The Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets and Their Magnetic Fields. Granada (Spain). June 10th-14th, 2013.
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Program
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Sunday, 9th
20:00 Early registration and wellcome cocktail at the Nazaríes Hotel
Monday, 10th
08:00 Registration opens
09:00 - 09:15 Welcome and scope of the meeting, José L. Gómez (PDF)
Jet formation (Chair: Gabriele Ghisellini)
09:15 - 09:45 "The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Production and Propagation of Relativistic Jets",
09:45 - 10:15 "Relativistic Jet Formation by Spinning Black Holes", A. Tchekhovskoy (Invited)
10:15 - 10:45 "Probing the inner jet of M87; from the jet base to HST-1", K. Hada (I)
10:45 -11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 11:35 "The firs 2-years in the lifetime of the newly born jet associated to Swift J1644+57",
11:35 - 11:55 "The M87 Jet", M. Nakamura
11:55 - 12:15 "JEDs and SADs in X-ray Binaries", J. Ferreira (PDF)
12:15 - 12:35 "Polarimetric Observations of the Innermost Regions of Relativistic Jets in X-ray Binaries",
12:35 - 12:55 "The force-free magnetosphere of a rotating black hole", I. Contopoulos (PDF)
12:55 - 15:00 Lunch break
Jet dynamics, structure and stability (Chair: José-María Martí)
15:00 - 15:30 "The Role of Macroscopic & Microscopic Instabilities in Relativistic Jets", P. Hardee (R) (PDF)
15:30 - 16:00 "Jet dynamics and stability", M. Perucho (I) (PDF)
16:00 - 16:20 "Kink instability in relativistic magnetized jets", N. Vlahakis
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 - 17:10 "Radiation from relativistic jets from particle accelerated by shocks, shear-flows,
and reconnection", K. Nishikawa (PDF)
17:10 - 17:30 "Current-Driven Kink Instability in Magnetically Dominated Rotating Relativistic Jet",
17:30 - 17:50 "Rayleigh-Taylor and Richtmyer-Meshkov Instabilities in Relativistic Hydrodynamic Jets",
17:50 - 18:10 "3 dimensional magneto hydrodynamical jet simulations", J. Staff
Tuesday, 11th
Emission across the electromagnetic spectrum I (Chair: Jose L. Gómez)
09:00 - 09:30 "Multi-waveband Behavior of Blazars", A. Marscher (R) (PDF)
09:30 - 10:00 "The "Far Distance" Scenario for Gamma-ray Emission in Blazars: A View from the VLBI
Observing Perspective", I. Agudo (I) (PDF)
10:00 - 10:20 "The Gamma-ray Activity of the high-Z Quasar 0836+710", S. Jorstad (PDF)
10:20 - 10:40 "The radio/gamma-ray connection in Active Galactic Nuclei in the Fermi era", M. Giroletti
10:40 -11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:30 "What can we learn from high energy flares in the Fermi sample of FSRQ: from a case study to
dozens of objects", L. Pacciani
11:30 - 11:50 "The nature of the IR emission in LLAGN at parsec scales: Does the jet dominate at low
luminosities?", J. A. Fernández Ontiveros
11:50 - 12:10 "Jet evolution in Steep Spectrum Radio Quasars. A multiwavelength study", E. Torresi
12:10 - 12:30 "Gamma-Ray variability studies of Misaligned AGN", P. Grandi
12:30 - 12:50 "Probing the Radio Counterpart of Gamma-ray Flaring Region in 3C 84", H. Nagai (PDF)
12:50 - 13:10 "On the connection between radio and gamma rays. Variability and polarization properties in
relativistic jets", M. Orienti
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch break
Jets from stellar-mass objects (Chair: Marcello Giroletti)
15:00 - 15:30 "Jets across the black hole mass scale: new insights from X-ray binaries", S. Markoff (R)
15:30 - 16:00 "Relativistic stellar jets: dynamics and non-thermal radiation", V. Bosch-Ramon (I)
16:00 - 16:20 "Search for new stellar sources of gamma-rays", J. Martí (PDF)
16:20 - 16:50 Coffee break
16:50 - 17:10 "Discovery of synchrotron emission from a YSO jet", C. Carrasco González
17:10 - 17:30 "Spectra and fast multi-wavelength variability of compact jets powered by internal shocks",
17:30 - 17:50 "Doppler-shifted lines revealing baryons in the jets of the X-ray binary 4U 1630-47", S. Migliari
17:50 - 18:10 "Magnetic Field Structure in Relativistic Jets", H. Jermak (PDF)
Wednesday, 12th
Emission across the electromagnetic spectrum II (Chair: Svetlana Jorstad)
09:00 - 09:30 "Multi-wavelength emission models in blazars", G. Ghisellini (R) (PDF)
09:30 - 10:00 "Radio-loud AGN unification: Connecting jets and accretion", E. Meyer (I) (PDF)
10:00 - 10:20 "Leptonic and Hadronic Modeling of Fermi-Detected Blazars", M. Boettcher (PDF)
10:20 - 10:40 "Constraining the location of gamma-ray emission in Blazar jets", M. Joshi (PDF)
10:40 -11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:30 "An Exceptional Radio Flare in Markarian 421", J. Richards (PDF)
11:30 - 11:50 "Time dependent photon and neutrino emission from Mkn421 in the context of the one-zone
leptohadronic model", A. Mastichiadis
11:50 - 12:10 "Panchromatic Observations of the Nuclei of z<0.5 3CRR Radio Galaxies: Implications for
Feeding, Feedback, and Black Hole Spin", D. Evans
12:10 - 12:30 "Relativistic jets in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies. New discoveries and open questions",
12:30 - 12:50 "The origin and emission mechanism of VHE (>100 GeV) emission from FSRQs", B. Behera
12:50 - 13:10 "Uncovering the physics behind the blazar sequence using a realistic model for jet emission",
Free afternoon for social activities (visit to Alhambra)
Thursday, 13th
Magnetic fields and jet physics I (Chair: Gabriele Giovannini)
09:00 - 09:30 "Magnetic fields and polarization in AGN jets", J. Wardle (R) (PDF)
09:30 - 10:00 "Parsec-Scale Polarization and Magnetic Field Characteristics of MOJAVE AGN Jets",
10:00 - 10:20 "Magnetic field in the jet of 3C 454.3", M. Zamaninasab
10:20 - 10:40 "Probing the magnetic field of 3C279", S. Kiehlmann (PDF)
10:40 -11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:30 "A sensitive study of the peculiar jet structure HST-1 in M87", C. Casadio (PDF)
11:30 - 11:50 "Longitudinal and transverse velocity fields in parsec-scale jets", F. Mertens
11:50 - 12:10 "AGN jet physics and observed apparent opening angles", E. Clausen-Brown
12:10 - 12:30 "Intrinsic brightness temperatures of blazar jets at 15 GHz", T. Hovatta
12:30 - 12:50 "Study of High Energy Emission from Relativistic Jets with VERITAS", R. Mukherjee
12:50 - 13:10 "Hadronic Modeling of AGN Variability", M. Weidinger
13:10 - 15:00 Lunch break
Magnetic fields and jet physics II (Chair: John Wardle)
15:00 - 15:30 "Multi-wavelength Polarization Studies of AGN Jets", D. Gabuzda (R) (PDF)
15:30 - 15:50 "Constraints on Blazar Jet Conditions During Gamma-Ray Flaring from Radiative Transfer
15:50 - 16:10 "Recollimation Shock and the Fire Hose in BL Lacertae", M. Cohen (PDF)
16:10 - 16:30 "Broadband radio circular polarization observations of the quasar PKS B2126-158",
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:20 "A Rotation Measure Gradient on the M87 VLA Jet", J. C. Algaba
17:20 - 17:40 "Multi-frequency study of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 with VLBA observations", R. Lico
17:40 - 18:00 "Studies of Blazar emission using a spatially resolved SSC model", S. Richter
Conference dinner at Palacio de los Cordova
Friday, 14th
AGN Jets (Chair: Markus Böttcher)
09:00 - 09:30 "Space VLB interferometer RadioAstron: early results and future prospects of AGN studies",
09:30 - 10:00 "Quasar large scale jets: Fast and powerful or weak and slow, but efficient accelerators?",
10:00 - 10:20 "Poynting flux dissipation in jets", J. Kirk
10:20 - 10:40 "Magnetic field amplification and blazar flares", X. Chen
10:40 -11:10 Coffee break
11:10 - 11:30 "The jet of the LLAGN of M81: Evidence of Precession", A. Alberdi (PDF)
11:30 - 11:50 "Evidence for internal rotation in the jet of the quasar NRAO150", S. Molina (PDF)
11:50 - 12:10 "The core shift measurements for two-sided jets affected by free-free absorption using
12:10 - 12:30 "Astrometric observations of the core position changes in Mrk 421 after the large X-ray flare in
2011", K. Niinuma
12:30 - 12:50 "High-energy signatures of binary supermassive black holes", G. Vila
12:50 - 13:20 Conference summary by Alan P. Marscher (PDF)
