Hiroshima Blazar Meeting 2010 March

-- Kick-off of Indo-Japan collaboration --

Participants

• Alok Gupta (ARIES, India)
• Motoki Kino (NAOJ)
• Naoki Isobe (Kyoto Univ)
• Shuji Sato (Nagoya Univ)
• Mahito Sasada, Makoto Uemura, Yuuki Ikejiri, Ryosuke Itoh, Kiyoshi Sakimoto, Koji Kawabata, Takashi Ohsugi, Ryo Yamazaki, Shota Kisaka... (Hiroshima Univ)
• (Guest) Koichiro Sugiyama (Yamaguchi Univ)

Talk schedule (presentation files)

• 2010-03-04 (Thu)
  • Morning: Free time
  • 13:00-13:50 Open presentation (in Japanese)
    • Kino: 「活動銀河核ジェットが生まれる瞬間」"The Moment of Birth of AGN Jets"
  • 14:00-17:00 Invited Talks and discussion
    • Gupta: "Multi-wavelength Variability Studies of Blazars on Diverse Timescales (need password)"
    • Isobe: "Long-term X-ray monitor of Blazars with MAXI (need password)"
    • Kino: "Blazars: Progress, Problems, Prospects"
  • 17:30-18:15 Short talks and free discussion
    • Kawabata: "Comments on instruments on Kanata 1.5-m telescope"
    • Sasada: "Shortest polarimetric variability in S5 0716+714 (tentative)"
  • 18:45-20:30 Dinner (Umamonya Teshio)
• 2010-03-05 (Fri)
  • 10:00-12:00 Short talks and discussion
    • Ikejiri: "Statistics of optical photopolarimetric variability in over 30 blazars (tentative)"
    • Sakimoto: "Photopolarimetry of BL Lac (tentative)"
    • Uemura: "Bayesian method to find a long-term trend in blazar polarization (tentative)"
  • 13:30-15:30 Short talks and discussion
    • Sasada: "3C454.3 around 2009 Dec flare (tentative)"
    • Itoh: "A change in the optical polarization associated with a gamma-ray flare in the blazar 3C 279"
    • Conclusion (future collaboration between India and Japan)
  • 16:00-16:50 Open presentation
    • Gupta: "Periodic and Quasi Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in Blazars"

Information:

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