Invited Plenary Talks

(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 - Marta Volonteri:
TBD

10:00  Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Caroline Gieser:
TBD

11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Astrophysical Software Award Talk - Cornelis P. Dullemond:
TBD

11:30  Maximilian Häberle:
oMEGACat and the intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri

12:00  Awards:
Bruno H. Bürgel Prize: Florian Freistetter
Hans-Ludwig-Neumann Prize: Klaus Hünig
Jugend-forscht Award: Alexander Leukert and Leon Heinisch


Wednesday, 09. September 2026

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (MW-1801 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Esra Bulbul:
TBD

09:30  Andreas Sander:
A changing perspective on massive stars: Insights from detailed atmosphere modelling

10:00  Amelie Saintonge:
TBD

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


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

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


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

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:
TBD