SINGLE AND DOUBLE BLACK HOLES IN GALAXIES



August 22-25, 2011

University of Michigan
1085 S. University Ave
#340 West Hall
Ann Arbor MI, 48109


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
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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)

 

 

 

 



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