Schedule
UPCOMING EVENTS
12th June (1300-1400), hybrid, Led by Chris Harrison + Team.
PAST EVENTS
2024
15th May (1300-1400), hybrid, Newcastle:
"X-ray Reverberation Mapping of Accreting Black holes"
Led by Adam Ingram + Team (hybrid; Newcastle)
20th March (1030-1600), in-person workshop in Newcastle.
14th February (1300-1400)
"Accretion disc winds in binaries and AGN: high resolution spectroscopy and polarisation signatures"
Chris Done & Ryota Tomaru (hybrid; Durham)
2023
6th December (1300-1400):
"Takeaway themes and lessons learnt from the Lorentz workshop: The importance of jet-induced feedback on galaxy scales"
Chris Harrison, Dave Alexander, Leah Morabito (Newcastle/Durham; hybrid)
8th November (1300-1400):
"Tracking the X-ray Polarization of the Black Hole Transient Swift J1727.8–1613 during a State Transition"
Adam Ingram (Newcastle; hybrid)
11th October (1300-1400):
"Black holes, dark matter haloes, and cosmic evolution"
Ryan Hickox / Grayson Petter (Dartmouth College/Durham; hybrid)
8th September 2023 (1030-1600):
"AGN science with upcoming spectroscopic surveys (DESI, WEAVE, MOONS, 4MOST)" workshop with split AGN and non-AGN afternoon science sessions
(Durham, mostly in-person event)
19th July 2023 (1300-1400):
"Winds from low luminosity AGN"
Ivan Almeida / Chris Harrison (Newcastle; hybrid)
12th July 2023 (1300-1400):
"Gravitational wave signals from cataclysmic variables: should we care?"
Simone Scaringi (Durham; hybrid)
7th June 2023 (1300-1400):
"AGN activity of Brightest Cluster Galaxies"
Alastair Edge (Durham; hybrid)
17th May:
"Accretion Alliance Extravaganza" - Half Day Event
(Newcastle; mostly in-person event)
22nd March
"Radio Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations"
Nicole Thomas (Durham; hybrid)
2nd March - Guest Event
"Deeper look into jets"
Heino Falke from IMAPP, Radbound University (Durham; hybrid)
22nd February
"Exploring the extragalactic radio source populations with VLBI surveys and paving the way for SKA"
Ann Njeri (Newcastle; hybrid)
25th January - Guest Event
"The Compton-thick AGN Population and Column Density Distributionf of AGN in our Cosmic Backyard"
Ady Annuar from National University of Malaysia (Durham; hybrid)
2022
December 7th - Guest Event
"The Physics of Quasar Feedback"
Samuel Ward and Tiago Costa from ESO and MPA (Newcastle; hybrid)
November 9th
"How to find ULXs, and what to do with them"
Tim Roberts and Duncam Mackenzi (Durham; hybrid)
October 12th
"JWST studies of AGN: a summary of recent results"
David Rosario (Newcastle; hybrid)
July 6th - Guest Event
"An emperical view of AGN accretion via emission lines, absoprtion features, X-rays, IR, and radio"
Gorden Richards form Drexel (Durham; hybrid)
May 11th
"The Physics of accretion-disc winds"
Chris Done and Royota Tomaru (Durham; hybrid)
March 16th
"Connection quasar winds and radio emission"
Leah Morabito and James Petley (Durham; hybrid)
February 16th
"Why is colour special? Fundamental differences between red and blue quasars"
David Alexander and Vicky Fawcett (Durham; hybrid)
February 2nd
"Understanding the radio emission from ``'radio quiet' quasars and the connection to the host galaxy"
Chris Harrison and Aish Girdhar (Newcastle; hybrid)
2021
1st December
"Accretion science with next-generation X-ray polarimeters"
Adam Ingram (Newcastle; online)
3rd November
"What is a micrnova and can we trigger one?"
Simone Scaringi (Durham; online)
20th October
"Comparing a transitional millisecond pulsar with and without accretion"
Anne Archibald/Patrick O'Neill (Newcastle; online)