Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Friday, 11. September 2026
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Jiamin Hou: |
| Higher-order Functions in Large-Scale Structure |
| 09:30 | Caroline Heneka: |
| AI in Astronomy |
| 10:00 | Giulia Despali: |
| Astrophysical tests of dark matter: observations and simulations |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Stephan Rosswog: |
| Neutron star mergers as laboratories for extreme physics |
| 11:30 | Michela Mapelli: |
| Black hole mergers: insights from hundreds of gravitational wave observations |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StellarEndpoints - Interfacing observations and theories at stellar endpoints (MW-2235)
| 14:03 | Katarzyna Nowak: |
| Simulations of Elongated Supernova Remnants |
| 14:20 | Wun-Yi Chen: |
| Multiwavelength Signatures of Supernova Shock Breakout |
| 14:37 | Federico Zangrandi: |
| Supernova remnant population in the Large Magellanic cloud with eROSITA |
| 14:54 | Silvia Mantovanini: |
| A Radio and X-ray View of the Morphology and Emission of G296.5+10.0 |
| 15:11 | Marie Prucker: |
| Linking Explosion Environment to Remnant Morphology: 3D Hydrodynamic Modeling of Puppis A |
| 15:28 | Wun-Yi Chen: |
| ridging Supernova Shock Breakout in Confined-Shell CSM with Multiwavelength Early Light Curves via MGFLD Rad-Hydro |
Relativistic - Relativistic astrophysics (MW-1050)
| 14:00 | Vladimir Karas: |
| Particle acceleration by magnetized rotating black hole |
| 14:30 | Diego Calderón: |
| Establishing the role of relativistic precession on tidal disruption events |
| 14:50 | Ricard Aguilera Miret: |
| Magnetic disks around prompt-collapse black holes from binary neutron star mergers |
| 15:10 | Bhaskar Biswas: |
| Post-Merger Gravitational Waves as Probes of the Finite-Temperature Neutron Star Equation of State |
| 15:30 | Nikhita Vas: |
| Photon rings and shadows of Kerr black holes immersed in a swirling universe |
LIM - Line Intensity Mapping (MW-2050)
| 14:05 | Thomas Blankenburg: |
| An invertible simulator for efficient reconstruction of dark matter density from line intensity maps |
| 14:25 | Ankur Dev: |
| Atmospheric noise mitigation for line-intensity mapping with CCAT Observatory |
| 14:45 | Karolina Garcia: |
| Bridging Scales: Multiphase ISM Modeling for Line Intensity Mapping |
| 15:05 | Himadri Saha: |
| Considerations from line intensity mapping towards developing filterbank spectrometers for next generation mapper instruments |
| 15:25 | Christos Karoumpis: |
| Line intensity mapping with the ALMA interferometer |
Galaxies - Star-forming Galaxies in the Early Universe (MW-0250)
| 14:00 | Sylvia Adscheid: |
| The CIB as a window into star formation in the early Universe |
| 14:15 | Dominik Riechers: |
| Physical Conditions for Massive Star Formation in Massive Galaxies in the First Billion Years |
| 14:30 | Lilian Lee: |
| Dynamical constraints on galaxy evolution at z>4 |
| 14:45 | Prachi Prajapati: |
| Vz-GAL: Revisiting the CO-H2 Conversion Factor Tension |
| 15:00 | Eileen Herwig: |
| The distribution of different star-forming galaxies in dense environments |
| 15:15 | Akash Vani: |
| Building massive galaxies early through efficient star formation and feedback |
| 15:30 | Panel discussion (Sylvia Adscheid, Eileen Herwig, Eelco van Kampen): |
| Why have the dominant physical processes regulating star formation and the baryon cycle in high-z galaxies not been explained yet and what are we missing? |
StarFormation - Star Formation across Scales: Synthesizing Local and Global Perspectives (MW-0337)
| 14:00 | Alex Binks: |
| Flying the nest: using 4MOST to explore the origins of nearby young runaway stars |
| 14:15 | Daniela Muñoz Giraldo: |
| Volans-Carina, An X-ray Bridge Between Younger and Older Stellar Populations |
| 14:30 | Jiayi Zhang: |
| The prototypical T Tauri star TW Hya as a probe for different magnetospheric accretion regimes |
| 14:45 | Shang-Jing Lin: |
| Linking Magnetic Flux Transport to Protostellar Disk Sizes |
| 15:00 | Jatin Chopra: |
| Star Formation Quenching in Post-Merger Galaxies |
| 15:15 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Turbulence in Primordial Dark Matter Halos and Its Impact on the First Star Formation |
| 15:30 | Henrik Beuther: |
| Star Formation SPP - The next steps |
AGN - Probing the Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei with Variability (MW-1250)
| 14:00 | Francisco Pozo Nunez: |
| Introduction: AGN Variability as a Probe of the Central Engine. |
| 14:05 | Bozena Czerny: |
| General properties about the continuum variability of radio-quiet AGN in optical/UV and X-ray band |
| 14:30 | Catalina Sobrino Figaredo: |
| Isolating the Intrinsic Emission of an Accretion Disk |
| 14:45 | Iliana Cortés: |
| Machine Learning Decomposition of Photometric AGN Variability |
| 15:00 | Simon Porten: |
| Lepto-Hadronic Modelling of Multi-Messenger Emission from Precessing Blazar Jets |
| 15:15 | Johannes Just: |
| Generating Training Data for Machine Learning Approaches to Quasi Periodic Blazar Light Curves |
| 15:30 | Raoul Kinadeter: |
| Dynamics and Spectra-Polarimetric Signatures of GRMHD Simulations with Multiple Magnetic Loops |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Galaxies - Star-forming Galaxies in the Early Universe (MW-0250)
| 16:15 | Pei-Cheng Tung: |
| Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations Dwarf Galaxies and Their Circumgalactic Medium Across Cosmic Time |
| 16:30 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Turbulence in Primordial Dark Matter Halos and Its Impact on the First Star Formation |
| 16:45 | Federica Mauro: |
| From local galaxies to cosmic noon: reconstructing the evolution of stellar populations in galaxy components |
| 17:00 | Seok-Jun Chang: |
| Probing Cold Gas within and around Galaxies through the Mg II Resonance Doublet |
| 17:15 | Silvia Almada Monter: |
| What Shapes Lyman-alpha Spectra? Radiative Transfer through Anisotropic Gas |
| 17:30 | Panel discussion (Lilian Lee, Federica Mauro, Dominik Riechers): |
| Which assumptions limit our interpretation of high-z galaxies the most and what is needed to improve them? |
LIM - Line Intensity Mapping (MW-2050)
| 16:15 | Caroline Heneka: |
| Constraining Reionization with 21cm Cross-Correlations: Galaxies and Line Intensity Mapping |
| 16:35 | Jonathan Clarke: |
| Cross-instrument cross-correlation for submm line intensity mapping |
| 16:55 | Cora Uhlemann: |
| One with HI: Modelling HI Intensity Mapping one-point statistics including systematics |
StellarEndpoints - Interfacing observations and theories at stellar endpoints (MW-2235)
| 16:15 | Cormac Larkin: |
| (M)HD modelling of pre- and post-SNeII environments in young massive clusters |
| 16:32 | Susanne Friedrich: |
| Searching for isolated white dwarf stars in eROSITA data |
| 16:49 | Santiago Hernández-Díaz: |
| Unveiling the period-bounce population of cataclysmic variables: Spectroscopic and time-domain follow-up of eROSITA-selected candidates |
| 17:06 | Po-Sheng Ou: |
| Why Do Stars Turn Red? |
| 17:23 | Sung-Han Tsai: |
| Interacting Binary Stars as Progenitors for Interacting Supernovae |
| 17:40 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| The Final Pulses of Massive Stars: Multidimensional Simulations of Pulsational Pair-Instability Supernovae |
AGN - Probing the Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei with Variability (MW-1250)
| 16:15 | Mariia Demianenko: |
| Broad line region echo from highly accreting intermediate-mass black hole SDSS J144850.08+160803.1 |
| 16:30 | Salem Wolsing: |
| In the Eye of the Storm: The Third Giant X-ray Outburst of the Extreme Changing-look AGN IC 3599 |
| 16:45 | Jorge Cuadra: |
| Extreme Accretion and Multi-Wavelength Variability in the Sub-Milliparsec Binary Candidate AT 2021hdr |
| 17:00 | Robert W. Schmidt: |
| Microlensing and the size of the engine |
| 17:15 | Ke-Jung Chen: |
| Feeding the Beast: How Supermassive Black Holes Grow at Galactic Centers |
| 17:30 | Francisco Pozo Nunez: |
| Final Discussion: Future Prospects for AGN Time-Domain Studies |