TOPICS:
- Formation and dynamical evolution of stellar black holes in dense star clusters
- Electromagnetic signatures of black hole binaries in globular clusters and galactic nuclei
- Electromagnetic transients from black hole - star interactions
- Black hole binaries as sources of gravitational waves
- Dense star clusters as gravitational wave source factories and implications for LIGO
- Hydrodynamics of collisions, mergers, and tidal disruptions
- Black hole growth through accretion and mergers
- Dynamics of nuclear star clusters around supermassive black holes
- Intermediate-mass black holes and Ultraluminous X-ray sources
- The black hole at the center of our Milky Way