Overview
The workshop will focus on LISA's role in unveiling the unknown on the formation and assembly of galaxies through their concordant evolution with massive black holes. The format will include a limited number of invited talks, some contributed talks and a lot of time for discussion at the end of each morning and afternoon session. The workshop will have a multi-disciplinary flavour and will aim at stimulating the dialogue between researchers working in galaxy formation and hierarchical structure formation with research conducted in gravitational physics on the nature, characterization and detection of gravitational waves emitted by coalescing massive black holes. This is seen as an important step to prepare the ground for the interpretation of gravitational wave signals that future experiments such as LISA will be able to detect, and for understanding their significance in the context of cosmic structure formation.
Main topics that will be discussed are:
(i) Dynamics of massive black holes in the assembly of galaxies: minor versus major mergers/ gas-rich versus gas-poor mergers.
(ii) Observed structure of nuclear regions of galaxy merger remnants
(iii) Massive black hole binary migration and the last parsec problem
(iv) Quasar activity along the course of mergers and black hole growth
(v) Black Hole mass and spin evolution along cosmic history
(vi) Recoiling black holes
(vii) Black holes and the cosmic web
(viii) Massive black hole mergers waveforms and LISA: numerical progress in simulating black hole coalescence
(ix) Search of binary black holes with Pulsar Timing Array
(x) Electromagnetic counterparts of LISA events We will also devote some time to recent developments and updates regarding both LISA Pathfinder and the LISA project.
Finally, we will try to allocate a limited number talks to other important science topics relevant to gravitational wave searches
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