Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
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' |
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
12:30-13:30 Diversity Lunch Meeting
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
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 |
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? |
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) |
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss (Synagoge - Alexander-Katz)
| 16:15 | Diskussionen zur Zuarbeit zur Denkschrift sowie Zukunftsszenarien für den Bildungsausschuss |
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 |