Scientific Organizing Committee / Local Organising Committee

Ciriaco Goddi (IMAPP, Nijmegen, NL)

Registration Fees

There is no registration fee for this workshop, and no registration deadline.

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED.

Venue

The conference will take place in the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie.
Free coffee, tea and cookies are available in the meeting rooms. Lunch will be served in the canteen, but comes at your own expense.

Lunch will be available from the canteen, at your own expense

Conference dinner

A social dinner is being planned in the city center of Bonn.

Hotel

There a number of good hotels in Bonn is at a 15-30 minute walking distance from the venue.

List of participants

There are 42 participants.

	Name	Affiliation
1	Alef, Walter	MPIfR Bonn
2	Brinkerink, Christiaan	RU Nijmegen
3	Bronzwaer, Thomas	RU Nijmegen
4	Connors, Riley	University of Amsterdam
5	Crumley, Patrick	University of Amsterdam
6	Davelaar, Jordy	RU Nijmegen
7	De Laurentis, Mariafelicia	University of Frankfurt
8	Desvignes, Gregory	MPIfR Bonn
9	Dexter, Jason	MPE
10	Eatough, Ralph	MPIfR Bonn
11	Eldering, Bob	JIVE
12	Falcke, Heino	RU Nijmegen
13	Fraga Encinas, Raquel	RU Nijmegen
14	Fromm, Christian	University of Frankfurt
15	Goddi, Ciriaco	RU Nijmegen
16	Janßen, Michael	RU Nijmegen
17	Kettenis, Mark	JIVE
18	Konoplya, Roman	University of Frankfurt
19	Kramer, Michael	MPIfR Bonn
20	Krichbaum, Thomas	MPIfR Bonn
21	Liu, Kuo	MPIfR Bonn
22	Markoff, Sera	University of Amsterdam
23	Mizuno, Yosuke	University of Frankfurt
24	Moscibrodzka, Monika	RU Nijmegen
25	Müller, Cornelia	RU Nijmegen
26	Olivares, Hector	University of Frankfurt
27	Porth, Oliver	University of Frankfurt
28	Psaltis, Dimitrios	University of Arizona
29	Rezzolla, Luciano	University of Frankfurt
30	Ros, Eduardo	MPIfR Bonn
31	Roy, Alan	MPIfR Bonn
32	Rottmann, Helge	MPIfR Bonn
33	Schuster, Karl	IRAM
34	Small, Des	JIVE
35	Szomoru, Arpad	JIVE
36	Tilanus, Remo	RU Nijmegen
37	Torne, Pablo	MPIfR Bonn
38	van Bemmel, Ilse	JIVE
39	Verkouter, Harro	JIVE
40	Wex, Norbert	MPIfR Bonn
41	Younsi, Ziri	University of Frankfurt
42	Zhidenko, Alexander	University of Frankfurt

Programme

Please download here the programme as a pdf file: BHC-F2F_20160222_programme

 

BlackHoleCam Face-to-Face Meeting Programme

February 22-23(+24) 2016, MPIfR, Bonn

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Monday 22nd

(Science Presentations)

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09:00 – 09:50 Registration

09:50 – 09:55 Welcome

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Session I: Theory I

Chair: Luciano Rezzolla (ITP Frankfurt)

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09:55 – 10:00 Chair: Intro & Setup

10:00 – 10:15 Oliver Porth – Status of the BlackHoleAccretionCode (BHAC)

(12+3 min) (ITP Frankfurt)

10:15 – 10:25 Ziri Younsi – Ray-tracing and radiative transfer in general relativity

(8+2 min) (ITP Frankfurt)

10:25 – 10:45 Alexander Zhidenko – A general parametrization of axisymmetric black holes

(17+3 min) & Roman Konoplya in metric theories of gravity

(ITP Frankfurt)

10:45 – 10:50 Mariafelicia De Laurentis – Pulsar dynamics in arbitrary black-hole spacetimes:

(4+1 min) (ITP Frankfurt) spherically symmetric case

10:50 – 10:55 Hector Olivares – GRMHD simulations with constrained transport in BHAC

(4+1 min) (ITP Frankfurt)

10:55 – 11:00 Christian Fromm – Simulation of parsec-scale jets

(4+1 min) (ITP Frankfurt)

11:00 – 11:15 Dimitrios Psaltis – Variability in EHT imaging of Sgr A* & data interpretation

(12+3 min) (University of Arizona)

11:15 – 11:35 (Short) Coffee Break

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Session II: Theory II

Chair: Heino Falcke (Radboud Nijmegen)

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11:35 – 14:40 Chair: Intro & Setup

11:40 – 11:55 Monika Moscibrodzka – Modeling radiation from jets using GRMHD simulations:

(12+3 min) (Radboud Nijmegen) mass loading & particle acceleration & radiation

11:55 – 12:00 Raquel Fraga-Encinas –Probing spacetime around Sgr A*

(4+1 min) (Radboud Nijmegen) using modeled VLBI closure phases

12:00- 12:05 Thomas Bronzwaer – Polarized Radiative Transfer in General Curved Spacetimes

(4+1 min) (Radboud Nijmegen)

12:05 -12:10 Jordy Davelaar – Modelling M81 with a tilted accretion disk

(4+1 min) (Radboud Nijmegen)

12:10 – 12:25 Sera Markoff – Particle acceleration at extreme low-accretion rates:

(12+3 min) (UvA) hints from Sgr A*, M87 and X-ray binaries

12:25 – 12:30 Patrick Crumley – Particle Acceleration in Mildly Relativistic Shocks

(4+1 min) (UvA)

12:30 – 12:35 Riley Connors – Using mass-scaling to study accretion and

(4+1 min) (UvA) particle acceleration at the lowest luminosities

12:35 – 12:50 Jason Dexter – Mapping the interstellar scattering towards the Galactic center

(12+3 min) (MPE)

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch

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Session III: VLBI Observations

Chair: Ciriaco Goddi (Radboud Nijmegen)

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14:00 – 14:05 Chair: Intro & Setup

14:05 – 14:20 Rusen Lu – Anatomy of the horizon-scale structure of Sgr A*

(12+3 min) (MPIfR) with a resolution of ~3 Schwarzschild radii

14:20 – 14:35 Christiaan Brinkerink – Asymmetric structure in Sgr A* at 3mm from closure phase

(12+3 min) (Radboud Nijmegen) measurements with VLBA, GBT and LMT

14:35 – 14:40 Cornelia Mueller – Efforts towards amplitude calibration and imaging of Sgr A*

(4+1 min) (Radboud Nijmegen) from the 3mm VLBA+LMT+GBT observations

14:40 – 14:45 Michael Jansen – VLBI imaging and modelling of the jet in M87

(4+1 min) (Radboud Nijmegen)

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Session IV: Pulsars

Chair: Michael Kramer (MPIfR)

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14:45 – 14:50 Chair: Intro & Setup

14:50 – 15:05 Pablo Torne – Pulsed emission at millimetre wavelengths

(12+3 min) (MPIfR)

15:05 – 15:15 Kuo Liu – Pulsar observations with the LMT

(8+2 min) (MPIfR)

15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 – 16:00 Ralph Eatough – On-going & future pulsar surveys of the Galactic Centre

(12+3 min) (MPIfR)

16:00 – 16:15 Gregory Desvignes – ALMA and pulsars

(12+3 min) (MPIfR)

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Session V: Observatories / Instruments

Chair: Remo Tilanus (Radboud Nijmegen)

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16:15 – 16:30 Karl Schuster – VLBI at IRAM, and status report on NOEMA

(12+3 min) (IRAM)

16:30 – 16:45 Robert Laing – VLBI at ALMA (remote)

(12+3 min) (ESO)

16:45 – 16:55 Helge Rottmann – Current APP status

(8+2 min) (MPIfR)

16:55 – 17:05 Alan Roy – Outfitting mm-VLBI with polarization capability

(8+2 min) (MPIfR)

18:30 Workshop Dinner

(place to be confirmed)

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Tuesday 23rd

(WG Reports and Plenary Discussion)

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09-00 – 09:15 Remo Tilanus (Radboud Nijmegen) – Project update

09:15 – 10:30 Reports from WG 1

Chair: Ilse van Bemmel (JIVE)

Rapporteurs:

(15 min) Ilse van Bemmel (JIVE) – Overview of software and simulation development

(15 min) Des Small (JIVE) – Towards a CASA fringe fitter

(15 min) Mark Kettenis (JIVE) – mm-VLBI data reduction in CASA

(15 min) Roger Deane (Rhodes/SKA) – MeqSilhouette: a mm-VLBI simulator

(15 min) Tariq Blecher (Rhodes/SKA) – MeqSilhouette: Demonstration of capabilities

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:45 Reports from WG 2

Rapporteur: Yosuke Mizuno (ITP Frankfurt)

Monika Moscibrodzka (RU Nijmegen)

11: 45 – 12:20 Reports from WG 3

Chair: Remo Tilanus (Radboud Nijmegen)

Rapporteurs:

(15 min) Bob Eldering (JIVE) – eVLBI

(10 min) Helge Rottmann (MPIfR) – Correlator upgrades

(10 min) Remo Tilanus (Radboud Nijmegen) – Demo remote control system for VLBI

12:20 – 12:50 Report from WG 4

Rapporteur: Michael Kramer (MPIfR)

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:30 Plenary discussion I

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 17:30 Plenary discussion II

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Wednesday 23rd

(Theory brainstorming sessions)

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Session I Demonstration and brief hands-on session of new 3D AMR-GRMHD code BHAC

Session II Discussion how to read BHAC GRMHD simulation data for post-processing GRRT calculation .