Draft Programme
Tuesday 9 February 2010
17.30 - 19.00 Welcome Drink and Registration (outside room 16-G-15)
Wednesday 10 February 2010
09.00 - 09.15 Welcome + Organisational details (Conference organizers)
Chairman: N. Straumann
Theme: Gravitational wave science and experiments
09.15 - 09:55 O. Jennrich (invited) - 
LISA - a mission overview
09:55 - 10.35 B. Schutz (invited) - Measuring the evolution of the universe with LISA
10.35 - 11.05 Coffee Break
11.05 - 11.45 A. Vecchio (invited) - LISA surveys of massive black hole binary systems
11:45 - 12.05 A. Klein - Prospects on supermassive black hole binary detections with LISA
12.05 - 12:25 E. Porter - Detecting eccentric massive black hole binaries with LISA
12.25 - 14.00 Lunch
Chairman: J. Centrella
14.00 - 14.40 M. Kramer (invited) - Gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays
Theme: Formation of SMBHs and feedback on galaxy formation/evolution
14.40 - 15:20 M. Begelman (invited) - Formation of supermassive black holes
15.20 - 16.00 A. Escala (invited) - Massive Black Hole Formation: Insights from simulations
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:00 Portergies Zwart (invited) - The formation and evolution of intermediate mass black holes
17.00 - 18.00 Discussion: Leaders P. Amaro Soane + Benacquista
Thursday 11 February 2010
Chairman: L. Mayer
Theme: LISA Pathfinder
09.00 - 09.40 S. Vitale (invited) - LISA PAthfinder: The experiment and the way to LISA
09.40 - 10.00 D. Mance - Swiss Contribution to LISA Pathfinder Inertial Sensor Development
Theme: SMBH mergers
10:00 - 10:40 B. Bruegmann (invited) - Black hole binaries in numerical general relativity
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee Break
11:10 - 11:50 J. Centrella (invited) - Merging Black Holes: Can we see what LISA will hear?
Theme: observational evidence of binary SMBHs
11.50 - 12.30 S. Komossa (invited) - Observations of massive black hole binaries
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Chairman: B. Schutz
Theme: Sinking of binary SMBHs (cosmological context and stellar dynamics)
14:00 - 14:40 D. Merritt (invited) - Stellar dynamics of massive black hole binaries
14:40 - 15:20 A. Sesana (invited) - Massive Black Hole Binaries: formation, dynamics and
gravitational waves
15:20 - 16.00 R. Spurzem (invited) - Relativistic Post-Newtonian Dynamics of Black Holes in dense star clusters and green special supercomputers in China
16:00 - 16:30 coffee break
16:30 - 16:50 M. Preto - Massive Black Hole Binaries from the Merger of Galactic Nuclei
Theme: Sinking of binary SMBHs in gaseous systems (large scales)
16:50 - 17:10 M. Colpi - The journey of black holes in merging galaxies
17.10 - 17.30 M. Dotti - Massive black hole binaries in circumnuclear disks
17.30 - 17.50 S. Callegari - Massive Black Hole pairs in minor galaxy mergers
19.00 - 19.30 Drinks at ETH "Dozentenfoyer"
19:30 Workshop Dinner at ETH Dozentenfoyer
Friday 12 February 2010
Chairman: S. Komossa
Theme: Sinking of binary SMBHs in gaseous systems (small scales)
09:00 - 09:40 P. Armitage (invited) - Gas dynamics of black hole binary mergers
09:40 - 10:00 G. Lodato - Evolution of circumbinary accretion discs around a SMBH binary
10:00 - 10:20 J. Cuadra - Black hole binary mergers within gas discs
10.20 - 10.50 Coffee Break
Theme: Electromagnetic signatures of binary SMBHs
10.50 - 11.30 Z. Haiman (invited) - Finding Electromagnetic Counterparts to Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
11.30 - 11.50 E. Rossi - Supemassive black-hole mergers: the first light
11.50 - 12.10 F. Liu - Probing Dormant Supermassive Black Hole Binaries at Galactic Nuclei
Theme: Theory related topics
12:10 - 12.30 M. Liebendorfer - Gravitational waves from supernova matter
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch
Chairman: M. Colpi
14.00 - 14.20 J. Downing - Stellar Mass LISA Sources in Star Clusters
14.20 - 16.00 Discussion: leader C. Miller
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