6th Nepal meeting - Kathmandu, October 16-21, 2016

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Sunday, Oct. 16

17:00: Registration opens)
19:00-22:00: Welcome reception)

Monday, Oct. 17

AGN I, from large to small scales, GR (chair: Andrzej Zdziarski)

09:00-09:10 Welcome & Opening
09:10-09:35 Diana Worrall: Jet-gas interactions and feedback
09:35-10:00 Vladimir Karas: GR effects in accretion flows
10:00-10:25 Barbara de Marco: X-ray reverberation in accreting black hole systems
10:25-10:40 Guglielmo Mastroserio: The effects of spectral hardness changes on reverberation lags

10:40-11:10 --- Coffee Break ---

AGN/reprocessing, cont'd (chair: Martin Elvis)

11:10-11:25 Giulia Mantovani: The relativistic Fe Kalpha line in Seyfert 1 galaxies
11:25-11:50 Lance Miller: X-ray absorption and scattering by AGN circumnuclear material
11:50-12:05 Misaki Mizumoto: Partial covering origin of X-ray spectral variation of Seyfert galaxies
12:05-12:40 poster presentations: 3 minutes each

12:40-14:25 --- Lunch Break ---

GWs from BH mergers, rates, e.m. counterparts (chair: Neil Gehrels)

14:25-14:50 Matthew Benacquista: Gravitational wave detection from stellar mass black hole binaries
14:50-15:15 Marica Branchesi: Electromagnetic counterparts to GW sources
15:15-15:30 Krzysztof Belczynski: The effect of pair-instability mass loss on black hole mergers
15:30-15:45 Giuseppe Lodato: Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave emission by supermassive black hole binaries

15:45-16:15 --- Coffee Break --- Group Photo

GWs and e.m. counterparts - cont'd (chair: Silvia Zane)

16:15-16:30 Dorota Gondek-Rosinska: Coalescing binary black holes originating from globular clusters
16:30-16:45 Michele Armano: LISA Pathfinder results
16:45-17:00 Eliana Palazzi: GRAWITA: electromagnetic follow-up observations of gravitational wave events during the O1 period
17:00-18:00 Introduction of local participants

Tuesday, Oct. 18

Galactic BH binaries (chair: Sasha Tchekhovskoy)

09:00-09:25 Julien Malzac: Jet models for BH binaries
09:25-09:40 Andrzej Zdziarski: What is the disc truncation radius in the hard state of black-hole binaries?
09:40-09:55 Alex Tetarenko: Extreme jet ejections from the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni: The unique (sub-)millimetre perspective
09:55-10:10 Shuangliang Li: State transitions triggered by inverse magnetic fields: probably applied in high-mass X-ray binaries
10:10-10:25 Susmita Chakravorty: Magneto-centrifugal winds from accretion discs around black hole binaries

10:25-10:55 --- Coffee Break ---

Galactic BH binaries cont'd (chair: Barbara de Marco)

10:55-11:20 Adam Ingram: Quasi-periodic oscillations in black hole binaries
11:20-11:45 Alexandra Veledina: Hybrid accretion flow models and observations of BH binaries
11:45-12:00 Yi-Hao Su: Tracking X-ray spectral modulations of a 6-Hz type-B quasi-periodic oscillation in GX 339-4 using the Hilbert-Huang transform
12:00-12:15 Juri Poutanen: On the origin of infrared flares in accreting black holes
12:15-12:30 Federico Bernardini: On the optical-X-ray correlation from outburst to quiescence in low-mass X-ray binaries: The cases of V404 Cyg and Cen X-4
12:30-12:45 Bailey Tetarenko: WATCHDOG: A two-decade long all-sky study of accretion disc physics across the Galactic black hole X-ray binary population

12:45-13:30 --- Lunch Break ---

13:30 Excursion to Patan and Pashupatinath

Wednesday, Oct. 19

Mission highlights, transients, TDEs (chair: Michele Armano)

09:00-09:25 Neil Gehrels: The transient high-energy sky: highlights from Swift
09:25-09:50 Bevin Zauderer: Observations of jetted tidal disruption events
09:50-10:05 Dheeraj Pasham: Optical, UV and X-ray echoes from a super-massive black hole feeding off a tidally disrupted star
10:05-10:20 Abe Falcone: Swift X-ray observations of new AGN, blazar jet emission variability, and periodicity from a tidal disruption event
10:20-10:35 Alessia Franchini: Lense-Thirring precession around black holes

10:35-11:05 --- Coffee Break ---

Mission highlights, transients, cont'd (chair: Eliana Palazzi)

11:05-11:20 Agnieszka Janiuk: Black hole accretion in gamma-ray bursts
11:20-11:35 Giulia Migliori: Multi-band time lapse of the transient large-scale relativistic jet of XTE J1550-564
11:35-12:00 A Raghu Rao: First results from the AstroSat mission
12:00-12:15 Silvia Zane: The XIPE mission
12:15-12:30 Binil Aryal: Astronomy Research in Nepal

12:30-14:00 --- Lunch Break ---

Jets & blazars (chair: Diana Worrall)

14:00-14:25 Masanori Nakamura: Simulations of jet formation: from small to large scales
14:25-14:50 Jose L. Gómez: Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron
14:50-15:05 Paul Wiita: Variability from propagating turbulent relativistic jets
15:05-15:20 Bindu Rani: Testing the jet-launching scenario in BL Lac using GMVA
15:20-15:35 Minfeng Gu: The jet detections in radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
15:35-16:00 Patryk Pjanka: The power of extragalactic jets

16:00-16:25 --- Coffee Break ---

Jets & blazars - cont'd (chair: Juri Poutanen)

16:25-16:40 Andreas Zech: Exploring the lepto-hadronic parameter space for BL Lac objects seen at TeV energies
16:40-16:55 Stefan Larsson: The Fermi-LAT view of blazar variability
16:55-17:10 Richard Britto: Observations of Fermi-LAT blazars through optical spectroscopy and spectro-polarimetry with South Africa-based telescopes
17:10-17:25 Tania Garrigoux: Modeling polarization from relativistic outflows
17:25-17:40 Yakov Istomin: Relativistic jets are sources of cosmic rays in galaxies
17:40-17:55 Yuto Teraki: Accreting black hole as a PeVatron

19:30 Conference Dinner

Thursday, Oct. 20

Jets, AGN cont’d, binary SMBHs (chair: Piero Madau)

09:15-09:30 Gopal Bhatta: Probing the inner jet structures of blazar S5 0716+714 and OJ 287 using exceptionally dense optical observations
09:30-09:55 Sasha Tchekhovskoy: Simulations of low-luminosity accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei
09:55-10:20 Martin Elvis: Winds and outflows in AGN: a consequence of the simple physics within the black hole sphere of influence
10:20-10:35 Neven Caplar: Optical variability of quasars in the (i)PTF survey
10:35-10:50 Mark Birkinshaw: AGN-induced heating in the cores of low-redshift 3CRR galaxies

10:50-11:20 --- Coffee Break ---

AGN cont’d (chair: S. Komossa)

11:20-11:35 Clare Kenyon: Demystifying the Broad Line Region with Cloudy
11:35-11:50 Tek Prasad Adhikari: The intermediate line region in AGN
11:50-12:05 Suvendu Rakshit: A catalogue of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey 12 data release
12:05-12:20 Lorena Hernandez-Garcia: Multiwavelength analysis of PBC J2333.9-2343

12:20-13:30 --- Lunch Break ---

13:30 Excursion Bhaktapur

Friday, Oct. 21

IMBH, LLAGN, Galactic Centre (chair: Lance Miller)

09:00-09:25 Michele Trenti: Multi-wavelength fingerprints of intermediate mass black holes in dense stellar systems
09:25-09:40 Amy Reines: A ~9-hr X-ray periodicity in the Nucleus of Henize 2-10
09:40-09:55 Fu-Guo Xie: Radio/X-ray correlation in AGNs
09:55-10:10 Chandra Singh: Magnetic reconnection in jet-accretion disk systems
10:10-10:25 Sanjaya Paudel: SDSS J085431.18+173730.5: The first compact elliptical galaxy hosting an active nucleus

10:25-10:55 --- Coffee Break ---

cont'd (chair: Matt Benacquista)

10:55-11:20 Feng Yuan: Outflows from black hole accretion
11:20-11:35 De-Fu Bu: Winds from hot accretion flows and observational applications
11:35-11:50 Yaping Li: Statistical and theoretical studies of flares in Sgr A*
11:50-12:05 Nora Luetzgendorf: Stellar winds near massive black holes: The case of the S-stars
12:05-12:20 Janusz Ziolkowski: On the evolutionary status of the donors in the low mass X-ray binary systems containing black holes or neutron stars
12:20-12:35 Kailash Sahu: Detecting isolated, stellar-mass black holes through astrometric microlensing using HST

12:35 --- Lunch Break ---

End of the Conference

Poster Contributions

Federico Bernardini: Events leading up to the 2015 June outburst of V404 Cyg
Gopal Bhatta: Multi-wavelength long term variability study of the giant radio source 4C+74.6
Padam Ghimire: Study of XMM-Newton spectra of galaxies in the Coma cluster: two new AGN candidates proposed
Vladimir Karas, A. Trova, P. Slany, J. Kovar: Equilibrium configurations of rotating magnetized self-gravitating tori
Davide Lena: Evidence for an outflow in the plane of the AGN torus in NGC 1386
Rosa Victoria Munoz Dimitrova: 3C 66B: photometrical monitoring, spectroscopy and future perspectives
Jacob Noel-Storr: Galaxies, jets, and the motivation to explore STEM knowledge
Eliana Palazzi: The THESEUS mission
Ek Narayan Paudel, Binil Aryal: Superclusters: galaxy orientation and evolution
Eak Raj Paudel: The energy spectrum of cosmic ray nuclei of different energy range
Madhu Paudel: A study of Jeans criteria of a new far infrared nebula at -37 degress Galactic Latitude
Silvia Zane: The XIPE mission

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