Name: 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
Start: 2015-12-13T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-12-18T17:10:00+01:00
Location: International Conference Centre Geneva

Monday, 14 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00 Welcome opening
Welcome opening
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 Introduction

09:07 Welcome address by the Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva - Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva)

09:15 Einstein's Swiss Years - Jan Lacki (University of Geneva)
09:35
09:35 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:35 First hundred years of GR: successes, status and prospects - Thanu Padmanabhan (ICAA Pune)

10:10 Relativistic effects in large-scale structure surveys - Camille Bonvin (CERN)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 CMB temperature and polarisation anisotropies: a goldmine for cosmology. - Nabila Aghanim (Universite Paris Sud)

11:55 CMB spectral distortions - Rashid Sunyaev
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 Modelling inhomogeneous cosmologies with Numerical Relativity - Eloisa Bentivegna (Università degli Studi di Catania)

14:21 Solving the Einstein-Maxwell Equations for the Dispersive Propagation of Light during Mixmaster Kasner Epochs and other Anisotropic Early-Universe Models - Brett Bochner (Hofstra University)

14:42 Backrection of voids in a Friedman background with constant w equation of state. - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

15:03 Lense-Thirring precession in strong gravitational fields - Chandrachur Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai , INDIA)

15:24 Inhomogeneous conformally flat models of the universe - Mariusz Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 High redshift BAO from BOSS to eBOSS - Timothée Delubac (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

14:27 Tracing dark energy with quasars. - Justyna Średzińska (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PAS)

14:53 Measuring cosmological parameters with GRBs: status and perspectives - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

15:19 The m-z relation for type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter - Phillip Helbig (*)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 Exotic Rotational Correlations in Emergent Quantum Geometry - Craig Hogan (U. Chicago and Fermilab)

14:21 Creation of Emergent Universe with Wormholes - Dr. Bikash Chandra PAUL (University of North Bengal)

14:42 A Cyclic Universe alternatively dominated by matter and antimatter - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology)

15:03 3D Quantum Bubble Collisions - Jonathan Braden (University College London)

15:24 Born-Infeldizing gravity - Lavinia Heisenberg (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 A relativistic approach to large-scale structure - David Wands (University of Portsmouth)

14:21 Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the matter density fluctuation - Jaiyul Yoo (University of Zurich)

14:42 Relativistic effects with cross-correlations - Enea Di Dio (OATs-INAF)

15:03 Probing violations of slow-roll inflation at the largest observable scales with future galaxy surveys - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

15:24 Tomographic lensing constraints with galaxy clustering - Francesco Montanari (Universite de Geneve (CH))
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 The POLARBEAR experiment probing the cosmic microwave background polarization - Davide Poletti

14:25 The Quijote experiment: project overview and first results - Ricardo Génova Santos (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

14:45 CMB spectral distortions: energy release versus photon injection - Jens Chluba (Institute of Astronomy)

15:05 Cosmology with the Planck all-sky Compton parameter map - Juan Francisco Macias-Perez (LPSC)

15:25 High-resolution SZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA ath the IRAM 30-m telescope - Frédéric MAYET (CNRS)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Thermal emission in GRB 101219B - Josefin Larsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

14:21 Fitting gamma-ray burst prompt emission spectra with a model for subphotospheric dissipation - Björn Ahlgren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

14:42 Signs of magnetic acceleration and multi-zone emission in GRB 080825C - Elena Moretti (MPI Munich)

15:03 A new intrinsic intrinsic 3 parameter correlation in Gamma Ray Bursts - Maria Dainotti (Stanford University)

15:24 GRB polarization with the POLAR detector. - Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH))
HMXB
HMXB
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 Multi-wavelength variability of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 along the super-orbital period - Diego Torres (ICREA / Institute of Space Sciences)

14:26 Interacting pulsar winds in X-ray and gamma-ray binaries - Guillaume DUBUS (IPAG CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes)

14:52 The gamma-ray monitoring of newly discovered Be/BH binary system MWC 656 - Pere Munar-Adrover (INAF-IAPS)

15:18 Making the Heaviest Elemens in the Universe - Friedrich Thielemann (University of Basel)
Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 H.E.S.S. Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Nukri Komin (Wits University)

14:20 Galactic Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Thierry Stolarczyk (IRFU/SAp,CEA Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

14:45 Modeling Bright Gamma-ray and Radio Emission from Fast Cloud Shocks at Middle-aged SNRs - Shiu Hang (Herman) Lee (ISAS/JAXA)

15:05 Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray loud binaries - Maria Chernyakova (DCU)

15:25 Particle acceleration in Eta Carinae: the expected and unexpected - Matteo Balbo (Université de Genève)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby
16:15
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 First-order cosmological perturbations engendered by point-like masses: all scales covered - Maxim Eingorn

16:35 On homogeneous and isotropic universe - Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)

16:55 Covariant Perturbations of the Scalar-Tensor Schwarzschild Black Hole - Geraint Pratten (University of Sussex)

17:15 Confronting anisotropic cosmological models with real-time cosmology - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)

17:35 High-precision cosmology and inhomogeneities: exact results in the geodesic light-cone gauge - Giuseppe Fanizza (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro")

17:55 Discussion session on averaging and backreaction in cosmology
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 Using Atom Interferometry to Detect Chameleon Dark Energy - Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)

16:40 Causality in theories with more than one metric - Ignacy Leonard Sawicki (University of Geneva)

17:05 Dark energy as a fixed point of the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs Equations - Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

17:29 Non-local gravity and comparison with observational datasets - Yves Dirian (University of Geneva)

17:53 Viability of a quintessence model with inverse power law potential as a dark energy candidate - Erick Jonathan Almaraz Aviña (Instituto de Física / UNAM)

17:56 Constraints on a DE parametrization using BAO and Forecasting for future surveys - Mariana Jaber (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

17:59 Force sensor for chameleon a candidate for dark energy - attaallah almasi (vu university of amsterdam)

18:02 Exploring the consequences of parameter values in cosmological models with CosmoEJS, an interactive package of cosmology Java simulations - Jacob Moldenhauer (University of Dallas)

18:05 Testing the dark sector interaction by using the isolated galaxy pairs from SDSS DR10 - Hanwool Koo (Seoul National University)

18:08 The gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum as a possible solution to the dark energy problem - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))

18:12 Primordial perturbations in a bouncing Universe with quintessence - Anna Paula Bacalhau (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

18:15 Refinements of Jungle Universes - Alicia Simon-Petit (Applied Mathematics Laboratory, ENSTA ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation - Andrey Shkerin (EPFL)

16:35 A stiff Higgstory of the Universe - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)

16:55 Parametric resonance after hilltop inflation caused by an inhomogeneous inflaton field - Francesco Cefalà (University of Basel)

17:15 Preheating after hilltop inflation - Stefano Orani (Basel University)

17:35 The Cosmic Laboratory: Probing Inflation with Galaxy Clustering - Roland de Putter

17:55 The Effective Strength of Gravity and the scale of Inflation - Subodh Patil

18:15 Implications of the primordial power asymmetry for inflation - Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB))
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 Cosmological nonlinear density and velocity power spectra - Jai-chan Hwang (Kyunpook National Univ.)

16:35 General Relativity and Cosmic Structure Formation - Julian Adamek (Université de Genève)

16:55 Large Scale Structure with interacting Vacuum: the non-linear regime in the post-Friedman approximation - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

17:15 One-dimensional models of cosmological perturbations: direct integration in the Fourier space - Vitalii Sliusar (Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

17:35 TSPT: Time-Sliced Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL & INR RAS)

17:55 Precision measurement of the local bias of dark matter halos - Titouan Lazeyras (MPA)

18:15 Supercluster straightness as a cosmological test - Junsup Shim (Seoul National University)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:15 Dark matter decay and cosmic reionization - Isabel Oldengott (Universität Bielefeld)

16:35 Is there evidence for anisotropy in CMB data? - Daniela Saadeh (University College London)

16:55 Current constraints and forecasts on the tilt and running of the primordial tensor spectrum - Giovanni Cabass (Physics Department and INFN, “La Sapienza” University of Rome)

17:15 Cosmological constraints on the neutron lifetime - Laura Salvati (University of Rome, Sapienza)

17:35 UV sensitivity of Higgs inflation - Jacopo Fumagalli (Nikhef)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

16:15 Using Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes - Rob Preece (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

16:35 Shedding light on the early Universe with THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

16:55 An External Shock Origin of GRB 141028A - J. Michael Burgess (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

17:15 Signs of Blandford & Znajek mechanism in GRB afterglow lightcurves. - Antonio Nathanail

17:35 Constraining emission mechanisms in gamma-ray bursts using spectral width - Magnus Axelsson

17:55 Study of GRB light curve decay indices in the afterglow phase - Roberta Del Vecchio (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)

17:58 Observed properties of high redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts - Graziella Pizzichini (INAF)

18:01 Moving observed Short GRBs both off-axis and into the local Universe - Giovanni De Cesare (IASF-Bologna) Giulia Stratta (Urbino University) Giuseppe Greco (Urbino University) Marica Branchesi (Urbino University)
HXMXB
HXMXB
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 Swift and the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient outburst factory - Patrizia Romano (INAF)

16:40 High-mass X-ray binary systems through the eyes of INTEGRAL - Alexander Lutovinov (Space Research Institute)

17:05 Vela X-1 and sgHMXB: hydro driven hard X-rays - Antonis Manousakis

17:25 Correlation study of spectral parameters of NS-HMXBs with Suzaku - Pragati Pradhan (St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India & North Bengal University, Siliguri, India)

17:45 Orbital resolved spectroscopy of GX 301-2 with MAXI - Nazma Islam (Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)

18:05 Broadband study of X-Per using Suzaku observations - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

18:20 Orbital evolution and search for eccentricity and apsidal motion in the eclipsing HMXB 4U 1700–37 - Nazma Islam (Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, India)

18:24 Blowing in the wind : accretion in high mass X-ray binaries - Ileyk EL MELLAH (Paris 7 Diderot - APC laboratory)
Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Pulsar observations with the MAGIC telescopes - Takayuki Saito (Kyoto University)

16:35 The intriguing double torus-jet PWN around PSR J0855-4644 - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

16:55 A Pulsar Wind Nebula Origin for Luminous TeV Source HESS J1640-465 - Joseph D Gelfand

17:15 First-order Fermi acceleration at pulsar wind termination shock. - Simone Giacche` (Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:35 Rapid particle acceleration at perpendicular shocks - John Kirk

17:55 Kinetic simulations of relativistic harmonic magnetic equilibria - Krzysztof Nalewajko (Stanford University)

18:15 Multipolar electromagnetic fields around neutron stars: exact vacuum solutions and related properties. - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)
Tuesday, 15 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 A unifying description of dark energy - David LANGLOIS (CNRS)

09:35 Dark matter detection - an experimental overview - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

10:10 Towards fundamental physics from cosmological surveys - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 The equation of state of dense matter - Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)

11:55 Status of the Advanced Virgo project - Fulvio Ricci (University of Rome La Sapienza and INFN Sez. Roma)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 Planck 2015 results on Dark Energy and Modified Gravity - Matteo Martinelli (ITP, Heidelberg)

14:26 Tensions Between CMB and Weak Lensing Data Sets when Testing General Relativity - Jason Dossett (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

14:53 Constraints on induced gravity dark energy models - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

15:19 Cold dark energy and cosmological parameter estimation - Caroline Heneka (Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 Joint Constraints on Neutrino Masses from Cosmology and Particle Physics - Martina Gerbino (University of Rome 'Sapienza')

14:21 Clustering, lensing, and ISW-RS from the DEMNUni neutrino simulations - Carmelita Carbone (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

14:42 Simulating the effect of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure - Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins University)

15:03 Neutrino masses and cosmology with Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum - Christophe Yeche

15:24 Massive neutrinos and their effect on the large scale structure of the Universe - Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (OATS-INAF)
Probes
Probes
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 Cosmic magnetic fields and ways of probing them - Philipp Kronberg (University of Toronto)

14:25 Galactic magnetic fields - Andrew Fletcher

14:45 Probing the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields by means of high-energy pair halos around extreme blazars - PAOLO DA VELA (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

15:05 Lower limits on the magnetic field strength in the early universe - Reinhard Schlickeiser (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

15:25 The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars - Philip Chang
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers: the time-reversal scenario - Riccardo Ciolfi (University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

14:21 Electromagnetic emission from long-lived binary neutron star merger remnants - Daniel Siegel (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

14:42 Dynamical mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binaries - Koutarou Kyutoku (RIKEN)

15:03 Fast luminous blue transients from newborn black holes - Kazumi Kashiyama (University of California, Berkeley)
ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 The ultraluminous pulsar - Matteo Bachetti (INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

14:25 Across the Eddington boundary: examining disc spectra at high accretion rates - Andrew Sutton (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

14:50 Sub-Eddington accretion in neutron star X-ray binaries - Rudy Wijnands (University of Amsterdam)

15:20 NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observation of SAX J1808.4-3658 during the latest outburst - Tiziana Di Salvo (University of Palermo)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 XMM-Newton's impact on Relativistic Astrophysics: Black Holes - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

14:21 Relativistic tidal disruption events: what do we learn from their rate distribution? - Immacolata Donnarumma (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

14:42 Un-Beamed Tidal Disruption Events at Hard X-Rays - Krzysztof Hryniewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre)

15:02 IGR J17361-4441: a possible planetary tidal disruption event in NGC 6388 - Melania Del Santo (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

15:22 Relativistic line reverberation mapping in tidal disruption events - Wenfei Yu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

15:42 Tidal disruption events induced by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism - Naoki Seto
Pulsars
Pulsars
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 Numerical Models For Superfluid Neutron Stars With Realistic Equation Of State And Application To Pulsar Glitches - Aurélien Sourie (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

14:21 Multi-scale modelling of pulsar glitches - Brynmor Haskell (The University of Melbourne)

14:42 The role of general relativity and reconnection in pulsar radiation - Benoit Cerutti (Princeton University)

15:02 The shape of a pulsar radio beam: fan beams, not the nested cones. - Jaroslaw Dyks (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

15:22 A new view on the Lighthouse Nebula, IGR J11014-6103 - Lucia Pavan (University of Geneva)

15:42 A model for distortions of polarisation angle in radio pulsars - Lab Saha (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Torun, Poland)
Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 Probing the Extragalactic Background Light with VERITAS - Elisa Kay Pueschel (University College Dublin)

14:21 Broadband characterisation and physical implications from the most extreme X-ray flaring activity of the high-peaked BL Lac Mrk 501 - Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (NASA GSFC)

14:42 Very fast TeV gamma-ray variability from the non-aligned AGN IC 310: Insight into Black Hole Lightnings - Pierre Colin (MPI fuer Physik)

15:03 A bright gamma-ray flare from the blazar B2 1215+30 detected by VERITAS and Fermi-LAT - Floriana Zefi (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)

15:24 Non-thermal particle acceleration in astrophysical shear flows. - Frank Rieger (MPIK and Univ. of Heidelberg)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby

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16:15 - 18:45
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 The radial velocity profile of the filament galaxies in the vicinity of the Virgo cluster as a test of gravity - Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)

16:35 A Universal velocity dispersion profile for pressure supported systems: evidence for MONDian gravity across 12 orders of magnitude in mass - Reginaldo Durazo (Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

16:55 Searching for new short-range forces using optically levitated microspheres - David Moore (Stanford University)

17:25 The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings - Jurgen Mifsud (Consortium for Fundamental Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield)

17:45 Lorentz violation in gravity - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)

18:10 Is the Ni's solution of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff problem without the maximum-mass limit applicable to the real neutron stars? A discussion - Lubos Neslusan (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 05960 Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia)

18:13 A relativistic metric extension of gravity based in the dynamics and lensing of individual, groups and clusters of galaxies - Sergio Mendoza (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM))

18:16 Varying constants entropic cosmology - Hussain Gohar (University of Szczecin, Poland)

18:19 Kaluza-Klein cosmological model in $f(R,T)$ gravity with $\Lambda(T) - Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

18:22 A Palatini formalism for MOND in $f(\chi)$ gravity - Ernesto Barrientos Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

18:25 Anisotropic Spherically Symmetric Collapsing Star From Higher Order Derivative Gravity Theory - Hossein Ghaffarnejad (Semnan University of IRAN)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 Constraining non-standard neutrino scenarios with Planck 2015 - Massimiliano Lattanzi (University of Ferrara)

16:36 Sterile neutrinos with secret interactions - Maria Archidiacono

16:57 Constraining sterile neutrinos with lyman alpha forest - Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

17:18 A loophole to the electromagnetic cascade theory : Solving the lithium problem with a sterile neutrino. - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

17:39 The effective number of neutrinos: standard and non-standard calculations - Pablo Fernández de Salas (IFIC - CSIC/Universidad de Valencia)

18:00 Higher-order massive neutrino perturbations in large-scale structure - Florian Führer (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

18:20 Neutrinos beyond the linear regime: a new theoretical approach - Hélène DUPUY

18:40 Decoherence of cosmological massive neutrinos - Daniel Boriero

18:43 Joint constraints on neutrino mass and number of effective neutrino species from cosmology - Graziano Rossi (Sejong University)
Probes
Probes
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields from Planck 2015 - Daniela Paoletti (INAF and INFN)

16:35 Prospects of constraining primordial magnetic fields using their effects on CMB, LSS and ionization history - Kerstin Kunze (University of Salamanca)

16:55 Primordial Magnetism in CMB - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)

17:15 Parity odd CMB power spectrum via helical magnetic field. - Hector Javier Hortua (Universidad Nacional)
ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 Hot Plasma Emissions in the Ultra-compact Binary Pulsar 4U 1626-67 - Norbert S. Schulz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:35 Luminosity dependent change of the emission diagram in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 - Filippos Koliopanos (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP), Toulouse, France)

16:55 Presence of a third body orbiting around XB 1916-053. - Rosario Iaria (Univ. di Palermo - DSFC)

17:15 Missing hard states and regular outbursts: the puzzling case of the BHC 4U 1630–472 - Fiamma Capitanio (IAPS-INAF)

17:35 Glitches and anti-glitches in accreting pulsars: expected properties and observability - Lorenzo Ducci (University of Tuebingen)

17:51 Understanding supernova kicks and black-hole spins in Galactic X-ray binaries - Anastasios Fragkos (University of Geneva)

18:08 Angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation in x-ray binaries with neutron stars - Kadri Yakut (University of EGE) Tuğçe İÇLİ
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 The Athena/X-IFU X-ray view of Hot and Energetic Universe: probing the Black Hole environment - Xavier Barcons (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

16:40 How accreting black holes may shape their surroundings through AGN feedback - Wako Ishibashi (ETH Zurich)

17:00 Direct formation of supermassive black holes; from mergers of protogalaxies to global relativistic collapse - Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

17:20 Cosmological mass transport on galactic nuclei and the formation of high redshift quasars. - andres escala (Universidad de chile)

17:40 Does the obscured AGN fraction really depend on luminosity? - Sergey Sazonov (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia)

18:00 Mildly obscured active galaxies and the diffuse X-ray background - Valentino Esposito

18:20 Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Contributions in the Central Parsec of NGC 4945 - Ingyin Zaw (NYU Abu Dhabi)

18:23 An eclipsing binary black hole in MRK 421 - Erika Benitez (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)) Sergio Mendoza (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

18:26 The high energy spectrum of 3C 273 - Valentino Esposito
Pulsars
Pulsars
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Progress on the knowledge of magnetic fields in neutron stars - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

16:35 General-relativistic pulsars magnetospheres - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)

16:55 Relativistic pulsar winds: structure, shocks, reconnection. - Maxim Lyutikov

17:15 PICsar: Particle in Cell Pulsar Simulations - Mikhail Belyaev (UC Berkeley/TAC)

17:35 Effect of geodetic precession on the evolution of pulsar high-energy pulse profiles as derived with the striped-wind model. - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)

17:55 The Crab pulsar: Examining its profile and deriving high precision X-ray ephemerides - Guillaume Belanger (ESA)
Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:35 FACT: Monitoring TeV Blazars with Silicon Photomultipliers - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

16:55 MWL characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 by MAGIC during its brightest outburst - Marina Manganaro (IAC)

17:15 The first detection of the blazar S4 0954+65 at very-high energies with the MAGIC Telescopes during an exceptionally high optical state - Giovanna Pedaletti (DESY)

17:35 Flat spectrum radio quasars at very high energies: the new detection of PKS 1441+25 - Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (NASA GSFC)

17:55 Evidence for quasi-periodic modulation in the gamma-ray blazar PG 1553+113 - Antonio Stamerra (INAF-OATo / SNS-Pisa)

18:15 Multi-wavelength observations on the gamma-ray periodic blazar PG1553+113 - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

18:35 The long-term optical study of VHE blazars - Omar Kurtanidze (Abastumani Observatory)
19:30
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Auditoire Piaget (U600)
Contributions

19:30 Einstein’s legacy: 100 years of general relativity - Michael KRAMER (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)
Wednesday, 16 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 Making waves: modeling gravitational waves from coalescing binary systems - Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

09:35 Rattle and shine by compact binaries mergers - Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)

10:10 Experimental tests of general relativity in binary systems - Michael KRAMER (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 Quantum effects on black holes: evaporation, tunnelling, information leak. Anything observable? - Carlo Rovelli (Université de la Méditerranée, Marseille)

11:55 The LHC and the Universe - Gian Giudice (CERN)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 Aspects of infrared non-local modifications of General Relativity - Giulia Cusin (University of Geneva)

14:21 Beyond General Relativity: The Geometric Deformation and New Black Hole Solutions - Jorge Ovalle (Simon Bolivar University)

14:43 Linearly shielded modifications of gravity - Lucas Lombriser (University of Edinburgh)

15:04 Initial conditions for simulations of arbitrary modified gravity, beyond quasi-static approximations - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)
05 - Dark matter
05 - Dark matter
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Analysis update to the 2013 data from the Large Underground Xenon project - Wing To (SLAC)

14:25 Results on light dark matter particles with a low threshold CRESST-II detector - Achim Gütlein (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

14:45 Update on Dark Matter constraints from CMB anisotropies - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

15:05 The formation of primordial black hole dark matter - Sam Young (University of Sussex)

15:25 Simulations of ultralight axion dark matter halos - Jens Niemeyer (Goettingen University)
Origin, evolution and signatures
Origin, evolution and signatures
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 Relaxing the limits on inflationary magnetogenesis - Christos Tsagas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

14:21 Relativistic chiral magnetohydrodynamics and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields - Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden University (NL)) Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

14:42 First numerical simulations of the chiral MHD dynamo effect - Jennifer Schober

15:03 Evolution of primordial magnetic fields - Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

15:24 MHD Turbulence and Particles - Andrey Beresnyak (Naval Research Laboratory)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 The quest for a stochastic background with LIGO/VIrgo GW detectors - Tania Regimbau (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)

14:21 Cosmic variance in the nanohertz gravitational wave background - Elinore Roebber (McGill University)

14:42 Gravitational Waves from a Dark Sector - Pedro Klaus Schwaller

15:03 Acoustically generated gravitational waves from thermal first order phase transitions - Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

15:24 Gravitational waves from a thermal first order phase transition: numerical simulations - David Weir (University of Stavanger)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 Highlights on massive winds from AGN - Massimo Cappi (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

14:22 High Energy flares of FSRQs - Luigi Pacciani (IAPS/INAF)

14:42 Relativistic Speeds and Transverse Velocity Structure on 50 kpc Scales in NGC6251 - Robert Laing (ESO)

15:02 The accretion-ejection connection in the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836-194 - Thomas Russell (ICRAR/Curtin University)

15:22 GRS 1915+105 and its spectral variability from the keV to the MeV band - Marek Nikolajuk (University of Bialystok)

15:42 Coeval observations of a complete sample of flat-spectrum blazars with Effelsberg, IRAM 30m, and Planck - Jörg Paul Rachen (IMAPP / Radboud University Nijmegen)
Millisecond pulsars
Millisecond pulsars
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 Millisecond pulsars: on their own, with a friend, or even two - Jason Hessels (University of Amsterdam)

14:30 THE YOUNG, RELATIVISTIC BINARY PULSAR J1906+0746 - Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON / U. Amsterdam)

14:55 Two new relativistic MSPs from the HTRU-North - Marina Berezina (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

15:15 Simultaneous X-ray and Radio observations of mode-switching radio pulsars PSR B0943+10 and PSR B1822-09 - Wim Hermsen (SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 General relativistic precession of orbits around the stellar-mass black hole in H 1743-322 - Adam Ingram (University of Amsterdam)

14:25 On the Detection of an Extreme Gravitationally Redshifted Fe-line constraining the Rotation of the Super-Massive Black Hole in Mrk 876 - Eugenio Bottacini (Stanford University)

14:47 The high energy variability of V404 Cygni during the June 2015 outburst - Lorenzo Natalucci (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, INAF)

15:12 Measuring the Innermost Stable Circular Orbits of Supermassive Black Holes - George Chartas (College of Charleston)

15:33 MHD Shocks in Accretion onto a Rotating Black Hole - Masaaki Takahashi (AIchi University of Education)

15:36 Accretion of a relativistic kinetic gas into a black hole - Paola Rioseco (IFM-UMICH)

15:39 Angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation in binaries with black hole - Dolunay Kocak (University of Ege) Kadri Yakut (University of EGE)

15:42 Quasi-periodic oscillations of perturbed tori - Varadarajan Parthasarathy (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
VHE observations
VHE observations
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 The H.E.S.S. Extragalactic Sky - Jill Chevalier (LAPP)

14:25 MAGIC latest results - Oscar Blanch (IFAE)

14:50 Recent Science Highlights from VERITAS - John Quinn (University College Dublin)

15:15 Exploring the TeV Universe with HAWC - Robert Lauer (University of New Mexico)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby
16:15
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 Consistent massive graviton on an arbitrary background - Laura BERNARD (Université de Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie)

16:35 Linear perturbations in massive bigravity: formalism and cosmology - Mariele Motta (University of Geneva)

16:55 Gravitational waves in a bigravity model: from inflation to present - Pietro Guarato (Université de Genève)

17:15 Dualities and Symmetries of Galileons - Johannes Noller (University of Oxford)

17:35 Quasi-scale invariant inflationary attractors - Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

17:55 Quasi-Static Solutions for Compact Objects in Chameleon Models - Ilia Musco (Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) - Observatoire de Paris)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

16:15 Indirect searches for dark matter in the gamma-ray sky with the Fermi LAT status and prospects - Johann Cohen-Tanugi (LUPM, Université de Montpellier & CNRS/IN2P3)

16:40 Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Emmanuel Moulin (CEA Saclay)

17:05 Dark matter ultracompact minihalos and the small-scale early Universe - Hamish Clark (University of Sydney)

17:30 Dark matter searches with antideuterons - Andrea Vittino (Universita' di Torino and INFN Torino)

17:50 Cosmic ray positrons and antiprotons: implications for Dark Matter - Mathieu Boudaud (LAPTh Annecy France)

18:10 Astrophysical backgrounds in antiproton searches for dark matter - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

18:30 The LZ Dark Matter detector - Bhawna Gomber (University of Wisconsin (US))

18:33 Axion as a cold dark matter candidate - Hyerim Noh (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)

18:36 Indirect Dark Matter searches with the ASTRI mini-array in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Saverio Lombardi (OAR-INAF, ASDC)

18:39 Quantum vacuum as the cause of the phenomena usually attributed to dark matter - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))

18:42 Warm dark matter cosmological structures - from collapse to caustics and cores - Sinziana Paduroiu (University of Geneva)
origin, evolution and signatures
origin, evolution and signatures
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 Novel Approaches for the Analysis of Extragalactic Magnetic Fields - Andrey Saveliev (University of Hamburg/Keldysh Institute)

16:35 Self-similar magnetic, turbulent and thermal energy evolution in massive galaxy clusters - Francesco Miniati (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

16:55 The Chiral Magnetic Effect and its Role in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Guenter Sigl (II. Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg)

17:15 Galactic magnetic field and uncon-ventional cosmic ray propagation - Dario Grasso (INFN)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 Late-time cosmology with eLISA - Nicola Tamanini (CEA - France)

16:35 Electromagnetic Emission from Compact Supermassive Black Hole Binaries - Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)

16:55 The fate of Super Massive Black Holes in galaxy mergers - Andres Escala (Universidad de Chile)

17:15 The underlying simplicity of precessing black-hole binaries - Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)

17:35 Accurate Phenomenological Waveform Models for Black Hole Coalescence in the Frequency Domain - Sascha Husa

17:55 Gravitational waveform from binary neutron star mergers: Numerical relativity and Effective-one body - Kenta Hotokezaka (Hebrew University)

18:15 Gravitational Wave Signals from 3D Neutrino Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae Hydrodynamics - Haakon Andresen (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Black Hole Jets from MRI-Generated Magnetic Fields - Kyle Parfrey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

16:36 New connection between plasma conditions near black hole event horizons and outflow properties - Karri Koljonen (New York University Abu Dhabi)

16:56 Jets and winds from super-critical accreting black holes - Roberto Soria (ICRAR-Curtin University)

17:17 Real-Time Evolution Of Relativistic Jets In Microquasars - Pedro Luis Luque-Escamilla (Universidad de Jaén)

17:38 Rapid variations of polarisation in X-ray binaries - Dave Russell

17:59 Stability of relativistic two-component jets - Dimitrios Millas (KU LEUVEN)

18:19 The Blandford-Znajek theory revisited - Luigi Foschini (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

18:22 Evolution of luminosity-linearsize relation for sources with steep radio spectrum - Alla Miroshnichenko (Institute of Radio Astronomy, NAS of Ukraine)
Millisecond pulsars
Millisecond pulsars
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 Formation of millisecond pulsars and double neutron stars - Thomas Tauris (Uni. Bonn)

16:45 Accretion and rotation power in ms pulsars - Alessandro Papitto (Space Science Institute Barcelona (ICE) CSIC-IEEC)

17:10 The peculiar X-ray variability of the transitional pulsar IGR J18245-2452 - Carlo Ferrigno (University of Geneva)

17:30 Simulations of the Magnetospheres of Accreting Millisecond Pulsars: Torque Enhancement, Spin Equilibrium, and Jet Power - Kyle Parfrey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:50 3FGL J1544.6-1125: radio imaging analysis of newest transitional millisecond pulsar - amruta jaodand (ASTRON- Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

18:05 Orbitally Modulated High-Energy Emission from Black Widows and Redbacks - Zorawar Wadiasingh (Centre for Space Research, North-West University)

18:20 On the low magnetic fields of millisecond pulsars - Marilyn Cruces (Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

18:35 Using millisecond pulsars to calibrate XMM/Newton onboard clock - Marilyn Cruces (Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 Rapid variability as a probe of warped space-time around accreting black holes - Magnus Axelsson

16:35 Approximation of relevant elliptical equations in the Schwarzschild metric and some astrophysical applications - Vittorio De Falco (University of Basel)

16:55 Frame dragging, unipolar induction and Kerr black hole magnetospheres - Isao Okamoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

17:15 Gaps in black holes magnetospheres - Ksenia Ptitsyna (INR Moscow, MSU Moscow, ISDC Geneve)

17:18 Can Black Holes Be Accelerators of Spinning Massive Particles? - Benjamin Koch (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

17:21 Comments on the Effect of Frame Dragging - Kadri Yakut (University of EGE) ismail özbakır

17:24 Hawking radiation cannot exist if quantum vacuum fluctuations are gravitational dipoles - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))
VHE observations
VHE observations
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:15 Extragalactic science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Lucie Gerard

16:40 The SST-1M Project of the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Physics Perspectives - Matthieu Heller (Universite de Geneve (CH))

17:00 ASTRI SST-2M prototype and ASTRI mini-array data analysis and scientific prospects in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Saverio Lombardi (OAR-INAF, ASDC)

17:20 Multiwavelength Spectral and Polarization Signatures of Shocks in Relativistic Jets - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)

17:45 Time-dependent Pair Halo Emission from Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources - Foteini Oikonomou
20:30 Symposium dinner
Symposium dinner
20:30 - 00:00
Thursday, 17 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 IceCube and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos - Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)

09:35 The gamma-ray Universe - Jim Hinton (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

10:10 Cosmic ray acceleration and transport - Pasquale Blasi (INAF)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 Lest we forget - Virginia Trimble (University of California Irvine)

11:40 Award ceremony - Virginia Trimble (University of California Irvine)

11:50 Magnetars: the Universe strongest magnets - Nanda Rea (University of Amsterdam/CSIC-IEEC)

12:10 Towards a unified model for the gamma-ray burst prompt emission & a new luminosity-hardness relation for cosmology - Sylvain Guiriec (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / UMD / CRESST)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 Merger of binary neutron stars: Gravitational waves and mass ejection - Masaru Shibata (Kyoto University)

14:21 Magnetar formation from the merger of binary neutron stars - Bruno Giacomazzo

14:42 Effect of Equation of State on Magnetized Binary Neutron Star Mergers - Takumu Kawamura (University of Trento)

15:03 Rotation profile of neutron star merger remnants - Wolfgang Kastaun (Trento University)

15:24 A Hamiltonian approach to relativistic fluid dynamics and binary inspiral - Charalampos Markakis (University of Southampton)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Recent Developments on X-ray Signals from Dark Matter Decay in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters - Jeroen Franse (Leiden University)

14:21 Unveiling the self-coupling of dark matter with galaxy clusters - David Richard Harvey (EPFL - EPF Lausanne)

14:42 Multimessenger searches for WIMPs with suppressed interactions - Thomas David Jacques (Universite de Geneve (CH))

15:03 Non linear evolution of BAO and IR - resummation - Mikhail Ivanov (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

15:24 Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey - Adam Amara (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 Dynamics of compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation - Laura BERNARD (IAP)

14:20 A new instability to black-hole spin precession - Davide Gerosa (University of Cambridge)

14:40 Saturation of the f-mode instability in neutron stars - Pantelis Pnigouras

15:00 Gravitational wave attenuation through interactions with charged particles - Joseph Avenoso (The College of New Jersey) Tyler Viducic (The College of New Jersey)

15:03 Search of the primordial gravitational waves with Very Long Baseline Interferometry - Oleg Titov (Geoscience Australia)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 How the observational quantities of strong gravitational lens effect depend on BH's mass and spin - Hiromi Saida (Daido University)

14:21 The future for strong gravitational lensing - R. Benton Metcalf (Univerity of Bologna)

14:42 Search for lensed QSOs in the OGLE survey - Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska

15:03 Weak lensing mass map in DECaLS DR1 survey - Huanyuan Shan (EPFL)

15:24 CMB lensing - galaxy cross-correlations - Yuuki Omori (McGill University)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - rebels of the AGN family - Emilia Järvelä (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory)

14:20 Unveiling the parent population of beamed narrow-line Seyfert 1s - Marco Berton (University of Padova - Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei")

14:40 Broad-band properties of flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - Luigi Foschini (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

15:00 Quasi-periodic oscillations from relativistic hydrodynamical slender tori - Antonis Manousakis Bhupendra Mishra (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw Poland) Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

15:03 Quasi-Periodic Oscillations are more than just frequencies - Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

15:06 QPOs and Lense-Thirring precession - Rebecca Nealon (Monash University)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 Examining Accretion Disk Properties of Sgr A* Via Stellar Wind Interactions - Ian Christie (Purdue University)

14:21 Reconstruction of the past history of the center of our Galaxy through X-Ray reflection spectra simulations. - Michael Walls (DCU)

14:42 Diffuse emissions from radio through microwaves to gamma rays - Elena Orlando (Stanford University)

15:03 NuSTAR Discovery of Galactic Center Hard X-ray Emission - Kerstin Perez

15:24 Origin of the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre - Denys Malyshev (University of Geneva)
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 Correlated neutrino and photon emission during γ-ray flares from the blazar Mrk 421 - Maria Petropoulou (Purdue University)

14:25 Diagnose the Sources of IceCube Neutrinos with Fermi Observation - Zhuo Li (Peking University)

14:45 Searches for ultra-high energy neutrinos and photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Foteini Oikonomou

15:05 Recent results from the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope - Daniele VIVOLO (INFN Napoli)

15:25 Exploring the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Sergio Petrera (University of L'Aquila)
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Michael Daniel (University of Liverpool)

14:24 The e-ASTROGAM mission - Vincent Tatischeff (CSNSM, CNRS)

14:43 Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instrument onboard ASTROSAT - J S Yadav (Tata Institute of Fundamental Reaserch)

15:06 XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer - Paolo Soffitta (IAPS/INAF)

15:25 The X-ray Integral Field Unit for the second large class ESA mission Athena - Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby

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16:15 - 18:45
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 CAFE: A relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics code - Alejandro Cruz Osorio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

16:35 Simulating the start of inflation from inhomogeneous initial conditions - William East (Stanford University)

16:55 Critical Collapse of Radiation Fluids: Deviations from Spherical Symmetry - Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin College)

17:15 Evolution of a self-gravitating spherical massless scalar field on compactified constant mean curvature hypersurfaces - Manuel David Morales (Instituto de Física y Matemáticas - Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo)

17:35 Black hole mimickers - Daniela Perez (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia)

17:55 The nature of trapping horizons in collapses forming black holes - Ilia Musco (Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) - Observatoire de Paris)

18:15 Asymptotic evolution of Robinson-Trautman spacetimes - Alberto Saa (UNICAMP)
Pulsar Timing Array
Pulsar Timing Array
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 Gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes missing in pulsar observations - Stefan Oslowski (Bielefeld University / MPIfR Bonn)

16:36 Status of the European Pulsar Timing Array - Gregory Desvignes

16:57 Search for continuous gravitational wave in EPTA dataset - Antoine Lassus (Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie)

17:19 Limits on the amplitude of the nanohertz gravitational wave Universe from the European Pulsar Timing Array - Lindley Lentati (Cambridge University)

17:41 Lessons on massive black hole binaries from pulsar timing arrays - Alberto Sesana (University of Birmingham)

18:03 Constraining the energy scale of cosmic strings with PTAs - Sotiris Sanidas (University of Amsterdam)

18:25 Pulsar timing detection of gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries in stellar environment - Alexander Rasskazov
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 Where are the baryons? - Dominique Eckert (University of Geneva)

16:35 A direct measurement of tomographic lensing power spectra from CFHTLenS - Fabian Köhlinger

16:55 Gravitational microlensing as a probe for dark matter - Vitalii Sliusar (Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

17:15 Test of relativistic gravity using the microlensing of broad iron line in quasars - Ievgen Vovk

17:35 Gravitational lensing flexion measurements in the Hubble Frontier Fields - Markus Rexroth (EPFL - EPF Lausanne)

17:38 Effects of the second-order vector mode on weak lensing signals - Shohei Saga (Naogya university)

17:41 Black Holes, Neutron Stars and White Dwarf Candidates from Microlensing with OGLE-III - Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)

17:44 How to use geodetic VLBI to measure relativistic light deflection from extragalactic objects - Oleg Titov
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Resistive GRMHD simulations of accretion disks around Kerr black holes: connecting large and small scales - Matteo Bugli (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

16:36 Three dimensional global General Relativistic Radiative Magnetohydrodynamical simulations to test stability of thin disk around black hole - Bhupendra Mishra (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw Poland)

16:57 Accretion disk around a super-Eddington accreting neutron star - Anna Chashkina (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku)

17:18 Structure of magnetized transonic accretion disks - Pavel Abolmasov (University of Turku)

17:38 Thick tori and flows around rotating boson stars - Zakaria Meliani (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)

17:59 Transient dynamics of vortices in relativistic regions of accretion disks around black holes. - Viacheslav Zhuravlev

18:19 Astrophysical Boundary Layers: A New Picture - Mikhail Belyaev (UC Berkeley/TAC)

18:39 A curved jet model for the synchrotron emission of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113. - Antonio Stamerra (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy)

18:42 Spectral Analysis of ULXs in Pairs of Interacting Galaxies M51 and NGC 4485/90 Using Swift-XRT - Lis Sulistiyowati (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 Fermi Bubbles as a probes of Galactic halo environment - Dmitriy Chernyshov (Lebedev's Institute of Physics, Moscow, Russia)

16:35 Disrupted globular clusters explain gamma ray excess in the Galactic center - Bence Kocsis (Eötvös University)

16:55 Imaging a boson star at Sgr A* - Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

17:15 The Radio Evolution of the Galactic Center Magnetar - Joseph D Gelfand

17:35 Proposed Laboratory Simulation of Galactic Positron In-Flight Annihilation in Atomic Hydrogen - Benjamin Brown (Marquette University)
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:15 Study of the galactic cosmic ray energy spectrum with the ARGO-YBJ experiment - Antonio Surdo (INFN - Lecce (IT))

16:35 The universal model of cosmic ray production - Jörg Paul Rachen (IMAPP / Radboud University Nijmegen)

16:55 Theoretical uncertainties in extracting cosmic ray diffusion parameters: the boron to carbon ratio - yoann genolini (LAPTh)

17:15 Escape model: CR composition and diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

17:35 A Uniformly Selected, All-Sky Optical AGN Catalog for UHECR Correlation - Ingyin Zaw (NYU Abu Dhabi)
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 The Galactic Center - a unique laboratory for relativity - Stefan Gillessen (Max Planck Inst fur Extraterrestrische Physik)

16:35 Space astrometry with Gaia and relativistic astrophysics - Sergei Klioner (Lohrmann Observatorium, Technische Universitaet Dresden)

16:55 Relativistic Astrophysics with ALMA - Robert Laing (ESO)

17:15 The Square Kilometre Array Observatory: Prospects for Relativistic Astrophysics - Robert Braun (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank Observatory)

17:35 The Large European Array for Pulsars: a leap of the EPTA for gravitational wave detection - Kuo Liu (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy)

17:55 The MICROSCOPE mission ready to test the Equivalence Principle in space - Joel Berge (ONERA)

18:15 The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) Facility onboard China's Future Space Station - Ming Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

18:25 Project QVADIS: Testing the existence of the gravitational anomalies by the study of trans-Neptunian binaries - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))

18:35 Testing varying speed of light cosmologies in future experiments. - Mariusz Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
Friday, 18 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 ESA gravitational wave observatory, eLISA and LISA Pathfinder - Stefano Vitale (University of Trento)

09:35 Exact solutions in astrophysics - Mustapha Ishak (The University of Texas at Dallas)

10:10 Exploring gravity in the strong field regime with high throughput X-ray measurements - Luigi Stella (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 Heading into the abyss: X-ray spectral timing of accreting black holes - Andrew Fabian (University of Cambridge)

11:55 Disks and jets - Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Uiversity of California Berkeley)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant

14:00 Highlights and conclusions
Highlights and conclusions
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2

15:30 Texas 2015 & Nepal
Texas 2015 & Nepal
15:30 - 15:35
Room: Level 0, Room 2
15:35 Texas 2017 - Cape Town - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)
Texas 2017 - Cape Town
- Markus Boettcher (North-West University)
15:35 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
15:45 Coffee break and farewell
Coffee break and farewell
15:45 - 16:30
Room: Level 0, Lobby