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21-24 May 2007
Alyeska Resort, Girdwood, Alaska
 


Scientific Program

The scientific program and list of posters are given below. (Please scroll to the bottom to see the list of posters.) You may download a presentation by clicking on the author's name. Authors without links have not submitted their presentation, or have asked that it not be included here. Presentations are in PowerPoint or PDF format.

Monday, May 21st

0900 Welcome and Announcements
0915 Blandford Extragalactic Jets: Some Unanswered Questions and the Prospects for GLAST
1015 Discussion
1030 Break
1100 Ogle The Spitzer View of Jet-ISM Interactions
1130 Daly A Detailed Study of the Beam Power, Hot Spot Properties, and Gaseous Environments of Thirteen Powerful Extended FRII Radio Galaxies
1145 Gaibler Large-scale Propagation of Very Light Jets in Galaxy Clusters
1200 Freeland Bent-Double Radio Sources as Probes of the Intragroup Medium
1215 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Hardcastle Hotspots, Jets and Environments
1430 Erlund The Most Luminous X-ray Hotspot: The 'Dentist's Drill' at Work in 4C 74.26?
1445 Schwartz A Deep Chandra Observation of the PKS1055+201 Jets, Lobes, and Hotspots
1500 Discussion
1530 Break
1600 Laing Jet-Environment Interactions in FRI Radio Galaxies
1630 Harris The Continuing Saga of the Explosive Event(s) in the M87 Jet
1645 Walker Progress Toward a VLBA Movie of the Jet Collimation Region in M87
1700 Discussion

Tuesday, May 22nd

0900 Perlman Insights on Jet Physics & High-Energy Emission Processes from Optical Polarimetry
0915 Kovalev Intrinsic Structure and Kinematics of the Sub-Parsec Scale Jet of M87
0930 Evans Hot and Cold Gas Accretion Modes and Feedback Processes in Radio-loud Active Galaxies
0945 Stawarz Radio Loudness of AGNs: Host Galaxy Morphology and the Spin Paradigm
1000 Discussion
1030 Break
1100 Giroletti Jet Properties and Evolution in Small and Intermediate Scale Objects
1130 Krichbaum How Compact are the Cores of Blazars?  Sub-Parsec Scale Imaging of AGN
1145 Orienti On the Nature of High Frequency Peakers: Young Radio Sources or Flaring Blazars?
1200 Gelbord A Chandra Survey of Quasar Jets: Latest Results
1215 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Morganti The Interplay Between Radio Jets and the ISM in Sub-kpc Radio Sources
1430 Jorstad The Quasar 1317+520: A Laboratory for Particle Acceleration
1445 Levinson High-Energy Emission from Jets and the Radio Connection
1500 Protheroe Hadronic Models of AGN Jet Emission
1515 Discussion
1530 Break
1600 Lister Parsec-Scale Jet-Environment Interactions in AGN
1630 Agudo Superluminal Non-Ballistic Jet Swing in the Quasar NRAO150 Revealed by Ultra-High-Resolution mm-wave VLBI Observations
1645 Giovannini The Jet of Markarian 501 from the Sub-Parsec to the kpc Scale
1700 Discussion

Wednesday, May 23rd

0900 Madejski High Energy Radiation from Extragalacic Jets and the Prospects for GLAST
0915 R. Wagner AGN Observations in the GeV/TeV Energy Range with the MAGIC Telescope
0930 S. Wagner What Did We Learn from TeV Observations of Blazar Jets?
0945 Wolter INTEGRAL Detects Hard Tail in Blazars
1000 McNamara Jet Interactions with the Hot Atmospheres of Clusters and Galaxies
1030 Break
1100 Wilcots AGN Heating of the IGM in Galaxy Groups
1115 Heinz Jet Feedback in Clusters: Energetics and Dissipation
1130 Croston Jet/Environment Interactions in Low-Power (FRI) Radio Galaxies
1145 DeYoung Does AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters Really Work?
1200 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Kadler Cancelled
1415 Perucho-Pla Kelvin-Helmholtz Modes Revealed by the Transversal Structure of the Jet in 0836+710
1430 Valtaoja Hydrodynamics of Small-Scale Jets: Observational Aspects
1500 Discussion
1530 Break
1600 Jones MHD Aspects of the Jet-Environment Interaction
1630 Li 3D MHD Modeling of Astrophysical Jets and Their Interaction with ICM
1645 Discussion

Thursday, May 24th

0900 Mizuno 3D Relativistic MHD Simulations of Magnetized Spine-Sheath Relativistic Jets
0915 Marti Relativistic Effects in the Structure and Dynamics of Extragalactic Jets
0945 Discussion
1000 Swift Understanding the Origin of Bright Features
1015 Marscher The Core of a Blazar Jet
1030 Break
1100 Gabuzda Circular Polarization and Helical B Fields in AGN
1115 Andruchow

Cancelled

1130 Savolainen Magnetic Field Structure of the Parsec Scale Jet of 3C273 from Multifrequency VLBA Observations
1145 Inoue Detection of Faraday Screen?
1200 Discussion
1230 Lunch
1400 Cheung The Highest Redshift Relativistic Jets
1415 Siemiginowska Evolution of a Powerful Radio Loud Quasars 3C186 and its Impact on the Cluster Environment at z=1
1430 Blundell Cosmological Effects
1500 Discussion
1530 Break
1600 Rudnick Conference Summary
1700 Discussion
1730 Close of Conference

 

Poster Session

Posters will be on display for the duration of the meeting. Posters must be no larger than 1 meter by 1 meter square. Posters should be put up by 9am on Monday, May 21st and removed by 2pm, Thursday, May 24th. Tacks will be provided.

Poster List (in Alphabetical Order)

Juan Carlos Algaba Investigation of Correlation Between Optical and Radio Polarization
Keiichi Asada
Rotation Measure Observation towards NRAO 140 Jet: Constraints for the Pitch Angle of a Helical Magnetic Field
Teddy Cheung Relativistic Ejections Associated with High-energy Outbursts in the M87 Jet
Teddy Cheung Electron Energy Distributions at Relativistic Shock Sites: Observational Constraints from the Cygnus A Hotspots
Steven Diehl X-ray Observables for Magnetically Dominated Jets in Clusters
Ilias Fernini A Multi-Wavelength Observational Study of FRIIs Radio Galaxies and Quasars
Giovanni Fossati Towards an Improved Census of Radio-Loud AGNs: the FIRST Flat Spectrum Sample
Denise Gabuzda Searching for Helical Magnetic Fields in BL Lac Objects
Denise Gabuzda Surprising Evolution of Faraday Rotation Gradients in the VLBI jet of 1803+784
Joanna Goodger Inverse-Compton Emission from the Lobes of 3C353
Martin Hardcastle Deep Chandra Observations of the Centaurus A Jet
David Hough Parsec-Scale Jets in Lobe-Dominated Quasars
Makoto Inoue Next Generation Space VLBI Project: VSOP-2
Marek Jamrozy Recurrent Activity in Radio Galaxies
Robert Laing Magnetic-Field Fluctuations Around the Radio Galaxy 3C 31
Robert Laing Jet Spectra in FRI Radio Galaxies: Implications for Particle Acceleration
Kuen Lee Optical, Gamma-ray and X-ray Monitoring of Markarian 421 in 2005-2006 Season
Giulia Migliori Radio Lobes of Pictor A: An X-ray Spatially Resolved Study
Hiroshi Nagai Kinematic and Synchrotron Ages of Compact Symmetric Objects
Masanori Nakamura Numerical Modeling of AGN Jets: Formation of Magnetically Dominated Lobes and Stabilities Properties of Current-Carrying Jets
Shane O'Sullivan Parsec Scale Investigation of the 3D Magnetic Field Structure of Several AGN Jets
David Paneque The Role of GLAST in Multiwavelength Observations of Bright TeV Blazars
Glenn Piner Update on the Parsec-Scale Structures of the TeV Blazars 1ES 1426+428, 1ES 1959+650, and PKS 2155-304
Roberto Francesco Pizzo The Diffuse Extended Emission and the Galaxy Population of A2255
Tapio Pursimo Micro-Arcsecond Scintillation-Induced Variability (MASIV) Survey: Detection of High-Redshift Angular Broadening?
Mar Roca-Sogorb Magnetic Field Structure of Relativistic Jets in AGN
Rita Sambruna Deep Chandra and Multicolor HST Observations of the Jets of 3C 371 and PKS 2201+044
Kostas Sapountzis

Cancelled

Aneta Siemiginowska Constraining the X-Ray Emission Models of Large Scale Jets: The Case of the 300 kpc Long X-ray Jet in PKS1127-145 at z=1.18
Andrei Sokolov Phase-Referencing on BL Lac
Lukasz Stawarz Gamma-ray Emission of Young Radio Galaxies
Assaf Sternberg Inflating Fat Bubbles in Clusters of Galaxies by Wide Jets
Greg Taylor The Long Wavelength Array
Greg Taylor The VLBI Imaging and Polarimetry Survey (VIPS): The 5 GHz Images
Alfonso Trejo-Cruz The Non-Thermal Radio Jet in the NGC 2264 Star Formation Region
Peter Veres The Magnetic Field Structures of BL Lac objects on Scales of Tens of Parsecs
Murli Manohar Verma Cancelled
Robert Wagner A first Synoptic Blazar Study Comprising Eleven Blazars Visible in E>100 GeV Gamma Rays
Ann Wehrle Prospects for Observing Quasar Jets with the Space Interferometry Mission
Paul Wiita Effects of Jet Opening Angle and Velocity Structure on Blazar Parameters