The Fermi Bubbles: Theory and Observations

Name: The Fermi Bubbles: Theory and Observations
Start: 2013-04-11T09:00:00-07:00
End: 2013-04-12T18:00:00-07:00
Location: SLAC

Apr 11, 2013, 9:00 AM → Apr 12, 2013, 6:00 PM US/Pacific

Kavli auditorium (SLAC)

Kavli auditorium

SLAC

Participants

Anna Franckowiak
Beatriz Mingo
Davide Pietrobon
Dmitry Malyshev

Thursday, April 11
- Wed, Apr 10
- Thu, Apr 11
- 9:00 AM → 10:30 AM
  Session 1
  - 9:00 AM
    
    Gamma-ray bubbles, Meng Su 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Meng Su (MIT/Harvard)
  - 9:30 AM
    
    Fermi-LAT update on the bubbles, Anna Franckowiak 30m
    
    Slides
  - 10:00 AM
    
    X-ray observations of the bubble edges, Jun Kataoka 30m
    
    Slides
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Break 30m
- 11:00 AM → 12:30 PM
  Session 2
  - 11:00 AM
    
    Planck haze, Davide Pietrobon 30m
    
    Speaker: Dr Davide Pietrobon (Caltech - JPL)
    
    Slides
  - 11:30 AM
    
    Connecting microwave and gamma-ray observations, Greg Dobler 30m
    
    Slides
- 12:30 PM → 1:30 PM
  
  Lunch Break 1h
- 1:30 PM → 2:30 PM
  Session 3
  - 1:30 PM
    
    The AGN Jet Model of the Fermi Bubbles, Fulai Guo 30m
    
    Slides
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Star capture by Sgr A* and hot plasma expansion, Dmitry Chernyshov 30m
    
    Slides
- 2:30 PM → 3:00 PM
  
  Break 30m
- 3:00 PM → 4:00 PM
  Session 4
  - 3:00 PM
    
    Stochastic acceleration of the CR, Philipp Mertsch 30m
    
    Slides
  - 3:30 PM
    
    MHD simulations of the bubble and haze emission from leptonic AGN jets. Hsiang-Yi Karen Yang 30m
    
    Slides
- 4:15 PM → 5:15 PM
  
  KIPAC Colloquium on AMS2 results
- 5:30 PM → 6:30 PM
  Session 5
  - 5:30 PM
    
    Discussion 1h
- 6:30 PM → 7:30 PM
  Poster presentations
  - 6:30 PM
    
    Suzaku observations of the Fermi bubble edges 20m
    
    Speaker: Masaya Tahara
    
    Slides
  - 6:50 PM
    
    Parametric Modeling of the Fermi Bubbles, 20m
    
    Speaker: Richard Anantua
Friday, April 12
- Wed, Apr 10
- Thu, Apr 11
- 9:00 AM → 10:30 AM
  Session 6
  - 9:00 AM
    
    Sgr A* activity, Frederick Baganoff 30m
    
    Slides
  - 9:30 AM
    
    Sgr A*, Star Formation and Cosmic Rays at the Galactic Center, Farhad Yusef-Zadeh 30m
    
    Slides
- 10:30 AM → 11:00 AM
  
  Break 30m
- 11:00 AM → 1:00 PM
  Session 7
  - 11:00 AM
    
    Radio observations, Teddy Cheung 30m
  - 11:30 AM
    
    Insights on the Galactic Center Outflow from UV Absorption Lines, Andrew Fox 30m
    
    Slides
  - 12:00 PM
    
    Galactic Halo, Josh Peek 30m
    
    Slides
- 12:30 PM → 2:00 PM
  
  Lunch Break 1h 30m
- 2:00 PM → 3:30 PM
  Session 8
  - 2:00 PM
    
    Galactic winds, Joss Bland-Hawthorn 30m
    
    Slides
  - 2:30 PM
    
    Cosmic ray dynamics inside the Cygnus A cluster cavities, Bill Mathews 30m
    
    Slides
  - 3:00 PM
    
    VLBI observation of jets in M87, Avery Broderick 30m
    
    Slides
- 3:30 PM → 4:00 PM
  
  Break 30m
- 4:00 PM → 6:00 PM
  Session 9
  - 4:00 PM
    
    Extended lobes in AGN at high energies, Lukasz Stawarz 30m
    
    Slides
  - 4:30 PM
    
    Jets and lobes in Seyfert galaxies, Beatriz Mingo 30m
    
    Slides
  - 5:00 PM
    
    Discussion 1h