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Hickox & Alexander (2017)

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Poll website: PollEv.com/blackhole

1-minute poster talks: Send your 1 slide in PDF to kevinhainline@gmail.com

Mike DiPompeo (Dartmouth)Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth)David Alexander (Durham)Adlyka Annuar (Durham)McKinley Brumback (Dartmouth)Chris Carroll (Dartmouth)Christopher Harrison (Durham)Mackenzie Jones (Dartmouth)George Lansbury (Durham)David Rosario (Durham)Meg Lane (Dartmouth)Raphael Hviding (Dartmouth)Ana Colon (Dartmouth)Emily Golitzin (Dartmouth)

Ryan Hickox (Dartmouth)David Alexander (Durham)Mike DiPompeo (Dartmouth)David Rosario (Durham)Eilat Glikman (Middlebury College)Luis Ho (KIAA, Peking University)Michaela Hirschmann (Institut d'astrophysique de Paris, IAP)Masatoshi Imanishi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, NAOJ)Stephanie LaMassa (NASA Goddard)Andrea Merloni (MPE)Desika Narayanan (Haverford College)Guido Risaliti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, INAF)Marc Schartmann (Swinburne)Meg Urry (Yale)

1. What are the most effective techniques for identifying heavily obscured and Compton-thick AGN?

2. How applicable is the "unified model" of AGN, and what is the physical nature of the obscuring torus?

3. How does obscuration of AGN fit into black hole-galaxy evolutionary models, and what are the connections between obscuration and star formation?

4. How can we use abnormal sources (for example with conflicting classifications in different wavebands or variable obscuration) to shed light on the nature of obscured AGN?

5. What are the connections between obscured AGN activity, cosmology, and the physics of black hole accretion?

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