Event Schedule

Monday, March 30
8:30-8:50	Breakfast
8:50-9:00	Matt Mountain (Welcome)
Merger Mechanisms (Chair: Julian Krolik)
9:00-9:30	The Growth and Merging of "Seed" Massive Black Holes in Young Galaxies Milos Milosavljevic
9:30-9:45	Discussion
9:45-10:15	A Rotating Gas Disk in the Close Supermassive Binary Black Hole System in 0402+379 Greg Taylor
10:15-10:30	Discussion
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	Massive Black Hole Binaries in Circumnuclear Disks Massimo Dotti
11:30-11:45	Discussion
11:45-12:15	Eccentricity of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Coalescing from Gas-rich Mergers Priya Natarajan
12:15-12:30	Discussion
12:30-2:00	Lunch
The Merger Proper (Chair: Tom Prince)
2:00-2:30	Merging Black Holes and Gravitational Waves Joan Centrella
2:30-2:45	Discussion
2:45-3:15	Binary Black Hole Mergers and Gravitational Radiation Recoils Manuela Campanelli
3:15-3:30	Discussion
3:30-4:00	Break
4:00-4:30	How Well Can Gravitational Waves Pin Down Merging Black Holes? Scott Hughes
4:30-4:45	Discussion
4:45-5:15	Prospects for Gravitational Wave Detection with Forthcoming Pulsar Timing Arrays Alberto Sesana
5:15-5:30	Discussion
Tuesday, March 31
8:30-9:00	Breakfast
Cosmological Context (Chair: Roeland van der Marel)
9:00-9:30	Properties of Massive Black Hole Mergers Marta Volonteri
9:30-9:45	Discussion
9:45-10:15	Mergers in the LCDM Cosmology Carlos Frenk
10:15-10:30	Discussion
10:30-11:00	Break
11:00-11:30	A New Technique for Observations of Dual Supermassive Black Holes Julie Comerford
11:30-11:45	Discussion
11:45-12:15	Correlations Between Supermassive Black Holes, Velocity Dispersions, and Mass Deficits in Elliptical Galaxies with Cores John Kormendy
12:15-12:30	Discussion
12:30-1:30	Lunch
Electromagnetic Signatures (Chair: Cole Miller)
1:30-2:00	An Overview of Electromagnetic Sources Associated with Black Hole Mergers Jeremy Schnittman
2:00-2:15	Discussion
2:15-2:45	The Lives of Circumbinary Disks Sterl Phinney
2:45-3:00	Discussion
3:00-3:30	Stellar Dynamics of Merging and Recoiling Black Holes David Merritt
3:30-3:45	Discussion
3:45-4:00	Break
4:00-4:30	Reflections on the Kicked Black Hole in E1821+643 David Axon
4:30-4:45	Discussion
4:45-5:15	Merging and Recovering Black Holes: AGN Signatures and Forgeries Julian Krolik
5:15-5:30	Discussion
Wednesday, April 1
8:30-9:00	Breakfast
Spin as a Probe of Merger History (Chair: Jeremy Schnittman)
9:00-9:20	Modelling the Final State from Binary Black Hole Coalescences Luciano Rezzolla
9:20-9:30	Discussion
9:30-9:50	Astrophysical Influences on the Spins of Supermassive Black Holes Cole Miller
9:50-10:00	Discussion
10:00-10:20	X-shaped Radio Galaxies: Are These Really Merger Induced Spin-flips? Chris Reynolds
10:20-10:30	Discussion
10:30-10:50	Black Hole Spin: Results from 3D Global Simulations John Hawley
10:50-11:00	Discussion
11:00-11:20	Break
Future Missions Panel (Chair: Anton Koekemoer)
11:20-11:30	JWST Massimo Stiavelli
11:30-11:40	Future Radio Observatories Jim Ulvestad
11:40-11:50	IXO Nick White
11:50-12:00	PAN-STARRS/LSST Mark Huber
12:00-12:10	LISA Tuck Stebbins
12:10-1:00	Discussion
1:00	Conference concludes, Lunch