Tuorla-Tartu annual meeting 2014: Small and Large scale Universe
Tuorla Observatory, 1-3 October 2014

Programme:

Wednesday (1st October)

09.00 Welcome

09.15 Elmo Tempel (Tartu): "Filamentary pattern in the cosmic web"

09.40 Heidi Lietzen (IAC): "Quasars as lighthouses for the cosmic navigation"

10.05 Maarja Bussov (Tartu): "Galaxy filaments as pearl necklaces"

10.30 Coffee

10.50 Quon Guo (AIP): "The influence of the cosmic web on the satellite luminosity function in the SDSS"

11.15 Sarah Bird (Tuorla): "Red Giants in the Halos of M87 and NGC 5128"

11.40 Roberto De Propris (FINCA): "Galaxy Close Pairs, Merger Rates and the growth (?) of dark matter halos"

12.05 Tiit Sepp (Tartu): "Is it better to get more right or less wrong"

12.30 Seppo Mattila (FINCA): "The cosmic core-collapse supernova rate"

12.55 Lunch

14.20 Juri Poutanen (Tuorla): "On the location of gamma-ray emitting region in blazars"

14.45 Elina Lindfors (Tuorla): "Recent highlights of the Magic Telescope"

15.10 Pauli Pihajoki (Tuorla): "Relativistic outflows from black hole accretion disk impacts"

15.35 Coffee

16.00 Juhan Liivamägi (Tartu): "Density field projection analysis"

16.25 Jukka Nevalainen (Tartu): "Finding and characterising WHIM structures using the luminosity density method"

16.50 Kalle Karhunen (Tuorla): "Environments and host galaxies of low redshift quasars - Now in colour!"

17.15 - END OF THE DAY -



17.45-20.00 Soccer and sauna



Thursday (2nd October)

09.00 Enn Saar (Tartu): "Super-large structures in the Universe"

09.25 Pasi Nurmi (Tuorla): "M/L of the groups and clusters in different LSS environments"

09.50 Pekka Heinämäki (Tuorla): "Giant radio galaxies and cosmic web"

10.15 Anoup Poudel (Tuorla): "Groups from multi-frequency observations"

10.40 Coffee

11.05 Kimmo Kettula (Helsinki): "Weak lensing calibrated scaling relations for galaxy groups and clusters in the COSMOS and CFHTLS fields"

11.30 Ghassem Gozaliasl (Helsinki): "Evolution of the galaxy luminosity function in progenitors of fossil groups"

11.55 Rain Kipper (Tartu): "Fundamental plane of galaxies and its environment dependence"

12.20 Taavi Tuvikene (Tartu): "Publishing astronomical databases: experience from Potsdam and Tartu"

12.45 Lluís Hurtado-Gil (IFCA-OAUV): "The ALHAMBRA Survey: Evolution of Galaxy Clustering with Segregation"

13.10 Lunch

14.35 Antti Rantala (Helsinki): "Simulating the Formation of Galaxies with Gadget-3+"

15.00 Laura Portinari (Tuorla): "Co-evolution of Black Holes and Galaxies : The role of selection biases"

15.25 Peter Johansson (Helsinki): "Modellling supermassive black holes in numerical simulations"

15.50 Coffee

16.10 Andrew Mason (FINCA): "Optical and X-ray detection of a new Be X-ray binary in the Galactic plane"

16.35 Alexis Finoguenov (Helsinki): "Insights on AGN halo occupation"

17.00 - END OF THE DAY -



18.15-23.00 Smoke sauna in Kavalto and some food. The Buss (leaves 18.15) will take you there and back.



Friday (3rd October)

09.00 Mauri Valtonen (FINCA): "Stability limit in the hierarchical three-body problem"

09.25 Gert Hüts (MPA-Garching): "Clustering of AGN in eROSITA all-sky survey"

09.50 Manuel Hohmann (Tartu): "Fluid dynamics on generalized geometric backgrounds"

10.15 Anne Lähteenmäki (Metsähovi): "Properties of Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies --- A look at their variability, multifrequency behaviour, and large-scale environments"

10.40 Coffee

11.05 Indrek Vurm (Columbia Uni.): "Radiative mechanisms in gamma-ray bursts"

11.30 Jimit Sanghvi (Tuorla): "The black hole - host galaxy relation for very low-mass quasars"

11.55 Jari Kotilainen (FINCA): "Gamma-ray Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies: relativistic jets in spirals?"

12.20 - END OF THE MEETING -

12.30 Lunch