2015 ASPEN WINTER CONFERENCE

Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters

January 17 - 22, 2015 - Aspen Center for Physics

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


LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

SCHEDULE OF TALKS

POSTER PAPERS

 

         
    

 

ORGANIZERS:
Laura Chomiuk - Michigan State University - chomiuk@pa.msu.edu
Andrea Ghez - UCLA - ghez@astro.ucla.edu
Vicky Kalogera - CIERA, Northwestern University - vicky@northwestern.edu
Fred Rasio - CIERA, Northwestern University - rasio@northwestern.edu
Steinn Sigurdsson - Penn State - steinn@astro.psu.edu