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 |
| 10:00 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Astrophysical Software Award Talk |
| 11:30 | PhD Prize Talk |
| 12:00 | Awards |
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)
SKA - German SKA Town Hall Meeting (MW-1050)
StarClusters - Star Clusters as multi-messenger Candles in the universe (MW-2050)
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (MW-2235)
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
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)
GalaxyClusters - From protoclusters to galaxy clusters: probing structure formation and cosmology with current and next-generation surveys (MW-1050)
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
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)
StarClusters - Star Clusters as multi-messenger Candles in the universe (MW-2050)
17:45-19:15 AG Mitgliederversammlung (MPA E.0.11 / virtual MGV)