First Annual BHI Conference on Black Holes
Monday, May 8 and Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Sheraton Commander Hotel, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA
Monday, May 8, 9:00AM-5:30PM
Avi Loeb: Welcome
Session 1: LIGO
Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan
Scott Hughes: Black Hole Physics via Gravitational Waves | Slides
Dan Holz: LIGO's Black Holes | Slides
Deirdre Shoemaker: Binary Black Holes | Slides
Matt Evans: From Nothing to Everything - Binary Black Holes and the Next Generation of Gravitational Wave Detectors | Slides
Session 2: General Relativity
Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan
Clifford Will: Relativistic Evolution of Orbits Around Spinning Massive Black Holes | Slides
Emanuele Berti: Testing the Kerr Paradigm with Gravitational Wave Observations | Slides
Dimitrios Psaltis: Testing General Relativity with Black Holes | Slides
Reed Essick: Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves in the Presence of Matter Effects Within Neutron Star Mergers | Slides
Session 3: Physics
Session Chair: Andrew Strominger
Alejandra Castro Anich: Extreme Measures for Extremal Black Holes: Recent Theoretical Developments on Black Hole Entropy | Slides
Glenn Barnich: BMS Current Algebra and Field Dependent Central Extension | Slides
Stefanos Aretakis: Tails of Linear Waves on Black Holes | Slides
Monica Guica: The Kerr/CFT Correspondence and String Theory | Slides
Session 4: Supermassive Black Holes
Session Chair: Avi Loeb
Chung-Pei Ma: Supermassive Black Hole and Galaxy Coevolution? | Slides
Jeremiah Ostriker: Black Hole Accretion: The Generality of Inflow-Outflow Solutions | Slides
Marta Volonteri: The Feeding Cycle of Massive Black Holes | Slides
Zoltan Haiman: Dirty Black Hole Mergers | Slides
Tuesday, May 9, 9:00AM-5:30PM
Session 5: Math/Philosophy
Session Chair: Shing-Tung Yau
David Kaiser: Coordinated Blasts: From H-Bomb Simulations to Numerical Relativity | Slides
Lars Andersson: New Conservation Laws for Fields on the Kerr Spacetime | Slides
Lydia Bieri: Gravitational Wave Memory in Cosmological Spacetime | Slides
Sean Gryb: Singularity Resolution Through Dynamical Quantum Gravity | Slides
Session 6: Astronomy
Session Chair: Sheperd Doeleman
Janna Levin: Black Hole Pulsar
Volker Bromm: Black Holes in the High-Redshift Universe
Priyamvada Natarajan: New Insights into the Assembly of Massive Black Holes | Slides
Edo Berger: Signatures of Black Hole Formation in Neutron Star Binary Mergers | Slides
Session 7: EHT
Session Chair: Ramesh Narayan
Sheperd Doeleman: EHT 2017: The End of the Beginning
Charles Gammie: Plasma Toupees | Slides
Avery Broderick: Black Hole Cinema: Variability on the Horizon
Michael Johnson: Imaging the Magnetic Field Structure and Dynamics Near a Black Hole with the Event Horizon Telescope | Slides
Session 8: Philosophy
Session Chair: Peter Galison
Lydia Patton: Listening to the Chirps: Estimating Black Hole Parameters Using the LIGO Results | Slides
Erik Curiel: Classical Black Holes Are Hot | Slides
David Wallace: Questions for Black Hole Evaporation from Quantum Statistical Mechanic | Slides
Jeroen van Dongen: History and Philosophy of the Black Hole Information Paradox | Slides