Name: Catching supermassive black holes with Rubin-LSST: Towards novel insights and discoveries into AGN science
Start: 2024-07-22T08:10:00+02:00
End: 2024-07-25T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Pino Torinese (Turin)

Catching supermassive black holes with Rubin-LSST: Towards novel insights and discoveries into AGN science

from Monday, July 22, 2024 (8:10 AM) to Thursday, July 25, 2024 (2:00 PM)

Monday, July 22, 2024
9:30 AM Rubin-LSST AGN Science Collaboration
9:30 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

9:30 AM Registration

9:50 AM Welcome - Claudia Maria Raiteri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:00 AM The 2024 State of the LSST AGN Science Collaboration - William Brandt (Penn State University)

10:20 AM Update on the AGN SC Subgroups activities - Amy Secunda (Princeton University) Claudio Ricci (Universidad Diego Portales) Weixiang Yu (Bishop's University)

10:40 AM LSST@Europe6 - Jose Acosta

10:50 AM AGILE: an empirical simulation pipeline to provide realistic LSST catalog-level data including AGN, galaxies and stars - Angela Bongiorno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:15 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
11:45 AM AGN selection and classification
11:45 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

11:45 AM Machine Learning for AGN selection and classification in the era of time domain surveys - Paula Sanchez Saez (European Southern Observatory (ESO))

12:10 PM AGN selection with machine learning - Ivano Saccheo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:30 PM The quest for high redshift (z∼4) radio galaxies - Barbara Balmaverde (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:50 PM Searching for newborn AGN - Patricia Arevalo (Universidad de Valparaiso)
1:10 PM lunch
lunch
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
2:10 PM AGN selection and classification
2:10 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

2:10 PM AGN Capture and Selection Bias in LSST - Christopher Carroll (Washington State University)

2:30 PM Capturing quasar mergers from HSC to LSST - Shenli Tang (University of Southampton)
3:00 PM Binary SMBH
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

3:00 PM Searching for supermassive black hole binaries in the era of LSST - Maria Charisi

3:25 PM Reliable Identification of Binary Supermassive Black Holes with Rubin Observatory Time-Domain Monitoring - Megan C. Davis (University of Connecticut)
3:45 PM coffee break
coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
4:15 PM Binary SMBH
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

4:15 PM A candidate miliparsec super-massive black hole binary, discovered while disrupting a gas cloud - Jorge Cuadra (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

4:35 PM Catching Close SMBH Binaries with Multi-Wavelength Follow-Ups of Repeating Transients in Galactic Nuclei: the Curious Case of ASASSN-20qc - Francesco Tombesi (Tor Vergata University of Rome & INAF)

4:55 PM Determining the parameters of binary supermassive black holes - Alexandr Volvach (Radio Astronomy Laboratory)
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
9:30 AM AGN variability
9:30 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

9:30 AM AGN selection and characterization through optical variability - Demetra De Cicco (Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II")

9:55 AM Random-walk variability of AGN from lowest to highest accretion rates - Christian Wolf (Australian National University)

10:05 AM The Timedomes in-kind project: a staus update - Maurizio Paolillo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

10:25 AM Extreme AGN Variability in LSST and Follow-up Challenges - Matthew Temple (Durham University)

10:45 AM A Large Scale Search for Photometric Variability in Dwarf Galaxies Using the Young Supernova Experiment - Alexander Messick (Washington State University)
11:05 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:05 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
11:35 AM AGN variability
11:35 AM - 1:05 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

11:35 AM Modeling Quasar Variability with Self-Organizing Map and Conditional Neural Process - Iva Čvorović - Hajdinjak

11:45 AM LSST SER-SAG-S1: upgrade of QNPy package - Aman Raju (University of Belgrade Astro Dept)

12:05 PM Deep Modeling of Quasar Variability Using Latent Stochastic Differential Equations - Joshua Fagin (The City University of New York)

12:25 PM Using Gaussian Processes to detect AGN flares - Summer McLaughlin (University of Sheffield)

12:45 PM Scalable and Flexible Gaussian Process Modeling of AGN Light Curves in LSST - Weixiang Yu (Bishop's University)
1:05 PM lunch
lunch
1:05 PM - 2:05 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
2:05 PM AGN vabiability
2:05 PM - 2:55 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

2:05 PM Towards more self-consistent modeling of strongly lensed AGN - Henry Best (American Museum of Natural History)

2:25 PM The universal optical power spectrum of Active Galactic Nuclei - Patricia Arevalo (Universidad de Valparaiso)
2:55 PM Changing-look AGN
2:55 PM - 3:50 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

2:55 PM Changing-Look AGN: yesterday, today and tomorrow - Ilsang Yoon (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

3:20 PM Changing-state AGN with LSST - Claudio Ricci (Universidad Diego Portales)
3:50 PM coffee break
coffee break
3:50 PM - 4:10 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

4:10 PM departure for the Martini Tour
departure for the Martini Tour
4:10 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
9:30 AM Reverberation Mapping
9:30 AM - 10:55 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

9:30 AM The Dawn of LSST AGN Data and Science Collaboration: A Discussion on Photometric Reverberation Mapping and its Implications - Andjelka Kovacevic (University of Belgrade-Faculty of mathematics)

9:55 AM Disk Reverberation Mapping with Rubin to Probe AGN Disk Structure - Amy Secunda (Princeton University)

10:15 AM Revisiting the Accretion Disk Model: Insights from Reverberation Mapping - James Chan

10:35 AM Fast and flexible inference framework for continuum reverberation mapping using simulation-based inference - Jennifer Li (University of Michigan)
10:55 AM coffee break
coffee break
10:55 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
11:25 AM Reverberation Mapping
11:25 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

11:25 AM Dust Reverberation Mapping with the VISTA Telescope and the Vera Rubin Observatory - Paulina Lira (University of Chile)

11:45 AM Broad Line Region reverberation mapping - Bozena Czerny (Center for Theoretical Physics)

12:10 PM Exploring the potential for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission line delays using LSST - Swayamtrupta Panda (Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica, Itajuba)
12:30 PM AGN Dynamics
12:30 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

12:30 PM Galaxy-morphology-dependent virial factors - Alister Graham (Swinburne University of Technology)

12:50 PM Probing AGN dynamics through a natural language processor lens - Benedict Rouse (pontificia universidad católica de chile)
1:10 PM lunch
lunch
1:10 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
2:10 PM Blazars
2:10 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

2:10 PM Blazars science in the LSST era - Ioannis Liodakis (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

2:35 PM Thirty years of blazar studies at the Torino Observatory: from the OJ-94 Project to the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), looking forward to Rubin-LSST - Claudia Maria Raiteri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

2:55 PM Blazars in the early Universe - Alberto Moretti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

3:15 PM Multi-wavelength analysis of VLASS compact objects: a novel catalog of blazar candidates - Samantha Casadei (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
3:45 PM coffee break
coffee break
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

4:15 PM Group Picture
Group Picture
4:15 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

4:30 PM Projection
Projection
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

8:00 PM Social Dinner
Social Dinner
8:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Thursday, July 25, 2024
9:30 AM Photometric Redshifts
9:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

9:30 AM Photometric redshifts for AGN - Raphael Shirley

9:55 AM CONSTRAINING PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS OF QUASARS USING VARIABILITY - Sarath Satheesh Sheeba (Universidad Andres Bello, Santiago, Chile)

10:15 AM Photometric redshifts for high-z quasars in the era of LSST - Katherine Kauma (University of Cambridge)
10:45 AM Synergies with other Facilities
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

10:45 AM A Glimpse into the Future: Gaia DR4 and Advancements in AGN Research - Maria Isabel Carnerero Martin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
11:05 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:05 AM - 11:35 AM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
11:35 AM Synergies with other Facilities
11:35 AM - 12:25 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”
Contributions

11:35 AM eROSITA, the AGN content and the sinergy with LSST - Mara Salvato (MPE)

12:00 PM Synergies between very high energy facilities and Rubin-LSST - Antonio Stamerra (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
12:25 PM Discussion
Discussion
12:25 PM - 12:55 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

12:55 PM Closure
Closure
12:55 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

1:00 PM lunch
lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Planetario di Torino “Attilio Ferrari”

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