ASPEN WINTER 2015 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE OF TALKS
Morning sessions are from 8:30 - 11:30 AM with a 30-min coffee break.
Evening sessions are from 4:30 - 7:30 PM with a 30-min snack break.
Wednesday afternoon is free, with a public lecture by Andrea Ghez in the evening.
Conference dinners are at 8:00 PM on Sunday and Thursday at the Aspen Meadows.
Registration and the Opening Reception will be held at the Aspen Center for Physics
from 5:00 - 7:00 PM on Saturday evening, Jan 17.
A special poster viewing lunch session with free food will take place on Tuesday,
immediately following the morning talk session.
All indicated talk times include questions.
SUNDAY AM — COSMOLOGY AND SMBH GROWTH [Chair: Elena Rossi]
Introductions by ACP staff and organizers [10 mins]
Tom Abel (Stanford): Physical Processes Important for Early Black Hole Growth (talk slides) [20 mins]
Tal Alexander (Weizmann Institute): Rapid Black Hole Formation in the Early Universe (talk slides) [20 mins]
Fabio Antonini (CIERA): Co-evolution of SMBHs, NSCs, and their host galaxies [20 mins]
Anil Seth (Utah): Black Holes in Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies [20 mins]
Remco van den Bosch (MPIA): Dense Galaxies and Over-Massive Black Holes (talk slides) [20 mins]
Suvi Gezari (U Maryland): Exploring the Extremes of SMBH Demographics with Time Domain Observations [20 mins]
Jonelle Walsh (Texas A&M): Examining the Black Holes in Compact Galaxies through AO Observations [20 mins]
SUNDAY PM — BINARY SMBHs [Chair: Daryl Haggard]
Jessie Runnoe (PSU): The Ongoing Hunt for SMBH binaries (talk slides) [20 mins]
Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech): Decoding the signatures of SMBH binaries [20 mins]
Laura Blecha (U Maryland): The Observability of Recoiling Black Holes as Offset Quasars (talk slides) [20 mins]
Andrew MacFadyen (NYU): Binary Black Hole Accretion (talk slides) [25 mins]
Scott Noble (Tulsa): 3-D GRMHD Simulations of Accreting Binary Black Holes (talk slides) [25 mins]
Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins): Detecting Binary Black Holes with Electromagnetic Signals (talk slides) [20 mins]
Alexander Rasskazov (RIT): Dynamical Evolution of a Supermassive Binary in a Rotating Galactic Nucleus (talk slides) [20 mins]
MONDAY AM — IMBH/ULX I [Chair: Tamara Bogdanovic]
Marianne Heida (SRON): Dynamical Mass Measurements of ULXs in the Near-Infrared [20 mins]
Thomas Wevers (Radboud U Nijmegen): Finding IMBHs with Optical and X-ray-discovered TDEs (talk slides) [20 mins]
Dheeraj Pasham (NASA Goddard): A 400 Solar Mass Black Hole Associated with a Dense Star Cluster [20 mins]
Dieu Nguyen (Utah): Weighing the Low Mass Central Black Hole in NGC404 (talk slides) [15 mins]
Melvyn Davies (Lund): Formation Processes for IMBHs (talk slides) [25 mins]
Olek Sadowski (MIT): Simulations of Optically Thick Accretion onto Black Holes The Power of Radiative Jets [25 mins]
James Guillochon (Harvard): Production of the Fastest Luminous Stars in the Universe (talk slides) [25 mins]
MONDAY PM — STELLAR BHs IN GLOBULAR CLUSTERS [Chair: Steinn Sigurdsson]
Steve Zepf (MSU): Black holes in globular clusters (talk slides) [25 mins]
Tom Maccarone (Texas Tech): Some implications of globular cluster black hole [20 mins]
Jay Strader (MSU): Radio Continuum Surveys for Black Holes in Globular Clusters (talk slides) [25 mins]
Greg Sivakoff (U Alberta): Implications for Globular Cluster BHs from the Discovery of a Field BH XRB [15 mins]
Meagan Morscher (CIERA): Dynamical Evolution of Stellar Black Holes in Globular Clusters [25 mins]
Drew Clausen (Caltech): Dynamically Formed Black Hole + Neutron Star Binaries in Globular Clusters (talk slides) [20 mins]
Josh Grindlay (Harvard): Quiescent LMXBs in Globulars and the Bulge: BHs vs. NSs vs. mCVs? [20 mins]
TUESDAY AM — IMBH/ULX II [Chair: Nadine Neumayer]
Laura Chomiuk (MSU): Strong Limits on IMBHs in Globular Clusters (talk slides) [25 mins]
Barbara Lanzoni (Bologna): Searching for IMBHs in Globular Clusters through Radial Velocities (talk slides) [25 mins]
Nora Luetzgendorf (ESA/ESTEC): IMBHs in Globular Clusters (talk slides) [25 mins]
Morgan MacLeod (UC Santa Cruz): Illuminating Massive Black Holes with White Dwarfs (talk slides) [20 mins]
Laura Watkins (STScI): An IMBH in omega Centauri? (talk slides) [20 mins]
Jimmy Irwin (U Alabama): Giant Brief X-ray Flares in Extragalactic Globular Clusters (talk slides) [20 mins]
Mark den Brok (Utah): The Mass of the IMBH in NGC4395 [15 mins]
TUESDAY PM — GALACTIC CENTER AND OTHER NSCs [Chair: Suvi Gezari]
Andrea Ghez (UCLA): The Galactic Center [25 mins]
Tuan Do (U Toronto): Studying the Origin of the Milky Way NSC One Star at a Time [15 mins]
Nadine Neumayer (MPIA): Black Holes in Nuclear Star Clusters [20 mins]
Anja Feldmeier (ESO): Large-scale Kinematics and Dynamical Modeling of the Milky Way NSC [15 mins]
Stefan Gillessen (MPIE): Update on G2 [25 mins]
Daryl Haggard (Amherst): Sgr A* and the G2 Object: The X-ray and Radio Perspective (talk slides) [20 mins]
Gunther Witzel (UCLA): Detection of Galactic Center Source G2 at 3.8 microns during Periapse Passage [15 mins]
Breann Sitarski (UCLA): Galactic Center Source G1 and other G2-like Sources [15 mins]
WEDNESDAY AM — NUCLEAR STAR CLUSTER DYNAMICS [Chair: Andrea Ghez]
Oleg Gnedin (U Michigan): Co-evolution of Central Black Holes and Nuclear Star Clusters (talk slides) [20 mins]
Rainer Spurzem (NAO China): Direct N-body Simulations of Dense Star Clusters (talk slides) [20 mins]
Hagai Perets (Technion): Formation and evolution of nuclear stellar clusters and their structural components (talk slides) [20 mins]
David Merritt (RIT): Gravitational Encounters in the Relativistic Regime (talk slides) [25 mins]
Michela Mapelli (INAF): Life and Death of Stellar Disks around Supermassive Black Holes (talk slides) [25 mins]
Ann-Marie Madigan (UC Berkeley): An Inclination Instability in a Disk of Stars around a Massive Black Hole (talk slides) [20 mins]
Mike McCourt (Harvard): Magnetized Gas Clouds in the Galactic Center (talk slides) [20 mins]
THURSDAY AM — MASSIVE BINARIES AND GW SOURCES [Chair: Sam Finn]
Selma De Mink (U Amsterdam): The former lives of stellar mass black holes: not alone [25 mins]
Chris Belczynski (U Warsaw): Formation of Massive Stellar Black Hole Binaries [25 mins]
Cole Miller (U Maryland): Gravitational-Wave Detection of Massive Stellar Black Hole Binaries (talk slides) [20 mins]
Matthew Benacquista (U Texas): Gravitational Waves from Stellar Mass Black Holes in Extragalactic Globular Clusters [20 mins]
Zsolt Frei (Eotvos U): Parameter Distribution and Evolution of Eccentric Binary Black Holes [20 mins]
Johan Samsing (Princeton): The Formation of Eccentric Compact Binary GW Inspirals in Dense Star Clusters [20 mins]
Bence Kocsis (IAS): Disks of Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei [20 mins]
THURSDAY PM — TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENTS [Chair: Laura Chomiuk]
Nick Stone (Columbia): Rates of Stellar Tidal Disruption: Theory versus Observation (talk slides) [25 mins]
Roseanne Cheng (Johns Hopkins): How does the debris from a stellar tidal disruption join an accretion flow? (talk slides) [20 mins]
Emilio Tejeda (Stockholm): Relativistic Effects on Stellar Tidal Disruptions [20 mins]
Elena Rossi (Leiden U): Stellar Tidal Disruptions and Supernova Explosions around SMBHs (talk slides) [25 mins]
Sjoert van Velzen (Johns Hopkins): The Rate of Optical Stellar Tidal Disruption Flares (talk slides) [20 mins]
Alicia Soderberg (Harvard): Radio Monitoring of TDE Candidates [20 mins]
Ashley Zauderer (Harvard): Relativistic Jets from TDEs in Galaxy Centers [20 mins]
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