Link to MM17 Program & Slides

Thursday, February 14th at the CCA

Quasar Science

In this session, we will open with a broad discussion of the goals of the meeting, followed by talks on the latest studies of quasar structure under microlensing.

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9:00am Light breakfast provided at CCA

9:20am Opening remarks and welcome by Chair Matt O'Dowd

9:30am Round-table discussion to frame goals for the workshop and white paper

10:30am Coffee Break

10.55am Opening remarks by Chair Evencio Mediavilla

11:00am Rachel Webster Review: Quasar Structure Under Microlensing

11:30am Chris Morgan Improved Constraints on Accretion Disk Temperature Profiles

11:45pm Karina Rojas Microlensing Effect on Time Delays Measurements

12:00am James Hung-Hsu Chan Microlensing Time Delays with Multi-filter Light Curves

12:15pm Paul Schechter The Scaling of the Optical Half-Light Radii of Quasars with Luminosity

12:30pm Lunch provided at CCA

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair James Hung-Hsu Chan

2:05pm Veronica Motta Microlensing Impact on the Broad Emission Lines of Lensed Quasars

2:20pm Carina Fian High Resolution Study of the Structure of Quasars via Kinematic Responses to Microlensing

2:35pm Suk Yee Yong Searching for Quasar Orientation in the UV/Optical

2:50pm Evencio Mediavilla  SMBH Masses from the "Gravitational" Redshift of the UV Fe III Emission

3:15pm Coffee break and round-table discussion

5:00pm End of day

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Friday, February 15th at the CCA

Current and Future Data and Analysis Methods

In this session we discuss the current suite of microlensing data and best techniques for its analysis. We also review the upcoming surveys and discuss the new data processeing and analysis methods that will be needed.

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9:00am Light breakfast provided at CCA

9:20am Opening remarks by Chair Veronica Motta

9:30am Giorgos Vernardos  Review: Recent Advances in Modeling

10:00am Pablo Lopez A Proposal for a Spectroscopic Database Tool

10:15pm Aksel Alpay – Extremely Fast  GPU Microlensing Code

10:30am Coffee Break

11:00am Round-table discussion on current data, methods and tools

12:30pm Lunch provided at CCA

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair Giorgos Vernardos 

2:05pm Timo Anguita LSST Quasar Microlensing

2:30pm George Chartas Magnified Views of Quasars with the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite

2:50pm Ana Esteban Gutiérrez Peculiar velocities of lens galaxies from microlensing

3:05pm Paul Schechter Closed Form (Non-Iterative) Modeling of a Random Quartet of Points with a Singular Isothermal Elliptical Potential

3:30pm Coffee Break and round-table discussion on future data, methods and tools

4:30pm Wine Reception at the CCA

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7:00pm Workshop Dinner at Eataly Rooftop

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Saturday, February 16th at AMNH

X-Ray Microlensing and Decadal Survey

In this session we discuss the latest results in x-ray microlensing, followed by an intensive round-table on the Astro2020 Decadal Survey white paper.

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9:30am Opening remarks by Chair George Chartas

9:35am Xinyu Dai  Review: Quasar Microlensing in the X-ray Band

10:05am Matthew Cornachione Analysis of Microlensing of the X-ray Continuum Source in Lensed Quasars with Long Time Delays.

10:25am David Pooley Chandra Observations of Newly Discovered Quads

10:45am Coffee Break

11:15am Round-table discussion on x-ray microlensing

12:30pm Lunch at local restaurants

2:00pm Joachim Wambsganss Workshop Summary

2:30pm Opening remarks by Chair Rachel Webster

2:35pm Round-table discussion on Astro2020 white paper

3:30pm Coffee break, continuation of round table

6:00pm (or earlier) End of day

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Sunday February 17th at AMNH

Sunday is entirely devoted to discussions and drafting of the Astro2020 Decadal Survey white paper.

9:30am Working Group on Astro2020 White Paper

6:00pm (or earlier) End of day

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