Name: 28th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics
Start: 2015-12-04T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2015-12-09T17:10:00+01:00
Location: International Conference Centre Geneva

Monday, 30 November 2015
Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Thursday, 3 December 2015
Friday, 4 December 2015
Saturday, 5 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00 Cover: Welcome opening
Welcome opening
09:00 - 09:35
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 Introduction

09:07 Welcome address by the Vice-Rector of the University of Geneva - Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva)

09:15 Einstein's Swiss Years - Jan Lacki (University of Geneva)
09:35 Plenary talks
09:35 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:35 First hundred years of GR: successes, status and prospects - Thanu Padmanabhan (ICAA Pune)

10:10 Relativistic effects in large-scale structure surveys - Camille Bonvin (CERN)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20 Plenary talks
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 CMB temperature and polarisation anisotropies: a goldmine for cosmology. - Nabila Aghanim (Universite Paris Sud)

11:55 CMB spectral distortions - Rashid Sunyaev
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
14:00 13 - Gamma-ray bursts
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Thermal emission in GRB 101219B - Josefin Larsson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

14:21 Fitting gamma-ray burst prompt emission spectra with a model for subphotospheric dissipation - Björn Ahlgren (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

14:42 Signs of magnetic acceleration and multi-zone emission in GRB 080825C - Elena Moretti (MPI Munich)

15:03 A new intrinsic intrinsic 3 parameter correlation in Gamma Ray Bursts - Maria Dainotti (Stanford University)

15:24 GRB polarization with the POLAR detector. - Nicolas Produit (Universite de Geneve (CH))
15 - Binaries: HMXB
HMXB
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 Multi-wavelength variability of the gamma-ray binary LS I +61 303 along the super-orbital period - Diego Torres (ICREA / Institute of Space Sciences)

14:26 Interacting pulsar winds in X-ray and gamma-ray binaries - Guillaume DUBUS (IPAG CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes)

14:52 The gamma-ray monitoring of newly discovered Be/BH binary system MWC 656 - Pere Munar-Adrover (INAF-IAPS)

15:18 Making the Heaviest Elemens in the Universe - Friedrich Thielemann (University of Basel)
08 - Cosmic microwave background
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 The POLARBEAR experiment probing the cosmic microwave background polarization - Davide Poletti

14:25 The Quijote experiment: project overview and first results - Ricardo Génova Santos (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

14:45 CMB spectral distortions: energy release versus photon injection - Jens Chluba (Institute of Astronomy)

15:05 Cosmology with the Planck all-sky Compton parameter map - Juan Francisco Macias-Perez (LPSC)

15:25 High-resolution SZ cartography of clusters of galaxies with NIKA ath the IRAM 30-m telescope - Frédéric MAYET (CNRS)
06 - Early universe
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 Exotic Rotational Correlations in Emergent Quantum Geometry - Craig Hogan (U. Chicago and Fermilab)

14:21 Creation of Emergent Universe with Wormholes - Dr. Bikash Chandra PAUL (University of North Bengal)

14:42 A Cyclic Universe alternatively dominated by matter and antimatter - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology)

15:03 3D Quantum Bubble Collisions - Jonathan Braden (University College London)

15:24 Born-Infeldizing gravity - Lavinia Heisenberg (ETHZ - ETH Zurich)
02 - Exact solutions
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 Modelling inhomogeneous cosmologies with Numerical Relativity - Eloisa Bentivegna (Università degli Studi di Catania)

14:21 Solving the Einstein-Maxwell Equations for the Dispersive Propagation of Light during Mixmaster Kasner Epochs and other Anisotropic Early-Universe Models - Brett Bochner (Hofstra University)

14:42 Backrection of voids in a Friedman background with constant w equation of state. - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

15:03 Lense-Thirring precession in strong gravitational fields - Chandrachur Chakraborty (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Mumbai , INDIA)

15:24 Inhomogeneous conformally flat models of the universe - Mariusz Dabrowski (University of Szczecin)
18 - Gal. accel. & pulsars: Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 H.E.S.S. Observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Nukri Komin (Wits University)

14:20 Galactic Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array - Thierry Stolarczyk (IRFU/SAp,CEA Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette (FR))

14:45 Modeling Bright Gamma-ray and Radio Emission from Fast Cloud Shocks at Middle-aged SNRs - Shiu Hang (Herman) Lee (ISAS/JAXA)

15:05 Multiwavelength observations of gamma-ray loud binaries - Maria Chernyakova (DCU)

15:25 Particle acceleration in Eta Carinae: the expected and unexpected - Matteo Balbo (Université de Genève)
07 - Large scale structures
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 A relativistic approach to large-scale structure - David Wands (University of Portsmouth)

14:21 Relativistic effects and primordial non-Gaussianity in the matter density fluctuation - Jaiyul Yoo (University of Zurich)

14:42 Relativistic effects with cross-correlations - Enea Di Dio (OATs-INAF)

15:03 Probing violations of slow-roll inflation at the largest observable scales with future galaxy surveys - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

15:24 Tomographic lensing constraints with galaxy clustering - Francesco Montanari (Universite de Geneve (CH))
04 - Dark energy
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 High redshift BAO from BOSS to eBOSS - Timothée Delubac (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

14:27 Tracing dark energy with quasars. - Justyna Średzińska (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center PAS)

14:53 Measuring cosmological parameters with GRBs: status and perspectives - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

15:19 The m-z relation for type Ia supernovae, locally inhomogeneous cosmological models, and the nature of dark matter - Phillip Helbig (*)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby
16:15 13 - Gamma-ray bursts
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

16:15 Using Gamma-Ray Bursts as Cosmological Probes - Rob Preece (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

16:35 Shedding light on the early Universe with THESEUS - Lorenzo Amati (INAF - IASF Bologna)

16:55 An External Shock Origin of GRB 141028A - J. Michael Burgess (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

17:15 Signs of Blandford & Znajek mechanism in GRB afterglow lightcurves. - Antonio Nathanail

17:35 Constraining emission mechanisms in gamma-ray bursts using spectral width - Magnus Axelsson

17:55 Study of GRB light curve decay indices in the afterglow phase - Roberta Del Vecchio (Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University)

17:58 Observed properties of high redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts - Graziella Pizzichini (INAF)

18:01 Moving observed Short GRBs both off-axis and into the local Universe - Giovanni De Cesare (IASF-Bologna) Giulia Stratta (Urbino University) Giuseppe Greco (Urbino University) Marica Branchesi (Urbino University)
15 - Binaries: HXMXB
HXMXB
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 Swift and the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient outburst factory - Patrizia Romano (INAF)

16:40 High-mass X-ray binary systems through the eyes of INTEGRAL - Alexander Lutovinov (Space Research Institute)

17:05 Vela X-1 and sgHMXB: hydro driven hard X-rays - Antonis Manousakis

17:25 Correlation study of spectral parameters of NS-HMXBs with Suzaku - Pragati Pradhan (St. Joseph's College, Darjeeling, India & North Bengal University, Siliguri, India)

17:45 Orbital resolved spectroscopy of GX 301-2 with MAXI - Nazma Islam (Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India)

18:05 Broadband study of X-Per using Suzaku observations - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

18:20 Orbital evolution and search for eccentricity and apsidal motion in the eclipsing HMXB 4U 1700–37 - Nazma Islam (Indian Institute of Science, Raman Research Institute, India)

18:24 Blowing in the wind : accretion in high mass X-ray binaries - Ileyk EL MELLAH (Paris 7 Diderot - APC laboratory)
08 - Cosmic microwave background
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:15 Dark matter decay and cosmic reionization - Isabel Oldengott (Universität Bielefeld)

16:35 Is there evidence for anisotropy in CMB data? - Daniela Saadeh (University College London)

16:55 Current constraints and forecasts on the tilt and running of the primordial tensor spectrum - Giovanni Cabass (Physics Department and INFN, “La Sapienza” University of Rome)

17:15 Cosmological constraints on the neutron lifetime - Laura Salvati (University of Rome, Sapienza)

17:35 UV sensitivity of Higgs inflation - Jacopo Fumagalli (Nikhef)

17:55 Uniformity of the Cosmic Microwave Background as a non-inflationary geometrical effect - Branislav Vlahovic (North Carolina Central University, NSF CREST and NASA Research Centers, Durham, NC, USA)
06 - Early universe
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 On stability of electroweak vacuum during inflation - Andrey Shkerin (EPFL)

16:35 A stiff Higgstory of the Universe - Daniel G. Figueroa (CERN)

16:55 Parametric resonance after hilltop inflation caused by an inhomogeneous inflaton field - Francesco Cefalà (University of Basel)

17:15 Preheating after hilltop inflation - Stefano Orani (Basel University)

17:35 The Cosmic Laboratory: Probing Inflation with Galaxy Clustering - Roland de Putter

17:55 The Effective Strength of Gravity and the scale of Inflation - Subodh Patil

18:15 Implications of the primordial power asymmetry for inflation - Christian Byrnes (University of Sussex (GB))
02 - Exact solutions
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 First-order cosmological perturbations engendered by point-like masses: all scales covered - Maxim Eingorn

16:35 On homogeneous and isotropic universe - Mikhail Katanaev (Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow)

16:55 Covariant Perturbations of the Scalar-Tensor Schwarzschild Black Hole - Geraint Pratten (University of Sussex)

17:15 Confronting anisotropic cosmological models with real-time cosmology - Wessel Valkenburg (Leiden University)

17:35 Discussion session on averaging and backreaction in cosmology
18 - Gal. accel. & pulsars: Galactic accelerators
Galactic accelerators
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Pulsar observations with the MAGIC telescopes - Takayuki Saito (Kyoto University)

16:35 The intriguing double torus-jet PWN around PSR J0855-4644 - Chandreyee Maitra (CEA Saclay)

16:55 A Pulsar Wind Nebula Origin for Luminous TeV Source HESS J1640-465 - Joseph D Gelfand

17:15 First-order Fermi acceleration at pulsar wind termination shock. - Simone Giacche` (Max-Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics)

17:35 Rapid particle acceleration at perpendicular shocks - John Kirk

17:55 Kinetic simulations of relativistic harmonic magnetic equilibria - Krzysztof Nalewajko (Stanford University)

18:15 Multipolar electromagnetic fields around neutron stars: exact vacuum solutions and related properties. - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)
07 - Large scale structures
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 Cosmological nonlinear density and velocity power spectra - Jai-chan Hwang (Kyunpook National Univ.)

16:35 General Relativity and Cosmic Structure Formation - Julian Adamek (Université de Genève)

16:55 Large Scale Structure with interacting Vacuum: the non-linear regime in the post-Friedman approximation - Marco Bruni (University of Portsmouth)

17:15 One-dimensional models of cosmological perturbations: direct integration in the Fourier space - Vitalii Sliusar (Astronomical Observatory of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

17:35 TSPT: Time-Sliced Perturbation Theory for Large Scale Structure - Sergey Sibiryakov (CERN & EPFL & INR RAS)

17:55 Precision measurement of the local bias of dark matter halos - Titouan Lazeyras (MPA)

18:15 Supercluster straightness as a cosmological test - Junsup Shim (Seoul National University)
04 - Dark energy
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 Using Atom Interferometry to Detect Chameleon Dark Energy - Clare Burrage (University of Nottingham)

16:40 Causality in theories with more than one metric - Ignacy Leonard Sawicki (University of Geneva)

17:05 Dark energy as a fixed point of the Einstein Yang-Mills Higgs Equations - Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)

17:29 Non-local gravity and comparison with observational datasets - Yves Dirian (University of Geneva)

17:53 Viability of a quintessence model with inverse power law potential as a dark energy candidate - Erick Jonathan Almaraz Aviña (Instituto de Física / UNAM)

17:56 Constraints on a DE parametrization using BAO and Forecasting for future surveys - Mariana Jaber (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

17:59 Force sensor for chameleon a candidate for dark energy - attaallah almasi (vu university of amsterdam)

18:02 Exploring the consequences of parameter values in cosmological models with CosmoEJS, an interactive package of cosmology Java simulations - Jacob Moldenhauer (University of Dallas)

18:05 Testing the dark sector interaction by using the isolated galaxy pairs from SDSS DR10 - Hanwool Koo (Seoul National University)

18:08 The gravitational polarization of the quantum vacuum as a possible solution to the dark energy problem - Dragan Hajdukovic (Institute of Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology (ME))

18:12 Primordial perturbations in a bouncing Universe with quintessence - Anna Paula Bacalhau (Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas)

18:15 Refinements of Jungle Universes - Alicia Simon-Petit (Applied Mathematics Laboratory, ENSTA ParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay)
Sunday, 6 December 2015

08:30 Registration
Registration
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Level 0, Lobby
09:00 Plenary talks
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

09:00 A unifying description of dark energy - David LANGLOIS (CNRS)

09:35 Dark matter detection - an experimental overview - Laura Baudis (University of Zurich)

10:10 Towards fundamental physics from cosmological surveys - Hiranya Peiris (University College London)
10:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
10:45 - 11:20
Room: Level 0, Lobby
11:20 Plenary talks
11:20 - 12:30
Room: Level 0, Room 2
Contributions

11:20 The equation of state of dense matter - Anna Watts (University of Amsterdam)

11:55 Status of the Advanced Virgo project - Fulvio Ricci (University of Rome La Sapienza and INFN Sez. Roma)
12:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Level 1, Restaurant
14:00 13 - Gamma-ray bursts
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 7&8
Contributions

14:00 Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers: the time-reversal scenario - Riccardo Ciolfi (University of Trento and INFN-TIFPA)

14:21 Electromagnetic emission from long-lived binary neutron star merger remnants - Daniel Siegel (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute))

14:42 Dynamical mass ejection from black hole-neutron star binaries - Koutarou Kyutoku (RIKEN)

15:03 Fast luminous blue transients from newborn black holes - Kazumi Kashiyama (University of California, Berkeley)
15 - Binaries: ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

14:00 The ultraluminous pulsar - Matteo Bachetti (INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari)

14:25 Across the Eddington boundary: examining disc spectra at high accretion rates - Andrew Sutton (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center)

14:50 Sub-Eddington accretion in neutron star X-ray binaries - Rudy Wijnands (University of Amsterdam)

15:20 NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observation of SAX J1808.4-3658 during the latest outburst - Tiziana Di Salvo (University of Palermo)
16 - Black holes
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

14:00 XMM-Newton's impact on Relativistic Astrophysics: Black Holes - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

14:21 Relativistic tidal disruption events: what do we learn from their rate distribution? - Immacolata Donnarumma (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

14:42 Un-Beamed Tidal Disruption Events at Hard X-Rays - Krzysztof Hryniewicz (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre)

15:02 IGR J17361-4441: a possible planetary tidal disruption event in NGC 6388 - Melania Del Santo (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

15:22 Relativistic line reverberation mapping in tidal disruption events - Wenfei Yu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

15:42 Tidal disruption events induced by the Kozai-Lidov mechanism - Naoki Seto
18 - Gal. accel. & pulsars: Pulsars
Pulsars
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

14:00 Numerical Models For Superfluid Neutron Stars With Realistic Equation Of State And Application To Pulsar Glitches - Aurélien Sourie (LUTH - Observatoire de Paris)

14:21 Multi-scale modelling of pulsar glitches - Brynmor Haskell (The University of Melbourne)

14:42 The role of general relativity and reconnection in pulsar radiation - Benoit Cerutti (Princeton University)

15:02 The shape of a pulsar radio beam: fan beams, not the nested cones. - Jaroslaw Dyks (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center)

15:22 A new view on the Lighthouse Nebula, IGR J11014-6103 - Lucia Pavan (University of Geneva)

15:42 A model for distortions of polarisation angle in radio pulsars - Lab Saha (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Torun, Poland)
10 - Cosmic magnetic fields: Probes
Probes
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

14:00 Cosmic magnetic fields and ways of probing them - Philipp Kronberg (University of Toronto)

14:25 Galactic magnetic fields - Andrew Fletcher

14:45 Probing the Intergalactic Magnetic Fields by means of high-energy pair halos around extreme blazars - PAOLO DA VELA (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)

15:05 Lower limits on the magnetic field strength in the early universe - Reinhard Schlickeiser (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)

15:25 The Plasma Physics of TeV Blazars - Philip Chang
09 - Cosmic neutrinos
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

14:00 Joint Constraints on Neutrino Masses from Cosmology and Particle Physics - Martina Gerbino (University of Rome 'Sapienza')

14:21 Clustering, lensing, and ISW-RS from the DEMNUni neutrino simulations - Carmelita Carbone (National Institute for Astrophysics - INAF)

14:42 Simulating the effect of massive neutrinos on large-scale structure - Simeon Bird (Johns Hopkins University)

15:03 Neutrino masses and cosmology with Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum - Christophe Yeche

15:24 Massive neutrinos and their effect on the large scale structure of the Universe - Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro (OATS-INAF)
19 - VHE & CR: Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

14:00 Probing the Extragalactic Background Light with VERITAS - Elisa Kay Pueschel (University College Dublin)

14:21 Broadband characterisation and physical implications from the most extreme X-ray flaring activity of the high-peaked BL Lac Mrk 501 - Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (NASA GSFC)

14:42 Very fast TeV gamma-ray variability from the non-aligned AGN IC 310: Insight into Black Hole Lightnings - Pierre Colin (MPI fuer Physik)

15:03 A bright gamma-ray flare from the blazar B2 1215+30 detected by VERITAS and Fermi-LAT - Floriana Zefi (LLR - Ecole Polytechnique)

15:24 Non-thermal particle acceleration in astrophysical shear flows. - Frank Rieger (MPIK and Univ. of Heidelberg)
04 - Dark energy
14:00 - 15:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

14:00 Planck 2015 results on Dark Energy and Modified Gravity - Matteo Martinelli (ITP, Heidelberg)

14:26 Tensions Between CMB and Weak Lensing Data Sets when Testing General Relativity - Jason Dossett (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera)

14:53 Constraints on induced gravity dark energy models - Mario Ballardini (University of Bologna)

15:19 Cold dark energy and cosmological parameter estimation - Caroline Heneka (Dark Cosmology Centre, Copenhagen)
15:45 Coffee break and poster session
Coffee break and poster session
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Level 0, Lobby

16:15 .
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16:15 - 18:45
15 - Binaries: ULX and LMXB
ULX and LMXB
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 3
Contributions

16:15 Hot Plasma Emissions in the Ultra-compact Binary Pulsar 4U 1626-67 - Norbert S. Schulz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

16:35 Luminosity dependent change of the emission diagram in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1626-67 - Filippos Koliopanos (Research Institute in Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP), Toulouse, France)

16:55 Presence of a third body orbiting around XB 1916-053. - Rosario Iaria (Univ. di Palermo - DSFC)

17:15 Missing hard states and regular outbursts: the puzzling case of the BHC 4U 1630–472 - Fiamma Capitanio (IAPS-INAF)

17:35 Glitches and anti-glitches in accreting pulsars: expected properties and observability - Lorenzo Ducci (University of Tuebingen)

17:51 Understanding supernova kicks and black-hole spins in Galactic X-ray binaries - Anastasios Fragkos (University of Geneva)

18:08 Angular momentum loss by gravitational radiation in x-ray binaries with neutron stars - Kadri Yakut (University of EGE) Tuğçe İÇLİ
16 - Black holes
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 17
Contributions

16:15 The Athena/X-IFU X-ray view of Hot and Energetic Universe: probing the Black Hole environment - Xavier Barcons (Instituto de Física de Cantabria (CSIC-UC))

16:40 How accreting black holes may shape their surroundings through AGN feedback - Wako Ishibashi (ETH Zurich)

17:00 Direct formation of supermassive black holes; from mergers of protogalaxies to global relativistic collapse - Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

17:20 Cosmological mass transport on galactic nuclei and the formation of high redshift quasars. - andres escala (Universidad de chile)

17:40 Does the obscured AGN fraction really depend on luminosity? - Sergey Sazonov (Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia)

18:00 Mildly obscured active galaxies and the diffuse X-ray background - Valentino Esposito

18:20 Disentangling AGN and Star Formation Contributions in the Central Parsec of NGC 4945 - Ingyin Zaw (NYU Abu Dhabi)

18:23 An eclipsing binary black hole in MRK 421 - Erika Benitez (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)) Sergio Mendoza (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico)

18:26 The high energy spectrum of 3C 273 - Valentino Esposito
18 - Gal. accel. & pulsars: Pulsars
Pulsars
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 23
Contributions

16:15 Progress on the knowledge of magnetic fields in neutron stars - Norbert Schartel (ESA)

16:35 General-relativistic pulsars magnetospheres - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)

16:55 Relativistic pulsar winds: structure, shocks, reconnection. - Maxim Lyutikov

17:15 PICsar: Particle in Cell Pulsar Simulations - Mikhail Belyaev (UC Berkeley/TAC)

17:35 Effect of geodetic precession on the evolution of pulsar high-energy pulse profiles as derived with the striped-wind model. - Jérôme Pétri (Université de Strasbourg)

17:55 The Crab pulsar: Examining its profile and deriving high precision X-ray ephemerides - Guillaume Belanger (ESA)
10 - Cosmic magnetic fields: Probes
Probes
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 13
Contributions

16:15 Constraints on Primordial Magnetic Fields from Planck 2015 - Daniela Paoletti (INAF and INFN)

16:35 Prospects of constraining primordial magnetic fields using their effects on CMB, LSS and ionization history - Kerstin Kunze (University of Salamanca)

16:55 Primordial Magnetism in CMB - Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)

17:15 Parity odd CMB power spectrum via helical magnetic field. - Hector Javier Hortua (Universidad Nacional)
09 - Cosmic neutrinos
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level -1, Room 16
Contributions

16:15 Constraining non-standard neutrino scenarios with Planck 2015 - Massimiliano Lattanzi (University of Ferrara)

16:37 Sterile neutrinos with secret interactions - Maria Archidiacono

16:59 Constraining sterile neutrinos with lyman alpha forest - Antonella Garzilli (Leiden University)

17:20 A loophole to the electromagnetic cascade theory : Solving the lithium problem with a sterile neutrino. - Vivian Poulin (Unite Reseaux du CNRS (FR))

17:41 The effective number of neutrinos: standard and non-standard calculations - Pablo Fernández de Salas (IFIC - CSIC/Universidad de Valencia)

18:02 Higher-order massive neutrino perturbations in large-scale structure - Florian Führer (Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Heidelberg)

18:22 Neutrinos beyond the linear regime: a new theoretical approach - Hélène DUPUY

18:42 Decoherence of cosmological massive neutrinos - Daniel Boriero
19 - VHE & CR: Blazars and EBL
Blazars and EBL
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 0, Room 4
Contributions

16:35 FACT: Monitoring TeV Blazars with Silicon Photomultipliers - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

16:55 MWL characterization of the blazar S5 0716+714 by MAGIC during its brightest outburst - Marina Manganaro (IAC)

17:15 The first detection of the blazar S4 0954+65 at very-high energies with the MAGIC Telescopes during an exceptionally high optical state - Giovanna Pedaletti (DESY)

17:35 Flat spectrum radio quasars at very high energies: the new detection of PKS 1441+25 - Josefa Becerra Gonzalez (NASA GSFC)

17:55 Evidence for quasi-periodic modulation in the gamma-ray blazar PG 1553+113 - Antonio Stamerra (INAF-OATo / SNS-Pisa)

18:15 Multi-wavelength observations on the gamma-ray periodic blazar PG1553+113 - Gareth Hughes (ETH Zurich)

18:35 The long-term optical study of VHE blazars - Omar Kurtanidze (Abastumani Observatory)
03 - Modifications of gravity
16:15 - 18:45
Room: Level 2, Room 14
Contributions

16:15 The radial velocity profile of the filament galaxies in the vicinity of the Virgo cluster as a test of gravity - Jounghun Lee (Seoul National University)

16:35 A Universal velocity dispersion profile for pressure supported systems: evidence for MONDian gravity across 12 orders of magnitude in mass - Reginaldo Durazo (Instituto de Astronomía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

16:55 Searching for new short-range forces using optically levitated microspheres - David Moore (Stanford University)

17:25 The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings - Jurgen Mifsud (Consortium for Fundamental Physics, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sheffield)

17:45 Lorentz violation in gravity - Diego Blas Temino (CERN)

18:10 Is the Ni's solution of the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff problem without the maximum-mass limit applicable to the real neutron stars? A discussion - Lubos Neslusan (Astronomical Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 05960 Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia)

18:13 A relativistic metric extension of gravity based in the dynamics and lensing of individual, groups and clusters of galaxies - Sergio Mendoza (Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM))

18:16 Varying constants entropic cosmology - Hussain Gohar (University of Szczecin, Poland)

18:19 Kaluza-Klein cosmological model in $f(R,T)$ gravity with $\Lambda(T) - Pradyumn Kumar Sahoo (Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Hyderabad Campus)

18:22 A Palatini formalism for MOND in $f(\chi)$ gravity - Ernesto Barrientos Rodríguez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

18:25 Anisotropic Spherically Symmetric Collapsing Star From Higher Order Derivative Gravity Theory - Hossein Ghaffarnejad (Semnan University of IRAN)
19:30 Public talk
19:30 - 21:30
Room: Auditoire Piaget (U600)
Contributions

19:30 Einstein’s legacy: 100 years of general relativity - Michael KRAMER (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie)