Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Monday, 15. September 2025
10:00-12:00 AG board meeting (closed session)
13:00-17:00 RDS board meeting (closed session)
18:00-20:00 Welcome Reception & Poster Session (Wichernhaus)
Tuesday, 16. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Opening |
| 09:20 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Paola Caselli: |
| Our Astrochemical Origins |
| 10:05 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Anna-Christina Eilers: |
| The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Astrophysical Instrumentation Award Talk - Frank Grupp: |
| 11:30 | PhD Prize Talk - Jonah Wagenveld: |
| Testing large scale cosmology with radio catalogues |
| 12:00 | Awards: |
| Jugend-forscht Award: Loreley Paul Hanno-und-Ruth-Roelin Award: Dr. Ruth Grützbauch |
12:15-12:30 Conference Photo
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
14:00-16:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (Schlesisches Museum)
| 14:00 | Bernhard Schulz: |
| Progress in Constructing the SOFIA Data Center |
| 14:19 | Marco Bischoff: |
| Quantifying Model-Observation Similarity: Implications for Stellar Flyby Models |
| 14:37 | M. Demleitner: |
| Teaching the VO |
| 14:55 | E. Tom L. Strauß: |
| Compute Cloud: Constructing a high available container orchestration infrastructure |
| 15:14 | Iliana Cortés: |
| Photometric decomposition of AGN variability via Machine Learning: Spectral reconstruction and lag characterization |
| 15:33 | Johanna Riedel: |
| Back to the feature: Reconstructing Spectra from Photometry |
| 15:52 | Sebastian T. Gomez: |
| From data to scientific breakthroughs with tools powered by Representation Learning |
| 16:11 | Romain Chazotte: |
| Improved Rotation Equivariance via Embedding in Zernike Polynomial Space |
ExoPlanets - Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 14:00 | Short introduction to the session and overview of the topics |
| 14:05 | Ruth Titz-Weider: |
| Finding other Earths with the PLATO mission |
| 14:25 | A. Quirrenbach: |
| THE HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY: STATUS AND GERMAN PERSPECTIVES |
| 14:45 | Marcus Kirsch: |
| CHEOPS status and perspectives |
| 15:05 | Alexis M. S. Smith: |
| First results from the Warm Object Rossiter-McLaughlin Survey (WORMS) |
| 15:25 | Eike Wolf Guenther: |
| Reconnaissance spectroscopy of PLATO planet candidates |
| 15:45 | Anna Julia Poser: |
| Rapid Interior Characterization of Exoplanets for the PLATO Era |
| 16:05 | Engin Keles: |
| What a Hell ?! Deducing interior properties of 55 CNC e from LBT observations |
JungeAG - Junge AG / Young AG (Synagoge - Alexander-Katz)
| 14:00 | Sabina Bahic, Steven Hämmerich: |
| Junge AG / Young AG |
| 14:10 | Finn Götze: |
| Kinematic Classification of Radial Velocity Variable Hot Subdwarfs |
| 14:30 | Julius Göhring: |
| Planetary Engulfment and its Impact on Stellar Magnetic Activity in Close-Orbit Systems |
| 14:50 | Lukas Stock: |
| How to software-stabilize small spectrographs |
| 15:10 | Maryam Raouph: |
| Evaluating Natural Magnitudes in the Photometric System of Astronomical Plates |
| 15:30 | Meng Ho Tan: |
| Determining Rotation Periods for Stellar Targets Under Consideration within the JWST Rocky Worlds Program |
| 15:50 | Nuray Ortaköse: |
| From filaments to cores: tracing accretion histories with tracer particles |
| 16:10 | Yinbo Huang: |
| Timing Argument and Binary Motion of Local Group Galaxy Pairs |
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual MGV)
Wednesday, 17. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Samaya Nissanke: |
| New Perspectives onto the Universe in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics |
| 09:30 | Vikram Ravi: |
| The DSA-2000 Radio Camera: Revolutionizing Access to the Radio Sky |
| 10:00 | Jörn Wilms: |
| National roadmap for astronomy ('Denkschrift') |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (Townhall & Strategy Meeting) (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Michael Kramer: |
| Strategy discussion national roadmap for astronomy ('Denkschrift') |
| 11:30 | Xavier Barcons: |
| Expanding Horizons - Transforming Astronomy in the 2040s |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
12:30-13:30 AstroFrauenNetzwerk Lunch
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (Schlesisches Museum)
| 14:00 | Begrüßung |
| 14:00 | Vorstellungsrunde |
| 14:25 | Stefan Ohm: |
| Internationale Spitzenforschung und Strukturwandel: Die Rolle von Regionaler Vernetzung und Wissenstransfer am DZA |
| 14:50 | Norbert Junkes: |
| Von der Kita bis zur Forschergruppe - 28 Jahre Besuchervorträge am Radioteleskop Effelsberg |
| 15:15 | Susanne Hüttemeister: |
| Our Exotic Universe – A Planetarium Show as an Outreach Activity of a Collaborative Research Centre |
ALMA2040 - ALMA2040: From today’s science to new frontiers in the 2040s (Benigna - Theater)
| 14:00 | Welcome |
| 14:05 | Jakob den Brok: |
| Beyond 12CO: Current and Future Prospects for Probing Extragalactic Molecular Gas with ALMA |
| 14:25 | Henrik Beuther: |
| ALMA science now and in the future: Galactic Star Formation |
| 14:45 | Stefanie Mühle: |
| The ALMA2030 Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade |
| 14:55 | Eva Schinnerer: |
| Status of the ALMA2040 community effort |
| 15:05 | Discussion on “ALMA science frontiers now, in the 2030s and 2040s" |
ExoPlanets - Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 14:00 | Michael Döring: |
| Outlier Detection and Detrending of PLATO Light Curves in the Data Analysis Support Tools |
| 14:20 | Louise D. Nielsen: |
| Characterising exoplanets around white dwarfs |
| 14:40 | Kevin Ollmann: |
| Hot exozodiacal dust (HEZD): Exoplanet polarimetry and Fomalhaut MATISSE observations |
| 15:00 | Max Bror Michaelis: |
| Polarimetry of Exoplanet-Exomoon Systems |
| 15:20 | Katsiaryna Tsishchankava: |
| Faint companions mimicking interferometric hot exozodiacal dust observations |
Multimessenger - Multi-messenger signatures of feedback processes in galaxies (Jugendherberge Görlitz-Altstadt)
| 14:05 | Christoph Pfrommer: |
| Cosmic ray feedback in galaxies |
| 14:30 | Maria Werhahn: |
| Constraining Cosmic Ray Feedback in Galaxy Evolution |
| 14:45 | Rainer Weinberger: |
| Modeling AGN jet feedback and its signatures in simulations of galaxy formation |
| 15:00 | Dieter Lutz: |
| Gas flows in AGN broad line regions from the local universe to beyond cosmic noon |
| 15:15 | Timon Thomas: |
| Cosmic ray transport and feedback in CRISPy galaxies |
| 15:30 | Kai Wu: |
| DRAGON-III simulation: modelling million-body globular and nuclear star clusters over cosmic time |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StarFormation - Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)
| 16:15 | Introduction (Rolf Kuiper) |
| 16:42 | Thomas Stanke: |
| Feedback in NGC3603: warm but quiet! |
| 17:09 | M. Scheiter: |
| The Role of Radiative Torques in L43 |
| 17:36 | Brandt Gaches: |
| The High-resolution Accretion Disks of Embedded protoStars (HADES) simulations: How the protostellar magnetic field impacts accretion |
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (Schlesisches Museum)
| 16:15 | Schuh: |
| A hands-on peek into the Fediverse |
| 16:40 | Ludwig Scheibe: |
| “Exoplanet Diversity” – An outreach webpage for all things exoplanet |
| 17:05 | Martin Schwinzerl: |
| Weltraum-Radio Workshop – Jugendliche suchen galaktischen Wasserstoff mit selbstgebautem Tabletop Radioteleskop |
| 17:30 | Olaf Kretzer : |
| Astronomische Datenbank Thüringen- ein Bundesland astronomisch erfasst |
| 17:55 | Zeit für abschließende Abstimmung/Ansagen |
ExoPlanets - Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 16:15 | Kai Wu: |
| Dynamical stability of debris discs with planets in star clusters |
| 16:35 | Gracjan Maciejewski: |
| Decoding the TTV Signal of the Warm Saturn around HD 332231 |
| 16:55 | Morgan Mitchell: |
| Transit Timing Prospects for Kepler Systems in the PLATO Era |
| 17:15 | Paul Mollière: |
| Characterizing Silicate Clouds in Rogue Planets with JWST |
| 17:35 | Open discussion |
Multimessenger - Multi-messenger signatures of feedback processes in galaxies (Jugendherberge Görlitz-Altstadt)
| 16:15 | R.-J. Dettmar: |
| Magnetic Fields and CRE Transport in Galactic Halos: the CHANG-ES view |
| 16:30 | Johannes Just: |
| Expanding the Quasi-Periodic Multi-Messenger Picture of the Blazar J1048+7143 with the Optical Light Curve |
| 16:45 | Sabina Bahic: |
| Extreme ends of AGN variability |
| 17:00 | Susanne Hüttemeister: |
| Our Exotic Universe – A Planetarium Show as an Outreach Activity of the Collaborative Research Centre 1491 |
19:00-00:00 Conference Dinner
Thursday, 18. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Townhall Meeting) (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Introduction Townhall Meeting |
| 09:10 | Frank Eisenhauer: |
| Towards a Kilometers Baseline Interferometer |
| 09:40 | Eva Schinnerer: |
| ALMA2040 - The cold universe in high definition |
| 10:10 | Matthias Steinmetz: |
| WST: the wide-field spectroscopic telescope |
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (Townhall Meeting) (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Dominik Riechers: |
| ATLAST |
| 11:30 | Thomas Kupfer: |
| Time Domain Astronomy |
| 12:00 | Discussion: German plans for the ESO strategy 'expanding horizons' |
12:30-13:30 Diversity Lunch Meeting
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
PlanetFormation - Protoplanetary disks and planet formation at high-angular resolution (Jugendherberge Görlitz-Altstadt)
| 14:05 | Alex Ziampras: |
| Modeling planet-forming substructures in protoplanetary disks with multi-fluid radiation hydrodynamics |
| 14:40 | Lukas Hildebrandt: |
| Observability of planet-induced structures within the inner few AU of protoplanetary disks. |
| 15:00 | Prakruti Sudarshan: |
| Starlight substructures in dusty, radiative PPDs: limits to the stellar irradiation instability |
| 15:20 | Oliver Gressel: |
| Hypersonic accretion in wind-emitting transitional discs |
GWAstronomy - Multi-band Gravitational wave Astronomy (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 14:00 | Michael Kramer: |
| Detection of a nHz-Gravitational Wave Background |
| 14:25 | Paul Teckenburg: |
| Observing Ultracompact Binaries with the Oskar Lühning Telescope |
| 14:50 | Martin Quast: |
| On the X-ray Emission of Massive Binary Stars |
| 15:15 | Valentin Thoss: |
| Detecting dark objects in the Solar System using Gravitational Wave Observatories |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss (Synagoge - Alexander-Katz)
| 14:00 | Martin Quast: |
| Fachfremd im Weltraum: Astronomisches Wissen von Physiklehrkräften im Seiteneinstieg |
| 14:20 | Andreas Schulz: |
| Das Leben der Sterne |
| 14:40 | Marvin zur Mühlen: |
| Authentizität aus Sicht von Studierenden: Eine explorative Untersuchung im Kontext einer astronomiedidaktischen Lernaufgabe auf Grundlage historischer Sternspektren |
| 15:00 | Simon F. Kraus: |
| Der Authentizitätsbegriff aus der Sicht der Astronomiedidaktik |
| 15:20 | Susanne Hüttemeister: |
| Neues vom European Space Education Resource Center ESERO in Deutschland |
| 15:40 | Jana Bingemer: |
| Das Bildungskonzept des Deutschen Zentrum für Astrophysik |
StarFormation - Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)
| 14:00 | Oleg Egorov: |
| A multi-scale observational perspective on stellar feedback with SDSS-V/LVM |
| 14:27 | Michael Romano: |
| New insights on the baryon cycle of low-mass galaxies across cosmic time |
| 14:54 | Michael Rugel: |
| Structure and properties of molecular gas across the Milky Way |
| 15:21 | Rainer Weinberger: |
| Toward modeling the multi-phase ISM in a cosmological context |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
StarFormation - Star Formation: From Near to Far — From Local to Global (Benigna - Theater)
| 16:15 | Jochen Eislöffel: |
| Reviewing recent observations of accretion bursts in HMYSOs |
| 16:42 | Verena Wolf: |
| Time-dependent radiative transfer modeling of accretion outbursts of massive young stellar objects |
| 17:09 | Christian Andreas: |
| Investigation of periodic maser outbursts in young stars with SOFIA |
| 17:36 | Outro (Thomas Stanke) |
PlanetFormation - Protoplanetary disks and planet formation at high-angular resolution (Jugendherberge Görlitz-Altstadt)
| 16:15 | Hugo Nowacki: |
| Star-disk interactions in young Sun-like stars probed with VLTI/GRAVITY |
| 16:50 | Jonas Sauter: |
| Unveiling the Inner Architecture of the β Pictoris System with GRAVITY+: Disk Alignment and Signs of a Potential Inner Disk |
| 17:10 | Johannes S. Martin: |
| The MATISSE view of the inner region of the RY Tau protoplanetary disk |
| 17:30 | Alessio Popovik: |
| Multiplicity and inner gas kinematics in the GU CMa system probed with VLTI/GRAVITY |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss (Synagoge - Alexander-Katz)
| 16:15 | Diskussionen zur Zuarbeit zur Denkschrift sowie Zukunftsszenarien für den Bildungsausschuss |
GWAstronomy - Multi-band Gravitational wave Astronomy (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 16:15 | Andreas Flörs: |
| Calibrated Nebular Emission Lines of Lanthanide Ions for NLTE Kilonova Modelling |
| 16:40 | Sambaran Banerjee: |
| Gravitational-wave mergers from star clusters and isolated binaries |
| 17:05 | Fabian Schmidt: |
| A Universe made of Black Holdes? |
20:00-21:30 Public Lecture (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal)
| 20:00 | Stefan Wagner: |
| Heller als eine Milliarde Sonnen: Vom Teufelsstern zu den größten Explosionen des Universums |
Friday, 19. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Torsten Enßlin: |
| Time domain sky signals with information field theory |
| 09:30 | Anna Nelles: |
| With SKA-low from the lowest radio frequencies to the highest energies |
| 10:00 | Alexey Mints: |
| Gaia from DR3 to DR4 - Time Domain Data |
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (Synagoge - Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Marat Gilfanov: |
| Variable X-ray sky with SRG/eROSITA |
| 11:30 | Günther Hasinger: |
| The German Center for Astrophysics (DZA): vision for the community |
| 12:00 | Frank Ohme: |
| 10 Years of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)