Program

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.

Tuesday 11/28

6:00pm - 8:00pm

Welcome Reception - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

Wednesday 11/29

8:00am - 8:35am

Coffee - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

8:35am - 8:45am

Welcome Introduction

8:45am - 9:35am

Ghez, Andrea
Review - Our Galactic Center: A Unique Laboratory for the Physics & Astrophysics of Black Holes

9:35am - 10:00am

Gillessen, Stefan
An Update on Monitoring Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center

10:00am - 10:25am

Eckart, Andreas
Investigating the relativistic motion of the stars near the supermassive black hole in the galactic center

10:25am - 11:00am

Break - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

11:00am - 11:25am

Sari, Re'em
Dynamics in the galactic center - the effect of binaries

11:25am - 11:50am

Madigan, Ann-Marie
Tidal disruption events from eccentric nuclear disks

11:50am - 12:15pm

Ostriker, Jeremiah
Tidal Capture Runaway and the Formation of Seed Massive Black Holes

12:15pm - 12:40pm

Stone, Nicholas
Tidal Disruption Event Rates: Diagnostics of Stellar Dynamics Inside the Sphere of Influence

12:40pm - 2:15pm

* Lunch - Simons Hall (Dining Hall)

2:15pm - 3:05pm

Kocsis, Bence
Review - Gravitational Wave Sources in Galactic Nuclei

3:05pm - 3:30pm

Antonini, Fabio
Black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters

3:30pm - 3:55pm

Lin, Doug
Seed binary black hole production and coalescence in disks around AGN's

3:55pm - 4:30pm

** Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room

4:30pm - 4:55pm

Naoz, Smadar
Binary dynamics within galactic nuclei

4:55pm - 5:20pm

Leigh, Nathan
On the Rate of Black Hole Binary Mergers in Galactic Nuclei due to Dynamical Hardening

5:20pm - 5:45pm

Amaro-Seoane, Pau
The gravitational capture of compact objects by Kerr supermassive black holes

5:45pm - 6:10pm

Luetzgendorf, Nora
Stellar winds near massive black holes: The case of the S-stars

Thursday 11/30

8:00am - 8:45am

Coffee - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

8:45am - 9:10am

Chavanis, Pierre-Henri
Kinetic theory of stellar systems

9:10am - 10:00am

Pichon, Christophe
Review - Kinetic Theory in Galactic Centers

10:00am - 10:25am

Magorrian, John
Modelling the eccentric disc of M31

10:25am - 11:00am

Break - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

11:00am - 11:50am

Touma, Jihad
Review - Whither Resonant Relaxation?

11:50am - 12:15pm

Varri, Anna Lisa
Equilibrium and stability of differentially rotating stellar systems

12:15pm - 12:40pm

Polyachenko, Evgeny
Radial orbit and loss cone instabilities in spherical systems

12:40pm - 2:15pm

* Lunch - Simons Hall (Dining Hall)

2:15pm - 3:05pm

Volonteri, Marta
Review - Supermassive BHs Mergers

3:05pm - 3:30pm

Dosopoulou, Fani
Dynamical friction and the evolution of Supermassive Black hole Binaries: the final hundred-parsec problem

3:30pm - 3:55pm

Li, Gongjie
Implications of the eccentric Kozai-Lidov mechanism for stars surrounding supermassive black hole binaries

3:55pm - 4:30pm

** Tea - Fuld Hall Common Room

4:30pm - 4:55pm

Sesana, Alberto
Dynamics of massive black hole triplets: promising sources for LISA and pulsar timing

4:55pm - 5:20pm

Do, Tuan
Observational Constraints on the Formation and Evolution of the Milky Nuclear Star Cluster

5:20pm - 5:45pm

Eisenhauer, Frank
GRAVITY in the Galactic Center

5:45pm - 6:10pm

Schödel, Rainer
The stellar cusp around the Milky Way’s central black hole

6:10pm - 8:00pm

Poster Session Reception - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

Friday 12/01

8:00am - 8:45am

Coffee - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

8:45am - 9:35am

Berczik, Peter
Galaxy collision simulations with central Post Newtonian Supermassive Binary Black Holes

9:35am - 10:00am

Panamarev, Taras
Direct Million-body Simulation of the Galactic Center

10:00am - 10:25am

Portegies Zwart, Simon
Ergodicity in Chaotic Self-Gravitating Systems

10:25am - 11:00am

Break - Bloomberg Hall Common Room

11:00am - 11:25am

Will, Clifford
Hierarchical triple systems: Effects of higher multipoles and general relativity

11:25am - 11:50am

Rossi, Elena Maria
Hypervelocity stars in the GAIA era

11:50am - 12:15pm

Levin, Yuri
Secular dynamics and systematic eccentricity changes of inspiraling IMBHs

12:15pm - 12:40pm

Davies, Melvyn
The Ecology of the Galactic Center

12:40pm - 2:15pm

* Lunch - Simons Hall (Dining Hall)