Oral presentations consist of invited talks only.  Contributed presentations can be accepted as posters.

All the talks are now online!

Click on the links next to the titles or go to this page for all the available formats.

The talks (slides  + audio only) are also available on the Caltech YouTube channel in its own playlist.

Monday, September 9:

8:00 - 8:45    Registration and refreshments

8:45 - 9:00    Opening remarks [the organizers] (webcast [flash])

9:00 - 9:30    M. Schmidt: "The Discovery of Quasars" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

9:30 - 10:00  K. Kellerman: "The road to Quasars" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

10:00 - 10:30    Coffee and Posters

10:30 - 11:00    R. Green: "The Quasar Luminosity Function, Then and Now" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

11:00 - 11:30    D. Schneider: "Quasar Evolution at High Redshifts" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

11:30 - 12:00    G. Hasinger: "Quasars and the Origins of the X-Ray Background” (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

12:00 - 13:30    Catered lunch

13:30 - 14:00   L. Ho: "Black Hole Demographics in Active and Inactive Galaxies" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

14:00 - 14:30   F. Harrison: "The First AGN Results from NuSTAR"  (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

14:30 - 15:00   J. Kollmeier: "Estimating Black Hole Masses and Eddington Ratios Across Cosmic Time" (slides [pdf])

15:00 - 15:30    Coffee and Posters

15:30 - 16:00    B. Peterson: "The Masses of Quasars" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

16:00 - 16:30    M. Volonteri: "The First Black Holes" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

16:30 - 17:00    P. Hopkins: "The Monster Roars: Feedback and the Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

17:00    Adjourn

Tuesday, September 10:

8:00 - 9:00    Registration and refreshments

9:00 - 9:30      M. Eracleous: "The broad emission lines of quasars: tools for probing the outer accretion disk and for finding binary supermassive black holes" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

9:30 - 10:00    N. Arav: "Quasar outflows: historical overview and importance to AGN feedback" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

10:00 - 10:30    Coffee and Posters

10:30 - 11:00    R. Blandford: "Jet Formation" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

11:00 - 11:30    M. Urry: "Blazars as Probes of Relativistic Jets" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

11:30 - 12:00    D. Stern: "Obscured Quasars" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

12:00 - 13:30    Catered lunch

13:30 - 14:00    A. Boksenberg: "Quasars as Probes of the IGM" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

14:00 - 14:30    D. Lynden-Bell: "Thought experiments on gravitational forces and 3-space curvature" (webcast [flash], slides [pdf])

14:30 - 15:00    Coffee and Posters

15:00 - 16:00    M. Rees, public lecture: “From Mars to the Multiverse” (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

16:00 - 17:00    G. Hasinger, public lecture: "Black Holes and the Fate of the Universe" (webcast [flash] - slides [pdf])

17:00  End of the Symposium

17:45 - 20:30    Conference dinner, at the Caltech Athenaeum (cocktails 17.45 - 18.30, dinner 18.30 - 20.30)