Review talks are 50 min long.
Contributed talks are 25 min long.
All talks will take place in the Bloomberg Lecture Hall.
* NOTE: Lunch will be available until 1:30pm.
** NOTE: Afternoon tea will be available until 4:30pm.
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Tuesday 11/28
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6:00pm - 8:00pm
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Welcome Reception - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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Wednesday 11/29
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8:00am - 8:35am
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Coffee - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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8:35am - 8:45am
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Welcome Introduction
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8:45am - 9:35am
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Ghez, Andrea
Review - Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes
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9:35am - 10:00am
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Gillessen, Stefan
An Update on Monitoring Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center
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10:00am - 10:25am
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Eckart, Andreas
Investigating the relativistic motion of the stars near the supermassive black hole in the galactic center
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10:25am - 11:00am
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Break - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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11:00am - 11:25am
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Sari, Re'em
Dynamics in the galactic center - the effect of binaries
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11:25am - 11:50am
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Madigan, Ann-Marie
Tidal disruption events from eccentric nuclear disks
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11:50am - 12:15pm
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Ostriker, Jeremiah
Tidal Capture Runaway and the Formation of Seed Massive Black Holes
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12:15pm - 12:40pm
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Stone, Nicholas
Tidal Disruption Event Rates: Diagnostics of Stellar Dynamics Inside the Sphere of Influence
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12:40pm - 2:15pm
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* Lunch - Simons Hall (Dining Hall)
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2:15pm - 3:05pm
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Kocsis, Bence
Review - Gravitational Wave Sources in Galactic Nuclei
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3:05pm - 3:30pm
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Antonini, Fabio
Black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters
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3:30pm - 3:55pm
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Lin, Doug
Seed binary black hole production and coalescence in disks around AGN's
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3:55pm - 4:30pm
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** Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
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4:30pm - 4:55pm
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Naoz, Smadar
Binary dynamics within galactic nuclei
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4:55pm - 5:20pm
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Leigh, Nathan
On the Rate of Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei due to Dynamical Hardening
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5:20pm - 5:45pm
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Amaro-Seoane, Pau
The gravitational capture of compact objects by Kerr supermassive black holes
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5:45pm - 6:10pm
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Luetzgendorf, Nora
Stellar winds near massive black holes: The case of the S-stars
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Thursday 11/30
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8:00am - 8:45am
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Coffee - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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8:45am - 9:10am
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Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Kinetic theory of stellar systems
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9:10am - 10:00am
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Pichon, Christophe
Review - Kinetic Theory in Galactic Centers
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10:00am - 10:25am
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Magorrian, John
Modelling the eccentric disc of M31
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10:25am - 11:00am
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Break - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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11:00am - 11:50am
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Touma, Jihad
Review - Whither Resonant Relaxation?
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11:50am - 12:15pm
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Varri, Anna Lisa
Equilibrium and stability of differentially rotating stellar systems
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12:15pm - 12:40pm
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Polyachenko, Evgeny
Radial orbit and loss cone instabilities in spherical systems
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12:40pm - 2:15pm
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* Lunch - Simons Hall (Dining Hall)
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2:15pm - 3:05pm
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Volonteri, Marta
Review - Supermassive BHs Mergers
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3:05pm - 3:30pm
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Dosopoulou, Fani
Dynamical friction and the evolution of Supermassive Black hole Binaries: the final hundred-parsec problem
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3:30pm - 3:55pm
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Li, Gongjie
Implications of the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism for stars surrounding supermassive black hole binaries
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3:55pm - 4:30pm
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** Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room
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4:30pm - 4:55pm
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Sesana, Alberto
Dynamics of massive black hole triplets: promising sources for LISA and pulsar timing
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4:55pm - 5:20pm
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Do, Tuan
Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of the Milky Nuclear Star Cluster
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5:20pm - 5:45pm
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Eisenhauer, Frank
GRAVITY in the Galactic Center
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5:45pm - 6:10pm
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Schödel, Rainer
The stellar cusp around the Milky Way’s central black hole
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6:10pm - 8:00pm
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Poster Session Reception - Bloomberg Hall Common Room
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