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** Day 1 **

9.15-10.00 - Registration and opening + posters 

- X-RAY VARIABILITY AND TIME LAGS - chair: Erik Kuulkers

10.00 - 10.40 - invited talk (30+10) - De Marco - Spectral/timing properties of Active Galactic Nuclei

10.40 - 11.00 - contributed talk (15+5) - Uttley - Making sense of X-ray spectral-timing data

11.00 - 11.20 - contributed talk (15+5) - Alston - The flux-dependent reverberation delays in NGC 4051

11.20 - 11.40 - contributed talk (15+5) - Skipper - Very fast X-ray spectral variability in Cygnus X-1

11.40 -12.10 - coffee break

12.10 - 12.30 - contributed talk (15+5) - Legg - Direct time-domain detection of hard band reverberation in Ark 564

12.30 - 12.50 - contributed talk (15+5) - Kara - Revealing the X-ray source in IRAS 13224-3809 through flux-dependent reverberation lags

12.50 - 13.30 - open discussion (40) 

13.30 - 15.00 - lunch break.  

- SPECTRAL/TIMING VIEW OF XRBs - chair: Marion Cadolle Bel

15.00 - 15.40 - invited talk (30+10) - Casella - Spectral/timing properties of X-ray binaries

15.40 - 16.00 - contributed talk (15+5) - Altamirano - IGR J17091-3624 vs. GRS 1915+105: new results

16.00 - 16.20 - contributed talk (15+5) - Plant - The truncated and evolving inner accretion disc of the black hole GX 339-4

16.20 - 16.40 - contributed talk (15+5) - Kylafis - Interpretation of the hardness-luminosity diagram of black-hole X-ray binaries

16.40 -17.10 - coffee break

17.10-17.30 - contributed talk (15+5) - Linares - Linking pieces of the puzzle: luminosity-hardness correlation in accreting neutron stars.

17.30 17.50 - contributed talk (15+5) - Reig - Correlated X-ray timing and spectral behaviour in transient high-mass X-ray binaries

17.50 - 18.10 - contributed talk (15+5) - Contopoulos - The role of the Cosmic Battery in X-ray binaries

18.10 - 18.40 - open discussion (30)

** Day 2 ** 

 - WINDS AND OUTFLOWS - chair: Piergiorgio Casella

9.30 - 10.10 - invited talk (30+10) - Diaz-Trigo - Winds in X-ray binaries

10.10 - 10.50 - invited talk (30+10) - Tombesi - Winds in Active Galactic Nuclei

10.50 - 11.10 - contributed talk (15+5) - Miller - AGN winds and outflows seen in absorption and reverberation

11.10 -11.30 - contributed talk (15+5) - Binette - Relativistic wind to account for the far-UV continuum break in Quasars

11.30 -12.00 - coffee break

12.00-12.20 - contributed talk (15+5) - Longinotti - Emergence of an outflow in the Seyfert Galaxy Mrk 335 revealed by XMM-Newton and HST

12.20 12.40 - contributed talk (15+5) - Di Gesù - Simultaneous UV/X-ray observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H0419-577

12.40 - 13.00 - contributed talk (15+5) - Cappi - Analogies, differences and unifying aspects of black-hole driven massive outflows found in AGNs, QSOs, ULIRGs and galactic BH binaries

13.00 - 13.30 - open discussion (30)

13.30 - 15.00 lunch break.   

- ACCRETION AND UNIFICATION -  chair: Dmitry Klochkov

15.00 - 15.40 - invited talk (30+10) - Koerding - Unification of accretion in X-ray binaries

15.40 - 16.20 - invited talk (30+10) - Merloni - Unification of accretion from Black Hole Binaries to Active Galactic Nuclei

16.20 - 16.40 - contributed talk (15+5) - Scaringi - Broad-band variability properties of cataclysmic variables and their connections to XRBs/AGN

16.40 -17.10 - coffee break

17.10-17.30 - contributed talk (15+5) - Papitto -  A comparison between the spin distribution of recycled millisecond pulsars and their progenitors

17.30 17.50 - contributed talk (15+5) - Camero-Arranz - X-ray Binaries: The Optical/IR and X-ray Connection

17.50 - 18.10 - contributed talk (15+5) - Fischer - Determining Inclinations of Active Galactic Nuclei Via Their Narrow-Line Region Kinematics

18.10 - 18.40 - open discussion (30) 

** Day 3 ** 

- JETS AND EJECTIONS - chair: Jiri Svoboda

9.30 - 10.10 - invited talk (30+10) - Russell - Jets in X-ray binaries

10.10 - 10.50 - invited talk (30+10) - Panessa - Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei

10.50 - 11.10 - contributed talk (15+5) - Zdziarski - Contributions to hard X/ray and gamma-ray emission of black hole binaries from jets and accretion

11.10 - 11.30 - contributed talk (15+5) - Malzac - Spectra and fast multi-wavelength variability of compact jets powered by internal shocks

11.30 -11.50 - contributed talk (15+5) - Rushton - Spectral timing properties of the starved: Sgr A*

11.50 -12.10 - coffee break

12.10 -12.40 - open discussion

12.40 -13.00 - Final remarks

13.00 - 13.30 - closing discussion 

13.30 - workshop end

       Participants

- William Alston (University of Leicester)

- Diego Altamirano (Anton Pannekoek Institute)

- Ester Aranzana (ESAC/UCM)

- Marcio G. B. de Avellar (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas da USP) 

- Solen Balman (METU Physics Department)

- Luc Binette (Instituto de Astronomia, UNAM) 

 - Pere Blay (IPL - University of Valencia)

- Enrico Bozzo (ISDC)

- Peter Bult (Anton Pannekoek Institute)

- Maria D. Caballero Garcia (INAF OAB) 

- Marion Cadolle Bel (ISOC, ESA/ESAC) 

- Ignacio de la Calle (ESA/ESAC)

- Ascension Camero Arranz (Instituto de Estudios Espaciales de Cataluña)

- Sergio Campana (INAF OAB)

- Massimo Cappi (INAF IASFBO)

- Piergiorgio Casella (INAF OAR) 

- Anton Chernenko (IKI/Russian Space Research Institute)

- Ioannis Contopoulos (Academy of Athens)

- Mauro Dadina (INAF IASFBO)

- Barbara De Marco (MPE)

- Laura Di Gesu (SRON) 

- Maria Diaz Trigo (ESO) 

- Orhan Donmez (Nigde University)

- Elena Fedorova (Astronomical Observatory of Kiev, Taras Shevchenko University)

- Travis Fischer (Georgia State University)

- Sudip Kumar Garain (Bose National Center for Basic Sciences)

- Javier Garcia (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) 

- Margherita Giustini (ESA/ESAC) 

- Victoria Grinberg (Dr. Remeis Observatory/ECAP)

- Martin Henze (ESA/ESAC)

- Simon Joyce (ESA/ESAC)

- Erin Kara (IoA, University of Cambridge)

- Dmitry Klochkov (IAAT, Uni. Tuebingen) 

- Shogo Kobayashi (University of Tokio)

- Elmar Koerding (U. Nijmegen)

- Karri Koljonen (Aalto University Metsahovi Radio Observatory) 

- Annika Kreikenbohm (Universitat Wuerzburg, Lehrstuhl fuer Astronomy)

- Peter Kretschmar (ESA/ESAC)

- Erik Kuulkers (ESA/ESAC)  

- Nikolaos Kylafis (University of Crete) 

- Sibasish Laha (IUCAA)

- Eleanor Legg (Oxford University)

- Jian Li (Institute for High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) 

- Manuel Linares (IAC)

- Andrew Lobban (University of Leicester) 

- Nora Loiseau (ESA/ESAC)

- Anna Lia Longinotti (ESA/ESAC)

- Ming Lyu (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groeningen)

- Christian Malacaria (IAAT) 

- Julien Malzac (IRAP-CNRS) 

- Antonis Manousakis (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)

- Andrea Marinucci (CAB) 

- Mariano Mendez (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groeningen)

- Andrea Merloni (MPE)

- Lance Miller (Oxford University)

- Giovanni Miniutti (CAB-CSIC/INTA) 

- Sara Motta (ESA/ESAC)

- Elisa Nespoli (University of Valencia, ESA/ESAC) 

- Partha Sarathi Pal (Bose National Center for Basic Sciences)

- Francesca Panessa (INAF IAPS)

- Maurizio Paolillo (Università di Napoli Federico II)

- Alessandro Papitto (IEEC - CSIC Barcelona)

- Dheeraj Ranga Reddy Pasham (UMD) 

- Villicaña Pedraza (CAB/INTA)

- Pierre-Oliver Petrucci (IPAG)

- Daniel Plant (University of Southampton)

- Gabriele Ponti (MPE) 

- Elena Racero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

- Pablo Reig (Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas) 

- Roque Ruiz-Carmona (ESA/ESAC)

- Anthony Rushton (University of Southampton)

- David Russell (IAC)

- Celia Sanchez-Fernandez (ISOC, ESA/ESAC) 

- Simone Scaringi (Institute for Astronomy, KU Leuven)

- Norbert Schartel (ESA/ESAC)

- Gabriele Schoenherr (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, AIP)

- Christopher Skipper (University of Southampton) 

- Holger Stiele (INAF OAB) 

- Nora Linn Strotjohann (ESA/ESAC)

- Jiri Svoboda (ESA/ESAC) 

- Francesco Tombesi (NASA GSFC, UMD)

- Phil Uttley (University of Amsterdam)

- Frederic Vincent (CAMK)

- Andrzej Zdziarski (N. Copernicus Astronomical Center)