Invited Plenary Talks
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
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 |
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 |
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') |
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 |
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 |
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' |
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 |
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 |