Name: Monitoring the non-thermal Universe 2018
Start: 2018-09-17T18:30:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-21T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Cochem (Mosel), Germany

Monitoring the non-thermal Universe 2018

from Monday, September 17, 2018 (6:30 PM) to Friday, September 21, 2018 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 17, 2018

7:30 PM Registration
Registration
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: In front of the tourist information

8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: In front of the tourist information
Tuesday, September 18, 2018

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Kapuzinerkloster

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM
Room: Pater Martin Hall
9:20 AM Gamma-Ray 1
Gamma-Ray 1
9:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:20 AM Fermi: Ten Years of Monitoring the Gamma-ray Universe - David Thompson (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

9:50 AM Monitoring blazars with Fermi-LAT and prompt triggering on flares - Jean-Philippe Lenain (LPNHE, CNRS/IN2P3)

10:10 AM Complex spectro-temporal gamma-ray behaviour of Mrk 501 - Carlo Romoli (MPIK)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Refektorium
11:00 AM MWL 1
MWL 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM X-ray/gamma-ray Correlation in Blazars - Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez (IF-UNAM)

11:30 AM Radio and GeV-TeV gamma-ray emission connection in the different blazar sub-classes - Rocco Lico (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR))

11:50 AM Blazar variability from radio to TeV photon energies on timescales ranging from decades to minutes - Arti Goyal (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)

12:10 PM Gamma-ray emission in radio galaxies under the VLBI scope - Roberto Angioni (Max-Planck Institut für Radioastronomie)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM Multi-Messenger 1
Multi-Messenger 1
2:15 PM - 3:35 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Monitoring and Multi-Messenger Astronomy with IceCube - René Reimann (RWTH Aachen)

2:45 PM AMON Multimessenger Alerts: Past and Future - Hugo Ayala (Pennsylvania State University)

3:15 PM Multi-messenger astronomy in the era of the Zwicky Transient Facility - Ludwig Rauch (DESY)
3:35 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:35 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Refektorium
4:15 PM Theory 1
Theory 1
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Interpretation of the coincident observation of a high energy neutrino and a bright flare of blazar TXS0506+056 - Shan Gao (DESY)

4:35 PM The long-lasting activity in the FSRQ CTA 102 - Michael Zacharias (TP IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

4:55 PM Time-resolved SEDs of the variable blazar PKS 1510-089 - Andrea Gokus

5:15 PM The First and Second-Order Fermi Acceleration Processes in BL Lacertae Objects - Bidzina Kapanadze (Ilia Sate University, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
9:00 AM Theory 2
Theory 2
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Gamma-Ray Astrophysics in the Time Domain - Frank Rieger (ZAH Univ. Heidelberg)

9:30 AM Theoretical models to explain the TeV gamma-ray and X-ray correlations exhibited in Blazars. - Nissim Fraija (IA-UNAM)

9:50 AM On the connection of radio and γ-ray emission of blazars - Stella Boula (University of Athens)

10:10 AM From Electrons to Janskys: Comparing Synthetic TEMZ Model Light Curves to High-Cadence Data from the POLAMI and F-GAMMA Monitoring Programs - Nicholas MacDonald (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Refektorium
11:00 AM Methods 1
Methods 1
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Timing and Spectral Variability in Black Holes - Abigail Stevens (Michigan State U.)

11:30 AM Multi-wavelength studies of blazars - Aditi Agarwal (Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bangalore, India)

11:50 AM Biases in Gamma-ray and MWL timing studies of AGN - Stefan Wagner (LSW Heidelberg)
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM Multi-Messenger 2
Multi-Messenger 2
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Deciphering the violent universe through gravitational waves - Yoshinta Setyawati (AEI Hannover)

2:45 PM Very-high-energy gamma-ray follow-up of gravitational waves with HAWC - Israel Martinez-Castellanos (University of Maryland)

3:05 PM Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Observations of Gravitational Wave Counterparts - Peter Veres

3:25 PM Information on the conference dinner
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Refektorium
4:15 PM Gamma-ray 2
Gamma-ray 2
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM FACT- Studying the X-ray/gamma-ray correlation using 5 years of data - Jose Andres Garcia-Gonzalez (IF-UNAM)

4:35 PM Implications of observed short-timescale gamma-ray variabilities on blazars jets - Amit Shukla (Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg)

4:55 PM Implications of the VHE gamma-ray outburst of PKS 1510-089 in May 2016 - Michael Zacharias (TP IV, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

5:15 PM FACT - Systematic Study of Blazar Flux States at TeV Energies - Daniela Dorner (Universität Würzburg)
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 11:30 PM
Room: Reichsburg (Castle)
Thursday, September 20, 2018
9:15 AM Methods 2
Methods 2
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:15 AM Bayesian Imaging for Multi-Messenger Data with Information Field Theory - Philipp Arras

9:45 AM Variability of Blazar Light Curves - Bernd Schleicher (Universität Würzburg)

10:05 AM AstroSat, an Indian step towards space-based astronomical missions - Sunil Chandra (North-West University, Potchefstroom )
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Refektorium
11:00 AM Theory 3
Theory 3
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Models of Blazar Variability - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)

11:30 AM The Feasibility of Magnetic Reconnection Powered Blazar Flares - Paul Morris (University of Oxford)

11:50 AM Characterizing leptonic long-term variability in blazars - Hannes Thiersen (North-West University)

12:10 PM Blazars-driven beam plasma instabilities in the IGM - Mohamad Shalaby
12:30 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 PM - 2:15 PM
2:15 PM MWL 2
MWL 2
2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:15 PM Unravelling the complex behaviour of our closest very-high-energy gamma-ray blazars, Mrk421 and Mrk501 - David Paneque (Max Planck Institute for Physics)

2:45 PM Exploring the Dominant Gamma-Ray Emission Mechanism using Multiwavelength Variability Analysis. Case Study: 3C 279 - Víctor Manuel Patiño-Álvarez (Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie)

3:05 PM The New Spectral and Temporal Variability Phase of OJ 287: A Multi-wavelength View - Pankaj Kushwaha (Institute of Astronomy, Geophysics and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Refektorium
4:15 PM Radio 1
Radio 1
4:15 PM - 5:45 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM AGN monitoring with very-long-baseline interferometry - Eduardo Ros (MPI für Radioastronomie & Univ. de València)

4:45 PM VLBI Jet Kinematics of the TeV Blazar Mrk 421 - Sarah Wagner

5:05 PM Delving Deeper into Blazar Cores with 3mm GMVA Polarimetric Observations - Carolina Casadio (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie)

5:25 PM Constraining the limiting brightness temperature and Doppler factors for the largest sample of radio bright blazars - Ioannis Liodakis (KIPAC, Stanford University)
Friday, September 21, 2018
9:00 AM Gamma-ray 3
Gamma-ray 3
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Monitoring the TeV sky with HAWC - Maria Magdalena Gonzalez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

9:30 AM Monitoring of PKS 2155-304 and PKS 1510-089 with H.E.S.S. - Alicja Wierzcholska

9:50 AM FACT - Unbiased Long-Term Monitoring at TeV Energies - Axel Arbet-Engels

10:10 AM MeV Observations of Relativistic Jet Sources with CGRO/COMPTEL for nine Years - Werner Collmar (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Refektorium
11:00 AM Optical 1
Optical 1
11:00 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM RoboPol: Polarimetric monitoring of blazars - Vasiliki Pavlidou (University of Crete)

11:30 AM Blazar Optical Sky Survey - BOSS project (2013-2018) and the quasi-periodic variability of BL Lac - Kosmas Gazeas (University of Athens, Greece)

11:50 AM Extending ATOM's Monitoring Capabilities - Felix Jankowsky (LSW Heidelberg)
12:10 PM Summary
Summary
12:10 PM - 12:40 PM

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