International DBHC meeting in Amsterdam, July 8/9/10

Invitation only - please ask our project manager Maureen Voestermans if you would like to participate: mvoester[at]nikhef.nl or use the contact form on the website.

Location: KNAW Trippenhuis, Kloveniersburgwal 29, Amsterdam

July 8:
09:00 - 09.30 Walk in, registration and coffee
09:30 - 10:00 Opening by Stefan Vandoren (Utrecht University) and Peter Jonker (Radboud University)
10:00 - 11:00 Talk by Vitor Cardoso (Niels Bohr Institute Kopenhagen) "Fundamental physics in the gravitational-wave era"
11:00 - 12:00 Talk by Roberto Emparan (University of Barcelona) "Observing quantum gravity at macroscopic horizon scales"
12:00 - 13:00 Talk by Dimitrios Psaltis (Georgia Institute of Technology) “Probing and Testing Relativistic Effects with Black Hole Images”
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch at the KNAW Institute
14:00 - 15:00 Talk by Fiona Harrison (California Institute of Technology) "Black Hole Inflows and Outflows - what we can learn from X-rays"
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break at the KNAW Institute
15:30 - 16:30 Talk by Andrew Mummery (Institute for Advanced Study Princeton)
16:30 - 17:30 Talk by Béatrice Bonga (Radboud University) "Beyond the Basics: the Messy Reality of Gravitational Waves"
17:30 - 18:30 Drinks at KNAW Institute
18:30 - 19:00 Walk to restaurant
19:00 Conference dinner at restaurant De Jaren, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 20, Amsterdam 

July 9:
09:00 - 09:30 Walk in and coffee
09:30 - 10:30 Alessandra Buonanno (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics) "Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Theory at the Frontier"
10:30 - 11:30 Alex Lupsasca (Vanderbilt University and OpenAI) "The Black Hole Explorer: Tracing an Edge of the Visible Universe"
11:30 - 12:30 Katheryn Zurek (California Institute of Technology) "Quantum Description of a Causal Horizon”
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch at KNAW Institute
14:00 - 15:00 Monika Moscibrodzka (Radboud University) "Magnetic fields and plasma thermodynamics at event horizon"
15:00 - 16:00 Discussing possible future steps for an international Black Hole Consortium ("IBHC")
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break at the KNAW Institute
16:30 - 17.30 Sera Markoff (University of Amsterdam and IoA Cambridge) "Event Horizon Imaging in the Multi-Messenger Era"
17:30 - 19:00 Drinks at the KNAW Institute
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner on your own account
20:00 - 21:00 Optional: join public lecture by Stefan and Peter at KNAW (talk in Dutch)

July 10:
09:00 - 09.30 Walk in and coffee
09:30 - 10:30 Talk by Heino Falcke (Radboud University) "All will evaporate"
10:30 - 11:30 Talk by Tanja Hinderer (Utrecht University) "Probing black holes with gravitational waves from binary inspirals"
11:30 - 12:15 Meeting overview by Gijs Nelemans (Radboud University) and Michael Wondrak (University of Amsterdam and Radboud University)
12:15 Goodbye lunch at KNAW Institute