Fifty Years of Quasars

This lecture series surveys fifty years of quasar research, covering their discovery, evolution, luminosity, emission lines, outflows, jets, and connections to supermassive black holes and galaxies.

Syllabus

Opening Remarks - M. Cohen, G. Djorgovski, T. Soifer.
The Discovery of Quasars - Maarten Schmidt.
The Road to Quasars - Ken Kellermann.
The Quasar Luminosity Function, Then and Now - R. Green.
Quasar Evolution at High Redshifts - D. Schneider.
Quasars and the Origins of the X-Ray Background - G. Hasinger.
Black Hole Demographics in Active and Inactive Galaxies - L. Ho.
The First AGN Results from NuSTAR - F. Harrison.
The Masses of Quasars - B. Peterson.
The First Black Holes - M. Volonteri.
The Monster Roars: Feedback and the Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes - P. Hopkins.
The broad emission lines of quasars - M. Eracleous.
Quasar outflows: historical overview and importance to AGN feedback - N. Arav.
Jet Formation - R. Blandford.
Blazars as Probes of Relativistic Jets - M. Urry.
Obscured Quasars - D. Stern.
Quasars as Probes of the IGM - A. Boksenberg.
Thought experiments on gravitational forces and 3-space curvature - D. Lynden-Bell.
Public Lecture - Black Holes and the Fate of the Universe - G. Hasinger.
Public Lecture: From Mars to the Multiverse - M. Rees.