MONDAY AUGUST 22ND |
9:30am -1:00pm |
Session 1a. Black Hole Demographics
Chair: Roeland van der Marel |
9:30-10:05 am |
Remco van den Bosch: "Methods of Measuring SMBH Masses: Stellar Dynamical Measurements" |
10:05-10:40 am |
Misty Bentz: "Methods of Measuring SMBH Masses: Reverberation Mapping" |
10:40-11:15 am |
Kayhan Gultekin : "Scaling Relations (and their possible redshift evolution)" |
11:15-11:50 am |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
11:50-12:25 pm |
Jonelle Walsh: “Testing the consistency of Stellar and Gas dynamical black hole mass measurements” |
12:25-1:00 pm |
Smita Mathur: “An alternative track for black hole - galaxy coevolution” |
1:00 - 2:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK (on your own) |
2:30-6:00 pm |
Session 1b. Low Mass Black Holes and Galaxies
Chair: Aaron Barth |
2:30-3:05 pm |
Jenny Greene: "Low-Mass Black Holes in AGNs" |
3:05-3:40 pm |
Anil Seth: "Low-Mass Black Holes in Late-Type and Dwarf Galaxies, Nuclear Star Clusters" |
3:40-4:15 pm |
Jillian Bellovary: "Formation Mechanisms and Seed Black Holes" |
4:15-4:50 pm |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
4:50-5:25 pm |
Drew Caulsen: “Probing intermediate mass BHs with white dwarf tidal disruptions” |
5:25-6:00 pm |
Yanfei Jiang: “Host galaxies of low-mass black holes” |
6:30 pm |
Conference Dinner (Gandy Dancer) |
TUESDAY AUGUST 23RD |
9:30am-1:00pm |
Session 1c. Galaxy Growth vs. Black Hole Growth
Chair: Marta Volonteri/Mike Eracleous |
9:30- 10:05am |
Debora Sijacki: "Merger-Driven BH Accretion and Quasars" |
10:05-10:40 am |
Kevin Schawinski: "An Observational View of the Relative Growth of BHs and Galaxies" |
10:40-11:15 am |
Edward Moran: “Black holes at the centers of nearby dwarf galaxies” |
11:15-11:50 am |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
11:50am-12:25 pm |
Nicholas McConnell: “Environmental dependence of black hole growth and stellar assembly in massive galaxies” |
12:25-1:00 pm |
Amy Reines: “A supermassive black hole in the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10” |
1:00 - 2:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK (on your own) |
2:30-6:00 pm |
Session 2a. BH Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers
Chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann |
2:30-3:05 pm |
Michael Koss: "Frequency of Dual AGN" |
3:05-3:40 pm |
Massimo Dotti: "BH Spin Evolution and Alignment During Galaxy Mergers" |
3:40-4:15 pm |
Laura Brenneman: "Spins” |
4:15-4:50 pm |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
4:50-5:30 pm |
" Javiera Guedes:"BH Recoil" |
5:30-6:05 pm |
Sandor Van Wassenhove: “Role of galaxy morphology in black hole pairing in high redshift galaxy mergers” |
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24TH |
9:30am-1:00pm |
Session 2b. Black Hole Coalescence
Chair: Cole Miller |
9:30-10:05 am |
Miguel Preto: "The Role of Stellar Dynamics in Bringing SMBH Together" |
10:05-10:40 am |
Jorge Cuadra: "The Role of Gas Dynamics in Bringing SMBH Together" |
10:40-11:15 am |
Jeremy Schnittman: "The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase" |
11:15-11:45 am |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
11:50-12:25 pm |
Robert da Silva: “First passage quasars: how common are they and what can they teach us?” |
12:25-1:00 pm |
Brendan Miller: “The influence of large-scale environment upon BH growth and feedback in early-type galaxies” |
1:00- 2:30pm |
LUNCH BREAK (on your own) |
2:30-6:00 pm |
Session 2c. Observational Signatures of Double BHs
Chair: Mike Eracleous |
2:30-3:05 pm |
Julia Comerford: "Widely-Separated (kps scales) Dual AGNs" |
3:05-3:40 pm |
Todd Boroson: "Closely-Separated (sub-parsec, bound) Binary BHs" |
3:40-4:15 pm |
Roberto Decarli: "Prediction of Observational Signatures" |
4:15-4:50 pm |
COFFEE BREAK and POSTER VIEWING |
4:50-5:25 pm |
Laura Blecha: “Connecting SMBH binaries and double-peaked NL AGN” |
5:25-6:00 pm |
Rosalie McGurk: “Spatially resolved spectroscopy of J095+2552: a confirmed dual AGN” |
| 6:00-7:00pm |
Reception (337 West Hall) |
THURSDAY AUGUST 25TH |
9:30am-1:00 pm |
Overview: Future Directions and Panel Discussions
Chair: Doug Richstone |
9:30-10:05 am |
Tod Lauer: “High-mass M-L & M-sigma relations” |
10:05-10:40 am |
Pablo Laguna: “General relativistic mergers of SMBH in astrophysical environments” |
10:40-11:15 am |
Julian Krolik: “Binary black holes embedded in disks” |
11:15-11:45 |
COFFEE BREAK |
11:45am-1:00pm |
Panel Discussion Roeland van der Marel, Aaron Barth, Marta Volonteri, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, Cole Miller and Mike Eracleous |
1:00 PM |
CATERED LUNCH (Zingerman's Deli) |
