Oral title: Polar dust in AGN: a case study of Circinus galaxy

Oral abstract: Recent high angular resolution observations resolved for the first time the MIR structure of nearby AGN, 
surprisingly revealing that a major fraction of their MIR emission comes from the polar regions. We propose a 
phenomenological dust emission model for the AGN in the Circinus galaxy consisting of a dusty disc and a dusty cone 
shell, illuminated by a tilted accretion disc with an anisotropic emission pattern. Our radiative transfer simulations 
demonstrate that such a model is able to explain its peculiar MIR morphology and account for the entire IR spectral 
energy distribution.