Invited Plenary Talks

(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

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


Wednesday, 11. September 2024

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Michael Kramer:
Exploring the low-frequency gravitational wave sky

09:30  Ansgar Reiners:
Stars, Planets, and Fundamental Physics: Precision Astrophysics in the era of the ELT

10:00  Jennifer Schober:
Cosmic magnetic fields: A new window to the fundamental physics of the early Universe

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

11:00  Julia Bodensteiner:
A cosmic dance – constraining binary interaction physics with post-interaction systems

11:30  Rüdiger Pakmor:
Self-consistent galactic magnetic fields in cosmological simulations

14:00-15:45 Denkschrift presentation (Aula 1&2)

16:15-18:00 Denkschrift presentation (Aula 1&2)


Thursday, 12. September 2024

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Barbara Ercolano:
The atmospheres of discs and planets

09:30  Ewine van Dishoeck:
Protostars and protoplanetary disks with JWST: probing the material that builds planets

10:00  Camilla Hansen:
Observations and formation of heavy elements in early Universe

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

11:00  Announcement of Poster Prize Winner

11:05  Ilse De Looze:
The JWST view of dusty supernova remnants

11:35  Nadine Neumayer:
The formation and growth of supermassive black holes


Friday, 13. September 2024

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Aula 1&2 / virtual plenum)

09:00  Jessica Agarwal:
Active asteroids and the binary main-belt comet 288P

09:30  Guido W. Fuchs:
One by one - the decoding of our molecular universe using high-resolution infrared spectroscopy

10:00  Laura Spitler:
Testing the connection between fast radio bursts and neutron stars

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

11:00  Philipp Girichidis:
Cosmic rays in the interstellar medium

11:30  Annalisa Pillepich:
Extracting the physics of galaxies (and galaxy clusters) with cosmological simulations and machine learning