December 2
8:30-9:00 | Opening Breakfast
9:00-9:30: Opening Remarks (Giacomo Fragione – Chair & Priya Natarajan – Co-Chair)
Observational searches for IMBHs – Chair: Natarajan
9:30-9:55 | Mar Mezcua (Invited) – Intermediate-mass black holes: current status and future prospects
9:55-10:10 | Akos Bogdan – Detecting the first supermassive black holes
10:10-10:25 | Colin Burke – Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in the Rubin Observatory Era
10:25-10:40 | Riccardo Arcodia – Finding and studying massive black holes in dwarf galaxies with eROSITA
10:40-10:55 | Charlotte Ward – Probing the variable dwarf galaxy AGN population out to z~4 with deep time-domain survey data
10:55-11:30 | Coffee Break
Gravitational Waves from merging IMBHs – Chair: Pacucci
11:30-11:55 | Karan Jani (Invited) – Era of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Gravitational-Waves
11:55-12:10 | Zoheyr Doctor – The Population of Remnant Black Holes From Stellar-mass Black Hole Mergers
12:10-12:25 | David Neilsen – Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals in Numerical Relativity
12:25-12:40 | Rujuta Purhoit – Gravitational wave signatures of runaway intermediate-mass black holes
12:40-12:55 | Sangeet Paul – Astrophysical environments of hierarchical BBH mergers
12:55-3:30 | Lunch (provided)
Simulating the cosmological evolution of IMBHs – Chair: Fragione
3:30-3:55 | Tiziana Di Matteo (Invited) – IMBHs: Insights from Cosmological Simulations
3:55-4:10 | Laura Blecha – Simulating early black hole evolution for the low-frequency gravitational-wave era
4:10-4:25 | Aklant Bhowmick – Introducing the BRAHMA simulations: Simulating low mass black hole seeds in cosmological volumes
4:25-4:40 | Tomasz Bulik – Modeling black hole mergers in galaxies and their observational features
4:40-5:30 | Coffee Break
High Energy Physics with IMBHs – Chair : Mezcua
5:30-5:55 | Fabio Pacucci (Invited) – JWST’s Overmassive AGN at z > 4: Implications for Low-Mass Black Holes and Seeding Models
5:55-6:10 | Alejandra Roselli-Calderon – Accretion onto low mass stars boosted by their black hole companions
6:10-6:25 | Hiromichi Tagawa – Flares from stars crossing active galactic nuclei disks on low-inclination orbits
6:25-6:40 | Itai Linial – Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from Star-Disc Interaction
6:40-6:55 | Dheeraj Pasham – Quasi-Periodic Outflows From Nuclei of Nearby Galaxies: A Potential New Way to Identify IMBHs orbiting SuperMassive Black Holes
December 3
8:30-9:30 | Breakfast (provided)
IMBHs and their host galaxies – Chair : Gillessen
9:30-9:55 | Amy Reines (Invited) – Dwarf Galaxies and the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes
9:55-10:10 | Igor Chilingarian – High-resolution multi-wavelength view of host galaxies of intermediate-mass black holes.
10:40-10:55 | Ivan Katkov – Exploring the low-mass end of the central black hole population in nearby galaxies using advanced spectroscopic techniques
10:25-10:40 | Elena Gallo – The black hole occupation fraction in dwarf galaxies from 20 yrs of Chandra data
10:10-10:25 | Benjamin Davis – Using a Novel Black Hole Mass Scaling Relation to Identify Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates in Spiral Galaxies
10:55-11:30 | Coffee Break
Formation Environments of IMBHs – Chair : Jani
11:30-11:55 | Kyle Kremer (Invited) – Building Massive Black Holes in Young Star Clusters
11:55-12:10 | Elena González – Formation of Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Star Clusters: The Role of the Initial Mass Function and High-mass Binary Fraction
12:10-12:25 | Barry McKernan – IMBH in AGN: Perspectives & Future Prospects
12:25-12:40 | Saavik Ford – Simulating IMBH Formation in AGN Disks
12:40-12:55 | Yanlong Shi – Intermediate-mass black hole migration and accretion due to hierarchical star cluster formation in giant molecular clouds
12:55-3:30 | Lunch (provided)
Tracing the growth of IMBHs – Chair : Di Matteo
3:30-3:45 | Claude-André Faucher-Giguère – Evolution of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in High-Resolution Galaxy Formation Simulations
3:45-4:00 | Nico Cappelluti – The Dawn of SMBH with AXIS
4:00-4:15 | Analis Evans – Building Semi-Analytic Black Hole Seeding Models Using IllustrisTNG Host Galaxies
4:15-5:00 | Coffee Break
Dynamical signatures of IMBHs – Chair : Will
5:00-5:15 | Claire Ye – IMBH tidal captures and mergers with white dwarfs in galactic nuclei and dense star clusters
5:15-5:30 | Denyz Melchor – Naturally Forming Repeated Tidal Disruption Events
5:30-5:45 | Brenna Mockler – Finding hidden massive black hole binaries with TDEs and the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism
5:45-6:00 | Lazaros Souvaitzis – Escaping stars and compact objects in merging star clusters with massive black holes
6:00-6:15 | Yashvardhan Tomar – Influence of the Lense-Thirring Effect on Stellar Orbits Around a Spinning Black Hole
December 4
8:30-9:00 | Breakfast (provided)
9:00-9:20 | Remarks from Minister Louis Zabaneh (Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Belize)
9:20-9:30 | Group photo
Observations of IMBHs and their stellar environments – Chair : Reines
9:30-9:45 | Jay Strader – IMBHs in Globular Clusters: The Observational View
9:45-10:00 | Archana Aravindan – The effect of IMBH on host galaxies and the challenge of identifying them.
10:00-10:15 | Sukanya Chakrabarti – Constraints on intermediate mass black holes in globular clusters from pulsar timing
10:15-10:30 | Ernesto Camacho – ZTF constraints on variability from intermediate-mass black hole candidates
10:30-10:45 | Stefan Gillessen – Hunting Black Holes with GRAVITY+
10:45-11:30 | Coffee Break
Dynamics of IMBHs – Chair : Blecha
11:30-11:45 | Clifford Will – Constraining a companion of the Galactic center black hole Sgr A*
11:45-12:00 | Miguel Martinez – Retention and Ejection of Intermediate Mass Black Holes from Dense Stellar Environments
12:00-12:15 | Taras Panamarev – From Alignment to Fragmentation and Merger: The Dance of IMBHs with Stellar Discs in the Galactic centre
12:15-12:30 | Gongjie Li – Enhanced Mergers of IMBH-sBH due to Precession Induced Resonances
Posters – Chair : Li
12:30-12:36 | D Cocrofot – Probing Black Hole Dynamics w/in AGN Disks
12:36 – 12:42 | Harrison Cook – Fingerprinting the AGN Channel
12:42 – 12:48 | Mariia Demianenko – Finding Intermediate Mass Black Holes with Extremely Large Telescope
12:48 – 12:54 | Joseph Fichera – Modeling a Cosmological Population of Nuclear Star Clusters Using IllustrisTNG
12:54 – 1:00 | Krystal Ruiz-Rocha – The Dynamics of Intermediate Mass Black Hole Binaries in Dwarf Galaxies
1:00-5:30 | Lunch (provided) & Social Time
5:30-7:00 | Musical performance by Garifuna group and archeological presentation
7:00-10:00 | Conference Dinner
December 5
8:30-9:30 | Breakfast (provided)
Extreme Astrophysics of IMBHs – Chair : Bellovary
9:30-9:45 | Jwaher Alnaqbi – Periodic companion-to-compact object mass transfer in IC 10 X-2
9:45-10:00 | Sierra Dodd – Disk Perturbations: a Potential Model for CL AGN
10:00-10:15 | Thomas Wevers – Ultra-fast outflows in tidal disruption events
Signatures of Merging IMBHs – Chair : Doctor
10:15-10:30 | Jillian Bellovary – Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals from IMBHs in Milky Way Galaxies
10:30-10:45 | Vishal Baibhav – Which came first? Black-hole spins or supernova kicks!
10:45-11:00 | Harrison Cook – Black Hole Merger or Type II Supernova?
11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break
Multi-wavelength Observations of IMBHs – Chair : Strader
11:30-11:45 | Steve Zepf – IMBHs in Massive Star Clusters
11:45-12:00 | Jean Somalwar – A blind radio search for tidal disruption events and implications for IMBHs
12:00-12:15 | John-Michael Eberhard – Selection of IMBHs in the VLA Sky Survey: Effectively Separating Radio-excess AGNs from Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies
12:15-12:30 | Mariia Demianenko – Optical Light Curves of Active Galactic Nuclei, Powered by Intermediate-Mass Black Holes