Schedule

2025

24th September 2025 (1030-1600):
Topic TBD (Durham, in-person event)

2025

7th May (1000-1600), in-person workshop in Newcastle

16th April (1300-1400), hybrid
The remarkable changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654
Led by Adam Ingram, Chris Done, and David Rosario

19th March (1300-1400), hybrid
The role of dust in quasar evolution
Led by Vicky Fawcett + Ciera Sargent.

19th February (1300-1400), hybrid
Resolved infra-red studies of AGN populations at cosmic noon using JWST
Led by Devang Liya + David Rosario.

22nd January (1300-1400), hybrid - Guest Event
Anomaly Detection in Rest-Frame UV Spectra of Quasars from SDSS DR1
Vivek M (Indian Instiute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru).

2024

18th December (1000-1400), in-person workshop in Durham
"Let's look at accretion" & "Let's look at feedback"
Group discussions.

13th November (1300-1400), hybrid
"A new look at dust and gas in nearby AGN with JWST"
Led by Houda Haidar + David Rosario.

16th October (1300-1400), hybrid
"Changing-look AGN"
Led by Claire Greenwell + Matthew Temple.

12th June (1300-1400), hybrid,
"Sonification for research and communication of accretion data and concepts"
Led by Chris Harrison + Rose Shepherd.

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

7th December - Guest Event  
"The Physics of Quasar Feedback"

Samuel Ward and Tiago Costa from ESO and MPA (Newcastle; hybrid)

9th November
"How to find ULXs, and what to do with them"

Tim Roberts and Duncam Mackenzi (Durham; hybrid)

12th October 

"JWST studies of AGN: a summary of recent results"
David Rosario (Newcastle; hybrid)

6th July - Guest Event  
"An emperical view of AGN accretion via emission lines, absoprtion features, X-rays, IR, and radio"
Gorden Richards form Drexel (Durham; hybrid)

11th May

"The Physics of accretion-disc winds"

Chris Done and Royota Tomaru (Durham; hybrid)

16th March
"Connection quasar winds and radio emission"
Leah Morabito and James Petley (Durham; hybrid)

16th February
"Why is colour special? Fundamental differences between red and blue quasars"
David Alexander and Vicky Fawcett (Durham; hybrid)

2nd February
"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)