The Origins of Massive Black Holes and Quasars at High Redshifts

A Special Session for the 11th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Berlin
Tuesday, July 25, 2006, Afternoon
Location to be announced in the conference program

Resulting proceedings review paper:

• Preprint with full resolution figures (Euro A4 format, 3.8 MB pdf file) *
• another (US Letter format, 0.6 MB pdf file) * Figure 1 (jpeg) * Figure 5 (jpeg)
• arxiv/0803.2862 preprint link

The session consisted of the invited review talks only, listed below.

Schedule of talks (25+5 min each, talk+questions):

• 14:30 - 15:00 Introductory Comments, and Surveys for High-z QSOs [G. Djorgovski]
• 15:00 - 15:30 X-Ray Insights Into the Early QSO Evolution [G. Hassinger]
• 15:30 - 16:00 The First Supermassive Black Holes and Quasars [V. Bromm]
• 16:00 - 16:30 Black Hole Wunderkindes in High Redshift Quasars [M. Volonteri]
  

  16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  

• 17:00 - 17:30 The Formation and Early Evolution of QSOs From Numerical Simulations [V. Springel]
• 17:30 - 18:00 Gas and Dust in High-z QSOs: Implications for an Early Chemical Enrichment [F. Bertoldi]
• 18:00 - 18:30 Evidence for (and Against) Intermediate Mass Black Holes at Low Redshifts [G. Meylan]
• 18:30 - 19:00 Open discussion: what are the most promising and interesting directions for the near-future studies?

Last changed: 19 March 2008, SGD