AGNs, QSOs, and Jets Session

Wednesday, 18 December 1996, 2-4 pm

Preliminary Program

Chair: A. Konigl (U. Chicago)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Arieh Konigl, arieh@jets.uchicago.edu

Speakers

2:00 H. Netzer (Tel Aviv University): Highly Ionized Gas in AGNs
2:20 R. Goodrich (W. M. Keck Observatory): Recent Results on Broad Absorption Line QSOs
2:35 G. Bicknell (Australian National University): Shock Excitation of the Narrow Line Region in AGNs
2:50 J. Moran (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory): Probing AGNs with Water Megamasers
3:10 S. Chakrabarti (Tata Institute, Bombay): Recent Progress in the Study of Accretion Flows onto Black Holes
3:25 M. Catanese (Iowa State University): TeV Gamma Rays from AGNs
3:40 F. Mirabel (CEA-CEN Saclay): Relativistic Jets in Compact Galactic Sources

Posters

• A. Beloborodov, (P. N. Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow), Electron-positron wind from gamma-ray emitting accretion disks
  
• N. Brandt, (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), X-ray properties of ultrasoft narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
  
• J. Buckley, (Harvard-Smithsonian Whipple Observatory), Multiwavelength Observations of the BL Lac Object Markarian 421
  
• M. Demianski, (Williams College), Turbulence generation in a plasma cloud illuminated by hard X-rays and gamma rays
  
• J. Dykla, (Loyola University, Chicago), Effects of charge on black hole engines of active objects
  
• H. Greyber, (Greyber Assoc.), On the strong magnetic field model for the origin of AGN/QSO jets
  
• A. Harmon, (NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center), High energy properties of X-Ray binaries with radio jets
  
• K. Hirotani, (National Astronomical Observatory, Tokyo), Pair plasma production in black hole magnetospheres
  
• J. Kartje, (University of Chicago), Water maser emission from dusty clouds in AGNs
  
• M. Kellen, (Montana State University), A self-consistant disk-corona model of AGN with nonthermal pairs
  
• S. Komissarov, (University of Leeds), Numerical simulations of superlumimal radio sources
  
• A. Konigl, (University of Chicago), BL Lacertae objects in the extreme ultraviolet
  
• Z. Kuncic, (Australian National University), Thermal effects in the central regions of AGN
  
• A. LeRoux, (Montana State University), A reexamination of the warm absorber in MCG-6-30-15
  
• Z. Loska, (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw), Properties of the central engine in AGN: constraints from the NGC 5548 monitoring campaign
  
• R. Mahadevan, (Harvard University), Pion production from advection-dominated disks and EGRET observations
  
• E. Mueller, (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Astrophysik, Germany) The long-term evolution of powerful relativistic jets
  
• R. Sivron, (Grand Valley State university, Michigan), An alternative model for the redshifted iron line in some AGN
  
• A. Ulmer, (Princeton University Observatory), Evolution of a tidally disrupted star around a massive black hole
  
• R. Williams, (University of Florida, Gainesville) Penrose processes and the gravitomagnetic field
  
• I. Yi, (Institute for Advanced Study) Cosmological evolution of active galactic nuclei and the X-ray background