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About The Event
The 2007 Spring Symposium was held from Monday April 23, 2007 to Thursday April 26, 2007 at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland. The topic of this year's symposium was Black Holes. Aspects of black hole physics and astrophysics were discussed, regarding stellar mass, intermediate mass, and supermassive black holes.
Confirmed Speakers
| Tal Alexander | Stars Near the Galactic Supermassive Black Hole |
| Roger Blandford | Accretion onto Black Holes |
| Kate Brand | Build-Up of Supermassive Black Holes |
| Joan Centrella | Gravitational Waves from Black Hole Mergers |
| Marco Chiaberge | Radiatively Inefficient AGN |
| Monica Colpi | Birth of Supermassive Black Hole Binaries |
| Giuseppina Fabbiano | Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources |
| Andy Fabian | Spins of Supermassive Black Holes |
| Reinhard Genzel | The Black Hole at the Galactic Center |
| Suvi Gezari | Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Supermassive Black Holes |
| Alexander Heger | Black Holes from Stellar Evolution |
| Gary Horowitz | Black Holes, Entropy and Information |
| Anton Koekemoer | High-Redshift Black Holes |
| Julian Krolik | Making Black Holes Visible: Accretion, Radiation, and Jets |
| Greg Landsberg | Black Holes in Future Colliders |
| Mario Livio | Astrophysical Jets |
| Duccio Macchetto | Black Hole Masses from Gas Dynamics |
| Jeff McClintock | Estimating the Spin of Stellar-Mass Black Holes |
| Steve McMillan | The Formation of Black Holes in Globular Clusters |
| David Merritt | Dynamics Around Black Holes |
| Felix Mirabel | Microquasars |
| Andreas Muller | Evolution of Supermassive BH Mass Function |
| Ramesh Narayan | Black Hole Event Horizon |
| Bradley Peterson | Black Hole Masses from Reverberation Mapping |
| Dimitrios Psaltis | Black Holes and Strong-Field General Relativity |
| Douglas Richstone | Black Hole Demographics |
| Stuart Shapiro | Black Hole Formation and Growth: Simulations in General Relativity |
| Meg Urry | Black Holes in Deep Surveys |
| Marianne Vestergaard | Black Hole Masses in Distant AGN |
| Marta Volonteri | Supermassive Black Hole Growth |
Organizing Committee Members
| Mario Livio, Chair |
| Kate Brand |
| Marco Chiaberge |
| Linda Dressel |
| Andy Fruchter |
| Anton Koekemoer |
| Michele Trenti |
| Roeland Van der Marel |
For additional information on the 2007 Spring Symposium, please contact Quindairian S. Gryce via email or at 410-338-4970. For science-related questions or information please contact Mario Livio via email or at 410-338-4439.