Daily Schedule:

Start: 10am (coffee & light breakfast provided)

Lunch: 12:30pm

Afternoon coffee: 3:00pm

Close: 6pm (or when we run out of steam)

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Tuesday May 30

Morning: Establishing Baselines

In this session, we will establish a list of issues and problems for discussion over the coming days. 

●  What are the open questions?

●  What data is coming, or do we wish we had?

●  What are the major assumptions underlying our work to date?

●  Which are reasonable, and which warrant a closer look?

●  What new simulations or techniques do we need to develop?

●  What can we do with 1000 high-quality lensed quasars?

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Schedule for Tuesday morning

10:00am Opening remarks and welcome by Chair Matt O'Dowd

10:15am Round-table discussion to frame goals for workshop

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Afternoon: Quasar Structure

An open discussion on quasar structure:

●  The current state of the art.

●  Which structures (X-ray coronae, accretion discs, broad line regions) are the most interesting to probe?

●  What are the open questions concerning quasar structure?

●  What kinds of data or simulations do we need to confront them?

●  What novel questions could we be asking?

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Schedule for Tuesday afternoon

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair David Pooley

2:05pm Rachel Webster Intro. to Quasar Structure and Recent Microlensing Results

2:30pm Suk Yee Yong Modeling the Kinematics of Quasar Disk-winds

2:45pm Geraint Lewis Zooming and Polarization: A New View of BAL Quasars

3:00pm Coffee break and round-table discussion

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6:00-8:30pm: Manhattanhenge plus Flying the Hayden Planetarium 

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Wednesday May 31

This entire day is devoted to discussions about data:

●  What do we have in hand?

●  What are the most interesting and immediately tractable questions to tackle with these data?

●  What do we wish we had?

●  Are there any observational programs we should be coordinating now?

●  What will future instruments give us?

●  How will we prepare for those data, and best exploit them when they arrive?

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Schedule for Wednesday morning:

10:00am Opening remarks by Chair Timo Anguita

10:05am George Chartas The G-Distribution Method for Measuring the Innermost Stable Circular Orbit

10:30am Xinyu Dai Quasar Microlensing Constraints on the X-ray Corona, Reflection Regions, and Black Hole Spins

10:45am Veronica Motta Probing the Broad-Line Region and the Accretion Disk in Lensed Quasars Using Gravitational Microlensing

11:00am Anthea King Joint Microlensing and Reverberation Mapping Analysis of HE0435-1223
11:15am Round-table discussion

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Schedule for Wednesday afternoon

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair Veronica Motta

2:05pm Timo Anguita Quasar Microlensing with LSST

2:30pm Giorgos Vernardos Euclid, and What To Do With 1000 Quasars

3:00pm Coffee break and round-table discussion

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7:00pm: Workshop Dinner at Osteria Cotta

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Thursday June 1

This entire day is devoted to simulations and statistics:

●  Where are our current methods inadequate?

●  How can we change, improve, or completely remake them?

●  How will we combine all of our assorted data: photometric light curves, spectroscopic snapshots, etc?

●  How will we deal with issues such as convolved images, sparsely-sampled light curves, etc.?

●  Are there any new simulation suites, or software tools, that we as a community want to develop?

●  Do we have a position on sharing codes, and open development?

 

Schedule for Thursday morning

10:00am Opening remarks by Chair Nick Bate

10:05am Chris Morgan Interpreting Microlensing Light Curves, and Toward a Correlation Between Quasar X-Ray Continuum Emission Region Size and Black Hole Mass

10:30am Eduardo Guerras Getting Information from Time-Averaged Observables

10:45am Round-table discussion

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Schedule for Thursday afternoon

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair Giorgos Vernardos

2:05pm Nick Bate Single Epoch Microlensing Statistics

2:30pm+: Demonstrations of code and microlensing tools

Evencio Mediavilla Demonstration of IPM code

Giorgos Vernardos Demonstration of the Gerlumph framework and eTools

Quinn Minor Demonstration of new strong lensing code

5:00pm Brendon Brewer TBA

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Friday June 2

Morning: Other Microlensing Problems

An open session for discussing any other unusual problems that we may wish to explore:

●  Lens structure and IMFs

●  Astrometric microlensing

●  Image multiplicity

●  Your idea here...

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Schedule for Friday morning:

10:00am Opening remarks by Chair Rachel Webster

10:05pm Ana Mosquera Microlensing, the Future: Lynx, OMEGA Explorer, and Memory-Driven Computing.

10:30am Daniel Yahalomi Using Microlensing to Investigate Macro-Models of the Supernova iPTF16geu

10:45am Evencio Mediavilla Peculiar Transverse Velocities of Galaxies from Microlensing 

11:00am Round-table discussion

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Afternoon: Summing Up

A chance to summarise what we have discussed during the meeting, and formalise any plans: observing proposals to submit, simulations to run, techniques to explore, papers to write.

 

2:00pm Opening remarks by Chair Matt O'Dowd

2:10pm Workshop Summary by Joachim Wambsganss

3:00pm Coffee break and round-table discussion