Detailed Conference Program

(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)


Tuesday, 10. September 2024

09:00-10:30 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Opening

09:15  Karl Schwarzschild Lecture - Anton Zensus:
Imaging Black Holes - A Very Long Baseline Interferometry Success Story

10:00  Ludwig Biermann Award Talk - Matthias Kluge:
The Exploration of the Optical Low-Surface-Brightness Universe

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:15 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

11:00  Astrophysical Software Award Talk - Willem van Straten:
PSRCHIVE - Open-Source Software for Pulsar Data Analysis

11:30  PhD Prize Talk - Matti Dorsch:
Magnetic, heavy metal, or composite: Hot subdwarf stars as the result of binary evolution

12:00  Awards:
Bruno-H.-Bürgel Award: Dirk Lorenzen
Hans-Ludwig-Neumann Award: Oliver Schwarz
Jugend-forscht Award: Anna Maria Weiss

12:15-12:30 Conference Photo

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-16:30 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

DwarfGalaxies - Pushing the Frontiers in Dwarf Galaxy Research (S24)

14:00  Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez:
Simulations as powerful but challenging tools for understanding dwarf galaxies

14:40  Elena Asencio:
The distribution and morphologies of Fornax Cluster dwarf galaxies suggest they lack dark matter

15:10  Sara Saeedi:
eROSITA and XMM-Newton observations of symbiotic stars in nearby dwarf galaxies

15:40  Michael Hilker:
Instrumentation for future dwarf galaxy studies

16:20  Discussion

MassiveStars - The lives of massive stars and their influence on star formation (S23)

14:00  Andrea Ercolino:
Interacting supernovae from wide massive binaries

14:25  Chinmaya Nagar:
Probing Stellar Multiplicity in Galactic Massive Star Clusters with NACO

14:50  Harim Jin:
Boron depletion in Galactic early B-type stars reveals two different main sequence star populations

15:15  Sebastian Vider:
Confronting Observations with Simulations - Blister-Type HII Regions

15:40  Rakesh Pandey:
Testing the bloated star hypothesis in IRAS 19520+2759

16:05  U.Heber:
Discovery of two pulsating B Runaway stars and a census of pulsations of B runaways

Solar - The interplay between synoptic, high-resolution, and in-situ solar physics (S15)

14:00  Hardi Peter:
Energy and mass transport of small scales in the corona

14:20  Markus Roth:
The Solar Physics Research Integrated Network Group - SPRING

14:40  Rolf Schlichenmaier:
On the connectivity of sunspots and surrounding network through moving magnetic features

15:00  Tanayveer Bhatia:
Simulations of spots on cool main-sequence stars

15:20  Markus Schmassmann:
Sunspot simulations with potential field initial conditions

15:40  Diaz-Castillo, Saida:
Observation of multi-phase small-scale magnetic field amplification in a vortical structure in the lower solar atmosphere.

16:00  Saurabh Mittal:
Contribution of stellar flares to the 511 keV emission in the Galaxy

MinorBodies - Minor Bodies of the Solar System and Beyond as Witnesses of Planet Formation (S21)

14:00  Meg Schwamb:
The LSST and the Solar System

14:35  René Heller:
The formation of the Galilean moons and Titan in the Grand Tack scenario

14:55  Amith Govind:
The flyby that possibly shaped the outer Solar System: Insights from DESTINY

15:15  Short Break

15:25  Michael Küppers:
Comet Interceptor – A Rapid Response Mission to a Pristine World

16:00  Susanne Pfalzner:
A Stellar Flyby Connects Irregular Moons and Trans-Neptunian Objects: Implications for the Early Solar System

16:20  Wrap-up / Discussion

SNR - Multiwavelength studies of supernova remnants and their impact on the interstellar medium (S14)

14:00  Mattia Pacicco:
Simulations of SNRs in a magnetized multi-phase medium

14:15  Federico Zangrandi:
Supernova Remnants Population in the Large Magellanic Cloud

14:30  Marie Prucker:
Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Supernova Remnant PuppisA with PLUTO

14:45  Discussion

15:00  Break

15:15  Nina Sanches Sartorio:
Investigating the impact of supernova explosions in a diverse set of dusty ISM environments

15:30  Florian Kirchschlager:
Dust destruction by the reverse shock in clumpy supernova remnants

15:45  Yvonne Fichtner:
Connecting stellar and galactic scales of stellar feedback

16:00  Leonard Romano:
Cloud Formation by Supernova Implosion

16:01  Discussion

EScience - E-Science / E-Infrastructures / Virtual Observatory / Machine Learning (S13)

14:00  Christiane Schneide:
Research data management: Insights and progress from PUNCH4NFDI

14:25  Matthias Hoeft:
A federated infrastructure for the community: Storage+Compute4PUNCH

14:50  Elena Sacchi:
REANA: a key element for reproducible analyses in PUNCH4NFDI

15:15  Prateek Gupta:
REANA4PUNCH use cases in Astronomy

15:30  Daniel Hernandez-Lang:
Radio Astronomy Data Processing with PUNCH4NFDI Tools

15:45  Harry Enke:
Digital infrastructure for German astronomy: NFDI and DZA

JungeAG - junge AG / young AG (S25)

14:05  Anna Gebhardt:
Spectrophotometric investigations of hot subdwarf stars in the Plato field with Gaia DR3

14:18  Harvey Stemmler:
A spectral analysis of hot stars in a search for OB-binaries

14:31  Sebastian Weich:
Investigation of the Interstellar Medium by Using the Light of Hot Subdwarf Stars

14:44  Lennard Kufleitner:
Spectroscopic analysis of hot subluminous stars from the Hamburg Quasar Survey: New atmospheric- and stellar parameters

14:57  Lukas Stock:
How to use inexpensive echelle spectrographs at your own observatory

15:10  Mauritz Wicker:
Unveiling Hidden Milky Way Objects through Gaia Microlensing Events and the Besançon Galaxy Model

15:23  Nick Horstmann:
The Large Magellanic Cloud in S-Band: Literature Review, Full Sky Simulations, and New SKAMPI Observations

15:36  Mattia Pacicco:
MHD simulations of the Local Bubble

15:49  Kamalpreet Kaur:
Exploring Radio Point Sources in the Galactic Center using S Band of MeerKAT

16:02  Pranav Limaye:
Long-term Statistical Study of an Active Repeating Fast Radio Burst using the Effelsberg 100-m Radio Telescope

16:15  Xueying Zheng:
eROSITA narrowband maps at the energies of soft X-ray emission lines

16:28  Polina Smirnova:
Machine learning analysis of supernova remnant simulations

DataManage - Data-intensive Radio Astronomy: Challenges and Opportunities in Science and Data Management (S22)

14:00  Holger Stiele:
Introduction

14:05  Hanno Holties:
Scientific data infrastructure for LOFAR

14:50  Felix Stoehr:
The future of astronomy, ALMA and machine learning

15:35  Christof Buchbender:
The CCAT Data Center

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-19:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (Aula 1&2 / virtual MGV)