Program for NERQUAM 2006
8:45-9:15 Gathering over light breakfast fare
9:15-9:45 News of important discoveries or new or future instruments
Jonathan Grindlay (CfA): DASCH: Digital Access to a Sky Century from
Harvard
Belinda Wilkes (CfA): Report on NASA Advisory sub-Committees Meeting,
3,4 May 2006
Dan Harris (CfA): M 87 Update
9:45-10:15 Invited talk
Eric Gawiser (Yale): MUSYC Studies of the AGN-Galaxy Connection
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Scientific talks: Surveys and Spectra
Shanil Virani (Yale): New EXOs in the MUSYC Survey
Ryan Hickox (CfA): Thousands of AGN in the 9 square degree Bootes
field:
X-ray and infrared properties
Brooke Simmons (Yale): AGN Hosts and Inactive Galaxies: the same, but
different
Hermine Landt (CfA): Radio number counts, Evolution and Luminosity
Functions
of Blazars
Dan Evans (CfA): Multiwavelength observations of the circumnuclear
environment
in NGC 2110
Andy Young (MIT): High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of the
Low-Luminosity
AGN M81* with Chandra
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-3:00 Scientific Talks: Jets
Alan Marscher (Boston U.): Upper Limit to the Positron Content of the
3C 120 Jet
John Wardle (Brandeis): Faraday Rotation gradients in 3C273
Svetlana Jorstad (Boston U.): The Kiloparsec Scale Jet of the Quasar
1317+520
Herman Marshall (MKI): Resolving the 3C 273 Jet using Chandra in 2D
Jonathan Gelbord (MKI): Chandra Observations of Quasar Jets
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Scientific Talks: The Central Engine and Environs
Colin Lonsdale (Haystack Obs.): A Very Active Galactic Nucleus
Paul Nulsen (CfA): Growth of Black Holes and Bulges in Cluster Central
Galaxies
Paul Green (CfA): Lens-Aided Multi-Angle Spectroscopy (LAMAS) and
Small-Scale
Outflow Structure in Quasars
Rudy Schild (CfA): The failure of Luminous Accretion Disc Theory
Darryl Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA): Does the Quasar Q0957+561
Have an
Intrinsic Magnetic Moment Instead of an Event Horizon?
Martin Elvis (CfA): The Future of Quasar SEDs
5:00-6:00 Informal discussions over beer, wine, soda, and munchies
Posters (all day)
Tom Aldcroft (CfA): YAXX: Yet Another X-ray Xtractor
Carolin Cardimone (Yale): Likelihood
Source Matching Applied to the Extended Chandra Deep Field-South (ECDF-S)
Ritaban Chatterjee (BU): Evidence
Supporting the Accretion Disk - Jet Connection in the Radio Galaxy 3C 120
Francesca D'Arcangelo (BU): A
Multiwavelength Polarization Study of Blazars
Alexander Richardson (Yale): X-ray
Properties of LAEs in the MUSYC Survey
Shanil Virani (Yale): Searching for
Compton-thick AGN with INTEGRAL
Suwicha Wannawichian (BU): Relativistic
Outflow in the Inner Jet of Quasars