48th Saas-Fee course: Black hole formation and growth
Hotel Allalin, lectures in FerienArt hotel, welcome and concert in Steinmatte
Saas-Fee
The 48th "Saas-Fee Advanced Course" of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) will be held from Sunday, 28 January to Saturday, 3 February 2018 in Saas-Fee, in the Swiss Alps. This course has taken place annually since 1971 and will be devoted in 2018 to:
Black hole formation and growth
The advanced Course will review the state of knowledge, open questions and forecasts and will cover the following topics: Foundation of Gravity, early Universe, primordial black-holes, black holes at all scales, black-hole merging and gravitational waves, black-hole accretion and feedback, black hole growth on cosmological time scales.
These lectures will be given in English by three experts:
- Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)
- Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)
The lectures will be held in the morning and in the late afternoon leaving free time for informal discussions, studies, and outdoor activities (skiing) in the afternoons. The course is intended mainly for post graduate, PhD students, astronomers and physicists who wish to broaden their knowledge. The lecture notes will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Saas-Fee lecture series.
Sponsors:
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Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy | |||
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University of Geneva |  |
University of Zurich | |
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Société Académique de Genève | |||
Roland Walter & Nicolas Produit (Uni Geneva)
Philippe Jetzer & Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)
Alberto Remesal Oliva
Alessandro Lupi
Alisa Galishnikova
Allison Man
Anagha Raj
Andrea Gokus
Andrew King
Angelo Ricarte
Augusto Rafael Carvalho de Sousa
Branislav Avramov
Carolina Silva
Charlotte Ward
Chin-Ping Hu
Christian Faber
Christian Sahlholdt
Christos Panagiotou
Claudio Gorgoni
Cyril Martin Alispach
Daniel Blixt
Daniele Spinoso
Darius Ancius
David izquierdo Villalba
Diego Santana
Dolunay Kocak
Donna Rodgers-Lee
Edwige Pezzulli
Egor Novoselov
Elen Golightly
Emmanuel Ríos López
Erlin Qiao
Fabio Cafardo
Floriane Cangemi
Garreth Martin
Gergely Máthé
Germano Nardini
Gihan Weerasekara
Giulio Francesco Aldi
Gohar Dashyan
Gustavo Soares
Hai-Bo Yu
Hora Mishra
Hugo Pfister
Hui Sun
Hyunwook Ro
Ivan Almeida
Jean Patrick Rauer
Jenna Cann
jianfeng Su
Joanna Ramasawmy
Jorge Martínez Palomera
Jose Manuel Ramirez
Joseph Fernandez
July Thomas
Junyao Li
Karl-Andreas Luik
Kazuyuki Sugimura
Lana Ceraj
Lionel Haemmerlé
Lionel Philippoz
Loïc Hausammann
Luciano del Valle
Lucio Mayer
Lucy McNeill
Manuel Hohmann
Marcin Marculewicz
Marek Nikolajuk
Maria Haney
Marija Anciuviene
Martin Millon
Martine Anne Logossou-Jacot
Marzena Śniegowska
Matteo Balbo
Maxime Trebitsch
Maya Alberta Horton
Merlin Kole
Mohammadreza Ayromlou
Nan Ding
Nazma Islam
Neda Meshksar
Neil Cornish
Nicolas Produit
Ondřej Zelenka
Onur Catmabacak
Oscar Arandes Tejerina
Paulo Montero Camacho
Pedro Capelo
Peter Englmaier
Philippe Jetzer
Pierre North
Rafael Souza Lima
Raniere Menezes
Riccardo Nanni
Robbert Verbeke
Robert Wissing
Roland Walter
Rosemary Mardling
Ryan Pfeifle
Salvatore Cielo
Sebastian Bustamante
Sophie Schrøder
Stergios Amarantidis
Sundar M N
Tancredi Bernasconi
Theresa Falkendal
Tim Hewlett
Tingting Liu
Tiziana Di Matteo
Tomas Tamfal
Tomoyasu Hayakawa
Tuğçe İÇLİ
Ulrich Steinwandel
Valentin Mauerhofer
Victor Marian
Vitalii Sliusar
Xiao Fang
Yannick Boetzel
Yassine Boukhari
Yongquan Xue
Ákos Szölgyén