Fermi and Jansky: Our Evolving Understanding of AGN

November 10-12, 2011
Harbourtowne Conference Center
St Michaels, MD, USA

Program

WEDNESDAY, 9th NOVEMBER

Afternoon/Evening	Registration
Evening	Posters can go up
1830-1930	Dinner

THURSDAY, 10th NOVEMBER

0700-0850	BREAKFAST
	INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW	Chair: Julie McEnery
0850-0900	Welcome and Announcements
0900-0930	When Fermi met Jansky ... - A summary of the Bonn meeting (Audio: mp3)	Tuomas Savolainen (Invited)
0930-0950	Before Fermi met Jansky (Audio: mp3)	Phil Edwards
0950-1010	The Second Catalog of AGNs detected by the Fermi-LAT (Audio: mp3)	Benoit Lott
1010-1040	BREAK
	HIGH RESOLUTION MONITORING OF PARSEC SCALE JETS IN THE FERMI ERA-I	Chair: Ken Kellermann
1030-1100	High-resolution monitoring of parsec-scale jets in the Fermi era (Audio: mp3)	Eduardo Ros (Invited)
1100-1120	Parsec-Scale Jet Behavior of the Quasar 3C454.3 during the High Gamma-Ray States in 2009 and 2010 (Audio: mp3)	Svetlana Jorstad
1120-1140	Parsec-Scale Radio Properties of Gamma-ray Emitting Blazars (Audio: mp3)	Justin Linford
1140-1200	The TANAMI Program: Southern-Hemisphere AGN on (Sub-)Parsec Scales (Audio: mp3)	Cornelia Mueller
1200-1220	Parsec-scale study of Fermi sources (Audio: mp3)	Leonid Petrov
1210-1310	LUNCH
	HIGH RESOLUTION MONITORING OF PARSEC SCALE JETS IN THE FERMI ERA-II	Chair: Ken Kellermann
1310-1330	Gamma-ray and parsec-scale jet properties of a complete sample of blazars from the MOJAVE program (Audio: mp3)	Matt Lister
1330-1350	Faraday Rotation in the MOJAVE blazar jets (Audio: mp3)	Talvikki Hovatta
1350-1440	MULTIWAVELENGTH LIGHT-CURVE MONITORING-I	Chair: Dave Thompson
1350-1420	Modeling broadband spectra and variability of blazars (Audio: mp3)	Markus Boettcher (Invited)
1420-1440	Relation between Events in the Millimeter-wave Core and Gamma-ray Outbursts in Blazars (Audio: mp3)	Alan Marscher
1440-1510	CONFERENCE PHOTO/BREAK
	MULTIWAVELENGTH LIGHT-CURVE MONITORING-II	Chair: Chris Shrader
1510-1530	F-GAMMA program - review and recent findings: Unification and physical interpretation of the radio spectra variability patterns in Fermi blazars and jet emission from NLSy1s (Audio: mp3)	Emmanouil Angelakis
1530-1550	Study of cm/mm-band radio and gamma-ray correlated variability in Fermi bright blazars (Audio: mp3)	Lars Fuhrmann
1550-1610	A Diagnostic for Determining the Location of the GeV Emission in powerful blazars (Audio: mp3)	Amanda Dotson
1610-1630	The (sub-)mm and gamma-ray connection in northern blazars (Audio: mp3)	Jonathan Leon-Tavares
1630-1700	BREAK
	MULTIWAVELENGTH LIGHT-CURVE MONITORING-III	Chair: Dave Thompson
1700-1720	OVRO 40m blazar monitoring program: Understanding the relationship between 15 GHz radio variability properties and gamma-ray activity in blazars (Audio: mp3)	Walter Max-Moerbach
1720-1750	Statistical analysis of multiwavelength light curves (Audio: mp3)	Stefan Larsson (Invited)
1750-1830	Discussion 1 - Chairs: Julie McEnery/Charles Dermer (Audio: mp3)
1830-1930	DINNER

FRIDAY, 11th NOVEMBER

0700-0850	BREAKFAST
	POPULATION STUDIES AND THE BLAZAR SEQUENCE	Chair: Matt Lister
0850-0920	A simplified view of blazars: why BL Lacertae is actually a quasar in disguise (Audio: mp3)	Paolo Padovani (Invited)
0920-0940	A Physical Model for the Revised Blazar Sequence (Audio: mp3)	Justin Finke
0940-1000	Breaking the Blazar Sequence: A new view of Radio Loud AGN Unification (Audio: mp3)	Eileen Meyer
1000-1020	Exploring the FRI/FRII radio dichotomy with the Fermi satellite (Audio: mp3)	Paola Grandi
1020-1050	BREAK
1050-1110	The X-ray view of FRI and FRII radio galaxies detected by Fermi-LAT (Audio: mp3)	Eleonora Torresi
	Markos Georganopoulos' Comment (mp3)
	MULTIWAVELENGTH STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL OBJECTS AND EVENTS	Chair: Stefano Vercellone
1110-1130	Radio-to-Gamma Ray Monitoring of Mkn 421 and Mkn 501: Source Variability (Audio: mp3)	Nina Nowak
1130-1150	Some considerations on the last flare of 3C 454.3 (Audio: mp3)	Valerio Vittorini
1150-1210	The gamma-ray blazar B0208-512, a multi-wavelength investigation (Audio: mp3)	Jay Blanchard
1210-1230	Spectropolarimetric Properties of the Giant Radio Lobes of Centaurus A	Shane O'Sullivan
1230-1330	LUNCH
1330-1640	LONGBREAK
	HIGH AND VHE EMISSION FROM AGN-I	Chair: Gino Tosti
1640-1700	The Implications of Second-order SSC for the Gamma-ray Spectra of Blazars (Audio: mp3)	Adam Higuera
1700-1720	AGN Unification and the Gamma-Ray Spectra of Fermi Blazars (Audio: mp3)	Demosthenes Kazanas
1720-1740	Synchrotron Emission from VHE Gamma-Ray Induced Pair Cascades in AGN Environment (Audio: mp3)	Parisa Roustazadeh
1740-1830	Discussion 2 - Chairs: Alan Marscher/Stefano Vercellone (Audio: mp3)
1830-1930	DINNER

SATURDAY 12th NOVEMBER

0700-0850	BREAKFAST
	HIGH AND VHE EMISSION FROM AGN-II	Chair: Gino Tosti
0850-0910	Blazar observations above 100 GeV with VERITAS (Audio: mp3)	Manel Errando
0910-0930	Cherenkov and Jansky: Our Understanding of AGN at the Highest Energies (Audio: mp3)	Jeremy Perkins
0930-0950	Recent MAGIC observations of active galactic nuclei: Studies in the decisive E>50 GeV region (Audio: mp3)	Robert Wagner
	EMERGING OPPORTUNITIES: FERMI SCIENCE ENABLED BY NEW ELECTROMAGNETIC AND NON-ELECTROMAGNETIC DETECTORS	Chair: Roopesh Ojha
0950-1020	The ANTARES neutrino telescope (Audio: mp3)	Thomas Eberl (Invited)
1020-1050	BREAK
1050-1110	Imaging at both ends of the spectrum: the Long Wavelength Array and Fermi (Audio: mp3) Associated video (.m4v)	Greg Taylor
1110-1140	AGN physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array (Audio: mp3)	Andreas Zech (Invited)
1140-1230	Discussion 3 - Chairs: Greg Taylor/Robert Wagner (Audio: mp3)
1230-1330	LUNCH

Contact

Roopesh Ojha, roopesh.ojha@gmail.com