The Formation and Early Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
Workshop schedule (PDF)
Wednesday 20 November 2024
| MORNING | ||
| 8:00am | BREAKFAST | |
SMBH SEEDING |
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| 8.55-9:00 | Welcome | Chris Reynolds, JSI Director |
| 9:00-9:45 | The first massive black holes and AGN: current status and open questions | Marta Volonteri (I) |
| 9:45-10:00 | Seeing the Invisible: Developing the First Comprehensive Simulation of Direct-Collapse Black Hole Formation | Caroline Nagib |
| 10:00-10:30 | POSTER LIGHTNING TALKS | |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Reflections on the role of X-rays and SMBHs seeds on star and galaxy formation in the first Billion years | Massimo Ricotti |
| 11:15-11:30 | Supermassive black holes from runaway mergers and accretion in nuclear star clusters | Konstantinos Kritos |
| 11:30-11:45 | Machine Learning for Identifying Halos Hosting Direct Collapse Black Holes in Cosmological Simulations | Brandon Pries |
| 11:45-12:00 | Simulating the formation of Direct Collapse Black Holes as LISA sources | Aláine Lee |
| AFTERNOON | ||
HIGH-Z OBSERVATIONS |
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| 12:00-12:30 | The Nature of Little Red Dots | Jenny Greene (I) |
| 12:30-2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00-2:30 | The Search for AGN in the Era of JWST | Jan Scholtz (I) |
| 2:30-2:45 | Exploring the AGN Fraction of a Sample of of JWST’s Little Red Dots at 4 < z < 8: Overmassive Black Holes Are Strongly Favored | Emmanuel Durodol |
| 2:45-3:00 | Super-Eddington Accretion Explains the X-Ray Weakness of the Little Red Dots: Prospects for AXIS | Fabio Pacucci |
| 3:00-3:15 | Characterization of Multi-phase AGN feedback and its impact in a LoBAL quasar at z~6.6 | Hyunseop Choi |
| 3:15-3:30 | From Shadows to Light: Uncovering the Most Obscured AGN at Cosmic Dawn | Erini Lambrides |
| 3:30-4:00 | COFFEE | |
| 4:00-4:15 | The Role of Radio Jets in Quenching Massive Galaxies | Timothy Heckman |
ACCRETION THEORY |
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| 4:30-5:00 | Growing Black Holes Early and Fast | Mitch Begelman (I) |
| 5:00-5:15 | A ‘Leave No Trace’ Approach to Initial Conditions in GRMHD Simulations of Accretion | Mark Avara |
| 5:15-5:30 | Magnetically Arrested Circumbinary Accretion Disks | Elias Most |
| 5:30-5:45 | Multi-messenger Signatures of Jet-Driven Spin Evolution Across Cosmic Time | Angelo Ricarte |
| 5:45-6:00 | The unique accretion disk and corona properties of an AGN during a radio jet launch | Dev Sadaula |
| 6:30-8:00 | EVENING RECEPTION |
Thursday 21 November 2024
| MORNING | ||
| 8:00am | BREAKFAST | |
ACCRETION THEORY |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Results from Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Super-Eddington Accretion | Shane Davis (I) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Time-dependent models of AGN disks with radiation from embedded stellar-mass black holes | Marguerite Epstein-Martin |
| 9:45-10:00 | Cosmic quenching and scaling laws for the evolution of supermassive black holes and host galaxies | Zhijie (Jay) Xu |
LOW-Z ANALOGUES AND CONSTRAINTS |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Cautionary Tales from the Local Universe | Sarah Gallagher (I) |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Finding Multiwavelength Signs of Near/Super-Eddington Accretion in Active Galactic Nuclei | Jeremiah Paul |
| 11:15-11:30 | Investigating the AGN variability timescale – black hole mass relationship with Gaia, SDSS and ZTF | Adrien Helias |
| 11:30-11:45 | Constraining X-ray Winds of AGN MCG-6-30-15 using a Bayesian Framework with Chandra HETG | Erika Hoffman |
| 11:45-12:00 | Through the Looking Glass: Using Low Redshift AGN Analogs to Understand Distant AGN | Mike Koss |
| AFTERNOON | ||
| 12:00-12:15 | Mergers, AGN, and SMBH seeding | Preethi Nair |
| 12:15-2:00 | LUNCH | |
| 2:00-2:30 | Dwarf Galaxies and the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes | Amy Reines (I) |
| 2:30-2:45 | Investigating the Diverse Signatures of Active Dwarf Galaxies | Erik Wasleske |
| 2:45-3:00 | Emission Line Diagnostics for IMBHs in Dwarf Galaxies: Accounting for BH Seeding and X-ray Binary Excitation | Chris Richardson |
| 3:00-3:15 | Dynamical Supermassive Black Hole Mass Measurements in Red Nugget Relic Galaxies | Jonathan Cohn |
| 3:15-3:30 | Venturing into the IMBH Frontier with Tidal Disruption Events | Suvi Gezari |
| 3:30-4:00 | COFFEE | |
SMBH BINARIES AND MULTI-MESSENGER CONSTRAINTS |
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| 4:00-4:30 | Electromagnetic counterparts of massive black hole mergers | Zoltan Haiman (I) |
| 4:30-4:45 | Accreting Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: the Merging Process from Start to Finish | Julian Krolik |
| 4:45-5:00 | General Relativistic Simulations of Gas Accretion onto Merging Supermassive Black Hole Binaries | Lorenzo Ennoggi |
| 5:00-5:15 | Calculating Electromagnetic Signatures of Massive Binary Black Hole Systems | Katie Porter |
| 6:30-Late | CONFERENCE DINNER |
Friday 22 November 2024
| MORNING | ||
| 8:00am | BREAKFAST | |
SBMH BINARIES AND MULTI-MESSENGER CONSTRAINTS |
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| 9:00-9:30 | Massive and Intermediate Mass Black Holes as Revealed by LISA: How Gravitational Wave Astronomy Will be a Game Changer | Kelly Holley-Bockelmann (I) |
| 9:30-9:45 | Periodicity significance testing with null-signal templates: reassessment of PTF’s SMBH binary candidates | Jakob Robnik |
| 9:45-10:00 | The Best Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate Yet from Spectroscopic Searches | Michael Eracleous |
| 10:00-10:15 | Tracking on-the-fly massive black hole binary evolution and coalescence in galaxy simulations: RAMCOAL | Kunyang Li |
| 10:15-10:30 | Self-lensing flares from black hole binaries IV: the number of detectable shadows | Kevin Park |
| 10:30-11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00-11:15 | Analytical and Numerical Analysis of Circumbinary Disk Dynamics. I. Coplanar Systems | Sid Mahesh |
| 11:15-11:30 | X-ray reflection spectra of supermassive black hole binaries | |
| 11:30-11:45 | Searches for neutrinos from AGN | Erik Blaufuss |
| 11:45-12:00 | Emission properties of massive black hole binaries heading for merger | Chi-Ho Chan |
| AFTERNOON | ||
| 12:00-1:30 | LUNCH | |
FUTURE PROSPECTS |
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| 1:30-1:45 | Measuring the Coevolution of Galaxies and their Black Holes using PRIMA | Alberto Bolatto |
| 1:45-2:00 | Exploring the Early Growth of SMBH with AXIS surveys | Nico Cappelluti |
| 2:00-2:45 | PANEL | |
| 2:45-3:00 | FINAL COMMENTS |
Posters
POSTERS
| Aklant Bhowmick | BRAHMA simulations: Uncovering the first seeds of supermassive black holes using cosmological simulations. |
| Alberto Bolatto | The Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics (PRIMA) |
| Tony Chen | JWST observations of kpc-scale dual quasars at cosmic noon |
| Silvana Delgado Andrade | Stellar Dynamics of MASSIVE ETGs: Linking Stars, Dark Matter, and Supermassive Black Holes |
| Mason Footh | Dual AGN Fractions In Galaxy Mergers And Implications For SMBH Growth |
| Kate Futrowsky | Prospects for Multimessenger Observations of Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA and Electromagnetic Observatories |
| Arran Gross | Uncovering Dual Active Galactic Nuclei at Cosmic Noon |
| Mitchel Karmen | High Redshift TDEs: Probes of Low Mass SMBHs at High Redshifts |
| Demosthenes Kazanas | The Number of Black Holes That Provide the LIGO Events |
| Richard Kriske | Electron Holes may float out of Black Holes |
| Julianna Levanti | Distiguishing Between Active Galactic Nuclei and Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources in Dwarf Galaxies |
| Joanna Piotrowska | Constraining Black Hole Growth History With Population Spin Measurements |
| Chris Reynolds | The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) |
| Onic Islam Shuvo | The Journey from Optical Outburst to Radio Jet: Multi-Frequency Observations of the Changing-Look AGN 1ES 1927+654 |
| Vishal Tiwari | Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Circumbinary Disks around Merging Massive Black Hole Binaries |