PROGRAM for NERQUAM 2004
Thursday, May 27 at the Shapiro Campus Center, Brandeis University

CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: from 8:30

9:15    NEWS:

Colin Lonsdale (Haystack): LOFAR (10 min)
Mike Garcia (CfA): Con-X (15 min)

9:40    INVITED REVIEW:

Mike Pahre (CfA): "New Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: From Nearby Galaxies to the Distant Universe"

10:25    COFFEE, TEA AND POSTERS

10:40    ORAL SESSION I: (NON-JET), Group properties, identifications, connections and evolution

Moderator: Meg Urry

Tom Aldcroft (CfA): Finding the obscured AGN with ChaMP
John Silverman (CfA): The Cosmological Evolution of X-ray emitting AGN
Belinda Wilkes (CfA): The 2MASS Red AGN: the missing link between type 2 and type 1 AGN?
Kim McLeod (Wellesley): Quasar H(o)ST Galaxies: Not For Nerds Only
Aneta Siemiginowska (CfA): Chandra observations of GPS/CSS sources

general discussion on session I (+ additional very short contributions)

12:10 -- 13:15    LUNCH AND POSTERS

13:15    ORAL SESSION II: (JETS and NON-JET) Individual objects

Moderator: Alan Marscher

Josh Grindlay (CfA): Possible Type 2 Blazar: Extremely variable, Obscured Hard X-ray Source
Shanil Virani (CfA): The Chandra X-ray Spectrum of the Z=5.99 Quasar SDSSJ1306+0356
Paul Nulsen (CfA): The stupendous AGN outburst in MS0735.6+7421
Dan Harris (CfA) and Teddy Cheung (CfA): The phenomenal outburst of HST-1 in the M87 Jet X-ray, Optical and Radio
Dan Schwartz (CfA): Spatially resolved X-ray structure of PKS 0637-752 revisited.
Svetlana Jorstad (BU): Change in Speed and Direction of the Jet near the Core in the Quasar 3C279.
Sera Markoff (MIT): Sgr A*: new results from our weakly active Galactic nucleus

general discussion on session II (+ additional very short contributions)

15:15    COFFEE, TEA AND POSTERS

15:30    ORAL SESSION III: (JETS), Group properties, surveys, theory

Moderator: John Wardle

Herman Marshall (MIT): Results from a Chandra Survey of Quasar Jets
Teddy Cheung (CfA): The Redshift and Beaming Dependences of inverse Compton/CMB X-ray emission from Radio Jets in AGN
Alan Marscher (BU): Relation between Accretion Events and Ejection of Radio Knots in Jets
Andrei Sokolov (BU): Synchrotron Self-Compton Model for Nonthermal Flares in Blazars with Frequency-Dependent Time Lags
Sebastian Heinz (MIT): Implications from scale invariance in jets

general discussion on session III (+ additional very short contributions)

17:00    WINE AND BEER RECEPTION, POSTERS AND CONVERSATION

POSTERS

Carolin Cardamone (Wesleyan): ``Hidden'' Seyfert 2 Galaxies in the Chandra Deep Fields
Tingdong Chen (Brandeis): Multi-wavelength VLBI observations of 3C273 at three epochs
Jonathan Gelbord (MIT): Latest optical observations of radio and X-ray emitting quasar jets
Brooke Simmons (Yale): AGN host galaxy properties in the GOODS fields
Meg Urry (Yale): Multiwavelength Number Counts of AGN in the GOODS Fields
Jeffrey Van Duyne (Yale): Early GOODS/SPITZER data
Shanil Virani (CfA): The Central Engines in Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Jonghak Woo (Yale): The Fundamental Plane of AGN Host Galaxies