Date Duration Name Title Room 2026-10-05 Monday 30 min Fu Hao Fudan University [12:30 TBD] How galaxies acquire their stellar mass at redshift z>5: An overview from a semi-empirical point of view. 2026-08-24 Monday 30 min Alessandra Venditti University of Texas Austin [12:30 CE.0.18] The surprising lives of Pop III stars: whens, wheres and hows 2026-08-19 Wednesday 30 min Xu, Jiachuan Northeastern University [12:30 CE.0.18] Kinematic Lensing with the Roman Space Telescope CE.0.18 2026-08-05 Wednesday 30 min Josh Borrow [Oort room BM.4.33] Time Domain in the Millimeter with Simons Observatory TBC 2026-07-31 Friday 30 min Silvia Onorato Gemini Observatory [BM.4.33] Napowawa`enakaulua, a close quasar pair at cosmic dawn BM.4.33 2026-07-14 Tuesday 30 min Peter Tuthill [12:30 CE.0.18] - Here be dragons: the mighty Wolf-Rayets 2026-07-02 Thursday 30 min Lauren Schatz Starfire Optical Range [13:00 CE.0.18] - Overview of basic research programs at Starfire Optical Range CE.0.18 2026-06-23 Tuesday 30 min Mark Krumholz Australian National University [CE.0.18] Metal loading of galactic winds CE.0.18 2026-06-16 Tuesday 30 min Nicolas Bouche Centre of Research in Astrophysics of Lyon (CRAL) [CE.0.12] The need for a wide-field IFU at 1micron CE.0.12 2026-06-09 Tuesday 30 min Nadia Murillo UNAM Ensenada, Mexico [CE.0.18 ] Multiple Protostellar Systems: formation environment & dynamical evolution CE.0.18 2026-06-08 Monday 30 min Shyam Menon CCA, Flatiron Institute [CE.0.18] Dense star clusters at cosmic dawn CE.0.18 2026-06-03 Wednesday 30 min Brett McGuire MIT [CE.0.08] 2026 census of interstellar molecules: an explosion of new detections CE.0.08 2026-05-28 Thursday 30 min Johannes Buchner [CE.0.06] A hidden population of over-massive black hole quasars revealed by eROSITA CE.0.06 2026-05-27 Wednesday 30 min Clarke Jarett Esmerian [CE.0.08] Modeling Cosmic Dust Evolution Atom-by-Atom CE.0.08 2026-05-26 Tuesday 30 min Ryota Ikeda Tohoku University [CE.0.18] A census of distant star-forming galaxies from kpc to sub-kpc scales using ALMA and JWST CE.0.18 2026-05-21 Thursday 30 min Felix Priestley Cardiff University [CE.0.18] Chemical clocks in turbulent molecular clouds CE.0.18 2026-05-12 Tuesday 30 min Nikki Geesink ESO [CE.0.12] A new view of Cosmic noon with ACE: unveiling dust-to-gas ratios in sub-solar metallicity galaxies CE.0.12 2026-05-08 Friday 30 min Manuel Guedel University of Vienna [CE.0.18] Shockingly hot and shockingly cool(ing): A fresh look at the environment of DG Tau CE.0.18 2026-05-04 Monday 30 min Ilaria Marini LMU / ESO [CE.0.18] On the baryonic content of galaxy groups and clusters: the Magneticum perspective CE.0.18 2026-05-01 Friday 30 min Antoine Schneeberger Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies [CE.0.18] Stellar Energetic Particles, a significant source of ionisation for inner protoplanetary disks CE.0.18 2026-04-29 Wednesday 30 min William Balmer [CE.0.18] Living On the Wedge – Directly Imaging CO2 in Exoplanet Atmospheres with JWST CE.0.18 2026-04-23 Thursday 30 min Jonah Hansen ETH Zurich [CE.0.18] The NICE testbed for the LIFE Space mission: reaching high contrast in the mid-infrared CE.0.18 2026-04-21 Tuesday 30 min Katy Proctor Stockholm University [CE.0.12] Stellar mass assembly in the dwarf regime: insights from the COLIBRE simulations CE.0.12 2026-04-10 Friday 30 min Ciera Sargent Durham University [CE.0.18] A striking excess of red quasars with steep radio spectral slopes: a dusty blow-out phase revealed through AGN-driven shocks CE.0.18 2026-04-08 Wednesday 30 min Keren Duer-Milner Leiden Observatory [CE.0.18] Jet streams in the Giant Planets of the Solar System CE.0.18 2026-04-07 Tuesday 30 min Bhashin Takore GRAPPA, University of Turin [CE.0.18] Exploring the Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky Through Cross-Correlations With Tracers of Large-Scale Structure CE.0.18 2026-03-25 Wednesday 30 min Genevieve Marshall Leiden Observatory [12:30 CE.0.18] Partnership and engagement: towards a broader funding landscape for astronomy CE.0.18 2026-03-24 Tuesday 30 min Sierra Grant Carnegie Institution for Science [CE.0.12] Building new worlds: Accessing the ingredients for planets and moons with JWST CE.0.12 2026-03-19 Thursday 30 min Jochen Stadler ESO [CE.0.18] From Infalling Gas to a Chemical Fountain CE.0.18 2026-03-18 Wednesday 30 min Giulia Roccetti ESA [12:30 CE.0.18] Spectropolarimetry of Earthshine as a Benchmark for Reflected Light Characterization of Rocky Exoplanets CE.0.18 2026-03-17 Tuesday 30 min Francesco Turini University of Milano-Bicocca [CE.0.18] Weighing gas-rich starless halos: dark matter parameters inference from their gas distributions CE.0.18 2026-03-10 Tuesday 30 min Bert Vander Meulen ESTEC [CE.0.18] X-ray radiative transfer with the SKIRT code CE.0.18 2026-03-09 Monday 30 min Maya Silverman Niels Bohr Institute in Denmark [CE.0.18] Gravothermal Collapse in Cosmological Simulations of Self-Interacting Dark Matter CE.0.18 2026-03-06 Friday 30 min Rafail Skalidis Caltech, USA [CE.0.18] Towards a unified view of the magnetized and multi-phase interstellar medium CE.0.18 2026-03-02 Monday 30 min Dr. Zephyr Penoyre Leiden Observatory [12:30 CE.0.18] A light, and then another light (sometimes moving) CE.0.18 2026-02-24 Tuesday 30 min Yi Ren Waseda University [12:30 CE.0.06] Research on the physical properties of a young starburst galaxy in the early Universe with JWST and ALMA telescopes CE.0.06 2026-02-23 Monday 30 min Ayan Acharyya INAF, Padova [12:30 CE.0.18] Unraveling past physical processes using present chemical abundance maps of galaxies: do simulations and observations agree? CE.0.18 2026-02-20 Friday 30 min Alice Somigliana Max Planck Institute for Astronomy [CE.0.12] The JWST/MIRI view of the binary system HK Tau CE.0.12 2026-02-19 Thursday 30 min Carlo Manara ESO [12:30 CE.0.12] Winds and protoplanetary disk substructures near and afar CE.0.12 2026-02-13 Friday 30 min Minou Greve University of Bonn [CE.0.12] CO-HCN-SFR variations across spiral arms in nearby galaxies CE.0.12 2026-02-11 Wednesday 30 min Benoît Tabone CNRS - University of Paris-Saclay [12:30 CE.0.08] JWST views of the physics and chemistry of planet-forming disks CE.0.08 2026-02-02 Monday 30 min Denis Burgarella Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille [12:30 CE.0.18] A natural explanation for the excess of UV-bright galaxies at z > 9: stardust galaxies CE.0.18
Information for Speakers and Hosts: Talks are limited to 25 minutes, with 5 additional minutes for questions. Hosts are responsible for bringing the speaker to the correct room in ample time to set up laptops etc., and for ensuring the speaker also has time for lunch.
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