The Guillermo Haro Workshop on AGN Surveys June 23 to July 11, 2003

• Topics
• Format of the workshop
• List of External Participants
• Talks in General Session
• Discussion Groups
• Public Talks in Puebla
• Computing Information
• Cultural Program
• Weekend excursions
• Map of campus
• Local Information
• How to arrive from Mexico City  to Tonantzintla

• Results from surveys of AGN in various wavebands
• Luminosity function and evolution of AGN from surveys at different wavelengths
• AGN contribution to the Cosmic Background
• Implications for the local density mass of relic Black Holes
• Connection with the host galaxies
• Coevolution of AGN and galaxies
• New classes of AGN and issues on unification of AGN

 

The "AGN Surveys" workshop (June 23 to July 11, 2003) is organized as part of the Guillermo Haro Program in Astrophysics, and it will be held at the premises of INAOE, in Puebla, Mexico.  As in previous Guillermo Haro Workshops, a selected group of experts from all over the world have been  invited to work together in Tonantzintla.

The format of the workshop is different from "classical" workshops. Although there will be time for presentations, the main goal of the workshop will be to spend most of the time in discussions, exchanging ideas and working in collaboration with other participants. The possibility of getting together a team of world-class researchers and graduate students for a significant period of time, in a pleasant environment, with the necessary research tools,
and far away from every-day life distractions is a unique opportunity to have long and deep discussions, and to concentrate on carrying out real work.  Existing collaborations, and those that will develop during the workshop, can lead to a significant and rapid progress of the field.

The format of the Guillermo Haro workshops is  very flexible in order to facilitate the activities between participants and to optimize any scientific outcome. Therefore format and program of the workshop have still to be defined. Yet, the general idea is that each each morning there will be 2-3 presentations (about 45 min each), with ample time for discussions. Each of the participants is welcome to present his/her work during one of these sessions.  During the afternoon we will alternatively organize a discussion on specific topics and working groups on different areas. Much time will be left free for the participants to discuss, to work in team on existing collaborations, or on those that will develop during the workshop, or even to work on their own projects.

Keep in mind that the facilities of INAOE (offices, library, computer services, etc) will be available to all participants.
 

 

Name	Insitution	Dates	Username	Office	Bungalow
Alexander David	IoA  Cambridge	27 jun - 11 jul	davo	2301	17
Andernach Heinz	DA-UGto	25 jun - 11 jul	heinz	8220	13
Antonucci Ski	University of California	23 jun - 29 jun	ski	2309	30
Benitez Erika	IA-UNAM	29 jun - 11 jul	erika	1315	24
Binette Luc	IA-UNAM	23 jun - 11 jul	binette	1307	-
Boisson Catherine	Observatoire de Paris	29 jun - 12 jul	boisson	2309	30
Brandt Niel	Penn State University	27 jun - 3 jul	bneil	1322	28
Brusa Marcella	Osservatorio di  Bologna	22 jun - 4 jul	marcella	1313	23
Carilli Chris	NRAO	19 jun - 9 jul	ccarilli	2305	3
Comastri Andrea	Osservatorio di  Bologna	22 jun - 4 jul	comastri	2315	11
Cruz-Gonzalez Irene	IA-UNAM	7 jul - 11 jul	irene	1313	27
Dultzin Deborah	IA-UNAM	23 jun - 29 jun	deborah	1313	29
Georgantopoulos Ioannis	National Obs. of  Athens	23 jun - 1 jul	ig	2315	21
Green Paul	CfA-Harvard	29 jun - 11 jul	pgreen	1317	16
Holberg Jay	LPL, University of Arizona	24 jun - 27 jun	jay	1322	16
Joly Monique	Observatoire de Paris	29 jun - 12 jul	monique	2309	29
Lutz Dieter	MPE	22 jun - 11 jul	lutz	1315	8
Mainieri Vincenzo	MPE	29 jun - 5 jul	vmainieri	1322	UNAM B
Maiolino Roberto	Osservatorio di Arcetri	23 jun - 11 jul	maiolino	2301	18
Marconi Alessandro	Osservatorio di Arcetri	23 jun - 5 jul	marconi	2306	27
Mazzarella Joe	IPAC	5 jul - 12 jul	mazz	1303	23
Mickaelian Areg	BAO	22  jun - 12 jul	aregmick	1309	UNAM  A
Nagar Neil	Groningen University	23 jun - 9 jul	neil	2312	15
Risaliti Guido	Osservatorio di Arcetri	23 jun - 8 jul	risaliti	1320	12
Rosa Daniel	Imperial College	23 jun - 11 jul	danrosa	1323	-
Schmitt Henrique	NRAO	6 jul - 12 jul	hschmitt	1313	28
Stepanian Jivan	IA-UNAM	23 jun - 11 jul	jstep	2312	UNAM  A
Veron Mira	Observatoire Haute Provence	21 jun - 5 jul	mirav	1303	4
Veron Philippe	Observatoire Haute Provence	21 jun - 5 jul	philippe	1303	4
Zickgraf Franz-Josef	Hamburger Sternwarte	28 jun - 11 jul	franz	2308	7


 

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Talks in General Session

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Schedule:
•  9:00 -11:00   General Session (Seminars) at Auditorio Docente(No. 9 in the map)
• 11:00-13:00   Coffee Break at Sala Guillermo Haro and free session( letter C on the map)
• 13:00-15:00   Lunch at Sala de Eventos(No. 4 in the map)
• 15:00-18:00   Discussion(s)
• 18.00-19.30   Free session
• 19:30                Departure to Dinner in Cholula or Puebla

 

            Schedule (Preliminary)




Date	Talks	Discussion
jun23	Maiolino	Veron's
jun24	Antonucci / Nagar	Antonucci/Maiolino
jun25	Marconi /  Veron	Nagar
jun26	Lutz   / Carrasco	Marconi/Nagar
jun27	Georgantopoulos/ Impey	Comastri/Georgantopoulos
jun30	Alexander/ Comastri	Brandt/Comastri
jul01	Brandt/Stepanian	Lutz
jul02	Risaliti/Brusa	Risaliti
jul03	Mainieri/Zickgraf	Free
jul04	Binette/Boisson	Veron
Jul07	Green /Joly	Boisson/Joly
jul08	Visit to the LMT site	Visit to the LMT site
jul09	Schmitt/Mickaelian	Schmitt
jul10	Mazzarella/Andernach (Guillermo Haro Hall)	Andernach/Mazzarella
jul11	Chavushyan/Benitez/Mujica/Maiolino(Guillermo Haro Hall)


 

Talks in the General Sessions
 

Name	Talk	Laptop
Alexander David	The 2Ms Chandra Deep Field-North survey	Yes
Andernach Heinz	Accessibility and exploitation of "published" extragalactic data:  public and private efforts	No
Antonucci Ski	A preliminary report on a 12u imaging survey of 3C sources with the Keck telescope: which radio galaxies have hidden quasars in their nuclei?	No
Benitez Erika
Binette Luc	Can intergalactic absorption affects the observed EUV energy distribution of quasars?	Yes
Boisson Catherine		Yes
Brandt Niel	Chandra Surveys of the Highest Redshift Active Galaxies:  X-rays from the First Massive Black Holes	No
Brusa Marcella	Hard X-ray observations of Extremely Red Objects: new results from Chandra and XMM
Carilli Chris	Surveys of high redshift AGN at centimeter and millimeter wavelengths	No
Comastri Andrea	X-ray background synthesis models: facts and fictions	Yes
Dultzin Deborah	An H-R Diagram for AGN?
Georgantopoulos Ioannis	The XMM-Newton/2df survey: a glimpse  of the bright X-ray  Universe	Yes
Green Paul	Intermediate Depth X-ray Surveys and the  Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP)	Yes
Joly Monique	Stellar Population Synthesis	Yes
Lutz Dieter	Infrared spectroscopy of AGN	Yes
Mainieri Vincenzo	New results from a 1 Msec XMM-Newton observation of the Lockman Hole	No
Maiolino Roberto	Elusive AGN and the local density of active nuclei	Yes
Marconi Alessandro	Supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei: demography and relation with AGN activity	Yes
Mazzarella Joe	Results from Multiwavelength Broadband and CO(J=1-0) Line Imaging of Luminous and Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies	No
Mickaelian Areg	Digitized first byurakan survery DFBS
Nagar Neil	Binary Black Holes in Merging Galaxies: Why we haven't seen them and how we can find them	Yes
Risaliti Guido	Mid-IR and hard X-ray observations of ULIRGs	Yes
Schmitt Henrique	The results of a multiwavelength study of Seyfert galaxies	Yes
Stepanian Jivan	The properties of the Second Byurakan Survey. Space density of low-redshifted AGN and QSOs.	No
Veron Mira	The unusual emission-line spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zw 1	No
Veron Philippe	The unusual emission-line spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy I Zw 1	No
Zickgraf Franz-Josef	The Hamburg/RASS Catalogue of Optical Identifications	No


 

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Discussion Groups


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Although workshop participants are welcome to freely associate themselves to discuss and  work together, we have proposed to form  discussion groups on the following topics.
 

• X-ray surveys and X-ray background:  Comastri  &  Brandt
• Unified model locally and at high redshift: Antonucci & Schmitt
• Radio and submm surveys: Carilli  & Nagar
• Optical surveys: Mira &  Philippe Veron
• Infrared surveys of AGN, AGN in ULIRGs and in LIRGs: Lutz & Maiolino
• Star formation in AGN hosts: Boisson  & Joly
• BH in AGN, Evolution of AGN vs local BH density:  Marconi


If you wish to propose any specific topic  for the discussion sessions,   please contact the people coordinating the group.
 
 


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Public Talks


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There will be two public talks in Puebla organized by the  GH programme :

 
Title: Why are We so Lonely? (Delivered in english)
Speaker :  Chris Impey (University of Arizona)
Friday  27th , 16:30pm,  in  Auditorio del Centro de Información (INAOE).

Title: La Escala Cósmica de Distancias. (Delivered in spanish)
Speaker :  Omar Lopez-Cruz (INAOE)
Friday  4th, 6pm, in  Salón de Proyecciones, Edificio Carolino (Puebla)
 
 

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Computing  Information


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• Computers: There are several PCs running under linux available to workshop participants. These are located in several offices.  There is also a  Computer Room in office 2318 with public PCs, workstations and printers. All workshop participants are welcome to use these computers.
 DON'T SWITCH OFF ANY OF THESE COMPUTERS, AS THEY HOST SEVERAL HOME DIRECTORIES
• Usernames: For most of the participants, they are the same as those in their home institutes, but please check the list
• Disk space: There aren't any quotas, but please maintain your account below the 4Gb occupancy.
• Printers: Please use the printers located  in the third floor, in room number 2318: lw, lw2 & lw4; room 1324: lw3 ; room 1304: lw5;  room 1324: lwhpc: colour).
• Printing transparencies: If you need to print colour transparencies in lwhpc, please ask Rosario Sanchez for the appropiate transparencies. This printer requires special sheets.
• DAT and Exabyte tapes:These should be read in the SUN workstations available in rooms 2318, you should contact Moises Reyes (Ext. 8123)
• Security IPs: If you require a  security IP, please telnet to one of the workstations at INAOE (tonali, acali, citlali, chiltin, tonatiuh, tlaloc) and use this as a platform. In particular, you will be able to read the electronic ApJ just from one of these stations.
• E-mail: Please use kmail to read your e-mail in the INAOE computers. The first time you use it, you will have to configure it:
1. In 'File', options 'Settings' suboption 'Identity', please fill in the fields 'Name' and 'Email Address'
2. In 'Network' select SMTP and fill in:
server: calmecac
Port: 25
3. In 'Incoming Mail' select 'Add', this will display another window in which you will have to fill in
Name: XXXXXXXXX
Login: xyz@inaoep.mx
Password:
Host: calmecac
Port: 110
   and  select 'Store POP password in config file'
4. Select 'Delete mail from server'
5. Save settings with OK

Other option is to use the webmail  http://www.inaoep.mx/webmail/
 
 




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Cultural Program

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Every Wednesday we will have a cinema projection at 18:00 in the Auditorio Docente . The films exhibited in our  program have been selected among the recent  Mexican production that has received  excellent reviews by the specialized press  and /or merited international awards. The  projection will be followed by a debate with one of the people involved in the  film.  After this we will offer a reception in Sala de Eventos.
 
 

Wednesday 25 june	6:30 p.m.	Centro de Información	Title: En la Mente del Asesino Debate with: Gustavo Montiel Pagés  Moro Films,  Director & Producer
Wednesday  2 july	6:30pm	Centro de Información	Title:  The General Debate with: Jose Maria Serralde(Pianist)
Wednesday  9 july	6:30pm	Centro de Información	Title: Zurdo Debate with: Carlos Salce Director

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Weekend Excursions


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On weekends, although you are welcome to work at INAOE, we encourage you to go out and get acquainted with the country. This is a perfect opportunity for you to bring back home a taste of Mexico outside of the INAOE  boundaries. We organize each weekend of the workshop an excursion to one of the nearby prominent touristic attractions, making special emphasis on the archeological and ethnological richness of the country, but we also devote time to enjoy ourselves in more mundane activites...

These excursions are organized by INAOE in a non-profitable way. The net cost of  the excursion will be charged to the interested people.

We propose the following options:
 

• First weekend:  saturday (Jun28):Teotihuacan (2 hrs by bus from INAOE)
                                            sunday  (Jun29):  Cacaxtla  (30 minutes by bus from INAOE)
• Second weekend (Jul 5-6): El Tajin and Costa Esmeralda (leaving on saturday
                and coming back on sunday)

You can have a look at the photographs of the excursions organized in past editions in the compilations gathered by Itziar Aretxaga and Soledad del Río.
 

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Map of campus


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Local Information




• Money: The Mexican currency is the peso ($). The present exchange rate with the U.S. dollar is about $10.90 = 1.0USD.  Please make sure you have some pesos with you BEFORE leaving the Mexico City airport, where there are plenty of currency exchange offices. Once in Mexico, not all places take US dollars or traveler's checks. Foreign credit cards are accepted in major restaurants, stores, and hotels. Best exchange rates are found in CASAS de CAMBIO (exchange houses) open only on weekdays, usually from 9 am to 5 pm. Most banks open only on weekdays, also from 9 am to 5 pm. The airport has 24 hour money exchange counters. USA cash or travelers checks are easier to change into pesos than other types of currency.    INAOE also has an on-site auto-teller (cash machine).
• Weather: Puebla is located at an altitude of 2200 meters (7100 feet).  During the workshop is the rainy season. This means that most  later  afternoons and early evenings it rains heavily for a few hours. The rest of the day is usually sunny and cloudless.The temperature varies from some 30 C (85-90 F) in the daytime to about 10 C (50 F) in the night/morning. Note that the air is thin, and it can get cool at night. We strongly recommend that you bring a good waterproof jacket.
• Language: Spanish is the official language in Mexico. Because Puebla is not overly frequented by tourists, only a few people speak English. We advise you to have a good dictionary and a phrasebook when you venture out.
• Swimming:   There is a small (unheated) swimming pool at INAOE.
• Food: Mexican cuisine is among the best in the world, but those visiting for the time should take some precautions. There are some spicy sauces (salsas picantes) which could be very aggressive to unaware mouths: before adding any sauce to your food, try a small amount of it in a piece of bread. Also, to avoid traveler's diarrhea (or any other stomach disease), do not drink tap water and do not eat raw fruits or vegetables without skin. Drink only bottled  water.
• Accommodation and food at INAOE: Rooms are usually reserved for workshop attendants. We will reserve you a room as soon as we have your dates of arrival and departure. Breakfast and lunch during weekdays are provided inside the premises of INAOE.
• Mexican culture and archeological sites in the region.

 

From Mexico City to Tonantzintla




• Puebla is a city of 2 million people located 120 kms east of Mexico City.  It has a national airport but with reduced traffic. Practically all foreign visitors arrive through Mexico City airport.
• Transportation from the Mexico City airport to Puebla: there is a comfortable bus service by "Estrella Roja" which runs from Mexico City airport to the city of Puebla every 30 minutes. These leave from the airport zone D, next to International Arrivals (zone E). The fare is $130.00 Pesos ($210.00 Pesos if you buy the return ticket) and is paid in a kiosk located in front the bus departing zone. The ride takes about two hours. Those wanting to see the volcanoes (once outside Mexico City!) should sit on the right hand side of the bus.
• Buses departing on the hour (13:00, 14:00, 15:00, etc...) arrive to the Puebla bus station, known locally as CAPU, while those departing on the half-hour (13:30, 14:30, 15:30, etc...) arrive to the Puebla bus station of "4 Poniente" located nearer to Puebla's downtown.   A sign with "CAPU", or "4 Pte" is placed in the bus  front window at Mexico City airport, so you will easily identify the correct bus. The last bus from the airport to Puebla/CAPU is at 23.00 hrs, and the last to Puebla/"4 Poniente" is at 00.20 hrs. However please click here  for a complete timetable. We recommend you to take the bus to Puebla/CAPU, where taxis have fixed prices.
•  If arriving to CAPU we recommend that you take a regulated taxi (white and yellow cars). You must buy  a ticket to Tonantzintla ($80 Pesos, add $8 Pesos if you arrive after 10:00 PM) from one of the kiosks with a TAXIS AUTORIZADOS  sign on it.  You buy the ticket before you get into the taxi. The ride to  INAOE,  Tonantzintla takes some 25  minutes.   In Tonantzintla, state that you are going to El Observatorio  if the driver does not appear to recognise INAOE.
•  If you arrive at the "4 Poniente" bus station in Puebla then there are only standard (black) taxis. It is recommended to fix the prize in advance (it should also be less or equal to $100 Pesos to Tonantzintla).
• We strongly advise you against taking taxis from Mexico City airport to Puebla as the fare will be astronomical (at least 1000 pesos).
•  Upon arriving at INAOE (at the main gates), ask for your "GH Workshop"  welcome package from the guards (on duty 24 hours). The  welcome package will contain keys to your bungalow and office,  a map of the campus (indicating how to find you bungalow, office and meeting rooms), the most current scientific programme, and other useful information (including cell-phone numbers for assistance).

 

Last modified by R. Mujica, July  28, 2003