18th Annual NERQUAM

Friday 30th May 2008

Phillips Auditorium
CfA

Program 
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09:00: Gather, welcome and refreshments

09:15	THE NEWS!
	9:15	Herman Marshall (MIT): Cross-Calibration of High Energy Telescopes using Blazars
	9:30	Colin Lonsdale (Haystack): Progress and Plans for the Murchison  
			Widefield Array (MWA)
	9:45	Belinda Wilkes (CfA): the View of NASA from the Astrophysics sub-Committee

10:00 	AGN Feedback in Clusters and AGN Jets
	10:00	Invited Review
		Elizabeth Blanton (BU): AGN Interactions and Feedback in Clusters of Galaxies

10:40 Coffee Break and posters (Rotunda)

11:15	AGN Feedback in Clusters and AGN Jets (cont)
	11:15	Paul Nulsen (CfA): The Role of Thermal Instability in AGN Feedback
	11:30	Dan Harris (CfA): The Current State of the M87 Jet
	11:45	John Wardle (Brandeis): What are jets made of? Constraints from transverse 
			expansion rates
	12:00	Al Marscher (BU): The Locations of High-energy Flares in Blazar Jets
	12:15	Francesca D'Arcangelo (BU): Correlated Multiwavelength Polarization 
			In A Survey Of Blazars

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Multi-Wavelength Surveys
	14:00	Dan Evans (CfA): High-Resolution Chandra, HST, and VLA Imaging and Spectroscopic 
			Observations of Radio-Loud Seyfert Galaxies
	14:15	Monica Young (BU): The SDSS/XMM-Newton Quasar Survey and the alpha_ox-L_uv Correlation
	14:30	Paul Green (CfA): SDSS QSOs in the ChaMP
	14:45	Ryan Hickox (CfA): Host galaxies, clustering, and evolution of radio, X-ray, and 
			IR-selected AGN at z < 1
	15:00	Shinae Park (CfA): IRAC Power-law AGN

15:30 Poster Break (Rotunda)

16:00 Structure of AGN
	16:00	Liz Humpreys (CfA): The Nature Of An AGN Accretion Disk Within The Central Parsec:
			Strengthened Evidence For Spiral Structure
	16:15	Rudy Schild (CfA): Why Are Some Quasars Radio Loud?
	16:30	Darryl Leiter (NRAO): Observational and Theoretical Evidence for 
			the Emergence of a New Paradigm for Quasars and AGN


16:45	Refreshments


Posters (Rotunda)
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Matt Ashby		CfA	IR-Variable Objects in the IRAC Dark Calibration Field
Jeffrey Blackburne	MIT	Zooming In on QSO Accretion Disks through Chromatic Microlensing
Joanna Kuraszkiewicz	CfA	The Spectral Energy Distributions of Red 2MASS AGN
Ezequiel Treister	Yale	The X-ray Background and the Space Density of Compton Thick AGN
Shanil Virani		Yale	First Results from the 2 Ms INTEGRAL Survey of the XMM-LSS Field
Tony Weinbeck		Tufts	Tracing Star Formation in M33 using H-alpha, 8 micron, and 24 micron Imagery
Joshua Wing		BU	Distant Galaxy Clusters Associated with Radio Sources