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KITP Program: Bridging the Gap: Accretion and Orbital Evolution in Stellar and Black Hole Binaries
(Feb 28 - May 6, 2022)
Coordinators: Daniel D’Orazio, Zoltan Haiman, Yan-Fei Jiang, and Kaitlin Kratter
Scientific Advisors:

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Time Speaker Title
3/01, 10:30am Kaitlin Kratter
(Arizona)
Dan D'orazio
(NBIA)
High Priority Questions for Binary Disks and Accretion[Video][CC]
3/03, 10:30am Steve Lubow
STSCI
History, Similarities, and Differences of Stellar and Black Hole Circumbinary Disks[Slides][Video][CC]
3/08, 10:30am Stefan Kraus
(Exeter)
Maxwell Moe
(Arizona)
Pre-Main-Sequence Binaries and their Disks - Observations & Statistics[Slides][Video][CC]
3/10, 10:30am Alberto Sesana
(UNIMIB)
Alessandro Lupi
(UNIMIB)
Scott Noble
(GSFC)
Gas Dynamics, Accretion, and Observables in Massive Black Hole Binary Systems[Slides][Video][CC]
3/14-17 Conference: Building Bridges: Towards a Unified Picture of Stellar and Black Hole Binary Accretion and Evolution
3/22, 10:30am Eric Jensen
Swarthmore
Disk alignment, truncation, and accretion in young stellar binaries[Video][CC]
3/24, 10:30am Jonathan Zrake
Clemson
Orbital evolution and EM signatures of eccentric binaries[Video][CC]
3/29, 10:30am Ian Czekala
Penn State
Collecting observational evidence with the hope of understanding how protoplanetary circumbinary disks (and by extension, binary stars) form and evolve[Video]
3/31, 10:30am Maria Charisi
Vanderbilt
Searching for supermassive black hole binaries[Video]
4/05, 10:30am Diego Munoz
Northwestern
Evection Resonances in AGN Disks[Video]
4/07, 10:30am Elisa Bortolas
UNIMIB
Gas, stars and gravitational waves: on the main driver of supermassive black hole binaries path to coalescence[Slides][Video][CC]
4/12, 10:30am Rosanne Di Stefano
Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
An Uncommon Approach to the Common Envelope[Video][CC]
4/14, 10:30am Munan Gong
MPE
Maria Jose Maureira
(MPE)
Hot spots around a class 0 protostellar binary - signature of shocks[Video][CC]
4/19, 10:30am Jeff Andrews
Northwestern
Open Problems in Binary Evolution[Video]
4/21, 10:30am Yue Shen
UIUC
Statistics of z>2 SMBH pairs in the ~kpc regime[Video][CC]
4/22, 2:00pm Kimi Hayasaki
Chungbuk Nat'l Univ.
Tidal disruption of a star by coalescing supermassive black hole binaries[Video][CC]
4/26, 10:30am Daniel Price
Monash Univ.
Binary-disc interaction in protostellar discs[Video][CC]
4/28, 10:30am Lorenz Zwick
Zurich
Dirty Waveforms: Signatures of accretion discs physics on gravitational waves[Video][CC]
4/29, 2:00pm Lucio Mayer
Zurich
Gas-embedded binaries: a link between stars, black holes and gravitational waves[Video]
KITP Blackboard Lunch
5/02, 11:00am All Participants Binary22 Summary Discussion
5/03, 10:30am Katelyn Breivik
Flatiron Institute
Prospects for constraining binary-star interactions with multimessenger and multiband approaches[Video][CC]
5/05, 10:30am Kedron Silsbee
MPE
Planet Formation in Binaries[Video][CC]