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KITP Program: Stellar-Mass Black Holes at the Nexus of Optical, X-ray, and Gravitational Wave Surveys
(Oct 27 - Dec 19, 2025)
Coordinators: Kareem El-Badry, Jessica Lu, Selma de Mink, and Tejaswi Venumadhav
Scientific Advisors: Eliot Quataert and Tom Maccarone

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Time Speaker Title
10/28, 10:00am Tomer Shenar
Tel Aviv University
Stellar-mass black holes: my biased overview[Video][CC]
10/29, 10:00am Soetkin Janssens
(University of Tokyo)
Mathieu Renzo
(University of Arizona)
Mass transfer: (not so) easy as A, B, C[Video][CC]
10/30, 10:00am Maya Fishbach
University of Toronto
Some recent results from binary black hole populations[Video][CC]
10/30, 11:00am Barak Zackay
Weizmann Institute
See with your eyes the source population of CBC[Video][CC]
10/31, 10:00am Natasha Abrams
(UCB)
Casey Lam
(Carnegie Observatories)
weekly review[Video][CC]
11/03, 10:00am Doug Lin
UCSC
Prolific production of stellar mass black holes in AGN disks.[Video][CC]
11/04, 10:00am Norbert Langer
University of Bonn
Massive star and binary evolution[Video][CC]
11/05, 10:00am Carl Rodriguez
(UNC Chapel Hill)
Cheyanne Shariat
(Caltech)
Dynamics and triples[Video][CC]
11/06, 10:00am Reed Essick
(University of Toronto)
Casey Lam
(Carnegie Observatories)
Tom Maccarone
(Texas Tech)
Selection Effects and Population Inference[Video][CC]
11/07, 10:00am Norbert Langer
(University of Bonn)
Mathieu Renzo
(University of Arizona)
weekly review[Video][CC]
11/10, 10:00am Carl Rodriguez
UNC Chapel Hill
Dynamics of Systems[Video][CC]
11/12, 10:00am Koushik Sen
(University of Arizona)
Tom Maccarone
(Texas Tech University)
High energy observations of black holes[Video][CC]
11/13, 10:00am Sahar Shahaf
(Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)
Dominick Rowan
(UC Berkeley)
Searching for black holes in optical surveys[Video][CC]
11/14, 10:00am Johanna Mueller-Horn
(MPIA)
Pranav Nagarajan
(Caltech)
Observational Tests of Formation Models for Black Holes in Binaries[Slides][Video][CC]
11/17-11/20 Conference: The Lifecycle of Stellar Black Holes
11/21, 10:00am Meredith Joyce
Wyoming
Announcement: MESA Summer School 2026[Video][CC]
11/21, 10:30am Rich Townsend
UW-Madison
GYRE-tides: An open-source code for ab initio simulation of stellar tides[Video][CC]
11/21, 11:00am Matteo Cantiello
CCA, Flatiron Inst.
From 1D to 3D: Unveiling the Origin of Black Hole Magnetic Fields through Stellar to Collapsar Simulations[Video][CC]
11/21, 11:30am Jared Goldberg
CCA, Flatiron Inst.
Binary enthusiasts should look at 'single' stars[Video]
11/24, 10:00am Martyna Chruslinska
MPA
BHs from low metallicity[Video][CC]
11/24, 12:15pm Ilya Mandel
Monash Univ.
A roadmap to stellar-mass black holes [Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
11/25, 10:00am Linhao Ma
(KITP)
Jakub Klencki
(MPA)
Origin of BH spins in binaries[Video][CC]
11/26, 10:00am Claire Ye
(CITA)
Sara Rastello
(ICC.UB)
Stellar Mass Black Holes in Open/Young Dynamics star clusters[Video][CC]
12/01, 10:00am Katie Breivik
Carnegie Mellon University
Constraining stellar/binary evolution & compact object formation by comparing models to data[Slides][Video][CC]
12/02, 10:00am Jessica Lu
(UC Berkeley)
Przemek Mroz
(University of Warsaw)
Searches for black holes using gravitational microlensing[Slides][Video][CC]
12/03, 10:00am Debatri Chattopadhyay
Northwestern
What Did We Learn from Neutron Stars So Far?[Video][CC]
12/03, 11:00am Selma de Mink
MPA
Neutron Stars are People too: Lessons from neutron stars[Video]
12/04, 10:00am Philipp Podsiadlowski
Oxford
Testing Black-Hole Formation with LIGO: Evidence for a Bimodal Black-Hole Mass Distribution[Video][CC]
12/04, 11:00am Chris Fryer
LANL
From progenitors to remnants[Video][CC]
12/04, 2:00pm Pikky Atri
(ASTRON)
Poshak Gandhi
(Southampton)
Natal Kicks: Constraints from the Data[Video][CC]
12/05, 10:00am Kyle Rocha
(UCSD)
Rhys Seeburger
(LJMU) Dandan Wei
(ISTA)
Thoughts on (stable) mass transfer & outcomes[Video][CC]
12/08, 10:00am Jim Fuller
Caltech
Mass transfer dynamics and simulations[Video][CC]
12/09, 10:00am Jay Strader
(MSU)
Newlin Weatherford
(Carnegie)
Compact object fun in globular clusters[Video][CC]
12/10, 10:00am Daichi Tsuna
Harvard CfA
Transients associated with black hole formation[Slides][Video][CC]
12/11, 10:00am Ylva Gotberg
(ISTA)
Natsuko Yamaguchi
(Caltech)
Mass Transfer: Constraints from observations?[Video][CC]
12/12, 10:00am Eliot Quataert
Princeton
Black hole accretion[Video]
12/15, 10:00am Jeff Andrews
UF
Posydon, common envelope evolution, ++[Video]
12/16, 10:00am Anil Seth
University of Utah
Omega Centauri: Our Nearest Galaxy Nucleus[Video][CC]
12/16, 11:00am Ataru Tanikawa
Fukui Prefectural University
Dynamical formation of Gaia BH and Gaia NS in star clusters[Video][CC]
12/17, 10:00am Poshak Gandhi
University of Southampton
JWST observations of X-ray binaries
12/18, 10:00am Sukanya Chakrabarti
UA Huntsville
Black holes in the outer Galactic disk
12/19, 10:00am Kareem El-Badry
(Caltech)
Teja Nerella
(UC Santa Barbara)
Jessica Lu
(UC Berkeley)
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