Conference program

CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS:

Marek AbramowiczInstitutionen for Fysik, Goteborgs Universitet (Sweden); N. Copernicus Astronomical Center (Poland)
Jonathan AronsAstronomy Department, UC Berkeley (USA)
Mitchell C. BegelmanJILA, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
Roger D. BlandfordKIPAC, Stanford University (USA)
Annalisa CelottiInternational School for Advanced Studies - SISSA (Italy)
Paolo CoppiDepartments of Astronomy and Physics, Yale University (USA)
Guillaume DubusInstitut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (France)
Moshe ElitzurDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Kentucky (USA)
Rob P. FenderSchool of Physics & Astronomy, University of Southampton (UK)
Denisa GabuzdaUniversity College Cork (Ireland)
Gabriele GhiselliniOsservatorio Astronomico di Brera-Merate (Italy)
Berrie GiebelsLaboratoire Leprince-Ringuet, Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Sebastian HeinzAstronomy Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA)
Masahiro HoshinoDepartment of Earth and Planetary Science, University of Tokyo (Japan)
John G. KirkMax-Planck-Institut fur Kernphysik (Germany)
Arieh KöniglUniversity of Chicago (USA)
Robert A. LaingEuropean Southern Observatory (Germany)
Jean-Pierre LasotaInstitut d'Astrophysique de Paris (France); Astronomical Observatory, Jagiellonian University (Poland)
Maxim LyutikovDepartment of Physics, Purdue University (USA)
Julie E. McEneryNASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (USA)
Greg MadejskiKIPAC, Stanford University (USA)
Laura MaraschiINAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera (Italy)
Jonathan C. McKinneyKIPAC, Stanford University (USA)
Ramesh NarayanHarvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (USA)
Tsvi PiranRacah Institute of Physics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Juri PoutanenDepartment of Physical Sciences, University of Oulu (Finland)
Daniel ProgaDepartment of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nevada - Las Vegas (USA)
Chris S. ReynoldsDepartment of Astronomy, University of Maryland (USA)
Marek SikoraN. Copernicus Astronomical Center (Poland)
Dmitri UzdenskyCenter for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado Boulder (USA)
Eli WaxmanDepartment of Particle Physics & Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Andrzej A. ZdziarskiN. Copernicus Astronomical Center (Poland)

PRESENTATIONS

Similarly to the case of previous jet meetings in Krakow, this time we plan only long invited talks (45+5min). All the contributed presentations will be displayed as posters. Two longer poster sessions with wine and snacks, and the discussion session at the end of each day, will provide an excellent opportunity for all the participants to discuss the posters. The agenda of the conference is as follows:

Welcome Reception (Sunday) - starts at 18:00

Session I (Monday) - Black Holes, Accretion Disks & Jets in AGN

09:00 - 09:50 Accretion Disks: Theory (Abramowicz)
09:50 - 10:40 Accretion Disks: Simulations and Observations (Reynolds)

10:40 - 11:00 [coffee 1]

11:00 - 11:50 Disk Winds and Dusty Tori: Theory & Observations (Elitzur)
11:50 - 12:40 Winds from Disks and Tori: Simulations (Proga)

12:40 - 14:40 [lunch]

14:40 - 15:30 Jet Launching and Observation in AGN: Theory (Blandford)
15:30 - 16:20 Relativistic Magnetized Outflows in AGNs, GBRs and Compacts' Mergers/Collapse (Lyutikov)

16:20 - 16:40 [coffee 2]

16:40 - 17:30 The Role of Black Hole Spin in Relativistic Jets (Narayan)
17:30 - 18:00 On the role of BH spin and accretion in powering relativistic jets in AGN (Maraschi)

18:00 - ... Poster session

Session II (Tuesday) Extragalactic Jets: Observations & Modeling

09:00 - 09:50 Growing Black Holes (Begelman)
09:50 - 10:40 AGN Unification Schemes: Highlights and Challenges (Celotti)

10:40 - 11:00 [coffee 1]

11:00 - 11:50 AGN in Gamma-rays: Recent Results (Giebels)
11:50 - 12:40 Modeling and Understanding of Blazar Sources (Ghisellini)

12:40 - 14:40 [lunch]

14:40 - 15:30 Radio Observations of Pc-scale Jets in AGN (Gabuzda)
15:30 - 16:20 Large-scale Jets & Lobes in AGN (Laing)

16:20 - 16:40 [coffee 2]

16:40 - 17:30 AGN Jets and Clusters of Galaxies (Heinz)
17:30 - 18:00 Recent Observations of Extragalactic Jets: A Summary (Madejski)

Session III (Wednesday) Galactic-Scale Jet and High-Energy Sources

09:00 - 09:50 From YSOs to AGNs: Relativistic Jets in Context (Königl)
09:50 - 10:40 Connection Between Accretion Discs and Jets in XRBs (Zdziarski)

10:40 - 11:00 [coffee 1]

11:00 - 11:50 Jets in XRBs (Fender)
11:50 - 12:40 XRBs in Gamma-rays: Recent Results (Dubus)

12:40 - 14:40 [lunch]

14:40 - 15:30 Fermi Results on GRBs (McEnery)
15:30 - 16:20 Magnetohydrodynamical Dissipation in Gamma-Ray Burst Jets (McKinney)

16:20 - 16:40 [coffee 2]

16:40 - 17:30 Jet Propagation and Collimation in Collapsars and Low Luminosity GRBs (Piran)
17:30 - 18:00 Jets and Accretion Disks in Galactic Sources - A Skeptical View (Lasota)

18:00 - ... Poster session

Session IV (Thursday) Particle Acceleration & Energy Dissipation Processes

09:00 - 09:50 Energy Dissipation in Relativistic Magnetized Outflows (Arons)
09:50 - 10:40 Particle Acceleration: Relativistic Shocks (Kirk)

10:40 - 11:00 [coffee 1]

11:00 - 11:50 PIC Simulations of Relativistic Reconnection (Hoshino)
11:50 - 12:40 Magnetic Reconnection, Particle Acceleration, and Radiation in Some Pretty Extreme Places (Uzdensky)

12:40 - 14:40 [lunch]

14:40 - 15:30 Supercritical Phenomena in Relativistic Plasma (Poutanen)
15:30 - 16:20 UHECRs: Recent Results and Understanding (Waxman)

16:20 - 16:40 [coffee 2]

16:40 - 17:10 Recent Progress in Understanding Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Sources - A Summary (Coppi)
17:10 - 18:00 Understanding Relativistic Jets - A General Discussion (Sikora)

19:00 - ... Conference dinner

PROCEEDINGS

There will be no regular proceedings of the meeting, but only the electronic ones available on a CD and online shortly after the conference.