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Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity

August 24-28, 2009

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
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Monday, August 24:  The Interplay Between Galaxies and Black Holes

8:30 - 8:50 COFFEE
8:50 - 9:00 Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM)
Welcoming Remarks
MORNING SESSION             Chair: Eitan Tadmor
9:00 - 9:45

Doug Richstone (University of Michigan)

"Inconvenient Tales of Dinosaurs.
The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes"

[Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30

Massimo Ricotti (University of Maryland)

"The Interplay Between Galaxies and Black Holes: A Theoretical Overview"
[Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION        Chair: Doug Richstone
1:30 - 2:00

Marta Volonteri (University of Michigan)

"The Interplay of Black Holes Binaries with Their Environment in Gas-rich Mergers"
[Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30 Discussion
2:30 - 3:00

Kayhan Gultekin (University of Michigan)

"The Mass of Supermassive Black Holes: New Scaling Relations"
[Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30

Avi Loeb (Harvard University)

"Electromagnetic Signatures of Strong Field Gravity Around Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei"
[Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00 Discussion

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Tuesday, August 25:  Active Galaxies and Accretion Disks

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION             Chair: Chris Reynolds
9:00 - 9:45

Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC)

"Some of What's New in AGN Studies"
[Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30

Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins University)

"Thermodynamics of Accretion in the Vicinity of Black Holes"
[Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION        Chair: Richard Mushotzky
1:30 - 2:00

John Hawley (University of Virginia)

"Global Simulations of Black Hole Accretion"
[Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30 Discussion
2:30 - 3:00

Jon Miller (University of Michigan)

"Accretion Disks in Stellar-Mass Black Holes: Implications for AGNs"
[Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30

Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland)

"X-ray Signatures of Strong Gravity"
[Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00 Discussion
5:00 - 5:30

Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University)

"Three-Dimensional GRMHD Simulations of Accretion Disks around Spinning Black Holes"
[Presentation Slides]
5:30 - 6:00 Discussion

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Wednesday, August 26:  Numerical and Analytical Relativity

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION             Chair: Joan Centrella
9:00 - 9:45

Alessandra Buonanno (University of Maryland)

"Modeling the Dynamics and Gravitational-Wave Emissions of Coalescing Binary Black Holes"
[Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30

Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology)

"Merging Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysics:
Gravitational Radiation Recoils, Spin and Gas Dynamics"

[Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION        Chair: Manuel Tiglio
1:30 - 2:00

Larry Kidder (Cornell University)

"Numerical Simulations of Compact Binaries"
[Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30 Discussion
2:30 - 3:00

Frank Herrmann (University of Maryland)

"Numerical Simulations of Black Holes"
[Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30

Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland)

"If not GR, what?"
[Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00 Discussion
5:00 - 5:30

Mark Miller (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

"High Order Methods for the Neutron Star Inspiral Problem"
[Presentation Slides]
5:30 - 6:00 Discussion

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Thursday, August 27:  EM Counterparts to Merging Supermassive Black Holes

8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
MORNING SESSION             Chair: Cole Miller
9:00 - 9:45

Stefanie Komossa (MPI fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching)

"Observing the Sites of Massive Binaries and Recoiling Black Holes -
Electromagnetic Signatures"

[Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15 Discussion
10:15 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:30

Jeremy Schnittman (Johns Hopkins University)

"Probing Extreme Gravity with X-ray Polarization"
[Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 1:30 LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION        Chair: Ted Jacobson
1:30 - 2:00

Joan Centrella (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

"Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries"
[Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30 Discussion
2:30 - 3:00

Peter Shawhan (University of Maryland)

"Darkness and Light: Status of LIGO and Virgo Searches for Black Hole Mergers and Other Signals"
[Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30 Discussion
3:30 - 4:00 COFFEE BREAK
4:00 - 4:30

Cole Miller (University of Maryland)

"Signatures of Kicked Disks and Mass Loss"
[Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00 Discussion
EVENING ACTIVITY
6:30 Dinner at the Inn and Conference Center
  • Directions to the conference dinner
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    Friday, August 28:  Summing Up and Multiwavelength, Especially Radio

    8:30 - 9:00 COFFEE
    MORNING SESSION             Chair: Ramesh Narayan
    9:00 - 9:30

    Félix Mirabel (CEA-Saclay, France)

    "Coupling of Jets with Accretion in Black Hole Binaries and AGN"
    [Presentation Slides]
    9:30 - 10:00 Discussion
    10:00 - 10:30

    Shinji Koide (Kumamoto University, Japan)

    "Energy extraction of rotating black hole by magnetic reconnection"
    [Presentation Slides]
    10:30 - 11:00 Discussion
    11:00 - 11:30

    David Meier (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)

    "Numerical Techniques for Simulating EM and GR Fields in the 21st Century"
    [Presentation Slides]
    11:30 - 12:00

    Discussion

    12:05 CLOSING

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