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Program
Monday July 10th
14:00 – 16:00: Panel discussion with UVI undergrads (invite only) 17:00 – 19:00: Opening Reception
Tuesday July 11th
Session 1: 9:15 – 10:45 Chair: S. LaMassa S. LaMassa - Welcome A. Siemiginowska(P)– Plenary Talk S. Kozlowski - Optical Variability of AGNs Session I Poster Talks
Coffee break 10:45 – 11:30
Session 2: 11:30 – 13:00 AGN Variability, Reverberation Mapping Chair: J. Runnoe J. Dexter (I)- Variable and Changing Look AGN as probes of accretion physics A. Bruce - Threading the microneedle I. McGreer - Long-term variability of SDSS-RM quasars
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
Session 3: 14:30 – 16:15 Extreme AGN Variability Chair: N. Ross J. Ruan (I) - The Origin and Utility of Changing-Look Quasars M. Graham - The Extreme AGN Zoo: a CRTS perspective D. Stern - Extremely Variable Quasars from CRTS and WISE C. MacLeod - Spectroscopic Followup of Changing-Look Quasar Candidates Coffee break 16:15 – 17:00
Topical Discussion 17:00 – 18:00 Discussion Leads: J. Runnoe & I. McGreer Wednesday July 12th
Session 4: 9:15 – 10:45 Case Studies of Changing-Look AGN; Understanding how emission lines respond in Changing-Look AGN Chair: C. MacLeod M. Powell - Mrk 1018 returns to the shadows after 30 years as a Seyfert 1 J. Y. Koay - The changing-look AGN Mrk 590: radio variability, accretion flow, and gas fueling J. Runnoe - The behavior of the broad Mg II emission line in changing-look quasars D. Homan - Broad emission line variability on long timescales; Interpreting a complex BLR response
Coffee break 10:45 – 11:30
Session 5: 11:30 – 13:00 Microlensing, AGN lifetimes Chair: C. Done P. Lira - Reverberation Mapping of Luminous Quasars at High-z L. Sartori - AGN variability on 10^4-10^5 yr timescales - the case of IC 2497 and Hanny’s Voorwerp A.-C. Eilers - Lifetime of High Redshift Quasars K. Ichikawa - Discovery of a dying AGN in Arp 187
Lunch: 13:00 – 14:30
Session 6: 14:30 – 16:15 TDEs - Observations & Physics Chair: D. French J. Guillochon (I) - Illuminating Black Holes with Tidal Disruption Events S. van Velzen - Systematic investigations of stellar tidal disruption flares W. P. Maksym - Results from Long-Term Monitoring of an X-ray Bright TDE at only 90 Mpc N. Blagorodnova (I) - iPTF16fnl - a faint and fast TDE in an E+A galaxy
Coffee break: 16:15 – 17:00
Topical Discussion: 17:00 – 18:00 Discussion Leads: A. Lawrence & C. Done
Conference Banquet: 19:00 – 23:00
Thursday July 13th
Session 7: 11:45 – 13:00 How TDEs and AGN relate to host galaxies Chair: J. Ruan D. French - The Unusual Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Events N. Stone - Rates of Tidal Disruption Flares in Post-Starburst Galaxies N. Caplar - Optical variability of AGN in the Palomar Transient Factory Survey Session II Poster Talks
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
Session 8: 14:30 – 16:15 UV/X-ray/opticalvariability as probe of accretion physics Chair: A. Lawrence C. Done (I) - Insights on the Geometry and Physical Processes at Work in AGN from Reverberation B. Liu - A theoretical study of the geometry of accretion flow in AGN
Coffee break 16:15 – 17:00
Topical Discussion 17:00 – 18:00 Discussion Leads: C. MacLeod & P. Maksym
Friday July 14th
Session 9: 9:30 – 10:45 Disentangling variability from patchy obscuration and changes in accretion rate Chair: B. Liu T. J. Turner - X-ray timing constraints on AGN winds S. Frederick - Investigating the Dramatic X-ray Variability of a Low-Redshift NLS1 with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR L. Hernandez-Garcia - Unveiling the physics of AGN through X-ray variability
Coffee Break 10:45 – 11:30
Session 10: 11:30 – 13:00 Searches for TDEs with current & future facilities; Distinguishing variability from different classes of objects Chair: S. van Velzen K. Alexander (I) - Radio Observations of TDEs: Status and Prospects P. Blanchard - PS16dtm: A Tidal Disruption Event in a Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy L. Yan - Mid-Infrared Light Curves of Tidal Disruption Event Candidates A. Rest - Probing the high-z TDE population with WFIRST and JWST
Lunch 13:00 – 14:30
Session 11: 14:30 – 15:30 Searches for CLAGN based on optical & X-ray variability with current & future facilities Chair: M. Graham O. Shemmer (I) - Insights into the Supermassive Black-Hole Accretion Process from X-ray and Optical Time-Domain Surveys A. Lawrence - AGN hypervariables in the LSST era
Coffee Break: 15:30 – 16:15
Conference Wrap-up: 16:15 – 17:00 Discussion Leads: N. Ross & S. LaMassa
Public Outreach Talk 19:00 – 20:00 A. Bruce, S. LaMassa Poster Presentations
Session I: Tuesday – Wednesday 1.01 P. Sanchez (presented by P. Lira) - Characterization of AGN variability in the optical and near infrared regimes 1.02 C. Peters - Extensive Coverage of Radio AGN Variability with CHILES 1.03 E. Pouliasis - Identification of Active Galactic Nuclei through optical variability selection in GOODS South field 1.04 J. Esser - Dust formation in NGC 4151 1.05 N. Roth - The combined roles of gas kinematics and electron scattering in shaping the optical line profiles of TDEs 1.06 M. Schirmer – Powerful AGN driving massive outflows in two low-redshift Lyman-α blobs Session II: Thursday - Friday 2.01 Z.-Y. Cai - An upgraded inhomogeneous disk model with tight inter-band correlations and lags 2.02 D. Pasham (presented by S. van Velzen) - Accretion--Jet coupling following the stellar tidal disruption flare ASASSN-14li 2.03 J. Webb - Multifrequency Blazar Microvariability as a tool to Investigate Relativistic Jet Flow 2.04 P. Rani - Measurements of Coronal Properties of Seyferts with NuSTAR 2.05 T. Wang - A comprehensive survey of Infrared flares in galaxies 2.06 L. Wyrzkowski (presented by S. Kozlowski) - Nuclear transients in OGLE and Gaia Surveys 2.07 J. Moreno - SDSS and K2 Variability Timescales: Damped Random Walk vs. Damped Harmonic Oscillator |