Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Thursday, 10. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Jean-Michel Desert: |
| TBD |
| 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: |
| TBD |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 Diversity Lunch Meeting
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-1250)
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 |
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 |
| 15:15 | 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 |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss AG (ESO Supernova)
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)
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
4MOST - 4MOST: facility performance and planned spectroscopic survey science (MW-0337)
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-1250)
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 |
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 | Carolyn Mill: |
| Going below and beyond: improving systematics control in cosmological surveys using one-point statistics |
| 17:15 | Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi: |
| Probing Large-Scale Structure with One-Point Statistics: Hierarchical Counts-in-Cells model for Radio Surveys |
| 17:30 | Yourong Frank Wang: |
| Lyman-α Forest Signatures of Mixed Fuzzy and Cold Dark Matter |
| 17:45 | 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)
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 |
Relativistic - Relativistic astrophysics (MW-2050)
20:00-21:30 Public Lecture (MW-0001)
| 20:00 | Harald Lesch: |
| Die größte Geschichte aller Zeiten - das Universum |