Name: Black holes at different flavours - WE - Heraeus - 2026 EAS Workshop for Early Career Research in Astronomy
Start: 2026-09-21T08:55:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-25T18:35:00+02:00
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Black holes at different flavours - WE - Heraeus - 2026 EAS Workshop for Early Career Research in Astronomy

from Monday, 21 September 2026 (08:55) to Friday, 25 September 2026 (18:35)

Monday, 21 September 2026

09:00 Coffee Break / Registration
Coffee Break / Registration
09:00 - 09:30

09:30 Black holes, horizon, photon orbit, marginally bounded orbit, ISCO, ergosphere, the Roche radius in the context of TDE

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 ERC talks
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 Black Holes as Non-Abelian Anyon Condensates: Implications for the Information Paradox - Sabin Roman (Jožef Stefan Institute)

11:55 Charged accretion Tori around Schwarzschild black hole: self-generated electromagnetic fields and their effect on disk structure - Serena Gambino (Scuola Superiore Meridionale)

12:20 Properties and signatures of IMBH-TDEs in MOCCA Star Cluster Models - Sakshi Maurya (Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 ERC talks
14:15 - 15:30
Contributions

14:15 Radiative GRMHD simulations of stable sub-Eddington accretion discs - Debora Lančová

14:40 Energy Extraction Mechanisms and Plasmoid Dynamics in Black Hole Ergospheres: A GRMHD Study - Ioannis Dimitropoulos (RCAAM, Academy of Athens)

15:05 The Role of X-ray Irradiation in the Variability of Unstable Black hole Accretion disks - Pulkit Ojha (Centrum Fizyki Teoretycznej PAN)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 ERC talks
16:00 - 16:25
Contributions

16:00 Powering the Transient Sky: Extreme Efficiency Jet Production in BH Accretion - Antonios Nathanail
16:25 Open questions and Summary

16:25 - 16:55
16:55 Managing Director of WE-Heraeus-Stiftung - Stefan Jorda (HERAEUS)
Managing Director of WE-Heraeus-Stiftung
- Stefan Jorda (HERAEUS)
16:55 - 17:15
Institutional Talk
17:15 Discussion
Discussion
17:15 - 17:20
17:20 TBD - Andreas Burkert
TBD
- Andreas Burkert
17:20 - 17:35
TBD
17:35 About Warsaw, About CAMK PAN - Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)
About Warsaw, About CAMK PAN
- Agata Rozanska (CAMK PAN)
17:35 - 17:50
17:50 Discussion
Discussion
17:50 - 17:55

18:00 Wellcome Coctail

18:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 22 September 2026

09:00 Coffee Break / Registration
Coffee Break / Registration
09:00 - 09:30

09:30 Science from black hole imaging

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 ERC talks
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 Modeling the Multi-Wavelength Signature of Sagittarius A* - Eleni Antonopoulou (Academy of Athens, University of Athens)

11:55 GRMHD accretion beyond the black hole paradigm: Light from within the shadow - Saurabh Saurabh (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

12:20 General relativistic effects at the heart of accreting Sgr A* light curve asymmetry - Valentina Rosa (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 ERC talks
14:15 - 15:30
Contributions

14:15 Sgr A* Polarimetry with Spatially and Temporally Resolved Rotation Measure Maps - Tintin Nguyen (Harvard University)

14:40 Spin estimations from lensing of hot spot around SMBHs: From empircal relations to machine learning - Aristomenis Yfantis (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia)

15:05 Ghosts of the Minispiral: modeling the hidden black hole population of the Galactic Center - Matúš Labaj (Masaryk University)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 ERC talks
16:00 - 16:50
Contributions

16:00 Direct observation of supermassive black hole binaries with spaceborne VLBI - Ben Hudson

16:25 Picosecond Intensity Interferometry to resolve accreting sources - Gilles Koziol (University of Geneva)
16:50 Open questions and Summary

16:50 - 17:20
Wednesday, 23 September 2026

09:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30

09:30 Accretion and acceleration of matter around SMBH in GR regime

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 ERC talks
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 Accretion-powered flares from black-hole–disk collisions in galactic nuclei - Joaquin Pelle (Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Potsdam))

11:55 AGN Disk Tensions from an Inconsistent α-Disk Closure (final closure) - Mohamad H. Naddaf (University of Liege, Belgium)

12:20 From spectral energy distribution to line suppression: probing the physics of the X-ray-weak WLQ SDSS J101353.45+492758.1 - Laetitia Gibaud (Faculty of Physics, University of Bialystok, Poland)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 ERC talks
14:15 - 15:30
Contributions

14:15 Ambiguous Nuclear Transients: A Novel, Mysterious, Highly Energetic Mode of SMBH Accretion - Matthew Quilt (University of Southampton)

14:40 State transitions in changing-look AGNs - Biswaraj Palit (CAMK PAN)

15:05 Magnetized inner disks explain Changing-Look AGN - Marios Kouzis (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 ERC talks
16:00 - 17:15
Contributions

16:00 Disrupted Stars and/or Unstable Disks?: Two Challenging AGN Transients - Marzena Sniegowska (CAMK PAN, CFT PAN)

16:25 Geometry and Spectral Properties of the Warm Corona in AGN - Parikshit Partha Biswas (Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warszawa)

16:50 AT 2020xys: Discovery, Classification, and Multi-Wavelength Observations of a Bowen Fluorescence Flare in an AGN - Joysankar Majumdar (Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw)
17:15 Open questions and Summary

17:15 - 17:45
Thursday, 24 September 2026

09:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30

09:30 New Perspectives on the Universe in the gravitational wave multi-messenger astronomy era

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 ERC talks
11:30 - 12:45
Contributions

11:30 On the maximum black hole mass from updated stellar wind prescriptions - Alex Gormaz-Matamala (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))

11:55 Massive black hole formation in proto-clusters with the Obelisk simulation - Kienan Latzke (University of Geneva)

12:20 Beyond the first galaxies Primordial Black Holes shine - Antonio Matteri (Scuola Normale Superiore)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
14:15 ERC talks
14:15 - 15:30
Contributions

14:15 Chemical Evolution and Ejecta Diversity in Post-Merger Black Hole Accretion Disk Outflows - Joseph Saji (Center for Theoretical Physics, PAN)

14:40 Constraints on modified gravity using gravitational waves - Pawan Kumar Gupta (CAMK, Warsaw, Poland)

15:05 Neutrino diffuse flux from magnetically-driven AGN coronae - Despina Karavola (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
15:30 Open questions and Summary

15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Testing Black-Hole Formation with LIGO: Evidence for a Bimodal Black-Hole Mass Distribution - Phillipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford)
Testing Black-Hole Formation with LIGO: Evidence for a Bimodal Black-Hole Mass Distribution
- Phillipp Podsiadlowski (University of Oxford)
16:00 - 16:40
16:40 Discussion
Discussion
16:40 - 16:45

18:30 Trip along Vistula river together with Social Dinner
Trip along Vistula river together with Social Dinner
18:30 - 23:00
Friday, 25 September 2026

09:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30

09:30 Ergomagnetospheres, Ejection Disks and Wave Optics in M87 and SS433

09:30 - 11:00

11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30 ERC talks
11:30 - 13:10
Contributions

11:30 Black hole jet reactivation through magnetic polarity reversal in GRMHD simulations - Wen Xuan Sia

11:55 General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Collapsars with Multipole Self-Gravity - Piotr Płonka (Center for Theoretical Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences)

12:20 Testing relativistic jet models with the Event Horizon Telescope - Jan Röder (IAA-CSIC)

12:45 Centaurus A: Jet Chemical Enrichment and Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Production - Ana Laura Müller (FZU - Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
13:10 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:10 - 14:40
14:40 ERC talks
14:40 - 15:55
Contributions

14:40 Investigating magnetized outflows from rotating black holes - Bestin James (Masaryk University)

15:05 Hybrid Modeling of Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Jets - Kaushik Satapathy (Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear)

15:30 Blueberry and Green Pea galaxies live in low density environments - Maitrayee Gupta (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)
15:55 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:55 - 16:25
16:25 ERC talks
16:25 - 18:05
Contributions

16:25 Intra-night optical variability of Blazars from high-cadence observations with the Large Array Survey Telescope (LAST) - Simone Garrappa (Weizmann Institute of Science)

16:50 Probing Relativistic Jets Through Multiwavelength Observations of Blazars - SANGEETHA KIZHAKKEKALAM (Janusz Gil Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Gora, Poland)

17:15 Tracing Supermassive Black Hole Jet Activity from Sub-Kiloparsec to Megaparsec Scales in Giant Radio Galaxies using LOFAR and LOFAR-VLBI - SAGAR SETHI (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)

17:40 Microquasars observed in the γ-ray band :the parsec-scale outer jets of SS 433 - Michelle Tsirou (Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU))
18:05 Open questions and Summary

18:05 - 18:35