BlackHolistic Meeting Finland 2025

10 Jun 2025, 14:00 → 13 Jun 2025, 15:00 Europe/Helsinki

U7 PWC (Aalto University)

Blackholistic venue access directions.pdf

Tuesday 10 June

Welcome: Coffee and introductions

Lightning talks introducing each group

BlackHolistic Lightning Summary Talks.pdf

Wednesday 11 June

The Africa Millimetre Telescope project

1 Status of the AMT Project

Speaker: Marc Klein Wolt (Radboud University, Radboud Radio Lab)

2 AMT performance depending on site and telescope

Speaker: Prof. Michael Backes (University of Namibia)

Backes-AMT Science Performance.pptx

3 Open discussion

Speaker: ALL

10:30 Coffee (provided)

The science of supermassive black holes

4 Long-term radio variability of AGN

Speaker: Sofia Kankkunen (Aalto University Metsähovi Radio Observatory)

Blackholistic_Sofia_Kankkunen.pdf

Blackholistic_Sofia_Kankkunen.pptx

5 Solving the Mystery of High-Energy Neutrinos via Blazar Radio Monitoring

Speaker: Pouya Kouch (University of Turku)

PMK_Blz-v-Neut_BlackHolistic_2025-06-11.pdf

6 Multi-wavelength modelling of 5 low-luminosity AGN

Speaker: Ruby Duncan (University of Amsterdam)

rduncan_blackholistic_pres.pptx

7 ALMA Faraday rotation observations of the radio galaxy 3C120

Speaker: Mikael Turkki (FINCA, University of Turku)

blackholistic25_slides_110625.pdf

8 Kinematically, XRB jets are just as relativistic as those from AGN

Speaker: Clara Lilje (University of Oxford)

Clilje_blackholistic.pptx

9 ALMA2040: Jets and transients in the '40s

Speaker: Karri Koljonen

ALMA2040-Otaniemi.pdf

12:30 Lunch (provided)

Understanding black holes through theory and modeling

10 Describing the ultra-fast very-high-energy gamma-ray flare of IC 310 with relativistic reconnection models

Speaker: Jenni Jormanainen (University of Turku)

Blackholistic2025_jormanainen.pdf

11 Outflows in adaptive-GRMHD: A theoretical view on dynamical structures and plasma mixing

Speaker: Subhrat Praharaj

12 Lighting up a black hole: A Bayesian study of electron miscrophysics with multiwavelength data of M87*

Speaker: RITTICK ROY (UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM)

13 Work in Progress: Multi-messenger physics in GRMHD simulations

Speaker: Marc Klinger-Plaisier (Anton Pannekoek Institute - University of Amsterdam)

KlingerPlaisier_MM_GRMHD.pdf

14 Hydrodynamical simulations of XRB jets and realistic upper limits on the Lorentz factor

Speaker: katie savard

blackholistic_helsinki.pptx

15:00 Coffee (provided)

Parallel session: Management

Parallel session: Speed dating between theory and non-theory people

Thursday 12 June

Instrumentation

15 AMT instrumentation overview

Speaker: Annelies Ampe (Radboud RadioLab)

Ampe_Annelies_AfricaMillimeterTelescope_ERC_BlackHolistik.pdf

Ampe_Annelies_AfricaMillimeterTelescope_ERC_BlackHolistik.pptx

16 AMT front-end

Speaker: Baryshev Andrey

17 Triple-band receiver for Metsähovi Radio Observatory

Speaker: Tuomas Savolainen (Aalto University)

Savolainen.pptx

18 Versatile RFSoC backend for radio astronomy

Speaker: Kaj Wiik (Aalto University, Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland)

Versatile RFSoC backend for radio astronomy.pdf

19 Open discussion

Speaker: ALL

10:30 Coffee (provided)

Science of the Event Horizon Telescope

20 Sgr A* dynamics project (theory & observations)

Speaker: Michael Florian Wondrak

21 Space VLBI

Speaker: Freek Roelofs

22 Resolving Black Holes

Speaker: Bram Van den Berg

23 Black Hole Spin Determination Using Lensed Images of Hot Spots

Speaker: Joost de Kleuver

24 Foundation models for Black Holes

Speaker: Renze Oosterhuis

12:30 Excursion to Metsähovi Radio Observatory with food & sauna

Friday 13 June

Closed session: Management

25 Dynamic modelling presentation and discussion

Speaker: Freek Roelofs

10:30 Coffee (provided)

The science of stellar mass black holes

26 Swift J1727: a(nother) new black hole with large scale relativistic jets

Speaker: Andrew Hughes (University of Oxford)

27 The fundamental plane of black hole activity from MeerKAT

Speaker: Justine Crook-Mansour

28 Multiwavelength signatures of the microblazar MAXI J1836-194’s outburst from radiative GRMHD simulations

Speaker: Leon David Sosapanta Salas (University of Amsterdam)

29 Extreme relativistic jets from a neutron star

Speaker: Fraser Cowie (University of Oxford)

Cir X-1 Blackholistic Helsinki.pdf

30 X-ray views of accretion discs and winds during phases of jet formation

Speaker: Zuobin Zhang

12:30 Lunch (provided)

Discussion and wrap up of the meeting