4–8 Aug 2025
The University of Hong Kong
Asia/Hong_Kong timezone

Overview

Recent discoveries have revealed supermassive black holes behaving in extraordinary ways - and these emerging fields are now among the hottest topics in astrophysics.

This invitation-only workshop focuses on the most dynamic and enigmatic supermassive black hole phenomena—violent TDEs, rapidly transitioning CL-AGNs, and the mysterious LRDs—where extreme physics challenges our fundamental understanding. Fueled by revolutionary data from Einstein Probe, GRAVITY+, and JWST, these emerging fields are reshaping black hole science and galaxy evolution.

Join leading theorists and observers to explore the latest developments, open questions, and future directions in these rapidly evolving frontiers.

Themes

1. Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) 
2. Changing-Look Active Galactic Nuclei (CL-AGNs)
3. Little Red Dots (LRDs)
4. Advanced telescopes: Einstein Probe, GRAVITY+, JWST, etc 

Senior Participants

Lixin Dai (HKU), Luis Ho (KIAA), Chichuan Jin (NAOC),  Claudio Ricci (Geneva), Jinyi Shangguan (KIAA), Benny Trakhtenbrot (Tel Aviv), Qingwen Wu (HUST)

Important Dates

Event Date
Abstract Submission Opens 8 July, 2025
Abstract/Registration Deadline 18 July, 2025
Registration Fee Deadline 25 July, 2025 
Conference Dates 4 - 8 August, 2025

 

Registration Fee

Professor: HKD 1,600

Student, Post-doc: HKD 800

 

Scientific Organization Committee (SOC)

Jane Dai (HKU) & Luis Ho (KIAA)

Local Organization Committee (LOC)

Jane Dai (HKU), Rudrani Kar Chowdhury (HKU), Zoe Kan (HKU), Muses Wong (HKU)

Acknowledgement

We acknowledge the kind support from the Physics Department of the University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Institute of Quantum Science & Technology.

 

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