KITP Conference: The Paradoxes of Massive Black Holes: A Case Study in the Milky Way (Apr 14-16, 2005)
Coordinators: A. Ghez, S. Markoff, E. Quataert

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Thursday, April 14, 2005

Morning Session: Observations of Gas and Stars in the Galactic Center

8:50am Martin Einhorn
(KITP Deputy Director)
Welcome [Aud][Cam]
9:00am Robin Herrnstein
(Columbia)
Dynamics of Dense Gas in the Central 2 pc of the Galaxy [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Andrea Ghez
(UCLA)
Stellar Dynamics from Keck [Aud][Cam]
10:00am Frank Eisenhauer
(MPE)
SINFONI in the Galactic Center: young stars and IR flares in the central light month [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK
11:00am Francisco Najarro
(IEM CSIC)
Massive Stars and Metallicity at the Galactic Center [Aud][Cam]
11:30am Mike Muno
(UCLA)
Evidence for a Swarm of Black Holes Near Srg A* [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Susan Stolovy
(Caltech)
Spitzer 24 micron Imaging of M31[Aud][Cam]
12:15pm Poster Summaries [Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session: Star Formation and Stellar Dynamics in the Galactic Center

2:00pm Milos Milosavljevic
(Caltech)
Could the Galactic center stars have formed in situ? [Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Sergei Nayakshin
(MPA)
Star formation in Sgr A* in the past and the present day wind accretion [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Sungsoo Kim
(Kyung Hee)
Dynamical Friction on Star Clusters near the Galactic Center [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Simon Portegies-Zwart
(Amsterdam)
Black Hole Immigrants Welcome in the Galactic Center [Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Fred Rasio
(NWU)
Formation of IMBH and Young Stars near the Galactic Center [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm Yuri Levin
(CITA)
IMBH vs accretion disc: evidence from stellar orbits [Aud][Cam]
5:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Friday, April 15, 2005

Morning Session: Star Formation and Stellar Dynamics in the Galactic Center (contd)

9:00am Tal Alexander
(Weizmann Inst)
Mass Segregation in the Galactic Center [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Andy Gould
(Ohio State)
Sgr A* Binary Disruptions and the Shape of the Outer Halo [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am SUMMARY DISCUSSION [Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK

Mid-Morning Session: Observations of Sgr A*

11:00am Fred Baganoff
(MIT/ KIASR)
X-ray Properties of Sgr A* Flares [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Delphine Porquet
(MPE)
Review of th XMM-Newton Monitoring of the X-ray Activity of Sgr A* [Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Felix Aharonian
(MPI-HD)
TeV gamma Rays from the Galactic Center [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session: Observations of Sgr A* (contd)

2:00pm Farhad Yusef-Zadeh
(NWU)
A Coordinated Multi-wavelength Experiment to Observe the Variability of Sgr A* [Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Andreas Eckart
(Cologne)
The NIR/X-ray variable source Sgr A* and its immediate environment [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Mark Morris
(UCLA)
Variable Infrared Emission from the Galactic Black Hole [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Dan Marrone
(Harvard-Smithsonian)
Observations of Sgr A* at 1.3, 0.9 and 0.5 mm with the SMA [Slides][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Nick Scoville
(Caltech)
Tidally stable CND clouds [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
6:00pm SPECIAL EVENTS DINNER
8:00pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI


Saturday, April 16, 2005

Morning Session: Observations of Sgr A* (contd)

9:00am Shep Doeleman
(MIT Haystack)
Getting to the Event Horizon: High Frequency VLBI of Sgr A* [Slides][Aud][Cam]
9:30am Mark Reid
(Harvard-Smithsonian)
The Motion of Sgr A* [Slides][Aud][Cam]
10:00am Luis Ho
(Carnegie)
Extragalactic Analogs of Sgr A* [Aud][Cam]
10:30am MORNING BREAK

Mid-Morning Session: Theoretical Models of Sgr A*

11:00am Heino Falcke
(ASTRON/MPIfR)
Sgr A* in the radio: a jet like all the others [Slides][Aud][Cam]
11:30am Sera Markoff
(MIT)
Models for Sgr A* in the context of other low-luminosity accreting black holes [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:00pm Ramesh Narayan
(Harvard CfA)
Radiatively Inefficient Accretion Flow Models of Sgr A* [Slides][Aud][Cam]
12:30pm LUNCH BREAK

Afternoon Session: Theoretical Models of Sgr A* (contd)

2:00pm Jim Miller
(Alabama)
Particle Acceleration in Solar Flares [Slides][Aud][Cam]
2:30pm Charles Gammie
(Illinois)
Numerical Models of Accretion Flows Onto Black Holes [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:00pm Dave Meier
(Caltech)
Magnetically-Dominated Accretion Flows in Sgr A*: Highly Inefficient Accretion with Rapid Flaring [Slides][Aud][Cam]
3:30pm AFTERNOON BREAK
4:00pm Chris Matzner
(Toronto)
Black Hole Accretion of Nonradiative Magnetized Gas [Slides][Aud][Cam]
4:30pm Eliot Quataert
(UCB)
Models of Accretion Flows in Kinetic Theory [Slides][Aud][Cam]
5:00pm SUMMARY DISCUSSION [Aud][Cam]
5:30pm SHUTTLE TO BWSCI

Poster J.Cuadra S.Nayakshin
V.Springel T.DiMatteo
Accretion of Stellar Winds in the Galactic Centre