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09:30 to 11:00 |
Priyamvada Natarajan (Yale University, USA) |
Formation, Fueling and Feedback from Supermassive Black Holes (Lecture 1) In this set of pedagogical lectures aimed at graduate students, I will describe the current status of our understanding of the physics of supermassive black holes focussing on modeling techniques - analytic, numerical and semi-empirical that are guided by observational data. In this primer, I will start with the current theories of the formation of the first seed black holes; the accretion processes that grow these seeds into the supermassive black hole populations detected today and the impact that this growth history imprints on the immediate environment. I conclude with a discussion of current open questions in black hole physics.
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11:30 to 13:00 |
Research talks + discussions |
Formation, evolution and distribution of SMBH mergers |
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14:30 to 16:00 |
Antoine Klein (University of Birmingham, UK) |
Gravitational wave astronomy using supermassive black holes (Lecture 1) In these lectures, I will review the modeling of the gravitational wave response of the LISA detector at low frequencies, in the context of supermassive black hole mergers. I will then review the expected accuracy of the parameter measurement for such systems, both for physical parameters and for modified theories of gravity.
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16:30 to 18:00 |
Research talks + discussions |
Discovery and census of SMBH binaries using EM tools |
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