SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

ESO Workshop on:

"Obscured AGN across Cosmic Time"

Seeon, Bavaria, Germany, 5-8 June 2007

http://www.eso.org/agnii2007


SCIENTIFIC TOPICS

Multiwavelength identification of Type 2 AGN: X-ray, optical, mid-IR,
submillimeter and radio selection.

Structure and origin of the obscuration, connection to Type 1 AGN,
detailed studies of local AGN.

AGN feedback processes: observations and theory.

Host galaxy properties: star formation, masses, M-sigma relation.

Lyman alpha blobs and haloes, extended emission.

Large scale environments.


INVITED REVIEW TALKS

Dave Alexander:     "Identification of AGN in X-ray surveys"
Mitch Begelman:     "AGN feedback mechanisms: a theoretical perspective"
Philip Best:        "Identification of AGN in radio surveys"
Reinhard Genzel:    "The lurking black hole in the Galactic center"
Guenther Hasinger:  "Cosmic evolution of AGN"
Tim Heckman:        "Stellar properties of host galaxies"
Matt Lehnert:       "AGN feedback mechanisms: an observational perspective"
Roberto Maiolino:   "The nature and structure of obscuration"
Raffaella Morganti: "Lessons from local AGN"
Marek Sikora:       "The difference between radio-loud and radio-quiet AGN"
Daniel Stern:       "Identification of AGN in mid-IR surveys"
Nadia Zakamska:     "Identification of AGN in optical surveys"


CONFERENCE FORMAT

In addition to the invited review talks, the SOC will select about 10
targeted talks (20+5 minutes) to discuss recent high-impact results
and about 35 contributed talks. Instead of posters, we will have at
least two one-hour sessions with short (5 minutes) oral presentations.
There will be no proceedings, but we will encourage the speakers to
make their presentations available through the conference website.


REGISTRATION

If you are interested in participating in this workshop, please
register online at
http://www.eso.org/gen-fac/meetings/agnii2007/registform.html 
We strongly encourage students and postdocs to apply. 
Please note that the attendance is limited to 120 participants. 
A list of accepted contributions and a preliminary programme will be
announced on 22 March 2007.

The conference registration fee is fixed at 100 Euros. Full board at
the conference hotel costs 131.50 Euros per day. The total lodging
cost for the 3.5 days of the conference is 500 Euros.


LOCATION

The conference will be held at Kloster Seeon, a recently renovated 10th 
century Benedictine monastery near lake Chiemsee. This state-of-the-art 
conference center includes a 3-star hotel with 88 rooms and a restaurant 
proposing excellent cuisine with regional specialities. Seeon is located 
halfway between Munich and Salzburg at the foothills of the southern 
Bavarian Alps.

Detailed information about the venue can be found at 
http://www.kloster-seeon.de/seeon_engl/index.html


ORGANIZERS

SOC: Jacqueline Bergeron (IAP), Carlos De Breuck (ESO, co-Chair),
Robert Fosbury (ST-ECF), Guinevere Kauffmann (MPA), Julian Krolik
(JHU), Ari Laor (Technion), Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO), Patrick Ogle
(SSC), Steve Rawlings (Oxford), Daniel Stern (JPL), Wil van Breugel
(LLNL and UC Merced), Joel Vernet (ESO, co-Chair), Montserrat
Villar-Martin (IAA)

LOC: Carlos De Breuck, Joel Vernet, Robert Fosbury, Vincenzo Mainieri, 
Christina Stoffer, Britt Sjoeberg, Pamela Bristow


Please circulate this message to other interested colleagues.

Carlos De Breuck, Joel Vernet and Vincenzo Mainieri
On behalf of the LOC/SOC