5th UC Irvine Center for Cosmology Workshop: Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: from First Light to Galactic Nuclei

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5th UC Irvine Center for Cosmology Workshop:
 Intermediate-Mass Black Holes: from First Light to Galactic Nuclei

A workshop organized and hosted by The Center for Cosmology, University of California, Irvine
Location:  Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies
Date: April 1 - 3, 2009
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Agenda (updated 3.25.2009)
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

07:45 Breakfast Buffet


Morning Session 1:  Black hole formation Morning 1:  (Chair: Barth)

09:00 Aaron Barth Welcome

09:05 Virginia Trimble Milliquasars, or Shakespeare's Intermediate Period

09:25 Marta Volonteri Routes to black hole seed formation

09:50 Giuseppe Lodato Early growth of massive black hole seeds from gas collapse in pre-galactic discs
(.wmv version - click here)






10:15 Coffee Break







Morning Session 2:  Black hole formation & early growth (Chair:  Haiman)

10:45 Marco Spaans Black holes from run-away growth during gravitational collapse: very high dynamic range studies of fragmentation and collapse

11:05 Jarrett Johnson Black hole accretion in the first galaxies

11:25 Douglas Spolyar Dark Stars: a new look at the first stars and seeds for black holes

11:45 Steinn Sigurdsson IMBH from Pop III: dynamical history

12:05 Poster talks Ajith, Moreno, Yang, Lu, Thornton, Foster, O'Leary






12:20
 LUNCH







Afternoon Session 1:  IMBH in globular clusters (Chair: Umbreit)

14:00
Karl Gebhardt New Observational Results and Models for Black Holes in Globular Clusters

14:30 Julio Chaname A Search for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Galactic Globular Clusters with HST

14:50 Holger Baumgardt Testing the case for an IMBH in Omega Cen

15:10 R. Michael Rich M31 G1:  The First Intermediate-mass Black Hole in a Globular Cluster

15:30 Albert Kong Are the X-rays from G1 created by an intermediate-mass black hole?






15:45 Coffee Break







Afternoon Session 2:  IMBH in globular clusters (Chair: Ho)

16:15 Michele Trenti Intermediate-Mass-Black-Hole Fingerprints  in Globular Clusters

16:35 Tom Maccarone Accretion constraints on globular cluster black holes

16:55 Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz Disruption of stars as probes of intermediate mass black holes

17:15
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann IMBH retention in globular clusters

17:40 Steve Zepf The Mass of the Black Hole in RZ2109 and Its Implications






18:00
 RECEPTION







Thursday, April 2, 2009

07:45
 Breakfast Buffet


Morning Session 1:  Ultraluminous X-ray sources (Chair: Gallo)

08:45
Jon Miller Evidence For and Against Intermediate Mass Black Holes in Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources

09:15 Jifeng Liu Optical studies of ultra-luminous X-ray sources

09:35 Roberto Soria Why are ultraluminous X-ray sources never dominated by a standard disk?

09:55 Suzi Casement Beyond JWST and Chandra: Studying Black Holes with the Next Generation of Space Missions






10:15 Coffee Break







Morning Session 2:  Mergers & dynamical processes (Chair: Gurkan)

10:45 Zoltan Haiman Identifying Decaying Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from their Variable Electromagnetic Emission

11:10 Bence Kocsis Electromagnetic counterparts of black hole mergers

11:35 Simone Callegari Coalescence of massive black holes in equal and unequal mass galaxy mergers with gas: ultra-high resolution simulations and prospects for LISA

11:55 Kayhan Gultekin The SMBH-IMBH Connection

12:15 Michal Bregman Stars - accretion disk torqueing and applications for massive black hole evolution

12:30 Poster talks Barth, Chen, Walsh, Whalen, Glass, Dong






12:45
 LUNCH







Afternoon Session 1: Mergers & dynamical processes (Chair: Holley-Bockelmann)

14:15 Massimo Dotti Massive black hole binaries in circumnuclear disks

14:35 Laura Blecha Effects of Gravitational-Wave Recoil on the Dynamics and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes

14:50 Ryan O'Leary Star Clusters Around Recoiled Black Holes in the Milky Way Halo

15:05 Alessia Gualandris Perturbations of Intermediate-mass Black Holes on Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center

15:25 Linda Strubbe Tidal Disruption of Stars in Optical Transients Surveys:  A New Avenue for Discovery of IMBHs and Implications for BH Growth






15:45
 Coffee Break







Afternoon Session 2:  Gravitational Waves (Chair: Kocsis)

16:15 Michele Vallisneri Detecting IMBHs with LISA

16:45 Alessandra Buonanno Coalescence and Recoil:  Modeling the dynamics of Binary Black Holes and their Gravitational Wave Emissions

17:15 Ilya Mandel LIGO Searches for Gravitational Waves from Binary Systems Containing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

17:40 Alberto Sesana White dwarf inspiralling onto (moderately) massive black holes

18:00








Friday, April 3, 2009

07:45
 Breakfast Buffet


Morning Session 1:  Black hole formation and early growth (Chair: Ramirez-Ruiz)

08:45 Alexander Heger Formation of Black Holes in Massive Stars

09:10 Naoki Yoshida Formation and evolution of massive primordial stars

09:35 Milos Milosavljevic Accretion onto Seed Black Holes in the First Galaxies






10:00
 Coffee Break







Morning Session 2:  Galactic nuclei and nuclear star clusters (Chair: Sesana)






10:30 David Merritt Dynamics of nuclear star clusters with black holes

11:00 Anil Seth Black Holes in Nearby Nuclear Star Clusters

11:25 Andrea Ghez Present and Future Adaptive Optics Studies of Black Holes at the Galactic Center

11:55
 Francisco Mueller-Sanchez The nature of the nuclear black hole in the nearby starburst galaxy NGC253

12:10
 Anca Constantin
 Challenges posed by M94, the least luminous AGN-like LINER











12:25
 LUNCH







Afternoon Session 1:  Active galactic nuclei (Chair: Maccarone)

14:00 Jenny Greene
 Demographics of Low-mass Black Holes at Galaxy Centers

14:25 Misty Bentz Extending the low-mass end of AGN scaling relationships with reverberation mapping: The Lick AGN Monitoring Project

14:45 Joan Wrobel Local Analogs of the First Active Galactic Nuclei: GH 10

15:00 Luis Ho IMBHs as a Probe of Supercritical Accretion






15:25
 Coffee Break







Afternoon Session 2:  Active galactic nuclei (Chair: Soria)

16:00 Shobita Satyapal A Spitzer Search for AGN in Bulgeless Galaxies

16:20 Elena Gallo AMUSE-Virgo: nuclear black holes in early type galaxies

16:40 Ed Moran Intermediate-mass black holes in the Milky Way's backyard

17:00
Summary / Discussion

18:00 

Workshop End




Posters
Name  /  Poster title
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P. Ajith:    Estimating the parameters of intermediate-mass black holes using gravitational-wave observations
Aaron Barth:    Dynamical constraints on the masses of the nuclear star cluster and black hole in NGC 3621
Justice Bruursema:  Constraining the Presence of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters through the use of Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motions
Xian Chen:  Tidal Disruption of Stars by Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
Riccardo Desalvo:  Challenges for lower frequency GW detection with underground interferometers
Xiaobo Dong:  The central low-mass black holes in active galaxies: The first results
Deatrick Foster:  Uncovering the Nature of Ultra-luminous X-ray Sources
Lisa Glass:  The Relationship Between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies
Michael Garcia:  The International X-ray Observatory - Science and Technology
Jessica Lu:  Kinematic studies of young stellar populations around the central black holes in M31 and the Milky Way
Ryan O'Leary:  Gravitational Waves from  Highly Eccentric Black Hole Binaries in Galactic Nuclei
Jorge Moreno: Do mergers trigger quasars?
Carol Thornton:  X-ray observations of low-mass AGNs
Stefan Umbreit:  Monte Carlo Simulations of Globular Clusters with IMBHs: The case of M10 (NGC6254)
Jonelle Walsh:  Optical variability timescales in AGNs
Daniel Whalen:  Primordial Supernovae   and the Formation of IMBH
Yi-Jung Yang:  An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidate in the Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy Mrk1434



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