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Speakers and Topics
Thursday, 20 May 2004
9:00am Welcome
9:15am Sam Finn GW Detection
10:00am Discussion
10:15am Break
10:45am Cole Miller Astrophysics of IMBH
11:30am Discussion
11:45am Pete Bender Prospects for Detecting GW Signals from Inspiral Events Involving IMBH
12:10pm Discussion
12:30pm Lunch
2:00pm Alberto Vecchio Astrophysics to be Learned from Detections of IMBH Inspiral Events
2:25pm Discussion
2:50pm Roeland van der Marel The M-sigma Correlation-Origin and Extrapolation to IMBH
3:15pm Discussion
3:40pm Break
4:10pm Aaron Barth Evidence for IMBH at the Centers of Nearby Galactic Nuclei
4:35pm Discussion
 
 
Friday, 21 May 2004
9:00am Karl Gebhardt Evidence for IMBH at the Centers of Globular Clusters
9:25am Discussion
9:50am Break
10:20am Andrea Lommen Constraints from Pulsar Timing
10:45am Discussion
11:10am Brad Hansen Dynamical Processes Leading to Inspiral Events Involving IMBH in Dense Star Clusters
11:35am Discussion
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Tom Abel Pop III Stars and Primordial IMBHs
2:25pm Discussion
2:50pm Alex Heger IMBH Formation from the Evolution of Very Massive Stars
3:15pm Discussion
3:40pm Break
4:10pm Marta Volonteri Dynamical Processes Leading to Inspiral Events Involving IMBH in the Early Universe
4:35pm Discussion
 
 
Saturday, 22 May 2004
9:00am Ed Colbert Observational Overview of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources
9:25am Discussion
9:50am Break
10:20am Craig Sarazin Observational Connection Between ULX/IMBH and Star Clusters
10:45am Discussion
11:10am Andrew King Theoretical Interpretation of ULX Sources
11:35am Discussion
12:00pm Lunch
2:00pm Marc Freitag Dynamical Formation Through Runaway Mergers of Massive Stars
2:25pm Discussion
2:50pm Fred Rasio Dynamical Formation Through Mergers of Stellar BH
3:15pm Discussion
3:40pm Break
4:10pm Holger Baumgardt N-Body Simulations of Star Clusters with IMBH
4:35pm Discussion
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