Updated May 9th – Science program
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Monday, May 14 – Teatro Comunale
| 09:00 | Welcome speeches | |
| Session 1 – Black Hole masses. Chair: Geoffrey Bower | ||
| 09:20 | Karl Gebhardt | Measurements of masses in supermassive black holes |
| 09:50 | Eleonora Sani | NGC 1275: An Outlier of the Black Hole-Host Scaling Relations |
| 10:10 | Luka Popovic | Black hole mass measurements in AGN: Polarization in broad emission lines |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 2 – Black Hole vicinity – theory and simulations. Chair: Sasha Tchekovskoy | ||
| 11:00 | Monika Moscibrodzka | Black Hole Accretion in Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 11:30 | Yosuke Mizuno | Testing Theories of Gravity via BH Shadows and Modeling of Relativistic Jets |
| 11:50 | luca ciotti | Fully analytical solutions for Bondi accretion in galaxies with a central black hole |
| 12:10 | Ziri Younsi | Modelling the polarised emission from black holes on event horizon-scales |
| 12:30 | Elisabete de Gouveia Dal Pino | Particle acceleration and the origin of the very high energy emission around black holes and relativistic jets |
| 12:50 | Lunch | |
| Session 3 – Black Hole vicinity – observations. Chair: Denise Gabuzda | ||
| 14:20 | Kazunori Akiyama | Imaging and Filming Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope |
| 14:50 | Geoffrey Bower | Probes of Accretion and Outflow in Low Luminosity AGN Using Millimeter Polarimetry |
| 15:10 | Jongho Park | Substantial winds from hot accretion flows confining the relativistic jet of M87 |
| 15:30 | Fabio Bacchini | Numerical methods for particle and ray tracing in general relativity |
| 15:50 | Freek Roelofs | On the Prospects of Imaging Sagittarius A* from Space |
| 16:10 | Coffee break | |
| Session 4 – Past and future legacy. Chair: Christine Jones | ||
| 16:40 | Michiel Brentjens | Ger de Bruyn legacy work on the Perseus cluster |
| 17:10 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | Observations of clusters and AGNs with the SKA |
| 17:40 | Matteo Guainazzi | The Hot Universe with XARM and Athena |
| 18:10 | Elina Lindfors | Observations of AGNs and the Cluster in Perseus with the Cherenkov Telescope Array |
| 18:40 | Outreach event: Theatre play by “Il cuore di Argante” | |
Tuesday, May 15 – Grand Hotel Sofia
| Session 5 – Radio observations of Perseus & clusters. Chair: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | ||
| 09:00 | Ruta Kale | Low frequency observations of radio relics and halos: windows to the non-thermal phenomena |
| 09:30 | Marie-lou Gendron-Marsolais | Probing the non-thermal emission in Abell 2146 and the Perseus cluster with the JVLA |
| 10:00 | Chat Hull | High-dynamic-range 21 cm JVLA observations of the Perseus Cluster |
| 10:20 | Coffee break | |
| Session 6 – VLBI observations of 3C 84. Chair: Hiroshi Nagai | ||
| 10:50 | Gabriele Giovannini | Radioastron observations of the jet launch region in 3C84 |
| 11:20 | Tuomas Savolainen | Mini-cocoon around the parsec-scale jet in 3C84 |
| 11:40 | Junghwan Oh | Double nuclear structure discovered in 3C84 |
| 12:00 | Jeffrey Hodgson | 3C 84 and a solution to the “Doppler crisis”? |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| Session 7 – 3C 84 and the radio-gamma connection. Chair: Rodrigo Nemmen | ||
| 13:50 | Monica Orienti | On the radio and gamma-rays connection in extragalactic relativistic jets |
| 14:20 | Alastair Edge | The AGN activity of NGC1275 and the ubiquity of AGN in cool core BCGs |
| 14:40 | Hiroshi Nagai | Inflow and Outflow in NGC1275 |
| 15:00 | Kazuhiro Hada | Observations of nearby relativistic jets with EAVN and EATING VLBI |
| 15:20 | Bong Won Sohn | EATING VLBI observations of 3C84, Mrk501 and TXS 0506+056 |
| 15:40 | Coffee break | |
| Session 8 – Outflows and feedback (1). Chair: Elisabete de Gouveia dal Pino | ||
| 16:10 | Francoise Combes | Molecular gas filamentary structures in galaxy clusters |
| 16:40 | Raffaella Morganti | Young radio jets breaking free: tracing molecular and HI fast outflows in the central regions |
| 17:00 | Francesco Massaro | Deciphering the large-scale environment of radio galaxies in the local Universe: where do they born, grow and die |
| 17:30 | Tour of the city | |
Wednesday, May 16 – Grand Hotel Sofia
| Session 9 – Outflows and feedback (2). Chair: Raffaella Morganti | ||
| 09:00 | Anna Lia Longinotti | Ultra fast outflows, and their connection to accretion and ejection processes in AGNs |
| 09:30 | Silvia Pellegrini | AGN feedback and the origin and fate of the hot gas in early-type galaxies |
| 09:50 | Kiran Lakhchaura | Cold gas in giant elliptical galaxies |
| 10:10 | Yuan Li | The Effects of Ram Pressure on the Cold Clouds in the Centers of Galaxy Clusters |
| 10:30 | Feng Yuan | Numerical study of AGN feedback in an isolated elliptical galaxy |
| 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| Session 10 – Outflows and feedback (3). Chair: Feng Yuan | ||
| 11:20 | Debora Sijacki | AGN feedback: from z ~ 6 protoclusters to massive galaxy clusters in the local Universe |
| 11:50 | William Eduardo Clavijo Bohórquez | AGN and Star Formation Feedback in Active Galaxies |
| 12:10 | jeremy lim | Prodigious and Continuous Formation of Super Star Clusters from Cooled Intracluster Gas |
| 12:30 | Rukmani Vijayaraghavan | The Physics of Galaxy Transformation during Cluster Assembly: Clues from the Perseus Cluster |
| 12:50 | William Forman | Characterizing the Outburst of the Supermassive Black Hole in M87 |
| 13:10 | Poster presentations. Chair: Monika Moscibrodzka | |
| 13:40 | Lunch | |
| 15:30 | Excursion and social dinner | |
Thursday, May 17 – Grand Hotel Sofia
| Session 11 – X-ray observations of 3C84 & AGNs. Chair: Francesco Massaro | ||
| 09:00 | Christopher Reynolds | An X-ray view of the active galactic nucleus in NGC1275 |
| 09:30 | Yasushi Fukazawa | X-ray probing of NGC 1275 nuclear region with Hitomi, Swift, and Suzaku |
| 09:50 | Francesca Panessa | Jets and outflows in AGN: a radio and X-ray view |
| 10:10 | Vijay Mahatma | Probing the dynamics and energetics of radio galaxies |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 12 – X-ray observations of Perseus & clusters. Chair: Eugene Churazov | ||
| 11:00 | Jeremy Sanders | The deep Chandra view of the core of the Perseus cluster |
| 11:30 | Takayuki Tamura | High energy resolution X-ray spectroscopy of the Perseus core with Hitomi |
| 12:00 | Natalia Lyskova | Close-up view of an ongoing merger between the NGC 4839 group and the Coma cluster |
| 12:20 | Alessandro Ignesti | Thermal – non-thermal connection in radio mini halos. |
| 12:40 | Lunch | |
| Session 13 – Galaxy cluster dynamics and energetics. Chair: Irina Zhuravleva | ||
| 14:10 | Eugene Churazov | gas structure and dynamics in galaxy clusters; |
| 14:40 | Kristian Ehlert | Dynamics of AGN bubbles and cosmic rays in cool core clusters |
| 15:00 | Michele Doro | Constraints to dark matter lifetime with deep observations of Perseus with the MAGIC telescopes |
| 15:20 | Elias Koulouridis | The XXL survey: The role of cluster mass in AGN activity |
| 15:40 | Coffee break | |
| Session 14 – The AGN-cluster interaction in Perseus. Chair: Francoise Combes | ||
| 16:10 | Irina Zhuravleva | AGN-driven Perturbations in the Hot Gas in the Perseus Cluster |
| 16:40 | Martin Bourne | Moving mesh simulation of jet feedback in galaxy clusters |
| 17:00 | Yi-Hao Chen | Feedback in the Perseus Cluster: Magnetized Jets, Bubbles, and Heat Pumps |
| 17:20 | Congyao Zhang | Generation of Internal Waves by Buoyant Bubbles in Galaxy Clusters and Heating of Intracluster Medium |
| 17:40 | Paramita Barai | Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Feedback in Dwarf Galaxies: a View from Cosmological Simulations |
| 18:30 | Visit and dinner at the radio telescope | |
Friday, May 18 – Grand Hotel Sofia
| Session 15 – Gamma-ray observations of 3C 84 & AGNs (1). Chair: Paola Grandi | ||
| 09:00 | Eleonora Torresi | Gamma-ray emission in radio galaxies, from MeV to TeV |
| 09:30 | Rodrigo Nemmen | Searching for QPOs in the gamma-ray emission of NGC 1275 |
| 09:50 | Narek Sahakyan | Rapid Gamma-Ray Variability of NGC 1275 |
| 10:10 | Giulia Migliori | Young radio sources in gamma-rays: 3C 84 and PKS 1718-649 |
| 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| Session 16 – Gamma-ray observations of 3C 84 & AGNs (2). Chair: Monica Orienti | ||
| 11:00 | Rocco Lico | Exploring the the radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray connection in the different blazar sub-classes |
| 11:20 | Dorit Glawion | IC 310: Lightning from the Black Hole? |
| 11:40 | Juan Carlos Rodriguez Ramirez | Very High Energy and Neutrino Emission from NGC1275 and IC310: GRMHD Simulations of Magnetic Reconnection and Radiative Transfer/Particle Calculations. |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| Session 17 – Magnetic fields and relativistic jets. Chair: Keiichi Asada | ||
| 13:30 | Denise Gabuzda | Magnetic fields in relativistic jets |
| 14:00 | Elena Nokhrina | The correlation between magnetic flux and jet power |
| 14:20 | Andrzej Zdziarski | What is the power of jets? |
| 14:40 | Xinwu Cao | Why only a small fraction of quasars are radio loud? |
| 15:00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 18 – Simulations of jets and winds. Chair: Gabriele Giovannini | ||
| 15:30 | Alexander Tchekhovskoy | Black hole accretion and relativistic jets |
| 16:00 | Sergey Bogovalov | Ratio of kinetic-to-bolometric luminosity at the “cold” disk accretion onto black holes |
| 16:20 | Izak van der Westhuizen | Monte-Carlo emission modelling of hydrodynamic AGN jet simulations |
| 16:40 | Bhargav Vaidya | Hybrid Framework for modelling non-thermal emission and particle acceleration from magnetised relativistic flows. |
| 17:00 | Defu Bu | Wind production from central black hole accretion flow and region beyond AGNs |
| 17:20 | Concluding remarks | |