Black Hole Astrophysics with VLBI: Past, Present, and Future
- Workshop in honor of Professor INOUE Makoto's retirement -
| Monday March 27, 2017 | |
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| 10:00~10:15 | Opening remarks Hideyuki Kobayashi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| Session 1 : Committed projects | |
| 10:15~10:45 | Invited The Origins of VLBI James Moran (Harvard_Smithsonian CfA) |
| 10:45~11:15 | Invited TDRSS and the beginning of Space VLBI David Jauncey (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science, and Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics, ANU) |
| 11:15~11:45 | Invited Space-VLBI Activities in Japan Hisashi Hirabayashi (ISAS/JAXA) |
| 11:45~11:50 | Congratulatory address Chu You-Hua (ASIAA) |
| 11:50~13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00~13:30 | Invited Operations, scheduling and Imaging of VSOP experiments Edward Fomalont (NRAO/ALMA) |
| 13:30~14:00 | Invited Astrometry with VSOP, VSOP-2 & how those studies are leading to new breakthroughs Richard Dodson (ICRAR-UWA) |
| 14:00~14:30 | Invited Synchrotron emission in extragalactic sources: what makes theorists and observers so (un)happy Leonid Gurvits (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC and Delft University of Technology) |
| 14:30~14:50 | The East Asian VLBI Network Kazuhiro Hada (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ) |
| Session 2a : Supermassive black holes and accretion disks | |
| 14:50~15:20 | Invited Imaging the Supermassive Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope Kazunori Akiyama (MIT Haystack Observatory) |
| 15:20~15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50~16:20 | Invited Overview on Black Hole Accretion Flow and Outflow Shin Mineshige (Kyoto University) |
| 16:20~16:50 | Invited Probing black hole physics with high resolution radio observations Andrei Lobanov (Max-Planck-Insitut für Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany) |
| 16:50~17:10 | Highlight of KaVA AGN science Motoki Kino (KASI/NAOJ) |
| 17:10~17:30 | Global 3-mm VLBI observations with the KVN toward bright AGN jets Shoko Koyama (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy) |
| 17:30~17:50 | Horizon-scale emission from supermassive black holes Ziri Younsi (ITP, Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| 17:50~18:10 | The Second Black Hole near the Galactic Center? Masato Tsuboi (ISAS, JAXA) |
| Tuesday March 28, 2017 | |
| 09:00~09:20 | Photon emission from the direct vicinity of black holes Kouichi Hirotani (ASIAA) |
| Session 2b : Relativistic jets and magnetic fields | |
| 09:20~09:50 | Invited The Jet Collimation Break: Towards the Paradigm Shift in AGN Jets Masanori Nakamura (ASIAA) |
| 09:50~10:10 | The study of jet formation and dissipation by measurement of jet structure in NGC 4261 Nakahara Satomi (SOKENDAI/JAXA) |
| 10:10~10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30~10:50 | Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron José L. Gómez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía - CSIC) |
| 10:50~11:10 | RM studies with Inoue-san: VLBA, SMA, ALMA, and GLT/EHT Keiichi Asada (ASIAA) |
| 11:10~11:30 | Microscopic Processes in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields Kenichi Nishikawa (Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville) |
| 11:30~13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00~13:20 | The role of magnetic field for relativistic jets and black hole accretion disc Yosuke Mizuno (ITP, Goethe University Frankfurt) |
| 13:20~13:40 | 3C 84: Past, Present, and Future Hiroshi Nagai (NAOJ) |
| 13:40~14:00 | Monthly VLBI Monitoring of 3C 84 with KaVA and KVN Kiyoaki Wajima (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) |
| 14:00~14:30 | Coffee Break |
| Session 2c : AGN circumnuclear region | |
| 14:30~15:00 | Invited X-ray observations of circumnuclear regions in AGNs Hajime Inoue (Meisei University) |
| 15:00~15:20 | Circumnuclear torus revealed by VLBI Satoko Sawada-satoh (Kagoshima University) |
| 15:20~15:40 | Accretion matter in the circumnuclear region of AGNs Seiji Kameno (Joint ALMA Observatory / National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| 15:40~16:00 | Poster flash talks |
| Session 3 : Keynote | |
| 16:00~16:05 | Welcome address (Masa Hayashi) |
| 16:05~16:25 | Congratulatory address Paul Ho (ASIAA) |
| 16:25 | Keynote Things failed, undone, and wish to do Makoto Inoue (ASIAA) |
| 17:05~17:10 | LOC announcemnet |
| 17:10~17:20 | Group Photo |
| 17:45 | 1st bus |
| 18:15 | 2nd bus |
| 19:00~21:30 | Banquet |
| Wednesday March 29, 2017 | |
| Session 2d : Astrophysical masers | |
| 08:40~09:10 | Invited New Maser Probes for Extragalactic Studies Se-Hyung Cho (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute) |
| 09:10~09:40 | Invited Circumstellar, interstellar, and circumnuclear water masers as probes of fine structures of astrophysical objects Hiroshi Imai (Kagoshima University) |
| 09:40~10:00 | Water-Vapor Megamasers in Active Galactic Nuclei Naomasa Nakai (University of Tsukuba) |
| 10:00~10:20 | Probing circumnuclear region of AGN with masers Yoshiaki Hagiwara (Toyo University) |
| 10:20~10:40 | Coffee Break |
| Session 4 : Ongoing projects and future prospects | |
| 10:40~11:10 | Chinese Space Millimeter-VLBI Array Zhiqiang Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| 11:10~11:30 | Balloon-borne VLBI and space VLBI, to penetrate opaque regions toward black hole shadows. Akihiro Doi (JAXA) |
| 11:30~11:50 | Imaging black hole shadow with sparse modeling Mareki Honma (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ) |
| 11:50~13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00~13:20 | Invited The Greenland Telescope project and its status. Ming-Tang Chen (Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy & Astrophysics) |
| 13:20~13:40 | 3.5 yr Monitoring of 225 GHz Opacity at the Summit of Greenland Satoki Matsushita (ASIAA) |
| 13:40~14:00 | Study on exoplanet imaging using intensity VLBI Hiroshi Matsuo (ATC/NAOJ) |
| 14:00~14:20 | A New Verification Method of Applied Calibrations onto Visibility Data Makoto Miyoshi (NAOJ) |
| 14:20~14:40 | Concluding remarks Seiji Kameno (NAOJ) |