Seminars

Seminars take place in the lecture room of the Spořilov building (see contacts) unless noted otherwise.

Scheduled seminars

Appearance and dynamics of accretion onto black holes

Czech-Polish Collaboration

Series of 15 min talks will be presented to start hands-on work and initiate further discussions related to the project meeting of the Czech-Polish Collaboration during the week of 5-9 November (starting on Tuesday afternoon; exact timing is to be decided). Program: Vladimír Karas: Welcome, The origins of strong-gravity lensing projects in Prague and elsewhere • • Bozena Czerny: First successful measurement of the Hubble constant from reverberation mapping of NGC 5548 • • Michal Zajaček: How can we utilize the planned small UV space telescope QUVIK for solving unresolved AGN problems? • • Henry Best: Reverberation mapping in strongly lensed AGN • • Izzy Garland: Large-scale galactic bars as a secular mechanism for black hole growth • • Amit Kumar Mandal: Discrepancies in AGN Corona Height Measurements: Insights from X-ray and Optical Studies • • Matus Labaj: Compact star clusters hosting an intermediate mass black hole: 3D magnetohydrodynamic study of inflow-outflow dynamics • • Vaclav Pavlik: Dynamics of star associations in an SMBH-IMBH system • • Petra Sukova: Quasi-periodic outflows from star-disc interaction • • Sudeb Datta: Investigating the consistency of the shape and flux of X-ray reflection spectra in the hard state with an accretion disk reaching close to the black hole • • Petr Kurfürst: Current state and future developments in star-jet interactions models • • ... • • Individual work and discussions • • Visit to Klementinum Libraries: https://www.en.nkp.cz/about-us/specialist-and-cultural-events/exhibitions

Location: ASU Praha-Spořilov

Room 101 (ground floor), https://astro.cas.cz/contact; Zoom: t.b.d.

Joint Journal Club

TBD

Joint Journal Club in Sporilov. Two papers will be presented: - From GPS/ASU, [TBD] - From STE/ASU, [TBD] Connection via Zoom: Meeting ID: 89935226565 Password: 8416 Scheduled time: 14/11/2024 10:30 CET (09:30 UTC) Duration: 120 minutes Meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89935226565?pwd=Reaajk9fZurC67uWOpPaggNOaeTEad.1

Location: GPS/ASU and Zoom

If you would like to give a seminar, please contact Georgios Loukes-Gerakopoulos or Vladimír Karas.

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