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SMBH growth viewed with large field surveys:
special focus on the initial results from Subaru PFS
March 17(Tue)-19(Thu), 2026
ASIAA auditorium, Taipei

Program

Thursday March 19, 2026
PFS early results and outlook (chair: Kohei Ichikawa)
09:30~10:00 [Remote] The Starburst-AGN-PFS connection along the history of the Universe
Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann (UFRGS)
10:00~10:15 [Remote] Shadows and Flares: A Decade-Long Infrared View of Accreting Supermassive Black Holes
Suvendu Rakshit (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational SciencES (ARIES), India)
10:15~10:30 Probing the AGN structure using quasar variability combined with spectroscopic data
Ji-Jia Tang (Ehime University)
10:30~11:00 Coffee Break
10:30~11:00 Poster viewing
11:00~11:30 Quasar Environments at High Redshift: From HSC and PFS to Roman
Masafusa Onoue (Waseda University)
11:30~11:45 Diverse Mpc-scale environments of low-luminosity quasars at z~6
Junya Arita (University of Tokyo)
11:45~12:00 Diverse Origins of Broad Hα Lines in Heavily Obscured AGNs Revealed by Optical Multi-epoch Spectroscopy
Shoichiro Mizukoshi (ASIAA)
12:00~13:30 Lunch
(chair: Ayumi Takahashi)
13:30~13:45 Coronal Emission Lines as Tracers of Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies
Jialai Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)
13:45~14:00 AKARI All-Sky–Selected ULIRGs: ALMA CO(2–1) Insights into Merger-Driven SMBH Growth
Kianhong Lee (Nagoya University)
14:00~14:15 The Morphologies of Dust-Obscured Galaxies (DOGs)
Thomas Bohn (Ehime University)
14:15~14:30 AGN Demographics Across Cosmic Time: Insights from JWST and the Promise of PFS
Helena Treiber (Princeton University)
14:30~15:00 Poster viewing
14:30~15:00 Coffee Break
Theory and high-energy perspectives (chair: Ayumi Takahashi)
15:00~15:30 Origins of supermassive black holes in galactic centers
Ke-Jung (Ken) Chen (ASIAA)
15:30~15:45 Metallicity dependence of line-driven AGN disc winds and implications for black hole growth
Mariko Nomura (Hirosaki University)
15:45~16:00 Nanohertz gravitational waves and SMBH binaries
Kin-Wang Ng (ASIOP/ASIAA)
16:00~16:15 Statistical Properties of high-synchrotron peaked blazars
Yu-Ling Chang (National Taiwan University)
Closing remark (Yoshiki Toba)
Poster viewing & Free discussion
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