Final version (updated on June 18, 2024)
Time is in the Japanese Standard Time (JST; UTC+9)
Slides of oral and poster presentations, already provided by presenters, are linked to their titles. We are collecting all presentation slides and posters and will release them at the end of July. The conference recordings will be currently planned to be released on Friday, July 19.
June 24 (Day 1)
Morning
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00-09:10 | Conference Scope / LOC annoucement | SOC / LOC | |
| Black Hole Explorer Mission and Science Drivers (Part 1), Chair: Mareki Honma | |||
| 09:10-09:25 | *BHEX Mission Overview | Michael Johnson (CfA) | |
| 09:25-09:40 | *Photon Ring Detection and Shape Measurements | Alex Lupsasca (Vanderbilt) | |
| 09:40-09:55 | The Black Hole Explorer: Using the Photon Ring to Visualize Spacetime around the Black Hole | Peter Galison (Harvard U.) | |
| 09:55-10:15 | Poster Flash Talks | Poster Presenters (see below) | |
| 10:15-10:40 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:40-10:55 | *The Japanese Vision for the Black Hole Explorer Mission | Kazunori Akiyama (MIT Haystack) | |
| 10:55-11:05 | *Horizon Scale Science with Black Hole Explorer I | Tomohisa Kawashima (U. Tokyo) | |
| 11:05-11:15 | *Horizon Scale Science with Black Hole Explorer II | Yuh Tsunetoe (Harvard U.) | |
| 11:15-11:35 | *BHEX Studies of Active Galactic Nuclei | Shoko Koyama (Niigata U.) Yoshiaki Hagiwara (Toyo U.) | |
| 11:35-11:50 | AGN Science with the VSOP, VSOP-2, and BHEX | Hiroshi Nagai (NAOJ) | |
| 11:50-12:00 | Group Photo Day 1 | LOC | |
Afternoon
| 13:00-14:30 | Tours of the Advanced Technology Center and the 4D2U theater | LOC | |
| Black Hole Explorer Instrument Overview, Chair: Sara Issaoun | |||
| 14:30-14:45 | *BHEX Instrument Design | Dan Marrone (U. Arizona) | |
| 14:45-15:00 | *BHEX Instrument Systems Engineering | Janice Houston (CfA) | |
| 15:00-15:15 | *BHEX Technology Study | Eliad Peretz (NASA) | |
| 15:15-15:30 | *Receiver System for Black Hole Explorer | Edward Tong (CfA) | |
| 15:30-15:45 | *Current status of SIS mixer technology at NAOJ | Yoshinori Uzawa (NAOJ) | |
| 15:45-16:00 | *Cryocooling the BHEX Instrument | Hannah Rana (CfA) | |
| 16:00-16:15 | *ISAS’s Space Cryogenics Mission with Mechanical Coolers | Noriko Yamasaki (ISAS/JAXA) | |
| 16:15-16:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:45-17:00 | *BHEX Antenna and Optics | Tirupati Kumara (NRAO) | |
| 17:00-17:15 | *BHEX Backend | Ranjani Srinivasan (CfA) | |
| 17:15-17:30 | *High data rate Laser Communications for the Black Hole Explorer Mission | Don Boroson on behalf of Jade Wang (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) | |
| 17:30-18:00 | Discussion: Pathway of BHEX in Japan | SOC | |
| 19:00 | Banquet (location Kisoji, Mitaka) | ||
June 25 (Day 2)
Morning
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | ||
| 09:00-09:10 | Welcome to Day 2 / LOC Annoucement | SOC/LOC | |
| Black Hole Explorer Mission and Science Drivers (Part 2), Chair: Daniel P. Marrone | |||
| 09:10-09:25 | BHEX and the Future of Space VLBI in Blazar Research | Jose L. Gómez (IAA/CSIC) | |
| 09:25-09:40 | Black Hole Jet Launching With BHEX | Andrew Chael (Princeton U.) | |
| 09:40-09:55 | Testing Theories of Gravity via Black Hole Shadows in Space VLBI | Yosuke Mizuno (TDLI) | |
| 09:55-10:10 | Fundamental Physics with the BHEX and Supermassive Black Holes (Remote) | Marshall Eubanks (Space Initiatives Inc.) | |
| 10:10-10:25 | Classical Physical Counterpart of the Hawking’s Quantum Radiation Emitted from Black Hole Horizon | Hiromi Saida (Daido U.) | |
| 10:25-10:50 | Coffee Break | ||
| 10:50-11:20 | *Science with a Potential Single Dish Mode | Aya Higuchi (Tokyo Denki U.) Hidetoshi Sano (Gifu U.) | |
| 11:20-11:35 | Science with the n=1 Photon Ring: Fast Feature Extraction and Analysis (Remote) | Joseph Farah (UCSB/LCO) | |
| 11:35-11:50 | Plasma Inference and Polarimetry with the Black Hole Explorer | Daniel Palumbo (CfA) | |
| 11:50-12:05 | Toward Maximising the BHEX Science Return via Mission Simulations | Leonid Gurvits (JIVE) | |
| 12:05-12:15 | Group Photo Day 2 | ||
Afternoon
| Science Operations and Ground Support for the Black Hole Explorer, Chair: Janice Houston | |||
| 13:30-13:45 | *BHEX Science Operations | Sara Issaoun (CfA) | |
| 13:45-14:00 | *Development of the New VLBI System in the Nobeyama 45-m Telescope (Remote) | Hiroshi Imai (Kagoshima U.) | |
| 14:00-14:15 | *VERA and EAVN as a Ground Array for BHEX (Remote) | Kazuhiro Hada (Nagoya City U.) | |
| 14:15-14:30 | *The Next-generation Event Horizon Telescope | Dominic Pesce (CfA) | |
| 14:30-14:45 | The Greenland Telescope as an Important VLBI Station for BHEX | Nimesh Patel (CfA) | |
| 14:45-15:00 | *NICT Activities and Future Research Plan for Space Optical Communications Technology | Dimitar Kolev (NICT) | |
| 15:00-15:15 | A 660 GHz VLBI Experiment | Ming-Tang Chen (ASIAA) | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Discussion: Maximizing Science Goals with Optimizing Operations | SOC | |
| 15:45-16:00 | Concluding Remarks | SOC / LOC | |