19:00 Early registration
20:00 Wellcome cocktail at Hotel Pueblo Camino Real.
08:00 Registration opens
08:55 - 09:00 Greetings
09:00 - 09:25 Opening talk: "A lifetime of blazars". Esko Valtaoja
Jet Formation (chair Celotti)
09:25 - 09:50 "Probing the Jet-Accretion Flow Connection with the Event Horizon Telescope". Dimitrios Psaltis (Invited)
09:50 - 10:15 "Spectral and Polarization Signatures of Relativistic Shocks in Blazars". Markus Böttcher (I)
10:15 - 10:30 "Multiwavelength Variability in Jet and Disk Dominated GRMHD Models". Feryal Ozel
10:30 - 10:45 "VLBA+LMT+GBT observations indicate asymmetry in 3mm emission of Sgr A*". Cornelia Mueller
10:45 - 11:00 "Evolution of Global Relativistic Jets: Collimations and Expansion with kKHI and the Weibel Instability". Ken-Ichi Nishikawa
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Jet Physics and Particle Acceleration (chair Georganopoulos)
11:30 - 11:55 "Particle acceleration in magnetically dominated jets". John Kirk (I)
11:55 - 12:20 "Consequences of proton acceleration in blazar jets". Apostolos Mastichiadis (I)
12:20 - 12:45 "Powers and magnetization of blazar jets". Marek Sikora (I)
12:45 - 13:00 "Relativistic Turbulent Reconnection and Application to Jet Acceleration". Makoto Takamoto
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
Jet Physics and Dynamics I (chair Asada)
15:00 - 15:25 "Magnetized relativistics jets: exploring their internal structure with numerical simulations". J. M. Martí (I)
15:25 - 15:50 "Multifrequency Blazar Microvariability as a Tool to Investigate Relativistic Jet Flow". Jim Webb (I)
15:50 - 16:05 "Applying relativistic reconnection to blazar jets". Krzysztof Nalewajko
16:05 - 16:20 "Magnetic dissipation in relativistic jets". Yosuke Mizuno
16:20 - 16:35 "Theoretical Study Of The Effects Of Magnetic Field Geometry On The High-Energy Emission Of Blazars". Manasvita Joshi
16:35 - 17:00 Coffee break
Jet Physics and Dynamics II (chair Readhead)
17:00 - 17:25 "AGN Jet Kinematics on Parsec-Scales". Matt Lister (I)
17:25 - 17:50 "Recent progress on understanding the large scale jets of powerful Quasars". Markos Georganopoulos (I)
17:50 - 18:05 "Proper Motions of Jets on the Kiloparsec Scale: New Results from HST". Eileen Meyer
18:05 - 18:20 "Shapes of AGN jets on scales from parsecs to hectoparsecs". Alexander Pushkarev
18:20 - 18:35 "The global structure of the archetypical quasar 3C 273". Kazu Akiyama
Probes of Blazar Jets with the Finest Angular Resolution I (chair Kellermann)
09:00 - 09:25 "mm-VLBI observations of AGN". Thomas Krichbaum (I)
09:25 - 09:50 "Observing Active Galactic Nuclei with the Event Horizon Telescope". Vincent Fish (I)
09:50 - 10:15 "Resolving Magnetic Fields near the Event Horizon of a Black Hole". Michael Johnson (I)
10:15 - 10:30 "First 3 mm-VLBI imaging of the two-sided jet in Cygnus A. Zooming into the launching region". Bia Boccardi
10:30 - 10:45 "Probing the inner the jet of M87 with GMVA observations at 86 GHz". Jae-Young Kim
10:45 - 11:00 "mm VLBI monitoring of NGC1052: Dynamics in a twin-jet system at high angular resolution". Anne-Kathrin Baczko
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
Probes of Blazar Jets with the Finest Angular Resolution II (chair Marscher)
11:30 - 11:55 "What have we learned from the RadioAstron survey of AGN cores so far?". Yuri Kovalev (I)
11:55 - 12:20 "Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron at tens of uas resolution". José L. Gómez (I)
12:20 - 12:45 "What's there in Jets: Shocks and Threads, of Cords and Frets?". Andrei Lobanov (I)
12:45 - 13:10 "Space-VLBI observations of nearby radio galaxies with RadioAstron". Tuomas Savolainen (I)
13:10 - 13:25 "The evolution of the nuclear structure of 3C84 at sub-mas resolution". Gabriele Giovannini
13:25 - 15:10 Lunch break
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars Ia (chair M. Aller)
15:10 - 15:35 "Jets and accretion in blazars". Gabriele Ghisellini (I)
15:35 - 16:00 "Polarization signatures of AGN jets". Maxim Lyutikov (I)
16:00 - 16:25 "The Power of Simultaneous Multi-Frequency Observations for mm-VLBI and Astrometry". Maria Rioja (I)
16:25 - 16:40 "Interstellar Scintillation and Scattering of Micro-arc-second AGN". David Jauncey
16:40 - 16:55 "Extreme blazars as counterparts of IceCube neutrinos". Paolo Padovani
16:55 - 17:25 Coffee break
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars Ib (chair Ghisellini)
17:25 - 17:50 "Very fast gamma-ray variability and Multi-wavelength view of 3C279 during outbursts in 2013-2015". Masaaki Hayashida (I)
17:50 - 18:05 "High Energy flares of FSRQs: the connection of flaring states with the accretion disk luminosity". Luigi Pacciani
18:05 - 18:20 "A parsec scale multi-frequency polarimetric analysis of the TeV blazar Mrk 421". Rocco Lico
18:20 - 18:35 "Robopol: optical polarization-plane rotations in blazars". Dmitry Blinov
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars II (chair Giovannini)
09:00 - 09:25 "Magnetic Kink Instability and Fanaroff-Riley Dichotomy of AGN jets". Alexander Tchekhovskoy (I)
09:25 - 09:50 "Relativistic Jets in AGN: Magnetic Field Structure and Particle Acceleration". Lukasz Stawarz (I)
09:50 - 10:15 "Radiative Transfer Modeling of Radio-band Linear Polarization Data as a Probe of the Physical Conditions in the Jets of Gamma-ray Flaring Blazars". Margo Aller (I)
10:15 - 10:30 "Exploring into the inner jet regions of BL Lac 0716+714 through intra-day optical photo-polarimetric observations". Gopal Bhatta
10:30 - 10:45 "Multi-Timescale Variability in Gamma-ray Blazars". Stefan Larsson
10:45 -11:15 Coffee break
Magnetic Field and Polarization I (chair Ros)
11:15 - 11:40 "Magnetic Fields and Polarization in Blazar jets: progress since 2013". John Wardle (I)
11:40 - 12:05 "Polarization Variability During OutBursts". Hugh Aller (I)
12:05 - 12:30 "The Origin and Global Structure of the Magnetic Fields of AGN Jets". Denise C. Gabuzda (I)
12:30 - 12:45 "Exploring the magnetic field configuration close to central engines using GMVA". Bindu Rani
12:45 - 13:00 "Through The Looking Glass: Faraday Conversion in Turbulent Blazar Jets". Nicholas Macdonald
13:00 - 13:15 "Hidden parents of high-z blazars: quenching and dark bubbles". Tullia Sbarrato
13:15 - 13:30 Discussion of Posters
Free afternoon (see organized social events)
Magnetic Field and Polarization II (chair Wardle)
09:00 - 09:25 "Magnetic field and polarization in AGN jets". Robert Laing (I)
09:25 - 09:50 "Magnetic Fields in Blazar Jets: Constraints from Full Stokes Observations". Daniel Homan (I)
09:50 - 10:15 "Sharp Polarimetric Eyes: More Trees than Forest?". Paul Smith (I)
10:15 - 10:30 "Robopol: fast cadence optical polarisation monitoring of an unbiased sample of blazars". Emmanouil Angelakis
10:30 - 10:45 "TimeTubes: Visualization of polarization variations in blazars". Makoto Uemura
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars IIIa (chair McHardy)
11:15 - 11:40 "A Gamma-Ray View on Multi-Wavelength Studies of Blazars". Stefan Wagner (I)
11:40 - 12:05 "VHE blazar studies after a decade of H.E.S.S., MAGIC and VERITAS". Wystan Benbow (I)
12:05 - 12:30 "Mrk421 and Mrk501 as high-energy physics laboratories to study the nature of blazars". David Paneque (I)
12:30 - 12:45 "Blazar Jets: insights from Radio and Gamma-ray Light Curves". Timothy Pearson
12:45 - 13:00 "The connection between the radio jet and the gamma-ray emission in CTA102 and 3C120". Carolina Casadio
13:00 - 13:15 "Origin of the gamma-ray emission in AGN jets: the case of 3C 279". Sebastian Kiehlmann
13:15 - 15:00 Lunch break
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars IIIb (chair Junhui)
15:00 - 15:25 "Faraday Rotation in Parsec-Scale AGN Jets". Talvikki Hovatta (I)
15:25 - 15:50 "Photometric and polarimetric studies of active galactic nuclei in St. Petersburg University". Valeri Larionov (I)
15:50 - 16:15 "Multi-wavelength studies of blazars BL Lac and 3C454.3". Ann Wehrle (I)
16:15 - 16:30 "Flaring gamma-ray emission from high redshift blazars". Monica Orienti
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
Multi-wavelength Studies of Blazars IV (chair Miller)
17:00 - 17:25 "The radio/gamma-ray connection from 120 MHz to 230 GHz". Marcello Giroletti (I)
17:25 - 17:50 "Multifrequency studies of active galactic nuclei in the Planck satellite era". Anne Lahteenmaki (I)
17:50 - 18:15 "Blazars at short millimeter wavelenghts: Total flux and polarimetry". Iván Agudo (I)
18:15 - 18:40 "The VLBA-BU-BLAZAR program". Svetlana Jorstad (I)
18:40 - 18:55 "Spectral evolution of flaring blazars from numerical simulations". Christian Fromm
20:00 - 00:15 Conference dinner
Non-blazar AGN I (chair Vermeulen)
09:00 - 09:25 "Multiwaveband Observations of non-blazar AGN". Ian McHardy (I)
09:25 - 09:50 "Blazar-Like Radio Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies". Dick Miller (I)
09:50 - 10:15 "Non-Blazar Active Galactic Nuclei". Teddy Cheung (I)
10:15 - 10:30 "Spine/Sheath structure of M87 jet". Keiichi Asada
10:30 - 10:45 "A panchromatic view of relativistic jets in narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies". Fillipo D'Ammando
10:45 -11:15 Coffee break
Non-blazar AGN II (chair Lister)
11:15 - 11:40 "Non Blazar Quasars". Ken Kellerman (I)
11:40 - 12:05 "The structure and propagation of the misaligned jet M87". Kazuhiro Hada (I)
11:05 - 12:30 "Observations of the Structure and Dynamics of the Inner M87 Jet". Craig Walker (I)
12:30 - 12:55 "The Radio Jet of OJ 287". Marshall Cohen (I)
12:55 - 13:10 "30 years on ... how MG85 came about". Walter Gear (I)
13:10 - 13:40 "Variability of Blazars and Blazar Models over 38 Years". Alan P. Marscher's
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