Early registration:
There will be an early registration desk at the hotel of the meeting at 19:00 on Sunday, May 29th. Because of the large number of participants (168) we encourage those of you arriving on Sunday to register early.
Welcome cocktail:
A welcome reception will take place at the hotel of the meeting on Sunday, May 29th at 20:00. All participants are invited to attend.
Oral presentations:
Please note that the conference hall is located just in front of the hotel of the meeting, crossing the “Carlos Cano” street.
Invited (contributed) talks have a total allocated time of 25 (15) minutes. Please adjust the timing of your talk to allow for some questions, leaving about 3-5 minutes for invited talks and 3 minutes for contributed.
An Apple laptop will be ready to use for oral presentations. You can prepare your presentation in Apple Keynote, Microsoft PowerPoint (Mac 2016 and 2011 versions), or Adobe PDF formats. Please contact the LOC to upload your presentation file well before your session. You can also use your own laptop, but please make sure it works properly with our projector before your session begins.
We plan to upload all the presentation files in the web page of meeting. Please let us know in advance in case you do NOT want your file to be posted.
Poster information:
Posters will be displayed near the conference hall. They should not exceed A0 size, equivalent to 841x1189 mm or 33.1x46.8 inches, and should be presented in portrait orientation.
Proceedings:
The proceedings of the conference will be published in a special issue of the journal “Galaxies”. All proceedings contributions will go through a (mild) peer-reviewed processes, to meet the standards of the journal, and will be indexed in the ADS and Web of Science databases.
Information about preparing your contribution can be found in the web page of the journal. Further information regarding the page limits for each type of contribution will be provided during the meeting and posted in the web page. The deadline for submitting your contribution is July 15th, 2016.
Meals at the hotel of the meeting:
We remind all participants staying at the hotel of the meeting that the special rate provided by the hotel includes all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks/snacks in the bar of the swimming pool). Please contact the hotel for other special lunch offers it provides for those participants staying somewhere else.
Conference dinner:
The restaurant of the conference dinner requires an approximate number of people attending to the dinner with about a week notice (specially for big parties like ours), so we encourage all participants intending to attend to the conference dinner to book your ticket as soon as possible, if you haven’t done so already.
Note that there is an extra link in the left user's menu (once you log in using your meeting credentials) for extra payments related to the conference dinner or other social activities.
Buses will be provided to bring participants from the hotel of the meeting to the restaurant and back to the hotel after the dinner. Further information regarding the departure time from the hotel and restaurant will be given during the meeting.
There will be a concert at the end of the dinner featuring performances by Profs. Alan Marscher and Jim Webb. Please let us know if you wish to join the musical celebration for a grand finale!
Sightseeing excursions:
Please note that a minimum of 30 people is required for any of the sightseeing tours organized for Wednesday afternoon. If this number is not reached for your chosen tour the travel agency will offer you to either join some other excursion or get a reimbursement.
Blazars radiate across the electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-ray frequencies. Observations of blazars require a variety of state-of-the-art instruments and techniques, while understanding jet formation and production of high-energy particles and photons is among the most prominent problems of modern astrophysics.
The timing of the conference is well matched to the availability of premier high-energy facilities, such as the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the Chandra, Swift, NuSTAR, and Astrosat X-ray satellites, new high-resolution arrays such as the Event Horizon Telescope, RadioAstron, and ALMA, sensitive very high-energy gamma-ray Cherenkov detectors, and long-term monitoring with the Very Long Baseline Array, Global mm-VLBI Array, and optical-IR telescopes.
Registration:
The registration is open. Requests for contributed talks should be submitted to the meeting organizers by filling out the corresponding registration form on the conference web page by April 1st, 2016.
DEADLINE for ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: APRIL 1st, 2016
The FINAL PROGRAM of the MEETING will be POSTED by APRIL 18th, 2016
Proceedings:
The proceedings of the conference will be published in Galaxies, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal published by MDPI AG (Switzerland). The proceedings will appear in a special issue of the journal, with Drs. J. L. Gómez, A. P. Marscher, and S. G. Jorstad as guest editors.
All proceedings contributions will go through a (mild) peer-reviewed processes, to meet the standards of the Galaxies journal, and will be indexed in the ADS and Web of Science databases.
To increase the visibility of the poster and contributed talk presentations an ample page limit will be established allowing the publication of these important results with the necessary detail.
Venue:
The meeting will take place at Hotel Pueblo Camino Real, located on the beach front in Málaga (Spain). The hotel offers a special rate for the conference attendees on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that the rates, posted in the web page of the meeting, include full-board (breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks in the swimming-pool snack-bar) at the hotel resort.
There will be a concert at the end of the dinner featuring performances by Profs. Alan Marscher and Jim Webb. Please let us know if you wish to join the musical celebration for a grand finale!
Social activities:
A welcome reception will take place at the hotel of the meeting on Sunday, May 29th afternoon. All registered participants are invited to attend.
There will be no scientific sessions on Wednesday afternoon, for when we have arranged several sightseeing excursions. For each tour a minimum of 30 people is required. All the visits include an English speaking guide. For further information please visit the social events page of the meeting.
Conference web page: http://jets2016.iaa.es
Contact information: jets2016@iaa.es
Looking forward to meeting you in Málaga,
The SOC: M. Aller, S. Doeleman, W. Gear, M. Georganopoulos, G. Ghisellini, M. Giroletti, J. L. Gómez (co-chair), V. Hagen-Thorn, S. G. Jorstad (co-chair), Y. Kovalev, M. Lister, A. Mastichiadis, I. McHardy, D. Miller, E. Valtaoja, J. Webb, A. Zensus.