Plenary talks on Monday and Wednesday:
| HARPS3: The Next-Generation Doppler Spectrograph for the INT | Gudmundur Stefansson (University of Amsterdam) |
| WEAVE: status and early science results | Scott Trager (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) |
| Habitable Worlds Observatory | Antonija Oklopcic (University of Amsterdam) |
| Pushing LOFAR to its limits with ultra-deep, high-resolution, wide-field imaging | Jurjen de Jong (Leiden, ASTRON) |
| Towards precision constraints on reionization history with quasar IGM damping wings | Timo Kist (Leiden Observatory) |
| Euclid's view on galaxy quenching | Pablo Corcho Caballero (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen) |
| Studying the abundances of MW globular clusters with WEAVE | Mariya Nizovkina (Radboud University) |
| High-mass runaway stars originating in the starburst cluster R136 | Mitchel Stoop (University of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy) |
| Tracing the formation of complex organic molecules (COMs) from ice to gas using ALMA and JWST | Yuan Chen (Leiden Observatory) |
| Self-roast: Close-in planet induces flares on its host star | Ekaterina Ilin (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)) |
| The importance of LOFAR in characterising the nanohertz gravitational wave background | Aurelien Chalumeau (ASTRON) |
| Imaging black holes and jets from space | Freek Roelofs (Radboud University) |
| Decoding the impact of stellar mass black hole jets on Galactic environments using MeerKAT | Pikky Atri (ASTRON) |
| Conference opening | Michael Janssen (Radboud University) and Peter Barthel (Kapteyn Institute Groningen) |
| The gravitational-wave signatures of single and binary stars | Invited new staff: Eva Laplace (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam) |
| Unraveling the nature of fast radio bursts and using them as precise astrophysical tools | Invited new staff: Ziggy Pleunis (UvA) |
| Data Science for (High-Energy) Astrophysics | Invited new staff: Daniela Huppenkothen (UvA) |
| News from BLOeM - a new large-scale multiplicity survey of 1000 massive stars | Invited new staff: Julia Bodensteiner |
| Title TBD | Invited new staff: Billy Edwards (SRON) |
| High-contrast imaging at visible wavelengths | Invited new staff: Sebastiaan Haffert (Leiden University) |
| Updates from the NAEIC | NAEIC |
| Updates from the NWO Astronomy Round Table | Antonija Oklopčić on behalf of the astro tafel |
On Tuesday and Wednesday -- Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present (NOVA network 1) talks:
| Unveiling the Secrets of Molecular Outflows in NGC1068’s Circumnuclear Disk with ALMA | Yuze Zhang |
| Asymmetry at low surface brightnesses as an indicator of environmental processes in the Fornax cluster | Xin Xu |
| Disentangling galaxy and dust evolution mechanisms through chemical abundances | Stefan van der Giessen (Universiteit Gent (België) & Universidad de Granada (Spanje)) |
| CO(3-2) detection reveals a massive molecular gas reservoir at z=7.31 | Karin Cescon (Leiden Observatory) |
| ShadowSWIFT - A new Moving-Mesh code in the SWIFT collaboration | Eric Muires (Gent University) |
| Feeding star formation in disc galaxies with radial flows | Linn He |
| Resolving the ICM of tens of clusters at z>1.2 with MUSTANG-2 and ALMA | Joshiwa van Marrewijk (Leiden Observatory) |
| The Molecular Angular Momentum–Mass Relation in Local Disc Galaxies | Nikki Geesink (Leiden Observatory) |
| Spectral indices in active galactic nuclei as seen by Apertif and LOFAR | Alexander Kutkin (ASTRON) |
| The LOFAR view of extreme ram pressure stripping in the nearby Abell 1367 cluster | Henrik Edler (ASTRON) |
| Probing gas accretion and dynamics with ultra-deep MHONGOOSE survey | Sushma Kurapati (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy) |
| Monsters with empty bellies? A comprehensive census of dense gas in high-redshift, massive galaxies | Matus Rybak (Allegro ARC / Leiden University) |
| Disruptions of systems on chaotic orbits in axisymmetric galactic centers | zephyr penoyre |
| Torus feeding and outflow launching in the active nucleus of the Circinus galaxy | Wout Goesaert (Leiden University) |
On Tuesday and Wednesday -- Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems (NOVA network 2) talks:
| Solar Radio Burst Tracker – A Citizen Science Campaign for Identifying Type III Solar Radio Bursts | Katerina Pesini (Radboud University) |
| Occurrence rate of stellar Type II radio bursts from a 100 star-year search for coronal mass ejections | David Konijn (ASTRON) |
| WiSPIT 1: The first directly imaged multi-planet system around a solar-type binary | Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden University) |
| A View of Chemistry, Clouds and Gravity through High-Resolution Spectra of Brown Dwarfs | Sam de Regt (Leiden Observatory) |
| Analysis of dust and gas in planet-forming disks surrounding very low-mass stars | Hyerin Jang (Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University) |
| Simulating star-planet magnetic interactions in close-in exoplanetary systems | Andrés Presa (Leiden University) |
| Uncovering hidden water in carbon-rich terrestrial planet forming regions | Aditya M. Arabhavi (University of Groningen) |
| One, two, three! A multi-dimensional look at the chemistry of a hot exoplanet | Robin Baeyens (University of Amsterdam) |
| Zonal Jets of Gas Giants through observations and numerical simulations | Keren Duer-Milner (Leiden Observatory | SRON) |
| Revealing the mysterious binary DG CVn through VLBI astrometry | Paul Boven (JIVE / Leiden University) |
| 28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT | Emily Sandford (Leiden University) |
| Exoring transits from the ASAS-SN surveys | Matthew Kenworthy (Leiden Observatory) |
| Nonlinear Evolution of the Unstratified Polydisperse Dust Settling Instability | Hossam Aly (TU Delft) |
| Direct imaging discovery of a young giant planet orbiting on solar system scales | Tomas Stolker (Leiden University) |
| Polydisperse Formation of Planetesimals | Jip Matthijsse (Technical University Delft) |
| Simulating Pop III star formation at "low" redshifts | Lisanne van Veenen (Leiden Observatory) |
On Tuesday and Wednesday -- Astrophysics in extreme conditions (NOVA network 3) talks:
| Understanding post-RGB binaries through stable mass transfer | Casper Moltzer (Radboud University) |
| The Radar Echo Telescope (RET) and reconstructions for high energy cosmic ray air showers | Krishna Nivedita Gopinath (Radboud university Nijmegen) |
| Dwarf nova studies with the MeerKAT radio telescope | Joris Kersten (Radboud University, Nijmegen) |
| Search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays | Teresa Bister |
| Mass Transfer in Eccentric Binaries: A Unified Framework & New Insights | Adam Parkosidis (University of Amsterdam) |
| Photometric and spectroscopic follow-up of fast X-ray transient EP240414a, the link between gamma-ray bursts, Fast Blue Optical Transients, and fast X-ray transients | Joyce van Dalen (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM | Chen Li (Leiden University/SRON) |
| Black Hole Spin Determination Using Lensed Images of Hot Spots | Joost de Kleuver |
| What makes gamma-ray bursts shine so bright up to very-high-energies? | Marc Klinger-Plaisier (Anton Pannekoek Institute - University of Amsterdam) |
| First Cosmic Ray Data of the 3000km2 Radio Detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory | Bjarni Pont (Radboud University) |
| Constraining the nature of dark fast X-ray transients | Javi Sánchez Sierras (Radboud University) |
| Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new long-period transient | Sanne Bloot (ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute) |
| Probing the galactic halo of M31 using fast radio bursts | Reshma Anna-Thomas (ASTRON) |
| First results from the XRISM observation of Cygnus A | Anwesh Majumder (SRON) |
| Signs of planetary systems around white dwarfs | Jan van Roestel (University of Amsterdam) |
| High-resolution cosmic ray observations with the SKA | Stijn Buitink (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| Scintillometry of the pulsar triple system | Nina Gusinskaia (ASTRON) |
Instrumentation talks -- Session 1 ELT & optical instrumentation (Tuesday May 27, 16:30 – 18:00):
| They may be tiny, but they are mighty: Nano-printing coronagraphs for high-contrast imaging | Elena Tonucci |
| Piecing MOSAIC together | Meghna Mohamed |
| MICADO - a first light imager for the Extremely Large Telescope | A J |
| Engineering METIS: The Journey from Blueprint to Assembly | Dirk Lesman |
| WEAVE: providing multi-faceted, research-experience-based support for an international, astronomical instrumentation project | Shoko Jin |
| Transient discovery with the GOTO Network | Duncan Galloway |
Instrumentation talks -- Session 2 Longer wavelengths & space missions (Wednesday May 28, 11:00 – 12:30):
| EXOPLANET EXPLORER – A SINGLE SPACECRAFT NULLING INTERFEROMETER | Ida Sigusch |
| The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy | Aurora Simionescu |
| The Africa Millimetre Telescope | Annelies Ampe |
| Progress on the LOFAR2.0 Radio Telescope | Boudewijn Hut |
| SKA Construction Progress and Development: To boldly go | Joseph Callingham |
| Instrument developments of NOVA submm group. | Andrey Baryshev |
Data science session with contributed talks (on Tuesday or Wednesday, TBD):
| Unsupervised Representation Learning of FRB Dynamic Spectra | Dirk Kuiper (UvA) |
| Detecting Radio transients with LOFAR using LoTSS | Sylvain Ranguin |
| Using the national IT infrastucture for your research | Haili Hu (SURF) |
| Coupling of Early- and Late-Time Emission in TDEs Constrains Peak Emission Mechanism | Lucas Pouw (Leiden University) |
| Simultaneous multi-spacecraft observations with VLBI radio telescopes to study the interplanetary phase scintillation | Noor Masdiana Md Said (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)) |
| Dynamically combining Pulsar Timing Array data for nanoHertz gravitational-wave searches | Rutger van Haasteren (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover) |
Presentations in the Communication session on Tuesday:
| DARKER SKY: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Light Pollution | Nynke Visser |
| Towards an inclusive NOVA Mobile Planetarium Project | Marieke Baan (NOVA) |
| Short videos for socials and websites | David Redeker |
| Tracing rays around black holes - a Blender render engine for strongly curved spacetimes | B.L. de Vries (SURF) |
| Why should guys like Donald care about DEI in STEM? | Jake Noel-Storr (Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society) |
| How E-ROAD bridges astronomy and society for sustainable development | Kateryna Frantseva (Leiden University) |
Contributed talk in the Sustainability session on Wednesday:
| The climate costs and ethical perils of generative AI | Emily Sandford (Leiden University) |
Posters (poster sessions throughout the days & dedicated poster session on Tuesday!):
| Poster_ID | Title | Presenter |
| C&E | Understanding NWO: Some Guidance to Research Funding and Career Opportunities | Mathilde Janssen (NWO) |
| Data-1 | Machine learning-accelerated dust size evolution in protoplanetary disks | Benjamin Silk (TU Delft) |
| Data-2 | Machine Learning Classification Methods in Analysis of Stellar Spectra from EDIBLES (ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey) | Joost van Zeijl |
| Inst-1 | The SST Camera status and Dutch contributions to the Cherenkov Telescope Array | Connor Duffy (University of Groningen) |
| Inst-2 | Habitable Worlds Observatory | Thomas Wijnen (NOVA) |
| NW1-1 | Precision absolute astrometry using Euclid's QSOs and Stars | Giacomo Bagnato (University of Groningen) |
| NW1-2 | JWST morphologies and stellar population gradients of distant quiescent galaxies from the Heavy Metal Survey | Yuankeqin Dong |
| NW1-3 | Determining Star Formation Histories in Cluster Galaxies | Maria Dziouba |
| NW1-4 | Tracing the evolution of the cosmic density of cold molecular gas with WIDE-ASPECS | Suzanne van Elten (Universiteit Leiden) |
| NW1-5 | ADAGIO, a study of spatially resolved gas, metal, and dust at our closest neighbour | Stefan van der Giessen (Universiteit Gent (België) & Universidad de Granada (Spanje)) |
| NW1-6 | The influence of massive test particles on N-body simulations | Koen Looijmans (Universiteit Leiden) |
| NW1-7 | Modeling Skewed Stellar Velocity Distributions with Mixture Models | Fraser McKibben Reid (RUG) |
| NW1-8 | An evolutionary model of the Milky Way's corona | Sten Sipma (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute) |
| NW1-9 | Dust obscuration in massive galaxies | Sara Tacchetto |
| NW2-1 | Planet-Moon Ejections in Close Stellar Encounters | Yannick Badoux (Leiden University) |
| NW2-2 | Hunting for Stellar Radio Bursts – A new role for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope | Paul Baecke |
| NW2-3 | Milky Way’s Magnetic Field through Starlight Polarization | Caroline van Bergen (Radboud University) |
| NW2-4 | Unveiling planetary diversity: a statistical approach for classifying planetary systems | Eirini Chrysovergi (Leiden University) |
| NW2-5 | A broken debris cascade in transitioning planet-forming disks | Carsten Dominik (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW2-6 | Peering through the veil: Investigating protoplanetary disk outer edges using backside visibility | Carsten Dominik (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW2-7 | Proton processing of phenanthrene and acetonitrile ice mixtures for application to Titan's lower atmosphere | Jacob Dong |
| NW2-8 | A multifluid approach to pebble accretion | Tom Konijn (Technische Universiteit Delft) |
| NW2-9 | The Runaway Nature of High Mass X-ray Binaries in the Galaxy. | Karan Kumar (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy) |
| NW2-10 | Cepheids in the radio: from K-band to K-band | Megan Lewis |
| NW2-11 | ARCiS: Artful modeling of exoplanet atmospheres | Michiel Min (SRON) |
| NW2-12 | Benchmarking Anharmonic Spectra of PAH Cations | Lars Reems (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW2-13 | Cosmic Carbon Clues: Investigating PAH Populations in Titan’s upper atmosphere | Florence Stikkelbroeck |
| NW2-14 | Vertical Structure of the Edge-On Protoplanetary Disk ESO-Hɑ 569 | Lukas Welzel (Leiden Observatory) |
| NW3-1 | New insights on plasma properties of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A with XRISM/Resolve using Bayesian analysis | Manan Agarwal (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-2 | Improving Tidal Disruption Event Classification with Multimodal Learning Using Late-Time Photometric Plateaus and Extracted Features | Vysakh Anilkumar (Leiden University) |
| NW3-3 | Search for TeV gamma rays in Omega Centauri with the H.E.S.S. experiment | Lucia Bortolazzi |
| NW3-4 | Massive Black Hole Binary Mergers as Probes to Theory beyond General Relativity | Tian-Yong Cao (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences) |
| NW3-5 | Spectro-temporal Investigation of Quasi-periodic Oscillations From Black Hole X-ray Binary 4U 1630-472 Using NICER | Ansh Chopra (Gran Sasso Science Institute) |
| NW3-6 | On the performance of cosmic-ray air shower reconstruction with SKA-Low | Arthur Corstanje (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) |
| NW3-7 | Ready Jet Go – Insights into the central engine of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei | Ruby Duncan |
| NW3-8 | Constraining the properties of thermonuclear burst systems | Duncan Galloway (Monash University) |
| NW3-9 | Multi-Wavelength Insights into GRB 240825A | Dirk van der Geest (Kapteyn Institute, RUG) |
| NW3-10 | Unraveling the nature of fast X-ray transients through their environments and multi wavelength counterparts | Agnes van Hoof (Radboud University) |
| NW3-11 | Mapping the interstellar medium through pulsar scattering | Nina Kaplina (University of Amsterdam, ASTRON) |
| NW3-12 | Modeling Streamline Trajectories of Radiatively Driven Outflows from Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks | Aylecia Lattimer (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-13 | Mapping the Turbulence in the Ionised Interstellar Medium using the Parkes ultra-wide bandwith reciever: the case of PSR J0908–4913 | Selah Melfor (ASTRON / University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-14 | A new repeating fast radio burst localized to a persistent radio source | Alexandra Moroianu (The University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-15 | Foundation models for Black Holes | Renze Oosterhuis (Radboud University) |
| NW3-16 | Observing apparent dispersion measure variability from a repeating FRB source | Omar Ould-Boukattine (ASTRON/UvA) |
| NW3-18 | The case of the Einstein Probe transient EP241021a | Jonathan Quirola-Vasquez (Radboud University) |
| NW3-19 | Probing milliarcsecond-scale radio jets in the microquasar GRS 1915+105 during an unprecedented accretion state. | Lieuwe de Regt (ASTRON/Radboud University) |
| NW3-20 | A novel synergy between galaxy catalogs and anisotropies in astrophysical gravitational wave backgrounds | Coen Rondeel (Radboud University) |
| NW3-21 | Lighting up a black hole: A Bayesian study of electron microphysics with multiwavelength data of M87* | Rittick Roy (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-22 | The Near-Ultraviolet eXplorer (NUX): A ground-based wide-field NUV telescope to search for NUV transients | Rasjied Sloot (API) |
| NW3-23 | Characterising the Ionised Interstellar Medium with Simulations for PTA | Ruggero Valdata (Astron/API) |
| NW3-24 | Relating TDE rates to central stellar density and star formation history | Liam de Vos (Leiden University) |
| NW3-25 | Radiative properties and multiwavelength variability of two-temperature MADs | Maarten Wijdeveld (Radboud University) |
| NW3-26 | Particle Acceleration and Transport in the Large-scale Current Sheet under an Erupting Magnetic Flux Rope | HAO WU |
| NW3-27 | Full-Band Modeling of photoionized AGN winds in NGC 3783 | Keqin Zhao (Leiden University) |
| NW3-28 | Particle Accleration from a Binary Neutron Star merger Jet | Cristobal Zilleruelo (University of Amsterdam) |
| NW3-29 | Imaging uncalibrated LOFAR data for real-time transient hunts | Lars Zwaan (Universiteit van Amsterdam) |
Reminder for all talks and posters to adhere to https://indico.kna-rnas.nl/event/1/page/9-speaker-and-poster-instructions
