II Workshop on

Active Galactic Nuclei and Gravitational Lensing

April 24 - 28, 2012, Andrevlje, Serbia

          

 

             

              

PROGRAM

         

Tuesday, April 24

10:00 – 11:00

Arrival, registration and opening ceremony

11:00 – 11:30

"Overview of present status of investigation of AGNs and GLs by the Group for Astrophysical Spectroscopy"

     L. Č. Popović, M. S. Dimitrijević

11:30 – 12:15

"AGN spectropolarimetry on 6-m telescope: Observation and results"

     V. Afanasiev

12:15 – 13:00

Discussion: Polarization in spectra of AGNs – perspective for investigation

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 15:45

"Small telescopes and large surveys: the importance of monitoring campaigns in the study of AGNs"

     G. La Mura

15:45 – 18:00

Work on mini-projects

19:00

Cocktail

        

Wednesday, April 25

10:00 – 10:45

"Nuclear Activity and Star formation in Galaxies"

     P. Rafanelli

10:45 – 13:00

Discussion and work on mini-projects

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 15:30

"Modelling the GRB light curves using a shock wave model"

     S. Simić

15:30 – 18:00

Work on mini-projects

        

Thursday, April 26

9:00 – 9:45

"Structure and kinematics of the central BLR in AGN"

     W. Kollatschny

9:45 – 10:00

"Balmer continuum in the spectra of AGN"

     J. Kovačević

11:00 – 19:00

Excursion (with lunch)

      

Friday, April 27

10:00 – 10:30

"Spectral Optical Monitoring of the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy Ark 564"

     D. Ilić

10:30 -11:00

"The Orbit of the supermassive binary black hole from radial velocities"

     E. Bon

11:00 – 13:00

Discussion and work on mini-projects

13:00 – 15:00

Lunch break

15:00 – 15:30

"Gravitational mircolensing of AGN dusty tori in infrared"

     M. Stalevski (part of investigation in PhD thesis)

15:30 – 16:30

Progress in MSc theses, present status and problems will be reported by Payaswini Saikia, Zahra Alvi, Luca Grassitelli and Nemanja Rakić (Astromundus students)

16:30 – 18:30

Work on mini-projects

20:00

Conference dinner

       

Saturday, April 28

10:00 – 12:00

Round table "Perspective in investigation of AGNs and GLs"

12:00 – 12:15

Closing ceremony

13:00

Departure to Belgrade

     

       

       

LIST OF MINI-PROJECTS

           

                

MP1. Spectroscopy of gravitational lenses (Moderator: L. Č. Popović)

         

MP1.1. Spectro-photometric variability of quasars caused by microlensing: Consequences on Gaia measurements

    Participants: L. Č. Popović, S. Simić, M. Stalevski

         

MP2. Long term variability of AGN: spectroscopic observations (Moderator: W. Kollatschny)

    Participants: W. Kollatschny, D. Ilić, A. Kovačević, J. Kovačević, L. Č. Popović, V. Afanasiev, N. Rakić

            

MP3. The physics and structure of the Broad Emission (Absorption) Line Region in Active Galactic Nuclei (Moderator: M. Gaskell)

    Participants: M. Gaskell, L. Č. Popović, J. Kovačević, E. Lyratzi, E. Danezis

          

MP4. Stellar population in AGN and connection between X-ray and optical emission in AGNs (Moderator: P. Rafanelli)

    Participants: P. Rafanelli, L. Č. Popović, G. La Mura

           

MP5. Atomic data for astrophysics: VAMDC & SerVO (Moderator: M. S. Dimitrijević)

    Participants: Nenad Milovanović, Magdalena Hristova, Andjelka Kovačević, Zoran Simić, E. Danezis

 

MP5.1. Stark broadening of B IV and S II lines (Moderator: Milan S. Dimitrijević)

    Participants: Magdalena Hristova, Andjelka Kovačević, Zoran Simić, Nenad Milovanović

        

MP6. Gamma ray bursts (Moderator: S. Simić)

    Participants: S. Simić, L. Č. Popović, L. Grassitelli

 

MP7. Astronomy in Serbian culture

    Participants: M. S. Dimitrijević, Jovan Aleksić