Program

Program:

Wednesday

8:45

9:00
Chair:Hardee

9:45

10:30

11:00

11:45

12:35

2:00
Chair:Meier

3:15

3:45

4:35

5:00

6:00

Welcome

Marscher

Fender

Coffee

Fruchter

Jorstad/
Bach

Lunch

Kaiser/
Ito/
VIEW POSTERS->

Tea

Schwartz/
Perucho i Pla

Poster Discussion

End

Reception at EM

Thursday

9:00
Chair:Akerlof

9:45

10:30

11:00

11:45

12:35

2:00
Chair:Richardson

3:15

3:45

4:35

5:00

Hardee

Miller

Coffee

Sari

Richardson/
Henri

Lunch

Kylafis/
Rowell/
Uzdensky

Tea

Nagataki/
Gomez

Poster Discussion

End

Friday

9:00
Chair:Drake

9:45

10:35

11:00

11:50

12:40

2:00
Chair:Blackman

3:10

3:40

4:30

5:00

Silva

Medvedev/
Blackman

Coffee

Fleishman/
Khangulyan

Nishikawa/
Niemiec

Lunch

Lyutikov/
Komissarov

Tea

Rossmanith/
Watson

Poster Discussion

End

Saturday

9:00
Chair:Hughes

9:50

10:40

11:10

12:00

1:30

3:00

McKinney/
Mizuno

Bicknell/
........

Coffee

Meier/
Dutan

Lunch

Panel: Invited Speakers

End

Oral Presentations: (Invited -- 45 minutes, Contributed -- 25 minutes; Speaker Supplied Laptop?)

Bach: Structural variations in the jet of BL Lacertae and their effect on radio light curves
Bicknell: Evolution of jets in a clumpy environment
Blackman: Addressing jet formation, composition, and propagation through laboratory experiments
Dutan: Influence of black hole magnetic torques on the accretion disk; accretion v. spin power
Fender: Microquasar Jets: Introduction
Fleishman: Diffusive Synchrotron Radiation
Fruchter: GRB jets: Introduction
Gomez: Highly relativistic winds in collapsar jet simulations
Hardee: AGN Jets: Technical Overview
Henri: The two fluid model as a unified paradigm for AGNs and microquasars relativistic jets
Ito: The total power and the age of AGN radio jets
Jorstad: Apparent Speed as a Probe of Parsec-Scale Jets in AGN
Kaiser: The flat spectrum of partially self-absorbed jets revisited
Khangulyan: Properties of synchrotron-inverse Compton models of TeV sources located in regions dominated by strong radiation field
Komissarov: Numerical Methods
Kylafis: Spectra and temporal variability of galactic black-hole X-ray sources in the hard state
Lyutikov: Acceleration of the highest energy cosmic rays in powerful AGN jets
Marscher: AGN Jets: Introduction
McKinney: From the microphysics of pair creation to the macrophysics of jet acceleration and collimation
Medvedev: Jitter radiation from highly relativistic shocks
Meier: Poynting-flux-dominated relativistic jets and magnetically-dominated accretion flows
Miller: Microquasar Jets: Technical Overview
Mizuno: General Relativistic MHD simulations of Jet Production
Nagataki: 2D numerical calculation of a collapsar with realistic equation of state, rotation, self-gravity, photo-disintegration, and neutrino cooling
Niemiec: Monte Carlo simulations of the 1st-order Fermi acceleration processes at ultrarelativistic shock waves
Nishikawa: Particle acceleration, magnetic field generation, and emission in relativistic jets
Perucho i Pla: Stability and evolution of parsec and kiloparsec-scale jets
Richardson: Connecting GRB Observations with Computational Simulations
Rossmanith: Taylor-Galerkin Residual Distribution Schemes with Application to Astrophysical Flows
Rowell: H.E.S.S. Observations of the XRB/Microquasar LS5039
Sari: GRB Jets: Technical Overview
Schwartz: The unique X-ray features of the jet in PKS 1055+201
Silva: Physical Processes
Uzdensky: Magnetic Tower Model for Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Watson: Numerical simulation of jet formation with a new general relativistic particle-in-cell code in the Kerr geometry

Posters:

Aller: The Strong Radio Band Circular Polarization Event in 3C 279
Boutelier: The collimation of relativistic jets
Carini: Self-Similar Scaling of Solitons and Compactons in Relativistic Jets
Capelo/Coppi: Evolution and stability of magnetic field configurations near a black hole
Cawthorne: Analytical simulations of intensity and polarization from conical shock waves
Gelderman: UV Spectroscopy of the Jet in M87
Ghanbari: Self-similar solutions of viscous resistive accretion flows
Ghosh: An Optical Jet Associated with a LoBAL Quasar
Godfrey: The kpc-scale Jets of PKS 0637-752 and PKS 2101-490 as seen with Chandra and the Australia Telescope Compact Array
Hughes: The Origin Of Complex Polarization Behavior In Parsec-scale Jet Knots
Le: Relativistic proton jets from standing, centrifugally-supported shocks in ADAFs
Mizuno: Relativistic MHD simulations of Jets
Perucho i Pla: Plasma instabilities in relativistic jets; comparison between analytical and numerical approaches
Perucho i Pla: Resonant Kelvin-Helmholtz modes in sheared relativistic flows
Roca-Sogorb: Magnetic field structure in relativistic jets

Poster boards will be 1 x 1.5 meters in size, on easels that will allow the user to chose horizontal or vertical orientation. We will have a small number of additional boards for anyone who wants to bring poster material at the last minute -- first come, first served.