Dates: 18-21 November, 2024
Venue: Lecture Hall, Kavli IPMU, Kashiwa, Japan
Overview:
The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the number of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) discovered in the first billion years of the universe, thanks to ground-based wide-field surveys such as SDSS, Pan-Starrs1, DES, and HSC. These efforts have provided evidence that billion-solar-mass SMBHs existed in the early universe, challenging our understanding of the formation channels and early growth history of BH seeds.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened up new parameter spaces, revealing high-redshift analogs of Seyfert galaxies and resolving the starlight of quasar host galaxies. Anchored by these initial results, it is expected that a full census of SMBHs and host galaxies will be explored in the coming years, possibly reaching the seed BH mass range.
In this one-week conference, we propose to bring together experts from JWST and next-generation survey facilities such as Euclid, LSST, and Japan’s Prime Focus Spectrograph to highlight ongoing efforts and future prospects for this research area. This conference capitalizes on the unique research diversity of Kavli IPMU and the worldwide network of Kavli research institutes in astronomy and astrophysics.
The key topics of this conference are as follows:
- Discovery of high-redshift AGN at the observational frontiers
- Next-generation wide-field surveys and multi-wavelength facilities
- The role of obscuration in early SMBH growth
- The host galaxy and its large-scale environment
- Theoretical interpretation of early JWST results
- AGN as a transitional phase from starburst to quiescence
This conference is paired with another IPMU conference ``Focus week on primordial blackholes 2024", which happens one week earlier (13-15 November, 2024). More details and registration information can be found in the following link:
https://indico.ipmu.jp/event/439/overview (registration due 6 November 2024)
These two conferences are independently organized, but we aim to foster interaction between these two closely related fields. Participants are encouraged to join both conferences.
Call for abstract: open until 20 September, 2024
Registration: open until 18 October, 2024
Invited Speaker (being confirmed)
• Manda Banerji (Southampton)
• Silvia Belladitta (MPIA)
• Roberto Gilli (Bologna)
• Jenny Greene (Princeton)
• Kohei Inayoshi (Peking Univ. KIAA)
• Dale Kocevski (Colby College)
• Yoshiki Matsuoka (Ehime)
• Misao Sasaki (Univ. of Tokyo IPMU)
• Jan Scholtz (Univ. of Cambridge KICC)
• Ran Wang (Peking Univ. KIAA)
SOC
• Masafusa Onoue (Univ. of Tokyo IPMU, co-chair)
• John Silverman (Univ. of Tokyo IPMU, co-chair)
• Xiaohui Fan (Univ. of Arizona)
• Luis Ho (Peking Univ. KIAA)
• Roberto Maiolino (Univ. of Cambridge KICC)
• Michael Strauss (Princeton)
Address:
Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU),
the University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa City, Chiba 277-8583, Japan
