Name: Netherlands Astronomy Conference 2025
Start: 2025-05-26T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-05-28T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Fletcher Landgoed Hotel Holthurnsche Hof

Monday, 26 May 2025

10:00 Registration + poster setup + bus service from central station to venue

10:00 - 11:30
11:30 Plenary: Opening
Opening
11:30 - 13:00
Contributions

11:30 Conference opening and words from the LOC - Michael Janssen

11:35 Opening words from the KNA/RNAS Chair - Peter Barthel (Kapteyn Institute Groningen)

11:45 HARPS3: The Next-Generation Doppler Spectrograph for the INT - Gudmundur Stefansson (University of Amsterdam)

12:00 WEAVE: status and early science results - Scott Trager (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)

12:15 Studying the abundances of MW globular clusters with WEAVE - Mariya Nizovkina (Radboud University)

12:30 The importance of LOFAR in characterising the nanohertz gravitational wave background - Aurelien Chalumeau (ASTRON)

12:45 Updates from the NWO Astronomy Round Table - Antonija Oklopčić (on behalf of the astro tafel)
13:00 Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Plenary: Mid-term update of Astro strategic plan from RvdA
Mid-term update of Astro strategic plan from RvdA
13:00 - 13:15
14:30 Plenary
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Invited new staff: Data Science for (High-Energy) Astrophysics - Daniela Huppenkothen

14:45 Invited new staff: Unraveling the nature of fast radio bursts and using them as precise astrophysical tools - Ziggy Pleunis

15:00 Invited new staff: News from BLOeM - a new large-scale multiplicity survey of 1000 massive stars - Julia Bodensteiner

15:15 Invited new staff: The Pursuit of a Meticulous Chemical Survey of Exoplanet Atmospheres - Billy Edwards

15:30 Invited new staff: High-contrast imaging at visible wavelengths - Sebastiaan Haffert

15:45 Invited new staff: The gravitational-wave signatures of single and binary stars - Eva Laplace (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam)
16:00 Coffee break + poster session

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Plenary
16:30 - 17:45
Contributions

16:30 Tracing the formation of complex organic molecules (COMs) from ice to gas using ALMA and JWST - Yuan Chen (Leiden Observatory)

16:45 Self-roast: Close-in planet induces flares on its host star - Ekaterina Ilin (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON))

17:00 Decoding the impact of stellar mass black hole jets on Galactic environments using MeerKAT - Pikky Atri (ASTRON)

17:15 Imaging black holes and jets from space - Freek Roelofs (Radboud University)

17:30 Updates from the NAEIC - NAEIC
17:45 KNA/RNAS: Announcements
Announcements
17:45 - 18:00

18:00 Dinner

18:00 - 20:00
20:00 Evening lecture
20:00 - 21:00
Contributions

20:00 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: how it works and what it says - Heleen de Coninck (Eindhoven University of Technology and Radboud University)
21:00 Brasserie bar open

21:00 - 23:59
Tuesday, 27 May 2025
09:00 Astrophysics in extreme conditions (NOVA network 3)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 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)

09:15 Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM - Chen Li (Leiden University/SRON)

09:30 What makes gamma-ray bursts shine so bright up to very-high-energies? - Marc Klinger-Plaisier (Anton Pannekoek Institute - University of Amsterdam)

09:45 Constraining the nature of dark fast X-ray transients - Javi Sánchez Sierras (Radboud University)

10:00 First results from the XRISM observation of Cygnus A - Anwesh Majumder (SRON)

10:15 Black Hole Spin Determination Using Lensed Images of Hot Spots - Joost de Kleuver
Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present (NOVA network 1)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Unveiling the Secrets of Molecular Outflows in NGC1068’s Circumnuclear Disk with ALMA - Yuze Zhang (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

09:15 Asymmetry at low surface brightnesses as an indicator of environmental processes in the Fornax cluster - Xin Xu

09:30 Disentangling galaxy and dust evolution mechanisms through chemical abundances - Stefan van der Giessen (Universiteit Gent (België) & Universidad de Granada (Spanje))

09:45 CO(3-2) detection reveals a massive molecular gas reservoir at z=7.31 - Karin Cescon (Leiden Observatory)

10:00 ShadowSWIFT - A new Moving-Mesh code in the SWIFT collaboration - Eric Muires (Gent University)
Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems (NOVA network 2)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 One, two, three! A multi-dimensional look at the chemistry of a hot exoplanet - Robin Baeyens (University of Amsterdam)

09:15 A View of Chemistry, Clouds and Gravity through High-Resolution Spectra of Brown Dwarfs - Sam de Regt (Leiden Observatory)

09:30 Simulating Pop III star formation at "low" redshifts - Lisanne van Veenen (Leiden Observatory)

09:45 Direct imaging discovery of a young giant planet orbiting on solar system scales - Tomas Stolker (Leiden University)

10:00 WiSPIT 1: The first directly imaged multi-planet system around a solar-type binary - Richelle van Capelleveen (Leiden University)

10:15 Exoring transits from the ASAS-SN surveys - Matthew Kenworthy (Leiden Observatory)
10:30 Coffee break + poster session

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Astrophysics in extreme conditions (NOVA network 3)
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Search for the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays - Teresa Bister

11:15 High-resolution cosmic ray observations with the SKA - Stijn Buitink (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

11:30 First Cosmic Ray Data of the 3000km2 Radio Detector at the Pierre Auger Observatory - Bjarni Pont (Radboud University)

11:45 The Radar Echo Telescope (RET) and reconstructions for high energy cosmic ray air showers - Krishna Nivedita Gopinath (Radboud university Nijmegen)

12:00 Dwarf nova studies with the MeerKAT radio telescope - Joris Kersten (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present (NOVA network 1)
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Feeding star formation in disc galaxies with radial flows - Linn He

11:15 Resolving the ICM of tens of clusters at z>1.2 with MUSTANG-2 and ALMA - Joshiwa van Marrewijk (Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, PO Box 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands)

11:30 The Molecular Angular Momentum–Mass Relation in Local Disc Galaxies - Nikki Geesink (Leiden Observatory)

11:45 Spectral indices in active galactic nuclei as seen by Apertif and LOFAR - Alexander Kutkin (ASTRON)
Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems (NOVA network 2)
11:00 - 12:15
Contributions

11:00 Occurrence rate of stellar Type II radio bursts from a 100 star-year search for coronal mass ejections - David Konijn (ASTRON)

11:15 Zonal Jets of Gas Giants through observations and numerical simulations - Keren Duer-Milner (Leiden Observatory | SRON)

11:30 Simulating star-planet magnetic interactions in close-in exoplanetary systems - Andrés Presa (Leiden University)

11:45 Solar Radio Burst Tracker – A Citizen Science Campaign for Identifying Type III Solar Radio Bursts - Katerina Pesini (Radboud University)

12:00 28 Years of Sun-as-a-star Extreme Ultraviolet Light Curves from SOHO EIT - Emily Sandford (Leiden University)
12:15 Plenary: Dedicated poster session
Dedicated poster session
12:15 - 13:00

13:00 Lunch: + time for a walk in the forest
+ time for a walk in the forest
13:00 - 15:15

15:15 KNA/RNAS: Business Meeting
Business Meeting
15:15 - 16:00

16:00 Coffee break + poster session

16:00 - 16:30
16:30 Special session: Communications
Communications
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 DARKER SKY: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Light Pollution - Nynke Visser

16:45 Towards an inclusive NOVA Mobile Planetarium Project - Marieke Baan (NOVA)

17:00 Short videos for socials and websites - David Redeker

17:15 Tracing rays around black holes - a Blender render engine for strongly curved spacetimes - B.L. de Vries (SURF)

17:30 Why should guys like Donald care about DEI in STEM? - Jake Noel-Storr (Royal Netherlands Astronomical Society)

17:45 How E-ROAD bridges astronomy and society for sustainable development - Kateryna Frantseva (Leiden University)
Special session: Data science
Data science
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Using the national IT infrastucture for your research - Haili Hu (SURF)

16:45 Dynamically combining Pulsar Timing Array data for nanoHertz gravitational-wave searches - Rutger van Haasteren (Albert Einstein Institute Hannover)

17:00 Unsupervised Representation Learning of FRB Dynamic Spectra - Dirk Kuiper (UvA)

17:15 Detecting Radio transients with LOFAR using LoTSS - Sylvain Ranguin

17:30 Coupling of Early- and Late-Time Emission in TDEs Constrains Peak Emission Mechanism - Lucas Pouw (Leiden University)

17:45 Simultaneous multi-spacecraft observations with VLBI radio telescopes to study the interplanetary phase scintillation - Noor Masdiana Md Said (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE))
Special session: Instrumentation
Instrumentation
16:30 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 They may be tiny, but they are mighty: Nano-printing coronagraphs for high-contrast imaging - Elena Tonucci (Leiden University)

16:45 Piecing MOSAIC together - Meghna Mohamed (NOVA)

17:00 MICADO - a first light imager for the Extremely Large Telescope - A J

17:15 Engineering METIS: The Journey from Blueprint to Assembly - Dirk Lesman

17:30 WEAVE: providing multi-faceted, research-experience-based support for an international, astronomical instrumentation project - Shoko Jin (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)

17:45 SKA Construction Progress and Development: To boldly go - Joseph Callingham (ASTRON / University of Amsterdam)
18:00 Dinner

18:00 - 20:00

20:00 Pub Quiz

20:00 - 22:00

22:00 Brasserie bar open

22:00 - 23:59
Wednesday, 28 May 2025
09:00 Astrophysics in extreme conditions (NOVA network 3)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Strongly polarised radio pulses from a new long-period transient - Sanne Bloot (ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute)

09:15 Probing the galactic halo of M31 using fast radio bursts - Reshma Anna-Thomas (ASTRON)

09:30 Scintillometry of the pulsar triple system - Nina Gusinskaia (ASTRON)

09:45 Signs of planetary systems around white dwarfs - Jan van Roestel (University of Amsterdam)

10:00 Understanding post-RGB binaries through stable mass transfer - Casper Moltzer (Radboud University)

10:15 Mass Transfer in Eccentric Binaries: A Unified Framework & New Insights - Adam Parkosidis (University of Amsterdam)
Formation and evolution of galaxies: from high redshift to the present (NOVA network 1)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The LOFAR view of extreme ram pressure stripping in the nearby Abell 1367 cluster - Henrik Edler (ASTRON)

09:15 Probing gas accretion and dynamics with ultra-deep MHONGOOSE survey - Sushma Kurapati (ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

09:30 Monsters with empty bellies? A comprehensive census of dense gas in high-redshift, massive galaxies - Matus Rybak (Allegro ARC / Leiden University)

09:45 Torus feeding and outflow launching in the active nucleus of the Circinus galaxy - Wout Goesaert (Leiden University)

10:00 Disruptions of systems on chaotic orbits in axisymmetric galactic centers - zephyr penoyre
Formation and evolution of stars and planetary systems (NOVA network 2)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Revealing the mysterious binary DG CVn through VLBI astrometry - Paul Boven (JIVE / Leiden University)

09:15 Nonlinear Evolution of the Unstratified Polydisperse Dust Settling Instability - Hossam Aly (TU Delft)

09:30 Polydisperse Formation of Planetesimals - Jip Matthijsse (Technical University Delft)

09:45 Analysis of dust and gas in planet-forming disks surrounding very low-mass stars - Hyerin Jang (Department of Astrophysics/IMAPP, Radboud University)

10:00 Uncovering hidden water in carbon-rich terrestrial planet forming regions - Aditya M. Arabhavi (University of Groningen)
10:30 Coffee break + poster session

10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Special session: Data science
Data science
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Interactive discussion
Special session: Instrumentation
Instrumentation
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 EXOPLANET EXPLORER – A SINGLE SPACECRAFT NULLING INTERFEROMETER - Ida Sigusch (TU Delft)

11:15 The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy - Aurora Simionescu (SRON Leiden)

11:30 The Africa Millimetre Telescope - Annelies Ampe

11:45 Progress on the LOFAR2.0 Radio Telescope - Boudewijn Hut

12:00 Instrument developments of NOVA submm group. - Andrey Baryshev (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, NOVA)

12:15 Transient discovery with the GOTO Network - Duncan Galloway (Monash University)
Special session: Sustainability
Sustainability
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 ASTRON’s sustainability efforts - Jessica Dempsey

11:20 Sustainability at NWO and SRON - Rob Detmers

11:40 The climate costs and ethical perils of generative AI - Emily Sandford (Leiden University)

12:00 General discussion: Sustainable computing in astronomy
12:30 Lunch

12:30 - 13:50

13:50 Plenary: Poster prize ceremony
Poster prize ceremony
13:50 - 14:05

14:05 KNA/RNAS: Pastor Schmeits Prize for research ceremony
Pastor Schmeits Prize for research ceremony
14:05 - 14:45

14:45 Conference picture

14:45 - 15:00

15:00 Coffee break + poster session

15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Plenary
15:30 - 16:45
Contributions

15:30 Habitable Worlds Observatory - Antonija Oklopcic (University of Amsterdam)

15:45 High-mass runaway stars originating in the starburst cluster R136 - Mitchel Stoop (University of Amsterdam, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy)

16:00 Towards precision constraints on reionization history with quasar IGM damping wings - Timo Kist (Leiden Observatory)

16:15 Euclid's view on galaxy quenching - Pablo Corcho Caballero (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)

16:30 Pushing LOFAR to its limits with ultra-deep, high-resolution, wide-field imaging - Jurjen de Jong
16:45 Closing remarks

16:45 - 17:00

17:00 Bus service from venue to central station

17:00 - 18:00