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

28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

from Sunday, December 13, 2015 (4:00 PM) to Friday, December 18, 2015 (5:10 PM)

Monday, December 7, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015

Monday, December 14, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
9:00 AM Welcome opening
Welcome opening
9:00 AM - 9:35 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM Introduction

9:07 AM Welcome address by the Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva - Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva)

9:15 AM Einstein's Swiss Years - Jan Lacki (University of Geneva)
9:35 AM
9:35 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:35 AM First hundred years of GR: successes, status and prospects - Thanu Padmanabhan (ICAA Pune)

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

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

11:55 AM CMB spectral distortions - Rashid Sunyaev
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

2:00 PM Thermal emission in GRB 101219B - Josefin Larsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

2:21 PM Fitting gamma-ray burst prompt emission spectra with a model for subphotospheric dissipation - Björn Ahlgren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

2:42 PM Signs of magnetic acceleration and multi-zone emission in GRB 080825C - Elena Moretti (MPI Munich)

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

3:24 PM GRB polarization with the POLAR detector. - Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH))
HMXB
HMXB
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

2:00 PM Multi-wavelength variability of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 along the super-orbital period - Diego Torres (ICREA / Institute of Space Sciences)

2:26 PM Interacting pulsar winds in X-ray and gamma-ray binaries - Guillaume DUBUS (IPAG CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes)

2:52 PM The gamma-ray monitoring of newly discovered Be/BH binary system MWC 656 - Pere Munar-Adrover (INAF-IAPS)

3:18 PM Making the Heaviest Elemens in the Universe - Friedrich Thielemann (University of Basel)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM The POLARBEAR experiment probing the cosmic microwave background polarization - Davide Poletti

2:25 PM The Quijote experiment: project overview and first results - Ricardo Génova Santos (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

2:45 PM CMB spectral distortions: energy release versus photon injection - Jens Chluba (Institute of Astronomy)

3:05 PM Cosmology with the Planck all-sky Compton parameter map - Juan Francisco Macias-Perez (LPSC)

3:25 PM High-resolution SZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA ath the IRAM 30-m telescope - Frédéric MAYET (CNRS)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

2:00 PM Exotic Rotational Correlations in Emergent Quantum Geometry - Craig Hogan (U. Chicago and Fermilab)

2:21 PM Creation of Emergent Universe with Wormholes - Dr. Bikash Chandra PAUL (University of North Bengal)

2:42 PM A Cyclic Universe alternatively dominated by matter and antimatter - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology)

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

3:24 PM Born-Infeldizing gravity - Lavinia Heisenberg (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

2:00 PM Modelling inhomogeneous cosmologies with Numerical Relativity - Eloisa Bentivegna (Università degli Studi di Catania)

2:21 PM 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)

2:42 PM Backrection of voids in a Friedman background with constant w equation of state. - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

3:03 PM Lense-Thirring precession in strong gravitational fields - Chandrachur Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai , INDIA)

3:24 PM Inhomogeneous conformally flat models of the universe - Mariusz Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

2:00 PM H.E.S.S. Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Nukri Komin (Wits University)

2:20 PM Galactic Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Thierry Stolarczyk (IRFU/SAp,CEA Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

2:45 PM Modeling Bright Gamma-ray and Radio Emission from Fast Cloud Shocks at Middle-aged SNRs - Shiu Hang (Herman) Lee (ISAS/JAXA)

3:05 PM Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray loud binaries - Maria Chernyakova (DCU)

3:25 PM Particle acceleration in Eta Carinae: the expected and unexpected - Matteo Balbo (Université de Genève)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

2:00 PM A relativistic approach to large-scale structure - David Wands (University of Portsmouth)

2:21 PM Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the matter density fluctuation - Jaiyul Yoo (University of Zurich)

2:42 PM Relativistic effects with cross-correlations - Enea Di Dio (OATs-INAF)

3:03 PM Probing violations of slow-roll inflation at the largest observable scales with future galaxy surveys - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

3:24 PM Tomographic lensing constraints with galaxy clustering - Francesco Montanari (Universite de Geneve (CH))
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

2:00 PM High redshift BAO from BOSS to eBOSS - Timothée Delubac (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

2:27 PM Tracing dark energy with quasars. - Justyna Średzińska (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PAS)

2:53 PM Measuring cosmological parameters with GRBs: status and perspectives - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

3:19 PM The m-z relation for type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter - Phillip Helbig (*)
3:45 PM Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

4:15 PM Using Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes - Rob Preece (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

4:35 PM Shedding light on the early Universe with THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

4:55 PM An External Shock Origin of GRB 141028A - J. Michael Burgess (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

5:15 PM Signs of Blandford & Znajek mechanism in GRB afterglow lightcurves. - Antonio Nathanail

5:35 PM Constraining emission mechanisms in gamma-ray bursts using spectral width - Magnus Axelsson

5:55 PM Study of GRB light curve decay indices in the afterglow phase - Roberta Del Vecchio (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)

5:58 PM Observed properties of high redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts - Graziella Pizzichini (INAF)

6:01 PM 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
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

4:15 PM Swift and the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient outburst factory - Patrizia Romano (INAF)

4:40 PM High-mass X-ray binary systems through the eyes of INTEGRAL - Alexander Lutovinov (Space Research Institute)

5:05 PM Vela X-1 and sgHMXB: hydro driven hard X-rays - Antonis Manousakis

5:25 PM Correlation study of spectral parameters of NS-HMXBs with Suzaku - Pragati Pradhan (St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India & North Bengal University, Siliguri, India)

5:45 PM Orbital resolved spectroscopy of GX 301-2 with MAXI - Nazma Islam (Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)

6:05 PM Broadband study of X-Per using Suzaku observations - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

6:20 PM 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)

6:24 PM Blowing in the wind : accretion in high mass X-ray binaries - Ileyk EL MELLAH (Paris 7 Diderot - APC laboratory)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

4:15 PM Dark matter decay and cosmic reionization - Isabel Oldengott (Universität Bielefeld)

4:35 PM Is there evidence for anisotropy in CMB data? - Daniela Saadeh (University College London)

4:55 PM 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)

5:15 PM Cosmological constraints on the neutron lifetime - Laura Salvati (University of Rome, Sapienza)

5:35 PM UV sensitivity of Higgs inflation - Jacopo Fumagalli (Nikhef)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

4:15 PM On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation - Andrey Shkerin (EPFL)

4:35 PM A stiff Higgstory of the Universe - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)

4:55 PM Parametric resonance after hilltop inflation caused by an inhomogeneous inflaton field - Francesco Cefalà (University of Basel)

5:15 PM Preheating after hilltop inflation - Stefano Orani (Basel University)

5:35 PM The Cosmic Laboratory: Probing Inflation with Galaxy Clustering - Roland de Putter

5:55 PM The Effective Strength of Gravity and the scale of Inflation - Subodh Patil

6:15 PM Implications of the primordial power asymmetry for inflation - Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB))
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

4:15 PM First-order cosmological perturbations engendered by point-like masses: all scales covered - Maxim Eingorn

4:35 PM On homogeneous and isotropic universe - Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)

4:55 PM Covariant Perturbations of the Scalar-Tensor Schwarzschild Black Hole - Geraint Pratten (University of Sussex)

5:15 PM Confronting anisotropic cosmological models with real-time cosmology - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)

5:35 PM High-precision cosmology and inhomogeneities: exact results in the geodesic light-cone gauge - Giuseppe Fanizza (Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro")

5:55 PM Discussion session on averaging and backreaction in cosmology
Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

4:15 PM Pulsar observations with the MAGIC telescopes - Takayuki Saito (Kyoto University)

4:35 PM The intriguing double torus-jet PWN around PSR J0855-4644 - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

4:55 PM A Pulsar Wind Nebula Origin for Luminous TeV Source HESS J1640-465 - Joseph D Gelfand

5:15 PM First-order Fermi acceleration at pulsar wind termination shock. - Simone Giacche` (Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

5:35 PM Rapid particle acceleration at perpendicular shocks - John Kirk

5:55 PM Kinetic simulations of relativistic harmonic magnetic equilibria - Krzysztof Nalewajko (Stanford University)

6:15 PM Multipolar electromagnetic fields around neutron stars: exact vacuum solutions and related properties. - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

4:15 PM Cosmological nonlinear density and velocity power spectra - Jai-chan Hwang (Kyunpook National Univ.)

4:35 PM General Relativity and Cosmic Structure Formation - Julian Adamek (Université de Genève)

4:55 PM Large Scale Structure with interacting Vacuum: the non-linear regime in the post-Friedman approximation - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

5:15 PM One-dimensional models of cosmological perturbations: direct integration in the Fourier space - Vitalii Sliusar (Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

5:35 PM TSPT: Time-Sliced Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL & INR RAS)

5:55 PM Precision measurement of the local bias of dark matter halos - Titouan Lazeyras (MPA)

6:15 PM Supercluster straightness as a cosmological test - Junsup Shim (Seoul National University)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

4:15 PM Using Atom Interferometry to Detect Chameleon Dark Energy - Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)

4:40 PM Causality in theories with more than one metric - Ignacy Leonard Sawicki (University of Geneva)

5:05 PM Dark energy as a fixed point of the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs Equations - Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

5:29 PM Non-local gravity and comparison with observational datasets - Yves Dirian (University of Geneva)

5:53 PM Viability of a quintessence model with inverse power law potential as a dark energy candidate - Erick Jonathan Almaraz Aviña (Instituto de Física / UNAM)

5:56 PM Constraints on a DE parametrization using BAO and Forecasting for future surveys - Mariana Jaber (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

5:59 PM Force sensor for chameleon a candidate for dark energy - attaallah almasi (vu university of amsterdam)

6:02 PM Exploring the consequences of parameter values in cosmological models with CosmoEJS, an interactive package of cosmology Java simulations - Jacob Moldenhauer (University of Dallas)

6:05 PM Testing the dark sector interaction by using the isolated galaxy pairs from SDSS DR10 - Hanwool Koo (Seoul National University)

6:08 PM 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))

6:12 PM Primordial perturbations in a bouncing Universe with quintessence - Anna Paula Bacalhau (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

6:15 PM Refinements of Jungle Universes - Alicia Simon-Petit (Applied Mathematics Laboratory, ENSTA ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay)
Tuesday, December 15, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM A unifying description of dark energy - David LANGLOIS (CNRS)

9:35 AM Dark matter detection - an experimental overview - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

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

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

11:55 AM Status of the Advanced Virgo project - Fulvio Ricci (University of Rome La Sapienza and INFN Sez. Roma)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

2:00 PM Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers: the time-reversal scenario - Riccardo Ciolfi (University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

2:21 PM Electromagnetic emission from long-lived binary neutron star merger remnants - Daniel Siegel (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

2:42 PM Dynamical mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binaries - Koutarou Kyutoku (RIKEN)

3:03 PM Fast luminous blue transients from newborn black holes - Kazumi Kashiyama (University of California, Berkeley)
ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

2:00 PM The ultraluminous pulsar - Matteo Bachetti (INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

2:25 PM Across the Eddington boundary: examining disc spectra at high accretion rates - Andrew Sutton (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

2:50 PM Sub-Eddington accretion in neutron star X-ray binaries - Rudy Wijnands (University of Amsterdam)

3:20 PM NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observation of SAX J1808.4-3658 during the latest outburst - Tiziana Di Salvo (University of Palermo)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

2:00 PM XMM-Newton's impact on Relativistic Astrophysics: Black Holes - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

2:21 PM Relativistic tidal disruption events: what do we learn from their rate distribution? - Immacolata Donnarumma (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

2:42 PM Un-Beamed Tidal Disruption Events at Hard X-Rays - Krzysztof Hryniewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre)

3:02 PM IGR J17361-4441: a possible planetary tidal disruption event in NGC 6388 - Melania Del Santo (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

3:22 PM Relativistic line reverberation mapping in tidal disruption events - Wenfei Yu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

3:42 PM Tidal disruption events induced by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism - Naoki Seto
Pulsars
Pulsars
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

2:00 PM Numerical Models For Superfluid Neutron Stars With Realistic Equation Of State And Application To Pulsar Glitches - Aurélien Sourie (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

2:21 PM Multi-scale modelling of pulsar glitches - Brynmor Haskell (The University of Melbourne)

2:42 PM The role of general relativity and reconnection in pulsar radiation - Benoit Cerutti (Princeton University)

3:02 PM The shape of a pulsar radio beam: fan beams, not the nested cones. - Jaroslaw Dyks (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

3:22 PM A new view on the Lighthouse Nebula, IGR J11014-6103 - Lucia Pavan (University of Geneva)

3:42 PM A model for distortions of polarisation angle in radio pulsars - Lab Saha (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Torun, Poland)
Probes
Probes
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

2:00 PM Cosmic magnetic fields and ways of probing them - Philipp Kronberg (University of Toronto)

2:25 PM Galactic magnetic fields - Andrew Fletcher

2:45 PM Probing the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields by means of high-energy pair halos around extreme blazars - PAOLO DA VELA (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

3:05 PM Lower limits on the magnetic field strength in the early universe - Reinhard Schlickeiser (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

3:25 PM The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars - Philip Chang
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

2:00 PM Joint Constraints on Neutrino Masses from Cosmology and Particle Physics - Martina Gerbino (University of Rome 'Sapienza')

2:21 PM Clustering, lensing, and ISW-RS from the DEMNUni neutrino simulations - Carmelita Carbone (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

2:42 PM Simulating the effect of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure - Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins University)

3:03 PM Neutrino masses and cosmology with Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum - Christophe Yeche

3:24 PM Massive neutrinos and their effect on the large scale structure of the Universe - Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (OATS-INAF)
Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM Probing the Extragalactic Background Light with VERITAS - Elisa Kay Pueschel (University College Dublin)

2:21 PM 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)

2:42 PM Very fast TeV gamma-ray variability from the non-aligned AGN IC 310: Insight into Black Hole Lightnings - Pierre Colin (MPI fuer Physik)

3:03 PM A bright gamma-ray flare from the blazar B2 1215+30 detected by VERITAS and Fermi-LAT - Floriana Zefi (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)

3:24 PM Non-thermal particle acceleration in astrophysical shear flows. - Frank Rieger (MPIK and Univ. of Heidelberg)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

2:00 PM Planck 2015 results on Dark Energy and Modified Gravity - Matteo Martinelli (ITP, Heidelberg)

2:26 PM Tensions Between CMB and Weak Lensing Data Sets when Testing General Relativity - Jason Dossett (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

2:53 PM Constraints on induced gravity dark energy models - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

3:19 PM Cold dark energy and cosmological parameter estimation - Caroline Heneka (Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen)
3:45 PM Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Level 0, Lobby

4:15 PM .
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4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

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

4:35 PM 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)

4:55 PM Presence of a third body orbiting around XB 1916-053. - Rosario Iaria (Univ. di Palermo - DSFC)

5:15 PM Missing hard states and regular outbursts: the puzzling case of the BHC 4U 1630–472 - Fiamma Capitanio (IAPS-INAF)

5:35 PM Glitches and anti-glitches in accreting pulsars: expected properties and observability - Lorenzo Ducci (University of Tuebingen)

5:51 PM Understanding supernova kicks and black-hole spins in Galactic X-ray binaries - Anastasios Fragkos (University of Geneva)

6:08 PM Angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation in x-ray binaries with neutron stars - Kadri Yakut (University of EGE) Tuğçe İÇLİ
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

4:15 PM 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))

4:40 PM How accreting black holes may shape their surroundings through AGN feedback - Wako Ishibashi (ETH Zurich)

5:00 PM Direct formation of supermassive black holes; from mergers of protogalaxies to global relativistic collapse - Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

5:20 PM Cosmological mass transport on galactic nuclei and the formation of high redshift quasars. - andres escala (Universidad de chile)

5:40 PM Does the obscured AGN fraction really depend on luminosity? - Sergey Sazonov (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia)

6:00 PM Mildly obscured active galaxies and the diffuse X-ray background - Valentino Esposito

6:20 PM Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Contributions in the Central Parsec of NGC 4945 - Ingyin Zaw (NYU Abu Dhabi)

6:23 PM 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)

6:26 PM The high energy spectrum of 3C 273 - Valentino Esposito
Pulsars
Pulsars
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

4:15 PM Progress on the knowledge of magnetic fields in neutron stars - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

4:35 PM General-relativistic pulsars magnetospheres - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)

4:55 PM Relativistic pulsar winds: structure, shocks, reconnection. - Maxim Lyutikov

5:15 PM PICsar: Particle in Cell Pulsar Simulations - Mikhail Belyaev (UC Berkeley/TAC)

5:35 PM 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)

5:55 PM The Crab pulsar: Examining its profile and deriving high precision X-ray ephemerides - Guillaume Belanger (ESA)
Probes
Probes
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

4:15 PM Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields from Planck 2015 - Daniela Paoletti (INAF and INFN)

4:35 PM Prospects of constraining primordial magnetic fields using their effects on CMB, LSS and ionization history - Kerstin Kunze (University of Salamanca)

4:55 PM Primordial Magnetism in CMB - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)

5:15 PM Parity odd CMB power spectrum via helical magnetic field. - Hector Javier Hortua (Universidad Nacional)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

4:15 PM Constraining non-standard neutrino scenarios with Planck 2015 - Massimiliano Lattanzi (University of Ferrara)

4:36 PM Sterile neutrinos with secret interactions - Maria Archidiacono

4:57 PM Constraining sterile neutrinos with lyman alpha forest - Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

5:18 PM A loophole to the electromagnetic cascade theory : Solving the lithium problem with a sterile neutrino. - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

5:39 PM The effective number of neutrinos: standard and non-standard calculations - Pablo Fernández de Salas (IFIC - CSIC/Universidad de Valencia)

6:00 PM Higher-order massive neutrino perturbations in large-scale structure - Florian Führer (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

6:20 PM Neutrinos beyond the linear regime: a new theoretical approach - Hélène DUPUY

6:40 PM Decoherence of cosmological massive neutrinos - Daniel Boriero

6:43 PM Joint constraints on neutrino mass and number of effective neutrino species from cosmology - Graziano Rossi (Sejong University)
Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

4:35 PM FACT: Monitoring TeV Blazars with Silicon Photomultipliers - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

4:55 PM MWL characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 by MAGIC during its brightest outburst - Marina Manganaro (IAC)

5:15 PM 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)

5:35 PM Flat spectrum radio quasars at very high energies: the new detection of PKS 1441+25 - Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (NASA GSFC)

5:55 PM Evidence for quasi-periodic modulation in the gamma-ray blazar PG 1553+113 - Antonio Stamerra (INAF-OATo / SNS-Pisa)

6:15 PM Multi-wavelength observations on the gamma-ray periodic blazar PG1553+113 - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

6:35 PM The long-term optical study of VHE blazars - Omar Kurtanidze (Abastumani Observatory)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

4:15 PM 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)

4:35 PM 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)

4:55 PM Searching for new short-range forces using optically levitated microspheres - David Moore (Stanford University)

5:25 PM The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings - Jurgen Mifsud (Consortium for Fundamental Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield)

5:45 PM Lorentz violation in gravity - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)

6:10 PM 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)

6:13 PM 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))

6:16 PM Varying constants entropic cosmology - Hussain Gohar (University of Szczecin, Poland)

6:19 PM Kaluza-Klein cosmological model in $f(R,T)$ gravity with $\Lambda(T) - Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

6:22 PM A Palatini formalism for MOND in $f(\chi)$ gravity - Ernesto Barrientos Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

6:25 PM Anisotropic Spherically Symmetric Collapsing Star From Higher Order Derivative Gravity Theory - Hossein Ghaffarnejad (Semnan University of IRAN)
7:30 PM
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Auditoire Piaget (U600)
Contributions

7:30 PM Einstein’s legacy: 100 years of general relativity - Michael KRAMER (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)
Wednesday, December 16, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM Making waves: modeling gravitational waves from coalescing binary systems - Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)

9:35 AM Rattle and shine by compact binaries mergers - Luis Lehner (Perimeter Institute)

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

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

11:55 AM The LHC and the Universe - Gian Giudice (CERN)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
2:00 PM 05 - Dark matter
05 - Dark matter
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

2:00 PM Analysis update to the 2013 data from the Large Underground Xenon project - Wing To (SLAC)

2:25 PM Results on light dark matter particles with a low threshold CRESST-II detector - Achim Gütlein (Austrian Academy of Sciences)

2:45 PM Update on Dark Matter constraints from CMB anisotropies - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

3:05 PM The formation of primordial black hole dark matter - Sam Young (University of Sussex)

3:25 PM Simulations of ultralight axion dark matter halos - Jens Niemeyer (Goettingen University)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

2:00 PM Highlights on massive winds from AGN - Massimo Cappi (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

2:22 PM High Energy flares of FSRQs - Luigi Pacciani (IAPS/INAF)

2:42 PM Relativistic Speeds and Transverse Velocity Structure on 50 kpc Scales in NGC6251 - Robert Laing (ESO)

3:02 PM The accretion-ejection connection in the Galactic black hole candidate X-ray binary MAXI J1836-194 - Thomas Russell (ICRAR/Curtin University)

3:22 PM GRS 1915+105 and its spectral variability from the keV to the MeV band - Marek Nikolajuk (University of Bialystok)

3:42 PM 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
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

2:00 PM Millisecond pulsars: on their own, with a friend, or even two - Jason Hessels (University of Amsterdam)

2:30 PM THE YOUNG, RELATIVISTIC BINARY PULSAR J1906+0746 - Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON / U. Amsterdam)

2:55 PM Two new relativistic MSPs from the HTRU-North - Marina Berezina (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

3:15 PM 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)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

2:00 PM General relativistic precession of orbits around the stellar-mass black hole in H 1743-322 - Adam Ingram (University of Amsterdam)

2:25 PM 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)

2:47 PM The high energy variability of V404 Cygni during the June 2015 outburst - Lorenzo Natalucci (Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali, INAF)

3:12 PM Measuring the Innermost Stable Circular Orbits of Supermassive Black Holes - George Chartas (College of Charleston)

3:33 PM MHD Shocks in Accretion onto a Rotating Black Hole - Masaaki Takahashi (AIchi University of Education)

3:36 PM Accretion of a relativistic kinetic gas into a black hole - Paola Rioseco (IFM-UMICH)

3:39 PM Angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation in binaries with black hole - Dolunay Kocak (University of Ege) Kadri Yakut (University of EGE)

3:42 PM Quasi-periodic oscillations of perturbed tori - Varadarajan Parthasarathy (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

2:00 PM The quest for a stochastic background with LIGO/VIrgo GW detectors - Tania Regimbau (Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur)

2:21 PM Cosmic variance in the nanohertz gravitational wave background - Elinore Roebber (McGill University)

2:42 PM Gravitational Waves from a Dark Sector - Pedro Klaus Schwaller

3:03 PM Acoustically generated gravitational waves from thermal first order phase transitions - Mark Hindmarsh (University of Sussex)

3:24 PM Gravitational waves from a thermal first order phase transition: numerical simulations - David Weir (University of Stavanger)
Origin, evolution and signatures
Origin, evolution and signatures
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

2:00 PM Relaxing the limits on inflationary magnetogenesis - Christos Tsagas (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

2:21 PM Relativistic chiral magnetohydrodynamics and evolution of cosmological magnetic fields - Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden University (NL)) Oleg Ruchayskiy (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

2:42 PM First numerical simulations of the chiral MHD dynamo effect - Jennifer Schober

3:03 PM Evolution of primordial magnetic fields - Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

3:24 PM MHD Turbulence and Particles - Andrey Beresnyak (Naval Research Laboratory)
VHE observations
VHE observations
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM The H.E.S.S. Extragalactic Sky - Jill Chevalier (LAPP)

2:25 PM MAGIC latest results - Oscar Blanch (IFAE)

2:50 PM Recent Science Highlights from VERITAS - John Quinn (University College Dublin)

3:15 PM Exploring the TeV Universe with HAWC - Robert Lauer (University of New Mexico)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

2:00 PM Aspects of infrared non-local modifications of General Relativity - Giulia Cusin (University of Geneva)

2:21 PM Beyond General Relativity: The Geometric Deformation and New Black Hole Solutions - Jorge Ovalle (Simon Bolivar University)

2:43 PM Linearly shielded modifications of gravity - Lucas Lombriser (University of Edinburgh)

3:04 PM Initial conditions for simulations of arbitrary modified gravity, beyond quasi-static approximations - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)
3:45 PM Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

4:15 PM 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)

4:40 PM Dark matter and fundamental physics with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Emmanuel Moulin (CEA Saclay)

5:05 PM Dark matter ultracompact minihalos and the small-scale early Universe - Hamish Clark (University of Sydney)

5:30 PM Dark matter searches with antideuterons - Andrea Vittino (Universita' di Torino and INFN Torino)

5:50 PM Cosmic ray positrons and antiprotons: implications for Dark Matter - Mathieu Boudaud (LAPTh Annecy France)

6:10 PM Astrophysical backgrounds in antiproton searches for dark matter - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

6:30 PM The LZ Dark Matter detector - Bhawna Gomber (University of Wisconsin (US))

6:33 PM Axion as a cold dark matter candidate - Hyerim Noh (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)

6:36 PM Indirect Dark Matter searches with the ASTRI mini-array in the framework of the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Saverio Lombardi (OAR-INAF, ASDC)

6:39 PM Quantum vacuum as the cause of the phenomena usually attributed to dark matter - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))

6:42 PM Warm dark matter cosmological structures - from collapse to caustics and cores - Sinziana Paduroiu (University of Geneva)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

4:15 PM Black Hole Jets from MRI-Generated Magnetic Fields - Kyle Parfrey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

4:36 PM New connection between plasma conditions near black hole event horizons and outflow properties - Karri Koljonen (New York University Abu Dhabi)

4:56 PM Jets and winds from super-critical accreting black holes - Roberto Soria (ICRAR-Curtin University)

5:17 PM Real-Time Evolution Of Relativistic Jets In Microquasars - Pedro Luis Luque-Escamilla (Universidad de Jaén)

5:38 PM Rapid variations of polarisation in X-ray binaries - Dave Russell

5:59 PM Stability of relativistic two-component jets - Dimitrios Millas (KU LEUVEN)

6:19 PM The Blandford-Znajek theory revisited - Luigi Foschini (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

6:22 PM Evolution of luminosity-linearsize relation for sources with steep radio spectrum - Alla Miroshnichenko (Institute of Radio Astronomy, NAS of Ukraine)
Millisecond pulsars
Millisecond pulsars
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

4:15 PM Formation of millisecond pulsars and double neutron stars - Thomas Tauris (Uni. Bonn)

4:45 PM Accretion and rotation power in ms pulsars - Alessandro Papitto (Space Science Institute Barcelona (ICE) CSIC-IEEC)

5:10 PM The peculiar X-ray variability of the transitional pulsar IGR J18245-2452 - Carlo Ferrigno (University of Geneva)

5:30 PM Simulations of the Magnetospheres of Accreting Millisecond Pulsars: Torque Enhancement, Spin Equilibrium, and Jet Power - Kyle Parfrey (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:50 PM 3FGL J1544.6-1125: radio imaging analysis of newest transitional millisecond pulsar - amruta jaodand (ASTRON- Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

6:05 PM Orbitally Modulated High-Energy Emission from Black Widows and Redbacks - Zorawar Wadiasingh (Centre for Space Research, North-West University)

6:20 PM On the low magnetic fields of millisecond pulsars - Marilyn Cruces (Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)

6:35 PM Using millisecond pulsars to calibrate XMM/Newton onboard clock - Marilyn Cruces (Instituto de Astrofísica, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

4:15 PM Rapid variability as a probe of warped space-time around accreting black holes - Magnus Axelsson

4:35 PM Approximation of relevant elliptical equations in the Schwarzschild metric and some astrophysical applications - Vittorio De Falco (University of Basel)

4:55 PM Frame dragging, unipolar induction and Kerr black hole magnetospheres - Isao Okamoto (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

5:15 PM Gaps in black holes magnetospheres - Ksenia Ptitsyna (INR Moscow, MSU Moscow, ISDC Geneve)

5:18 PM Can Black Holes Be Accelerators of Spinning Massive Particles? - Benjamin Koch (Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile)

5:21 PM Comments on the Effect of Frame Dragging - Kadri Yakut (University of EGE) ismail özbakır

5:24 PM Hawking radiation cannot exist if quantum vacuum fluctuations are gravitational dipoles - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

4:15 PM Late-time cosmology with eLISA - Nicola Tamanini (CEA - France)

4:35 PM Electromagnetic Emission from Compact Supermassive Black Hole Binaries - Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)

4:55 PM The fate of Super Massive Black Holes in galaxy mergers - Andres Escala (Universidad de Chile)

5:15 PM The underlying simplicity of precessing black-hole binaries - Mark Hannam (Cardiff University)

5:35 PM Accurate Phenomenological Waveform Models for Black Hole Coalescence in the Frequency Domain - Sascha Husa

5:55 PM Gravitational waveform from binary neutron star mergers: Numerical relativity and Effective-one body - Kenta Hotokezaka (Hebrew University)

6:15 PM Gravitational Wave Signals from 3D Neutrino Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae Hydrodynamics - Haakon Andresen (Max Planck Institut für Astrophysik)
origin, evolution and signatures
origin, evolution and signatures
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

4:15 PM Novel Approaches for the Analysis of Extragalactic Magnetic Fields - Andrey Saveliev (University of Hamburg/Keldysh Institute)

4:35 PM Self-similar magnetic, turbulent and thermal energy evolution in massive galaxy clusters - Francesco Miniati (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)

4:55 PM The Chiral Magnetic Effect and its Role in Astrophysics and Cosmology - Guenter Sigl (II. Institut für theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg)

5:15 PM Galactic magnetic field and uncon-ventional cosmic ray propagation - Dario Grasso (INFN)
VHE observations
VHE observations
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

4:15 PM Extragalactic science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Lucie Gerard

4:40 PM The SST-1M Project of the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Status and Physics Perspectives - Matthieu Heller (Universite de Geneve (CH))

5:00 PM 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)

5:20 PM Multiwavelength Spectral and Polarization Signatures of Shocks in Relativistic Jets - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)

5:45 PM Time-dependent Pair Halo Emission from Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Sources - Foteini Oikonomou
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

4:15 PM Consistent massive graviton on an arbitrary background - Laura BERNARD (Université de Paris 6 - Pierre et Marie Curie)

4:35 PM Linear perturbations in massive bigravity: formalism and cosmology - Mariele Motta (University of Geneva)

4:55 PM Gravitational waves in a bigravity model: from inflation to present - Pietro Guarato (Université de Genève)

5:15 PM Dualities and Symmetries of Galileons - Johannes Noller (University of Oxford)

5:35 PM Quasi-scale invariant inflationary attractors - Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

5:55 PM Quasi-Static Solutions for Compact Objects in Chameleon Models - Ilia Musco (Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) - Observatoire de Paris)
8:30 PM Symposium dinner
Symposium dinner
8:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Thursday, December 17, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM IceCube and the discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos - Francis Halzen (IceCube/WIPAC)

9:35 AM The gamma-ray Universe - Jim Hinton (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

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

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

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

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

12:10 PM 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 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent Developments on X-ray Signals from Dark Matter Decay in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters - Jeroen Franse (Leiden University)

2:21 PM Unveiling the self-coupling of dark matter with galaxy clusters - David Richard Harvey (EPFL - EPF Lausanne)

2:42 PM Multimessenger searches for WIMPs with suppressed interactions - Thomas David Jacques (Universite de Geneve (CH))

3:03 PM Non linear evolution of BAO and IR - resummation - Mikhail Ivanov (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (CH))

3:24 PM Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey - Adam Amara (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

2:00 PM Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - rebels of the AGN family - Emilia Järvelä (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory)

2:20 PM Unveiling the parent population of beamed narrow-line Seyfert 1s - Marco Berton (University of Padova - Department of Physics and Astronomy "G. Galilei")

2:40 PM Broad-band properties of flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - Luigi Foschini (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

3:00 PM Quasi-periodic oscillations from relativistic hydrodynamical slender tori - Antonis Manousakis Bhupendra Mishra (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center Warsaw Poland) Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

3:03 PM Quasi-Periodic Oscillations are more than just frequencies - Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

3:06 PM QPOs and Lense-Thirring precession - Rebecca Nealon (Monash University)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

2:00 PM The Cherenkov Telescope Array - Michael Daniel (University of Liverpool)

2:24 PM The e-ASTROGAM mission - Vincent Tatischeff (CSNSM, CNRS)

2:43 PM Large Area X-ray Proportional Counter (LAXPC) instrument onboard ASTROSAT - J S Yadav (Tata Institute of Fundamental Reaserch)

3:06 PM XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer - Paolo Soffitta (IAPS/INAF)

3:25 PM The X-ray Integral Field Unit for the second large class ESA mission Athena - Jan-Willem den Herder (SRON)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

2:00 PM Examining Accretion Disk Properties of Sgr A* Via Stellar Wind Interactions - Ian Christie (Purdue University)

2:21 PM Reconstruction of the past history of the center of our Galaxy through X-Ray reflection spectra simulations. - Michael Walls (DCU)

2:42 PM Diffuse emissions from radio through microwaves to gamma rays - Elena Orlando (Stanford University)

3:03 PM NuSTAR Discovery of Galactic Center Hard X-ray Emission - Kerstin Perez

3:24 PM Origin of the gamma-ray emission from the Galactic Centre - Denys Malyshev (University of Geneva)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

2:00 PM Dynamics of compact binaries at the fourth post-Newtonian approximation - Laura BERNARD (IAP)

2:20 PM A new instability to black-hole spin precession - Davide Gerosa (University of Cambridge)

2:40 PM Saturation of the f-mode instability in neutron stars - Pantelis Pnigouras

3:00 PM Gravitational wave attenuation through interactions with charged particles - Joseph Avenoso (The College of New Jersey) Tyler Viducic (The College of New Jersey)

3:03 PM Search of the primordial gravitational waves with Very Long Baseline Interferometry - Oleg Titov (Geoscience Australia)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

2:00 PM How the observational quantities of strong gravitational lens effect depend on BH's mass and spin - Hiromi Saida (Daido University)

2:21 PM The future for strong gravitational lensing - R. Benton Metcalf (Univerity of Bologna)

2:42 PM Search for lensed QSOs in the OGLE survey - Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska

3:03 PM Weak lensing mass map in DECaLS DR1 survey - Huanyuan Shan (EPFL)

3:24 PM CMB lensing - galaxy cross-correlations - Yuuki Omori (McGill University)
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

2:00 PM Merger of binary neutron stars: Gravitational waves and mass ejection - Masaru Shibata (Kyoto University)

2:21 PM Magnetar formation from the merger of binary neutron stars - Bruno Giacomazzo

2:42 PM Effect of Equation of State on Magnetized Binary Neutron Star Mergers - Takumu Kawamura (University of Trento)

3:03 PM Rotation profile of neutron star merger remnants - Wolfgang Kastaun (Trento University)

3:24 PM A Hamiltonian approach to relativistic fluid dynamics and binary inspiral - Charalampos Markakis (University of Southampton)
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
2:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

2:00 PM Correlated neutrino and photon emission during γ-ray flares from the blazar Mrk 421 - Maria Petropoulou (Purdue University)

2:25 PM Diagnose the Sources of IceCube Neutrinos with Fermi Observation - Zhuo Li (Peking University)

2:45 PM Searches for ultra-high energy neutrinos and photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Foteini Oikonomou

3:05 PM Recent results from the ANTARES deep-sea neutrino telescope - Daniele VIVOLO (INFN Napoli)

3:25 PM Exploring the Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays with the Pierre Auger Observatory - Sergio Petrera (University of L'Aquila)
3:45 PM Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Level 0, Lobby

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4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

4:15 PM Resistive GRMHD simulations of accretion disks around Kerr black holes: connecting large and small scales - Matteo Bugli (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

4:36 PM 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)

4:57 PM Accretion disk around a super-Eddington accreting neutron star - Anna Chashkina (Tuorla Observatory, University of Turku)

5:18 PM Structure of magnetized transonic accretion disks - Pavel Abolmasov (University of Turku)

5:38 PM Thick tori and flows around rotating boson stars - Zakaria Meliani (LUTH, Observatoire de Paris)

5:59 PM Transient dynamics of vortices in relativistic regions of accretion disks around black holes. - Viacheslav Zhuravlev

6:19 PM Astrophysical Boundary Layers: A New Picture - Mikhail Belyaev (UC Berkeley/TAC)

6:39 PM A curved jet model for the synchrotron emission of the BL Lac object PG 1553+113. - Antonio Stamerra (INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy)

6:42 PM Spectral Analysis of ULXs in Pairs of Interacting Galaxies M51 and NGC 4485/90 Using Swift-XRT - Lis Sulistiyowati (Institut Teknologi Bandung)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

4:15 PM The Galactic Center - a unique laboratory for relativity - Stefan Gillessen (Max Planck Inst fur Extraterrestrische Physik)

4:35 PM Space astrometry with Gaia and relativistic astrophysics - Sergei Klioner (Lohrmann Observatorium, Technische Universitaet Dresden)

4:55 PM Relativistic Astrophysics with ALMA - Robert Laing (ESO)

5:15 PM The Square Kilometre Array Observatory: Prospects for Relativistic Astrophysics - Robert Braun (SKA Organisation, Jodrell Bank Observatory)

5:35 PM The Large European Array for Pulsars: a leap of the EPTA for gravitational wave detection - Kuo Liu (Max-Planck-Institute for Radio Astronomy)

5:55 PM The MICROSCOPE mission ready to test the Equivalence Principle in space - Joel Berge (ONERA)

6:15 PM The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection (HERD) Facility onboard China's Future Space Station - Ming Xu (Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN))

6:25 PM 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))

6:35 PM Testing varying speed of light cosmologies in future experiments. - Mariusz Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

4:15 PM Fermi Bubbles as a probes of Galactic halo environment - Dmitriy Chernyshov (Lebedev's Institute of Physics, Moscow, Russia)

4:35 PM Disrupted globular clusters explain gamma ray excess in the Galactic center - Bence Kocsis (Eötvös University)

4:55 PM Imaging a boson star at Sgr A* - Frederic Vincent (Observatoire de Paris)

5:15 PM The Radio Evolution of the Galactic Center Magnetar - Joseph D Gelfand

5:35 PM Proposed Laboratory Simulation of Galactic Positron In-Flight Annihilation in Atomic Hydrogen - Benjamin Brown (Marquette University)
Pulsar Timing Array
Pulsar Timing Array
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

4:15 PM Gravitational waves from binary supermassive black holes missing in pulsar observations - Stefan Oslowski (Bielefeld University / MPIfR Bonn)

4:36 PM Status of the European Pulsar Timing Array - Gregory Desvignes

4:57 PM Search for continuous gravitational wave in EPTA dataset - Antoine Lassus (Max Planck Institute für Radioastronomie)

5:19 PM Limits on the amplitude of the nanohertz gravitational wave Universe from the European Pulsar Timing Array - Lindley Lentati (Cambridge University)

5:41 PM Lessons on massive black hole binaries from pulsar timing arrays - Alberto Sesana (University of Birmingham)

6:03 PM Constraining the energy scale of cosmic strings with PTAs - Sotiris Sanidas (University of Amsterdam)

6:25 PM Pulsar timing detection of gravitational waves from supermassive black hole binaries in stellar environment - Alexander Rasskazov
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

4:15 PM Where are the baryons? - Dominique Eckert (University of Geneva)

4:35 PM A direct measurement of tomographic lensing power spectra from CFHTLenS - Fabian Köhlinger

4:55 PM Gravitational microlensing as a probe for dark matter - Vitalii Sliusar (Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

5:15 PM Test of relativistic gravity using the microlensing of broad iron line in quasars - Ievgen Vovk

5:35 PM Gravitational lensing flexion measurements in the Hubble Frontier Fields - Markus Rexroth (EPFL - EPF Lausanne)

5:38 PM Effects of the second-order vector mode on weak lensing signals - Shohei Saga (Naogya university)

5:41 PM Black Holes, Neutron Stars and White Dwarf Candidates from Microlensing with OGLE-III - Zuzanna Kostrzewa-Rutkowska (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)

5:44 PM How to use geodetic VLBI to measure relativistic light deflection from extragalactic objects - Oleg Titov
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

4:15 PM CAFE: A relativistic Magnetohydrodynamics code - Alejandro Cruz Osorio (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

4:35 PM Simulating the start of inflation from inhomogeneous initial conditions - William East (Stanford University)

4:55 PM Critical Collapse of Radiation Fluids: Deviations from Spherical Symmetry - Thomas Baumgarte (Bowdoin College)

5:15 PM 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)

5:35 PM Black hole mimickers - Daniela Perez (Instituto Argentino de Radioastronomia)

5:55 PM The nature of trapping horizons in collapses forming black holes - Ilia Musco (Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) - Observatoire de Paris)

6:15 PM Asymptotic evolution of Robinson-Trautman spacetimes - Alberto Saa (UNICAMP)
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
CR and astrophysical neutrinos
4:15 PM - 6:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

4:15 PM Study of the galactic cosmic ray energy spectrum with the ARGO-YBJ experiment - Antonio Surdo (INFN - Lecce (IT))

4:35 PM The universal model of cosmic ray production - Jörg Paul Rachen (IMAPP / Radboud University Nijmegen)

4:55 PM Theoretical uncertainties in extracting cosmic ray diffusion parameters: the boron to carbon ratio - yoann genolini (LAPTh)

5:15 PM Escape model: CR composition and diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds - Michael Kachelriess (NTNU)

5:35 PM A Uniformly Selected, All-Sky Optical AGN Catalog for UHECR Correlation - Ingyin Zaw (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Friday, December 18, 2015

8:30 AM Registration
Registration
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Level 0, Lobby
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

9:00 AM ESA gravitational wave observatory, eLISA and LISA Pathfinder - Stefano Vitale (University of Trento)

9:35 AM Exact solutions in astrophysics - Mustapha Ishak (The University of Texas at Dallas)

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

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

11:55 AM Disks and jets - Alexander Tchekhovskoy (Uiversity of California Berkeley)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Level 1, Restaurant

2:00 PM Highlights and conclusions
Highlights and conclusions
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 2

3:30 PM Texas 2015 & Nepal
Texas 2015 & Nepal
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
3:35 PM Texas 2017 - Cape Town - Markus Boettcher (North-West University)
Texas 2017 - Cape Town
- Markus Boettcher (North-West University)
3:35 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Level 0, Room 2
3:45 PM Coffee break and farewell
Coffee break and farewell
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Level 0, Lobby

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