Programme

 

March 12 (Monday):

17:00 - 20:00 Registration
18:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception

Program Overview

The time slots of all talks include a 5 minutes question session (e.g., 12:20-12:45—> 20’+5’).


Day 1 (Tuesday 13 March)

08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 09:15   Welcome: C. Ricci and E. Sani
Session 1a - Hard X-ray surveys and population studies
Chair: R. Mushotzky
09:15 - 09:45 Koss, Michael The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) DR1-Spectral Measurements, Derived Quantities, and AGN Demographics
09:45 - 10:10 Lansbury, George A sensitive hard X-ray census of the AGN population with NuSTAR
10:10 - 10:35 Del Moro, Agnese 
A broad-band view on the intrinsic properties of the hard X-ray AGN detected by NuSTAR
10:35 - 11:05 Coffee break
11:05 - 11:30 LaMassa, Stephanie Revealing Rare AGN through the Stripe 82X Survey
11:30 - 11:55 Weigel, Anna K. The joint fit of the black hole mass and Eddington ratio distribution function
11:55 - 12:20 Annuar, Ady Towards A Complete Census of the Compton-thick AGN Population in our Cosmic Backyard
12:20 - 12:45 Marinucci, Andrea The hard X-ray view of local Compton-Thick AGN
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch break
Session 1b - Hard X-ray surveys and population studies
Chair: B. Trakhtenbrot
14:00 - 14:25 Tanimoto, Atsushi Suzaku Observations of Compton-thick Active Galactic Nuclei Selected by Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Survey
14:25 - 14:50 Shimizu, Thomas Type 1 AGN with Massive Absorbing Columns
14:50 - 15:15 Boorman, Peter An X-ray Baldwin effect for Compton-thick AGN
15:15 - 15:40 Bauer, Franz  
Unraveling the mysteries of Fe Ka...
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:35 Brightman, Murray Testing orientation effects with heavily obscured AGN and NuSTAR
16:35 - 17:00 Buchner, Johannes Exploring the AGN obscurer geometry with NuSTAR Compton humps
17:00 - 17:25 Simmonds, Charlotte Measuring redshifts from X-ray spectra of obscured AGN
17:25 - 17:50 Ricci, Claudio X-ray and obscuration properties of local AGN
17:25 - 18:50 Discussion. Leads: A. Del Moro, F. Bauer, M. Koss

Day 2 (Wednesday 14 March)

Session 2 - The IR/optical view of the structure of gas and dust around SMBHs
Chair: D. Lutz
09:00 - 09:30 Levenson, Nancy Opportunities for AGN Science with JWST
09:30 - 09:55 Asmus, Daniel The mid-infrared emitting structure of the BASS AGN
09:55 - 10:20 Garcia-Bernete, Ismael The infrared emission of Seyfert galaxies: study of the torus properties
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
10:50 - 11:15 Stalevski, Marko Polar dust in AGN: a case study of Circinus galaxy
11:15 : 11:40

Leftley, James

The Polar Dust in ESO323-G77

11:40 - 12:05 Mejia, Julian New insights on the gas distribution of the broad line region and the determination of black hole masses
12:05 - 12:30 Ricci, Federica The BH mass - galaxy scaling relations in the local Universe: what is the role of type 2 AGN
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
Session 3 - Linking X-ray emission to BH properties
Chair: P. Arevalo
14:00 - 14:25 Matt, Giorgio Studying local AGN with X-ray polarimetry
14:25 - 14:50 Tortosa, Alessia A NuSTAR census of coronal parameters in Seyfert galaxies
14:50 - 15:15 Trakhtenbrot, Benny The Relation Between the X-ray Photon Index and Accretion Rate in the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey
15:15 - 15:40 Boissay Malaquin, Rozenn A hard X-ray view of the soft excess in AGN
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:35 Nemmen, Rodrigo Low-luminosity AGNs
Session 4 - AGN variability
Chair: A. Annuar
16:35 - 17:00 Arevalo, Patricia Variability in Obscured AGN
17:00 - 17:25 Sartori, Lia The study of Active Galactic Nuclei variability on multiple timescales
17:25 - 17:50 Sanchez, Paula 
Near-infrared Variability of Obscured and Unobscured X-Ray-selected AGNs in the COSMOS Field
17:50 - 18:50 Discussion. Leads: R. Assef, S. LaMassa, N. Levenson
19:00 - 21:00 Conference dinner at ESO

Day 3 (Thursday 15 March)

Session 5a - AGN feedback, host galaxies and mergers
Chair: G. Matt
09:00 - 09:30 Lutz, Dieter BAT AGN prefer circumnuclear star formation
09:30 - 09:55 Lin, Ming-Yi
Nuclear stellar properties of Swift BAT AGN and matched inactive galaxies
09:55 - 10:20 Mushotzky, Richard Radio Properties of the BAT AGNs: the FIR-radio Relation, the Fundamental Plane
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee break
Session 5b - AGN feedback, host galaxies and mergers
Chair: S. LaMassa
10:50 - 11:15 Ramos Almeida, Cristina An infrared view of AGN feedback: ionized and molecular phases
11:15 - 11:40 Rosario, David AGN feedback does not destroy cold molecular gas in local luminous Seyfert galaxies
11:40 - 12:05 Alexander, David The signature of AGN feedback on the global star-formation properties of AGN over z~0-3
12:05 - 12:30 Schawinski, Kevin Using AI to explore AGN astrophysics
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
Session 5c - AGN feedback, host galaxies and mergers
Chair: K. Schawinski
14:00 - 14:25 Rojas, Alejandra The AGN dichotomy as seen from the outflow perspective
14:25 - 14:50 Treister, Ezequiel Multiwavelength Studies of Dual AGN in BASS
14:50 - 15:15 Secrest, Nathan The Strange BAT AGN Was 49b
15:15 - 15:40 Pfeifle, Ryan The Incidence of Buried Dual AGN in Advanced Mergers: New results from Chandra
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break
16:10 - 16:35 Xie, Yanxia The Star Formation Rate Traced via Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
16:35 - 17:00 Diaz-Santos, Tanio An ALMA [CII] Mini-survey of Hot Dust Obscured Galaxies
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion. Leads: E. Sani, E. Treister, D. Rosario
18:00 - 18:20 Summary: D. Alexander
18:20 - 18:30 Conclusions: E. Sani, C. Ricci