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Netta Engelhardt (MIT)

Title: The Information Paradox in the Age of Holographic Entanglement Entropy

Abstract: The black hole information paradox —...

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Mohammadtaher Safarzadeh (UCSC)

Title: Probing the binary black holes merger rate history with stochastic gravitational wave background searches

Abstract: What...

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Piotr Chrusciel (University of Wien)

Title: Mass, and its positivity?, for solutions of Einstein equations with negative cosmological constant.

Abstract: I will review the notion of mass...

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Kevin Nguyen (BHI and Harvard University)

Mina Himwich (BHI)

 Title: Universal Polarization of the Photon Ring

Abstract: Black hole images are dominated by a photon ring with universal features that are completely governed by general relativity. In this talk, I will discuss how the polarimetric image of a black hole also displays universal properties. In particular, the photon ring exhibits a self-similar pattern of polarization that encodes the black hole spin. The corresponding polarimetric signatures  on long interferometric...

Mu-Tao Wang (Columbia University)

Title: On an invariant notion of angular momentum at null infinity

Abstract: We extend the earlier work of Chen-Wang-Yau and Keller-Wang-Yau to define total angular momentum of an asymptotically flat null hypersurface. This induces an angular momentum definition at any section of null infinity. We prove that this definition satisfies several invariant properties that include the BMS invariance.

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Gaurav Khanna (UMass Dartmouth)

Title: Observational signatures of near-extremal Kerr black holes

Abstract: In this talk I will present some of my recent work on potential observational signatures of near-extremal and extremal Kerr black holes. The emphasis of this work is on the late-stages of the gravitational wave signal (quasi-normal phase and later) from such black holes, and is of relevance to current and future generation gravitational wave observatories like LIGO/Virgo and LISA. These results are...

Georgios Moschidis (UC Berkeley)

Title: The instability of Anti-de Sitter spacetime: Recent progress

Abstract: According to the AdS instability conjecture, there exist arbitrarily small perturbations to the initial data of AdS spacetime which, under evolution by the vacuum Einstein equations with reflecting  boundary conditions on conformal infinity, lead to the formation of black holes after sufficiently long time. To this day, the question about the vacuum equations remains open (and poorly...

Oliver Porth (University of Amsterdam)

Title: Dynamics of black hole accretion. Of flux-tubes, plasmoids and transient phenomena

Abstract: Over the last two decades, general relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations (GRMHD) have drawn a robust broad-brush picture of black hole accretion and jet formation in low-luminosity sources.  The observations by the Event Horizon Telescope and the GRAVITY interferometer now probe accretion physics with unprecedented detail requiring equally sophisticated...

Marek Abramowicz (Copernicus Center, Warsaw)

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Bhupendra Mishra (JILA, Boulder)

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Debora Lancova (Opava University)

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Yakov Shlapentokh-Rothman: Princeton University

Title: Superradiant Instabilities for Massive Scalar Fields on Kerr Black Hole Backgrounds

Abstract: Superradiance refers to the possibility of energy extraction from a rotating black. We will discuss how this phenomenon leads to instabilities in the propagation of massive...