Place: ISSI in Bern, Switzerland
Dates: 9-13 December 2019
December 9 (Monday)
09:30-10:00 Maurizio Falanga: Welcome
10:00-11:00 Cosimo Bambi: Plan of the meeting
11:00-12:00 Andrzej Niedźwiecki: Desirable improvements in reflection models
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Andrzej Niedźwiecki: Geometry of the X-ray source in 1H 0707-495
15:00-16:00 Andrzej Zdziarski: Geometry of the coronae in black-hole binaries
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Discussion
December 10 (Tuesday)
09:30-10:30 Victoria Grinberg: The influence of instrumental calibration uncertainties
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Victoria Grinberg: The influence of uncertainties in (interstellar) absorption and scattering
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Cosimo Bambi: Modeling bias in supermassive black hole spin measurements
15:00-16:00 Cosimo Bambi: Testing general relativity using X-ray reflection spectroscopy
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Discussion
December 11 (Wednesday)
09:30-10:30 Jiachen Jiang (via Zoom): High Density Disk Reflection Spectroscopy
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Andrea Marinucci: Probing the accretion disk emitting regions via Iron Kalpha emission transients
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Andrea Marinucci: Reflections models applied to XMM-NuSTAR data
15:00-16:00 Andrzej Zdziarski: Non-uniqueness of reflection spectral fitting: the cases of GX339-4 and Cyg X-1
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Jack Steiner (via Zoom): Accounting for Comptonization in Reflection Modeling
December 12 (Thursday)
Morning for free discussions
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Sourabh Nampalliwar: Testing gravity: a comparison between X-ray spectroscopy and gravitational waves
15:00-16:00 Sourabh Nampalliwar: Testing gravity with future X-ray missions
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Anne Lohfink (via Zoom): The Rhythm of Fairall 9 as seen with Swift and Nicer
December 13 (Friday)
09:30-10:30 Honghui Liu: Testing GR with Fairall 9
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Riccardo Middei: The rapidly spinning SMBH in NGC 1365 as seen by XMM-Newton & NuSTAR
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Ashutosh Tripathi: Impact of the non-relativistic reflection model on X-ray reflection spectroscopy measurements
15:00-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-17:30 Cosimo Bambi: Conclusions of the first meeting