Name: 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
Start: 2015-12-04T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-12-09T17:10:00+01:00
Location: International Conference Centre Geneva

28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics

from Friday, December 4, 2015 (4:00 PM) to Wednesday, December 9, 2015 (5:10 PM)

Monday, November 30, 2015
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Friday, December 4, 2015
Saturday, December 5, 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 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)
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 (*)
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 -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 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 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)
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)
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 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 Discussion session on averaging and backreaction in cosmology
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)
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 -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 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)

5:55 PM Uniformity of the Cosmic Microwave Background as a non-inflationary geometrical effect - Branislav Vlahovic (North Carolina Central University, NSF CREST and NASA Research Centers, Durham, NC, USA)
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)
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)
Sunday, December 6, 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 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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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
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)
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)

4:37 PM Sterile neutrinos with secret interactions - Maria Archidiacono

4:59 PM Constraining sterile neutrinos with lyman alpha forest - Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

5:20 PM A loophole to the electromagnetic cascade theory : Solving the lithium problem with a sterile neutrino. - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

5:41 PM The effective number of neutrinos: standard and non-standard calculations - Pablo Fernández de Salas (IFIC - CSIC/Universidad de Valencia)

6:02 PM Higher-order massive neutrino perturbations in large-scale structure - Florian Führer (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

6:22 PM Neutrinos beyond the linear regime: a new theoretical approach - Hélène DUPUY

6:42 PM Decoherence of cosmological massive neutrinos - Daniel Boriero
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)
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)
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)
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)