13 – 17 January 2020 – ISSI, Hallerstrasse 6, Bern, Switzerland
The gallery of beautiful photos of Bern made by Tomaso Belloni during our meeting.
Each session includes discussion and a 30 min break. The format of the talks is informal, and their duration is flexible.
Monday 13.01
10:00 – 12:30:
Maurizio Falanga: Welcome
Andrzej Zdziarski: Disc-corona geometry in black-hole binaries
Amir Levinson: Dissipation of magnetic fields in force-free magnetospheres: lampposts and stripped jets
Lunch
14:30 – 17:00:
Erin Kara: Extreme AGN variability
Chris Done: Evolution of the continuum components in BHB during the hard/soft transition
Iossif Papadakis: Soft-to-hard continuum time lags in AGN
17:00: Welcome drinks and snacks
Tuesday 14.01
9:30 – 12:30:
Barbara De Marco: Observations of X-ray reverberation in AGN
Erin Kara: Thoughts/models/constraints on corona as the base of the jet
Lunch
14:30 – 17:30:
Adam Ingram: Spectral timing of low frequency quasi-periodic oscillations
Guglielmo Mastroserio: An X-ray reverberation lamppost model to measure the mass of Cygnus X-1
Iossif Papadakis: Accretion disc X-ray thermal reverberation in AGN
Wednesday 15.01
9:30 – 12:30:
Javier Garcia: Disk-corona evolution from the point of view of reflection
Andrzej Zdziarski: Non-uniqueness of spectral fitting
Marat Gilfanov: Dichotomy between X-ray spectra of accreting black holes and neutron stars
Lunch
14:30 – 17:30:
Andrei M. Beloborodov: Heating of the corona by magnetic dissipation: reconnection
Amir Levinson: Plasma injection, sparks, and high-energy emission in black hole magnetospheres
Adam Ingram: X-ray polarimetry, and other thoughts
Thursday 16.01
9:30 – 12:30:
Chris Done: Spectral-timing of the continuum in BHB in the low/hard state
Barbara De Marco: Observations and modelling of reverberation lags in BHXRBs
Marta Dziełak: Comparison of spectral models for disc truncation
Lunch
14:30 – 17:30:
Individual discussions
Friday 17.01
9:30 – 12:30:
Tomaso Belloni: Quasi-Periodic Oscillations as probes of accretion geometry
Andrei M. Beloborodov: Heating of the corona by magnetic dissipation: turbulence
Marat Gilfanov: First results of SRG/eROSITA
Lunch
14:30 – 17:30:
Guglielmo Mastroserio: Modelling multi-timescale X-ray reverberation of Mrk 335
Javier Garcia: Soft excess, including high density effects
Conclusions of the workshop, discussion