Name: BlackHolistic Meeting Finland 2025
Start: 2025-06-10T14:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-06-13T15:00:00+03:00
Location: Aalto University

BlackHolistic Meeting Finland 2025

from Tuesday, 10 June 2025 (14:00) to Friday, 13 June 2025 (15:00)

Monday, 9 June 2025
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

15:00 Welcome: Coffee and introductions
Coffee and introductions
15:00 - 17:00
Room: U7 PWC

17:00 Lightning talks introducing each group

17:00 - 18:00
Room: U7 PWC
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
09:00 The Africa Millimetre Telescope project
09:00 - 10:30
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

09:20 Status of the AMT Project - Marc Klein Wolt (Radboud University, Radboud Radio Lab)

09:50 AMT performance depending on site and telescope - Michael Backes (University of Namibia)

10:10 Open discussion - ALL
10:30 Coffee (provided)
Coffee (provided)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: U7 PWC
11:00 The science of supermassive black holes
11:00 - 12:30
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

11:00 Long-term radio variability of AGN - Sofia Kankkunen (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory)

11:15 Solving the Mystery of High-Energy Neutrinos via Blazar Radio Monitoring - Pouya Kouch (University of Turku)

11:30 Multi-wavelength modelling of 5 low-luminosity AGN - Ruby Duncan (University of Amsterdam)

11:45 ALMA Faraday rotation observations of the radio galaxy 3C120 - Mikael Turkki (FINCA, University of Turku)

12:00 Kinematically, XRB jets are just as relativistic as those from AGN - Clara Lilje (University of Oxford)

12:15 ALMA2040: Jets and transients in the '40s - Karri Koljonen
12:30 Lunch (provided)
Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 Understanding black holes through theory and modeling
13:30 - 15:00
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

13:30 Describing the ultra-fast very-high-energy gamma-ray flare of IC 310 with relativistic reconnection models - Jenni Jormanainen (University of Turku)

13:48 Outflows in adaptive-GRMHD: A theoretical view on dynamical structures and plasma mixing - Subhrat Praharaj (University of Amsterdam)

14:06 Lighting up a black hole: A Bayesian study of electron miscrophysics with multiwavelength data of M87* - RITTICK ROY (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

14:24 Work in Progress: Multi-messenger physics in GRMHD simulations - Marc Klinger-Plaisier (Anton Pannekoek Institute - University of Amsterdam)

14:42 Hydrodynamical simulations of XRB jets and realistic upper limits on the Lorentz factor - katie savard
15:00 Coffee (provided)
Coffee (provided)
15:00 - 15:30
Room: U7 PWC

15:30 Parallel session: Management
Management
15:30 - 18:00
Room: R037/2103

Parallel session: Speed dating between theory and non-theory people
Speed dating between theory and non-theory people
15:30 - 18:00
Room: U7 PWC
Thursday, 12 June 2025
09:00 Instrumentation
09:00 - 10:30
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

09:00 AMT instrumentation overview - Annelies Ampe (Radboud RadioLab)

09:20 AMT front-end - Baryshev Andrey

09:40 Triple-band receiver for Metsähovi Radio Observatory - Tuomas Savolainen (Aalto University)

10:00 Versatile RFSoC backend for radio astronomy - Kaj Wiik (Aalto University, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland)

10:20 Open discussion - ALL
10:30 Coffee (provided)
Coffee (provided)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: U7 PWC
11:00 Science of the Event Horizon Telescope
11:00 - 12:30
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

11:00 Sgr A* dynamics project (theory & observations) - Michael Florian Wondrak

11:18 Space VLBI - Freek Roelofs

11:36 Resolving Black Holes - Bram Van den Berg

11:54 Black Hole Spin Determination Using Lensed Images of Hot Spots - Joost de Kleuver

12:12 Foundation models for Black Holes - renze oosterhuis (Radboud University Nijmegen)
12:30 Excursion to Metsähovi Radio Observatory with food & sauna
Excursion to Metsähovi Radio Observatory with food & sauna
12:30 - 20:00
Friday, 13 June 2025

09:00 Closed session: Management

09:00 - 10:00
Room: R037/2103
10:00 Dynamic modelling presentation and discussion - Freek Roelofs
Dynamic modelling presentation and discussion
- Freek Roelofs
10:00 - 10:30
Room: U7 PWC
10:30 Coffee (provided)
Coffee (provided)
10:30 - 11:00
Room: U7 PWC
11:00 The science of stellar mass black holes
11:00 - 12:30
Room: U7 PWC
Contributions

11:00 Swift J1727: a(nother) new black hole with large scale relativistic jets - Andrew Hughes (University of Oxford)

11:18 The fundamental plane of black hole activity from MeerKAT - Justine Crook-Mansour

11:36 Multiwavelength signatures of the microblazar MAXI J1836-194’s outburst from radiative GRMHD simulations - Leon David Sosapanta Salas (University of Amsterdam)

11:54 Extreme relativistic jets from a neutron star - Fraser Cowie (University of Oxford)

12:12 X-ray views of accretion discs and winds during phases of jet formation - Zuobin Zhang
12:30 Lunch (provided)
Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 13:30

13:30 Discussion and wrap up of the meeting

13:30 - 15:00
Room: U7 PWC

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