Program
Program at a glance
Meetings Sunday through Friday noon - All Talks are 25min + 5min questions.
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| Morning | Afternoon | |
| Saturday | Evening reception | |
| Sunday |
Observations of TDEs from Synoptic Surveys |
Observations of TDEs from Synoptic Surveys |
| Monday | High Energy Signatures | Rates and Hosts |
| Tuesday | Rates and BH Demographics | Disruption of Stars and White Dwarfs |
| Wednesday | TDE Accretion Disks and Outflows | |
| Thursday | The Role of Binarity | SMBH Activity |
| Friday |
Extreme Variability: TDEs vs. AGNs Break out sessions and discussion |
Complete program
Sunday (Chair: Enrico Ramirez)
Observations of TDEs from Synoptic Surveys
08:30-09:00 Tiara Hung (Maryland): Systematic Selection of TDEs
09:00-09:30 Thomas Holoien (Carnegie): Insights from ASAS-SN
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 Ryan Foley (UCSC): Insights from DES
10:20-10:50 Giorgos Leloudas (DARK): ASASSN-15lh
10:50-11:00 Discussion
16:40-17:10 Mariusz Gromadzki (Warsaw): TDEs in OGLE and Gaia surveys.
17:10-17:40 Peter Maksym (Harvard): UV Spectroscopic TDE ASASSN -14li
17:40-18:00 Afternoon Break
18:00-18:30 Ben Shappee (Carnegie): The search for the brightest optical TDEs
18:30-19:00 Discussion
Monday (Chair: Elena Rossi)
High Energy Signatures
08:30-09:00 Katie Auchettl (OSU): The nature of the soft X-ray emission
09:00-09:30 Erin Kara (Maryland): X-ray spectral-Timing
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 Dheeraj Pasham (MIT): X-ray and optical time series analysis
10:20-10:50 Kate Alexander (Harvard): Radio Observations of TDEs
10:50-11:00 Discussion
Rates and Hosts
16:40-17:10 Ann Zabludoff (Arizona): Host Galaxies of TDEs
17:10-17:40 Nathan Roth (Maryland): Host galaxy obscuration in TDE surveys
17:40-18:00 Afternoon Break
18:00-18:30 Hui Sun (NAOC): Population Studies of TDEs
18:30-19:00 Nick Stone (Columbia): Dynamics and TDE Rates
19:00-19:30 Heather Wernke (Boulder): Eccentric Nuclear Disks
Tuesday (Chair: E. Ramirez-Ruiz)
Rates and BH Demographics
08:30-09:00 Anil Seth (Utah): Black Holes in Low Mass Galaxies
09:00-09:30 Sjoert van Velzen (NYU) TDE Demographics
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 Thomas Wevers (IoA) Black Holes in TDEs
10:20-10:50 Brenna Mockler (UCSC): Weighing Black Holes with MOSFiT
10:50-11:00 Discussion
Disruption of Stars and White Dwarfs
16:40-17:10 Jamie Law-Smith (UCSC): Tidal Disruption of Realistic Stars
17:10-17:40 Pablo Laguna (Georgia Tech) Simulations of Relativistic TDEs
17:40-18:00 Afternoon Break
18:00-18:30 Chris Fragile (Charleston): GR calculations of WD TDEs
18:30-19:00 Kojiro Kawana (Tokyo): A Variety of Thermonuclear TDEs
19:00-19:30 Ataru Tanikawa (Tokyo): Tidal Detonation of a WD by IMBH
Wednesday (Chair: Ann Zabludoff)
TDE Accretion Disks and Outflows
08:30-09:00 Jane Dai (DARK): A unified model for TDEs
09:00-09:30 Giuseppo Lodato (Milano): The Papaloizou- Pringle instability in TDEs
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 John Cannizzo (NASA): Accretion Disk Limit Cycle Model for TDEs
10:20-10:50 Suvi Gezari (Maryland): Probing the Accretion Timescales in TDEs
10:50-11:00 Discussion
4:30-5:30 Physics Café (Elena Rossi & Sjoert van Velzen)
5:30-6:30 Public Lecture (Erin Kara)
Thursday (Chair: Giuseppe Lodato)
The Role of Binarity
08:30-09:00 Eric Coughlin (Berkeley): TDEs from Binary SMBHs
09:00-09:30 Clement Bonnerot (Leiden): Double tidal disruption events
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 Elena Rossi (Leiden): Model products of tidally disrupted binaries
10:20-11:00 Discussion
SMBH Activity
16:40-17:10 Ruth Daly (PSU): Thoughts on TDEs and Lessons from AGN
17:10-17:40 Francesca Onori (SRON): Emission Lines in AGN and TDEs
17:40-18:00 Afternoon Break
18:00-18:30 Robert Stein (DESY): Search for High-Energy Neutrinos
18:30-19:00 Omar Kurtanidze (Abastumani Observatory): Blazar monitoring
19:00-19:20 Discussion
19:30 Banquet at Meadows
Friday
Extreme Variability: TDEs vs. AGNs
08:30-09:00 Stephanie LaMassa (STScI): The Extremes of Black Hole Fueling
09:00-09:30 Jessie Runnoe (Michigan): Changing-Look Quasars
09:30-09:50 Morning Break
09:50-10:20 Lin Yan (Caltech): Mid-infrared flares discovered by WISE -- changing look AGNs and/or TDEs?
10:20-11:00 Breakout sessions on key questions in the field: 4 different groups
11:00-12:00 Compilation of lists and discussion