Program

The scientific program is as follows:

08:00-08:45 Registration and light breakfast
08:45-08:50 NBI Head Joachim Mathiesen
08:50-09:00 Welcome

Chairs: Vitor Cardoso, Toni Riotto

09:00-10:00 Will Unruh, 50 years of black hole evaporation
10:00-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:40 Alessandra Buonanno, the two body problem
11:40-12:35 Bob Wald, on entropy in dynamical spacetimes

12:35-14:00 Lunch offered in Black Diamond

14:00-14:55 Eric Poisson, on tidal properties of black holes
14:55-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:35 Mihalis Dafermos, on black-hole stability
16:35-17:35 Round Table with Tanja Hinderer and Luis Lehner

Chairs: Henriette Elvang


08:00-08:30 Coffee/tea/light breakfast
08:30-09:25 Roberto Emparan, on black holes in higher dimensions
09:25-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:05 Carlos Herdeiro, on black hole solutions in theories with new fundamental degrees of freedom
11:05-12:00 Helvi Witek, on black hole solutions and binary mergers in quadratic gravity

12:00-14:00 Lunch (please find your own)

14:00-14:55 Matt Visser, on regular black holes
14:55-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:35 Adrian del Rio, on semiclassical effects
16:35-17:35 Round Table with Enrico Barausse and Jutta Kunz
17:35-18:00 Group photo in Queen’s Hall

Chairs: Ali Seraj and Elisa Maggio

08:00-08:30 Coffee/tea/light breakfast
08:30-09:25 Richard Brito, on searches for new fields
09:25-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:05 Misao Sasaki, on primordial BHs
11:05-12:00 Emanuele Berti, on tests of GR with future detectors

12:00-14:00 Lunch (please find your own)

14:00-14:55 Stefan Gillessen, on tests of General Relativity with GRAVITY
14:55-15:55 Round Table, with Stefano Liberati and Samaya Nissanke
15:55-16:30 Musical Session with LAiKA
16:30-18:00 Poster Session with wine and cheese

Chairs: Bangalore Sathyaprakash

08:00-08:30 Coffee/tea/light breakfast
08:30-09:25 Cliff Burgess, on why challenging horizons
09:25-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:05 Frans Pretorius, on simulating black-hole impostors
11:05-12:00 Ramesh Narayan, on the nature of SgrA

12:00-14:00 Lunch (please find your own)

14:00-14:55 Gregorio Carullo, on spectroscopy and searches for echoes
14:55-15:40 Coffee Break
15:40-16:35 Paul Tiede, on Photon-ring paper in M87* & nature of object
16:35-17:35 Round Table with Paolo Pani and Mariafelicia De Laurentis

Chair: Tomohiro Harada

08:00-08:30 Coffee/tea/light breakfast
08:30-09:25 Alessia Platania, gravitational collapse and singularity resolution
09:25-10:10 Coffee Break
10:10-11:05 Abhay Ashtekar, BHs and singularity resolution in LQG
11:05-12:00 Iosif Bena, on the fuzzball paradigm and BHs in string theory

12:00-14:00 Lunch (please find your own)

14:00-14:55 Netta Engelhardt, on Holographic approach to BHs
14:55-15:55 Round Table with Ruth Gregory and Niayesh Afshordi
15:55-17:00 Social Coffee