KITP Conference: Building Bridges: Towards a Unified Picture of Stellar and Black Hole Binary Accretion and Evolution

KITP Conference: Building Bridges: Towards a Unified Picture of Stellar and Black Hole Binary Accretion and Evolution
(Mar 14-17, 2022)
Coordinators: Zoltan Haiman, Kaitlin Kratter, and Yan-Fei Jiang


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Monday, Mar 14, 2022
	Session: Stars / Compact Objects, Chair: Kaitlin Kratter (Arizona)
8:50am	Lars Bildsten (KITP)	Welcome[Video]
9:00am	Roman Rafikov (Cambridge)	Circumbinary disks across different scales[Video][CC]
9:45am	Matthew Bate (Exeter)	Stellar Binary Accretion and Evolution[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning Break
11:00am	Selma De Mink (MPA) Sophie Schroder (N. Bohr Institute)	Discussion: Orbital Evolution I[Slides][Video][CC][Chat]
11:45am	Ondrej Pejcha (Charles U)	Discussion: Missing Physics I[Video][CC][Chat]
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	John Tobin (NRAO)	The Characteristics, Origin, and Evolution of Multiplicity in the Protostellar Phase[Video][CC]
2:30pm	Meng Sun (Northwestern)	How tides change the orbit of binaries and a new open-source code to model stellar tides[Slides][Video][CC]
3:00pm	Pablo Marchant (KU Leuven)	The role of accretion in the formation of gravitational wave sources[Slides][Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon break
4:00pm	Stefan Kraus (Exeter)	Discussion: Observations I[Video][CC]
4:45pm	Maxwell Moe (Arizona)	Discussion: Populations I[Slides][Video][CC]
5:30pm	Cocktail Reception
6:00pm	Dinner
8:00pm	Shuttle to BWSCI
Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022
	Session: SMBHs, Chair: Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)
9:00am	Julie Comerford (CU Boulder)	Supermassive Black Hole Binaries, from Galaxy Mergers to Gravitational Waves[Video][CC]
9:45am	Tamara Bogdanovic (Georgia Tech)	From Kiloparsec Scales to Merger: Properties of Dual AGNs that Become Gravitational Wave Sources[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning break
11:00am	Alberto Sesana (UNIMIB) Magdalena Siwek (Harvard)	Discussion: Orbital Evolution II[Video][CC]
11:45am	Julian Krolik (Johns Hopkins)	Discussion: Missing Physics II[Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	Xin Liu (U Illinois)	Electromagnetic Observations of Binary Supermassive Black Holes: New Opportunities with Large Synoptic Surveys[Slides][Video][CC]
2:30pm	K.E. Saavik Ford (BMCC)	Connecting AGN Accretion Disks to Black Hole Binaries at Multiple Scales[Slides][Video][CC]
3:00pm	Chris Tiede (NYU)	Simulating binaries in thin disks[Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon break
4:00pm	Daryl Haggard (McGill Space Inst.) Chengcheng Xin (Columbia)	Discussion: Observations II[Slides][Video][CC]
4:45pm	Steve Taylor (Vanderbilt) Luke Kelley (Northwestern) Chiara Mingarelli (Flatiron)	Discussion: Populations II[Video][CC]
5:30pm	Cocktail Reception
6:00pm	Dinner
8:00pm	Shuttle to BWSCI
Wednesday, Mar 16, 2022
	Session: Binary Disk Physics, Chair: Dan D'orazio (NBIA)
9:00am	Dong Lai (Cornell)	Disks around Binaries and Binaries in Big Disks[Slides][Video][CC]
9:45am	Steve Lubow (STSCI)	Dynamics of Aligned and Misaligned Circumbinary Disks[Slides][Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning break
11:00am	Sterl Phinney (Caltech)	Discussion: Observational Tests of Theory I[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am	Roger Blandford (Stanford) Sean Mc Williams (West Virginia)	Discussion: Missing Physics III[Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UCSC)	Accretion Disk Formation in LIGO Black Hole Binaries[Video][CC]
2:30pm	Adam Dempsey (LANL)	What Does It Take To Merge Binary Black Holes in AGN Disks[Slides][Video][CC]
3:00pm	Cristiano Longarini (U Milan) Simone Ceppi (Univ. of Milan)	Chasing polar alignment in hierarchical triple systems[Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon break
4:00pm	Hui Li (LANL) Barry Mc Kernan (BMCC)	Discussion: Stellar mass binaries in AGN[Video][CC]
4:45pm	Ian Czekala (Penn State)	Discussion: Observational tests of theory II[Video][CC]
5:30pm	Cocktail Reception
6:00pm	Dinner
8:00pm	Shuttle to BWSCI
Thursday, Mar 17, 2022
	Session: Computational and Ongoing Challenges, Chair: Yan Fei Jiang (Flatiron)
9:00am	Zhaohuan Zhu (UNLV)	Grid-based simulations for misaligned circumbinary disks and disk breaking[Video][CC]
9:45am	Sasha Tchekhovskoy (Northwestern)	Simulating how black holes burp and shine[Video][CC]
10:30am	Morning break
11:00am	Laura Blecha (Florida) Scott Noble (GSFC)	Discussion: Connecting different scales[Slides][Video][CC]
11:45am	Mark Avara (Cambridge) Paul Duffell (Purdue)	Discussion: Code Comparison Projects[Video][CC]
12:30pm	Lunch break
2:00pm	Mark Avara (Cambridge)	3D-GRMHD Evolution of Inspiraling Supermassive Black Hole Binaries[Video][CC]
2:30pm	Judit Szulagyi (ETH Zurich)	Accretion inside circumplanetary disks, the equivalents of BH mini-disks[Video][CC]
3:00pm	Philipp Moesta (U Amsterdam)	Simulating accretion in the inner cavity of circumbinary disks[Video][CC]
3:30pm	Afternoon break
4:00pm	Shane Davis (U Virginia) Philipp Moesta (Univ. Amsterdam)	Discussion: Post processing and Mock Observations[Video][CC]
5:30pm	Conference end - SHUTTLE TO BWSCI *Also available to SB Airport and SB Airbus, Goleta location. (See Registration Desk BEFORE THURSDAY to sign up.)

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Monday, Mar 14, 2022

Session: Stars / Compact Objects, Chair: Kaitlin Kratter (Arizona)

Tuesday, Mar 15, 2022

Session: SMBHs, Chair: Zoltan Haiman (Columbia)

Wednesday, Mar 16, 2022

Session: Binary Disk Physics, Chair: Dan D'orazio (NBIA)

Thursday, Mar 17, 2022

Session: Computational and Ongoing Challenges, Chair: Yan Fei Jiang (Flatiron)