Torus 2026 — Preliminary Program (Updated: 2026-02-13)

Talks: 1220 min | Discussions: 150 min | Breaks: 210 min | Total: 1580 min / -10 min (including breaks, excluding excursion)
Day 1 (Mon) — 13:00–17:30 (Total: 280 min)
Introduction
5 min Keiichi Wada Kagoshima university Welcome note
15 min Martin Ward Durham University Introduction to TORUS workshops
Session: Radio/mm
30 min Violette Impellizzeri REVIEW TALK Leiden University TBA
25 min Susanne Aalto INVITED Chalmers University of Technology TBA
25 min Eileen Meyer INVITED University of Maryland TBA
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Masatoshi Imanishi National Astronomical Observatory of Japan ALMA <1 pc (14 mas) resolution dense molecular line observations of the NGC 1068 torus
15 min Sophie Venselaar STUDENT University of Geneva The Millimeter Emission from Coronae in Radio-Quiet AGN
15 min Wout Goesaert STUDENT Leiden University Torus feeding and outflow launching in the active nucleus of the Circinus galaxy
15 min Yoshiaki Hagiwara Toyo University Submillimeter Water Megamasers as a New Tracer of the Inner AGN Torus
15 min Erin Hicks University of Alaska Anchorage Circumnuclear molecular gas dynamics in Seyfert Galaxies: Tracing build-up and blow-out phases
15 min Ehud Behar Technion Intrinsic Compton-Thick AGN Luminosities Revealed by ALMA
15 min Anelise Audibert Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Molecular AGN Tori at Parsec Scales in NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA)
15 min Daniel Hill STUDENT Newcastle University LLAMA: Revealing cold molecular gas structure and dynamics in nearby luminous AGN and matched inactive galaxies with ALMA
15 min Satoko Sawada-Satoh Fukui University of Technology Jet–torus interaction at sub-parsec scales with SO absorption in NGC 1052
Discussion (30 min)
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Day 2 (Tue) — 09:00–12:20 (Total: 205 min)
Session: IR/Optical
30 min Almudena Alonso Herrero REVIEW TALK CAB, CSIC-INTA TBA
25 min Santiago G. Burillo INVITED OAN TBA
15 min Enrique Lopez Rodriguez University of South Carolina The thermal emission of nearby Seyferts as seen by JWST
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Giovanna Speranza Instituto de Física fundamental (CSIC Probing the AGN torus composition with JWST: warm molecular gas and outflows in IRAS 07251‑0248
15 min Cristina Ramos Almeida Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias Silicate emission in a type-2 quasar: JWST/MIRI constraints on torus geometry and radiative feedback
15 min Violeta Gámez Rosas STAR Institute, University of Liège Characterising dusty structures in AGN with MATISSE: first results from a new sample and prospects for METIS
15 min Oscar Veenema STUDENT University of Oxford Investigating AGN driven X-ray and shock excitation of the molecular gas in the nucleus of NGC 3227 using JWST NIRSpec and MIRI/MRS
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Day 2 (Tue) — 14:00–17:30 (Total: 210 min)
15 min Jhon Cerón STUDENT Universidad de Valparaíso Seeing Through the Dust: Unraveling Near-Infrared Variability in Type 2 AGN
15 min Daniel Delaney STUDENT University of Alaska Coupling Driven H2 Excitation in Seyferts
15 min Ashley Hai Tung Tan STUDENT Australian National University Probing AGN accretion discs through their variability
15 min Triana Almeyda University of Florida Modeling the circum-nuclear dust reverberation response in AGN
15 min Federico Esposito Observatorio Astronómico Nacional (OAN-IGN From the torus to the circumnuclear medium: clumpy molecular gas as the physical link between AGN feeding and feedback
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Ismael Garcia Bernete Centre for Astrobiology (CAB Structures Of Dust and gAs (SODA): Constraining the AGN torus with JWST IR molecular rovibrational, ices, and dust features
15 min Neelesh Amrutha STUDENT Australian National University Long-term AGN luminosity variability without broad-line width changes and its impact on mass estimates
15 min Charlotte Ward The Pennsylvania State University Exploring the structure of the broad-line region with X-ray selected double-peaked emitters
15 min Shu Wang University of Southampton BLR Kinematics and Independent Black Hole Mass: Constraints from Velocity-Resolved Reverberation Mapping and Dynamical Modeling
15 min Ari Laor Technion What do the optical coronal lines tell us?
Discussion (30 min)
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Day 3 (Wed) — 09:00–12:10 (Total: 195 min)
Session: X-ray
30 min Misaki Mizumoto REVIEW TALK University of Teacher Education Fukuoka XRISM observations of AGN outflow
15 min Peter Boorman Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics Probing the obscured growth of high-redshift black holes via their nearby analogues
15 min Nuria Torres-Alba University of Virginia A new window into the torus: Using X-ray obscuration variability to probe torus structure
15 min Keqin Zhao STUDENT Leiden University Full-Band Modeling of photoionized AGN winds in NGC 3783
15 min Yuya Nakatani STUDENT Kyoto university Broadband X-ray Spectroscopy of Centaurus A with XRISM and NuSTAR
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Robert Nikutta NSF NOIRLab Constraining the Clumpy AGN Torus with X-ray Eclipse Statistics
15 min Shoichiro Mizukoshi Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Multi-phase gas structures of the AGN and effects of the radiation pressure
15 min Kanta Fujiwara STUDENT Kyoto University Complex Nuclear Structure in Seyfert 2 Galaxy NGC 4388 Revealed by XRISM Observation
15 min Guangyuan Zhao STUDENT Tokyo University of Science Dust Reverberation Mapping of NGC 4151: The Dust Torus as the Origin of the Narrow Neutral Fe Kα Emission
15 min Anwesh Majumder University of Waterloo XRISM detection of the 6.4 keV Fe-K$\alpha$ line and outflows in the radio galaxy Cygnus A
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Day 3 (Wed) — 14:00–21:00 (Total: 420 min)
Excursion & Banquet
Day 4 (Thu) — 09:00–12:20 (Total: 205 min)
15 min Vittoria Elvezia Gianolli Clemson University, USA The IXPE view of Compton-thick AGN: probing the torus with X-ray polarimetry
15 min Georgios Dimopoulos NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Probing the AGN obscuring material geometry with high-resolution ray-tracing simulations
15 min Giorgio Matt Roma Tre University NGC 1068: the X-ray spectroscopy and polarimetric view
15 min Stéphane Paltani University of Geneva Modelling the environment of AGN with RefleX4
Discussion (30 min)
Coffee Break (30 min)
Session: Multiwavelength
30 min Sebastian Hoenig REVIEW TALK University of Southampton TBA
25 min Taiki Kawamuro INVITED Osaka University A Millimeter and X-ray Study of Hot Coronae in Nearby AGN
25 min Omaira Gonzalez Martin INVITED IRyA-UNAM TBA
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Day 4 (Thu) — 14:00–17:30 (Total: 210 min)
15 min Calvin Sykes University of Southampton From the dusty torus to the BLR: RHD simulations of AGN environments on small and large scales
15 min Kosei Matsumoto Ghent University Interpreting Multi-Wavelength AGN Observations with Radiation Hydrodynamic Simulations
15 min Alejandra Rojas Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (UTFSM The AGN-Host Galaxy interplay: A multi-wavelength view
15 min Vineet Ojha Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University Probing the Disk, Torus, and Jets in Narrow-line Seyfert 1 Galaxies through Optical to Mid-Infrared Variability
15 min Lin Ding STUDENT Fudan University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics One the formation mechansim of AGN torus based on MACER simulation
15 min Ross Silver NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Predicting Torus Properties with Machine Learning and Multi-Wavelength Data
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Shoji Ogawa ISAS/JAXA IMPACT: Inclusive SED Model of Polar Dust and Clumpy Torus
15 min Ciera Sargent STUDENT Durham University A striking excess of dust-reddened quasars with steep radio spectral slopes: a dusty blow-out phase revealed through AGN-driven shocks?
15 min Minghao Guo STUDENT Princeton University Accretion and Feedback from Galactic to Horizon Scales
15 min Takuma Izumi NAOJ Multiwavelength exploration of the torus, accretion, and feedback in the Circinus galaxy
15 min Ming-Yi Lin University of Toledo Feeding and Feedback Processes in the Parsec-Scale Dusty Torus
Discussion (30 min)
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Day 5 (Fri) — 09:00–12:20 (Total: 200 min)
Session: Evolution
25 min Satoshi Yamada INVITED Tohoku University TBA
15 min Devang Liya STUDENT Newcastle University, UK AGN tori across populations and cosmic time
15 min Thaisa Storchi Bergmann Instituto de Fisica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brazil The Starburst/Torus connection along the history of the Universe
15 min Andrea Sacchi INAF/IASF Milan Are LRDs Powered by Highly Accreting Supermassive Black Holes?
Coffee Break (30 min)
15 min Carolina Andonie Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics The eROSITA view on AGN feedback: Linking [O III] outflow kinematics to accretion and obscuration in X-ray AGN
15 min Eckhard Sturm Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE Spatially resolved measurements of the innermost hot dust and BLR structures around AGN at low and high redshifts with the VLTI/GRAVITY+ interferometer
15 min Matthew Stepney Centro de Astrofisic Y Tecnologias Afines Dust-driven feedback in heavily reddened quasars: Their SEDs are V-shaped and hot dust poor.
15 min Jaeden Bardati STUDENT Caltech Spectra from a Cosmological Simulation of a High-Redshift Quasar Dust Torus
15 min Alice Deconto-Machado INAF/IASF-Milano Multi-scale quasar feedback at Cosmic Noon
15 min Francesco Salvestrini INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Trieste Through the Dust: Illuminating the Nature of a Highly Accreting Black Hole at High Redshift
15 min Lulu Zhang University of Texas at San Antonio Evidence of Feedback Effects and Their Implications for the Central Engine in Low-Luminosity AGN from JWST Spectroscopy
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Day 5 (Fri) — 14:00–15:30 (Total: 90 min)
15 min Yixian Chen STUDENT Princeton University Spectral Appearance of Self-gravitating Quasar Disks: Universal Effective Temperature in the Optical Continuum and Application to Little Red Dots
15 min Kohei Ichikawa Tohoku University Optically-dark VLASS bright radio sources: Possible high-z radio quasar candidates
15 min Tanio Diaz Santos Institute of Astrophysics - FORTH The most luminous obscured quasar drives the fastest molecular outflow ever discovered
15 min Marko Stalevski Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade The origin of blue excess in Hot DOGs and their link to local AGN
Discussion (30 min)
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