Dear Colleagues,

 
We are excited to announce the special session SS18 

Shining Light on Quiescent Black Holes with Tidal Disruption Events 

at the upcoming EAS 2021 virtual meeting on 28 June - 2 July 2021 

(https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2021/index.jsp).
 
The aim of the session is to bring together researchers working on tidal 

disruption events (TDEs), galactic nuclei, and supermassive black hole 

formation and evolution. TDEs are one of many interconnected astrophysical 

phenomena happening in galactic nuclei, but possess unique abilities to 

shed light on the elusive populations of supermassive black holes in 

quiescent galaxies, and therefore to address important questions on the 

cosmological origin and growth of these black holes.
 
The programme features exceptional invited speakers 

(see https://eas.unige.ch/EAS2021/session.jsp?id=SS18), 

with slots available for contributed talks: we are indeed looking 

forward to hearing the exciting new results of your research!
 
Please, visit the abstract portal: 

https://kuonicongress.eventsair.com/eas-2021/abstractsubmission
keeping in mind that the submission deadline is quite soon: March 2nd 2021. 
 
We hope to see many of you online at our session, either in the audience or as speakers.

>PS Our apologies if you receive this email more than once.

Invited speakers

- Tiara Hung (UCSC, USA): Overview of TDE Observations

- Jane Dai (HKU, Hong Kong): Theoretical Review of TDEs

- Fabio Antonini (Cardiff, UK): Quiescent Galactic Nuclei

- Andrea Merloni (MPE, Germany): AGN variability and eROSITA

- Priya Natarajan (Yale, USA): SMBH Seeds and their Growth

- Jenny Greene (Princeton, USA): IMBH and SMBH Demographics

SOC members:

- Nicholas C. Stone (chair, Hebrew, Israel)

- Elena Maria Rossi (co-chair, Leiden, Netherlands)

- Peter Jonker (co-chair, SRON/Radboud, Netherlands) 

- Iair Arcavi (Tel Aviv, Israel)

- Elena Gallo (UM, USA) 

- Erin Kara (MIT, USA)

- Zoltan Haiman (Columbia, USA) 

- Kimitake Hayasaki (CBNU, Korea)

- Marta Volonteri (IAP, France)