Program and participants

1. History of Black Holes

• Stellar mass: Virginia Trimble (Irvine)

• Supermassive: "On the History and Philosophy of the Black Hole Information Paradox" Sebastian De Haro (Amsterdam)

2. Present Theory and Observations of Black Holes

• LIGO: Daniel Holz (Chicago)

3. Black Holes and Quantum Theory

• The case for information loss: Bob Wald (Chicago)

• The case against information loss: Aron Wall (IAS, Princeton)

4. Implication of black holes for fundamental physics

• Ted Jacobson (Maryland)

• Steve Carlip (UC Davis)

5. Philosophical aspects of black holes

• Chris Wüthrich (Geneva)

• Nick Huggett (University of Illinois)

6. Analog experiments

• Jeff Steinhauer (Technion)

• Hydrodynamic simulations of rotating black holes: Silke Weinfurtner (Nottingham)