
12:35-13:00: Symposium Summary
End of Symposium
15:30 - 19:00: Teachers Workshop on Black Holes