Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Wednesday, 09. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Esra Bulbul: |
| TBD |
| 09:30 | Andreas Sander: |
| TBD |
| 10:00 | Amelie Saintonge: |
| TBD |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Sebastian Wolf: |
| Polarimetry in Star and Planet Formation Studies |
| 11:30 | Reinhard Genzel: |
| Massive Black Holes: Experimental Evidence & Cosmic Evolution |
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)
ALMA2040 - ALMA2040: Scientific Opportunities and Technical Frontiers for a Next-Generation Sub-mm Facility (MW-2235)
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
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 |
CloseBinaries - Close Binaries and Stellar Mergers (MW-0250)
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (ESO Supernova)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
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)
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
ALMA2040 - ALMA2040: Scientific Opportunities and Technical Frontiers for a Next-Generation Sub-mm Facility (MW-2235)
NonThermalAccel - Cosmic Accelerators and the Non-Thermal Universe: From Black Holes to Galaxies and the Cosmic Web (MW-1250)
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 |
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (ESO Supernova)
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner (Gasthof Neuwirt, Garching)