Programme for the 2nd WG's meeting

November 15th 2010


 
09:00 - 09:10 Eduardo Ros Welcome to participants, LOC announcements
09:10 - 09:45 Silke Britzen Presentation of the COST action and of the meeting
09:45 - 10:35 Luciano Rezzolla Simulating BH Mergers and their EM Spectrum, followed by discussion
10:35 - 11:15 Coffee Break  

11:15 - 13:00 Joint Session WG2 & WG3
11:15 - 11:40 Ralph Spencer Microquasars and the Power of Spin
11:40 - 12:00 David Champion Finding a Pulsar-Black Hole Binary
12:00 - 12:20 Norbert Wex Gravity Tests with Pulsar-Black Hole Systems
12:20 - 12:40 Ulf Torkelsson Twin peak kHz quasi-periodic oscillations from stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars
12:40 - 13:00 Piergiorgio Casella Multi-wavelength variability from BHs
 
11:15 - 13:00 Parallel Session WG4
11:15 - 11:20 Eduardo Ros Introduction
11:20 - 11:35 Marianne Vestergaard BH mass estimates and BH demographics
11:35 - 11:50 Francesca Panessa The INTEGRAL Sky (Hard X-Rays in AGN)
11:50 - 12:05 Zakaria Meliani SMBH, Jet Production (Simulations & Theory)
12:05 - 12:25 Giovanni La Mura Dynamical inferences on SMBH from the spectra of broad line emitting active galaxies
12:25 - 12:40 Franco Mantovani AGN Samples, Fermi and VLBI
12:40 - 12:55 Miguel Á. Pérez-Torres Star Formation vs Accretion in Active Galaxies
 
13:00 - 14:00 Light Refreshment  
 
14:00 - 14:45 Joint Session WG2 & WG4
14:00 - 14:25 Joris Verbiest Detecting SMBH with pulsar timing
14:25 - 14:45 Eduardo Ros Joint discussion WG2-WG4
 
14:00 - 14:45 Parallel Session WG3
  
14:45 - 16:15 Parallel Session WG2
14:45 - 15:05 Andrea Possenti Pulsars as probes for the existence of Intermediate Mass Black Holes
15:05 - 15:25 Manel Perucho 3D simulations of wind-jet interaction in massive X-ray binaries
15:25 - 15:45 General discussion of Working Group 2
 
14:45 - 16:15 Parallel Session WG3
  
14:45 - 16:15 Parallel Session WG4
14:45 - 15:10 Emmanouil Angelakis & Lars Fuhrmann Gamma-Radio Connection; the F-GAMMA program and Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
15:10 - 15:25 Antxon Alberdi The role of Magnetic Fields in the SMBH Environment
15:25 - 15:45 General Discussion & Conclusions

16:15 - 16:30 Robert Ferdmann Pulsars (WG2)
16:30 - 16:45 Anthony Rushton Accretion on (stellar) BH (WG2)
16:45 - 17:00 Andreas Eckart The Galactic Centre (WG3)
17:00 - 17:15 Eduardo Ros Supermassive BH (WG4)
17:15 Silke Britzen Discussion

November 16th 2010


09:00 - 10:00 R. Khanna Encyclopaedia of Black Holes (Springer Verlag Presentation), followed by discussion
10:00 - 10:45 Silke Britzen Final Discussion and Adjourn
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