FSG09 - Matter and Electromagnetic Fields in Strong Gravity

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August 24-28, 2009

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
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Monday, August 24: The Interplay Between Galaxies and Black Holes
8:30 - 8:50	*COFFEE*
8:50 - 9:00	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
MORNING SESSION Chair: Eitan Tadmor
9:00 - 9:45	Doug Richstone (University of Michigan) "Inconvenient Tales of Dinosaurs. The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes" [Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15	Discussion
10:15 - 10:45	*COFFEE BREAK*
10:45 - 11:30	Massimo Ricotti (University of Maryland) "The Interplay Between Galaxies and Black Holes: A Theoretical Overview" [Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Doug Richstone
1:30 - 2:00	Marta Volonteri (University of Michigan) "The Interplay of Black Holes Binaries with Their Environment in Gas-rich Mergers" [Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30	Discussion
2:30 - 3:00	Kayhan Gultekin (University of Michigan) "The Mass of Supermassive Black Holes: New Scaling Relations" [Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30	Discussion
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:30	Avi Loeb (Harvard University) "Electromagnetic Signatures of Strong Field Gravity Around Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei" [Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00	Discussion
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Tuesday, August 25: Active Galaxies and Accretion Disks
8:30 - 9:00	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION Chair: Chris Reynolds
9:00 - 9:45	Richard Mushotzky (University of Maryland and NASA/GSFC) "Some of What's New in AGN Studies" [Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15	Discussion
10:15 - 10:45	*COFFEE BREAK*
10:45 - 11:30	Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins University) "Thermodynamics of Accretion in the Vicinity of Black Holes" [Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Richard Mushotzky
1:30 - 2:00	John Hawley (University of Virginia) "Global Simulations of Black Hole Accretion" [Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30	Discussion
2:30 - 3:00	Jon Miller (University of Michigan) "Accretion Disks in Stellar-Mass Black Holes: Implications for AGNs" [Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30	Discussion
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:30	Chris Reynolds (University of Maryland) "X-ray Signatures of Strong Gravity" [Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00	Discussion
5:00 - 5:30	Ramesh Narayan (Harvard University) "Three-Dimensional GRMHD Simulations of Accretion Disks around Spinning Black Holes" [Presentation Slides]
5:30 - 6:00	Discussion
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Wednesday, August 26: Numerical and Analytical Relativity
8:30 - 9:00	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION Chair: Joan Centrella
9:00 - 9:45	Alessandra Buonanno (University of Maryland) "Modeling the Dynamics and Gravitational-Wave Emissions of Coalescing Binary Black Holes" [Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15	Discussion
10:15 - 10:45	*COFFEE BREAK*
10:45 - 11:30	Manuela Campanelli (Rochester Institute of Technology) "Merging Supermassive Black Holes in Astrophysics: Gravitational Radiation Recoils, Spin and Gas Dynamics" [Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Manuel Tiglio
1:30 - 2:00	Larry Kidder (Cornell University) "Numerical Simulations of Compact Binaries" [Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30	Discussion
2:30 - 3:00	Frank Herrmann (University of Maryland) "Numerical Simulations of Black Holes" [Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30	Discussion
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:30	Ted Jacobson (University of Maryland) "If not GR, what?" [Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00	Discussion
5:00 - 5:30	Mark Miller (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) "High Order Methods for the Neutron Star Inspiral Problem" [Presentation Slides]
5:30 - 6:00	Discussion
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Thursday, August 27: EM Counterparts to Merging Supermassive Black Holes
8:30 - 9:00	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION Chair: Cole Miller
9:00 - 9:45	Stefanie Komossa (MPI fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching) "Observing the Sites of Massive Binaries and Recoiling Black Holes - Electromagnetic Signatures" [Presentation Slides]
9:45 - 10:15	Discussion
10:15 - 10:45	*COFFEE BREAK*
10:45 - 11:30	Jeremy Schnittman (Johns Hopkins University) "Probing Extreme Gravity with X-ray Polarization" [Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 1:30	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION Chair: Ted Jacobson
1:30 - 2:00	Joan Centrella (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) "Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries" [Presentation Slides]
2:00 - 2:30	Discussion
2:30 - 3:00	Peter Shawhan (University of Maryland) "Darkness and Light: Status of LIGO and Virgo Searches for Black Hole Mergers and Other Signals" [Presentation Slides]
3:00 - 3:30	Discussion
3:30 - 4:00	*COFFEE BREAK*
4:00 - 4:30	Cole Miller (University of Maryland) "Signatures of Kicked Disks and Mass Loss" [Presentation Slides]
4:30 - 5:00	Discussion
EVENING ACTIVITY
6:30	Dinner at the Inn and Conference Center Directions to the conference dinner
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Friday, August 28: Summing Up and Multiwavelength, Especially Radio
8:30 - 9:00	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION Chair: Ramesh Narayan
9:00 - 9:30	Félix Mirabel (CEA-Saclay, France) "Coupling of Jets with Accretion in Black Hole Binaries and AGN" [Presentation Slides]
9:30 - 10:00	Discussion
10:00 - 10:30	Shinji Koide (Kumamoto University, Japan) "Energy extraction of rotating black hole by magnetic reconnection" [Presentation Slides]
10:30 - 11:00	Discussion
11:00 - 11:30	David Meier (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) "Numerical Techniques for Simulating EM and GR Fields in the 21st Century" [Presentation Slides]
11:30 - 12:00	Discussion
12:05	*CLOSING*
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