Black Holes on Broadway: The Next Generation of AGN Models in Galaxy Formation

Dec 4, 2023, 8:30 AM → Dec 7, 2023, 5:00 PM America/New_York

3rd Floor Conference Room/3-Simons Foundation (160 5th Avenue)

With galaxy formation simulations pushing to the sub-parsec regime and beyond, this workshop will bring together the small-scale and large-scale simulation communities to review simulating AGN across all aspects: seeding, accretion, feedback, and dynamics. The key conference goal is to generate discussion and facilitate new collaborations across the scales, with a focus on four key questions:

• How do we implement the different theoretical seeding models into galaxy formation simulations, and can we use these to make testable predictions for future (and current) observational facilities?
• How will the next generation of large-scale models bridge the gap between black hole accretion discs and galaxies?
• How can we self-consistently model accretion and feedback across a range of regimes and scales?
• How can we accurately model black hole dynamics in galaxy formation simulations given the advent of multi-messenger astronomy?

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION WILL CLOSE ON JUNE 23RD END OF DAY US PACIFIC TIME. We expect to select about 50 contributed talks. Not all abstracts may be selected for a talk if we are oversubscribed.

We expect to announce the contributed talk selections by the end of July.

Confirmed invited speakers:
Elisa Bortolas
Tiago Costa
Shane Davis
Melanie Habouzit

 SOC:
Yan-Fei Jiang (CCA, Flatiron Institute)
Sophie Koudmani (CCA, Flatiron Institute, SOC/LOC co-chair)
Doug Rennehan (CCA, Flatiron Institute, SOC/LOC co-chair)
Chris Reynolds (IoA, Cambridge)
Rachel Somerville (CCA, Flatiron Institute)
Marta Volonteri (IAP, Paris)

*Please note: Full service catering will be provided free of charge for breakfast and lunch. Snacks will be available throughout the event. Dietary restrictions and preferences are collected within the registration link. Please feel free to reach out with any specific needs you may have.

Monday, December 4

8:30 AM → 9:15 AM Check-in & Breakfast

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome & Introduction

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Accretion Review Talk

Convener: Shane Davis (University of Virginia)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1: Contributed Talks ACCRETION

Convener: Doug Rennehan (CCA)

10:00 AM Multi-scale cosmological simulations of quasar fueling and feedback

Speaker: Daniel Anglés-Alcázar (University of Connecticut)

10:15 AM Bridging the Gap: Modeling Supermassive Black Holes Feeding and Feedback at the Meso-Scale

Speaker: Trung Ha (University of North Texas)

10:30 AM Simulating Multi-Waveband Quasar Light Curves Using Radiation Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations

Speaker: Amy Secunda (Princeton University)

10:45 AM Toward Horizon-scale Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies

Speaker: Minghao Guo (Princeton University)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: Contributed Talks ACCRETION

Convener: Bryan Terrazas (Columbia University)

11:30 AM Black Hole Accretion Within The Bondi Radius

Speaker: Jonathan Petersson (GALSPEC, EPFL)

11:45 AM (REMOTE) The origin of gas that feeds supermassive blackholes in cosmological simulations

Speaker: Ena Choi (University of Seoul)

12:00 PM Observability of Low-Luminosity AGN in the Early Universe with JWST

Speaker: Junehyoung Jeon (University of Texas at Austin)

12:15 PM The growth and impact of the first gargantuan black holes - insights from cosmological simulations

Speaker: Jake Bennett (CfA, Harvard University)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Session 3: Contributed Talks

Convener: Rachel Somerville (CCA)

1:30 PM The role of super-critical accretion in the early growth of high-z AGNs observed with JWST

Speaker: Alessandro Trinca (INAF - Astronomical Observatory of Rome)

1:45 PM A new theory for hot accretion flows within the Bondi radius

Speaker: Wenrui Xu (CCA)

2:00 PM Improving sub-grid physics of supermassive black holes with data-driven model of galaxy--black hole connection

Speaker: Haowen Zhang (University of Arizona)

2:15 PM Rapid talk: Exploring the long-term effects of short-lived high accretion rate black hole feedback on galaxies

Speaker: Bryan Terrazas (Columbia University)

2:20 PM Rapid talk: Shaping Massive Galaxies at Cosmic Noon: Probing AGN Feedback in the FIRE Simulations

Speaker: Jonathan Mercedes Feliz (University of Connecticut)

2:25 PM Rapid talk: Black hole mass correlation with a galaxies stellar mass, bulge mass, and velocity dispersion

Speaker: Imani Dindy (CUNY Graduate Center)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Discussions (Breakout Groups)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Group Discussion

Convener: Sophie Koudmani (CCA)

Tuesday, December 5

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Feedback Review Talk

Convener: Tiago Costa (MPG)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1: Contributed Talks FEEDBACK

Convener: Greg Bryan (Columbia University / CCA)

10:00 AM On the Connection between AGN radiative feedback and Massive Black Hole Spin

Speaker: Francesco Bollati (Università degli Studi dell'Insubria)

10:15 AM Efficient Suppression of Cooling Flows by Cosmic Rays in Jet Cocoon Shock Fronts

Speaker: Kung-Yi Su (BHI, Harvard)

10:30 AM Recent progress in simulating supermassive black hole accretion, spin evolution, jets and winds

Speaker: Martin Bourne (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

10:45 AM Bridging Scales between Supermassive Black Holes and Their Host Galaxies via Multi-annuli Approach

Speaker: Hyerin Cho (Harvard University)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: Contributed Talks FEEDBACK

Convener: Yan-Fei Jiang (CCA)

11:30 AM Event Horizon-scale Insights into Accretion, Feedback, and Spin Evolution

Speaker: Angelo Ricarte (Black Hole Initiative | Harvard University)

11:45 AM High Resolution Exascale Simulations of Magnetized AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters and Groups

Speaker: Forrest Glines (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

12:00 PM Problematic flexibility: How our modeling choices for "live" BH accretion and feedback affect growth and quenching in FIRE galaxies

Speaker: Sarah Wellons (Wesleyan University)

12:15 PM (REMOTE) The cycle of AGN triggering and feedback in massive galaxies

Speaker: Brian O’Shea (Michigan State University)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Session 3: Contributed Talks FEEDBACK

Convener: Andrea Maccio (New York University Abu Dhabi)

1:30 PM How novel observations can help us understand the physics behind radio-mode AGN feedback

Speaker: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (Université de Montréal)

1:45 PM AGN Jet Feedback Simulation with GADGET3-Osaka

Speaker: Ken Nagamine (Osaka University)

2:00 PM The impact of radiatively efficient AGN-driven winds on galaxy and black hole growth

Speaker: Marion Farcy (EPFL)

2:15 PM Rapid talk: The role of shock-heating from AGN in regulating cooling in hot halos

Speaker: Greg Bryan (Columbia University)

2:20 PM Rapid talk: The Contribution of Rotational Energy to the Total Mass of a Supermassive Black Hole

Speaker: Ruth Daly (Penn State University)

2:25 PM Rapid talk: AGN feedback in the low redshift Lyman alpha forest

Speaker: Megan Tillman (Rutgers University)

2:30 PM → 3:30 PM Discussions (Breakout Groups)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Group Discussion

Convener: Doug Rennehan (CCA)

Wednesday, December 6

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Seeding Review Talk

Convener: Melanie Habouzit (MPIA)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1: Contributed Talks

Convener: Jenny Greene (Princeton)

10:00 AM Modeling Super-Massive Black Holes in cosmological contexts from their origin as BH-seeds down to the local Universe

Speaker: Daniele Spinoso (Department of Astronomy - Tsinghua University)

10:15 AM An insight on Black Hole Growth from semi-analytic model L-Galaxies-BH: Advancements and Prospects

Speaker: Markos Polkas (Donostia International Physics Center)

10:30 AM Black hole seeding in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations: A novel flexible approach

Speaker: Aklant Bhowmick (University of Florida)

10:45 AM Massive black hole seeds in rapidly growing minihalos

Speaker: John Wise (Georgia Tech)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: Contributed Talks

Convener: Sarah Wellons (Wesleyan University)

11:30 AM UNCOVERing Red AGN Candidates with JWST and ALMA

Speaker: Jenny Greene (Princeton University)

11:45 AM Detecting active IMBHs at z~0 with novel approaches to photoionization simulations

Speaker: Christopher Richardson (Elon University)

12:00 PM Testing models of supermassive black hole seeding and growth with observations of dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Mila Chadayammuri (MPIA Heidelberg)

12:15 PM The effect of AGN feedback in simulated dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Elena Arjona Gálvez (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC))

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:35 PM Session 3: Contributed Talks

Convener: Martin Bourne (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

1:30 PM Where to Seed Massive Black Holes

Speaker: John Regan (Maynooth University, Ireland)

1:45 PM Continual formation of intermediate mass black holes and its effect in SMBH formation and galaxy evolution

Speaker: Antonio Porras (Yale University)

2:00 PM Are we surprised to find SMBHs with JWST at z > 9?

Speaker: Raffaella Schneider (Sapienza University of Rome)

2:15 PM The NANOGrav Experiment: Results and Future Directions

Speaker: Chiara Mingarelli (Yale University)

2:35 PM → 3:30 PM Discussions (Breakout Groups)

3:30 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 5:00 PM Group Discussion

Convener: Marta Volonteri (IAP)

5:00 PM → 6:30 PM Reception

Thursday, December 7

8:30 AM → 9:30 AM Breakfast

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM (REMOTE) Mergers & Dynamics Review Talk

Convener: Elisa Bortolas (University of Milano Bicocca)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Session 1: Contributed Talks

Convener: Sophie Koudmani (CCA)

10:00 AM (REMOTE) Expanding our View of Massive Black Holes with Physical Prescriptions for Seeding and Dynamics in the Romulus Simulations

Speaker: Michael Tremmel (University College Cork)

10:15 AM Recoiling and off-center supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei

Speaker: Shashank Dattathri (Yale University)

10:30 AM 3D radiation hydrodynamics simulations of wandering seed black holes

Speaker: Erika Ogata (University of Tsukuba)

10:45 AM Massive Black Hole Dynamics in and beyond Cosmological Simulations: Bridging the Gap between Galaxy Mergers and Gravitational Wave Emission

Speaker: Nianyi Chen (Carnegie Mellon University)

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM Session 2: Contributed Talks

Convener: Marta Volonteri (IAP)

11:30 AM Black hole seed formation and dynamics in high-redshift galaxies

Speaker: Alessandro Lupi (University of Insubria)

11:45 AM Massive Black Hole Binaries: Modeling Populations for Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Speaker: Magdalena Siwek (Harvard University)

12:00 PM Modeling the coalescence of MBHs over the cosmic history

Speaker: Yueying Ni (Harvard University)

12:15 PM Using Dual AGNs to Predict the Rate of Black Hole Mergers

Speaker: Kunyang Li (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Group Discussion

Convener: Alessandro Lupi (University of Insubria)