The conference "X-ray View of Black Hole Activity in the Local Universe" will take place from 17 to 19 February 2016 in Zurich, Switzerland. The conference is sponsored by Swiss National Science foundation. 

Rationale

The goal of this conference is to present and discuss (via invited and contributed talks) the latest results of space-based X-ray missions (e.g. NuSTAR, Swift, Maxi) on nearby supermassive black-hole growth. Science topics to include do we have a complete census of AGN activity, what new insights can we gain from high signal-to-noise hard X-ray spectroscopy of local AGN, what influence do AGN have on their host galaxies, and what can we learn from future X-ray missions (e.g. Astro-H, Astrosat, X-ray Polarimeters).