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: |
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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)
| 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 |
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)
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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)
| 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) |
19:00-22:00 Conference Dinner (Gasthof Neuwirt, Garching)