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48th Sass-Fee Course: Black-Hole Formation and Growth
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07-11-2017
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The 48th Saas-Fee Advanced Course of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy will be devoted to:
Black-Hole Formation and Growth
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
January 28 to February 3, 2018
www.isdc.unige.ch/sf2018
You are most cordially invited to participate or to forward this announcement to your colleagues and students.
Registration deadline: November 30, 2017
The advanced Course will review the state of knowledge, open questions and forecasts and will cover the following topics: Foundation of Gravity, early Universe, primordial black-holes, black holes at all scales, black-hole merging and gravitational waves, black-hole accretion and feedback, black hole growth on cosmological time scales.
27 hours of lectures will be given in English by three experts:
Course 1: Black holes across cosmic history
Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)
Course 2: Black hole merging and gravitational waves
Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)
Course 3: Black hole accretion and feedback
Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)
The lectures will be held in the morning and in the late afternoon leaving free time for informal discussions, studies, and outdoor activities (skiing) in the afternoons. The course is intended mainly for post graduate, PhD students, astronomers and physicists who wish to broaden their knowledge. The lecture notes will be published in the Saas-Fee lecture series.
Black-Hole Formation and Growth
Saas-Fee, Switzerland
January 28 to February 3, 2018
www.isdc.unige.ch/sf2018
You are most cordially invited to participate or to forward this announcement to your colleagues and students.
Registration deadline: November 30, 2017
The advanced Course will review the state of knowledge, open questions and forecasts and will cover the following topics: Foundation of Gravity, early Universe, primordial black-holes, black holes at all scales, black-hole merging and gravitational waves, black-hole accretion and feedback, black hole growth on cosmological time scales.
27 hours of lectures will be given in English by three experts:
Course 1: Black holes across cosmic history
Prof. Tiziana Di Matteo (Carnegie Mellon University)
Course 2: Black hole merging and gravitational waves
Prof. Neil Cornish (Montana State University)
Course 3: Black hole accretion and feedback
Prof. Andrew King (University of Leicester)
The lectures will be held in the morning and in the late afternoon leaving free time for informal discussions, studies, and outdoor activities (skiing) in the afternoons. The course is intended mainly for post graduate, PhD students, astronomers and physicists who wish to broaden their knowledge. The lecture notes will be published in the Saas-Fee lecture series.
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