Program – Unsolved Matter

SUNDAY, 05. JULY
19:00	Welcome Reception in Vienna STRANDBAR HERRMANN Herrmannpark, 1030 Vienna
MONDAY, 06. JULY
10:00 – 12:30	Session 1 \| Exoplanets
10:00 – 10:15	Welcome & Logistics
10:15 – 10:50	Kaitlin Kratter \| Review “Exoplanets Review Talk”
10:50 – 11:05	Cristiano Longarini “Rethinking about Gravitational Instability as a Planet Formation Scenario”
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee Break
11:40 – 12:30	Hannah Diamond-Lowe “The Unsolved Problem of Interpreting Band-Limited Observations with Bolometric Models of Energy Balance in Rocky Exoplanets”
11:55 – 12:15	Jessie Christiansen
12:15 – 12:30	Martin Pessah “Planet Migration in Dusty Protoplanetary Disks“
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 17:30	Session 2 \| Gravitational Waves from Massive Black Holes
14:00 – 14:35	Elena Maria Rossi \| Review “Gravitational Waves in the LISA Era: Massive Black Hole Binaries and Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals”
14:35 – 14:50	Alberto Sesana “Pulsar Timing Array Implications for Massive Black Hole Binaries”
14:50 – 15:05	Chengcheng Xin “LSST-LISA Synergy: Detecting Massive Black Hole Binaries“
15:05 – 15:20	Daniel D’Orazio “The Physics of Binary-Disk Interactions and Multi-Messenger Applications”
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 16:15	Lorenzo Speri “Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals as Precision Probes of Galactic Centres”
16:15 – 16:30	Maria Charisi “Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries“
16:30 – 16:45	Re’em Sari “Scattering dominated atmospheres and Little Red Dots”
16:45 – 17:00	Stephen Taylor “Population Multi-messenger Astrophysics of Supermassive Binary Black Holes”
17:00 – 17:15	Tamara Bogdanovic “Galaxy in a Haystack: Finding Hosts of LISA’s Massive Black Hole Binaries”
TUESDAY, 07. JULY
10:00 – 12:50	Session 3 \| The Future
10:00 – 10:35	Zeljko Ivezic \| Review “A Brief Review of the Future”
10:35 – 10:50	Alex Szalay “Science in the Age of AI”
10:50 – 11:05	Eli Waxman “ULTRASAT: Revolutionzing our View of the Transient Universe”
11:10 – 11:40	Coffee Break
11:40 – 11:55	Fiona Harrison “Problems to Solve with UVEX”
11:55 – 12:10	Shri Kulkarni “There is More Room Sideways”
12:10 – 12:25	Victoria Kaspi “Unsolved Problems in Radio Transients — FRBs, LPTs & Pulsars”
12:25 – 12:40	Jonathan Zrake “Ideas About the Future of High-Performance Computing for Astrophysics Theory”
12:40 – 13:00	Raul Jimenez “The Denario Project: Deep Knowledge AI Agents for Scientific Reasoning and Discovery”
13:00 – 14:20	Lunch
14:20 – 17:30	Session 4 \| Galaxy Formation
14:20 – 14:55	Joop Schaye \| Review “(Some of the) Unsolved Problems in Galaxy Formation”
14:55 – 15:10	Amy Reines “Dwarf Galaxies and the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes“
15:10 – 15:25	Laura Blecha “Modeling Low-Frequency Gravitational-Wave Source Populations”
15:25 – 15:40	Max Gronke “Tiki-Taka Across Scales: The Unsolved Problem of Modeling Multiphase Gas in and Around Galaxies”
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:20 – 16:35	Philip Hopkins
16:35 – 16:50	Silvia Bonoli “Constraining the Early Growth of Massive Black Hole”
16:50 – 17:05	Vasily Belokurov
18:00	Live Viewing \| FIFA World Cup \| GAME#95
WEDNESDAY, 08. JULY
10:00 – 13:30	Session 5 \| First Black Holes and Galaxies
10:00 – 10:35	Roberto Maiolino \| Review “Infant Black Holes in the Early Universe”
10:35 – 10:50	Anna de Graaff “Little Red Dots: a New Class of Quasi-Stellar, Gas-Enshrouded AGN“
10:50 – 11:05	Anna-Christina Eilers “Formation and Growth of Early Supermassive Black Holes”
11:05 – 11:20	John Wise “Simulating the Formation of Massive Black Hole Seeds”
11:30 – 12:00	Coffee Break
12:00 – 12:15	Kohei Inayoshi “The Emergence of the First Massive Black Holes”
12:15 – 12:30	Lucio Mayer “Ultra-Compact Star Clusters, Intermediate Mass Black Holes and Supermassive Disks from Self-Gravitating Gasdynamics in High-z Galaxies”
12:30 – 12:45	Lorenz Zwick “The Physics of Accreting Supermassive Stars”
12:45 – 13:00	Tiziana Di Matteo “Uncovering Massive Black Hole Seeds with Cosmological Simulations”
13:00 – 13:15	Yuichi Harikane “Properties of Early Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes Revealed with the JWST Observations”
13:30 – 15:00	Lunch
~ 15:00	Free Program \| Social Activity
18:00	Dinner \| “Der Hirt – Heurigen”
THURSDAY, 09. JULY
10:00 – 13:10	Session 6 \| Cosmology
10:00 – 10:35	Licia Verde \| Review
10:35 – 10:50	Joe Mohr “Studies of Dark Matter and Gravity with Galaxy Clusters”
10:50 – 11:05	Lam Hui “Recent Developments in Wave Dark Matter”
11:05 – 11:35	Coffee Break
11:35 – 11:50	Oliver Hahn “Towards Cosmological Field-Level-Inference with Simulations”
11:50 – 12:05	Raul Angulo “Exploring Cosmological and Astrophysical Constraints with Simulations”
12:05 – 12:20	Rupert Croft “Can Intergalactic Agents Solve the Intergalactic Medium?”
12:20 – 12:35	Tim Schrabback “A Glimpse at Euclid’s Weak Lensing Capabilities”
13:00 – 14:40	Lunch
14:40 – 17:30	Session 7 \| High Energy / Transient Phenomena
14:40 – 15:15	Eliot Quataert \| Review “An Overview of Transients in Galactic Nuclei”
15:15 – 15:30	Alessia Franchini “One Ring to Rule Them All? Challenges for QPEs Modelling”
15:30 – 15:45	Bence Kocsis “Discovering Black Hole Binaries with Lensed Starlight”
15:50 – 16:05	Benny Trakhtenbrot “A Novel Class of Transients Related to Accreting Supermassive Black Holes”
16:05 – 16:35	Coffee Break
16:35 – 16:50	Hagai Perets “TDEs are Totally Different Events: An Alternative Starved AGN Disk Instability Origin for TDEs”
16:50 – 17:05	Itai Linial
17:05 – 17:20	Ryan Chornock “Tidal Disruption Events as New Probes of Supermassive Black Hole Populations”
17:20 – 17:35	Andrew MacFadyen “Simulations of Black Hole Accretion”
FRIDAY, 10. JULY
10:00 – 13:10	Session 8 \| Gravitational Waves from Stelar-Mass Sources
10:00 – 10:35	Imre Bartos \| Review “Stellar-Mass Black Holes in the Gravitational-Wave Era: Results, Puzzles, and Prospects”
10:35 – 10:50	Niccolo’ Veronesi “AGN as Potential Hosts: Results and Challenges of Spatial Correlation Analyses”
10:50 – 11:05	Floor Broekgaarden “Introduction of the GROWL (GRavitatiOnal-Wave paLeontology) Catalog”
11:05 – 11:20	Davide Gerosa “(Over) Interpreting Gravitational-Wave Populations”
11:30 – 12:00	Coffee break
12:00 – 12:15	Isobel Romero-Shaw “Decoding the Biographies of Binary Compact Objects Observed with Gravitational Waves”
12:15 – 12:30	Lieke van Son “Binary Interactions to Navigate Gravitational-wave Observations (BINGO!)”
12:30 – 12:45	Raffaella Margutti “10 yrs of Multi-Wavelength Luminous Fast Optical Transients”
12:45 – 13:00	Smadar Naoz “Linking Between Black Hole Mergers, Electromagnetic Signatures, and Galactic Black Holes”
13:10 – 14:40	Lunch
14:40 – 17:30	Session 9 \| Stars
14:40 – 15:15	Selma de Mink \| Review “Red Supergiants (The 3D Movie): Entropy Rains & Violent Quakes”
15:15 – 15:30	Silvia Toonen “Beyond Isolation: Rethinking Interacting Stars”
15:30 – 15:45	Andrew Youdin “Radiative Bondi Accretion onto Substellar Companions“
15:50 – 16:20	Coffee break
16:20 – 16:35	Jim Fuller “Boil-off of Luminous Red Giants: Mass Loss, Supernovae, and White Dwarf Kicks“
16:35 – 16:50	Kareem El-Badry “Fantastic Binaries“
16:50 – 17:05	Mathieu Renzo “Binaries, Progenitors and Explosions“
17:05 – 17:20	Alexander Dittmann “Stellar Evolution in AGN Disks”