Monday, Nov 17, 2025 |
| 8:50am |
Lars Bildsten (KITP) |
Welcome[Video] |
| 9:00am |
Aditya Vijaykumar (CITA) |
The latest population of merging compact binaries[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Smadar Naoz (UCLA) |
The Triple Connection: Black Hole Mergers, EM Counterparts, and Galactic Black Holes[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Giuliano Iorio (U Barcelona) |
Are Models Over-predicting Binary Black Hole Mergers?[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:15am |
Sasha Levina (UCSD) |
Connecting cosmological simulations to gravitational waves: Impact of the star formation history on the binary black hole merger population[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Aryanna Schiebelbein (CITA) |
From Collapse to Collision: Inferring the Formation Rate of Merging Black Holes from Gravitational Waves[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Jakob Stegmann (MPA) |
The tip of the iceberg - Unveiling the origin of NSBH mergers through eccentric outliers[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Neev Shah (Arizona) |
Two birds with one stone: Forming highly asymmetric mass-ratio Galactic X-ray binaries and gravitational wave events[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 12:15pm |
All participants |
Discussion session[Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Lieke Van Son (Radboud U) |
Linking binary black hole sub-populations to formation channels[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Adam Burrows (Princeton) |
The Theory of Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Thomas Maccarone (Texas Tech) |
Symbiotic Black Holes[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Salvatore Vitale (MIT) |
Toward measuring high-dimensional non-trivial correlations in the gravitational-wave dataset[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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Tuesday, Nov 18, 2025 |
| 9:00am |
Ylva Gotberg (IST Austria) |
Connecting stripped stars with stellar-mass black holes[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Kishalay De (Columbia) |
Disappearing supergiants in nearby galaxies: Implications for the landscape of black hole formation[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Ben Pennell (MPI-A) |
Modelling the population of compact binaries in our Galaxy using Gaia astrometry[Video] |
| 11:15am |
Pranav Nagarajan (Caltech) |
A Spectroscopic Search for Dormant Black Holes in Low-Metallicity Binaries[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Johanna Mueller Horn (MPI-A) |
Hunting for Dormant Black Holes with Gaia DR3[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Kunal Deshmukh (KU Leuven) |
Halfway to binary black holes: A census of O+BH binaries in 30 Doradus[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Luzian Seeburger (MPI-A) |
A Detailed analysis of a sample of black hole impostoring post mass-transfer binaries[Video][CC] |
| 12:15pm |
All participants |
Discussion session[Video] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Tomer Shenar (Tel Aviv U) |
Monitoring massive stars @ low Z and low z[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Daniel Marin Pina (U Barcelona) |
The formation of Gaia BH3[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Hugues Sana (KU Leuven) |
From initial conditions to final fates: observational constraints on key evolutionary stages[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Jorick Vink (Armagh Observatory) |
Black Holes at high and low Z[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Wednesday, Nov 19, 2025 |
| 9:00am |
Johan Samsing (Niels Bohr International Academy - Niels Bohr Institute) |
Dynamical Assembly of Black Hole Binaries[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Sukanya Chakrabarti (UAH) |
From Gaia's black holes to a possible primordial black hole in the Galaxy[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Thibault Lechien (MPA) |
Binary stars take what they get: Evidence for efficient mass transfer from stripped stars with rapidly rotating companions[Slides][Video][CC] |
| 11:15am |
Dandan Wei (IST Austria) |
Challenges to the Classical Treatment of Massive Binary Interactions from Observed Stripped Stars in Binaries[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Cheyanne Shariat (Caltech) |
The Role of Triples on Accreting Binary Populations[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Debasish Dutta (IST Austria) |
The role of winds in the evolution of binary-stripped stars and their companions: first wind mass loss measurements[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Aldana Grichener (U Arizona/Steward Observatory) |
Modeling Massive Stars with Machine Learning: Pathways to Supernovae and Black Hole formation[Video][CC] |
| 12:15pm |
All participants |
Discussion session[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Kyle Kremer (UCSD) |
Simulations and Observations of Black Holes in Globular Clusters[Video][CC] |
| 2:45pm |
Sara Rastello (ICC U Barcelona) |
Star-Black Hole Interactions in Young Star Clusters[Video][CC] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Jakub Klencki (MPA) |
The many final fates of stellar black hole systems[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Peter Mc Gill (LLNL) |
Isolated Black Holes: The New Astrometric Microlensing Frontier with Roman[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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| 6:00pm |
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| 7:30pm |
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Thursday, Nov 20, 2025 |
| 9:00am |
Jessica Lu (UCB / LBNL) |
Isolated Black Holes in the Milky Way[Video][CC] |
| 9:45am |
Maude Gull (Carnegie Obs) |
Metal-poor Massive Binaries and Binary Products in the Local Group[Video][CC] |
| 10:30am |
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| 11:00am |
Casey Lam (Carnegie Obs) |
Finding and characterizing isolated black holes with microlensing[Video][CC] |
| 11:15am |
Fulya Kiroglu (Northwestern) |
Spins as Tracers of Black Hole Growth in Young Massive Clusters[Video][CC] |
| 11:30am |
Yi Xian Chen (Princeton) |
Formation of Sub-solar Neutron Stars in collapsar disks[Video][CC] |
| 11:45am |
Linhao Ma (KITP) |
Spins of BBHs born from post-stable-mass-transfer binaries[Video][CC] |
| 12:00pm |
Silvia Anastasia Popa (MPA) |
Gravitational wave event GW231123: The most extreme black hole merger[Video][CC] |
| 12:15pm |
All participants |
Discussion session[Video][CC] |
| 12:30pm |
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| 2:00pm |
Amanda Farah (CITA) |
Insights from the two-dimensional binary black hole mass distribution[Video] |
| 2:45pm |
Przemyslaw Mroz (U Warsaw) |
Toward Industrial-Scale Searches for Isolated Black Holes using microlensing[Slides][Video] |
| 3:30pm |
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| 4:00pm |
Hans-Walter Rix (MPI-A) |
What Gaia DR4 could teach us about black holes (in binaries)[Video][CC] |
| 4:45pm |
Vicky Kalogera (Northwestern) |
Complexity in black hole masses and spins[Video][CC] |
| 5:30pm |
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