<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap:break-word; line-break:after-white-space"><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Dear ASA members, </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Please consider joining us at the 8th annual GMT Community Science Meeting. The meeting, "<a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vF_DCxnMRvt1JL5MJu8AIBb?domain=protect-au.mimecast.com" class="">Black Holes at All Scales</a>,” will take place on September 9–11, 2020 at the Hilton Sedona Resort at Bell Rock in Sedona, AZ. </div>
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<div class="">Black holes are among the most extraordinary objects in the Universe. Pivotal new results include the detection of gravitational radiation from merging black holes and the imaging of event horizon scale regions. These discoveries have revolutionized
the field while demonstrating how much remains to be learned about black hole demographics, formation and evolution, and interactions with their environment. This conference will focus on dynamics as a way to probe and learn about black holes across all mass scales,
and topics will include the environment around Sgr A*, black hole mass measurements, demographics, rates for gravitational wave events, accretion disk dynamics around single and binary black holes, and tidal disruption events. Experts across this wide range
of subfields will be brought together to canvass observational and theoretical progress, highlight key unanswered questions, and motivate future directions, particularly in the era of extremely large telescopes.</div>
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<div class="">The meeting will include plenty of time for discussion (both during and after the session) at this beautiful, all-inclusive resort. As usual, there is no registration fee for this conference. Partial travel reimbursement is available for graduate
students and postdocs.<br class="">
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Invited Speakers include:<br class="">
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Katie Auchettl, University of Copenhagen<br class="">
Misty Bentz, Georgia State University<br class="">
Rebecca Bernstein, GMTO<br class="">
Laura Blecha, University of Florida<br class="">
Thomas Callister, Flatiron Institute<br class="">
Maya Fishbach, University of Chicago<br class="">
Suvi Gezari, University of Maryland<br class="">
Jenny Greene, Princeton University<br class="">
Kayhan Gultekin, University of Michigan<br class="">
Myungshin Im, CEOU, Seoul National University<br class="">
Chung-Pei Ma, UC Berkeley<br class="">
Morgan Macleod, Harvard CfA<br class="">
Chiara Mingarelli, Flatiron Institute<br class="">
Smadar Naoz, UCLA<br class="">
Amy Reines, Montana State University<br class="">
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Please see the <a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/vF_DCxnMRvt1JL5MJu8AIBb?domain=protect-au.mimecast.com/" class="">Community Science Meeting website</a> for more information and a link to the registration portal. The registration deadline is August 3, 2020.<br class="">
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We look forward to seeing you there!<br class="">
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Jonelle Walsh & Laura Blecha, on behalf of the Scientific Organizing Committee
<div class="">Rebecca Bernstein (GMTO Chief Scientist) for the GMTO team.</div>
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