Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Bonn
September 30 - October 2, 2004

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Workshop description
The meeting in Bonn was aimed at bringing together scientists involved in AGN studies in different spectral bands, and discussing the nuclear activity in galaxies from different perspectives and in connection with similar processes occurring in galactic objects (X-ray binaries and "microquasars"). Critical aspects of AGN and XRB research were highlighted in a small number of invited reviews, and further explored in the contributed talks and discussion forums. The workshop was focused on three broadly-defined areas in which various fields of AGN research intersect with each other and with studies of the XRB.
  • AGN across the bands. Different "viewpoints" on AGN, ranging from the radio to the Gamma-ray band. Latest developments in the radio studies of AGN and in the emerging fields of jet and supermassive black hole studies in the optical, X-ray and Gamma-ray domains.
  • AGN across the luminosity range. Reviewing the recent advances in studies of nuclear activity in Seyferts and LINERs and comparing these to the activity observed in powerful AGN. Connection betwen the accretion process and the BH mass/luminosity relation. Production of relativistic outflows and their role in AGN. Theoretical modelling and connection betwen AGN and XRB. Searching for a common phennomenology and physics spanning across orders of magnitude in the parameter space.
  • AGN across the Universe. Co-evolution of AGN and their host galaxies. Connecting the mainstream AGN studies to galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy and black hole mergers and cosmology issues. Role of supermassive binary black holes in the evolution of AGN.
The workshop was attended by 56 scientists and PhD students representing 34 astronomical institutes and universities from 14 different countries.

Sponsorship and Organization
The workshop was sponsored and organized by the EU Consortium RadioNet together with the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, as part of the RadioNet Scientific Workshop Program.

Review topics and invited speakers
1.1 Radio view of AGN --- Alan Marshcer (Boston University)
1.2 Optical view of AGN --- Christian Wolf (Oxford University)
1.3 High-energy view of AGN --- Diana Worral (University of Bristol)
2.1 Accretion and outflows in AGN --- Andrew King (University of Leicester)
2.2 Relativistic outflows in AGN --- Max Camenzind (University of Heidelberg)
2.3 AGN/XRB connection --- Stéphane Corbel (CEA-Saclay)
3.1 AGN and galaxy formation/ co-evolution - Pierre Cox (IAS Orsay)

Scientific Organizing Committee
Frank Bertoldi (MPIfR, Bonn), Daniele Dallacasa (University of Bologna), Denise Gabuzda (University of Cork), Heino Falcke (ASTRON, Dwingeloo), Rob Fender (University of Amsterdam), Andrei Lobanov (chair; MPIfR, Bonn), Maria Marcha (University of Lisbon), Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON, Dwingeloo), Tiziana Venturi (IRA, Bologna)

Local Organizing Committee
Andrei Lobanov, Eduardo Ros, Beate Naunheim

Timeline
15.11.2004:  Deadline for submitting contributions to the proceedings of the workshop.
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