Evening (Benoziyo lobby)

• 19:00-20:30 Reception

Morning (Drory lecture hall)

• 8:45-9:15 Registration

• NUCLEAR STELLAR DYNAMICS (1) [Chair: Holger Baumgardt]

• 9:15-10:00 David Merritt
       Dynamical models of the Galactic center
• 10:00-10:30 Ryan O'Leary
       Searching for star clusters around recoiling BHs in the Milky Way halo
• 10:30-11:00 Coffee
• 11:00-11:30 Ann Marie Madigan
       Resonant relaxation and the angular momentum distribution of stars around MBHs
• 11:30-12:00 Yohai Meiron
       Kinematical signature of binary MBHs
• 12:15-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon (Drory lecture hall)

• NUCLEAR STELLAR DYNAMICS (2) [Chair: Monica Colpi]

• 14:00-14:30 Eugene Vasiliev
       Orbital structure of triaxial nuclear star clusters
• 14:30-15:00 Elena Rossi
       Hyper velocity stars from the Galactic Center
• 15:00-15:30 Coffee
• 15:30-16:00 Alberto Sesana
       Enhanced tidal disruption rates of bound stars from MBH binaries
• 16:00-16:30 Laura Blecha
       Wandering BHs in merging galaxies
• 16:30- Discussion

Morning (Drory lecture hall)

• OBSERVATIONS OF THE GALACTIC CENTER [Chair: Amiel Sternberg]

• 9:00-9:45 Reinhard Genzel (R)
       An overview of recent observational results
• 9:45-10:15 Stefan Gillessen
       The power of monitoring stellar orbits
• 10:15-10:45 Coffee
• 10:45-11:15 Frank Eisenhauer
       Probing the Galactic Center with GRAVITY
• 11:15-11:45 Hendrik Bartko
       Young stellar disks in the Galactic Center
• 12:15-14:00 Lunch
  Informal lunch talk David Merritt
       Testing properties of the Galactic center black hole using stellar orbits

Afternoon (Drory lecture hall)

• 14:00-14:45 Free discussions
       

ACCRETION PHENOMENA [Chair: Mark Morris]

• 14:45-15:15 Katie Dodds-Eden
       Flares from Sgr A^*
• 15:15-15:45 Coffee
• 15:45-16:30 Mario Livio (R)
       Jets from black hole systems
• 16:30- Discussion

Morning (Weissman auditorium)

• EXTRA-GALACTIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES (1) [Chair: Luciano Rezzolla]

• 9:00-9:45 Cole Miller (R)
       The astrophysics of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals
• 9:45-10:30 Jonathan Gair (R)
        Science applications of gravitational wave observations of high mass ratio inspiral events
• 10:30-11:00 Pau Amaro-Seoane
       The distribution and capture of stellar-mass black holes around SgrA* and other galactic nuclei
• 11:00-11:15 Colloquium coffee
• 11:15-12:15 Andrea Ghez (Colloquium)
       Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics
• 12:30-14:00 Lunch

Afternoon (Weissman auditorium)

• EXTRA-GALACTIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SOURCES (2) [Chair: Cole Miller]

• 14:00-14:45 Luciano Rezzolla (R)
       Astrophysics of binary BH mergers: properties of the final BH and EM counterparts
• 14:45-15:15 Kristen Menou
       The EM signature of white dwarf inspiral into a MBH
• 15:15-15:45 Coffee
• 15:45-16:15 Miguel Preto
       Stellar distributions around massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational wave astrophysics
• 16:15-17:00 Monica Colpi
       On the inspiral of binary BHs in gas-rich nuclear discs: spin evolution and gravitational recoil
• 17:00- Discussion

Evening

• 20:00 Workshop dinner (departure by bus at TBD)

Morning (Drory lecture hall)

Noon - evening

• 10:00- Sightseeing trip to Jerusalem and the old city

Morning - evening

Morning (Drory lecture hall)

• STELLAR POPULATIONS AND STAR FORMATION IN THE GALACTIC CENTER [Chair: Andrea Ghez]

• 9:00-9:30 Holger Baumgardt
       Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic center
• 9:30-10:00 Rainer Buchholz
       Structure of the late type component in the Galactic Center
• 10:00-10:30 Coffee
• 10:30-11:00 Jorge Cuadra
       Formation and Dynamics of Stellar Discs in the Galactic Centre
• 11:00-12:15 Free discussions
       
• 12:15-14:00 Lunch
  Informal lunch talk Avi Loeb
       An electromagnetic signature of BH binaries that enter their GW-induced inspiral

Afternoon (Drory lecture hall)

• NUCLEAR STELLAR DYNAMIC (3) [Chair: Miguel Preto]

• 14:00-14:30 Gábor Kupi
       Numerical studies of resonant relaxation in galactic nuclei
• 14:30-15:00 Bence Kocsis
       The end state of resonant relaxation in the Galactic Center
• 15:00-15:30 Coffee
• 15:30-16:00 Alessia Gualandris
       Young Stars in the Galactic Center
• 16:00-16:30 Nick Stone
       Stellar tidal disruption flares from bound recoiling SMBHs
• 16:30- Discussion

Morning (Drory lecture hall)

• THE DARK COMPONENTS [Chair: Kristen Menou]

• 9:00-9:45 Avi Loeb (R)
       Sub-millimeter imaging of SgrA^* and M87
• 9:45-10:15 Jeremy Schnittman
       The three-body problem with radiation reaction: Observational implications for SMBH binaries
• 10:15-10:45 Coffee
• 10:45-11:15 Steve Drasco
       Parameter estimation errors for radiating binaries with non-trival mass ratios
• 11:15-11:45 Jean Pierre Lasota
       Seeing BH spin through radio-loudness
• 11:45-12:15 Discussion and concluding remarks
• 12:15-14:00 Lunch