48th Saas-Fee course: Black hole formation and growth

28 Jan 2018, 18:00 → 3 Feb 2018, 12:25 Europe/Zurich

Hotel Allalin, lectures in FerienArt hotel, welcome and concert in Steinmatte (Saas-Fee)

Philippe Jetzer (University of Zurich), Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich), Nicolas Produit (ISDC/unige), Roland Walter (University of Geneva)

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:

	Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy
	University of Geneva			University of Zurich
	Société Académique de Genève

Book Cover

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Leaflet.pdf

Poster.pdf

Sunday 28 January

18:00 → 19:45 Registration

18:45 → 19:45 Welcome Drink

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Monday 29 January

07:45 → 08:15 Registration

08:30 → 08:40 Introduction

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: Foundations of general relativity and black-holes

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Primordial black holes

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:40 Lectures: How do black holes accrete, accretion yields, importance of feedback, SMBH and galaxies

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

17:20 → 18:10 Lectures: The physics of gravitational waves

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

18:10 → 19:00 Lectures: BH and their role in re-ionization

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Tuesday 30 January

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: Accretion discs, Eddington limit

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Interferometric gravitational wave detectors, ground, space and pulsar timing

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:40 Lectures: The first quasars

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:20 → 18:10 Lectures: Binaries and transients

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

18:10 → 19:00 Lectures: Interferometric gravitational wave detectors, ground, space and pulsar timing

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday 31 January

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: The growth of the BH mass function, BH merger rates

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Spin evolution of SMBH, limits to growth

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:40 Lectures: Interferometric gravitational wave detectors, ground, space and pulsar timing

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

17:20 → 18:10 Lectures: The peak of the quasar phase in galaxies, the dormant, massive BH population

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

18:10 → 19:00 Lectures: Super-Eddington accretion, winds and interaction with surroundings, M - sigma relation

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

20:00 → 23:50 Dinner: Gala + concert Vouipe

Thursday 1 February

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: Gravitational wave signals from binary systems

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Quasars and Cosmology/large scale structure

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:40 Lectures: Episodic nature of feedback

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

17:20 → 18:10 Lectures: Quasars LFs and clustering, AGN feedback and its effects on DM power spectrum

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

21:00 → 22:30 Concert: Moncef Genoud

Friday 2 February

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: Gravitational wave data analysis

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Transition to energy-driven outflow, large-scale outflows

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 11:40 Lectures: Cosmological Simulations of Structure formation: galaxies and BHs in large volumes

Convener: Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)

17:20 → 18:10 Lectures: Gravitational wave data analysis

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

18:10 → 19:00 Lectures: Feedback effects on star formation, SMBH - bulge mass relation, radiation feedback

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

20:00 → 22:00 Dinner

Saturday 3 February

08:40 → 09:30 Lectures: Astrophysical rate and population constraints

Convener: Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)

09:30 → 10:20 Lectures: Open problems

Convener: Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)

10:20 → 10:50 Conclusions