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Campus MIL, Université de Montréal , Montréal, Québec, Canada
29 June - 3 July 2026
Scientific rationale
Scientific rationale
Held a week before the world-renowned Montreal International Jazz Festival, the conference aims to spotlight the significant progress made in the study of supermassive black holes, addressing open questions and exploring future prospects, particularly in the wake of the latest observations from JWST. Below are the four main themes of the conference.
Main themes
Main themes
Advanced Techniques for Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Properties
Advanced Techniques for Measuring Supermassive Black Hole Properties
Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at the Event Horizon Scale
Observations of Supermassive Black Holes at the Event Horizon Scale
Feeding and Feedback Processes of Supermassive Black Holes
Feeding and Feedback Processes of Supermassive Black Holes
High-Redshift Supermassive Black Hole Formation and Growth
High-Redshift Supermassive Black Hole Formation and Growth
Registration Info
Registration Info
Registration has opened! See the registration page for more information.
Organising Committees
Organising Committees
Scientific Organising Committee (SOC):
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (UdeM)
Martin Bureau (Oxford)
Daryl Haggard (McGill)
Romeel Dave (Edinburgh)
Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere (Northwestern)
Frank Eisenhauer (MPE)
Chiara Mingarelli (Yale)
Sara Issaoun (Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
Roberto Maiolino (Cambridge/Kavli)
Priya Natarajan (Yale)
Local Organising Committee (LOC):
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (UdeM)
Martin Bureau (Oxford)
Daryl Haggard (McGill)
Marine Claude Anne Prunier (UdeM)
Mathieu Marquis (UdeM)
Olivia Pereira (UdeM)
Benjamin Vigneron (UdeM)
Hyunseop Choi (UdeM)
Hengyue Zhang (Oxford)
Anabel Tan (UdeM)
Auriane Thilloy (UdeM)
Hannah Dykaar (McGill)
Sponsors
Sponsors
Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct
The organizers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:
Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organizers without a refund of any charge.
Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to
LOC Chair Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
This code of conduct is based on the CASCA code of conduct, which is originally based on the "London Code of Conduct", as originally designed for the conference "Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology", held in London in July 2015. The London Code of Conduct was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse. To help track people's improvements and best practice, please retain this acknowledgement, and log your re-use or modification of this policy at https://github.com/apontzen/london_cc.
Land Acknowledgement
Land Acknowledgement
L’Université de Montréal reconnaît qu'elle est située en territoire autochtone non cédé par voie de traité, et souhaite saluer ceux et celles qui, depuis des temps immémoriaux, en ont été les gardiens traditionnels. Elle exprime son respect pour la contribution des peuples autochtones à la culture des sociétés ici et partout autour du monde.
The University of Montreal acknowledges that it is located on unceded Indigenous territory and wishes to pay tribute to those who, since time immemorial, have been its traditional guardians. It expresses its respect for the contribution of Indigenous peoples to the culture of societies here and around the world.
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