AUK's aim is to bring together everyone in the UK whose research involves active galactic nuclei (AGN), even tangentially, to foster a community with a broad range of perspectives, and promote better communication and cross-pollination across sub-fields. As such, the focus of our meeting will be on collaboration and networking.

 

Do you have a resource (e.g. catalogue/code) or some new results that you think the broader community should know about? Are you working on a project and need input from someone with different expertise (e.g. a different wavelength/technique, observations vs simulations)? Do you want to broaden your horizons, know what exciting new science other AGN-ers are working on, make some useful contacts, perhaps even get inspiration for your own project? If so, this is the meeting for you!

 

The meeting will take place at The Fielder Centre (University of Hertfordshire) on December 15th 2025. 

 

 

Local Transport

Please note that the Fielder Centre is located in the Hatfield Business park, in the northeastern end of Hatfield, and away from both campuses of the University of Hertfordshire. There are several buses serving the area. 

 

The 610 Dragonfly stops very close to the Fielder Centre, after a long, "scenic" route of Hatfield. It has stops at the train station, the Galleria, and both campuses. This might be the most convenient option if you want to minimise walking and have some time to spare. 

 

The 602 and the 614 from the Hatfield train station both have a far more direct route, but you will have a 15-minute (0.7 miles) walk at the end. 

 

If you wish to walk from the train station, it should take around 45 minutes. You can also take a taxi, which should only take 8-10 minutes.

 

If you are travelling by car, there will be free parking available for the day at the venue. No registration details are required.

 

Time              Activity                Details

 

09:00-09:30    Coffee break            Breakfast 

09:30-09:40    Introduction             Outline of AUK and meeting, status of NAM proposals

09:40-10:00    Showcase talks     Martin Hardcastle (Hertfordshire) - Finding the AGN in the LOFAR surveys

10:00-10:20    Showcase talks     Claire Greenwell (Newcastle) - The 80-month NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey Catalog

10:20-10:40    Showcase talks     Sophia Flury (Edinburgh) - OutLines: A Code for Modeling Outflow Spectral Lines

10:40-11:00    Showcase talks     Francesco Shankar (Southampton) - Building Galaxy-SMBH Co-Evolution via self-consistent cosmological models

11:00-11:30    Coffee break            Coffee 

11:30-11:45    Focused talks          Luke Holden (Hertfordshire) - How do AGN accelerate outflows? The perspective from LOFAR and DESI

11:45-12:00    Focused talks         Josh Stanway (Lancashire) - Misaligned accretion disks as a formation mechanism for precessing jets in AGN

12:00-12:15    Focused talks         Nandana Manoj (Durham) - Characterizing the influence of Galaxy Morphology on Radio-AGN Activity

12:15-12:30    Focused talks         Charlotte Jackson (Oxford) - Exploring the disc-wind-jet connection in quasars with LoTSS and SDSS

12:30-12:45    Focused talks         Marc Sarzi (Armagh), Dan Dicken (STFC) - ELT-METIS for UK AGN science

12:45-13:00    Focused talks         Lucas Tortora (Cambridge) - Super-Eddington accreting SMBHs at high-z in cosmological simulations

13:00-14:00    Lunch break            Lunch

14:00-14:15    Focused talks         Vivienne Wild (St Andrews) - AGN with the new VLT/MOONS instrument

14:15-14:30    Focused talks         James Matthews (Oxford) - Modelling AGN winds and feedback with Sirocco

14:30-14:45    Focused talks         David Rosario (Newcastle) - The JWST view of the circumnuclear regions of local AGN

14:45-15:00    Focused talks         Dhavala Srinivas (Portsmouth) - Evolution and multi-wavelength analysis of AGN in DESI

15:00-15:15    Focused talks         Maddie Silcock (Hertfordshire) - Characterisation of Obscured AGN and Hosts at 1<z<10 with JWST and BEAGLE-AGN

15:15-15:45    Coffee break           Coffee + networking activity

15:45-16:15    Mini-workshops    Aswin Payyoor Vijayan (Sussex) - Modelling AGN spectra using SYNTHESIZER

15:45-16:15    Mini-workshops    Devang Liya (Newcastle) - Robust multi-scale SED fitting with FortesFit

16:15-16:45    Discussion               Discussion, meeting summary

 

 

List of attendees

Name and Affiliation:

Rahma Alfarsy, University of Portsmouth 

Omar Almaini, University of Nottingham 

Marina Arnaudova, University of Edinburgh 

Fergus Baker, Newcastle University 

Bonny Barkus, University of Hertfordshire 

Thomas Bebbington, University of Bristol 

Brian Bichang'a, University of Hertfordshire 

Martin Bourne, University of Hertfordshire 

Jort Boxelaar INAF - Istituto di Radioastronomia 

Nutthawara Buatthaisong, University of Manchester 

Ardiana Bushi, Institute for Astronomy (IfA), University of Edinburgh 

Steph Campbell, Newcastle University 

Simone Candini, University of Hertfordshire 

Becky Canning, University of Portsmouth 

Jones Chilufya, University of Hertfordshire 

Pombili Christian, Durham University 

Peter Clark, University of Southampton 

Lucy Clews, The Open University 

Judith Croston, Open University 

Soumyadeep Das, University of Hertfordshire 

Timothy Davis, Cardiff University 

Carolyn Devereux, University of Hertfordshire 

Camilla Di Giusto, University of Hertfordshire 

Daniel Dicken, STFC 

Kenneth Duncan, University of Edinburgh 

Emma Elley, University of Oxford 

Julia Erceg, University of Southampton 

Christopher Everett, University of Oxford 

Victoria Fawcett, ESO, Garching 

Sophia Flury, University of Edinburgh 

Sophia Geris, University of Cambridge 

Mike Goad, University of Leicester 

Yifei Gong, The Open University 

Claire Greenwell, Newcastle University / Durham University 

Gulay Gurkan, University of Hertfordshire, CSIRO 

Catherine Hale, University of Edinburgh 

Joel Hamlett, University of Oxford 

Martin Hardcastle, University of Hertfordshire 

Chris Harrison, Newcastle University 

Philippa Hartley, SKAO 

Thomas Higginson, University of Bristol 

Daniel Hill, Newcastle University 

Pranavi Hiremath, University of Edinburgh 

Luke Holden, University of Hertfordshire 

Keith Horne, SUPA University of St Andrews 

Vid Irsic, University of Hertfordshire 

Lucy Ivey, Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge 

Charlotte Jackson, University of Oxford 

Matt Jarvis, University of Oxford 

Sophie Jewell, University of Oxford 

Jiachen Jiang, University of Warwick 

Arran Johnston, University of Bath 

Dhairya Kataria, University of Hertfordshire 

Rohit Kondapally, Durham University 

Sophie Koudmani, University of Hertfordshire 

Sahyadri Krishna, University of St Andrews 

Daniel Kynoch, Inst. of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth 

Julia Laguna I Miralles, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge 

Robert Laing, SKAO 

Mehdy Lefkir, University of Leicester 

Clara Lilje, University of Oxford 

Devang Liya, Newcastle University 

David Lopes, University of Hertfordshire 

Giulia Lusetti, The Open University 

Ruican Ma, University of Southampton 

Vijay Mahatma, University of Cambridge 

Nandana Manoj, Durham University 

James Matthews, University of Oxford 

Sean McGee, University of Birmingham 

Darius Michienzi, University of Bristol 

Beatriz Mingo, University of Hertfordshire 

James Mullaney, University of Sheffield 

Rion Nazareth, Newcastle University 

Ann Njeri, Newcastle University 

Mohammed Iddrisu Nlowie, University of Edinburgh 

Robert Pascalau, KICC, University of Cambridge 

Aswin Payyoor Vijayan, University of Sussex 

Clara Pennock, University of Edinburgh 

Jonny Pierce, University of Hertfordshire 

Kevin Pimbblet, University of Hull 

Gloria Raharimbolamena, University of Bristol 

Ritika Raj, Durham University 

Amy Rankine, University of Edinburgh 

Carl Richards, University of Kent @ Canterbury 

Daniel Roberts, University of Southampton 

David Rosario, Newcastle University 

Marc Sarzi, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium 

Sowkhya Shanbhog, Scuola Normal Superiore - Pisa 

Francesco Shankar, University of Southampton 

Shravya Shenoy, University of Hertfordshire 

Maddie Silcock, University of Hertfordshire 

Aditya Sinha, University of Leicester 

Dhavala Sai Srinivas, University of Portsmouth 

Josh Stanway, University of Lancashire 

Hattie Stewart, University of Oxford 

Calvin Sykes, University of Southampton

Clive Tadhunter, University of Sheffield 

Shenli Tang, University of Southampton 

Benite Tantely, Durham University 

Matthew Temple, CEA Durham

Ruru Thakur, University of Sussex 

Roland Timmerman, Durham University 

Lucas Tortora, IoA / Kavli, University of Cambridge 

Karthik Mahesh Varadarajan, University of Southampton 

Aprajita Verma, University of Oxford 

Carolin Villforth, University of Bath 

Dominic Walton, University of Hertfordshire 

Shu Wang, University of Southampton 

Vivienne Wild, University of St Andrews 

David Williams-Baldwin, University of Manchester/Jodrell Bank 

 

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