Scientific Program


The list of Talk presentations is as follows. The list of Poster presentations is given after that.

IR : Invited Review Talk (30 min), IH : Invited Highlight Talk (20 min).
C : Contributed Talk (20 min).
F : Flash Talk (10 min).

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
13:00 REGISTRATION OPENS
14:30 - 14:40 WELCOME
Session: THE FORMATION OF THE FIRST BLACK HOLES AND AGN
14:40 - 15:10 Francesco Haardt IR The formation of massive black holes: a review (PDF)
15:10 - 15:40 Cristian Vignali IR What observations tell us about the first black holes and AGN in the Universe (PDF)
15:40 - 16:00 Simona Gallerani C Far infrared emission lines in quasars and galaxies at the epoch of cosmic reionization (PDF)
16:00 - 16:20 Rosa Valiante C High redshift quasars host galaxies: is there a stellar mass crisis? (PDF)
16:20 - 16:30 Nico Cappelluti F Joint fluctuations of the CIB and CXB (PDF)
16:30 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
Session: AGN - BH / GALAXY COEVOLUTION: HOST GALAXIES, SCALING RELATIONS, AND FEEDBACK PROCESSES
17:00 - 17:30 Chiara Feruglio IR Multiwavelength observations of AGN feedback (PDF)
17:30 - 17:50 Giovanni Cresci C Blowin' in the wind: both `negative' and `positive' feedback in an outflowing quasar at z~1.6 (PDF)
17:50 - 18:00 Barbara Balmaverde F AGN feedback in nearby quasars: does it suppress star formation in their host galaxies? (PDF)
18:00 - 18:10 Stefano Carniani F Fast outflows quenching star formation at high redshift (PDF)
18:10 - 18:20 Michele Perna F X-shooter reveals powerful outflow in X-ray selected obscured QSOs at z~1.5 (PDF)
18:20 - 18:30 Eleonora Sani F NGC 2273 observations with adaptive optics: results, issues and perspectives (PPTX)
18:30 - 18:40 Marco Landoni F The circumgalactic medium of quasars (PDF)
19:00 - BUFFET IN TERRACE
Wednesday, 24 September 2014
9:00 - 9:30 Luca Ciotti IR AGN feedback in elliptical galaxies: local or global accretion modes? (PDF)
9:30 - 9:50 Enrico Piconcelli C Probing the AGN/galaxy co-evolution in luminous quasars (PDF)
9:50 - 10:00 Juan Carmona Loaiza F Overlapping inflows and SMBH growth (PDF)
10:00 - 10:10 Alessandro Lupi F Circum-nuclear disc mergers (PDF)
10:10 - 10:20 Francesca Onori F Looking for the broad emission lines in AGN2 with deep NIR spectroscopy and the measure of the mass of intermediate mass BH (PDF)
10:20 - 10:30 Sandra Raimundo F Measuring the accretion properties of supermassive black holes (PDF)
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
11:00 - 11:30 Francesco Shankar IR Local scaling relations of super-massive black holes: origin, evolution, consequences (PDF)
11:30 - 12:00 Michaela Hirschmann IR Cosmological simulations of BH growth: AGN luminosities and the connection to their host galaxies (PDF)
12:00 - 12:20 Viola Allevato C Clustering properties of X-ray AGNs in COSMOS up to z~3 (PDF)
12:20 - 12:30 Giulia Rodighiero F Co-evolution of starburst and obscured AGN activity at 1.5 < z < 2.5 (PDF)
12:30 - 12:40 Ivan Delvecchio F Mapping the AGN accretion on the SFR--M* plane (PDF)
12:40 - 12:50 Angela Sandrinelli F Environment of quasar pairs (PPTX)
12:50 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session: JETS AND RADIO-LOUD AGN
14:30 - 15:00 Fabrizio Tavecchio IR Blazars: beams for astrophysics and astro-particle physics (PDF)
15:00 - 15:20 Ranieri Baldi C Radio-quiet AGN at high radio frequencies: jet or accretion disk corona? (PDF)
15:20 - 15:40 Francesco Tombesi C Accretion disk winds in AGNs: recent results on radio galaxies and implications for future ASTRO-H observations (PDF)
15:40 - 16:00 Marco Chiaberge C The hosts and the environment of radio galaxies: clues on the origin of radio-loud activity
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
16:30 - 17:00 Myriam Gitti IR Radio-mode AGN feedback in galaxy clusters and groups (PDF)
17:00 - 17:20 Andrea Marinucci C The NuSTAR view of radio-quiet AGN (PDF)
17:20 - 17:40 Luigi Pacciani C Hard times for FSRQs (PDF)
17:40 - 17:50 Tullia Sbarrato F The jet-disc connection in AGN (PDF)
Thursday, 25 September 2014
Session: AGN SURVEYS AND SEDS
9:00 - 9:30 Carlotta Gruppioni IR The role of AGN in galaxy evolution: what can we learn from their SEDs in the IR? (PDF)
9:30 - 9:50 Agnese Del Moro C Heavily-obscured quasars in star-forming galaxies at z~2 (PDF)
9:50 - 10:10 Anna Feltre C Multi-band studies of the imprint of nuclear activity and star formation on galaxy spectra (PDF)
10:10 - 10:20 Gianluca Castignani F Black hole mass estimates and AGN torus characterization for a homogeneous sample of bright flat-spectrum radio quasars (PDF)
10:20 - 10:50 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
10:50 - 11:20 Vincenzo Mainieri IR AGN demography and SED: from the X-ray to the optical (PDF)
11:20 - 11:40 Daria Guidetti C First sub-arcsec resolution observations of the GOODS-N field at 5 GHz (PDF)
11:40 - 12:00 Manuela Magliocchetti C The Herschel view on the infrared properties of radio-selected AGN (PDF)
12:00 - 12:20 Luca Zappacosta C The NuSTAR view of non local AGNs (PDF)
12:20 - 12:30 Fabio Vito F The hard X-ray luminosity function of high-z (3 < z < 5) AGN (PDF)
12:30 - 14:30 LUNCH
Session: THE FUTURE: MULTI-MESSENGER ASTRONOMY
14:30 - 14:50 Massimo Cappi IH The Athena mission (PDF)
14:50 - 15:10 Renato Falomo IH AGN studies in the ELTs era (PDF)
15:10 - 15:30 Paola Andreani IH ALMA lurks around the core of galaxies and their central engines (PDF)
15:30 - 15:50 Marco Mignoli IH Euclid & AGN: a promising entanglement (PDF)
15:50 - 16:00 Gabriele Bruni F Space-VLBI with RadioAstron: pushing the limit of angular resolution in the radio band (PDF)
16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
16:30 - 16:50 Isabella Prandoni IH Current and next-generation deep radio surveys: probing AGN activity down to the radio-quiet AGN regime (PDF)
16:50 - 17:10 Antonio Stamerra IH Prospects on AGN studies with CTA (PDF)
17:10 - 17:30 Marcella Brusa IH The eROSITA all-sky survey and its AGN content (PDF)
17:30 - 17:50 Alberto Sesana IH The gravitational universe (PDF)
17:50 - 18:30 General discussion
20:00 - SOCIAL DINNER
Friday, 26 September 2014
Session: THE CENTRAL ENGINE
9:00 - 9:30 Gabriele Ghisellini IR The most powerful persistent engine of nature (PPT)
9:30 - 9:50 Serena Falocco C AGN optical variability in the VST surveys of the COSMOS and CDFS areas (PDF)
9:50 - 10:00 Gabriele Matzeu F Short term X-ray spectral variability of the strong iron-k absorption feature in PDS 456
10:00 - 10:10 Susanna Bisogni F EW of [OIII] line at 5007Å as an orientation indicator for quasars (PDF)
10:10 - 10:20 Giulia Mantovani F Relativistic iron K alpha line detection in the Suzaku spectra of IC 4329A (PDF)
10:20 - 10:30 Francesco Ursini F Anatomy of the AGN in NGC 5548 (PDF)
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK, POSTER VIEWING
11:00 - 11:30 Guido Risaliti IR The central engine of AGN: an observational perspective (PDF)
11:30 - 11:50 Alessandra De Rosa C CHEESES: constraining the high energy emission sources and the environment of supermassive black holes (PDF)
11:50 - 12:00 Stefano Bianchi F A new cosmological distance measure using AGN X-ray variability (PDF)
12:00 - 12:10 Marco Antonucci F On the cosmological bias of the excess variance for estimating quasar variability (PDF)
12:10 - 12:20 Biagina Boccardi F High resolution mm-VLBI imaging of Cygnus A (PDF)
12:20 - 12:40 Andrea Comastri CONCLUDING REMARKS




Poster List

  1. Marco Antonucci
    UV catalogue of the XMM-CDFS Deep Survey in the Chandra Deep Field-South (PDF)

  2. Maria Cristina Baglio --- Presented by Aldo Treves
    Polarimetric measurements of BL Lac Objects

  3. Pietro Cassaro
    Radio properties of compact sources

  4. Demetra De Cicco
    Variability-selected AGNs in the VST Survey of the COSMOS and CDFS Fields (PDF)

  5. Marcello Giroletti
    Gamma ray and polarimetry of Mrk421 (PDF)

  6. Giuseppe Murante
    Sub-grid prescriptions for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations

  7. Simona Paiano
    Searching for new BLAZAR populations among the gamma-ray Unidentified Fermi sources

  8. Alice Pasetto
    The study of a sample of high Rotation Measure sources (PDF)

  9. Alice Pasetto
    The EDF: Radio Continuum Observations of the Cosmological Evolution Survey at High Frequencies (PDF)

  10. Michele Perna
    CIV and CIII] reverberation mapping of the luminous quasar PG 1247+267 (PDF)

  11. Serena Perrotta
    Occurrence and global properties of Narrow Absorption Lines in the spectra of 100 QSOs at z > 3.5 (PDF)

  12. Francesco Gabriele Saturni
    BAL QSO fraction evolution with redshift and quasar parameters in a sample of intrinsically reddened quasars (PDF)

  13. Tullia Sbarrato
    Big and young SMBHs in the early Universe: specific cases (PDF)

  14. Francesca Senatore
    Locating the z~0 Ionized Absorber to Measure its Mass

  15. Fabio Vito
    Black hole accretion preferentially occurs in gas rich galaxies (PDF)