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(See below on this page for list of posters)

Note: Invited talks are 25 minutes + 5 for questions/discussion. Contributed talks are 10 minutes + 5 for questions/discussion. Poster presenters each have 1 minute to pitch their poster.

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8:00-8:55 am Breakfast provided for meeting attendees

Monday morning talks – starting time 8:55 am

Ground-based Gravitational Wave Detectors and Signals

• Evan Hall (MIT) – The next generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors   [invited]
• Ben Farr (Oregon) – Ground-based gravitational wave astronomy: O3 and beyond   [invited]
• Erez Michaely (Maryland) – Gravitational wave sources from wide binaries in the field
• Alexander Rasskazov (Eotvos) – Merger rate of binary intermediate-mass black holes

Coffee and poster viewing

LISA and Black Hole Science

• Emanuele Berti (JHU) – Gravitational-wave astronomy with LISA   [invited]
• Laura Blecha (Florida) – Electromagnetic counterparts to LISA gravitational wave sources   [invited]
• Giacomo Fragione (CIERA, Northwestern U.) – Revealing the many faces of the elusive intermediate-mass black hole family with gravitational wave and time domain missions
• James Ira Thorpe (NASA/GSFC) – Realizing LISA: Lessons from LISA Pathfinder and GRACE-FO LRI

Lunch (on your own)

Monday afternoon talks – starting time 2:00 pm

Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

• Michael Eracleous (Penn State) – Searching for binary supermassive black holes via optical spectroscopy and photometry   [invited]
• Mark Avara (CCRG, RIT) – Pushing accreting supermassive black hole binaries beyond 30 orbits: 3D GRMHD multi-patch simulations
• Jenna Cann (George Mason) – Precursors for LISA detections: The hunt for intermediate mass black holes in the JWST era
• Tingting Liu (U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee) – Searching for gravitational wave-emitting supermassive black hole binaries in the time domain
• Dan Wilkins (Stanford) – Venturing beyond the ISCO: Mapping the extreme environments around black holes

Coffee and poster viewing

Pulsar Timing Arrays

• Dusty Madison (WVU) – Observational status and recent results from NANOGrav   [invited]
• Caitlin Witt (WVU) – Multi-messenger gravitational wave searches with pulsar timing arrays: Application to 3C66B
• Poster pitches

Reception and poster viewing Monday 5:00-7:00 pm

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8:00-9:00 am Breakfast provided for meeting attendees

Tuesday morning talks – starting time 9:00 am

Tidal Disruption Events I

• Nicholas Stone (Hebrew U.) – Tidal disruption events: Questionnaires in the cosmic SMBH census   [invited]
• Sjoert van Velzen (NYU/Maryland) – Multi-wavelength observations of tidal disruption flares   [invited]
• Chi-Ho Chan (Hebrew U.) – Tidal disruption events in active galactic nuclei
• Nathaniel Roth (Maryland/JSI) – Using TDE detection rates to learn about galaxy properties

Coffee and poster viewing

TDEs II / AGN Variability I

• Thomas Wevers (IoA, Cambridge) – Disk formation and reprocessing in the tidal disruption event AT2018fyk
• Dheeraj Pasham (MIT) – Spins of supermassive black holes with X-ray observations of TDEs
• Krista Lynne Smith (Stanford) – AGN variability: a modern and multiwavelength view   [invited]
• Rebecca Phillipson (Drexel) – Diverse time variability of accreting systems revealed by novel techniques
• Vivienne Baldassare (Yale) – AGN variability in low-mass galaxies with the Palomar Transient Factory

Lunch (on your own)

Tuesday afternoon talks – starting time 2:00 pm

AGN Variability II

• Colin Burke (UIUC) – Variability-selected low-mass AGN candidates from the Dark Energy Survey
• Bhupendra Mishra (JILA, CU Boulder) – Strongly magnetized accretion disks: structure and accretion from global magnetohydrodynamic simulations
• Sara Frederick (Maryland) – A new class of changing-look LINERs
• Ryan Pfeifle (George Mason) – Uncovering buried dual and triple AGNs in galaxy mergers
• Kristina Nyland (NRC Fellow, NRL) – Variable radio AGN at high redshift identified in VLASS: New insights on galaxy evolution from the dynamic radio sky
• Ilsang Yoon (NRAO) – Recoiling supermassive black hole: An origin of the changing-look AGN?

Coffee and poster viewing

Reverberation Mapping

• Misty Bentz (Georgia State) – Reverberation mapping of AGN   [invited]
• Jingyi Wang (MIT) – Reverberation and relativistic reflection in black hole transients with NICER
• Eileen Meyer (UMBC) – VHE detection and kinematic monitoring of the radio galaxy 3C 264
• Poster pitches

Banquet Tuesday 6:00-8:30 pm

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8:00-9:00 am Breakfast provided for meeting attendees

Wednesday morning talks – starting time 9:00 am

Event Horizon Telescope I

• Jason Dexter (CU Boulder) – Imaging black holes: Beyond the Shadow   [invited]
• Lia Medeiros (IAS) – Testing the Kerr nature of black holes using the EHT   [invited]
• Andrew Chael (PCTS, Princeton) – The black hole-jet connection in M87: linking simulations to VLBI images
• Roman Gold (Goethe U. Frankfurt) – Implications and challenges of EHT data for theoretical modeling

Coffee and poster viewing

Event Horizon Telescope II

• Michael Johnson (CfA) – Imaging the shadow of a supermassive black hole with the Event Horizon Telescope   [invited]
• Vincent Fish (MIT Haystack) – The Event Horizon Telescope: Present and future   [invited]
• Alex Lupsasca (Harvard Society of Fellows) – Universal interferometric signatures of a black hole’s photon ring
• Sam Gralla (Arizona) – Black hole shadows, photon rings, and the Event Horizon Telescope observations

Lunch (on your own)

Wednesday afternoon talks – starting time 2:00 pm

Supermassive Black Hole Dynamics

• Frank Eisenhauer (MPE) – New faces of black holes uncovered with GRAVITY   [invited]
• Aaron Barth (UC Irvine) – New progress in dynamical measurements of black hole mass   [invited]
• Jonelle Walsh (Texas A&M) – Addressing a bias in the galaxies with dynamical black hole mass measurements
• Peter Breiding (WVU) – Probing binary super massive black holes (SMBHs) with the VLBA

Workshop ends at 3:40 pm

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Posters

• Yu-Ching Chen (Illinois) – Supermassive binary black hole candidates discovered by optical variability from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and the Dark Energy Survey
• Siva Darbha (UC Berkeley) – Ultra-deep tidal disruption events: Prompt self-intersections and observables
• Dan Doan (Penn State) – UV spectra of three changing-look quasars and tests of scenarios for their transformations
• Anushka Durg (Centre for Fundamental Research and Creative Education) – Charge fluctuations on non-rotating isolated and dynamical horizons
• Markos Georganopoulos (UMBC) – Powerful blazar jets dissipate their kinetic power to radiation from a single location: the molecular torus
• Hengxiao Guo (UIUC) – Understanding the changing-look sequence with the photoionization model
• Erica Hammerstein (Maryland) – The host galaxies of ZTF year 1 tidal disruption events
• Richard Conn Henry (JHU) – Black holes: the inside story
• Alaa Ibrahim (American University in Cairo / GWU) – On the X-ray spectrum of the black hole candidate Swift J1753.5−0127
• Tousif Islam (UMass Dartmouth) – Testing the “no-hair” nature of binary black holes using the consistency of multipolar gravitational radiation
• Demosthenes Kazanas (NASA/GSFC) – Binary black hole growth by gas accretion in stellar clusters
• Jeffrey Livas (NASA/GSFC) – Telescope technology developmenet for LISA
• Michael Loewenstein (Maryland and NASA/GSFC) – The changing changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654
• Sergio Mundo (Maryland) – The origin of X-ray emission in the gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 1H 0323+342
• Ronny Nguyen (New Hampshire) – A study of matter outflows from a binary neutron star merger
• Scott Noble (NASA/GSFC and U. of Tulsa) – Progress on simulating accreting supermassive binary black holes
• Renuka Pechetti (Utah) – Density profiles of nuclear star clusters for a sample of 29 nearby galaxies
• Karthik Reddy (UMBC) – Offsets between X-rays and radio: a step towards understanding the structure of extragalactic jets
• Mohammad Sayeb (Florida) – Spinning supermassive black hole binary inspiral with precession
• Jeremy Schnittman (NASA/GSFC) – LISA observations of eccentric LIGO sources
• Gregory Walsh (WVU) – The search for supermassive black hole binaries in spheroidal post-merger galaxies
• Charlotte Ward (Maryland) – A systematic search for recoiling black holes with the Zwicky Transient Facility
• Kevin Whitley (Michigan) – Time-domain signatures of low-mass-ratio SMBH binaries
• Maciek Wielgus (Black Hole Initiative) – Measuring accretion flow variability with the Event Horizon Telescope
• Shu Zhang (Institute of High Energy Physics) – Insight-HXMT: observations and research progresses