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, June 11, 2018

8:45 AM

8:45 AM - 8:50 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
8:50 AM
8:50 AM - 9:25 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

8:50 AM Outstanding Problems in Blazar Astrophysics (Opening Lecture) - Alan Marscher (Boston University)
9:25 AM
9:25 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

9:25 AM The Devil is in the Details: Using High-Cadence, Multiwavelength Observations to Understand the Disk-Jet Connection in Blazars (Invited) - Jedidah ISLER (Vanderbilt University)

9:55 AM Twenty years of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) - Claudia Raiteri (INAF - OATo)
10:15 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

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

11:05 AM 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 AM Multiwavelength studies of blazars - Aditi AGARWAL (Indian Institute of Astrophysics)

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

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

12:25 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Aula Darwin

12:30 PM Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

2:00 PM Parsec-Scale Studies of Blazar Jet Kinematics (Invited) - Matt LISTER (Purdue University)

2:30 PM Dramatic Multi-Wavelength Outburst of the Quasar 4C+29.45 at the End of 2017 - Svetlana JORSTAD (Boston University)

2:50 PM Relationship between Gamma-Rays and the pc-scale Radio Jet in 3C 279 - Victor Manuel PATIÑO ALVAREZ (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:55 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

3:40 PM Signatures of the extragalactic background light in gamma-rays (Fermi@10 special talk) - Alberto DOMINGUEZ (Universidad Computense de Madrid)

4:05 PM TeV blazars with H.E.S.S. - Matteo CERRUTI (CNRS - LPNHE)

4:25 PM Highlights from the VERITAS Blazar Observation Program - Wystan BENBOW (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

4:45 PM MAGIC blazars in a multi-wavelength context - Elisa PRANDINI (University of Padova - INFN Padova)

5:05 PM Two-component jet scenarios and blazar classification - Helene SOL (CNRS - Observatoire de Paris)

5:25 PM Connecting Blazar Kinematics to Supermassive Black Holes: Dynamical Imaging with the Event Horizon Telescope (Invited) - Michael JOHNSON (Harvard University)
5:55 PM

5:55 PM - 6:05 PM
Room: Aula Darwin

8:00 PM Fermi@10 Special Dinner
Fermi@10 Special Dinner
8:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: La Piazza dei Mestieri
Tuesday, June 12, 2018
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

8:45 AM The Fourth catalogue of AGN detected by Fermi-LAT (Fermi@10 Special talk) - Dario GASPARRINI (SSDC)

9:10 AM The blazar sequence is alive (Review) - Gabriele GHISELLINI (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

9:45 AM To BLR or not to BLR ? The Fermi-LAT view - Luigi COSTAMANTE (Italian Space Agency)
10:25 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

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

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

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

11:55 AM The Cherenkov Telescope Array view of extra-galactic jetted sources - Stefano VERCELLONE (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)
12:15 PM Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:15 PM - 1:45 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
1:45 PM
1:45 PM - 3:05 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

1:45 PM Joint NuSTAR and Fermi observations of blazars - Grzegorz MADEJSKI (SLAC)

2:05 PM X-ray Intraday Flux and Spectral Variability of TeV Blazars with NuSTAR - Ashwani PANDEY (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES))

2:25 PM A multi-wavelength view of the most extreme X-ray flare from Mrk 501 - Josefa BECERRA GONZÁLEZ (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias)

2:45 PM FERMI transient J1544-0649: a flaring radio-weak BL Lac - GABRIELE BRUNI (INAF - Institute for Space Astrophysics and Planetology)
3:05 PM

3:05 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Aula Darwin

3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

4:00 PM Restarting activity in the nucleus of PBC J2333.9-2343 (HERNANDEZ-GARCIA et al.) - Francesca PANESSA (IAPS-INAF)

4:20 PM Jet physics of blazar-like narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the Fermi era - Filippo D'AMMANDO (INAF-IRA Bologna)

4:40 PM 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)

5:00 PM Gamma loud NLS1s: a low scale version of FSRQs? - Catherine BOISSON (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

5:20 PM Spectroscopy of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters: new identification, classification and redshift - Simona PAIANO (INAF - Padova Astronomical Observatory)

5:40 PM Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources using optical polarimetry - Dmitry BLINOV (University of Crete)
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:25 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

8:45 AM Magnetic fields in blazar jets (Invited) - Talvikki HOVATTA (Tuorla Observatory)

9:15 AM Delving Deeper into Blazars Cores with 3mm GMVA Polarimetric Observation - Carolina CASADIO (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

9:35 AM Scrutiny of the recollimation shock in BL Lacertae on sub parsec scales - Tigran ARSHAKIAN (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory)

9:55 AM X-Ray and Gamma-Ray Spectropolarimetric Observations of Active Galactic Nuclei (Invited) - Henric KRAWCZYNSKI (Washington University in St. Louis)
10:25 AM Coffee Creak
Coffee Creak
10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

10:55 AM 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 AM Blazar physics through multi-frequency circular and linear polarization monitoring - Ioannis MYSERLIS (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

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

11:55 AM Fermi, Astrophysics and ISM (Invited) - Steven Shore (University of Pisa)
Thursday, June 14, 2018
8:45 AM
8:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

8:45 AM Dissipation and Particle Acceleration in Blazar Jets (Review) - Mitch BEGELMAN (University of Colorado, Boulder)

9:20 AM Extragalactic Jet Dynamics after Half a Century of MHD modelling. Where are we? (Invited) - Andrea MIGNONE (UniTO)

9:50 AM Reconnection and Associated Flares in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields with PIC Simulations - Kenichi NISHIKAWA (Univeristy of Alabama in Huntsville)

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

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

11:20 AM 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 AM 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 PM An observationally driven approach to blazars (Review) - Paolo PADOVANI (ESO)
12:35 PM Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:35 PM - 1:40 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
1:40 PM
1:40 PM - 3:10 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

1:40 PM Supermassive Black Hole Binary Candidates identified as blazars or quasars with periodic variability -- prospects for multi-messenger astronomy (Invited) - Maria CHARISI (Caltech)

2:10 PM OJ287: Deciphering the “Rosetta stone of blazars” - Silke BRITZEN (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

2:30 PM Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary system in PG 1553+11.3 - Zulema ABRAHAM (Sao Paulo University)

2:50 PM Year-long quasi-periodicities of gamma-ray blazars: A cautious approach - Stefano COVINO (INAF - Brera Astronomical Observatory)
3:10 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:10 PM - 3:40 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

3:40 PM Blazars as sources of high-energy neutrinos (Invited) - Maria PETROPOULOU (Princeton University)

4:10 PM Very High Energy gamma-ray detection by MAGIC from a direction coincident with the IceCube neutrino event - Wrijupan BHATTACHARYYA (DESY Zeuthen)

4:30 PM On the Detection Potential of Short Blazar Flares for Current Neutrino Telescopes - Michael KRETER (University of Wuerzburg)

4:50 PM Blazars as neutrinos factories - Chiara RIGHI (University of Insubria)

5:10 PM Modeling the electromagnetic and neutrino flux for the IceCube candidate source TXS 0506+056 - Andrea ZECH (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)
7:30 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
7:30 PM - 12:20 AM
Room: I soliti Ignoti
Friday, June 15, 2018
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

9:00 AM Cores of blazars studied at unprecedented angular resolution (Invited) - Yuri KOVALEV (Astro Space Center of Lebedev Physical Institute)

9:30 AM Relationship between interstellar scintillation and intrinsic variability of blazars - Jun Yi KOAY (Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica)

9:50 AM Exploring the the radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission connection in Fermi blazars - Rocco LICO (UniBo - INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia)

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

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

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

11:50 AM 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 PM Zooming into the jet launching region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A - UWE BACH (Max-Planck-Institut for Radioastronomy)
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Aula Darwin

12:40 PM Lunch Time
Lunch Time
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

2:00 PM 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))

2:20 PM Imaging the Innermost Jet Region of Radio Quasars 3C454.3 and OJ287 - Thalia TRAIANOU (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

2:40 PM The extreme blazar 0235+164 as seen by extensive ground and space radio observations - Alexander KUTKIN (Astro Space Center - LPI)

3:00 PM Time Variability of the Core-Shift Effect in the Blazar 3C454.3 - Wara CHAMANI (Aalto University - Metsahovi Radio Observatory)
3:20 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:20 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
3:50 PM
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

3:50 PM AGN physics from multiepoch core-shift measurements in a large sample of radio sources - Alexander PLAVIN (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

4:10 PM Correlation between jet magnetic flux and jet power - Elena NOKHRINA (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)

4:30 PM The Properties of Parsec-Scale Blazar Jets - Justin FINKE (NRL)
4:50 PM
4:50 PM - 5:25 PM
Room: Aula Darwin
Contributions

4:50 PM Closing Lecture - Meg URRY (Yale University)
5:25 PM

5:25 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Aula Darwin