Detailed Conference Program
(Time zone: Europe/Berlin, CEST/UTC+2)
Monday, 13. September 2021
09:00-13:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
CosmicRays - Impact of Cosmic Rays on the Physics and Chemistry of Dense Molecular Gas (virtual Cosmic)
| 09:15 | Christian Rab: |
| Constraining the energetic particle flux of young stars during the period of planet formation. |
| 09:45 | Elena Redaelli: |
| The cosmic-ray ionisation rate in the prestellar core L1544 |
| 10:15 | Kedron Silsbee: |
| Constraining the physics of cosmic ray transport in dense gas |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:15 | Sergio Ioppolo: |
| Laboratory Ice Astrochemistry at ATOMKI - A New Experimental Facility for Ion Impact Studies of Astrophysical Ice Analogues |
| 11:45 | M.E. Palumbo: |
| Chemical and physical effects after ion bombardment of astrophysical ice analogs |
| 12:15 | Philipp Girichidis: |
| Spectrally resolved cosmic rays in MHD simulations |
| 12:45 | Discussion |
Bildung - Astronomische Bildung (virtual Edu)
| 09:00 | Begrüßung |
| 09:10 | Markus Pössel: |
| Der Office of Astronomy for Education der IAU |
| 09:50 | Susanne Hoffmann: |
| Digital SchoolLab |
| 10:30 | Björn Poppe: |
| A Cross-Faculty Undergraduate Course in Astronomy and Astrophysics |
| 11:10 | Pause |
| 11:20 | Alexander Küpper: |
| astro-lab@home |
| 12:00 | Simon Kraus: |
| Measurement of the Earthshine as an Undergraduate Level Observational Project |
| 12:40 | Zusammenfassung mit Auswertung |
09:00-11:00 Kickoff Meeting Astronomical Telescope Network Germany (virtual ATNG)
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Arbeitskreis AstroFrauenNetzwerk (virtual AFN)
16:00-18:00 Splinter Session
JungeAG - Junge AG - Young AG (virtual JAG)
| 16:05 | Markus Hundertmark: |
| Introduction |
| 16:30 | Lukas Weghs: |
| Photometric Search for Exomoons by using Convolutional Neural Networks |
| 16:50 | Kathrin Grunthal: |
| Revisiting the Galactic Double Neutron Star merger and LIGO detection rates |
| 17:20 | Offene Diskussion |
Tuesday, 14. September 2021
09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Culture - Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy (virtual Cult)
| 09:05 | Wayne Horowitz: |
| The Babylonian constellation of APIN |
| 09:20 | Susanne Hoffmann: |
| Stellarium Sky Cultures: Painting Babylonian |
| 09:35 | Michael Geymeier: |
| Constellation Cetus: Whale or Monster? |
| 09:50 | Break |
| 10:00 | V. R. Pai: |
| Star names in Indian culture - a search leading to their evolution |
| 10:15 | Daniel Cunnama: |
| Inspiration and Engagement with Astronomy Through Khoi and San Starlore |
| 10:30 | Doris Vickers: |
| Maximilian Hell's contributions to the quarrel about the naming of the planet Uranus |
Stars - Stars and Stellar Feedback (virtual Stars)
| 09:00 | Kuiper: |
| On the metallicity-dependence of radiation forces and photoionization feedback in massive star formation |
| 09:20 | Jaeyeon Kim: |
| A systematic determination of the evolutionary timescale of successive phases of star formation and gas dispersal by stellar feedback |
| 09:40 | André Oliva: |
| The processes driving jets during the formation of high-mass stars |
| 10:00 | Amith Govind: |
| Close stellar flybys are common in low-mass clusters |
| 10:20 | Gautham Narayana Sabhahit: |
| Superadiabaticity and the metallicity independence of the Humphreys-Davidson limit |
| 10:40 | Roel Lefever: |
| Impact of the uncertain velocity fields on the spectral appearance of Wolf-Rayet stars |
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (virtual plenum)
| 11:30 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 2020 - Friedrich-Karl Thielemann: |
| Origin of the Elements in the Universe |
| 12:15 | PhD Prize Talk 2020 - Anna-Christina Eilers: |
| The Formation and Growth of Supermassive Black Holes |
| 12:45 | Bruno H. Bürgel Prize Talk - Uwe Reichert: |
| Communicating astronomy - a personal experience |
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 Award Ceremony and Schwarzschild Lecture 2021 (virtual plenum)
| 14:00 | Karl Schwarzschild Lecture 2021 - Jocelyn Bell Burnell: |
| Opening Time Domain Astrophysics |
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-18:00 AG Mitgliederversammlung (virtual assembly)
Wednesday, 15. September 2021
09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
BlackHoles - Black Holes (virtual BH)
| 09:00 | Frank Eisenhauer: |
| Infrared Interferometry of the Galactic Center Black Hole |
| 09:30 | Jinyi Shangguan: |
| Probing the active supermassive black hole with VLTI/GRAVITY |
| 10:00 | Norbert Schartel : |
| XMM-Newton Highlights of Black Hole Observations |
| 10:30 | Reinhard Meinel: |
| Relativistic disc models and black holes |
Stars - Stars and Stellar Feedback (virtual Stars)
| 09:00 | Ashley Barnes: |
| A Balancing Act: Observational determination of the pressures in HII regions across the Galactic Centre and nearby galaxies |
| 09:20 | Lauren Martini: |
| On gravitational trapping and ram pressure trapping of ultracompact and hypercompact HII regions |
| 09:40 | Nicola Schneider : |
| The impact of expanding CII bubbles on the interstellar medium |
| 10:00 | Slawa Kabanovic: |
| The importance of self-absorption in [CII], HI, and CO lines |
| 10:20 | Cristian Guevara: |
| OI] self-absorption effects in M17SW and MonR2 |
| 10:40 | Azlizan Adhyaqsa Soemitro: |
| MUSE Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function of NGC 300 |
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (virtual plenum)
| 11:30 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk 2019 - Eduardo Bañados: |
| The birth of the first massive galaxies and black holes |
| 12:15 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk 2020 - Paola Pinilla: |
| First steps of planet formation in the ALMA and JWST era |
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
BlackHoles - Black Holes (virtual BH)
| 14:00 | Anne-Kathrin Baczko: |
| Jet collimation study of the twin-jet in NGC1052 |
| 14:30 | Koushik Sen: |
| X-ray emission from BH + O star binaries expected to descend from the observed galactic WR + O binaries |
| 14:55 | Sayantani Lahiri: |
| Stationary viscous torus around Schwarzschild black hole |
| 15:20 | Luca Sala: |
| Sub-grid modelling of supermassive black hole accretion, feedback and spin evolution in hydrodynamical simulations |
TimeDomain - Time-domain astronomy (virtual TimeD)
| 14:00 | Patrick Reichherzer: |
| Astro-COLIBRI: novel platform for real-time multimessenger astrophysics |
| 14:13 | Robert Stein: |
| The ZTF Neutrino Follow-up Program |
| 14:26 | Simone Garrappa: |
| Fermi-LAT realtime follow-ups of high-energy neutrino alerts |
| 14:39 | Julia Tjus: |
| Time-dependent multimessenger modeling of blazar flares |
| 14:52 | Sara Buson: |
| Building a robust sample of periodic gamma-ray blazars detected with the Fermi-LAT |
| 15:05 | Dirk Grupe: |
| Long-term Monitoring of Active Galactic Nuclei with the NASA Swift mission. |
| 15:18 | Roisín O'Rourke Brogan: |
| Rebirth as a type 1.9 AGN: Optical Monitoring of the Changing-look AGN Mrk 1018 |
| 15:25 | M. Krumpe: |
| eROSITA transient search: AGN ignition, shutdowns, cloud events & fast radio bursts |
| 15:38 | Nicolas Miranda: |
| The AMPEL System as an Official VRO Community Broker: Current Developments and Applications |
Culture - Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy (virtual Cult)
| 14:05 | Venketeswara Pai R: |
| Star Names in Sanskrit Astronomical literature |
| 14:20 | Jeanette Fincke: |
| The Babylonian GU-text |
| 14:35 | Break |
| 14:40 | Asterios-Evangelos Kechagias: |
| Intercultural Misunderstandings triggered some Transformations of Constellations |
| 14:55 | Susanne M Hoffmann: |
| Comparison of Stellarium Sky Cultures |
| 15:10 | Break |
| 15:15 | Gudrun Wolfschmidt: |
| Cultural Heritage of Observatories - IAU List "Outstanding Astronomical Heritage" |
15:45-16:15 Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Stars - Stars and Stellar Feedback (virtual Stars)
| 16:15 | Sara Rezaei Kh., Daniel Seifried: |
| Substructures of the molecular clouds: connecting theory and observation |
| 16:35 | Enrico Congiu: |
| Classification of emission-line nebulae in the PHANGS-MUSE sample: a Bayesian approach |
| 16:55 | Raul Dominguez: |
| Reproducing 30 Doradus by N-body simulations and WARPFIELD. |
| 17:15 | Ekaterina I. Makarenko: |
| Diagnostic of optical emission from cooling supernova shocks in the multiphase Interstellar Media |
| 17:35 | Florian Kirchschlager: |
| Supernova induced processing of interstellar dust: impact of ISM gas density and gas turbulence |
| 17:55 | Gabriel Szász: |
| New "Pseudo-Rotating" Stellar Atmospheres |
TimeDomain - Time-domain astronomy (virtual TimeD)
| 16:15 | Wolfgang Herrmann: |
| High cadence, long term monitoring of very bright radio transients |
| 16:28 | Suryarao Bethapudi: |
| Observing campaigns using uGMRT and Effelsberg of a repeating fast radio burst |
| 16:41 | Thomas Kupfer: |
| Gaia meets LISA: Updated predictions for LISA verification binaries using Gaia EDR3 |
| 16:54 | Anjana Ashok: |
| New searches for continuous gravitational waves from seven fast pulsars |
| 17:04 | Jing Ming: |
| Results from an Einstein@Home search for continuous gravitational waves from G347.3 at low frequencies in LIGO O2 data |
| 17:10 | Yuanhao Zhang: |
| Searching for Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 |
| 17:16 | B. Steltner: |
| Einstein@Home All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in LIGO O2 Public Data |
| 17:23 | Marcin Wrona: |
| One thousand heartbeat stars from the OGLE project |
| 17:36 | Patryk Iwanek: |
| Multiwavelength study of Miras variability |
19:00-20:30 Öffentlicher Abendvortrag (public lecture)
| 19:00 | Reinhard Genzel (Nobelpreisträger 2020): |
| Eine 40 jährige Reise zum Zentrum der Milchstraße |
Thursday, 16. September 2021
09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Careers - Healthy Careers in Astronomy (and beyond) (virtual Career)
| 09:00 | Francesca Fragkoudi: |
| Opening remarks |
| 09:05 | Francesca Primas: |
| Equity in academic hiring |
| 09:30 | Sarah Jane Schmidt: |
| From the stars back down to Earth: getting a job as a data scientist |
| 09:50 | Juan Carlos Munoz-Mateos: |
| Switching from research to science communication during a pandemic: mission possible! |
| 10:10 | Marcel S. Pawlowski: |
| An Introduction to Time Management |
| 10:35 | Iris Köhler: |
| Networking for People Who Don’t Like Networking |
Stars - Stars and Stellar Feedback (virtual Stars)
| 09:00 | Mélanie Chevance: |
| Feedback-driven molecular cloud lifecycles in 50 nearby galaxies |
| 09:20 | Oleg Egorov: |
| Ionized superbubbles and their driving stellar association in PHANGS |
| 09:40 | Elizabeth Watkins: |
| Identifying Molecular Superbubbles in Nearby Galaxies using PHANGS-ALMA 12CO (2-1) |
| 10:00 | Michalis Kourniotis: |
| Stellar feedback as source of gas dissolution in GMCs : 1D hydrodynamic models |
| 10:20 | Abhijeet Anand: |
| The cool circumgalactic medium in absorption with large spectroscopic surveys |
| 10:40 | Final Discussion |
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (virtual plenum)
| 11:30 | Ludwig Biermann Award Talk 2021 - Fabian Schneider: |
| Turbulent Lives of Stars |
| 12:15 | Astrophysical Software Award 2020 - Til Birnstiel: |
| Dust in planet forming disks — What have we learned after 10 years of ALMA? |
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:45 Splinter Session
Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (virtual Exo)
| 14:00 | Dimitri Veras: |
| Multiple techniques for measuring exoplanets orbiting white dwarfs |
| 14:15 | Alexis Smith: |
| K2-99 revisited: a non-inflated warm Jupiter, and a temperate giant planet on a 523-d orbit around a subgiant |
| 14:30 | F. Mackebrandt: |
| The stellar pulsation timing method to detect sub-stellar companions |
| 14:45 | Paula Gorrini: |
| GJ 832c: an artifact of stellar activity |
| 15:00 | René Heller: |
| Earth-sized Transiting Planets in the Stellar Habitable Zones - from Kepler to PLATO |
| 15:15 | Аhmad Mazidabadi Farahani: |
| Refined ephemeris for three hot Jupiters using ground-bases and TESS observations |
| 15:30 | Yiannis Tsapras: |
| Finding cold and distant exoplanets with microlensing |
15:45-16:15 Break
16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Culture - Astronomy in Culture - Cultures of Astronomy (virtual Cult)
| 16:15 | Anna Jerratsch: |
| Imagining the Heavens in the Digital Age |
| 16:30 | Doris Vickers: |
| Ancient Skies and Stellarium - making cultural astronomical information easily accessible |
| 16:45 | Break |
| 16:50 | Tim Karberg: |
| Astronomical Significance of non-elite burials in the Bayuda region in late anitquity and the medieval period |
| 17:05 | Steven R Gullberg: |
| The Significance of Solstices in the Inca Empire |
| 17:20 | Break |
| 17:25 | Gerd Graßhoff: |
| Astronomical significance of Kreisgrabenanlagen |
| 17:40 | Björn Kunzmann: |
| Edward C. Pickering's „A Plan for Securing Observations of the Variable Stars” and its Influence on Astronomy and Culture |
EScience - EScience und Virtual Observatory (virtual ESc)
| 16:15 | Harry Enke: |
| PUNCH4NFDI Consortium |
Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (virtual Exo)
| 16:15 | Sandra Jeffers: |
| RedDots: All terrestrial planets within 5pc |
| 16:30 | Anton Krieger: |
| Characterization of young accreting planets |
| 16:45 | Cyril Gapp: |
| Deciphering Jupiter’s atmospheric chemistry as a benchmark for extrasolar gas giants using Herschel/PACS |
| 17:00 | Moritz Lietzow: |
| The potential of polarimetry to characterize clouds in exoplanetary atmospheres |
| 17:15 | Engin Keles: |
| High-resolution transmission spectroscopy of the super-Earth 55 Cnc e |
| 17:30 | Katja Poppenhäger: |
| Habitability and loss of planetary hydrogen-helium atmospheres - the K dwarf advantage |
| 17:45 | Fabian Wunderlich: |
| Detectability of biosignatures on LHS 1140 b |
Friday, 17. September 2021
09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Sustainability - Astronomy and Sustainability (virtual Sustain)
| 09:00 | Volker Ossenkopf-Okada: |
| Introduction: Astronomy and Sustainability |
| 09:15 | Jan Rybizki: |
| Climate impact of flying and computing - aspects to be tackled by the astro community |
| 09:35 | A. Hänel: |
| Light pollution as a threat to optical astronomy |
| 09:55 | Knud Jahnke: |
| Global greenhouse gas emissions of astronomy conferencing: a 2019 baseline |
| 10:15 | Vanessa Moss: |
| A sustainable future for astronomy collaboration and conferences? |
| 10:35 | Leonard Burtscher: |
| Astronomers for Planet Earth: how a grass-roots organisation is helping astronomers address the climate crisis |
EScience - EScience und Virtual Observatory (virtual ESc)
| 09:00 | Nikos Gianniotis: |
| Probabilistic flux variation gradient |
| 09:20 | Fenja Kollasch: |
| UltraPINK returns: Newest developments in visualizing and interacting with Self-Organizing Kohonen Maps |
| 09:40 | Caroline Heneka: |
| Learning from 3D tomographic 21cm intensity data |
| 10:00 | Samir Nepal: |
| A Convolutional Neural Network Approach for Stellar Atmospheric Parameters and Lithium Abundance Determination |
| 10:20 | Thavisha Dharmawardena: |
| Deriving the 3D structure of the Milky Way: A fast and scalable Gaussian Process applied to nearby star-formation regions |
| 10:40 | Meetu Verma: |
| Practical application of t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding in classifying chromospheric spectra |
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-13:00 Plenary Talks (Awardees) (virtual plenum)
| 11:30 | Instrumentation Award Talk - Martin Roth: |
| 25 Years of Integral Field Spectroscopy in Potsdam |
| 12:15 | PhD Prize Talk 2021 - Anke Arentsen: |
| Galactic Archaeology with the oldest stars in the Milky Way |
| 12:45 | Jacob Staude: |
| Laudatio Hanno und Ruth Roelin-Preis 2021 für Wissenschaftspublizistik |
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)
Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie / Public Outreach in Astronomy (virtual Outreach)
| 14:00 | Begrüßung und Vorstellungsrunde |
| 14:30 | Kerstin Zerwes-Polgar: |
| 3, 2, 1….: Liftoff in das Social Media Universum des DLR |
| 15:00 | Daniel Fischer: |
| Social Media - die letzten 30 Jahre |
| 15:20 | Pause |
| 15:35 | Carolin Liefke: |
| Faszination Astronomie Online: Öffentliche Vorträge in Corona-Zeiten |
| 15:50 | Gerhard Jaworek: |
| "Inklusion am Himmel" geht online |
| 16:05 | Allg. Diskussion/Erfahrungsaustausch zu Social Media in der astronomischen Öffentlichkeitsarbeit |
| 16:45 | Pause |
| 17:00 | Andreas Hänel: |
| Reduziert das Insektenschutzgesetz die Lichtverschmutzung? |
| 17:15 | Olaf Kretzer: |
| Karte 2023 - Astronomie in Thüringen |
| 17:30 | Heike Rauer: |
| Outreach Activities of the DFG funded Priority Program „Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets“ (SPP 1992) |
| 17:45 | Björn Voss: |
| Preparing for the "Centennial of the Planetarium" outreach campaign |
EScience - EScience und Virtual Observatory (virtual ESc)
| 14:00 | Prapti Mondal: |
| New Classification criteria in the red spectral region from 4200 to 9000Å for CP star |
| 14:05 | Markus Demleitner: |
| Resource Discovery in the VO: new developments |
| 14:25 | Arman Khalatyan: |
| An infrastructure for the reproducible scientific workflows. |
| 14:45 | Yori Fournier: |
| Machine Learning on Solar Plates |
| 15:05 | Christian Dersch: |
| Creating variable star catalogs from public photographic plate archives |
Exoplanets - Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets (virtual Exo)
| 14:00 | Julia Venturini: |
| Super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and the Radius Valley: linking observations with theory |
| 14:45 | Thomas Rometsch: |
| Vortices by planets live shortest in disks with moderate cooling |
| 15:00 | Alexandre Emsenhuber: |
| The New Generation Planetary Population Synthesis (NGPPS): Comparison with the HARPS GTO survey |
| 15:45 | Philipp Baumeister: |
| Water oceans on high-density, stagnant-lid exoplanets from coupled interior-atmosphere modeling |
| 16:00 | Tobias Moldenhauer: |
| Atmospheric recycling of super-Earths and mini-Neptunes: The effects of core mass, headwind and opacity |
| 16:15 | Cassian Herbon: |
| Least-squares deconvolution of HARPS spectra |
| 16:22 | Enrique Sanchis: |
| Effects of tidal heating in Proxima Centauri b's thermal evolution |
| 16:30 | Ekaterina Ilin: |
| Using direct flare localization to understand exo-space weather and stellar magnetic fields |
| 16:45 | Matthias Ammler-von Eiff: |
| On stellar chemical abundances for studies of exoplanets - preparing for PLATO science using CoRoT examples |
14:00-18:00 Lehrerweiterbildung (virtual LWB)