The Inner Regions of Quasars

Schedule Friday | Saturday | Sunday

	*Friday, September 12*
1:30-2:00 pm	Registration	RLM 15.216A
2:00-2:10	Welcoming Address Ari Laor & Daniel Jaffe, Department Chair	RLM 15.216B
Session: Line Ratios & EV1
2:10-2:55	Special UT Astronomy Seminar The main sequence of quasars: insights from SDSS, WISE and others abstract Yue Shen Carnegie Observatories	RLM 15.216B
3:00-3:25	Improving the Determination of Quasar Properties by a Better Understanding of the Broad-Line Region abstract Mike Brotherton University of Wyoming	RLM 15.216B
3:25-3:50	The "Nitrogen Problem" in AGN: What is strong NV 1240A telling us? abstract Steven Kraemer Catholic University of America	RLM 15.216B
3:50-4:15	The Spectral Energy Distributions of Active Galaxies: implications for the inner regions abstract Martin Ward Durham University	RLM 15.216B
4:15-4:45	Coffee, cookies	RLM 15.216A
4:45-5:10	The narrow emission line spectrum of the inner edge of the torus abstract Gary Ferland University of Kentucky	RLM 15.216B
Session: Line EWs
5:10-5:35	Quasars with Extreme Broad Emission Line Equivalent Widths in SDSS3-BOSS abstract Fred Hamann University of Florida	RLM 15.216B
5:35-6:00	The implications on BLR and accretion disk structure stemming from the distribution of the [OIII] equivalent width abstract Alessandro Marconi University of Florence	RLM 15.216B
6:00-6:25	Orientation and optical spectral properties in a new sample of quasars abstract Jessie Runnoe Penn State University	RLM 15.216B
6:25-8:00 pm	Departmental reception	RLM 15.216A
	*Saturday, September 13*
9:00-9:25 am	The BLR low luminosity evolution abstract Moshe Elitzur University of Kentucky	RLM 15.216B
9:25-9:50	Weak Emission Line Quasars: Confronting New Challenges in Understanding the Broad Emission Line Region abstract Ohad Shemmer University of North Texas	RLM 15.216B
9:50-10:15	Exceptional X-ray Weak Quasars and their Implications for Accretion Flows, Broad Line Regions, and Winds abstract William Brandt Penn State University	RLM 15.216B
Session: Line Profiles and Outflows
10:15-10:40	Mean and Extreme Radio Properties of Quasars and the Origin of Radio Emission abstract Gordon Richards Drexel University	RLM 15.216B
10:40-11:10	Coffee, cookies	RLM 15.216A
11:10-11:35	Trying to Fit Broad Absorption Lines into a Big Picture abstract Patrick Hall York University	RLM 15.216B
11:35-12:00	Transient UV and X-ray Absorption in Seyfert Galaxies and the Relationship to the Broad-Line Region abstract Jerry Kriss Space Telescope Science Institute	RLM 15.216B
12:00-12:25	*PV and HeI Absorption in Low-Redshift BALQSOs** abstract Karen Leighly University of Oklahoma	RLM 15.216B
12:25-12:50	Quantifying the Impact of Outflows in the Inner Regions of AGN abstract Mike Crenshaw Georgia State University	RLM 15.216B
12:50-1:50	Lunch brought in	RLM 15.216A
1:50-2:15	Systematics of Jets in AGN abstract Prajval Shastri Indian Institute of Astrophysics	RLM 15.216B
2:15-2:40	Do CIV 1549A narrow associated absorption lines take origin in disk winds? abstract Marianne Vestergaard University of Copenhagen	RLM 15.216B
Session: The Size of the BLR
2:40-3:05	AGN accretion disk and broad-line region essentials abstract Martin Gaskell University of California Santa Cruz	RLM 15.216B
3:05-3:30	Recent Results in Reverberation Mapping abstract Bradley Peterson Ohio State University	RLM 15.216B
3:30-4:00	Coffee, cookies	RLM 15.216A
4:00-4:25	Constraints on the Geometry and Dynamics of the BLR from Modeling of Reverberation Mapping Data abstract Anna Pancoast University of California Santa Barbara	RLM 15.216B
4:25-4:50	Velocity-delay mapping of the BLR Keith Horne SUPA-University of St Andrews	RLM 15.216B
4:50-5:15	A size-luminosity relation for the FeII line-emitting region in quasars, and other delights With an ever-increasing volume of high-quality observations combined with improved reverberation mapping (RM) techniques, poorly-charted quasar regions are about to be explored. I will focus on a reanalysis of the Kaspi et al. (2000) dataset, revealing a size-luminosity relation for the (optical) FeII line-emitting region in quasars. Implications for RM in the era of large photometric surveys (e.g., the LSST) will be discussed. close Doron Chelouche University of Haifa	RLM 15.216B
5:15-5:40	Mapping the BLR with microlensing abstract Andy Lawrence Institute for Astronomy-University of Edinburgh	RLM 15.216B
5:40-6:05	The size and structure of the innermost dusty region and the BLR: constraints from IR interferometry abstract Makoto Kishimoto Kyoto Sangyo University	RLM 15.216B
7:00-7:30 pm	Social Hour at Texas Union Eastwoods Room	UNB 2.102 (map)
7:30-9:30	Banquet at Texas Union Eastwoods Room	UNB 2.102 (map)
	*Sunday, September 14*
Relation to Host
8:30-8:55 am	Incorporating the Narrow-Line Region into a Coherent View of the Central Engine abstract Sarah Gallagher University of Western Ontario	RLM 15.216B
Spectropolarimetry
8:55-9:20	Spectropolarimetry of Broad Emission Line Regions abstract Paulina Lira Universidad de Chile	RLM 15.216B
Session: BLR Structure and Dynamics
9:20-9:45	Quasar Rain: Becoming Reconciled to Broad Line Region Inflows abstract Martin Elvis Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	RLM 15.216B
9:45-10:10	Determining BLR properties through X-ray time-resolved spectroscopy abstract Guido Risaliti Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics	RLM 15.216B
10:10-10:40	Coffee, cookies	RLM 15.216A
10:40-11:05	The vertical BLR structure in nearby AGN abstract Wolfram Kollatschny Goettingen University	RLM 15.216B
11:05-11:30	The role of dust in shaping the BLR abstract Bozena Czerny Copernicus Astronomical Center	RLM 15.216B
11:30-11:55	Predictions on the Broad Line Region from Radiative Pressure Confinement abstract Ari Laor Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology	RLM 15.216B
11:55-1:00	Lunch brought in	RLM 15.216A
1:00-1:40 pm	Summary of the meeting Hagai Netzer Tel Aviv University	RLM 15.216B