Unveiling a Universe of Black Holes: The next Generation of AGN Surveys

10 March - 04 April 2025

Andrea Merloni, Benjamin Oppenheimer, Celine Peroux, Debora Sijacki, Roberto Assef

Week 1
Mon 10/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Welcome

10:00 - 11:00

Introducing this week's participants

11:00 - 11:20

Coffee Break

11:20 - 12:50

Joint Review R1

Sophie Koudmani, Antonis Georgakakis

Time Talk
11:20 - 12:20

AGN census: Observations vs. Simulations

Antonis Georgakakis, Sophie Koudmani

12:20 - 12:50

Discussion R1

12:50 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

The identification of (un)known X-ray AGN in Euclid Q1

Roster William

MIAPbP_William_Roster.pdf

14:45 - 15:45

Speed Collaboration

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and Networking: Bavarian Brotzeit

Tue 11/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R2

Vardha Bennert, Mar Mezcua

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN-galaxies scaling relation

Mar Mezcua, Vardha Bennert

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R2

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

The scatter in the M_BH-M* relations

Weiguang Cui

Cui_Slides.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Probing Galaxy evolution from z=0 to z~10 through galaxy scaling relations in L-GALAXIES

Akash Vani

Vani_slides.pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: SED fitting

Carolina Andonie

Andonie_Slides_11.03..pdf

14:45 - 15:15

Tutorial 2: Bayesian X-ray spectral fitting

Laloux Brivael

Wed 12/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R3

Tiago Costa, Daisuke Nagai

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN feedback: theoretical perspectives

Daisuke Nagai, Tiago Costa

Costa_Slides.pdf

Nagai.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R3

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Radio AGN activity in low redshift galaxies is not directly related to star formation rates; Do the simulations agree?

Arjun Suresh

Suresh_Slides.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Early and late phases of AGN feedback: a JWST and NOEMA view from z~0 to 3

Caroline Bertemes

Bertemes_Slides.pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:15

Structured Break out groups for discussion of Week 1 Questions

Thu 13/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R4

Hannah Stacey, Marcella Brusa

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN feedback: observations

Hannah Stacey, Marcella Brusa

MIAPbP_AGN_feedback_Stacey.pdf

MIAPbP_Universe_BlackHoles_AGNFeedback_BRUSA.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R4

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Physics of feedback from the most luminous and obscured quasars with JWST

Andrey Vayner

12:00 - 12:30

The 4MOST IRAGN survey: the first obscured quasar census

Carolina Andonie

Andonie_Slides_13.03..pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

Euclid AGN and host galaxy physical properties

Brivael Laloux

14:45 - 15:15

Tutorial: LOFAR radio survey data

De Gasperin Francesco

Fri 14/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R5

Beatriz Mingo, Francesco De Gasperin

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Radio Surveys Overview

Beatriz Mingo, Francesco De Gasperin

De Gasperin_Slides.pdf

Mingo_Slides.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R5

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

AGN Global energetics and feedback as probed by incidence distributions

Zsofi Igo

Igo_Slides.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Linking the radio-AGN life-cycle to feedback on ionised gas

Pranav Kukreti

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

Synthesis Discussion

Week 2
Mon 17/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Welcome and summary of previous week

10:00 - 11:00

Introduction of this week's participants

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Dust-Obscured Galaxies in the XMM-SERVS Fields: Selection, Multiwavelength Characterization, and Physical Nature

Zhibo Yu

12:00 - 12:30

How to Uncover AGNs in Low-Stellar Mass Galaxies

Santiago Bernal

Bernal_Slides.pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:15

Speed Collaboration

Tue 18/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R6

Gordon Richards, Sylvain Veilleux

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN structure

Gordon Richards, Sylvain Veilleux

Richards_Slides.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R6

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Understanding the broad-line region of AGN with photoionization

Qiaoya Wu

QiaoyaWu_MIAPbP_Mar18.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

The X-ray properties of the most luminous quasars with strong outflows

Anastasia Shlentsova

Shlentsova_Slides.pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:15

Quick talk: AGN jets detected at mm frequencies with ALMA Calibrators

Victoria Bollo

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: q3dfit (https://q3dfit.readthedocs.io/stable/index.html), a python package for spectral analysis and PSF decomposition

Andrey Vayner, Caroline Bertemes

Wed 19/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R7

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Caroline Villforth

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN-host connection

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Caroline Villforth

MIAPbP_Review_Carolin_Benny.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R7

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Extremely Variable and Changing-Look AGNs in SDSS-V, and their Host Galaxies

Grisha Zeltyn

Zeltyn_Slides.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Simulating supermassive black holes: from event horizon to cosmic web and back again

Martin Bourne

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch break

14:15 - 15:15

Structured Break out groups for discussion of Week 2 Questions

Thu 20/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R8

Sixiang Wen, Paula Sanchez Saez

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Extreme accretion events: CLAGN and TDE

Paula Sanchez Saez, Sixiang Wen

CLAGNs_PaulaSanchezSaez.pdf

Wen_Slides.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R9

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Flares from SgrA*: Dynamical probes for the accretion flow around supermassive black holes

Diogo Ribeiro

2025_03_20 - Diogo Ribeiro - MIAPbP AGN (Handout).pdf

Ribeiro_Slides.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Supermassive black holes stripping a subgiant star down to its helium core: a new type of multi-messenger source for LISA

Aleksandra Olejak

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: optical spectra host galaxy/AGN decomposition with pPXF

Santiago Bernal

14:45 - 15:15

Tutorial 2: Outlook for permanent positions in our field (AGN & galaxy co-evolution, black holes astrophysics), discussion of career strategies for non-permanent researchers.

Johannes Buchner

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and Networking: Pizza

Fri 21/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R9

Mara Salvato

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

From eROSITA to the next X-ray surveys

Mara Salvato

Merloni_eROSITA_2025_MIAPbP.pdf

MIAPbp2025_Salvato.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R10

11:00 - 11:30

The eROSITA discovered Bowen Fluorescence Flare and Extreme Coronal Line Emitter eRASSU J012026-292727: A face-on tidal disruption event in a gas-rich environment

Pietro Baldini

Baldini_Slides.pdf

11:30 - 12:00

Recurring flares in Active Galactic Nuclei and peculiar optical emission lines

Marzena Sniegowska

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:00

Synthesis Discussion

Week 3
Mon 24/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Welcome and summary of previous weeks

10:00 - 10:45

Introduction of this week's participants

10:45 - 11:15

Coffe Break

11:15 - 12:45

Review R10

Taeho Ryu, Andreas Burkert

Time Talk
11:15 - 12:15

Stellar dynamics in galactic nuclei (from SgrA* to distant galaxies)

Andreas Burkert, Taeho Ryu

burkert-sstars.pdf

Ryu_Slides.pdf

12:15 - 12:45

Discussion R8

12:45 - 14:15

Lunch break

14:15 - 15:15

Speed Collaboration

16:30 - 17:15

A possible role of Primordial Black Holes in the Early Universe?

Günther Hasinger

Tue 25/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R11

Johannes Buchner, Ricarda Beckmann

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Cosmological evolution of BH mass and spin

Johannes Buchner, Ricarda Beckmann

2025Munich_BHmass_spin.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R11

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Tracing Massive Black Holes in cosmological simulations

Alice Damiano

12:00 - 12:30

Simulating the co-evolution of massive black holes and nuclear star clusters in low-mass galaxies

Christian Partmann

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: Tipps on writing (observing) proposals

Benny Trakhtenbrot, Celine Peroux

Wed 26/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R12

Tom Abel, Johan Comparat

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN and Large-Scale Structure

Johan Comparat, Tom Abel

Abel_Slides.pdf

AGN_LSS.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R12

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Constraining AGN Feedback Models Using X-ray CGM Observations

Skylar Grayson

Grayson_slides_MIAPbP.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

The multi-scale effect of AGN feedback on galaxy evolution as evidenced by the Ly- α nebulae around quasars

Silvia Carolina Rueda Vargas

Ruede Vargas_Slides.pdf

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:15

Structured Break out groups for discussion of Week 3 Questions

16:00 - 17:00

Workshop "The importance of active learning in higher education"

Vardha Bennert

Bennert_Slides.pdf

Thu 27/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R13

Annalisa Pillepich, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

AGN imprints on the CGM

Annalisa Pillepich, Fabrizio Arrigoni-Battaia

20250327_PillepichArrigoniBattaia_MIAPbP_AGNandCGM_p.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R13

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

AGN Feedback Redistributes Gas Within and Beyond the Halo Boundary

Mohammadreza Ayromlou

12:00 - 12:30

The Scatter Matters: Circumgalactic Metal Content in the Context of the M-σ Relation

Natalie Sanchez

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: The industrial development in the Atacama Desert and what it means for Chilean's Skies: the case of mega-industrial project INNA and the VLT

Chiara Mazzucchelli

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and Networking: Wine and Cheese

Fri 28/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R14

Matthew Temple, Vincenzo Mainieri

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Optical/spectroscopic surveys overview

Matthew Temple, Vincenzo Mainieri

MIAPbP_Optical_Spectroscopic_Surveys.pdf

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R14

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Mapping the Physical Properties of Quasar Outflows with the Next Generation AGN Survey, 4G-PAQS

Hyunseop Choi

talk_choi_miapbp.pdf

12:00 - 12:30

Optical jets in quasars with radio-optical position offsets

Lizbeth Joy Tan

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

Insights from the optical spectra of X-ray-selected AGN in eFEDS

Catarina Aydar

Week 4
Mon 31/03/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 10:00

Welcome and Summary of previous weeks

10:00 - 11:00

Introducing this week's participants

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Investigating the link between the growth of SMBHs and their host galaxies with X-ray surveys

Qingling Ni

12:00 - 12:30

Resolved properties of AGN host galaxies in terms of AGN type and luminosity

Gaoxiang Jin

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 15:15

Speed Collaboration

Tue 01/04/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R15

Jillian Bellovary, Marta Volonteri

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

The formation of the first BHs, theory

Jillian Bellovary, Marta Volonteri

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R15

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee BReak

11:30 - 12:00

Hierarchical star cluster assembly and stellar multiplicity boost the formation of supermassive black hole seeds

Antti Rantala

12:00 - 12:30

Seeding and in-situ growth of stellar-mass seed black holes in high-redshift star-forming giant molecular clouds and proto-bulges

Yanlong Shi

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 14:30

Tidal Disruptions of Spinning White Dwarfs by Spinning Intermediate-Mass Black Holes

Debojyoti Garain

16:00 - 17:15

Workshop: Mindfulness

Vardha Bennert

Wed 02/04/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R16

Kirpal Nandra, Manda Banerji

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Obscured AGN at high redshift

Kirpal Nandra, Manda Banerji

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R16

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Uncovering accretion structures in AGN populations

Scott Hagen

12:00 - 12:30

Systematic search for dual quasars with large imaging surveys and their multi-wavelength follow-ups

Shenli Tang

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 - 17:05

Mini-Symposium: A Universe of Black Holes

Time Talk
14:00 - 14:30

Introduction/X-ray AGN surveys, from eROSITA to Athena

Andrea Merloni, Kirpal Nandra (TBC)

14:30 - 14:55

Unravelling the Hidden Lives of Black Holes with Cosmological Simulations

Debora Sijacki

14:55 - 15:20

JWST view of the early black hole growth

Roberto Maiolino

15:20 - 15:50

Coffee break

15:50 - 16:15

The first black holes: a multimessenger view

Marta Volonteri

16:15 - 16:40

Changing-look AGNs and SMBH transients in the era of time-domain surveys

Paula Sanchez Saez

16:40 - 17:05

AGN role in shaping the CGM and the baryons budget

Celine Peroux

Thu 03/04/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R17

Huub Rottgeting, Chiara Mazzucchelli

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

Early BH and their environment

Chiara Mazzucchelli, Huub Röttgering

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R17

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Photometric redshifts for AGN in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Raphael Shirley

12:00 - 12:30

BEES: Investigating the ionization and gas dynamics of young quasar hosts at z~6

Yuzo Ishikawa

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:45

Tutorial 1: Understanding AGN Host Galaxies with the GRAHSP SED fitting code

Johannes Buchner

17:00 - 19:00

Discussion and Networking: Pizza

Fri 04/04/2025
Time Session
9:30 - 11:00

Joint Review R18

Eduardo Banados, Roberto Maiolino

Time Talk
9:30 - 10:30

BH-galaxy co-evolution at the highest redshifts

Eduardo Banados, Roberto Maiolino

10:30 - 11:00

Discussion R18

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00

Blazar Discovery at z=7: implication for the Early Universe

Silvia Belladitta

12:00 - 12:30

AGN under the eye of JWST: new selection techniques and physical properties

Giovanni Mazzolari

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