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| WEDNESDAY MORNING, February 17
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Supermassive Black Holes and their Relation to Galaxy Formation and Evolution [Chair: Andrea Ghez] |
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| James Aird (UC San Diego) |
The Evolution of the Hard X-ray Luminosity Function of AGN |
| Marc Davis (UC Berkeley) |
Detection of Binary AGNs in Early-type Galaxies |
| Chris Impey (Arizona) |
Probing the Limits of Nuclear Activity with the COSMOS Survey |
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| Evan Scannapieco (ASU) |
AGN Self-regulation in Galaxy Clusters |
| Nina Nowak (MPE) |
The SINFONI Black Hole Survey |
| David Rosario (UC Santa Cruz) |
The Nature of Double-Peaked Narrow Line AGN as Revealed by Adaptive Optics Imaging |
| Vivienne Wild (IAP) |
Timing the Starburst - AGN Connection |
| WEDNESDAY LUNCH | 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM | POSTER VIEWING WITH LUNCH PROVIDED AT THE ASPEN CENTER FOR PHYSICS |
| WEDNESDAY EVENING | |
| 5:00 PM | PUBLIC LECTURE BY ANDREA GHEZ AT THE WHEELER OPERA HOUSE |
| THURSDAY MORNING, February 18
8:30 AM - 11:00 AM: First Stars and Seed Black Holes in the Early Universe [Chair: Tiziana DiMatteo] |
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| Jillian Bellovary (Washington) |
Predicting the Mass and Spatial Distribution of Massive Black Holes in the Milky Way Halo |
| Zsolt Frei (Eotvos) |
On the Occupation Fraction of Seed Black Holes in High-Redshift Dark Matter Halos |
| Dominik Schleicher (Leiden) |
Supermassive Black Hole Formation in Direct Collapse Models |
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| Chi-kwan Chan (Harvard) |
Lessons from Radiative and MHD Simulations for Supermassive Black Hole Growth |
| Stirling Colgate (LANL) |
Galaxy and Supermassive Black Hole Formation |
| Douglas Spolyar (FNAL) |
Dark Stars |
| THURSDAY EVENING
4:30 - 7:30 PM: Measurements of Black Hole Masses and Spins [Chair: Martin Elvis] |
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| John Silverman (IPMU) |
Co-evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxies in zCOSMOS |
| Juntai Shen (UT Austin) |
The Black Hole Masses and Dark Matter Halos in Massive Ellipticals |
| Alessandro Marconi (Firenze) |
Weighing Black Holes from Zero to High Redshift |
| Robyn Levine (CITA) |
Fueling Supermassive Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations |
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| Suvi Gezari (Johns Hopkins) |
Probing Quiescent Supermassive Black Holes with Observations of Flares from the Tidal Disruption of Stars |
| Rebecca Martin (STSCI) |
Discs Warped by the Lense-Thirring Effect |
| Shane Davis (IAS) |
Accretion Disk Spectral Models and Black Hole Spin Estimates |
| FRIDAY MORNING, February 19
8:00 AM - 11:00 AM: Supermassive Black Hole Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Waves [Chair: Fred Rasio] |
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| Remco van den Bosch (UT Austin) |
Binary Supermassive Black Holes are Very Short-lived |
| Ilya Mandel (Northwestern) |
Extracting the Distribution of Black-hole Parameters from Gravitational-wave Observations |
| Dan Stinebring (Oberlin) |
Detecting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries with a Pulsar Timing Array |
| Bence Kocsis (Harvard) |
Gas-driven Massive Black-hole Binaries: Signatures in the nHz Gravitational-wave Background |
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| Julian Krolik (JHU) |
Estimating the Prompt Electromagnetic Luminosity of a Black Hole Merger |
| Pablo Laguna (Georgia Tech) |
Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes: Binary and Gas Dynamics [10 mins] |
| Tamara Bogdanovic (UMD) |
Relativistic Mergers of Supermassive Black Holes: Electromagnetic Signatures [10 mins + 10 mins discussion] |
| Laura Blecha (Harvard) |
Kicked Black Holes in Merging Galaxies |
| FRIDAY EVENING
4:30 - 7:30 PM: Accretion onto Black Holes and Feedback on their Environments [Chair: Steinn Sigurdsson] |
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| Niel Brandt (Penn State) |
Supermassive Black-Hole Ecology Through the Galaxy-Formation Epoch: New Constraints from the Chandra Deep Fields |
| Martin Elvis (Harvard/CfA) |
Complexities in Black Hole Growth Seen in the Quasar Mass-Luminosity Plane |
| Phil Hopkins (UC Berkeley) |
AGN Feedback |
| Mike Eracleous (Penn State) |
Optical Emission-line Diagnostics of the Accretion Flows in AGNs |
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| Daniel Proga (UNLV) |
AGN Feedback via Radiation and Radiation-Driven Outflows |
| Guido Risaliti (Harvard/CfA) |
The Interplay between Star Formation and Nuclear Activity in ULIRGs |
| Brandon Kelly (Harvard/CfA) |
Constraints on Black Hole Growth, Quasar Lifetimes, and Eddington Ratios from the SDSS Quasar Black Hole Mass Function |
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Fred Rasio - Northwestern University - rasio@northwestern.edu |
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Andrea Ghez - University of California, Los Angeles - ghez@astro.ucla.edu |
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Vicky Kalogera - Northwestern University - vicky@northwestern.edu |
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Steinn Sigurdsson - Pennsylvania State University - steinn@astro.psu.edu |
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Marta Volonteri - University of Michigan - martav@umich.edu |
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Aspen Center for Physics CIERA - Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics Northwestern University |
