AGN Conference 2026
| Tuesday March 17, 2026 | |
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| 08:50~09:20 | Registration |
| 09:20~09:25 | Opening remark (Yoshiki Toba) |
| 09:25~09:30 | LOC announcement (Youichi Ohyama) |
| Latest HSC results (Chair: Youichi Ohyama) | |
| 09:30~10:00 | Overview of AGN sciences with HSC-SSP and PFS-SSP Yoshiki Toba (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 10:00~10:15 | The origin of post-starburst galaxies probed with HSC imaging at z ∼ 0.2–1.0 Arina Saito (Ehime University) |
| 10:15~10:30 | Mergers, Star Formation, and AGN activity in the HSC-SSP - a Cautionary Tale Kiyoaki Omori (Saint Mary's University) |
| 10:30~10:50 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30~10:50 | Poster viewing |
| 10:50~11:05 | Environments around Type-2 Quasars Revealed with HSC-SSP Yuta Suzuki (Ehime University) |
| 11:05~11:20 | Statistical Properties of X-ray Detected and Undetected AGN Revealed by Stacking Analysis of the eFEDS Survey Sorami Soga (Nara Women's University) |
| 11:20~12:50 | Lunch |
| PFS-SSP overview and initial results (chair: Yoshiki Matsuoka) | |
| 12:50~13:20 | Learning from the stellar continua of galaxies: progress and initial results of the PFS SSP GE ‘low-z’ project Po-Feng Wu (National Taiwan University) |
| 13:20~13:50 | Subaru PFS Cosmology Program Tomomi Sunayama (ASIAA) |
| 13:50~14:05 | Fitting AGN and host galaxy emission lines with CIGALE Patrice Theulé (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille) |
| 14:05~15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 14:05~15:00 | Poster viewing |
| 15:00~15:30 | Charting the High-Redshift Universe with PFS-SSP Daichi Kashino (NAOJ) |
| 15:30~15:45 | Discovery of Narrow-line Seyfert 1-type Quasars at z=2.3-6.0 with PFS-SSP Ayumi Takahashi (Kanagawa Univ.) |
| Poster session (chair: Yoshiki Toba) | |
| 15:45~15:48 | Calibrating Non-Parametric Morphology with Citizen-Science Labels: New Gini–M20 and CAS Boundaries for HSC Galaxies YUEYI KANG (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 15:48~15:51 | Constructing the Largest Sample of Infrared-bright Dust-Obscured Galaxies with HSC-SSP Final Data: SED Classification and Properties Yui Nishimura (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 15:51~15:54 | Generative Adversarial Networks for Astronomical Image Super-Resolution: A Case Study on Galaxy Morphology from SDSS to HSC Akihiro Yasuda (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 15:54~15:57 | short Q&A |
| 15:57~16:00 | Physical Properties of Broad-Line AGNs in the PFS-SSP Galaxy Evolution Survey: Initial Results from S25A Observations Keiya Takeshita (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 16:00~16:03 | All-sky AGN selection with SPHEREx for PFS follow up Yuka Yamada (University of Tokyo) |
| 16:03~16:06 | Investigating the Relationship between Outflows and Metallicity Using Emission-Line Ratios in BAL Quasars Nozomu Tamada (Ehime University) |
| 16:06~16:09 | short Q&A |
| 16:09~16:12 | Investigating the Host Galaxy of Active Galactic Nuclei with S3Fit Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk (ASIAA) |
| 16:12~16:15 | Impact of Black Hole Activity on Line Intensity Mapping Statistics Ogata Erika (University of Tokyo) |
| 16:15~16:18 | Measurement of the Time Delay of the Gravitationally Lensed Blazar PKS 1830–211 by Fermi-LAT Mitsuki Mori (Ritsumeikan University) |
| 16:18~16:21 | short Q&A |
| 16:21~16:24 | The multi-band periodic variability and inter-band time lags of the SMBH binary candidate PKS J2134-0153 Guowei Ren (University of Science and Technology of China) |
| 16:24~16:27 | Tracing AGN Contribution and Abundance Across Cosmic Time with JWST Angel Rodriguez Barbosa (National Tsing Hua University) |
| 16:27~16:30 | short Q&A |
| 16:30~17:30 | Poster viewing |
| Wednesday March 18, 2026 | |
| 09:15~09:30 | Registration |
| Results from PFS and other multi-object spectrographs (chair: Tohru Nagao) | |
| 09:30~10:00 | [Remote] Probing fundamental properties of AGNs with DESI and PFS Linhua Jiang (Peking University) |
| 10:00~10:15 | Tracing quasar activity histories with proximity zones in DESI Y1 Ryuichiro Hada (ASIAA) |
| 10:15~10:30 | Obscured cosmic black hole accretion history from dusty AGN found with the JWST/MIRI Tomo Goto (NTHU) |
| 10:30~10:40 | Group Photo |
| 10:30~11:00 | Poster viewing |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00~11:30 | Spectroscopic Observations of Variability-Selected AGNs with Subaru/PFS Mitsuru Kokubo (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) |
| 11:30~11:45 | Search for Broad Hα Emitters in the nearby universe (z < 1) with Subaru PFS Yuki Taki (NAOJ/SOKENDAI) |
| 11:45~12:00 | The Initial Results from the Subaru PFS Open-Use data: Spectroscopic Identification of AGNs in the EGS Field Atsushi Hoshi (Tohoku University / ISAS JAXA) |
| 12:00~13:45 | Lunch |
| Latest HSC results with multi-wavelength datasets (chair: Yoshiki Matsuoka) | |
| 13:45~14:15 | From HSC to Euclid and PFS: Wide-area optical-NIR view of radio AGN Kohei Ichikawa (Tohoku University) |
| 14:15~14:30 | Discovery of an X-ray Luminous Radio-Loud Quasar at z = 3.4: A Possible Transitional Super-Eddington Phase Sakiko Obuchi (Waseda University) |
| 14:30~14:45 | Impact of jets at cosmic noon through radio galaxies selected by the gzK selection Seira Kobayashi (Ehime University) |
| 14:45~15:00 | Host Galaxy Morphology of LOFAR Radio AGN in the Subaru HSC Deep Field ELAIS-N1 Kateryna Vovk (Kavli IPMU, Tokyo University) |
| 15:00~15:45 | Poster viewing |
| 15:00~15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45~16:15 | Studying Radio AGN with the HSC Survey Yen-Ting Lin (ASIAA) |
| 16:15~16:30 | Studying the galaxy populations of eROSITA X-ray-selected galaxy clusters I-Non Chiu (National Cheng Kung University) |
| Poster session (poster viewing) | |
| 18:00~20:00 | Banquet (Howard International House Garden Cafeteria 恬園餐廳)
No.30, Sec.3, Xinsheng South Rd.,Taipei 台北市大安區新生南路三段30號 |
| [ Science Verification Sessions ] | |
| Thursday March 19, 2026 | |
| PFS early results and outlook (chair: Kohei Ichikawa) | |
| 09:30~10:00 | [Remote] The Starburst-AGN-PFS connection along the history of the Universe Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (UFRGS) |
| 10:00~10:15 | [Remote] Shadows and Flares: A Decade-Long Infrared View of Accreting Supermassive Black Holes Suvendu Rakshit (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational SciencES (ARIES), India) |
| 10:15~10:30 | Probing the AGN structure using quasar variability combined with spectroscopic data Ji-Jia Tang (Ehime University) |
| 10:30~11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30~11:00 | Poster viewing |
| 11:00~11:30 | Quasar Environments at High Redshift: From HSC and PFS to Roman Masafusa Onoue (Waseda University) |
| 11:30~11:45 | Diverse Mpc-scale environments of low-luminosity quasars at z~6 Junya Arita (University of Tokyo) |
| 11:45~12:00 | Diverse Origins of Broad Hα Lines in Heavily Obscured AGNs Revealed by Optical Multi-epoch Spectroscopy Shoichiro Mizukoshi (ASIAA) |
| 12:00~13:30 | Lunch |
| (chair: Ayumi Takahashi) | |
| 13:30~13:45 | Coronal Emission Lines as Tracers of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies Jialai Wang (University of Science and Technology of China) |
| 13:45~14:00 | AKARI All-Sky–Selected ULIRGs: ALMA CO(2–1) Insights into Merger-Driven SMBH Growth Kianhong Lee (Nagoya University) |
| 14:00~14:15 | The Morphologies of Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs) Thomas Bohn (Ehime University) |
| 14:15~14:30 | AGN Demographics Across Cosmic Time: Insights from JWST and the Promise of PFS Helena Treiber (Princeton University) |
| 14:30~15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 14:30~15:00 | Poster viewing |
| Theory and high-energy perspectives (chair: Ayumi Takahashi) | |
| 15:00~15:30 | Origins of supermassive black holes in galactic centers Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen (ASIAA) |
| 15:30~15:45 | Metallicity dependence of line-driven AGN disc winds and implications for black hole growth Mariko Nomura (Hirosaki University) |
| 15:45~16:00 | Nanohertz gravitational waves and SMBH binaries Kin-Wang Ng (ASIOP/ASIAA) |
| 16:00~16:15 | Statistical Properties of high-synchrotron peaked blazars Yu-Ling Chang (National Taiwan University) |
| Closing remark (Yoshiki Toba) | |
| Poster viewing & Free discussion | |