Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
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: |
| TBD |
| 10:00 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Caroline Gieser: |
| TBD |
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: |
| TBD |
| 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)
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 |
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 | TBC: |
| TBC |
| 15:18 | Kathrin Grunthal: |
| The science potential of the SKAO PTA for the detection of nHz GWs |
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 |
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (MW-2235)
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 |
jungeAG - Junge AG / Young AG (MW-0337)
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
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 |
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 |
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)
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 |
| 17:00 | Nikita: |
| Particle Acceleration and Emission Signatures in Relativistic large-scale AGN Jets |
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 |
17:45-19:15 AG Mitgliederversammlung (MPA E.0.11 / virtual MGV)