Programme and Presentations

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
10h00-10h30	Welcome and arrival of the participants
10h30-10h45	Welcome speech	Hervé Lamy & Silke Britzen
10h45-11h25	A panchromatic review of thermal and non-thermal AGN	Robert Antonucci - invited talk
11h25-12h05	Implications for the Unification Model of AGNS from spectropolarimetric survery of Sy2 galaxies	Hien Tran - invited talk
12h05-12h25	Testing the AGN unified model using spectropolarimetry	Cristina Ramos Almeida
12h25-12h45	From the theoretical unified model to NGC 1068: new UV/optical constraints on the AGN reprocessing regions	Frédéric Marin
12h45-13h00	Discussions (Unified Model)
13h00-14h10	Lunch break
14h10-14h20	Poster presentation1: Jet flares as beacons for gravitational waves	Laszlo Arpad Gergely + poster
14h15-14h20	Poster presentation2: Polarization signatures of synchrotron emission from hot spots in an accretion disk. Constraining SgrA* properties	Monica Valencia-S
14h20-14h40	How can polarization studies improve our understanding of black hole and quasar physics?	Marianne Vestergaard
14h40-15h00	Non-axisymmetric continuum emission from AGNs or binary BHs? Spectropolarimetric implications	Martin Gaskell
15h00-15h20	Optical circular polarisation in quasars	Dominique Sluse
15h20-15h40	Polarimetry as a clue towards FeLoBAL quasar geometry	Daniel Lawther
15h40-16h00	General discussion
16h10-17h00	Coffee break & poster discussion
17h00-17h20	Near infrared polarimetry of a sample of blazars	José A. Acosta Pulido
17h20-17h40	New insights into the study of the clumpy torus of AGN using near-infrared polarimetry	Enrique Lopez
17h40-18h00	Radiative transfer modelling of the AGN dusty torus as a clumpy two-phase medium	Marko Stalevski
18h00-18h40	General discussion (IR polarimetry, dusty torus)
18h45	Departure to dinner place
19h00-23h00	Dinner
Wednesday, 17 October 2012
09h00-09h20	Near-infrared polarization measurements in the galactic center: the black hole and circum/interstellar media	Andreas Eckart
09h20-10h00	Wideband Polarimetry with the Jansky Very Large Array	Rick Perley - invited talk
10h00-10h40	Energy transfer from galactic nuclei to the IGM and how to measure it	Philipp Kronberg - invited talk
10h40-11h00	Coffee break and poster discussion
11h00-11h20	Polarization, magnetic fields and radio galaxies in galaxy clusters	Gianfranco Gentile
11h20-11h40	Linear and circular radio and optical polarization studies as a probe of AGN physics	Ioannis Myserlis
11h40-12h00	Polarised jets in AGN	Eduardo Ros
12h00-12h20	Relativistic HD and MHD modeling for AGN jets	Rony Keppens
12h20-12h40	Signatures of synchrotron radiation from the relativistic AGN jet base	Oliver Porth
12h40-13h00	General discussion (jets)
13h00-14h10	Lunch break
14h10-14h30	Improving BH mass measurements in quasars : characterizing the velocity structure of the broad line gas	Jens Juel Jensen
14h30-14h50	The physics of AGN: prospects from X-ray polarimetry	René Goosmann
14h50-15h10	X-ray polarization in the lamp-post geometry of the compact corona illuminating a BH accretion disc in AGN	Michal Dovciak
15h30-16h00	Final discussion & conclusions
16h00	end