Black holes are among the most exotic objects that can be imagined to live in the Universe and an ideal laboratory for testing fundamental physics. The school consists of series of lectures on specific topics given by experts in the field. It is mainly intended for undergraduate and graduate students working on high energy astrophysics.

Lecturers:

Javier Garcia-Martinez (Caltech)

X-ray Reflection Spectroscopy

Lijun Gou (National Astronomical Observatories/CAS)

Measuring the Mass and the Spin of Black Holes

Pablo Laguna (Georgia Tech)

Introduction to General Relativity

Thomas Maccarone (Texas Tech University)

Black Hole Binaries

Yongquan Xue (University of Science and Technology of China)

Active Galactic Nuclei

Deirdre Shoemaker (Georgia Tech)

Gravitational Waves

Organizers:

Cosimo Bambi (Fudan, Shanghai), Chair

Masoumeh Ghasemi-Nodehi (Fudan, Shanghai)

Jing Lu (Fudan, Shanghai), Secretary

Yueying Ni (Fudan, Shanghai)

Menglei Zhou (Fudan, Shanghai)

Program

January 9 (Monday)

08:30-08:45 Registration 

08:45-09:00 Opening Remarks

09:00-10:00 Pablo Laguna (Lecture 1)

10:00-11:00 Thomas Maccarone (Lecture 1)

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Pablo Laguna (Lecture 2)

14:00-15:00 Yongquan Xue (Lecture 1)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Thomas Maccarone (Lecture 2)

16:30-17:30 Yongquan Xue (Lecture 2)

January 10 (Tuesday)

09:00-10:00 Pablo Laguna (Lecture 3)

10:00-11:00 Thomas Maccarone (Lecture 3)

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Pablo Laguna (Lecture 4)

14:00-15:00 Thomas Maccarone (Lecture 4)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Yongquan Xue (Lecture 3)

16:30-17:30 Discussion

January 11 (Wednesday)

09:00-10:00 Pablo Laguna (Lecture 5)

10:00-11:00 Deirdre Shoemaker (Lecture 1)

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Yongquan Xue (Lecture 4)

14:00-15:00 Javier Garcia (Lecture 1)

15:00- Free time

January 12 (Thursday)

09:00-10:00 Javier Garcia (Lecture 2)

10:00-11:00 Lijun Gou (Lecture 1)

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Lijun Gou (Lecture 2)

14:00-15:00 Deirdre Shoemaker (Lecture 2)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-16:30 Deirdre Shoemaker (Lecture 3)

16:30-17:30 Discussion

January 13 (Friday)

09:00-10:00 Lijun Gou (Lecture 3)

10:00-11:00 Javier Garcia (Lecture 3)

11:00-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 Javier Garcia (Lecture 4)

14:00-15:00 Deirdre Shoemaker (Lecture 4)

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Discussion

January 14 (Saturday)

09:00-10:00 Lijun Gou (Lecture 4)

10:00-11:00 Thomas Maccarone (Lecture 5)

11:00-11:15 Concluding Remarks

11:15-13:00 Lunch

Participant List

Muhammad Shahzad Anjum (SHAO/CAS, China)

Cosimo Bambi (Fudan University, China)

Yiwei Bao (Nanjing University, China)

Wenhe Cai (USTC, China)

Zhi Chang (IHEP/CAS, China)

Sihan Chen (HUST, China)

Ziyu Ding (Fudan University, China)

Yanting Dong (NAOC/CAS, China)

Xiaodong Duan (SHAO/CAS, China)

Camille Faustino Embalzado (Rizal Technological University, Philippines)

Torben Frost (Fudan University, China)

Javier Garcia-Martinez (Caltech, USA)

Masoumeh Ghasemi-Nodehi (Fudan University, China)

Lijun Gou (NAOC/CAS, China)

Xinbo He (Sun Yat-Sen University, China)

Pablo Laguna (Georgia Tech, USA)

Dehao Li (Fudan University, China)

Dongyue Li (NAOC/CAS, China)

Mai Liao (SHAO/CAS, China)

Wenbo Liu (Fudan University, China)

Xi-Rong Liu (Fudan University, China)

Zheng Luo (Fudan University, China)

Thomas Maccarone (Texas Tech University, USA)

Timur Mufakharov (SHAO/CAS, China)

Sourabh Nampalliwar (Fudan University, China)

Yueying Ni (Fudan University, China)

Zhi-Yuan Pei (Guangzhou University, China)

Sijia Peng (Nanjing University, China)

Tianling Shen (Fudan University, China) 

Fangzheng Shi (Fudan University, China)

Deirdre Shoemaker (Georgia Tech, USA)

Cui-Ying Song (Xiamen University, China)

Shangyu Sun (Fudan University, China)

Xiaochen Sun (Fudan University, China)

Zhong-Yu Sun (Fudan University, China)

Ashutosh Tripathi (Fudan University, China)

Chen Wang (Xiamen University, China)

Jiajun Wang (Fudan University, China)

Jingyi Wang (Fudan University, China)

Yu Wang (Fudan University, China)

Fanqing Xu (Fudan University, China)

Yongquan Xue (USTC, China)

Hao Yang (Fudan University, China)

Jinye Yang (Fudan University, China)

Wenshu Yang (Fudan University, China)

Yuchan Yang (Fudan University, China)

Huili Yi (Xiamen University, China)

Xiaodi Yu (Xiamen University, China)

Guoqiang Zhang (Nanjing University, China)

Hao Zhang (Fudan University, China)

Jianfu Zhang (Xiangtan University, China)

Yuexin Zhang (Fudan University, China)

Shan-Shan Zhao (Nanjing University, China)

Faxiang Zheng (Nanjing University, China)

Menglei Zhou (Fudan University, China)

Minhua Zhou (SHAO/CAS, China)

Changlin Zou (IHEP/CAS, China)

Group Photo