Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Tuesday, 16. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture (Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Conference Opening |
| 09:15 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Paola Caselli: |
| Our Astrochemical Origins |
| 10:00 | 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) (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 Roelin Award: |
12:15-12:30 Conference Photo
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
14:00-16:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
ExoPlanets - Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
| 14:00 | Short introduction to the session and overview of the topics |
| 14:05 | Ruth Titz-Weider: |
| Finding other Earths with the PLATO mission |
| 14:23 | A. Quirrenbach: |
| THE HABITABLE WORLDS OBSERVATORY: STATUS AND GERMAN PERSPECTIVES |
| 14:41 | Marcus Kirsch: |
| CHEOPS status and perspectives |
| 14:59 | Alexis M. S. Smith: |
| First results from the Warm Object Rossiter-McLaughlin Survey (WORMS) |
| 15:17 | Eike Wolf Guenther: |
| Reconnaissance spectroscopy of PLATO planet candidates |
| 15:35 | Anna Julia Poser: |
| Rapid Interior Characterization of Exoplanets for the PLATO Era |
| 15:53 | Engin Keles: |
| What a Hell ?! Deducing interior properties of 55 CNC e from LBT observations |
| 16:11 | Jean-Michel Désert: |
| Tracking the Atmospheric and Interior Evolution of a Young Transiting Exoplanets System |
JungeAG - Junge AG / Young AG
| 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 |
EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning
| 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 |
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-19:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (Kuppelsaal)