Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
(9-9:40AM)
Avi Loeb: Key Questions (overview)
Session 1: SgrA*
Session chair: Jim Moran
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(9:40-11AM)
Reinhard Genzel: Infrared Observations of SgrA*(overview)
Andrea Ghez: Infrared Observations of SgrA* (overview)
Coffee break (11-11:30AM)
(11:30AM-12:30PM)
Andreas Eckart: Polarization Lightcurves of Infrared Flares from SgrA*
Mark Reid: Radio Observations of SgrA*
Lunch break (12:30-2:00PM)
(2:00-3:20PM)
Ramesh Narayan:
The Nature of Radiatively Inefficient Accretion onto SgrA* and Other Dormant Supermassive Black Holes (overview)
Sera Markoff: Jet/Outflow Emission from SgrA*
Avery Broderick: Testing General Relativity with Images of SgrA*
Coffee break (3:20-3:50PM)
(3:50-5:50PM)
Jeremy Goodman: Star Formation near Supermassive Black Holes (overview)
Sergei Nayakshin: Star Formation near SgrA*
Brad Hansen: Supply of Stars by an Intermediate-mass Black Hole
Tal Alexander: Evolution of Stars Near Massive Black Holes
Stephanie Komossa: X-ray Flares from Galactic Centers
(9-9:40AM)
Warren Brown: Hypervelocity Stars
John M. Fregeau: Dynamics of Stellar Systems around Nuclear Black Holes
Session 2: Quasars
Session chair: Martin Elvis
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(9:40-10:40AM)
Xiaohui Fan: The Highest Redshift Quasars (overview)
Martin Haehnelt: Models of Quasars
Coffee break (10:40-11:10AM)
(11:10AM-12:30PM)
Volker Springel: Simulations of Quasar Feedback (overview)
Tiziana di Matteo: Black Hole Relations from Simulations
Volker Bromm: Simulations of the First Black Holes
Lunch break (12:30-2PM)
(2-3:20PM)
Sebastian Heinz: Scaling Laws from Microquasars
Marta Volonteri: Hierarchical Growth of Black Holes
Milos Milosavljevic: Black Hole Binaries
Zoltan Haiman: Constraints on Black Hole Accretion from z~6 Quasars
Coffee break (3:20-3:50PM)
(3:50-4:50PM)
Mitch Begelman: Supercritical Accretion of Black Holes
Clifford Will: Gravitational Radiation Recoil
Scott Hughes: Spin Evolution of Nuclear Black Holes
Session 3: Mechanical Versus Radiative Energy Output
Session chair: Dan Maoz
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(9:00-11AM)
Roger Blandford: Jets: Mechanical Versus Radiative Energy Output from Accretion Flows (overview)
Crystal Martin: Outflows from Galaxies (overview)
Joel Primack: X-ray Observations of AGNs in the DEEP2 Survey
Ezequiel Treister: Supermassive Black Holes and the X-ray and IR Backgrounds
Coffee break (11-11:30AM)
(11:30AM-12:30PM)
Andy Fabian: Cooling Flows (overview)
Eugene Churazov: Effect of Outflows on X-ray Clusters
Lunch break (12:30-2PM)
(2:00-3PM)
Bill Forman: X-ray Observations of the Interaction between AGN and Cooling Flows
James Binney: Relation of AGN to Cooling Flows
Jonathan McKinney: Formation of Jets in MHD Simulations
Coffee break (3:00-3:30PM)
Session 4: Properties of Spheroids and their Black Holes
Session chair: Irwin Shapiro
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(3:30-5:50PM)
Karl Gebhardt: Kinematic Data on Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei from Adaptive Optics Observations
Stuart Wyithe: The Quadratic M-sigma Relation
Lars Hernquist: Merger Simulations and Properties of Ellipticals (overview)
Rachel Somerville: Semi-analytic Models of Galaxy Mergers
(6:30pm)
Banquet Dinner at the Sheraton Commander Hotel
(8:30pm)
After-dinner talk by Donald Lynden-Bell: "The History of Nuclear Black Holes in Galaxies"
(9-10AM)
Jim Moran & Lincoln Greenhill: Masers near AGN Moran, Greenhill (overview)
Dan Maoz: Liners and Dormant Black Holes
Session 5: Radiation Backgrounds
Session chair: Christine Jones
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(10-11AM)
Gunther Hasinger: Observations across the Electromagnetic Spectrum (overview)
Amy Barger: X-ray Emission by Quasars
Coffee break (11-11:30AM)
(11:30AM-12:30PM)
Jerry Ostriker: Black Hole Accretion and Radiative Feedback: the Dramatic Effects of Preheating (overview)
Guinevere Kauffmann: Accretion History of AGN
Lunch break (12:30-2PM)
Session 6: Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBH)
Session chair: Jerry Ostriker
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(2:00-3:40PM)
Cole Miller: Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
Aaron Barth: IMBHs in Galactic Nuclei
Karl Gebhardt: Black Holes in Globular Clusters
Simon Portegies Zwart: Formation of IMBHs in Globular Clusters
Yuri Levin: Dynamical Fingerprint of IMBH in the Galactic Center
Coffee break (3:40-4:00PM)
Session 7: Conference Summary and Prospects for the Future
Session chair: Avi Loeb
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(4:00-4:40PM)
Alar Toomre: Conference Summary
(4:40-5:00PM)
Comments from the audience and discussion