August 22-25, 2011
University of Michigan 1085 S. University Ave #340 West Hall Ann Arbor MI, 48109
Registration
NOTE: Poster boards are 40" x 32" for poster session presentations. The foam boards can be oriented landscape or potrait on the easels provided. PROGRAM To downlaod abstracts click HERE To download a PDF file of the program click HERE
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
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"
Kevin Schawinski: "An Observational View of the Relative Growth of BHs and Galaxies"
Edward Moran: “Black holes at the centers of nearby dwarf galaxies”
11:50am-12:25 pm
Nicholas McConnell: “Environmental dependence of black hole growth and stellar assembly in massive galaxies”
Amy Reines: “A supermassive black hole in the dwarf starburst galaxy Henize 2-10”
Session 2a. BH Dynamics in Galaxy Mergers Chair: Kelly Holley-Bockelmann
Michael Koss: "Frequency of Dual AGN"
Massimo Dotti: "BH Spin Evolution and Alignment During Galaxy Mergers"
Laura Brenneman: "Spins”
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
Session 2b. Black Hole Coalescence Chair: Cole Miller
Miguel Preto: "The Role of Stellar Dynamics in Bringing SMBH Together"
Jorge Cuadra: "The Role of Gas Dynamics in Bringing SMBH Together"
Jeremy Schnittman: "The Gravitational Wave Driven Phase"
11:15-11:45 am
Robert da Silva: “First passage quasars: how common are they and what can they teach us?”
Brendan Miller: “The influence of large-scale environment upon BH growth and feedback in early-type galaxies”
1:00- 2:30pm
Session 2c. Observational Signatures of Double BHs Chair: Mike Eracleous
Julia Comerford: "Widely-Separated (kps scales) Dual AGNs"
Todd Boroson: "Closely-Separated (sub-parsec, bound) Binary BHs"
Roberto Decarli: "Prediction of Observational Signatures"
Laura Blecha: “Connecting SMBH binaries and double-peaked NL AGN”
Rosalie McGurk: “Spatially resolved spectroscopy of J095+2552: a confirmed dual AGN”
THURSDAY AUGUST 25TH
9:30am-1:00 pm
Tod Lauer: “High-mass M-L & M-sigma relations”
Pablo Laguna: “General relativistic mergers of SMBH in astrophysical environments”
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)