UNSOLVED PROBLEMS in Astrophysics and Cosmology 2022
Program
There will be a reception on Sunday afternoon (Dec. 4), followed by a possibility to watch soccer games. We will have talks and discussions Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning (Dec. 5, 6 and 7), an afternoon break in Jerusalem for you to see the city (or take part in the cave expedition) and have some informal discussions (Dec. 7), and one more day of talks on Thursday (Dec. 8). There will also be a conference dinner for Thursday evening.
Each talk is scheduled for 15 minutes, followed by a 10 min. question / discussion period, see details below.
Topics:
Sunday - (arrival, reception)
Monday - (Exo)planets, chair: Re'em Sari
Monday - Neutrino Astrophysics, chair: Zoltan Haiman
Monday - Gravitational Wave Astronomy, chair: Elena Rossi
Tuesday - Gravitational Wave Astronomy (cont.), chair: Nick Stone
Tuesday - Poster Session during lunch
Tuesday - Massive Black Holes, chair: Elena Rossi
Tuesday - Cosmology, chair: Jia Liu
Wednesday - Cosmology (cont.), chair: Elena Rossi
Wednesday - (free afternoon / cave expedition)
Thursday - Galaxy Formation, chair: Jia Liu
Thursday - Milky Way Archaeology, chair: Zoltan Haiman
Thursday - Summary Discussion
Skeleton timetable:
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
| Session | Session | Session | Session |
| Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
| Session | Session | Session | |
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WC match |
WC match |
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Conf. Dinner |
Detailed program:
TUESDAY December 6 |
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9:00-10:45: Gravitational Wave Astronomy (Continued) |
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| 9:00 - 9:25 | Kenta Kiuchi: Self-consistent picture of the mass ejection from one-second lasting binary neutron star merger in numerical-relativity neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Zsolt Frei: Localizing GW sources to aid EM follow-up observations |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Lucio Mayer: Direct formation of high-z supermassive black holes from ultra-massive nuclear disks |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
10:45-15:15: Massive black holes |
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| 10:45 - 11:10 | Elena Gallo: X-ray-based constraints to the local black hole occupation fraction in dwarf galaxies |
| 11:10 - 11:35 | Tsvi Piran: TDEs - some new ideas and back to some old ones |
| 11:35 - 12:00 | Assaf Horesh: Delayed Radio Flares from Tidal Disruption Events - What Do We Know So Far about This New Phenomenon |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Alessia Franchini: Are circumbinary discs friends or foes of massive black hole binaries merger? |
12:25-13:30: Poster Session - Lunch |
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| 12:25-13:30 | Local graduate students and postdocs in HUJI's astronomy group have prepared posters summarizing the research they are doing on topics ranging from transients to cosmology. On Tuesday, lunch will be served in the Ross seminar room, and participants are encouraged to mingle in the adjoining hallway where interested students and postdocs will be presenting their posters. |
13:30-15:15: Massive black holes (Continued) |
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| 13:30 - 13:55 | Mark Avara: Accretion Onto Inspiraling Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Revealed by 3D-GRMHD |
| 13:55 - 14:20 | Jordy Davelaar: Particle acceleration in black hole accretion flows |
| 14:20 - 14:45 | Matteo Bonetti: Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals triggered by Massive Black Hole Binaries: from Relativistic Dynamics to Cosmological Rates |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
15:15-16:30: Cosmology |
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| 15:15 - 15:40 | Blake Sherwin: Testing structure growth with new CMB lensing measurements |
| 15:40 - 16:05 | Ofer Lahav: Could Machine Learning tackle unsolved problems in Cosmology? |
| 15:05 - 16:30 | Rennan Barkana: 21-cm cosmology at a crossroads |
WEDNESDAY December 7 |
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9:00-10:45: Cosmology (Continued) |
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| 9:00 - 9:25 | Zoltan Haiman: Weak lensing cosmology beyond two-point functions |
| 9:25 - 9:50 | Joe Mohr: Cosmological Insights from Galaxy Cluster and Weak Lensing Analyses |
| 9:50 - 10:15 | Jia Liu (Special talk on the impact of covid-19 in Astrophysics) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
Free afternoon |
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