12th Birmingham-Nottingham Extragalactic Workshop
27-28th September 2010
| 10:00 - 11:00 | Registration and coffee | 11:00 - 11:10 | Welcome and introduction: Somak Raychaudhury |
| 11:10 - 12:50 | Session 1: General issues Chair : Somak Raychaudhury |
The two modes of AGN feedback(40 mins)
Cosmic Feedback from AGN(30 mins)
Triggering luminous AGN in galaxy mergers and interactions(30 mins)
| 12:50 - 13:50 | Lunch & Posters: School of Physics & Astronomy Library | |
| 13:50 - 16:05 | Session 2: AGN populations and hosts Chair : Graham Smith |
The host galaxies of AGN and radio-AGN feedback(30 mins)
Black holes in the cosmic web: host galaxies and large-scale environments(30 mins)
AGN activity and host galaxy environment(15 mins)
AGN Environments to z~1.5 in the UKIDSS Ultra-Deep Survey(15 mins)
X-ray properties of 70 micron selected sources in the Chandra Deep Field South(15 mins)
AGN X-ray variability and relationship to optical and radio galaxy properties(30 mins)
| 16:05 - 16:30 | Coffee | |
| 16:30 - 17:35 | Session 3: Cosmological models and feedback Chair : Omar Almaini |
AGN feeding and feedback numerical models(20 mins)
Anti-hierarchical growth of black holes(15 mins)
AGN feedback within AMR cosmological simulations(15 mins)
The impact of AGN feedback on galaxy groups(15 mins)
| 17:35 - 18:15 | Discussion led by Andrew King | |
| 19:00 - 19:30 | Start of Workshop meal at the Sundarbon restaurant, Selly Oak |
| 09:00 - 10:45 | Session 4: AGN feedback: Kinetic mode Chair : Trevor Ponman |
Radio-loud AGN feedback: how does it work?(30 mins)
Jet power: What do you do with it?(30 mins)
Energy exchange mediated by radio galaxies: one size doesn't fit all(15 mins)
Inferring the spin of SMBHs from the radio luminosity function(15 mins)
MWL observations of M87 during VHE flare of 2008(15 mins)
| 10:45 - 11:15 | Coffee | |
| 11:10 - 12:55 | Session 5: AGN feedback: Kinetic and radiative modes Chair : Clive Tadhunter |
A Combined X-ray/Low-frequency view of AGN feedback in galaxy groups(15 mins)
Galaxy-scale radio-loud AGN outflows(15 mins)
The low-redshift 3CRR galaxies(15 mins)
Black Hole Outflows(30 mins)
Evidence for a shocked outflow in NGC 4051(15 mins)
Radiation pressure and absorption in the Chandra Deep Fields(15 mins)
| 12:55 - 13:50 | Lunch & Posters: School of Physics & Astronomy Library | |
| 13:50 - 15:05 | Session 6: The evolution of AGN; Star formation Chair : Diana Worrall |
Dust lane early-type galaxies: linking AGN and star formation(15 mins)
Star Formation in the hosts of powerful high redshift radio-loud AGN(15 mins)
Stellar disc-active galactic nucleus alignments in the SDSS-DR7(15 mins)
The Co-Evolution of Massive Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes over the past 12 Billion Years(15 mins)
The Environments of z~1 AGN at 3.6 microns(15 mins)
| 15:05 - 16:05 | Session 7: Connection between AGN and X-ray binaries and microquasars Chair : Steve Rawlings |
What we learn about AGN from galactic black holes?(30 mins)
Is there really any evidence for spin-powering of jets from black holes(30 mins)
(Coffee will be available outside the lecture hall)
| 16:10 - 16:50 | Discussion led by Steve Rawlings | |
| 16:50 - 17:00 | Closing remarks: Trevor Ponman |
| Elizabeth Dodd | The Environments of AGN at z~1 | |
| Susanne Heidenreich | Low-frequency radio maps for the REXCESS cluster sample | |
| Anna Kapinska | Cosmological Evolution of Radio Galaxies and Radio-loud Quasars | |
| Louise Ker | Evolution of Radio Source Properties from CENSORS and other Complete Radio Samples | |
| Beatrice Mingo | Markarian 6: bubbles, shocks and variable AGN obscuration. | |
| Emma Rigby | The luminosity-dependent high-redshift cut-off of the radio luminosity function |