Science Program
| Friday, March 2, 2012 | ||
| 7:00-9:00pm | Informal Reception at Omni Hotel | |
| Saturday, March 3, 2012 | ||
| 7:30-8:45am | Breakfast in Hotel Atrium-Registration in Meeting Room Prefunction Area | |
| 8:45-9:00am | Fred Lo, James Galloway | Welcome |
| 9:00-9:20am | Al Wootten |
ALMA’s Contributions to Outflows, Winds and Jets |
| 9:20-9:40am | Claire Chandler |
The Jansky VLA: Transforming the Study of Outflows, Winds, and Jets at Centimeter Wavelengths |
| 9:40-10:00am | Jay Lockman |
Current and Future Capabilities of the Green Bank Telescope |
| 10:00-10:20am | Walter Brisken |
Current and Future Capabilities of the VLBA |
| 10:20-11:00am | Coffee Break – Set up Posters | |
| Session I: Outflows, Winds and Jets: Their Different Faces | ||
| 11:00-11:40am | Invited Speaker 1: John Bally | Observational Review of the Outflow Phenomena from Young Stars |
| 11:40-12:00pm | Contributed Speaker 1: Melvin Hoare |
e-MERLIN observations of massive YSO jets |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:10pm | Invited Speaker 2: Frank Shu | Outflows from Young Stars |
| 2:10-2:30pm | Contributed Speaker 2: Pat Hartigan |
Physical Conditions in Jets from Young Stars |
| 2:30-3:10pm | Invited Speaker 3: Roger Blandford | Theoretical Review of the Outflow Phenomena from High-energy Systems |
| 3:10-3:50pm | Coffee Break – Poster Viewing | |
| 3:50-4:10pm | Contributed Speaker 3: Giulia Migliori | Gamma-ray Emission from Young Radio Sources |
| 4:10-4:50pm | Invited Speaker 4: Sylvain Veilleux |
Observational Review of the Outflow Phenomena from Extragalactic Systems |
| 4:50-5:10pm | Contributed Speaker 4: Ashley King |
Simultaneous X-ray and Radio Observations of Seyferts, and the Fundamental Plane |
| 5:10-6:00pm |
Panel Discussion I: YSO: ZY Li, Hartigan, Matzner; AGN: Proga |
Jets from Various Systems: their similarities and differences |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Reception in the Hotel |
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| Sunday, March 4, 2012 | ||
| 7:30-9:00am | Breakfast in Hotel Atrium | |
| Session II: Structures and Chemistry | ||
| 9:00-9:40am | Invited Speaker 5: Mario Tafalla | Chemistry and Chemical Evolution in Molecular Outflows from YSOs |
| 9:40-10:00am | Contributed Speaker 5: Raghvendra Sahai | An Orion BN/KL Twin-The Interstellar Bullet Engine IRAS05506+2414 |
| 10:00-10:20am | Contributed Speaker 6: Luis Velilla Prieto | Complex, Non-equilibrium Chemistry in the Shock-Accelerated Outflow of the pre-Planetary Nebula OH231.8+4.2 |
| 10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break – Poster Viewing | |
| 10:50-11:30am | Invited Speaker 6: Nahum Arav | Kinetic Luminosity of Quasar Outflows and its Implications to AGN Feedback: HST/COS Observations |
| 11:30-11:50am | Contributed Speaker 7: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh | Star Formation Activity near Sgr A* |
| 11:50-12:10pm | Contributed Speaker 8: Preeti Kharb |
VLBA & Chandra Observations of UGC FRI Radio Galaxies: Constraints on Jet Evolution |
| 12:10-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:10pm | Invited Speaker 7: Edo Berger | Review on Gamma-Ray Bursts: Their Mechanisms, EVLA and Multi-Wavelength Observations |
| 2:10-2:30pm | Contributed Speaker 9: Meng Su |
Evidence for Gamma-Ray Jets in the Milky Way |
| 2:30-2:50pm | Contributed Speaker 10: Bevin Zauderer | Radio monitoring of the Tidal Disruption Event Swift J164449.3+573451 |
| 2:50-3:20pm | Coffee Break – Poster Viewing | |
| 3:20-4:30pm |
Stellar Outflow Special: YSO Outflow Special-- Arce, Looney, CF Lee, Hirano, Offner, Qiu |
Results from SMA, CARMA, Herschel, and ALMA Cycle 0 Programs |
| 4:30-5:30pm | Panel Discussion II | ALMA Development Plan-Wotten, Band 1-Johnston, and Polarimetry in Outflows with ALMA-Girart |
| 7:00pm | A Taste of Charlottesville | SOC + local members |
| Monday, March 5, 2012 | ||
| 7:30-9:00am | Breakfast in Hotel Atrium | |
| Session III: Probing the Driving Sources | ||
| 9:00-9:40am | Invited Speaker 8: Mike Crenshaw |
AGNs and Their Connections to the Outflow Phenomena |
| 9:40-10:00am | Contributed Speaker 11: Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere | Modeling Galaxy-Scale AGN Outflows: Implications for Feedback and Driving |
| 10:00-10:20am | Contributed Speaker 12: Tom Ray |
Linking Accretion and Outflows in Young stars |
| 10:20-11:00am | Coffee Break – Poster Viewing | |
| 11:00-11:40am | Invited Speaker 9: Michael Rupen |
Radio Jets from the Binary Star Systems and the AGNs with the Jansky VLA |
| 11:40-12:00pm | Contributed Speaker 13: Alexander Tchekhovskoy | Simulations of Highly Efficient Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-1:50pm | Contributed Speaker 14: Geoffrey Bower | Probing Inflow and Outflow of Low Luminosity AGN with Millimeter Wavelength Polarimetry |
| 1:50-2:30pm | Invited Speaker 10: Marina Romanova | MHD Simulations of Star-Disk Interactions in Young Stars and Related Systems |
| 2:30-2:50pm | Contributed Speaker 15: Ehud Behar | The Connection Between Stellar and Accretion-Disk Coronae |
| 2:50-3:10pm | Contributed Speaker 16: Katherine Blundell | Jet Launch in the Micro-quasar SS433: Before, During and After a Major Flare |
| 3:10 – 3:50pm | Coffee Break – Poster Viewing | |
| 3:50-4:30pm | Invited Speaker 11: Manuel Guedel | X-Ray Jets from Young Stars |
| 4:30-4:50pm | Contributed Speaker 17: Daniel Proga | Theory and Simulations of Radiation-Driven Disk Winds |
| 4:50-5:10pm | Contributed Speaker 18: Masanori Nakamura | Evidence for Magnetic Acceleration & Collimation in AGN Jets |
| 5:10-6:00pm | Panel Discussion III: Bower, Ballantyne, Elvis, Yuan, Shang, Davis |
How do We Understand the Driving Sources Better? |
| 6:00-7:00pm | Reception in the Hotel | Poster Session |
| Tuesday, March 6, 2012 | ||
| 7:30-9:00am | Breakfast in Hotel Atrium | |
| Session IV: Emission/Absorption Properties | ||
| 9:00-9:40am | Invited Speaker 12: Josep Paredes | Jets and Outflows from Microquasars and Pulsar Gamma-Ray Binaries and their Emission Mechanisms |
| 9:40-10:00am | Contributed Speaker 19: Anabella Araudo | Non-thermal Emission from Massive Protostellar Jets: from Radio to Gamma-Rays |
| 10:00-10:20am | Contributed Speaker 20: Helen Russell | The Balance of Cooling and AGN Heating in Galaxy Cluster Cores |
| 10:20-10:50am | Coffee Break – Poster Removal | |
| 10:50-12:00pm | VLBI Specials: Brisken, Sahai, Claussen, Walker, Aasada, Goddi |
VLBI and Synergy Programs (Brisken, Sahai, Goddi, Asada, Walker) |
| 12:00-1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30-2:10pm | Invited Speaker 13: Joe Silk | Feedback in Galaxy Formation |
| 2:10-2:30pm |
Contributed Speaker 21: David Rupke | Neutral gas Outflows in Mergers: Discovery of QSO-mode Feedback |
| 2:30-2:50pm |
Contributed Speaker 22: Katherine Alatalo | Molecular Gas, AGN Feedback and the Unusual Case of NGC 1266 |
| 2:50-3:30pm |
Invited Speaker 14: Guido Garay | Jets from High-Mass Young Stellar Objects |
| 3:30-3:50pm |
Coffee Break |
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| 3:50-4:10pm |
Contributed Speaker 23: Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez | Discovery of Synchrotron Emission from a YSO Jet |
| 4:10-4:30pm |
Contributed Speaker 24: Vivien Chen | Magnetized Jet in the Hot Molecular Core W3 (H2O) |
| 4:30-5:30pm | Panel Discussion IV and Concluding Remark: Murray, Livio, Hawley, Blundell, Zinnecker | Emission Mechanisms in Various Systems; Synthesis--What have we learned? |
