Workshop Programme
Workshop Programme
Monday, October 17th
8 - 9am Registration
9 - 9:15 Welcome and organisational information
Morning Session 1: 9:15 -- 10:00
Introductory talk: Karl Menten on The interstellar medium of the inner 400 pc: an overview
Topic: The ISM of the GC I
10:00 -- 10:30: Sergio Molinari - A twisted ring of cold and dense dust revealed by Herschel around the Galactic Center
Coffee: 10:30 -- 11:00
Morning Session 2: 11:00 -- 12:30
11:00 -- 11:30: Sungsoo S. Kim - The Nuclear Star Forming Ring of the Milky Way pdf
11:30 -- 12:00: Maryvonne Gerin - Submillimeter absorption spectroscopy near SgrA
12:00 -- 12:30: Tomoharu Oka - High-velocity Compact Clouds in the Central Molecular Zone of our Galaxy
pdf
Lunch: 12:30 -- 14:00
Afternoon Session 1: 14:00 -- 16:00
Topic: X-ray emission from the GC region I
14:00 -- 14:30: Andrea Goldwurm - The INTEGRAL view of the the Galactic Center
14:30 -- 15:00: Regis Terrier - Echoes in the Galactic Centre: Variable 6.4 keV
15:00 -- 15:30: Renzo Capelli - Fe Ka line emission as a tracer of high energy activity in the Galactic Centre region: a role for Sgr A*?
pdf
15:30 -- 16:00: Hiro Odaka - X-ray reflections from the Galactic center and prospects for ASTRO-H
Coffee: 16:00 -- 16:30
Afternoon Session 2: 16:30 -- 18:10
Topic: X-ray emission from the GC region II
16:30 -- 17:00: Robert Warwick - Thermal and non-thermal X-ray emission in the Galactic Centre
17:00 -- 17:30: Katsuji Koyama - Fe-line distribution in our Galactic center pdf
17:30 -- 18:10: Mikhail Revnivtsev - A review of the contribution of point sources to the total surface brightness of the Galaxy + Spun-up stars and the X-rays from Sgr A*
Tuesday, October 18th
Morning Session 1: 09:00 -- 10:30
Topic: Magnetic fields of the GC and other galactic nuclei
09:00 -- 09:30: David Jones - Magnetic field of the Galactic center region pdf
09:30 -- 10:00: Rainer Beck - Magnetic fields in the central regions of spiral galaxies pdf
10:00 -- 10:30: Volker Heesen - Magnetic filaments in the nuclear outflow of
NGC 253 pdf
Coffee: 10:30 -- 11:00
Morning Session 2: 11:00 -- 13:00
Topic: Dynamical importance of LE CRs and turbulence
11:00 -- 11:30: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh - The Interaction of Cosmic Ray Particles with Galactic Center Molecular Clouds
11:30 -- 12:00: Takeshi Oka - High ionization rate and a vast amount of warm
and diffuse gas in the Central Molecular Zone
pdf
12:00 -- 12:30: Rahul Shetty - Starburst Regulation via Feedback Driven Turbulence pdf
Topic: Dark Matter
12:30 -- 13:00: Lars Bergstrom - Dark Matter at the Galactic Centre
Lunch: 13:00 -- 14:30
Afternoon Session 1: 14:30 -- 16:00
Topic: The SMBH of Sgr A* I
14:30 -- 15:00: Sera Markoff - Sagittarius A*: quiescent but not atypical pdf
15:00 -- 15:30: Katie Dodds-Eden - Time dependent models for the near-infrared and X-ray flares from Sgr A*
15:30 -- 16:00: Feng Yuan - Accretion, episodic ejection, and continuous
outflow from Sgr A*
Coffee: 16:00 -- 16:30
Afternoon Session 2: 16:30 -- 17:30
Topic: The SMBH of Sgr A* II
16:30 -- 17:00: Roman Shcherbakov - Sgr A*: energizing the surroundings across epochs
17:00 -- 17:30: Yuri Levin - Formation of accretion discs with magnetic
levitation
Wednesday, October 19th
Morning Session 1: 09:00 -- 10:30
Topic: The ISM of the GC II
09:00 -- 09:30: Michael Burton - Multiple Molecular Lines in the Central Molecular Zone pdf
09:30 -- 10:00: Casey Law - A Mass Outflow from the Galactic Center pdf
10:00 -- 10:30: Juergen Ott - Feeding and Feedback: Molecular Gas in the Central Molecular Zone pdf
Coffee: 10:30 -- 11:00
Morning Session 2: 11:00 -- 12:30
Topic: The ISM of the GC III
11:00 -- 11:30:Kazufumi Torii - Large scale sensitive CO observations of the CMZ with NANTEN2
11:30 -- 12:00: Yasuo Fukui - Association of molecular clouds with high energy features in the CMZ pdf
12:00 -- 12:30: Andrea Stolte - Forging star clusters at the edge of the CMZ pdf
12:30 -- 13:00: Rei Enokiya – Molecular observations of the infrared Double Helix Nebula in the Galactic centre
Lunch: 13:00 -- 14:30
Afternoon Session 1: 14:30 -- 16:00
Topic: Fermi Bubbles I
14:30 -- 15:00: Meng Su - Discovery and recent updates on the Fermi Bubbles pdf
15:00 -- 15:30: Troy Porter - The Fermi-LAT View of the Inner Galaxy
15:30 -- 16:00: Vladimir Dogiel - Radiation from the Galactic Center as a Result of Active Processes there pdf
Coffee: 16:00 -- 16:30
Afternoon Session 2: 16:30 -- 18:00
Topic: Fermi Bubbles II
16:30 -- 17:00: Sergei Nayakshin - Fermi Bubbles: the echo of the last Sgr A* quasar outburst pdf
17:00 -- 17:30: Roland Crocker - The Protonic scenario of Fermi bubble creation pdf
17:30 -- 18:00: Doug Finkbeiner - An analysis of substructure within the Fermi Bubbles
Thursday, October 20th
Morning Session 1: 09:00 -- 11:00
Topic: Gamma-rays, HE cosmic ray transport and acceleration
09:00 -- 09:30: Jim Hinton - Emission from PWN in the GC pdf
09:30 -- 10:00: Aion Viana - The TeV view of the Galactic Center region pdf
10:00 -- 10:30: David Ballantyne - TeV Proton Transport in the Galactic Centre: Issues and Implications pdf
10:30 -- 11:00: Masha Chernyakova - Galactic Center at GeV energy range pdf
Coffee: 11:00 -- 11:30
Morning/Afternoon Session: 11:30 -- 12:00
Topic: Gamma-rays, HE cosmic ray transport and acceleration II
11:30 - 12:00: Andy Strong - The interstellar cosmic-ray / radio / gamma ray connection pdf
Concluding Remarks:
12:30-13:00: Concluding Discussion Session
13:00: Workshop concludes