Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Thursday, 18. September 2025
09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Townhall Meeting) (Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 09:00 | Introduction Townhall Meeting |
| 09:10 | Frank Eisenhauer: |
| Interferometry |
| 09:40 | Eva Schinnerer: |
| ALMA 2040 |
| 10:10 | Matthias Steinmetz: |
| Wide-Field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) |
10:40-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Plenary Talks (Townhall Meeting) (Kuppelsaal / virtual plenum)
| 11:00 | Amelie Saintonge (tbc): |
| ATLAST |
| 11:30 | Thomas Kupfer: |
| Time Domain Astronomy |
12:00-14:00 Lunch Break (Wichernhaus)
12:30-13:30 Diversity Lunch Meeting
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Education - Meeting Bildungsausschuss
| 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 |
PlanetFormation - Protoplanetary disks and planet formation at high-angular resolution
| 14:00 | Alex Ziampras: |
| Modeling planet-forming substructures in protoplanetary disks with multi-fluid radiation hydrodynamics |
| 14:35 | Lukas Hildebrandt: |
| Observability of planet-induced structures within the inner few AU of protoplanetary disks. |
| 14:55 | Prakruti Sudarshan: |
| Starlight substructures in dusty, radiative PPDs: limits to the stellar irradiation instability |
| 15:15 | Oliver Gressel: |
| Hypersonic accretion in wind-emitting transitional discs |
Multimessenger - Multi-messenger signatures of feedback processes in galaxies
GWAstronomy - Multi-band Gravitational wave Astronomy
| 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
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
GWAstronomy - Multi-band Gravitational wave Astronomy
| 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? |
Multimessenger - Multi-messenger signatures of feedback processes in galaxies
PlanetFormation - Protoplanetary disks and planet formation at high-angular resolution
| 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
20:00-21:30 Public Lecture (Kuppelsaal)
| 20:00 | Stefan Wagner: |
| Heller als Milliarden Sonnen |