Virtual Conference Program

Day 1, July 14, 2020

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14:00-14:15 Ralph Gaume, NSF: Enabling Multi-Messenger Astronomy
14:15-14:30 Emily Petroff, Fast Radio Bursts
14:30-14:45 Sarah Vigeland, Pulsars: Targets and Tools for Multimessenger Astrophysics
14:45-15:00 Kate Scholberg, Core-collapse Supernovae
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-15:30 Alessandra Corsi, Stellar-Mass Compact Object Mergers and Short Gamma Ray Bursts
15:30-15:45
Greg Sivakoff, Rapid Jet Variability in X-ray Binaries: New Windows Onto Jet Physics
15:45-16:00
Deanne Coppejans, White Dwarfs: Accretion and Jets
16:00-16:30 Discussion Breakouts

Day 2, July 15, 2020

14:00-14:15
Sarah Burke Spolaor, Massive Black Holes on the Move
14:15-14:30

Kate Alexander, Tidal Disruption Events: Multi-messenger Probes of Outflows and Accretion in Supermassive Black Holes
14:30-14:45 Jason Dexter, Imaging Supermassive Black Holes
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-15:15 Kristina Nyland, AGN Jets and Accretion Flows: New Insights from Compact Jets at Cosmic Noon
15:15-15:30 Jonelle Walsh, Black Hole Mass Measurements
15:30-15:45 Jenny Greene, Intermediate-mass Black Holes and Dwarf Galaxies
15:45-16:00 Eric Murphy (Closing Remarks)
16:00-16:30 Discussion Breakouts

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