The conference, entitled “A Half-Century of Blazars and Beyond” (Italy 2018), will be held in Turin (Italy) from June 11th (Monday) to 15th (Friday), 2018. Registration and welcome will be organized on Sunday, while the social dinner will be on Thursday and a “Fermi 10 years” event on Monday. The conference will be structured as summarized in the following table:
| Sun 10 |
Mon 11 (8.45am - 6pm) |
Tue 12 (8.45am -6pm) |
Wed 13 (8.45am - 1pm) |
Thu 14 (8.45am - 6pm) |
Fri 15 (8.45am - 6pm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1 |
Session 3 |
Session 5 | Session 6 | Session 8 | |
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LUNCH 12.30 pm - 2 pm) |
LUNCH (12.30pm - 2pm) |
Social Event (optional) |
LUNCH (12.30pm - 2pm) |
LUNCH (12.30pm - 2pm) |
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|
Registration |
Session 2 | Session 4 |
Social Event (optional) |
Session 7 | Session 9 |
Each session will be interrupted by a coffee break 30 min long to facilitate discussions between participants.
We would like to focus the last session on a detailed discussion on how the current and future facilities will help to investigate the physics of the extragalactic jets in blazars. A special attention will be devoted to emphasize the role of Fermi for blazar discoveries since they represent the large known population of gamma-ray emitters and because it will also be an opportunity to highlight the 10 years of excellent science. Nevertheless regarding future facilities this conference will be also a perfect occasion to show the role that IXPE can have for blazar research in the years to come. In fact, blazars will also be one of the most promising extragalactic sources to measure X-ray polarized emission.
We plan to have an invited review talk each day of the conference; the first day it will represent our overview talk while in the afternoon of the last day, it will be the summary talk of the proposed conference. At the beginning of each remaining session, there will be an invited talk to summarize the current status of the research concerning the specific topic. We can also comfortably organize at least 13 contributed talks per day (7 only on Wednesday) for a total of about 60.
Our SOC already completed a first round of selections and is preparing a list of candidate speakers for the invited talks. The following table summatizes our program in terms of time allocations and nubers of invited, contributed talks and posters:
We will schedule time slots for “haiku”-style presentations for all the posters received.
| Invited talks | Contributed Talks | Posters | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total number |
14 |
~60 | 50 |
| Time allocated |
3 Reviews: 30' (talk) + 5' (discussion)
9 Talks: 25' (talk) + 5' (discussion)
1 Opening / 1 concluding talks: 35'
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15' (talk) + 5' (discussion)
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We will schedule time slots for “haiku”-style presentations for all the posters received.
We also plan to have two prizes valued 100 EUR each for the two best posters presented at the conference.
Fermi10 SOLICITED TALKS
GASPARRINI -- 4th Fermi-LAT AGN catalog (4LAC)
DOMINGUEZ -- Signatures of the extragalactic background light in gamma-rays
DOMINGUEZ -- Signatures of the extragalactic background light in gamma-rays
ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTED TALKS
ABRAHAM -- Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole Binary system in PG 1553+113
AGARWAL -- Multiwavelength studies of blazars
AGUDO -- POLAMI: Polarization Monitoring of AGN at Millimeter Wavelengths with the IRAM 30m Telescope. First results and impact on blazar science
ANGELAKIS -- RoboPol: the optical polarisation of gamma-ray-loud and gamma-ray-quiet blazars
ARSHAKIAN -- Scrutiny of the recollimation shock in BL Lacertae on sub parsec scales
ASANO -- Broadband Modeling of Blazar Spectra with a Turbulent Acceleration Model
BACH -- Zooming into the jet launching region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A
BACH -- Zooming into the jet launching region of the radio galaxy Cygnus A
BECERRA GONZÁLEZ -- A multi-wavelength view of the most extreme X-ray flare from Mrk 501
BENBOW -- Highlights from the VERITAS Blazar Observation Program
BHATTACHARYYA -- Very High Energy gamma-ray detection by MAGIC from a direction coincident with the IceCube neutrino event
BLINOV -- Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources using optical polarimetry
BOETTCHER -- The Extraordinary Flare of CTA 102 in 2016 - 2017
BOISSON -- Gamma loud NLS1s: a low scale version of FSRQs?
BONNOLI -- Chasing hidden TeV beacons in the elusive population of extreme HBLs
BRITZEN -- OJ287: Deciphering the “Rosetta stone of blazars”
BRUNI -- FERMI transient J1544-0649: a flaring radio-weak BL Lac
CASADIO -- Delving Deeper into Blazars Cores with 3mm GMVA Polarimetric Observation
CERRUTI -- TeV blazars with H.E.S.S.
CHAMANI -- Time Variability of the Core-Shift Effect in the Blazar 3C454.3
COSTAMANTE -- To BLR or not to BLR ? The Fermi-LAT view
COVINO -- Year-long quasi-periodicities of gamma-ray blazars: A cautious approach
D'AMMANDO -- Jet physics of blazar-like narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies in the Fermi era
DZHATDOEV -- Extreme TeV blazars as probes of the intergalactic medium: beyond the absorption-only model
FINKE -- The Properties of Parsec-Scale Blazar Jets
FUENTES -- Total and linearly polarized synchrotron emission from overpressured magnetized relativistic jets
GOMEZ -- Probing the innermost regions of blazar jets at tens of microarcseconds through space and millimeter VLBI observations
BRUNI -- FERMI transient J1544-0649: a flaring radio-weak BL Lac
HADA -- Collimation, acceleration and recollimation shock in the jet of gamma-ray emitting radio-loud NLS1 galaxy 1H 0323+342
HERNANDEZ-GARCIA -- Restarting activity in the nucleus of PBC J2333.9-2343
JORSTAD -- Dramatic Multi-Wavelength Outburst of the Quasar 4C+29.45 at the End of 2017
KOAY -- Relationship between interstellar scintillation and intrinsic variability of blazars
KRETER -- On the Detection Potential of Short Blazar Flares for Current Neutrino Telescopes
KUTKIN -- The extreme blazar 0235+164 as seen by extensive ground and space radio observations
LARIONOV -- Quasi-simultaneous decade-long optical and gamma-ray monitoring of selected blazars: the confrontation of the two energy ranges and its outcome
LICO -- Exploring the the radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission connection in Fermi blazars
LIODAKIS -- Multi-wavelength flaring activity in bright blazars
MACDONALD -- From the Micro to the Macro - Bridging the Gap Between The Theory and Observation of Blazar Jets
MADEJSKI -- Joint NuSTAR and Fermi observations of blazars
MOSCIBRODZKA -- First Principles Understanding of Black Hole Accretion
MYSERLIS -- Blazar physics through multi-frequency circular and linear polarization monitoring
NISHIKAWA -- Reconnection and Associated Flares in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields with PIC Simulations
NOKHRINA -- Correlation between jet magnetic flux and jet power
PACCIANI -- High Energy flares of FSRQs: the connection with the accretion disk luminosity
PAIANO -- Spectroscopy of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters: new identification, classification and redshift
PANDEY -- X-ray Intraday Flux and Spectral Variability of TeV Blazars with NuSTAR
PATIÑO ALVAREZ -- Relationship between Gamma-Rays and the pc-scale Radio Jet in 3C 279
PEI -- Radio core dominance of Fermi blazars
PLAVIN -- AGN physics from multiepoch core-shift measurements in a large sample of radio sources
POTTER -- Modeling blazar flaring using a time-dependent fluid jet emission model - an explanation for orphan flares and radio lags
PRANDINI -- MAGIC blazars in a multi-wavelength context
RAITERI -- Twenty years of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT)
RIGHI -- Blazars as neutrinos factories
SOL -- Two-component jet scenarios and blazar classification
TAVECCHIO -- The Cherenkov Telescope Array view of extra-galactic jetted sources
TRAIANOU -- Imaging the Innermost Jet Region of Radio Quasars 3C454.3 and OJ287
TRAMACERE -- Signatures of stochastic acceleration in the spectral distributions of Synchro-Self-Compton sources: A self consistent modeling of TeV blazars' flare
WAGNER -- Spectral Energy Distributions of Blazar substructure
ZECH -- Modelling the electromagnetic and neutrino flux for the IceCube candidate source TXS 0506+056
POSTER HAIKU
ACOSTA-PULIDO -- Statistical studies to characterize the optical/near-IR variability of bright gamma-ray blazars
ANGELAKIS -- F-GAMMA program: multi-frequency radio monitoring of Fermi blazars
ARBET-ENGELS -- Highlights of the FACT TeV Monitoring Program
BACHEV -- Extreme blazar variability and the “rms-flux” relation on the intra-night time scales
BALMAVERDE -- Te-REX: a sample of extragalactic TeV-emitting candidates
BIASUZZI -- Investigating the EBL through Fermi-LAT blazar spectra
CARNERO -- A blazar science case for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
CHAEL -- VLBI Imaging Directly with Closure Phases and Closure Amplitudes
CHANG -- The 3HSP high energy blazars catalog
CELLONE -- An insight into the behaviour of the optical polarization in blazars
CELLONE -- Host galaxy groups as redshift tracers for lineless BL Lac objects
CHEUNG -- XJET: X-ray Emission from Extragalactic Radio jets, progress and future prospects
D'AMMANDO -- Multi-band and polarization properties of the high-z flaring source S5 0836+710
FALOMO -- ZBLLAC : A web database of optical spectra of BL Lac objects
FAN -- The SED and the beaming effect for Fermi Blazars
FARGION -- Did GRB 170817A shine both collinear to the jet and also along its orthogonal synchrotron gamma disk?
GALLUZZI -- Multi-frequency polarimetry of a complete sample of faint PACO sources
HESTER -- Modeling the Spectral Energy Distributions and Polarization of Blazars
LENAIN -- FLaapLUC: a pipeline using Fermi-LAT data for prompt alerts on flaring blazars
MIHOV -- Multi-band Intra-night Variability of the Blazar CTA 102 During its December 2016 Outburst
MELIANI -- Moving knots in relativistic transverse stratified jets
MORRIS -- The Feasibility of Magnetic Reconnection Powered Blazar Flares
MORTIER -- Numerical study of blazars and gamma-rays burst jets variability
NOKHRINA/KOVALEV -- Estimating AGN jet parameters from observations of a jet shape break
PACCIANI -- Identification of Activity peaks in time tagged data sample
PAIANO -- The Redshift of TXS 0506+056, the first BLL-neutrino candidate.
PRANDINI -- Faint blazars at the edge of Fermi-LAT detectability
PUSHKAREV -- Polarization studies of compact structure of AGN Jets
SANDRINELLI -- The galaxy environments of low redshift blazars
SAVCHENKO -- Gamma-ray - optical flux correlation of flaring events for gamma-bright blazars
SITAREK -- Detection of persistent VHE gamma-ray emission from PKS 1510–089 by MAGIC telescopes during low Fermi-LAT states
THIERSEN -- Modeling the long-term variability of blazars
VAN DEN BERG -- Systematic Physical Characterization of Fermi-LAT Spectra of 2FHL Blazars
