Detailed Conference Program

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


Thursday, 16. September 2021

09:00-11:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

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

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

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)

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

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