Weizmann Institute of Science
Benoziyo Center for Astrophysics Workshop Series
 
 

Stars and Singularities

The physics of dense cusps
around massive black holes

 
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
December 8-14, 2009
 
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List of talks by speaker

(List of abstracts)
Updated 6 December 2009
Speaker Title Session
Pau Amaro-Seoane (AEI) The distribution and capture of stellar-mass black holes around SgrA* and other galactic nuclei Thu 10/12/09 15:45-16:15
Hendrik Bartko (MPE) Young stellar disks in the Galactic Center Wed 9/12/09 11:15-11:45
Holger Baumgardt (U. Bonn) Constraining the initial mass function of stars in the Galactic center Sun 13/12/09 9:00-9:30
Laura Blecha (CfA / Harvard) Wandering black holes in merging galaxies Tue 8/12/09 16:00-16:30
Michal Bregman (Weizmann) Resonant torquing of accretion disks by stars Fri 11/12/09 8:45-9:15
Rainer Buchholz (U. Köln) Structure of the late type component in the Galactic Center Sun 13/12/09 9:30-10:00
Monica Colpi (U. Milan) On the inspiral of binary black holes in gas-rich nuclear discs: spin evolution and gravitational recoil Thu 10/12/09 16:15-17:00
Jorge Cuadra (MPA) Formation and Dynamics of Stellar Discs in the Galactic Centre Sun 13/12/09 10:30-11:00
Katie Dodds-Eden (MPE) Flares from Sgr A* Wed 9/12/09 14:45-15:15
Steve Drasco (AEI) Parameter estimation errors for radiating binaries with non-trival mass ratios Mon 14/12/09 10:45-11:15
Frank Eisenhauer (MPE) Probing the Galactic center with GRAVITY Wed 9/12/09 10:45-11:15
Jonathan Gair (Cambridge) Science applications of gravitational wave observations of high mass ratio inspiral events Thu 10/12/09 9:45-10:30
Reinhard Genzel (MPE) An overview of recent observational results Wed 9/10/09 9:00-9:45
Andrea Ghez (UCLA) Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics Thu 10/12/09 11:15-12:15
Stefan Gillessen (MPE) The power of monitoring stellar orbits Wed 9/12/09 9:45-10:15
Alessia Gualandris (MPA) Young Stars in the Galactic Center Sun 13/12/09 15:30-16:00
Bence Kocsis (CfA / Harvard) The end state of resonant relaxation in the Galactic Center Sun 13/12/09 14:30-15:00
Gábor Kupi (Weizmann) Numerical studies of resonant relaxation in galactic nuclei Sun 13/12/09 14:00-14:30
Jean-Pierre Lasota (IAP & Jagellonian U.) Seeing black-hole spin through radio-loudness Mon 14/12/09 10:45-11:15
Mario Livio (STScI) Jets from black hole systems Wed 9/12/09 15:45-16:30
Avi Loeb (CfA / Harvard) Sub-millimeter imaging of SgrA* and M87 Mon 14/12/09 9:00-9:45
Avi Loeb (CfA / Harvard) Informal talk: An EM signature of galactic BH binaries that enter their GW induced inspiral Sun 13/12/09 Lunch 12:15-14:00
Ann-Marie Madigan (Leiden) Resonant relaxation and the angular momentum distribution of stars around massive black holes Tue 8/12/09 11:00-11:30
Yohai Meiron (Technion) Kinematical signature of binary MBHs Tue 8/12/09 11:30-12:00
Kristen Menou (Columbia) The electromagnetic signature of white dwarf inspiral into a MBH Thu 10/12/09 14:45-15:15
David Merritt (RIT) The distribution of stars and stellar remnants at the Galactic Center Tue 8/12/09 9:15-10:00
David Merritt (RIT) Informal talk: Testing properties of the Galactic center black hole using stellar orbits Wed 9/12/09 Lunch 12:15-14:00
Cole Miller (U. Maryland) The astrophysics of Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals Thu 10/12/09 9:00-9:45
Mark Morris (UCLA) On the tilt of gaseous and stellar disks around the Galactic black hole Fri 11/12/09 8:15-8:45
Ryan O'Leary (CfA / Harvard) Searching for star clusters around recoiling black holes in the Milky Way halo Tue 8/12/09 10:00-10:30
Miguel Preto (ARI / U. Heidelberg) Stellar distributions around massive black hole: Implications for lower-frequency gravitational wave astrophysics Thu 10/12/09 15:45-16:15
Luciano Rezzola (AEI, Potsdam) Astrophysics of binary black hole mergers: properties of the final black hole and EM counterparts Thu 10/12/09 14:00-14:45
Elena Maria Rossi (HUJ) Hyper velocity stars from the Galactic Center Tue 8/12/09 14:30-15:00
Jeremy Schnittman (JHU) The three-body problem with radiation reaction: Observational implications for SMBH binaries Mon 14/12/09 9:45-10:15
Alberto Sesana (AEI, Potsdam) Enhanced Tidal-Disruption Rates of Bound Stars from Massive Black Hole Binaries Tue 8/12/09 15:30-16:00
Nick Stone (CfA / Harvard) Stellar tidal disruption flares from bound recoiling SMBHs Sun 13/12/09 16:00-16:30
Eugene Vasiliev (LPI, Moscow) Orbital structure of triaxial nuclear star clusters Tue 8/12/09 14:00-14:30

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