2023 ASPEN WINTER CONFERENCE
eXtreme Black Holes
March 5 – 10, 2023 | In-Person Conference | Aspen Center for Physics
Schedule of Talks
Morning sessions start at 8:30 AM.
Evening sessions start at 4:30 PM.
SUNDAY
Evening — Reception at 5 – 7 pm
Group Dinner at Hickory House (optional)
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MONDAY
Morning — BHBs [Chair: Daniel Holz]
Smadar Naoz – It’s Raining Black Holes, Hallelujah!
Chris Kochanek – Three Observational Programs Needed to Understand GW Sources
Jonathan Zrake – Eccentricity evolution of accreting binary black holes
Alexander Tchekhovskoy – Simulating Black Hole Feasts, Burps, and Fireworks
Hagai Perets – Black holes in gas: multi-capture, super-scattering and runaway encounters and growth
Andrew MacFadyen – Ellipsars: Ring-Like Relativistic Explosions from Massive Rotating Stars
Evening — BHB/GWs [Chair: Kelly Holly-Bockelmann]
Jessica Lu – Milky Way Extreme Black Holes in Extreme Environments
Jeffrey Andrews – A Population of Compact Objects Detected by Gaia
Casey Lam – An Isolated Mass-gap Black Hole or Neutron Star Detected with Astrometric Microlensing
Maya Fishbach – Astrophysical implications of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA’s black holes
Maximilian Häberle – Probing Omega Cen’s Stellar Mass Black Hole Population Through Microlensing
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TUESDAY
Morning — IMBHs [Chair: Anil Seth]
Giacomo Fragione – Living between the extremes: the case of intermediate-mass black holes
Charlotte Ward – Discovering rare and extreme MBHs with time-domain survey data to trace MBH seeding and growth
Taeho Ryu – Transient formation in three-body encounters between stars and black holes
Fabio Pacucci – Accretion from Winds of RGB Stars May Reveal the Supermassive Black Hole in Leo I
Carl Rodriguez – Massive Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Jay Strader – Observational Constraints on IMBHs in Globular Clusters
Evening — SMBHBs [Chair: Jessie Runnoe]
Daniel D’Orazio – Accretion onto Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Maria Charisi – Multi-messenger observations of supermassive black hole binaries
Adi Foord – Tracking the Merger History of Supermassive Black Holes Over Cosmic Time
Laura Blecha – Supermassive Black Hole Binary (and Triple) Dynamics
Ann-Marie Madigan – Using Stellar Dynamics to Find Recoiling Supermassive Black Holes
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WEDNESDAY
Morning — Sgr A*/EHT [Chair: Smadar Naoz]
Elena Murchikova – Sagittarius A*’s multiphase environment, accretion and submm variability
Felix Widmann – Observation of polarized hotspots: The Galactic Center black hole with GRAVITY
Geoffrey Bower – Future Science from the Event Horizon Telescope
Alisa Galishnikova – Collisionless accretion onto black holes
Yonadav Barry Ginat – Resonant Dynamical Friction in The Galactic Centre
Sanaea Rose – Extreme Gravitational Wave Events from Galactic Nuclei
No evening session
Public Lecture by Suvi Gezari, “Black Holes in the Spotlight” at 5:30pm – 6:30pm
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THURSDAY
Morning — TDEs/EMRIs [Chair: Suvi Gezari]
Clément Bonnerot – First light from tidal disruption events
Adam Malyali – The extremes of eROSITA’s tidal disruption event population
Sjoert van Velzen – Ubiquitous late-time disk emission in TDEs: a new tool to measure black hole mass
Eric, R. Coughlin – Stars Crushed by Black Holes in Extreme Tidal Disruption Events
Re’em Sari – EMRI’s: general characteristics of the test particle limit
Sebastian Gomez – The Search for Thermonuclear Transients Following the Tidal Compression of a White Dwarf by a Massive Black Hole
Evening — QPEs/EMRIs [Chair: Ben Shappee]
Riccardo Arcodia – X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: where do we stand?
Wenbin Lu – Origin of quasi-periodic eruptions
Anna Payne – The Periodic Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko
Dheeraj Pasham – Identifying objects tightly bound to supermassive black holes via quasi-periodic outflows from extragalactic nuclei
Poster Session with NY Pizza at 5:30pm – 7:30pm
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FRIDAY
Morning — SMBHB Formation [Chair: Steinn Sirgudsson]
Tiziana DiMatteo – From Ultramassive to IMBHs in cosmological simulations
Lucio Mayer – The formation process of black hole seeds at high redshift
Zoltan Haiman – Forming and observing the first massive black holes
Vivian U – Resolving Black Hole Feedback in Merger Environments with JWST
Kayhan Gultekin – Pairs and Populations of Supermassive Black Holes Across Time and Mass
11:30 AM: conference ends