2022 INTERMEDIATE-MASS BLACK HOLES
New Science from Stellar Evolution to Cosmology
April 30 – May 3, 2022 | In-Person Conference |
Cuartel de Ballajá in San Juan, Puerto Rico
Schedule of Talks
Morning sessions start at 8:30 AM.
Evening sessions start at 4:00 PM.
Welcome Reception and Public Talk
April 29th, 2022, 7:30pm – Reception and public talk by Jenny Greene “The search for intermediate-mass black holes”.
DAY 1 (Morning: 8:30am – 12:00pm)
8:00am – Breakfast
8:20am – Welcome: Giacomo Fragione, Meeting Chair
Early Morning — Formation I [Chair: Fragione]
8:30am-8:48am | John Regan – Massive Black Hole Formation in the Early Universe
8:48am-9:06am | Kyle Kremer – Populating the Upper Black Hole Mass Gap through Stellar Collisions in Young Star Clusters
9:06am-9:24am | Mohammad Safarzadeh – Formation of IMBHs through gas accretion in BBHs
9:24am-9:42am | Newlin Weatherford – IMBH Formation in Globular Clusters with Top-heavy Initial Mass Functions
9:42am-10:00am | Elena Gonzalez Prieto – Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters
Coffee Break (30 mins)
Late Morning — Gravitational Waves I [Chair: Kalogera]
10:30am-10:48am | Michael Zevin – The growth of intermediate-mass black holes through hierarchical mergers: implications for
ground-based gravitational-wave detections
10:48am-11:06am | Matteo Bonetti – Massive black hole evolution in clumpy galaxies
11:06am-11:24am | Vladimir Strokov – Hunting for intermediate-mass black holes with LISA binary radial velocity measurements
11:24am-11:42am | David Neilsen – Challenges in Numerical Relativity: Intermediate mass-ratio binaries
11:42am-12:00pm | Aleksandra Olejak – The role of supernova convection for the depth of lower mass gap and the isolated binary
formation of LVK sources
12:00pm – Lunch
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DAY 1 (Evening: 4:00pm – 7:30pm)
Early Evening — High Energy I [Chair: Ramirez Ruiz]
4:00pm-4:18pm | Taras Panamarev – Stellar disks and intermediate-mass black holes in galactic nuclei
4:18pm-4:36pm | Smadar Naoz – How to Hide an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole at the Galactic Center
4:36pm-4:54pm | Fabio Pacucci – Dynamical and Radiative Properties of Wandering Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Milky Way Galaxy
4:54pm-5:12pm | Riccardo Arcodia – X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions: unveiling the high-mass end of IMBHs?
5:12pm-5:20pm | Paula Cáceres-Burgos – Search for Intermediate Mass Black Holes using fast optical variability
5:20pm-5:28pm | Fulya Kiroglu – Hydrodynamic simulations of TDEs of main sequence stars by IMBH
Coffee Break (30 mins)
Late Evening — Observations I [Chair: Gillessen]
6:00pm-6:18pm | Jenny Greene – Searching for wandering black holes in the Milky Way
6:18pm-6:36pm | Colin Burke – Optical variability from IMBHs and implications for their identification
6:36pm-6:54pm | Renuka Pechetti – A 100,000 Msun BH in the most massive cluster of M31
6:54pm-7:12pm | Sebastian Kamann – Constraining intermediate-mass black holes in star clusters with MUSE adaptive optics observations
7:12pm-7:30pm | Nathan Golovich – Astronomy Probes of PBH Dark Matter
7:30pm – Rum tasting, generously offered by the Government of Puerto Rico.
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DAY 2 (Morning: 8:30am – 12:00pm)
8:00am – Breakfast
Early Morning — Gravitational Waves II [Chair: Rasio]
8:30am-8:48am | Dong Lai – Black Hole Mergers in AGN Disks
8:48am-9:06am | Mudit Garg – Gas-embedded intermediate mass black hole binaries in the LISA band
9:06am-9:24am | Andrea Antonelli – Measuring accretion-disk effects with extreme-mass-ratio inspirals
9:24am-9:42am | Miguel Angel Martinez – Binary-Single Interactions in the Intermediate Mass Ratio Regime
Coffee Break (45 mins)
Late Morning — Observations II [Chair: Baldassare]
10:30am-10:48am | Kristen Dage – Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters
10:48am-11:06am | Jorge Sanchez Almeida – Discovery of faint double-peak Ha emission in the halo of low redshift galaxies: is it produced
by rogue IMBHs?
11:06am-11:24am | Paulina Lira – The Search for Intermediate Black Holes in Nearby Galaxies
11:24am-11:42am | Anil Seth – Detecting IMBHs in Stripped Galaxy Nuclei
11:42am-12:00pm | Stefan Gillessen – The mass distribution in the Galactic Center
12:00pm – Lunch
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DAY 2 (Evening: 4:00pm – 7:30pm)
Early Evening — Cosmology [Chair: Greene]
4:00pm-4:18pm | Analis Evans – Building Semi-Analytic Black Hole Seed Models to Analyze Seeding Conditions Using IllustrisTNG
4:18pm-4:36pm | Maria Jose’ Bustamanate – Dynamical analysis of the matter content in the Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Leo I
4:36pm-4:54pm | Laura Blecha – Multi-scale Modeling of Massive Black Hole Origins & Dynamics
4:54pm-5:12pm | Tiziana DiMatteo – Massive BH binaries in Cosmological simulations
5:12pm-5:30pm | Aklant Bhowmick – Impact of gas based black hole seeding on the z>7 supermassive black hole populations
5:30pm-5:48pm | Nico Cappelluti – Exploring the high-redshift PBH-$\Lambda$CDM Universe: early black hole seeding, the first stars and cosmic
radiation backgrounds
Coffee Break (30 mins)
Late Evening — Formation II [Chair: Naoz]
6:18pm-6:36pm | Sergey Klimenko – Detection of binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap
6:36pm-6:54pm | Ugo Niccolo Di Carlo – Intermediate mass black holes via stellar mergers in young star clusters
6:54pm-7:12pm | Monica Gallegos-Garcia – Do high-spinning high-mass X-ray binaries contribute to the population of merging binary black
holes?
7:12pm-7:30pm | Tomoya Kinugawa – Formation of Binary Black Holes Similar to GW190521 with a Total Mass of ~150M⊙ from Population III
Binary Star Evolution
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DAY 3 (Morning: 8:30am – 12:00pm)
8:00am – Breakfast
Early Morning — High Energy III [Chair: DiMatteo]
8:30am-8:48am | Kung-Yi Su – The outflowing momentum flux of the jet cocoon at the Bondi radius regulates the intermediate-mass black hole
accretion
8:48am-9:06am | Nicholas Stone – IMBH Measurements from TDEs
9:06am-9:24am | Vivienne Baldassare – IMBH formation in dense stellar environments: Enhanced X-ray detection rates in high velocity
dispersion nuclear star clusters
9:24am-9:37am | Claire Ye – IMBH mergers with white dwarfs in galactic nuclei and dense star clusters
9:37am-9:45am | Pilar Ruiz Lapuente – Tidal Eruption Events Induced by a High-Intermediate-mass Black Hole versus other transients
events: Towards a rate determination with z
Coffee Break (45 mins)
Late Morning — Gravitational Waves III [Chair: Blecha]
10:30am-10:48am | Marek Szczepanczyk – Observing intermediate mass black hole GW190521 with minimal assumptions
10:48am-11:06am | Karan Jani – Detection Landscape of IMBHs in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
11:06am-11:24am | Jose Maria Ezquiaga – Standard siren cosmology with Intermediate mass black holes
11:24am-11:42am | Lisa Randall – Using Intermediate-Mass Black Holes to Determine Eccentricity
11:42am-11:50am | Sangeet Paul – Cluster analysis of gravitational wave sources
11:50am-12:08am | Re’em Sari – Mass Segregation in Galactic Centers: IMBH growth, LISA sources, Tidal disruption Events and Quasi Periodic Eruptions
12:00pm – Lunch
2:00pm — Tour of Old San Juan
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DAY 3 (Evening: 6:00pm)
— Conference Dinner
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DAY 4 (Morning: 8:30am – 12:00pm)
8:00am – Breakfast
Early Morning — Formation III [Chair: Strader]
8:30am-8:48am | Marco Dall’Amico – Close encounters of the third kind: intermediate-mass black hold formation via three-body encounters
8:48am-9:06am | Lieke van Son – Pushing it over the edge: what are the most massive black holes we expect from stars?
9:06am-9:24am | Sanaea Rose – The Formation of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
9:24am-9:42am | Sara Rastello – IMBHs in Massive Young Star Clusters
9:42am-10:00am | Krzysztof Belczynski – Forming massive black holes in isolated binaries
Coffee Break (30 mins)
Late Morning — Observations III [Chair: Seth]
10:30am-10:48am | Charlotte Ward – Using the Zwicky Transient Facility and Vera C. Rubin Observatory to find nuclear and wandering IMBHs in
dwarf galaxies
10:48am-11:06am | Harrison Cook – Light Curves of Supernovae Embedded in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks
11:06am-11:24am | Jeff Andrews – Identifying Free-Floating IMBHs in the Milky Way Field
11:24am-11:42pm | Benjamin Davis – Abundant Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Low-mass, Late-type Galaxies: Black Hole Mass Scaling
Relations, X-ray Point Sources, and Seeding of Bulgeless Galaxies
11:42am-12:00pm | Erik Wasleske – Variable Low Mass AGN in the GALEX Time Domain Survey
12:00pm – Lunch
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DAY 4 (Evening: 4:00pm – 7:30pm)
Early Evening — High Energy IV [Chair: Stone]
4:00pm-4:18pm | Elisa Bortolas – Tidal disruption event rates and the importance of a complete stellar mass function
4:18pm-4:36pm | Antonella Palmese – Binary Black Hole mergers and galaxies’ central black holes
4:36pm-4:54pm | Brenna Mocker – TDEs from IMBHs in binary systems
4:54pm-5:12pm | Charlotte Angus – AT2020neh: A fast tidal disruption event from an intermediate mass black holes
Coffee Break (30 mins)
Late Evening — Gravitational Waves IV [Chair: Kremer]
6:00pm-6:18pm | Chase Kimball – Searching for hierarchical mergers in LVK gravitational-wave catalogs
6:18pm-6:36pm | Tanmaya Mishra – Search for binary black hole mergers in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO-Virgo using coherent
WaveBurst enhanced with Machine Learning
6:36pm-6:54pm | Bruce Edelman – Flexibile Modeling of the BBH Mass Spectrum
6:54pm-7:12pm | Juan Calderon Bustillo – Kicking IMBHs in AGN environments: GW190521 as a black-hole merger consistent with ZTF19abanrhr
flare
7:12pm-7:30pm | Matthew Mould- Deep learning the population of repeated mergers in gravitational-wave catalogs
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