Splinter Meeting AGN

Active Galactic Nuclei

Time: Wednesday September 20, 14:00-16:30 and 17:00-19:00

Room: HS4

Organizers: Wolfram Kollatschny (Göttingen), Martin Haas (Bochum), Helmut Meusinger (TLS Tautenburg), Michael Ramolla (Bochum), Matthias Zetzl (Göttingen)

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are understood as supermassive black holes (SMBH) that accrete large amounts of matter to sustain their immense variable luminosity seen at all frequency ranges. This splinter meeting will address open questions regarding the structure and evolution of AGN as well as their interaction with the environment.

Program

14:00  Shai Kaspi:
Reverberation Mapping of the Most High Luminosity Quasars

14:30  Helmut Meusinger:
Variability timescales of QSOs from the Tautenburg long-term monitoring program

14:45  Francisco Pozo Nunez:
Optical Photometric Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei at Wise Observatory

15:05  Matthias Zetzl:
Line profile variations in the changing look AGN HE 1136-2304

15:15  Catalina Sobrino-Figaredo:
IC4329A: a red Seyfert-1 nucleus in an edge-on host galaxy

15:25  Doron Chelouche:
On the Origin of Optical Time Delays in AGN

15:55  Ewald Puchwein:
The role of AGN in cosmic reionization

16:15  Frank Rieger:
The non-thermal astrophysics of relativistic AGN jets

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session (Foyer Physics)

17:00  Victor Marian:
Testing the connection between major mergers and the triggering of high-accretion black holes

17:20  Zohreh Ghaffari:
Galaxy overdensities around 3C radio galaxies and quasars at 1 < z < 2.5 revealed by Spitzer 3.6/4.5 um and Pan-STARRS

17:35  Eleni Vardoulaki:
FR-type radio sources in COSMOS: relation to size, accretion modes and large-scale environment

17:55  Jan-Torge Schindler:
The Extremely Luminous Quasars Survey (ELQS) in SDSS

18:15  Silke Britzen:
OJ287 - Deciphering the Rosetta stone of blazars

18:35  Claus Lämmerzahl:
Accretion disks in space-times of compact objects with mass quadrupole

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