YAGN25 Preliminary Program


Monday, September 1, 2025 - Morning:

Welcome remarks
Matteo Bonetti, Pedro R. Capelo, and Sandra Raimundo
08:45-09:00

Session: Early Universe and highly accreting black holes

(Chair: TBD)
Daniel Roberts (University of Southampton, UK)
Too many or too massive? Investigating the high-z demography of active SMBHs from JWST
09:00-09:20
Tommaso Zana (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy)
Fueling black hole seeds: Supercritical accretion in protogalactic environments
09:20-09:40
Lucas Tortora (University of Cambridge, UK)
Radiative feedback of super-Eddington QSOs at high redshift in the JWST era
09:40-10:00
Giada Quadri (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Super-Eddington accretion and outflow properties in high-redshift quasars
10:00-10:20
Coffee break

10:20-11:20
Elia Cenci (Université de Genève, Switzerland)
Improved modelling of direct-collapse black hole seeds in large-scale cosmological simulations
11:20-11:40
Flash talks
Matias Liempi (Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy): The supermassive black hole population from seeding via collisions in nuclear star clusters
Sophia Geris (University of Cambridge, UK): Exploring the presence of accreting black holes in the early Universe via JWST stacking
Laetitia Martel (University of Southampton, UK): Critical Phenomena at the Threshold of Gravitational Collapse
Saksham Chandna (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy): On the origin of the z ≳ 6 Little Red Dots discovered by JWST
Joel Carpenter (University of Southampton, UK): Investigating AGN Properties During a Changing-look Event in the Nuclear Transient ZTF18abuamgo
Gregory Walsh (Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark): Understanding Jet Formation through Changing-look Phenomena with VLBI
11:40

Monday, September 1, 2025 - Afternoon

Session: Black hole transients and time-domain surveys

(Chair: TBD)
Laura Duffy (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
When Quasars Wake Up: Telling Case Studies of Changing-Look Quasars
14:00-14:20
Matthew Temple (Durham University, UK)
AGN Science in the Rubin Observatory's LSST
14:20-14:40
Simona Pacuraru (University of Birmingham, UK)
Magnetic field evolution during tidal disruption events
14:40-15:00
Noah Kubli (Universität Zürich, Switzerland)
Ultra-high Resolution Simulations of Tidal Disruption Events with the Novel SPH-EXA Code
15:00-15:20
Coffee break

15:20-16:00
Discussion
Moderators: TBD
16:00-17:00

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - Morning

Session: Black hole binaries and black hole pairs

(Chair: TBD)
Fabio Rigamonti, invited (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy)
MBHB detection: hide and seek in spectroscopy, time domain, and high-resolution imaging
09:00-09:20
Elisa Bortolas (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova, Italy), invited
Galaxy core scouring by supermassive black hole binaries
09:20-09:40
Karthik Mahesh Varadarajan (University of Southampton, UK)
SMBH Merger Rates and GW Predictions
09:40-10:00
Stephanie Buttigieg (University of Cambridge, UK)
Fact or FABLE: predictions for SMBH merger rates from cosmological simulations
10:00-10:20
Coffee break

10:20-11:00
Jasbir Singh (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Italy)
Massive black hole mergers from light and heavy seeds: Implications for LISA, Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna, and Pulsar Timing Arrays
11:00-11:20
Alice Damiano (Università degli Studi di Trieste, Italy)
The cosmic dance: tracing Supermassive Black Holes in cosmological simulations
11:20-11:40
Flash talks
Alex Rawlings (Helsingin Yliopisto, Finland): Imprints and signatures of recoiling supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies
Fabiola Cocchiararo (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy): Probing periodicities in massive black hole binaries with Gaussian Processes
Federica Fastidio (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy; University of Surrey, UK): Evolution of consecutive PTA mergers from cosmological initial conditions
Lazaros Souvaitzis (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Germany): 3D Simulations of Inclined SMBH Binaries in Circumbinary Disks
Lee Whitaker (University College Cork, Ireland): The Spin Evolution of Massive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time
Stephen Molyneux (University of Southampton, UK): Evidence for universal gas depletion in a sample of 41 luminous Type 1 quasars at z ~ 2
James Leftley (University of Southampton, UK): Dusty winds and jets - understanding AGN structure and feedback pathways
Joseph L. Tous (University of Southampton, UK): Distinguishing star formation and AGN in S0 galaxies via principal component analysis of optical spectra
Giulia Ortame (University of Cambridge, UK): From dwarf galaxies to cosmic dawn: simulating black hole accretion and multi-scale dynamics in new regimes
11:40

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 - Afternoon

Session: Active galactic nuclei and host galaxies properties

(Chair: TBD)
Chiara Circosta, invited (Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique, France)
Looking for observational signatures of the role of active galactic nuclei in galaxy evolution
14:00-14:20
Nabanita Das (Georgia State University, USA)
A Stellar Dynamical Mass for the Central Black Hole in MCG-06-30-15
14:20-14:40
Martyna Winiarska (Durham University, UK)
Investigating the effects of fresh gas on the active galactic luminosity of early- and late-type galaxies
14:40-15:00
Olga Borodina (Harvard University, USA)
The propagation of low/moderate powered AGN jets through a turbulent interstellar medium
15:00-15:20
Coffee break

15:20-16:00
Discussion
Moderators: TBD
16:00-17:00

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - Morning

Session: Dual active galactic nuclei and mergers

(Chair: TBD)
Lorenzo Bertassi (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy), invited
Searching for unresolved massive black hole pairs through AGN photometric variability
09:00-09:20
Josephine Chishala (Botswana International University of Science and Technology, Botswana)
Testing the Merger-AGN-SFR connection in dynamically close galaxy pairs
09:20-09:40
Julie Biedermann (Université de Strasbourg, France)
A new method to detect binary supermassive black holes in quasars
09:40-10:00
Sandra Zamora (Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy)
A quasar in a merging system at z ~ 4.7: a dual AGN and eight companion galaxies from JWST/NIRSpec observations.
10:00-10:20
Coffee break
10:20-11:00

Session: Dynamics around massive black holes

(Chair: TBD)
Lorenz Zwick, invited (Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark)
Smoking gun signatures of the AGN channel in stellar mass gravitational wave sources
11:00-11:20
Alessandro Alberto Trani (Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark)
Gravitational wave mergers in active galactic nuclei
11:20-11:40
Davide Mancieri (Università degli Studi di Trento / Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
Extreme mass ratio inspirals formation via two-body relaxation around spinning massive black holes
11:40-12:00
Flash talks
Shenli Tang (University of Southampton, UK): Systematic search for dual quasars and their multi-wavelength follow-ups
Ryan Pfeifle (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center / Oak Ridge Associated Universities, USA): A New Population of Spatially-Resolved Mid-IR Dual AGNs in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys
Iver Warburton (Yale University, USA): Training the DRAGON: A CNN to Uncover Dual AGN
Connar Rowan (Niels Bohr Institutet, Denmark): Prompt black hole mergers in AGN discs aided by gas: the hydrodynamics of binary-single scatterings
Alastair Palmer (University of Birmingham, UK): Binary capture of black holes in AGN discs
12:00

Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - Afternoon

Discussion
Moderators: TBD
14:00-15:00

Concluding remarks

TBD (TBD)
Concluding remarks (theory)
15:00-15:30
TBD (TBD)
Concluding remarks (observations)
15:30-16:00
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