7–15 Dec 2023
University of Tokyo
Asia/Tokyo timezone

Program

December 7th (Room No. 287)
9:00 Opening remark
Chair Dan D'Orazio
9:10 Zoltan Haiman (Columbia University)
Gravitational wave and electromagnetic signatures of binary

10:00 Break

10:30 Niccolò Veronesi (Leiden Observatory)
First observational constraints on the GW-AGN connection through spatial correlation analysis
10:50 Soichiro Morisaki (University of Tokyo)
Direct searches for dark matter with gravitational-wave detectors and their optimal data analysis methods

11:10 – 13:00 Lunch break

Chair Johan Samsing
13:00 Nicholas Stone (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Gravitational Waves from Active Galactic Nuclei
13:50 Evgeni Grishin (Monash University)
The Effect of Thermal Torques on AGN Disc Migration Traps and Gravitational Wave Populations
14:10 Lucy McNeill (Kyoto University)
Dynamical binary black hole merger properties from simple globular cluster models consistent with N-body simulations

14:30 Break

15:00 Discussion on SMBH binaries

December 8th (Room No. 1042/1043)
Chair Akihiro Suzuki
9:00 Wenbin Lu (UC Berkeley)
Late-time accretion in neutron star mergers
9:50 Christopher Tiede (Niels Bohr Institute)
Eccentricity evolution, orbital decay, and apsidal precession of accreting massive binaries

10:10 Break

10:40 Dheeraj Pasham (MIT)
Quasi-periodic outflows (QPOuts): A novel observational phenomenon to potentially uncover SMBH--IMBH pairs in the electromagnetic waveband
11:00 Maria Paola Vaccaro (Heidelberg University)
The impact of Gas Hardening on Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Migration Traps of Active Galactic Nuclei Disks

11:20-13:00 Lunch break

Chair Chris Irwin
13:00 Rixin Li (UC Berkeley)
Hydrodynamical Evolution of Binary Black Holes Embedded in AGN Disks
13:50 Elena Maria Rossi (Leiden University)
Constraining the origin of Massive Black Holes with Electromagnetic and Gravitational wave observations
14:10 Ore Gottlieb (CCA, Flatiron Institute)
A Unified Picture of Short and Long Gamma-ray Bursts from Compact Binary Mergers

14:30 Break

15:00 Discussion on EM counterparts

19:00 Workshop Dinner

December 9 (Room No. 1042/1043)
10:00 Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt University)
Pulsar Timing Array
10:50 Discussion on GW data analysis

December 11th (Room No. 206)
Chair Tomoya Kinugawa
9:00 Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella (University of California Santa Barbara)
New black hole mergers in LVK data from a gravitational wave search including higher-order harmonics
9:50 Ryosuke Hirai (Monash University)
Common envelope evolution in massive binaries

10:10 Break

10:40 Chris Belczynski (The Polish Academy of Sciences)
BH spins: are LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA and High-mass X-ray Binary BHs from different populations?

11:30-13:00 Lunch break

Chair Ataru Tanikawa
13:00 Lieke van Son (CCA, Flatiron institute)
Binary evolution leading to gravitational-wave sources (TBD)
13:50 Davide Gerosa (University of Milano-Bicocca)
The masses and spins of LIGO's black holes are correlated, here is a disk explanation

14:40 Break

15:00 Discussion on Binary evolution

18:00 Physics Colloquium by Smadar Naoz at Room 1220 (2nd floor of Science Bldg 4)

December 12 (Room No. 233)
Chair Yasushi Suto
9:00 Ugo Niccolò Di Carlo (SISSA)
Black Holes in Young Star Clusters
9:50 Alexander Kusenko (UCLA and Kavli IPMU)
Gravitational waves signals from the early universe accompanying supersymmetry, generation of matter-antimatte asymmetry, and formation of primordial black holes

10:10 Break

10:40 Barry Ginat (University of Oxford)
Three-Body Gravitational-Wave Sources
11:00 Barak Rom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Formation of Merging Stellar-Mass Black Hole Binaries by Gravitational Waves Emission in AGN Disks
11:20 Suyog Garg (University of Tokyo)
X-Ray Observations of ASASSN-14li

11:40-13:00 Lunch break
Chair Alessandro Trani
13:00 Smadar Naoz (University of California, Los Angeles)
It's Raining Black Holes...Hallelujah!
13:50 Lucas Hellström (Nicolas Copernicus Astronomical Center)
Gravitational Wave Signal From Double White Dwarf Binaries Inside Globular Clusters
14:10 Henry Whitehead (University of Oxford)
Gas Assisted Binary Black Hole Formation in AGN Discs

14:30 Break

15:00 Discussion on BBHs in AGN

19:00 Workshop Dinner

December 13th (Room No. 206)
9:00 Yasushi Suto (University of Tokyo)
Dynamics of a tertiary body orbiting an inner binary black hole
9:50 Toshinori Hayashi
A strategy to search for hidden binary black holes in triples: constraining the binarity of dark companions in Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2
10:10 Claire Zwicker (Illinois Institute of Technology)
Investigating Mass Segregation of the Binary Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 6819

10:30 Break

11:00 Discussion on Many Body Systems

December 14th (Room No. 233)
9:00 Eric Coughlin (Syracuse University)
Fallback Rates from Tidal Disruption Events: Dependence on Stellar Type
9:50 Kimitake Hayasaki (Chungbuk National University)
Tidal disruption of a star by coalescing supermassive black hole binaries (TBD)

10:10 Break

10:40 Clément Bonnerot (University of Birmingham)
First light from tidal disruption events

11:30-13:00 Lunch break

13:00 Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)
Uncovering the Astrophysics of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries; from kpc scales to gravitational wave in-spiral
13:50 Lorenz Zwick (Niels Bohr International Academy Copenhagen)
Dynamics, periodicity and other opportunities to improve the detectability of environmental effects in gravitational wave sources
14:10 Madeline Clyburn (Clemson University)
Electromagnetic Signatures from the Late Inspiral of Unequal Mass Accreting Massive Black Hole Binaries

14:30 Break

15:00 Discussion on TDEs, QPEs, other galactic nucleus phenomena

December 15th(Room No. 1042/1043)
9:00 Kiwamu Izumi (JAXA)
Space gravitational wave detectors
9:50 Daisuke Toyouchi (Osaka University)
Radiation-driven winds from black hole X-ray binaries

10:10 Break

10:40 Tomoya Kinugawa (Shinsyu University)
Gravitational waves from first star remnants

Closing remark