Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:15:45 +0200 (MEST)

From: Alessandro Marconi <marconi@arcetri.astro.it>

To: boch@sai.msu.ru

Subject: Summer school on AGNs and VLTI

Dear Colleague,

here is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer

school on "Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory

and  observations". Please, circulate it to anyone who might be

interested.

We apologize if you will receive this email more than once.

Alessandro Marconi & Andrzej Niedzielski

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

VLTI Summer School on:

Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and 

observations

August 27 - September 7, Torun, Poland

This is the first announcement and call for applications for a VLTI summer

school on

"Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest angular resolution: theory and 

observations"

which will be held in Torun, Poland from August 27 to September 7 2007.

Applications are open at the school web page:

http://www.vlti.org/

DEADLINE for applications is **** JUNE 25th, 2007 ****

This school is intended for PhD students and young post-docs working in the

field of Active Galactic Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes.

The number of participants is restricted to 50 and we expect to fund full

living and travel expenses of all PhD students and most young post-docs.

Participants will be selected ensuring a broad coverage of institutes and

countries, and on motivation and domain of expertise. Non-european

nationals are encouraged to apply.

SCHOOL THEME

Active galactic nuclei are a quickly evolving and exciting field of

research at the forefront of modern astrophysics. The aim of this school is

to present the most recent observational developments on AGNs and

Supermassive Black Holes and to provide a description of these high angular

resolution techniques with a special emphasis on observations with the Very

Large Telescope Interferometer.

The school is composed of two series of lectures. The first series will

provide and overview of AGN observations and theoretical models including

special lectures on AGN observations with adaptive optics and

interferometry, including existed and planned facilities like VLTI and

ALMA. The second series of lectures will introduce the basic concepts of

interferometry, its applications at optical and near infrared wavelengths

and, with the aid of practical sessions, the students will learn to

transform their ideas in VLTI observational proposals and will know how to

work with VLTI interferometry data.

CONFIRMED LECTURERS

Clive Tadhunter (University of Sheffield, UK), "An introduction to AGNs and

the unified model"

Brad Peterson (Ohio State University, USA), "The Central Black Hole and its

relations with the host galaxy"

Andrew King (University of Leicester, UK), "The accretion disk and the 

launching of jets and winds"

Hagai Netzer (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)e, "The Broad and Narrow Line

Regions"

Moshe Elitzur (University of Kentucky, USA), "The obscuring torus"

Sylvain Veilleux (University of Maryland, USA), "AGN host galaxies"

Klaus Meisenheimer (Max-Planck-Institut fЭr Astronomie Heidelberg,

Germany), "VLTI: observations and future prospects

for AGN studies"

Roberto Maiolino (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma), "ALMA: prospects

for AGN studies"

Ric Davies  (Max-Planck-Institut fЭr Extraterrestrische Physik, Germany),

"Adaptive optics: observations and prospects for

AGN studies"

SCHOOL ORGANIZATION

This school is organized by:

INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Italy (Alessandro Marconi)

Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland (Andrzej Niedzielsky).

Scientific Organizing Committee:

David Axon (USA), Annalisa Celotti (I), Bozena Czerny (PL), Ari Laor (IL),

Alessandro Marconi (I, chair), Duccio Macchetto (ESA), Jorge Melnick (ESO),

Andrzej Niedzielski (PL, co-chair), Guy Perrin (F, co-chair), Huub

Rottgering (NL), Helene Sol (F), Linda Tacconi (D), Nektarios Vlahakis (G),

Gerd Weigelt (D)

Local Organizing Committee:

Andrzej Niedzielski (Chair), Monika Krzeminska (Secretary), Piotr Waz,

Tomek Laczkowski, Pawel Zielinski, Stanislaw Krawczyk

This school is part of the ONTHEFRINGE  project

(http://www.vlti.org/project.php?cid=2), a Marie Curie Series of School

designed to train young astronomers in optical interferometry. The program

is one of the activities of the European Interferometric Initiative. It is

supported by 15 EU member states, including new member states, and thus

integrates the entire European optical interferometry community.

Project partners are: Centro de AstrofМsica da Universidade do Porto,

European Southern Observatory, Observatoire de Paris, Max Planck Institute

for Astronomy - Heidelberg, INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri.