Still frame from animation made by Cosmovision, a group led by Dr. Wolfgang Steffen of the Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM, Ensenada, Mexico. To view the animation, go to the BU blazar group's web page on 3C 120.
2005
NERQUAM MEETING: Wednesday, May 18 at Boston University
Location: Room 522 at 705 Commonwealth Ave.
Directions:
By car: From the far west: take I-90 (Mass Pike) east to exit 18 (left exit!) Stay to the right after the toll booths, then turn right at the 2nd stop light onto Storrow Drive. [Be careful - the entrance lane onto the road is short and cars on Storrow Drive are whipping around a curve there; use your side-view mirror to determine how to blend in with the traffic. They will generally allow you to squeeze in. Try not to stop completely, since it's hard to get up to speed again to blend in with the traffic.] Take the 2nd right exit (Kenmore Square). Bear right after the stop light (but do not turn sharply right) and then bear right again onto the main street (Commonwealth Ave.). There is a public parking lot just past the Burger King 2-3 blocks on the right. They'll charge the usual exhorbitant Boston rate (about $10). Then walk one more block down Comm. Ave. and enter the door marked 705 Commonwealth Ave. Go up half a flight of stairs, turn left, and take the elevator there to the 5th floor. Go inside room 522 (back entrance is right next to elevator).
From the south or north: take I-93 into the city, following the signs for Storrow Drive. Stay in the middle lane if you can. Take the Kenmore Square exit, for which the left and middle lanes exit to the left. As you curve on the exit, take the ramp on the right toward Kenmore Square. Bear right after the stop light (but do not turn sharply right) and then bear right again onto the main street (Commonwealth Ave.). There is a public parking lot just past the Burger King 2-3 blocks on the right. They'll charge the usual exhorbitant Boston rate (about $10). Then walk one more block down Comm. Ave. and enter the door marked 705 Commonwealth Ave. Go up half a flight of stairs, turn left, and take the elevator there to the 5th floor. Go inside room 522 (back entrance is right next to elevator).
By T: Take the Green B train to the Boston University East stop (2nd above-ground stop). Cross Comm. Ave. on the same side as you got off the train. Enter the door marked 705 Commonwealth Ave. Go up half a flight of stairs, turn left, and take the elevator there to the 5th floor. Go inside room 522 (back entrance is right next to elevator).
Schedule:
8:45-9:15 Informal discussions over donuts & bagels, coffee, tea, and juice
9:15-10:05 News of important discoveries or new or future instruments
Alan Marscher (Boston U.): Welcome; GLAST
Colin Lonsdale (Haystack Obs.): MWA
Fabrizio
Nicastro (CfA): Pharos: a concept for a rapidly slewing high resolution X-ray
spectrometer
Fabrizio Nicastro (CfA): The discovery
of the missing baryons in the warm-hot intergalactic medium
Aneta Siemiginowkska
(CfA): A deep image of the quasar 1127-145 with Chandra
Dan Harris (CfA): The
latest news from M87 monitoring of a flare in knot HST-1
Yasunobu Uchiyama
(Yale U.): Detection of IR light from the large-scale jet of PKS 0637-752 with
Spitzer IRAC
Lei Hao (Cornell U.): The detection of silicate emission in quasars
10:05-12:05
Scientific talks: Jets
Alan
Marscher (Boston U.): Relativistic Jets in AGNs from Launch Site to the mm-wave
Core (short review)
John Wardle (Brandeis U.):
Concurrent 43 and 86 GHz Very Long Baseline Polarimetry of 3C 273
Tingdong
Chen (Brandeis U.): Variable Rotation Measure Distribution in 3C 273 on Parsec
Scales
Svetlana Jorstad (Boston U.): Jet Kinematics of AGNs at High Radio
Frequencies
Teddy Cheung (NRAO & MIT): Panchromatic Views of Kiloparsec-Scale
Jets in AGNs (review)
Dan
Harris (CfA): Comments: Electron energies; Why do jets have knots?
Jonathan
Gelbord (MIT): The Unusual Quasar Jet System of PKS B1421-490
Hermine Landt
(CfA): What Types of Jets Does Nature Make? A New Population of Blazars
Aneta
Siemiginowkska (CfA): X-ray Cluster Associated
with the z=1.063 CSS Quasar 3C 186: The Jet is NOT Frustrated
12:05-12:30
Scientific talks: General
Paul
Green (CfA): Discovery of a Galaxy Cluster in the Foreground of the Wide-Separation
Quasar Pair UM425
Colin Lonsdale (Haystack Obs.): A Starburst in Action
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 Scientific Talks: The Central Engine
Ramesh
Narayan (CfA): Accretion Solutions, Winds and Jets
(review)
Andy
Young (MIT): A Narrow Look at the Broad Iron Line in MCG-6-30-15
Rudy
Schild (CfA): Empirical Structure of the Quasar Q0957+561 from Micro- and Nano-Lensing
Darryl
Leiter (FSTC, Charlottesville, VA): On the Existence of an Intrinsic Magnetic
Moment inside the Central Compact Object within the Quasar Q0957+561
Carie
Cardamone (Yale U.): Lensing Study of AGN Models
Roberto Soria (CfA): Why Are
They Not AGNs?
Paul
Nulsen (CfA): Gas Dynamic Measurements of Age and Mechanical Energy for AGN Outbursts
3:45-4:35 Scientific Talks: AGN Winds
Martin
Elvis (CfA): Funnel Winds from AGNs: An Update
(review)
Katrien
Steenbrugge (CfA): The X-ray View of the Wind in NGC 5548
Antonella Fruscione
(CfA): X-ray Luminosity and Absorption Column Fluctuations in the H2O Maser Galaxy
NGC4258 from Weeks to Years
4:35-5:00
Scientific Talks: AGN Evolution
Jeffrey
Van Duyne (Yale U.): GOODS/Spitzer SEDs of Hard X-ray Selected AGNs: Potential
Evidence of Evolution of the Dust Torus Geometry
Brooke Simmons (Yale U.):
The Morphological Evolution of AGN Host Galaxies in the GOODS Field
5:00-6:00 Informal discussions over beer, wine, soda, and munchies
Poster Paper
Herman Marshall (MIT) et al.: Continuing a Chandra Survey of Quasar Jets
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To
register for the meeting, send an e-mail to Dr.
Svetlana Jorstad (jorstad@bu.edu).
Link to official NERQUAM 2005 theme song: Superluminal Lover (Alan Marscher will perform it during the beer/wine session)