Name: Half a Century of Blazars and Beyond
Start: 2018-06-10T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-06-15T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Torino - Italy

Monday, 11 June 2018

08:45

08:45 - 08:50
Room: Aula Darwin
08:50
08:50 - 09:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

08:50 Outstanding Problems in Blazar Astrophysics (Opening Lecture) - Alan Marscher (Boston University)
09:25
09:25 - 10:15
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

09:25 The Devil is in the Details: Using High-Cadence, Multiwavelength Observations to Understand the Disk-Jet Connection in Blazars (Invited) - Jedidah ISLER (Vanderbilt University)

09:55 Twenty years of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) - Claudia Raiteri (INAF - OATo)
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Aula Darwin
10:45
10:45 - 12:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

10:45 The Extraordinary Flare of CTA 102 in 2016 - 2017 - Markus BOETTCHER (North-West University)

11:05 Quasi-simultaneous decade-long optical and gamma-ray monitoring of selected blazars: the confrontation of the two energy ranges and its outcome - Valeri LARIONOV ((St. Petersburg State University))

11:25 Multiwavelength studies of blazars - Aditi AGARWAL (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

11:45 Multi-wavelength flaring activity in bright blazars - Ioannis LIODAKIS (KIPAC - Stanford University)

12:05 Radio core dominance of Fermi blazars - Zhi-yuan PEI (University of Padova)
12:25

12:25 - 12:30
Room: Aula Darwin

12:30 Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Aula Darwin
14:00
14:00 - 15:10
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

14:00 Parsec-Scale Studies of Blazar Jet Kinematics (Invited) - Matt LISTER (Purdue University)

14:30 Dramatic Multi-Wavelength Outburst of the Quasar 4C+29.45 at the End of 2017 - Svetlana JORSTAD (Boston University)

14:50 Relationship between Gamma-Rays and the pc-scale Radio Jet in 3C 279 - Victor Manuel PATIÑO ALVAREZ (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Aula Darwin
15:40
15:40 - 17:55
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

15:40 Signatures of the extragalactic background light in gamma-rays (Fermi@10 special talk) - Alberto DOMINGUEZ (Universidad Computense de Madrid)

16:05 TeV blazars with H.E.S.S. - Matteo CERRUTI (CNRS - LPNHE)

16:25 Highlights from the VERITAS Blazar Observation Program - Wystan BENBOW (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

16:45 MAGIC blazars in a multi-wavelength context - Elisa PRANDINI (University of Padova - INFN Padova)

17:05 Two-component jet scenarios and blazar classification - Helene SOL (CNRS - Observatoire de Paris)

17:25 Connecting Blazar Kinematics to Supermassive Black Holes: Dynamical Imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (Invited) - Michael JOHNSON (Harvard University)
17:55

17:55 - 18:05
Room: Aula Darwin

20:00 Fermi@10 Special Dinner
Fermi@10 Special Dinner
20:00 - 23:30
Room: La Piazza dei Mestieri
Tuesday, 12 June 2018
08:45
08:45 - 10:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

08:45 The Fourth catalogue of AGN detected by Fermi-LAT (Fermi@10 Special talk) - Dario GASPARRINI (SSDC)

09:10 The blazar sequence is alive (Review) - Gabriele GHISELLINI (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

09:45 To BLR or not to BLR ? The Fermi-LAT view - Luigi COSTAMANTE (Italian Space Agency)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 10:55
Room: Aula Darwin
10:55
10:55 - 12:15
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

10:55 High Energy flares of FSRQs: the connection with the accretion disk luminosity - Luigi PACCIANI (IAPS-INAF)

11:15 Chasing hidden TeV beacons in the elusive population of extreme HBLs - Giacomo BONNOLI (University of Siena - INFN Pisa - INAF- Bologna Astronomical Observatory)

11:35 Extreme TeV blazars as probes of the intergalactic medium: beyond the absorption-only model - Timur DZHATDOEV (Moscow State University)

11:55 The Cherenkov Telescope Array view of extra-galactic jetted sources - Stefano VERCELLONE (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
12:15 Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:15 - 13:45
Room: Aula Darwin
13:45
13:45 - 15:05
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

13:45 Joint NuSTAR and Fermi observations of blazars - Grzegorz MADEJSKI (SLAC)

14:05 X-ray Intraday Flux and Spectral Variability of TeV Blazars with NuSTAR - Ashwani PANDEY (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES))

14:25 A multi-wavelength view of the most extreme X-ray flare from Mrk 501 - Josefa BECERRA GONZÁLEZ (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

14:45 FERMI transient J1544-0649: a flaring radio-weak BL Lac - GABRIELE BRUNI (INAF - Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology)
15:05

15:05 - 15:30
Room: Aula Darwin

15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Aula Darwin
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

16:00 Restarting activity in the nucleus of PBC J2333.9-2343 (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA et al.) - Francesca PANESSA (IAPS-INAF)

16:20 Jet physics of blazar-like narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the Fermi era - Filippo D'AMMANDO (INAF-IRA Bologna)

16:40 Collimation, acceleration and recollimation shock in the jet of gamma-ray emitting radio-loud NLS1 galaxy 1H 0323+342 - Kazuhiro HADA (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

17:00 Gamma loud NLS1s: a low scale version of FSRQs? - Catherine BOISSON (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

17:20 Spectroscopy of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters: new identification, classification and redshift - Simona PAIANO (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory)

17:40 Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources using optical polarimetry - Dmitry BLINOV (University of Crete)
Wednesday, 13 June 2018
08:45
08:45 - 10:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

08:45 Magnetic fields in blazar jets (Invited) - Talvikki HOVATTA (Tuorla Observatory)

09:15 Delving Deeper into Blazars Cores with 3mm GMVA Polarimetric Observation - Carolina CASADIO (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

09:35 Scrutiny of the recollimation shock in BL Lacertae on sub parsec scales - Tigran ARSHAKIAN (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory)

09:55 X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Spectropolarimetric Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (Invited) - Henric KRAWCZYNSKI (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:25 Coffee Creak
Coffee Creak
10:25 - 10:55
Room: Aula Darwin
10:55
10:55 - 12:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

10:55 Polarization Monitoring of AGN at Millimeter Wavelengths with the IRAM 30m Telescope. First results and impact on blazar science - Ivan AGUDO (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC))

11:15 Blazar physics through multi-frequency circular and linear polarization monitoring - Ioannis MYSERLIS (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

11:35 Optical polarisation variability of radio loud narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies - Emmanouil ANGELAKIS (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

11:55 Fermi, Astrophysics and ISM (Invited) - Steven Shore (University of Pisa)
Thursday, 14 June 2018
08:45
08:45 - 10:30
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

08:45 Dissipation and Particle Acceleration in Blazar Jets (Review) - Mitch BEGELMAN (University of Colorado, Boulder)

09:20 Extragalactic Jet Dynamics after Half a Century of MHD modelling. Where are we? (Invited) - Andrea MIGNONE (UniTO)

09:50 Reconnection and Associated Flares in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields with PIC Simulations - Kenichi NISHIKAWA (Univeristy of Alabama in Huntsville)

10:10 Total and linearly polarized synchrotron emission from overpressured magnetized relativistic jets - Antonio FUENTES (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Aula Darwin
11:00
11:00 - 12:35
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

11:00 Broadband Modeling of Blazar Spectra with a Turbulent Acceleration Model - Katsuaki ASANO (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research - The University of Tokyo)

11:20 Signatures of stochastic acceleration in the spectral distributions of Synchro-Self-Compton sources: A self consistent modeling of TeV blazars' flare - Andrea TRAMACERE (ISDC)

11:40 Modelling blazar flaring using a time-dependent fluid jet emission model - an explanation for orphan flares and radio lags - William POTTER (University of Oxford)

12:00 An observationally driven approach to blazars (Review) - Paolo PADOVANI (ESO)
12:35 Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:35 - 13:40
Room: Aula Darwin
13:40
13:40 - 15:10
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

13:40 Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates identified as blazars or quasars with periodic variability -- prospects for multi-messenger astronomy (Invited) - Maria CHARISI (Caltech)

14:10 OJ287: Deciphering the “Rosetta stone of blazars” - Silke BRITZEN (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

14:30 Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary system in PG 1553+11.3 - Zulema ABRAHAM (Sao Paulo University)

14:50 Year-long quasi-periodicities of gamma-ray blazars: A cautious approach - Stefano COVINO (INAF - Brera Astronomical Observatory)
15:10 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:10 - 15:40
Room: Aula Darwin
15:40
15:40 - 17:30
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

15:40 Blazars as sources of high-energy neutrinos (Invited) - Maria PETROPOULOU (Princeton University)

16:10 Very High Energy gamma-ray detection by MAGIC from a direction coincident with the IceCube neutrino event - Wrijupan BHATTACHARYYA (DESY Zeuthen)

16:30 On the Detection Potential of Short Blazar Flares for Current Neutrino Telescopes - Michael KRETER (University of Wuerzburg)

16:50 Blazars as neutrinos factories - Chiara RIGHI (University of Insubria)

17:10 Modeling the electromagnetic and neutrino flux for the IceCube candidate source TXS 0506+056 - Andrea ZECH (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)
19:30 Social Dinner
Social Dinner
19:30 - 00:20
Room: I soliti Ignoti
Friday, 15 June 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

09:00 Cores of blazars studied at unprecedented angular resolution (Invited) - Yuri KOVALEV (Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute)

09:30 Relationship between interstellar scintillation and intrinsic variability of blazars - Jun Yi KOAY (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica)

09:50 Exploring the the radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission connection in Fermi blazars - Rocco LICO (UniBo - INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

10:10 Spectral Energy Distributions of Blazar substructure - Stefan WAGNER (LSW - University of Heidelberg)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Aula Darwin
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

11:00 Space-VLBI imaging of nearby radio galaxies with RadioAstron (Invited) - Toumas SAVOLAINEN (Aalto University)

11:30 First Principles Understanding of Black Hole Accretion - Monika MOSCIBRODZKA (Radboud University)

11:50 From the Micro to the Macro - Bridging the Gap Between The Theory and Observation of Blazar Jets - Nicholas MACDONALD (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

12:10 Zooming into the jet launching region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A - UWE BACH (Max-Planck-Institut for Radioastronomy)
12:30

12:30 - 12:40
Room: Aula Darwin

12:40 Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:40 - 14:00
Room: Aula Darwin
14:00
14:00 - 15:20
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

14:00 Probing the innermost regions of blazar jets at tens of microarcseconds through space and millimeter VLBI observations - Jose L. GOMEZ (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (CSIC))

14:20 Imaging the Innermost Jet Region of Radio Quasars 3C454.3 and OJ287 - Thalia TRAIANOU (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

14:40 The extreme blazar 0235+164 as seen by extensive ground and space radio observations - Alexander KUTKIN (Astro Space Center - LPI)

15:00 Time Variability of the Core-Shift Effect in the Blazar 3C454.3 - Wara CHAMANI (Aalto University - Metsahovi Radio Observatory)
15:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:20 - 15:50
Room: Aula Darwin
15:50
15:50 - 16:50
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

15:50 AGN physics from multiepoch core-shift measurements in a large sample of radio sources - Alexander PLAVIN (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

16:10 Correlation between jet magnetic flux and jet power - Elena NOKHRINA (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

16:30 The Properties of Parsec-Scale Blazar Jets - Justin FINKE (NRL)
16:50
16:50 - 17:25
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

16:50 Closing Lecture - Meg URRY (Yale University)
17:25

17:25 - 17:30
Room: Aula Darwin