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Physics of Galactic Nuclei Workshop 2009  
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2009-04-21
A. Bohnet
M. Schartmann

Workshop Program


Day 1 - Monday, June 15, 2009


8.45Workshop Opening
Andreas Burkert
9.00Black hole physics: Accretion, ejection and radiation
Julian Krolik
9.50Relation between ultracompact jets, supermassive black holes and nuclear regions in AGN
Andrei Lobanov
10.15The radiative efficiency of accretion flows in AGN
Shane Davis
10.40COFFEE BREAK
11.00Galactic Centre physics (Milky Way)
Reinhard Genzel
11.50Nuclear spirals as a mechanism of gas inflow to innermost parsecs
Witold Maciejewski
12.15Poster Talks (Ari Laor)
12.30LUNCH
13.45Nuclear stellar dynamics
John Kormendy
14.50A new secular instability in eccentric stellar disks around supermassive black holes, with application to the Galactic Center
Ann-Marie Madigan
15.15Tidal disruption events from the XMM-Newton Slew Survey
Pilar Esquej
15.40COFFEE BREAK
16.00On the possibility of a warped disk origin of the inclined stellar disks at the Galactic Centre
Ayse Ulubay-Siddiki
16.25Black holes in nearby nuclei
Nadine Neumayer
16.50On strong mass segregation around a massive black hole
Miguel Preto
17.15Properties of the stellar populations in the central kpc of Seyfert galaxies
Gaelle Dumas
17.45Guided tour through Ringberg Castle
Jochen Essl
18.30DINNER


Day 2 - Tuesday, June 16, 2009


9.00Observations of Molecular Tori
Klaus Meisenheimer
9.50Resolving the dusty cores of nearby AGN with mid infrared interferometry
Konrad Tristram
10.15Dissecting the centre of Centaurus A
Leonard Burtscher
10.40COFFEE BREAK
11.00The intriguing bimodality of weak and powerful AGN outflows
Ehud Behar
11.25An axisymmetric hydrodynamical model for the torus wind in AGN: X-ray excited flow; Spectra from 3D radiation transfer calculations
Anton Dorodnitsyn
11.50Progress of the Keck Interferometer in observing AGN at 2 micron
Jörg-Uwe Pott
12.15Poster Talks (Josefa Masegosa)
12.30LUNCH
14.00AGN Torus Models
Moshe Elitzur
14.50Constraining the dust distribution in AGN dust tori -- implications from high spatial resolution VISIR spectro-photometry
Sebastian Hönig
15.15The molecular torus around NGC 1052
Violette Impellizzeri
15.40COFFEE BREAK
16.00The infrared nuclear emission of Seyfert galaxies on parsec scales: a test for the clumpy torus models
Cristina Ramos Almeida
16.25 Parsec-scale spectral energy distributions of the nearest AGN: further news
Almudena Prieto
16.50The impact of nuclear star formation on gas inflow and AGN fuelling
Richard Davies
17.15The nuclear environments of Seyfert galaxies: Molecular gas and stars within the central 100 pc and black hole masses
Erin Hicks
17.40Obscuring and feeding supermassive black holes with evolving nuclear star clusters
Marc Schartmann
18.05Radiation pressure and turbulence in AGN tori
Martin Krause
18.30DINNER


Day 3 - Wednesday, June 17, 2009


9.00Broad and Narrow Line Region
Hagai Netzer
9.50New reverberation mapping results from the Lick AGN Monitoring Project
Aaron Barth
10.15The structure of the circumnuclear region in Active Galactic Nuclei
Guido Risaliti
10.40COFFEE BREAK
11.00The expected signature of a binary BH in the BLR profile
Ari Laor
11.25Accretion of the gas with small angular momentum onto supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies
Rashid Sunyaev
12.15Poster Talks (Frank Heymann, Michael Ramolla)
12.30LUNCH
14.00FREE AFTERNOON


Day 4 - Thursday, June 18, 2009


9.00Reflections on the kicked black hole in E1821+643
David Axon
9.25Cosmological black hole evolution (Observations)
Stefanie Komossa
10.15The M_BH-M_host relation through Cosmic Time
Roberto Decarli
10.40COFFEE BREAK
11.00The evolution of BH mass scaling relations
Nicola Bennert
11.25Revealing high-z obscured quasars at the heart of SWIRE galaxies with extreme mid-IR to optical colors
Enrico Piconcelli
11.50The growth of supermassive black holes in bulges and elliptical galaxies
Dimitri Gadotti
12.15Poster Talks (Martin Huarte-Espinosa, Oliver Porth, Mar Mezcua)
12.30LUNCH
14.00Black hole galaxy connection (Theory)
Joseph Silk
14.50Competitive feedback: Nuclear star cluster and SMBHs
Sergei Nayakshin
15.15Evolution of the intrinsic scatter of massive black holes
Michaela Hirschmann
15.40COFFEE BREAK
16.00Cosmological black hole evolution (Theory)
Sadegh Khochfar
16.50On the nature of AGN in hierarchical galaxy formation models
Nikolaos Fanidakis
17.15Galaxies-intergalactic medium interaction calculation: the cosmic star formation rate density
Robert Crain
17.40Equal- and unequal-mass mergers of disk and elliptical galaxies with black holes
Peter Johansson
18.05The formation of elliptical galaxies and black holes
Thorsten Naab
18.30DINNER


Day 5 - Friday, June 19, 2009


9.00Large scale jets and interaction with the ISM
Max Camenzind
9.50AGN Jet Feedback in Galaxy Evolution
Geoffrey Bicknell
10.15Magnetic fields in large scale jets
Volker Gaibler
10.40COFFEE BREAK
11.00The Spitzer view of FR-I radio galaxies: hidden AGN in some low-luminosity radio galaxies
Christian Leipski
11.25Optical continuum flares from the relativistic plasma of the jet: Evidence for non-virial BLR in AGN?
Tigran Arshakian
11.50Workshop Summary
12.30LUNCH
14.00Workshop End



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