Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Monday, 07. September 2026
10:00-12:00 AG board meeting (closed session) (MPA E.0.11)
13:00-17:00 RDS board meeting (closed session) (MPA E.0.11)
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception (ESO Supernova)
Tuesday, 08. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Opening |
| 09:15 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Marta Volonteri: |
| Massive black holes: their origins and evolution |
| 10:00 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Caroline Gieser: |
| Following the flow: From molecular clouds to protostars |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Astrophysical Software Award Talk - Cornelis P. Dullemond: |
| RADMC-3D: Connecting models to observations |
| 11:30 | Maximilian Häberle: |
| oMEGACat and the intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri |
| 12:00 | Awards: |
| Bruno H. Bürgel Prize: Florian Freistetter Hans-Ludwig-Neumann Prize: Klaus Hünig Jugend-forscht Award: Alexander Leukert and Leon Heinisch |
12:15-12:30 Conference Photo
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
| 14:06 | Harim Jin: |
| Chemical fingerprints of binary interaction in massive stars |
| 14:18 | Christoph Schürmann: |
| Populations of evolved massive binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 14:30 | Daniel Pauli: |
| The role of massive star eruptions on stellar and binary evolution |
| 14:42 | Cormac Larkin: |
| Circumstellar environments of recent mass transfer binaries in Westerlund 1 |
| 14:54 | Chinmaya Nagar: |
| A Close Look at the Multiplicity of Young Massive Stars in Galactic Embedded Clusters |
| 15:06 | Mike Lau: |
| Unveiling luminous red novae from 3D radiation-hydrodynamic simulations of common-envelope evolution |
| 15:18 | Damien Gagnier: |
| Dynamical friction in stratified stellar envelopes |
StarClusters - Star Clusters as multi-messenger Candles in the universe (MW-2050)
| 14:00 | Sambaran Banerjee: |
| Stellar-mass black holes in young massive and open stellar clusters: comparisons with the latest gravitational-wave event population and Gaia compact binaries |
| 14:15 | Paulo Solar: |
| Quantifying collision-driven mass loss in supermassive star formation |
| 14:30 | Kai Wu: |
| From Million-Body Star Clusters over Cosmic Time to Black Hole Growth in Primordial Systems |
| 14:45 | Yi Tan: |
| Runaway Growth and Relativistic Mergers in Black-Hole Clusters |
| 15:00 | Navonil Saha: |
| The effect of triaxial stellar environments on the dynamics of triple supermassive black holes in a cosmological context |
| 15:15 | Jorge Saavedra-Bastidas: |
| Learning the Evolution of Massive Objects in Star Clusters |
SKA - Science with the Square Kilometre Array (MW-1050)
| 14:00 | Conveners of the Session: |
| Welcome and purpose of this session |
| 14:05 | Christina Smith: |
| The SKA Observatory: Current Status, Early Use, and User Engagement |
| 14:30 | Aritra Basu: |
| The MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey: unprecedented insight into the ISM |
| 14:42 | Anne-Kathrin Baczko: |
| AGN jets in the era of SKA |
| 14:54 | Keito Watanabe: |
| Probing the High-Energy Universe with Cosmic Rays through SKA-Low |
| 15:06 | Dr. Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan: |
| Binary pulsar science in the SKA Era |
| 15:18 | Kathrin Grunthal: |
| The science potential of the SKAO PTA for the detection of nHz GWs |
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
| 14:05 | Artem Bohdan: |
| The Kinetic Heart of Cosmic Accelerators |
| 14:35 | G. Mattia: |
| Resistive MHD Modelling of Astrophysical Jets |
| 15:05 | Gabriel Torralba Paz: |
| Ion and electron acceleration in strongly magnetized mildly relativistic shocks |
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (MW-2235)
| 14:00 | Thomas Schörner: |
| The PUNCH4NFDI Consortium now and then: FAIR science for astronomy (and beyond) |
| 14:20 | Arman Khalatyan: |
| AI Agents for Reproducible Astronomy: DRP-Hub as a Science Accelerator |
| 14:40 | Enrico Tom Leonhard Strauß: |
| S3-Enabled Reproducible Workflows: Bridging REANA, DRP-Hub, and AI-Driven Data Analysis |
| 15:00 | Prateek Gupta: |
| PUNCH4NFDI Infrastructure: The Platform for the analysis of Astrophysical Data |
| 15:20 | Iliana Cortés: |
| Modelling AGN Optical Lightcurves via Inference of AD-BLR delay (MAGNOLIA) |
jungeAG - Junge AG / Young AG (MW-0337)
| 14:00 | Malte Przybyl: |
| The "Environmental Impact" on the Star Formation History of Dwarf Galaxies |
| 14:20 | Philipp Salewsky: |
| Comparing thermal and non-thermal emission of galactic outflows |
| 14:40 | S. Hämmerich: |
| eROSITA - keeping up with the blazars |
| 15:00 | Leon Heinisch, Alexander Leukert: |
| Dynamics and stability of time-varying equilibria in a modified five-body problem |
| 15:20 | Sabina Bahic: |
| jAG/AG/RDS Introduction + Discussion |
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
GalaxyClusters - From protoclusters to galaxy clusters: probing structure formation and cosmology with current and next-generation surveys (MW-1050)
| 16:05 | Dominika Wylezalek: |
| A dense cosmic knot around an extremely red quasar at z ~3 discovered with the JWST |
| 16:20 | Eelco van Kampen: |
| Surveying large samples of distant galaxy clusters with the Atacama Large Area Sub-mm Telescope (AtLAST) |
| 16:35 | Eileen Herwig: |
| Testing observational protocluster searches with MillenniumTNG |
| 16:50 | Mihir Kulkarni: |
| Can Post-Inflationary Warm Wave Dark Matter Explain the eBOSS Lyman-alpha Power Spectrum Tension? |
| 17:05 | Kazuyuki Ogura: |
| Emission line galaxy model with a semi-analytic galaxy formation model, New Numerical Galaxy Catalog (ν2GC) |
| 17:20 | Yinghua Huang: |
| Exploring the Temperature Dependence of Intrinsic Scatter in the Galaxy Cluster X-ray Luminosity–Temperature Relation |
MeVSky - Reopening the MeV Sky with COSI and Beyond (MW-0337)
| 16:00 | Thomas Siegert: |
| Nuclear Astrophysics with the Compton Spectrometer and Imager |
| 16:25 | Chris Karwin: |
| From Data Challenges to COSI Science |
| 16:45 | Pascal Janowski: |
| Overcoming the limitations of binned response matrices for Compton telescopes |
| 17:00 | Tristan Bouchet: |
| Probing acceleration mechanisms with high-energy spectro-polarimetry |
| 17:15 | David Berge: |
| The future of MeV gamma-ray satellite missions beyond COSI |
StarClusters - Star Clusters as multi-messenger Candles in the universe (MW-2050)
| 16:00 | Gerhard Hensler: |
| Extragalactic star clusters – their formation, stellar mass function, and evolution |
| 16:15 | Iker Millan Irigoyen : |
| Near Infrared Wolf–Rayet Features as Tracers of Embedded Young Stellar Clusters |
| 16:30 | Cormac Larkin: |
| Feedback in stellar clusters: Connecting individual winds with collective effects |
| 16:45 | Rainer Spurzem: |
| Dense star clusters, massive Black holes, gravitational waves |
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
| 16:00 | Xavier Rodrigues: |
| Constraining acceleration and diffusion in blazar jets with multi-messenger data |
| 16:20 | Patrick Günther: |
| Constraining Acceleration Mechanisms in Blazar Jets Through Sub-grid Modeling in MHD Simulations |
| 16:40 | Felix Glaser: |
| Probing anisotropic particle acceleration and limb brightening in Centaurus A's jet |
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
| 16:00 | Thomas Kupfer: |
| Observing the most compact binaries with the Time Domain Telescope |
| 16:12 | L. Kufleitner: |
| Hot subdwarf stars from the Hamburg Quasar Survey: Evidence for the merger origin of helium-rich subdwarfs |
| 16:24 | Anna Gebhardt: |
| Probing common-envelope evolution with hot subluminous stars in the PLATO era |
| 16:36 | Harry Dawson: |
| Short-period binary hot subdwarfs: a complete census within 500pc |
| 16:48 | Stephania Hernandez: |
| Building Double-Detonation Supernovae: The Evolutionary Pathway of sdB+WD Binaries |
| 17:00 | Felix Arnon Teutloff: |
| dentifying double-detonation Supernova Ia progenitor systems in the galactic disk |
| 17:12 | Eric Stringer: |
| The population of compact sdB-WD binaries and their role as double detonation progenitors |
| 17:24 | Fabian Mattig: |
| New Hot Subdwarf Binaries from a SOAR Spectroscopic Survey |
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (MW-2235)
| 16:00 | Sebastian Trujillo Gomez: |
| he challenges and rewards of developing useful discovery tools for modern astrophysics |
| 16:20 | Günther Heemann: |
| Compact Convolutional Neural Networks for Object Detection |
| 16:35 | Toka Alokda: |
| Segmenting proto-halos with vision transformers |
| 16:50 | Bernhard Schulz: |
| Progress at the SOFIA Data Center (SDC): Infrastructure, Data Pipelines, and Archiving |
| 17:10 | Demleitner, M.: |
| A New Version Of VODataService: Blind Discovery and Theory Data |
17:45-19:15 AG Mitgliederversammlung (MPA E.0.11 / virtual MGV)
Wednesday, 09. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Esra Bulbul: |
| Cosmology and Baryons Across Scales: Probing Halo Mass Function to Cosmic Filaments with eROSITA |
| 09:30 | Andreas Sander: |
| A changing perspective on massive stars: Insights from detailed atmosphere modelling |
| 10:00 | Amelie Saintonge: |
| The mass-dependent baryon cycle |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Reinhard Genzel: |
| Massive Black Holes: Experimental Evidence & Cosmic Evolution |
| 11:45 | Sebastian Wolf: |
| The hot exozodi phenomenon |
12:15-14:00 Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 AstroFrauenNetzwerk Lunch
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
CompQuantum - Advances in Computational Astrophysics with a Quantum Computing Perspective (MW-2050)
| 14:00 | Stephan Rosswog: |
| Simulating Neutron Star Mergers with Lagrangian Numerical Relativity code SPHINCS_BSSN |
| 14:21 | Christoph Pfrommer: |
| Bridging microscopic and macroscopic cosmic ray transport in galaxies |
| 14:42 | Alankar Dutta: |
| A turbulent story of cooling and mixing in the circumgalactic medium |
| 15:03 | Alexandros Ziampras: |
| Accretion outbursts and substructure at the dead zone inner edge |
| 15:24 | Volker Springel: |
| Discussion on artificial intelligence-informed coding |
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
| 14:30 | Axel Arbet-Engels: |
| Exploring the Non-thermal Universe with LST and MAGIC |
| 15:00 | Daniele Villa: |
| The dynamics of energetic particles in black hole accretion disks |
| 15:20 | Jorge Cuadra: |
| Reproducing the Multiwavelength Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Emission with a Composite PeVatron and Realistic Cosmic-Ray Dynamics |
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
| 14:00 | Robin Trigg: |
| Unveiling the mysteries of WR stars at Low Metallicity: Insights from new spectroscopy from NGC 6822 |
| 14:12 | Zoë Kaffarnik: |
| Quantitative spectroscopic analysis of He-sdO stars |
| 14:24 | Max Pritzkuleit: |
| Not all that glitters is massive: Impostors in the search for massive hot subdwarfs |
| 14:36 | Veronika Schaffenroth: |
| Period variations of post-common envelope binaries |
| 14:48 | Nicole Reindl: |
| The first detached, double eclipsing, double lined, and double degenerate system inside a planetary nebula |
| 15:00 | Semih Filiz: |
| A treasury of hot white dwarfs |
| 15:12 | Giovanni Stimamiglio: |
| 3D MHD Simulations of Double ONe White Dwarf Mergers |
| 15:24 | Sara Saeedi: |
| Classification and study of new X-ray emitting symbiotic star candidates detected by eROSITA |
GalaxyClusters - From protoclusters to galaxy clusters: probing structure formation and cosmology with current and next-generation surveys (MW-1050)
| 14:00 | Tobias Mistele: |
| Unlocking the full potential of the eRASS:5 cluster catalog with weak-lensing observations from DES and DECADE |
| 14:15 | Nikolas Zimmermann: |
| Weak Lensing Analysis of High-z Galaxy Clusters |
| 14:30 | Tim Schrabback: |
| Deep cluster weak lensing measurements with Euclid |
| 14:45 | Florian Kleinebreil: |
| Weak-lensing mass calibration of SPT-3G clusters in Euclid Deep Field South Q1 |
| 15:00 | Victoria Toptun: |
| Tracing the properties of low-mass galaxy groups with eROSITA |
| 15:15 | Ilaria Marini: |
| How the large-scale environment impacts galaxy groups |
| 15:30 | Luca Fiorino: |
| X-ray Scaling Relations of Galaxy Groups and Clusters in the First eROSITA All-Sky Survey |
ALMA2040 - ALMA2040: Scientific Opportunities and Technical Frontiers for a Next-Generation Sub-mm Facility (MW-2235)
| 14:00 | Jakob den Brok, Peter Schilke: |
| Introduction to the Splinter Session |
| 14:05 | María Díaz Trigo : |
| ALMA 2040: from science to a facility design concept |
| 14:25 | Hannah Stacey: |
| Gravitational detection of low-mass structure with a next-generation sub-mm interferometer: robust tests of dark matter and black hole mergers in the 2040s |
| 14:45 | Dominik Riechers: |
| Central Questions in (Sub-)millimeter Studies of the Early Universe in the 2040s |
| 15:05 | Eric Liang: |
| WISDOM in ALMA2040: galaxy centre physics at high resolution, from supermassive black-holes to molecular clouds |
| 15:25 | Vardan Elbakyan: |
| What Theory Needs from ALMA2040: Connecting Mass Supply, Disk Evolution, and Planetary-System Outcomes |
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (ESO Supernova)
| 14:00 | Begrüßung und Vorstellungsrunde |
| 14:30 | Tania Johnston: |
| Die ESO Supernova |
| 14:55 | Thomas Langbein: |
| Ein Universalgenie wird 250 – mit Carl Friedrich Gauß in die Öffentlichkeit! |
| 15:20 | Norbert Junkes: |
| Sextans A: Vom Radioteleskop Effelsberg zur ESO Supernova |
| 15:40 | Tim F. Horn: |
| Lange Nacht der Astronomie 2026: Bericht und Diskussion zur Fortsetzung 2027 |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (ESO Supernova)
| 16:15 | Carolin Liefke: |
| Bildung eines nationalen IAU-Öffentlichkeitsarbeitskomittees |
| 16:25 | Carolin Liefke: |
| Asteroids2029: Das International Year of Asteroid Awareness and Planetary Defence |
| 16:40 | Hannelore Hämmerle: |
| Erfahrungen mit dem mobilen Planetarium |
| 17:05 | Ruth Titz-Weider: |
| PLATO-Mission - Stand des Projekts und Chancen für Public Outreach |
| 17:10 | Diskussionsrunde Künstliche Intelligenz in der astronomischen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit (Moderation: M. Pössel) |
GalaxyClusters - From protoclusters to galaxy clusters: probing structure formation and cosmology with current and next-generation surveys (MW-1050)
| 16:15 | Matthias Kluge: |
| Rare Blue-core BCGs in eRASS:5 as Optical Signatures of ICM Cooling |
| 16:30 | Ulrich Philipp Steinwandel: |
| Constrained simulations of the Coma cluster and their observables |
| 16:45 | Raphael Zöller: |
| Wendelstein Coma Cluster Census: Galaxy Luminosity Function and Structural Parameter Density Distributions |
| 17:00 | Xiaoyuan Zhang: |
| Probing hot baryons beyond the virial radius of massive halos |
| 17:15 | Nicola Malavasi: |
| The connectivity-mass relation of eROSITA clusters |
| 17:30 | Silas Zelmer: |
| Simulation-Based Inference (SBI) for eROSITA Galaxy Cluster Cosmology Using Set-Based Neural Networks |
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
| 16:15 | Robert Brose: |
| Spectral variations between different CR species caused by abundancy gradients in the CSM of massive stars |
| 16:35 | Ralf-Juergen Dettmar: |
| Magnetic Fields and CRE Transport in Galactic Halos: an Update |
| 16:55 | Jannis Wagner: |
| Time-Dependent Modeling of Astrophysical and DM Secondary Signatures in Dwarf Galaxies |
| 17:15 | Nikita: |
| Particle Acceleration and Emission Signatures in Relativistic large-scale AGN Jets |
SMBHs - Deciphering AGN from new survey data: eROSITA, 5XMM, Euclid and JWST (MW-0250)
| 16:15 | Iris Traulsen: |
| The XMM-Newton serendipitous survey |
| 16:44 | Andrea Merloni: |
| The power of SDSS-V & 4MOST: a new era of spectroscopic AGN surveys |
| 17:13 | Carolina Andonie: |
| The impact of AGN radiative feedback on the [O III] outflow activity and obscuration in X-ray AGN |
| 17:31 | Mara Salvato: |
| Unveiling the AGN population with eROSITA data release 2 |
CompQuantum - Advances in Computational Astrophysics with a Quantum Computing Perspective (MW-2050)
| 16:15 | Philipp Grete: |
| Highlights and lessons learned from simulations at the exascale |
| 16:36 | Rainer Weinberger: |
| Overcoming the scale-problem in galaxy formation simulations using multi-fluid hydrodynamics |
| 16:57 | Volker Springel: |
| Divergence-free magnetohydrodynamics on a moving mesh |
| 17:18 | Leonard Storcks: |
| Per Astronomix ad Astra: High-Order Differentiable (Magneto)hydrodynamics with Energy-Conserving Self-Gravity |
| 17:39 | Ulrich Philipp Steinwandel: |
| LUNA: A Performance Portable, Scalable, Differentiable, Collisionless N-Body + Hydrodynamics Codefor Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics |
ALMA2040 - ALMA2040: Scientific Opportunities and Technical Frontiers for a Next-Generation Sub-mm Facility (MW-2235)
| 16:15 | Jakob den Brok: |
| Prospects for studying the local Universe with ALMA2040 |
| 16:35 | Lukas Neumann: |
| Decoding the molecular ISM: why multi-line, multi-transition spectroscopy is the key to ALMA2040 |
| 16:55 | Jaime Pineda: |
| From Clouds to Disks: Revealing the Environmental Regulation of Star Formation with ALMA2040 |
| 17:15 | Anna Penzlin: |
| Planet formation on solar system scales |
| 17:35 | Peter Schilke & Jakob den Brok: |
| Discussion |
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
| 16:15 | Roelof S. de Jong: |
| 4MOST Facility Overview |
| 16:40 | Weijia Sun: |
| Payne module in 4MOST Galactic pipeline and results for SPV |
| 17:05 | Norbert Christlieb: |
| The 4MOST Milky Way Halo High-Resolution Survey |
| 17:30 | Susmitha Antony: |
| First insights into Milky Way halo substructures from 4MOST HR SPV spectra |
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner (Gasthof Neuwirt, Garching)
Thursday, 10. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Jean-Michel Desert: |
| New Worlds, New Horizons: Emerging Perspectives from Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres |
| 09:30 | Anna de Graaff: |
| Little Red Dots: a remarkable new class of growing black holes |
| 10:00 | Ralf Klessen: |
| The First Stars |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Hendrik Hildebrandt: |
| Entering the golden age of cosmic shear measurements |
| 11:30 | Brandt Gaches: |
| Towards next-generation cosmic-ray astrochemistry models |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 Diversity Lunch Meeting
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
LargeScale - Beyond 2-Point Large Scale Structure Cosmology (MW-2235)
| 14:00 | Elena Silvestre-Rosello: |
| Galaxy halo shapes from lens-shear-shear statistics |
| 14:15 | Sijin Chen: |
| Probing Parity Violation with Weak Lensing Trispectrum |
| 14:30 | David Gebauer: |
| Simulation-based inference with the integrated 3PCF |
| 14:45 | Pritha Paul : |
| Relativistic effects in Large Scale Structure |
| 15:00 | Zhengyangguang Gong: |
| Merging Information from Galaxy Formation with Cosmology Inference: A Lens-Equal-Source Dark Energy Survey Year 6 3 × 2-point Analysis using Physics-Informed Priors |
| 15:15 | Toka Alokda: |
| Coverage is not enough: What SBI posteriors of f_NL are actually telling you |
| 15:30 | Rishabh Ranjan: |
| Evolution Mapping of the Nonlinear Matter Bispectrum |
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
| 14:00 | Ivan Minchev: |
| Galactic Archaeology with 4MIDABLE-LR |
| 14:25 | Léa Marques: |
| Dynamics at the bar-spiral interface |
| 14:50 | Maria Bergemann: |
| 4MOST Milky Way disk and bulge high-resolution survey |
| 15:15 | Maria-Rosa Cioni: |
| The 1001MC survey - First-look data and future directions |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss AG (ESO Supernova)
| 14:10 | Aishwarya Girdhar: |
| Connecting Astronomy Research and Education: Insights from the CORE project |
| 14:30 | Cormac Larkin: |
| A comparative study of factors motivating Astronomy and Physics university students |
| 14:50 | Susanne Hüttemeister: |
| ESERO – Angebote und Erwartungen |
| 15:10 | Martin Quast: |
| Ein Analogieversuch zum Mikrolinseneffekt im physikalischem Praktikum |
MassiveStars - The role of magnetic fields in the evolution of massive stars (MW-1050)
| 14:00 | Markus Schöller: |
| Measuring stellar magnetic fields - what, how, and where? |
| 14:15 | Michael Abdul-Masih: |
| Massive contact binaries as probes of magnetic field formation processes |
| 14:40 | Hubrig: |
| Observational evidence for the presence of magnetic fields in massive stars |
| 14:55 | Marco Vetter: |
| Magnetic field amplification in stellar mergers and common envelope events |
| 15:20 | Manfred Küker: |
| MHD simulations of magnetospheres around massive stars |
| 15:35 | Jo-Shui Kao: |
| Assessing the Reliability of the Polarization–Intensity Gradient Method in Star Formation Simulation |
SMBHs - Deciphering AGN from new survey data: eROSITA, 5XMM, Euclid and JWST (MW-0250)
| 14:00 | S.T. Guida: |
| How to assemble an Over-Massive Black Hole |
| 14:18 | Francesco Guarneri: |
| Pushing the quasar redshift frontier with Euclid: a new era for z>7 quasar searches |
| 14:47 | Li Ma: |
| Improved analytic model for the abundance of Direct Collapse Black Holes |
| 15:05 | Navonil Saha: |
| The dynamical evolution of cosmological supermassive black hole systems triples in realistic galactic nuclei |
| 15:23 | Vladimir Lenok: |
| The Wigner interferometry as way to improve the angular resolution in observations |
CompQuantum - Advances in Computational Astrophysics with a Quantum Computing Perspective (MW-2050)
| 14:00 | Luigi Iapichino: |
| Quantum-Accelerated HPC: Opportunities for Astrophysics and Astronomy |
| 14:30 | Farida Farsian: |
| Exploring Quantum Computing Approaches for Astrophysics and Cosmology in the NISQ Era |
| 14:55 | Sajad Abbar: |
| Collective Oscillations of Supernova Neutrinos on Quantum Computers |
| 15:20 | Jens Niemeyer: |
| Panel discussion on Quantum Computing |
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-1250)
| 14:00 | Silvia Spezzano: |
| Star Formation SPP - Introduction |
| 14:15 | Joshua Barquero Alvarado: |
| Impact of magnetically-driven jets and radiative feedback on the evolution of its natal environment and central massive star |
| 14:30 | Thomas Stanke: |
| Patiently watching jets giving feedback |
| 14:45 | Ulrich Steinwandel: |
| Stella: A flexible single stellar feedback model |
| 15:00 | C. J. Riseley: |
| A multi-frequency perspective on Cosmic Ray signatures in Nearby Galaxies |
| 15:15 | Wonju Kim : |
| DREAM: Dust pRoperties Explored Across galactic Metallicity boundaries |
| 15:30 | Eric Liang: |
| Using Wolf-Rayet regions in nearby galaxies to study star formation and stellar feedback |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-1250)
| 16:15 | Roman Laktionov: |
| Unveiling the Hot Interstellar Medium in Nearby Galaxies with eROSITA |
| 16:30 | Shmuel Bialy: |
| T|3D – Presenting The First 3D-Temperature-Map Of Our Galaxy |
| 16:45 | Christoph Pfrommer: |
| Cosmic ray feedback across scales: from star formation to galaxy evolution |
| 17:00 | Yu-Ru Chou: |
| The First Chemical Inventory of a Streamer: A Case Study of B5-IRS1 |
| 17:15 | Caroline Gieser: |
| The ANTIHEROES-PRODIGE large program: Unveiling the chemical and kinematic connection from the large-scale environment down to protostellar systems |
| 17:30 | Lauren Mason: |
| Disentangling the origins of streamers towards IRAS 2A with STING |
| 17:45 | Aditi Sinha: |
| Beyond the resolution limit: How clumpiness alters the molecular and star-formation tracers that bridge different scales |
MassiveStars - The role of magnetic fields in the evolution of massive stars (MW-1050)
| 16:15 | Pavan Vynatheya: |
| When two stars become one: collisions and mergers |
| 16:40 | Rhys Seeburger: |
| The physical properties of post-mass-transfer binaries |
| 17:05 | Giovanni Stimamiglio: |
| Internal Fields and Where to Find Them: Theoretical Predictions from Binary-Stripped Helium Stars |
| 17:20 | Joshua Barquero Alvarado: |
| Impact of magnetically-driven jets and radiative feedback on the formation of massive stars |
| 17:35 | Christoph Schürmann: |
| Populations of evolved massive binary stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud |
| 17:45 | Katlego Ramalatswa: |
| 3D Simulations of a Core-Collapse Progenitor with Varied Resolution |
Relativistic - Relativistic astrophysics (MW-2050)
| 16:15 | Huanchen Hu: |
| New insights from the Double Pulsar |
| 16:50 | Dominik Schwarz: |
| Search for axion-like particles with strong gravitational lenses |
| 17:25 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Unveiling Magnetar-Powered Supernovae: From Superluminous to Broad-Line Type Ic |
| 17:45 | Navonil Saha: |
| Spin driven relativistic dynamics of supermassive black hole binaries in dense stellar environments |
SMBHs - Deciphering AGN from new survey data: eROSITA, 5XMM, Euclid and JWST (MW-0250)
| 16:15 | Raphael Shirley: |
| Probing a new combined AGN sample on the COSMOS field |
| 16:33 | Patricia Arevalo: |
| The X-ray-Weak Tail of the Quasar Population: Optical-variability vs X-ray selection in eFEDS |
| 16:51 | Arpita Ganguly: |
| Hot Dust Across Cosmic History: Probing the Torus Evolution of Luminous Quasars with SPHEREx |
| 17:09 | Brivael Laloux: |
| The impact of AGN emission on SED-derived physical properties with Euclid |
| 17:27 | Bruno Dall'Agnol de Oliveira: |
| The interplay between AGN photo-ionization, radio jet, and star formation in the z ∼ 3.5 radio galaxy 4C +03.24 |
LargeScale - Beyond 2-Point Large Scale Structure Cosmology (MW-2235)
| 16:15 | Luca Tortorelli: |
| Forward-modelling galaxy surveys for next-generation cosmological measurements |
| 16:30 | Anik Halder: |
| Towards multi-tracer cosmology in wide-area surveys via scalable inference of galaxy properties |
| 16:45 | Lina Castiblanco: |
| Enhancing cosmological constraints with joint galaxy clustering and weak lensing PDF |
| 17:00 | Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi: |
| Probing Large-Scale Structure with One-Point Statistics: Hierarchical Counts-in-Cells model for Radio Surveys |
| 17:15 | Yourong Frank Wang: |
| Lyman-α Forest Signatures of Mixed Fuzzy and Cold Dark Matter |
| 17:30 | Prateek Gupta: |
| MITRO: an adaptive friends-of-friend algorithm for Identifying gravitationally bound large-scale structures in galaxy-redshift survey |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss AG (ESO Supernova)
| 16:20 | Simon Kraus: |
| Netzwerk smarte Teleskope: Ein Pilotprojekt zum Einsatz smarter Teleskoptechnik im Unterricht |
| 17:00 | Cecilia Scorza-Lesch: |
| „Die Blaue Perle“: Vom Wissen über unseren Planeten zum nachhaltigen Handeln |
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
| 16:15 | Carolina Andonie: |
| Performance and First Science Insights from the 4MOST AGN Survey (S6): Early Results from SPV |
| 16:40 | Joe Liske: |
| Galaxy evolution with WAVES |
| 17:05 | Luca Tortorelli: |
| 4C3R2 in 4MOST Survey Verification (SPV): early lessons for Stage-IV redshift calibration |
| 17:30 | Rajesh Potlia: |
| First Light on the Baryon Cycle: Initial 4MOST Survey Programme Validation Results from the ByCycle Survey |
20:00-21:30 Public Lecture (MW-0001)
| 20:00 | Harald Lesch: |
| Die größte Geschichte aller Zeiten - das Universum |
Friday, 11. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Jiamin Hou: |
| Higher-order Functions in Large-Scale Structure |
| 09:30 | Caroline Heneka: |
| AI in Astronomy |
| 10:00 | Giulia Despali: |
| Astrophysical tests of dark matter: observations and simulations |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Stephan Rosswog: |
| Neutron star mergers as laboratories for extreme physics |
| 11:30 | Michela Mapelli: |
| Black hole mergers: insights from hundreds of gravitational wave observations |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StellarEndpoints - Interfacing observations and theories at stellar endpoints (MW-2235)
| 14:03 | Katarzyna Nowak: |
| Simulations of Elongated Supernova Remnants |
| 14:20 | Wun-Yi Chen: |
| Multiwavelength Signatures of Supernova Shock Breakout |
| 14:37 | Federico Zangrandi: |
| Supernova remnant population in the Large Magellanic cloud with eROSITA |
| 14:54 | Silvia Mantovanini: |
| A Radio and X-ray View of the Morphology and Emission of G296.5+10.0 |
| 15:11 | Marie Prucker: |
| Linking Explosion Environment to Remnant Morphology: 3D Hydrodynamic Modeling of Puppis A |
| 15:28 | Wun-Yi Chen: |
| ridging Supernova Shock Breakout in Confined-Shell CSM with Multiwavelength Early Light Curves via MGFLD Rad-Hydro |
LIM - Line Intensity Mapping (MW-2050)
| 14:05 | Thomas Blankenburg: |
| An invertible simulator for efficient reconstruction of dark matter density from line intensity maps |
| 14:25 | Ankur Dev: |
| Atmospheric noise mitigation for line-intensity mapping with CCAT Observatory |
| 14:45 | Karolina Garcia: |
| Bridging Scales: Multiphase ISM Modeling for Line Intensity Mapping |
| 15:05 | Himadri Saha: |
| Considerations from line intensity mapping towards developing filterbank spectrometers for next generation mapper instruments |
| 15:25 | Christos Karoumpis: |
| Line intensity mapping with the ALMA interferometer |
Galaxies - Star-forming Galaxies in the Early Universe (MW-0250)
| 14:00 | Sylvia Adscheid: |
| The CIB as a window into star formation in the early Universe |
| 14:15 | Dominik Riechers: |
| Physical Conditions for Massive Star Formation in Massive Galaxies in the First Billion Years |
| 14:30 | Lilian Lee: |
| Dynamical constraints on galaxy evolution at z>4 |
| 14:45 | Prachi Prajapati: |
| Vz-GAL: Revisiting the CO-H2 Conversion Factor Tension |
| 15:00 | Eileen Herwig: |
| The distribution of different star-forming galaxies in dense environments |
| 15:15 | Akash Vani: |
| Building massive galaxies early through efficient star formation and feedback |
| 15:30 | Panel discussion (Sylvia Adscheid, Eileen Herwig, Eelco van Kampen): |
| Why have the dominant physical processes regulating star formation and the baryon cycle in high-z galaxies not been explained yet and what are we missing? |
Relativistic - Relativistic astrophysics (MW-1050)
| 14:00 | Vladimir Karas: |
| Particle acceleration by magnetized rotating black hole |
| 14:30 | Diego Calderón: |
| Establishing the role of relativistic precession on tidal disruption events |
| 14:50 | Ricard Aguilera Miret: |
| Magnetic disks around prompt-collapse black holes from binary neutron star mergers |
| 15:10 | Bhaskar Biswas: |
| Post-Merger Gravitational Waves as Probes of the Finite-Temperature Neutron Star Equation of State |
| 15:30 | Nikhita Vas: |
| Photon rings and shadows of Kerr black holes immersed in a swirling universe |
AGN - Probing the Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei with Variability (MW-1250)
| 14:00 | Francisco Pozo Nunez: |
| Introduction: AGN Variability as a Probe of the Central Engine. |
| 14:05 | Bozena Czerny: |
| General properties about the continuum variability of radio-quiet AGN in optical/UV and X-ray band |
| 14:30 | Catalina Sobrino Figaredo: |
| Isolating the Intrinsic Emission of an Accretion Disk |
| 14:45 | Iliana Cortés: |
| Machine Learning Decomposition of Photometric AGN Variability |
| 15:00 | Simon Porten: |
| Lepto-Hadronic Modelling of Multi-Messenger Emission from Precessing Blazar Jets |
| 15:15 | Johannes Just: |
| Generating Training Data for Machine Learning Approaches to Quasi Periodic Blazar Light Curves |
| 15:30 | Raoul Kinadeter: |
| Dynamics and Spectra-Polarimetric Signatures of GRMHD Simulations with Multiple Magnetic Loops |
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-0337)
| 14:00 | Alex Binks: |
| Flying the nest: using 4MOST to explore the origins of nearby young runaway stars |
| 14:15 | Daniela Muñoz Giraldo: |
| Volans-Carina, An X-ray Bridge Between Younger and Older Stellar Populations |
| 14:30 | Jiayi Zhang: |
| The prototypical T Tauri star TW Hya as a probe for different magnetospheric accretion regimes |
| 14:45 | Shang-Jing Lin: |
| Linking Magnetic Flux Transport to Protostellar Disk Sizes |
| 15:00 | Jatin Chopra: |
| Star Formation Quenching in Post-Merger Galaxies |
| 15:15 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Turbulence in Primordial Dark Matter Halos and Its Impact on the First Star Formation |
| 15:30 | Henrik Beuther: |
| Star Formation SPP - The next steps |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Galaxies - Star-forming Galaxies in the Early Universe (MW-0250)
| 16:15 | Pei-Cheng Tung: |
| Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Dwarf Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium Across Cosmic Time |
| 16:30 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Turbulence in Primordial Dark Matter Halos and Its Impact on the First Star Formation |
| 16:45 | Federica Mauro: |
| From local galaxies to cosmic noon: reconstructing the evolution of stellar populations in galaxy components |
| 17:00 | Seok-Jun Chang: |
| Probing Cold Gas within and around Galaxies through the Mg II Resonance Doublet |
| 17:15 | Silvia Almada Monter: |
| What Shapes Lyman-alpha Spectra? Radiative Transfer through Anisotropic Gas |
| 17:30 | Panel discussion (Lilian Lee, Federica Mauro, Dominik Riechers): |
| Which assumptions limit our interpretation of high-z galaxies the most and what is needed to improve them? |
StellarEndpoints - Interfacing observations and theories at stellar endpoints (MW-2235)
| 16:15 | Cormac Larkin: |
| (M)HD modelling of pre- and post-SNeII environments in young massive clusters |
| 16:32 | Susanne Friedrich: |
| Searching for isolated white dwarf stars in eROSITA data |
| 16:49 | Santiago Hernández-Díaz: |
| Unveiling the period-bounce population of cataclysmic variables: Spectroscopic and time-domain follow-up of eROSITA-selected candidates |
| 17:06 | Po-Sheng Ou: |
| Why Do Stars Turn Red? |
| 17:23 | Sung-Han Tsai: |
| Interacting Binary Stars as Progenitors for Interacting Supernovae |
| 17:40 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| The Final Pulses of Massive Stars: Multidimensional Simulations of Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae |
AGN - Probing the Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei with Variability (MW-1250)
| 16:15 | Mariia Demianenko: |
| Broad line region echo from highly accreting intermediate-mass black hole SDSS J144850.08+160803.1 |
| 16:30 | Salem Wolsing: |
| In the Eye of the Storm: The Third Giant X-ray Outburst of the Extreme Changing-look AGN IC 3599 |
| 16:45 | Jorge Cuadra: |
| Extreme Accretion and Multi-Wavelength Variability in the Sub-Milliparsec Binary Candidate AT 2021hdr |
| 17:00 | Robert W. Schmidt: |
| Microlensing and the size of the engine |
| 17:15 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Feeding the Beast: How Supermassive Black Holes Grow at Galactic Centers |
| 17:30 | Francisco Pozo Nunez: |
| Final Discussion: Future Prospects for AGN Time-Domain Studies |
LIM - Line Intensity Mapping (MW-2050)
| 16:15 | Caroline Heneka: |
| Constraining Reionization with 21cm Cross-Correlations: Galaxies and Line Intensity Mapping |
| 16:35 | Jonathan Clarke: |
| Cross-instrument cross-correlation for submm line intensity mapping |
| 16:55 | Cora Uhlemann: |
| One with HI: Modelling HI Intensity Mapping one-point statistics including systematics |