MONDAY, MAY 2

1:00-1:15 PM

Welcome

1:15-2:30 PM

KEYNOTE TALK: Karen Leighly

2:30-3:00 PM

Coffee

3:00-4:30 PM

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SESSION I: Black hole masses and accretion disk structure

Misty Bentz

Georgia State

Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping and Stellar Dynamics

Kelly Denney*

Ohio State

On the Reliability of CIV-based Black Hole Masses: We're Making Progress

Merida Batiste*

Georgia State

Improving Calibration of the MBH - σ⋆Relation for AGN with the BRAVE Program

Michael Fausnaugh**

Ohio State

Reverberation Mapping of Accretion Disks

Yasaman Yazdi**

Perimeter

Accretion in Radiative Equipartition (AiRE) Disks

Chia-Ying Chiang*

Wayne State

Modeling the Extreme X-ray Spectrum of IRAS 13224-3809

4:30-6:30 PM

Poster Session and Reception

TUESDAY, MAY 3

9:00-10:30 AM

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SESSION I: Black hole masses and accretion disk structure (continued)

Daniel Capellupo*

McGill

A New Spectroscopic Look at AGN Accretion Discs and Black Hole Spin

SESSION II: The structure and kinematics of the broad line region

Anna Pancoast*

Harvard-Smithsonian

Inflow in the Broad Line Region

Knox Long

STScI

Attempts to Reproduce the Rest-Frame UV Spectra of AGN from a Biconical Wind?

Aycha Tammour**

Western

Insights from Unsupervised Clustering Into the Physical Properties Driving Quasar UV Spectral Features

Triana Almeyda**

RIT

Modeling the Dusty Torus Reverberation Response in Active Galactic Nuclei

SESSION III: Absorbing outflows

Tracey Jane Turner

UMBC

Measuring Light Echoes in NGC 4051

10:30-11:00 AM

Coffee & Posters

11:00AM-12:00PM

DISCUSSION I: Brad Peterson & Joe Shields

12:00-1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30-3:00 PM

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SESSION III: Absorbing outflows (continued)

Catherine Grier*

Penn State

Broad Absorption Line Variability in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasars

Sean McGraw**

Ohio U.

Quasar Outflow Kinematics and Energetics using Absorption Line Variability Studies

Emily Moravec**

Florida

HST and ground-based spectroscopy of quasar outflows: From BALs to mini-BALs

Christopher Culliton**

Penn State

Probing Quasar Winds Using Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Lines

Michael Rodruck**

Penn State

A Search for Variability of Intrinsic Narrow Absorption Line Systems in the Keck/HIRES and VLT/UVES Archives

Nathalie Thibert**

Western

Applying Hierarchical Clustering to Broad Absorption Line Profiles for Quasar Classification

3:00-3:30 PM

Coffee & Posters

3:30-5:00 PM

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SESSION III: Absorbing outflows (continued)

James Reeves

UMBC

Broad Soft X-ray Absorption Lines from the Quasar Wind in PDS 456

Robyn Smith**

Maryland

Further Biases in the Reverberation-Mapped Quasar Sample

SESSION IV: Quasar fueling and feedback

Nicholas Ross

Edinburgh

The Curious Case of the Disappearing (and Appearing) Quasars

Jessie Runnoe*

Penn State

Now you see them, now you don't: quasars with disappearing central engines

Scott Barrows*

Colorado

Spatially Offset AGN as Tracers of Supermassive Black Hole Growth Amidst Galaxy Mergers

Gerold Busch**

Cologne

Nearby AGN and QSO hosts observed with near-infrared integral-field spectroscopy

6:00 PM

Banquet at Windermere Manor with guest of honour Dan Weedman

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

9:00-9:45 AM

DISCUSSION II: Niel Brandt & Gordon Richards

9:45-10:15 AM

Coffee & Posters

10:15-11:30 AM

ORAL CONTRIBUTIONS

SESSION IV: Quasar fueling and feedback (continued)

Travis Fischer*

NASA’s Goddard

NLR Outflows In QSO2s : Implications for quasar-mode feedback

Rebecca Nevin**

Colorado

Moderate Luminosity AGN Outflows as Probes of Feedback

SESSION V: Quasar demographics and evolution

Chien-Ting Chen*

Penn State

A NuSTAR selected sample of AGNs in low-mass galaxies

Mallory Molina**

Penn State

Three LINERs Under the Hubble Spectral Microscope

Krista Lynne Smith**

Maryland

Circumnuclear Star Formation and the FIR-Radio Correlation in the BAT AGN Sample

11:30AM-12:15PM

DISCUSSION III: Mike Eracleous & Eilat Glikman

12:15 PM

Announcement of Award Winners & Closing