Physics and Astrophysics of Supermassive Black Holes - Main Page
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Chris Fryer, Gabriel Rockefeller, and Fulvio Melia

Participant List



Tal Alexander: The dynamics of close interactions between stars and a massive black hole
Sonia Anton: On the SEDs of blazars
Robert Antonucci: First view of the true Big Blue Bump spectrum in Quasars
David Ballantyne: Accreting Black Holes as Probes of Galaxy Evolution: Connecting the X-ray Background to the Mid-Infrared
Jim Bardeen: Detecting the Shadow of the Galactic Center Black Hole
Peter Bender: Sensitivity of the LISA Gravitational Wave Antenna Below 100 Microhertz
Guillaume Belanger: An X-ray Period in Sgr A*
Mitch Begelman: Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Hole Seeds
Emanuele Berti: Measuring supermassive black hole parameters with LISA
Roger Blandford: Growth of Massive Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei
Erin Bonning: The Accretion Disk Temperature -- Continuum Colors Relationship in Quasars
Laura Brenneman: Constraining Black Hole Spin with X-ray Spectroscopy
Markward Britsch: Stability of self-gravitating accretion disks in galactic centers
Joan Centrella: Supermassive Black Hole Mergers: Astrophysical Kicks and Gravitational Waves
Sandip Chakrabarti: Spectral properties of two component shocked advective flows around supermassive black holes
Chi-Kwan Chan
Eleni Chatzichristou: Multi-Wavelenght Surveys of Obscured AGN
Marco Chiaberge: HST observations of low radiative efficiency accretion in low luminosity AGN
Monica Colpi: The birth of a supermassive black hole binary in a galaxy merger
Steven Diehl
Andy Fabian: The Obscured X-ray Background and Evolution of AGNs
Xiaohui Fan: Evolution of Quasars at High Redshift
Perluigi Fortini: On the Gravitational Radiation of a Freely Falling Binary Star in the Field of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Galaxy
Chris Fryer: The Role of Supernovae in Framing the SMBHs environment
Keigo Fukumura: Hot Plasma Region by MHD Shock Formation in Black Hole Accretion
Yoko Funato: Hierarchical Triple Black Holes in the Galactic Center
Jared Gabor: SMBH Environments -- AGN Hosts and Companion Galaxies
Mike Garcia: New Measurements of the X-ray/Radio Variability of M31*
David Garofalo: Trapping of Magnetic Flux by Black Hole Accretion Disk
Martin Haehnelt: Formation of Galaxies and their Supermassive Black Holes
Lei Hao: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey
John Hawley: Simulating Black Hole Accretion
Daniel Holz: Gravitational Waves
Hannes Horst: On the mid-IR to hard X-ray Correlation in AGN
Jennifer Howard
Chris Impey: Strong Lensing and the Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes
Vladimir Karas: Long-term orbital interaction between stars and a massive black hole surrounded by an accretion disc
Roy Kerr: Solving Einstein's Field Equations
Sadegh Khochfar: Evidence for a critical Black Hole mass above which star formation is shut off in galaxies due to AGN-Feedback
Stephanie Komossa: Binary Supermassive Black Holes
Savvas Koushiappas: Gravitational waves as probes of supermassive black hole formation and evolution
Julian Krolik: The Central Engine in AGNs
Robyn Levine: Growing Supermassive Black Holes with a Cosmological AMR Simulation
Hui Li: Magnetic Fields in the ICM and IGM from Active Galaxies
Siming Liu: Stochastic Particle Acceleration and the Spacetime in Sgr A*
Mario Livio: Astrophysical Jets
Giuseppe Lodato: The dynamics of warped discs and the Bardeen-Petterson effect
Duccio Macchetto: The FR I/FRII dichotomy and the AGN unification schemes
Junichiro Makino: Evolution of SMBH-SMBH and SMBH-IMBH binaries: effect of large mass ratio
Miyoshi Makoto: Beats and rotation of the accretion disk around the supermassive black holes
Alessandro Marconi: The relation among Black Holes, their host galaxies and AGN activity
Smita Mathur: How did the black holes grow?
Michael Mayer: Flickering of Black Hole accretion discs
Pawel Mazur: Black Hole Uniqueness Proofs
Fulvio Melia
Andrea Merloni: Cosmological growth of SMBH: the connection bewteen accretion physics and cosmology
David Merritt: Dynamics of Galaxy Cores and Supermassive Black Holes
Milos Milosavljevic: What can transients reveal about massive black hole assembly?
Emil Mottola: The Gravitational Vacuum
Andreas Mueller: Detecting Supermassive Black Holes
Kim New
Ken Ohsuga: Radiative Hydrodynamical Simulations of Super-Eddington Accretion Flows
Brian O'Shea: Population III black holes: where are they now?
Jeremiah Ostriker: Primordial Black Holes
Feryal Ozel
Martin Pessah: Modeling Angular Momentum Transport in Turbulent Magnetized Accretion Disks
Dimitrios Psaltis: Testing Strong-Field General Relativity With Black Holes
Chris Reynolds: Black Hole Astrophysics in the new Century
Doug Richstone: Demographics and Implications of Supermassive Black Holes
Gabriel Rockefeller: Gas Dynamics in the Circum-Black Hole Environment at the GC
Cristina Rodriguez: A Compact Supermassive Black-Hole Binary System
Sarah Salviander: The Black Hole - Bulge Relationship for QSOs in the SDSS DR3
Evan Scannapieco: Quasar Heating in Structure Formation
Susan Scott
Stuart Shapiro: Formation, Growth, and Spin of Supermassive Black Holes: GR Simulations
Greg Shields: Evolution of the Black Hole - Bulge Relationship in QSOs
Joe Silk: The Role of SMBHs in the Formation of Early Type Galaxies
Lorant Sjouwerman: Variable radio emission from M31*
Rainer Spurzem: Stellar Dynamics around Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
Robin Stebbins: Observing Massive Black Hole Binaries with LISA
Michel Tagger: Black Hole Disk Instabilities
Greg Taylor: Heating Clusters of Galaxies with Supermassive Black-Holes
Jonathon Trump: AGN in the COSMOS field
Meg Urry: Supermassive Black Holes in Deep Surveys
Marianne Vestergaard: A Step Toward Constraining Supermassive Black Hole Growth: Quasar Black Hole Mass Distributions and Mass Functions
Marta Volonteri: Hierarchical assembly of supermassive black holes
Tom Weiler
Nicholas White: The Constellation-X Mission
John Wise: Protogalactic SMBH Formation by Turbulent Collapse
Jong-Hak Woo: Testing the M-sigma relation at Z~0.4
Joan Wrobel: Radio Emission on Sub-Parsec Scales from the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in NGC4395
Weiqun Zhang