Sunday 17th July
16:00-18:00 Registration open
18:00-20:00 Evening drinks reception and buffet
Monday 18th July - The inner regions
08:45 Registration open
09:20 Phil Uttley - Welcome and Introduction
09:30 Andrew King - Accretion theory overview (review)
10:15 Chris Fragile - MHD simulations of accretion (review)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Julien Malzac - Corona and spectral states (review)
12:15 Peggy Varniere - A disk instability based classification for microquasars
12:35 Kris Beckwith - Long timescale variability in MRI-driven MHD turbulence
12:55 Lunch break
14:30 Joern Wilms - Iron lines and reflection (review)
15:15 Mari Kolehmainen - Modelling the high mass accretion rate spectra of GX 339-4: Black hole spin from reflection?
15:35 Refiz Duro - Broad iron K alpha feature in Cygnus X-1 spectra with XMM-Newton
15:55 Coffee break
16:30 Shane Davis - Accretion disk spectra (review)
17:15 Chia-Ying Chiang - Modelling the Full X-ray Spectrum of MCG-6-30-15
17:35 Holger Stiele - Spectral investigations of black hole binary states: state transitions in GX 339-4
17:55 End of talks for the day
Tuesday 19th July - Polarisation and Jets
09:30 Dave Meier - Theory of jet production in accreting black holes (review)
10:15 Sera Markoff - The jet-accretion connection (review)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Peter Polko - From accretion flow to particle acceleration: new relativistic MHD jet solutions including gravity
11:50 René Goosmann - X-ray polarisation studies of black holes (review)
12:35 Jerome Rodriguez - Gamma-ray polarisation in Cyg X-1 seen with INTEGRAL
12:55 Lunch break
14:30 David Russell - Isolating the jet in broadband spectra of X-ray binaries
14:50 Fraser Lewis - What can optical monitoring of X-ray binaries tell us?
15:10 Annalisa Celotti - AGN jets (review)
15:55 Coffee break
16:30 Dimitrios Giannios - VHE emission from black hole jets (review)
17:15 Dan Calvelo - Radio observations of Circinus X-1: The most relativistic jet source in our Galaxy
17:35 Sergei Trushkin - Giant radio flares from Cyg X-3
17:55 End of talks for the day
Wednesday 20th July - Variability
09:30 Tomaso Belloni - Black hole X-ray binary variability (review)
10:15 Adam Ingram - A physical model for the variability properties of black hole binaries
10:35 Piergiorgio Casella - Fast multi-wavelength variability from jets in X-ray binaries
10:55 Coffee break
11:30 Ian McHardy - AGN variability (review)
12:15 Simon Vaughan - X-ray spectral variability (review)
13:00 End of talks for the day (free afternoon)
Thursday 21st July - Variability (continued), winds and feedback
09:30 Paolo Soleri - Fast variability in the black-hole candidate Swift J1753.5-0127: the tracer of different accretion regimes
09:50 Sara Motta - Low frequency oscillation in black holes: a spectral-timing approach to the case of GX 339-4
10:10 Dong Lai - Excitations of global oscillations in black hole accretion disks and the physical origin of high-frequency QPOs
10:30 Tim Johannsen - Testing the no-hair theorem with quasi-periodic variability
10:50 Coffee break
11:30 Stuart Sim - Theory of accretion disc winds (review)
12:15 Maria Diaz Trigo - X-ray binary winds and warm absorbers (review)
13:00 Lunch break
14:30 Ivica Miskovicova - Spectroscopy of the stellar wind in the Cyg X-1 system
14:50 Elisa Costantini - AGN outflows and warm absorbers (review)
15:35 Jacobo Ebrero - A common origin for the X-ray and UV ionized gas in Mrk 509
15:55 Coffee break
16:30 Sibasish Laha - X-ray Warm Absorption and Emission in the Polar Scattered Seyfert 1 Galaxy Mrk 704
16:50 Margherita Giustini - Accretion disk winds in AGN: an X-ray view
17:10 Michael Wise - AGN feedback in clusters (review)
17:55 End of talks for the day
19:30 Conference dinner
Friday 22nd July - The wider picture
09:30 Roberto Soria - Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (review)
10:15 David Cseh - Bubble nebulae around Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and the case study of IC 342 X-1
10:35 Natalie Webb - The intermediate mass black hole candidate HLX-1 in ESO 243-49
10:55 Coffee break
11:30 Matthew Middleton - Modelling ULX spectra through Eddington and beyond
11:50 Elena Gallo - Low-luminosity AGN (review)
12:35 Norbert Schartel - XMM-Newton observations of black holes
12:55 Lunch break
14:30 Jess Broderick - Is there really a dichotomy in AGN jet power?
14:50 Richard Plotkin - Expanding the efficacy of the Fundamental Plane: a tool to distinguish X-ray processes From weakly accreting black holes
15:10 Jenny Greene - Supermassive black hole demographics (review)
15:55 Coffee break
16:30 Niel Brandt - AGN evolution (review)
17:15 Eugenio Bottacini - Obscured accretion
17:35 Chris Done - Scaling spectra, variability and jet emission of black hole binaries to AGN
17:55 Close of workshop
Note: review talks will be 40 minutes + 5 minutes for questions, contributed talks are 16 minutes + 4 minutes for questions.
POSTERS
William Alston - Probing the black-hole region in AGN with combined X-ray and UV variability studies
Montserrat Armas Padilla - Swift J1357.2-0933, a nearby very-faint X-ray transient
Daniel Asmus - MId-infrared properties of nearby low-luminosity AGN at high angular resolution
Magnus Axelsson - On the origin of black hole spin in Cygnus X-1
Pandge Mahadev Baburao - Detailed investigation of X-ray cavities in a poor cluster cD galaxy: NGC 6338
Rumen Bachev - Time asymmetry of the X-ray light curves of AGN
Sergey Balashev - Estimation of broad line region size of QSO1232+082 from partial coverage by an intervening H_2 absorption system
Subir Bhattacharyya - Broadband spectral modelinig of microquasar LS 5039
Chia-Ying Chiang - Modelling the full X-ray spectrum of AGNs with a relativistic reflection model
Yoon Young Chun - Bizarre Multiwavelength Behaviour of XTE J1752-223
Peter Curran - CXOU J174437.3-323222: A blazar candidate viewed through the Galactic centre?
Thomas Dauser - Modeling relativistic reflection around black holes
Gulab Chand Dewangan - Short-term X-ray spectral variability of NGC1365
Samia Drappeau - Self-consistent spectra from GRMHD simulations with radiative cooling: A link to reality for Sgr A*
Martin Durant - Extended X-ray emission around microquasar LS 5039
Krisztina Eva Gabanyi - Do double-peaked narrow-line AGNs host binary black holes?
Viktoriya Giryanskaya - Nonsingular electrodynamics of single moving black hole
Victoria Grinberg - Cyg X-1: Shedding light on the spectral variability of black holes
Nick Higginbottom - A radiative transfer code for modelling (BAL)QSOs
Judith Ineson - First results from the Chandra Environments of Radio-loud AGN (ERA) Survey
Karri Koljonen - The anatomy of major radio/X-ray flares in the enigmatic microquasar Cygnus X-3
Andrew Lobban - Contemporaneous Chandra HETG and Suzaku X-ray Observations of NGC 4051
Rachel MacDonald - Optical States During X-ray Quiescence in the Black Hole X-ray Binary V4641 Sgr
Frédéric Marin - Modeling the polarization of radio-quiet AGN from the optical to the X-ray band
Luca Naso - Semi analytic model for magnetic fields in accretion discs around neutron stars
Rodrigo Nemmen - Unifying black hole jets: The connection between blazars and gamma-ray bursts
Zaza Osmanov - On the synchrotron emission sustained by the quasi-linear diffusion in AGN
Daniel Plant - Investigating spin estimates using reflection features
Gabriele Ponti - CAIXA III: a Catalogue of AGN In the XMM-Newton Archive III. Excess Variance Analysis
Sandra Raimundo - Mapping the dynamics of stars and gas in the central regions of MCG-06-30-15
Amy Scott - New constraints on the X-ray spectral properties of type 1 AGN
Emilio Tejeda - A test solution for relativistic accretion onto a Kerr black hole
Zhen Yan - A UV flux drop preceding the hard-to-soft state transition during the 2010 outburst in GX 339-4
Yi-Jung Yang - Black hole accretion at very low luminosities: example from MAXI J1659-152
Wenda Zhang - Multi-waveband observations of MAXI J1659-152 during its 2010 outburst
Zhaoyu Zuo - Simulating the X-ray evolution of late-type galaxies with evolutionary population synthesis
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