The ROLE of BLACK HOLES in GALAXY FORMATION and EVOLUTION

 

10th - 13th September 2006

POTSDAM - GERMANY

 

 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

 

         SATURDAY, 9th September

 

  

            19:00  Cocktail Reception in the Dorint Hotel

 

 

           

            SUNDAY, 10th September

 

            Section I :  The black hole - galaxy coevolution

 

            Morning

 

            09:30 - 10:05 J. Kormendy: Coevolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxies: parameter correlations and implications for galaxy formation

            10:05 - 10:40 S. Faber: The formation of spheroidal galaxies

 

            Coffee

 

            11:10 - 11:45 L. Wisotzki: Evolution of active galactic nuclei

            11:45 - 12:20 R. Mushotzky: AGN evolution - The x-ray view

 

            Lunch

 

 

            Afternoon

 

            14:30 - 14:50 G.L. Granato: Joint evolution of black holes and host galaxies

            14:50 - 15:10 J. Silverman: Do AGNs and star-forming galaxies show signs of coevolution at early epochs?

 

            Tea

 

            15:40 - 16:00 B. Rocca-Volmerange: Ultra luminous infrared galaxies and radio galaxies at high z

            16:00 - 16:35 S. Wagner: Measuring the integrated cosmic optical-infrared background with gamma rays from black holes

 

           

 

 

            MONDAY, 11th September

 

            Morning

 

            Section II :  From galaxies to black holes: the AGN environment

 

            09:00 - 09:20 P. Martini: The AGN population of galaxy clusters

            09:20 - 09:40 R. Gilmour: The effect of environment on AGNs in clusters and superclusters

            09:40 - 10:00 P. Sheinis: QSO host galaxies on the fundamental plane

 

            Coffee

 

            10:30 - 11:05 P. Best: Radio-loud  AGN heating in elliptical galaxies and clusters

            11:05 - 11:25 D. Maoz: LINERS

            11:25 - 11:45 K. Jahnke: Old black holes with young stars

            11:45 - 12:05 A. Boehm: A lacking red sequence of distant AGN host galaxies

 

            Lunch

 

 

            Afternoon

 

            Section III :  From black holes to galaxies: outflow phenomena

           

            14:00 - 14:35 A. Fabian: Feedback by the central AGN in the Perseus cluster

            14:35 - 15:10 W. Forman: Shocks, bubbles and filaments: the effects of supermassive black hole outbursts in M87

            15:10 - 15:30 A. Blustin: AGN feedback in action: observing the outflows

            15:30 - 15:50 G. Chartas: Quasar outflows: their significance in regulating black hole growth and influencing structure formation

 

 

            Tea

 

            16:20 - 16:40 A. Labiano: Influence of a young AGN on the host evolution

 

            Section IV :  Dynamics of the central region, binary black holes

 

            16:40 - 17:15 R. Spurzem: Stellar dynamics around supermassive black holes 

            17:15 - 17:35 L. Mayer: The formation of binary supermassive black holes in galaxy mergers

 

 

 

            TUESDAY, 12th September

 

            Section V :  Black hole accretion and feedback in galaxy formation

 

            Morning

 

            09:00 - 09:35 J. Silk: Feedback from AGNs in galaxy formation: negative or positive?

            09:35 - 10:10 C. Frenk: The rise and fall of the black hole population

 

            Coffee

 

            10:40 - 11:15 M. Steinmetz: How well can the Milky Way be reproduced in a LCDM universe without AGN feedback

            11:15 - 11:50 N. Katz: If galaxy formation were only cool

 

            Lunch

 

 

            Afternoon

 

            14:00 - 14:35 A. Dekel: Do we need AGN feedback?

            14:35 - 14:55 R. Bower: The broken hierarchy of galaxy formation

            14:55 - 15:30 J. Ostriker: On the dramatic effects of radiative feedback from AGNs on the gaseous content of galaxies and on black hole fueling

 

 

            Tea

 

            16:00 - 16:35 A. Cattaneo: Black hole accretion and feedback in models of the black hole - galaxy coevolution

            16:35 - 17:10 N. Gnedin: AGN feedback on large, small and tiny scales

 

 

            19:00 Conference dinner in the Great Refractor

 

           

          

            © Agapi F. Cattaneo

 

 

 

            WEDNESDAY, 13th September

 

            Morning

 

            Section VI :  AGN physics

 

            09:00 - 09:35 M. Camenzind: Relativistic jets in interaction with the interstellar medium and cluster gas

            09:35 - 09:55 K. Blundell: Duty-cycles and life-cycles of jets from black holes

            09:55 - 10:15 K. Ohsuga: Radiation hydrodynamic simulations of super-Eddington disc accretion flows around black holes

 

            Coffee

 

            Section VII :  How feedback works in the interaction with the IGM/ICM

 

            10:45 - 11:20 A. Babul: The little engine that could: the impact of AGN feedback on galaxy cluster formation

            11:20 - 11:40 R. Teyssier: AGN feedback and radiative cooling in cluster cores: towards a new equilibrium state ?         

            11:40 - 12:00 D. Sijacki: Hydrodynamical simulations of galaxy cluster formation: the role of physical viscosity and AGN feedback

            12:00 - 12:20 A. Khalatyan: Accretion and self-regulation of black holes in galaxy mergers

 

            Lunch

 

 

            Afternoon

 

 

            14:00 - 14:35 M. Brueggen: Simulations of AGN feedback in galaxy clusters

            14:35 - 15:10 J. Binney: How do AGN terminate galaxy formation

            15:10 - 15:30 C. Kaiser: AGN-controlled gas cooling in galaxies and clusters

 

            Tea

           

            16:00 - 17:00 Panel discussion

 

 

 

 

 

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