Detailed Conference Program

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


Wednesday, 14. September 2022

09:00-10:30 Plenary Talks (Keksdose / virtual plenum)

09:00  Caroline Herschel Lecture - Eva Grebel:
Caroline Herschel, the hunt for faint features, and galactic archaeology

10:00  Alfred Krabbe:
SOFIA’s legacy and future stratospheric FIR platforms

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Plenary Talks (Keksdose / virtual plenum)

11:00  Roger Deane:
A MeerKAT Science Overview

11:30  Anna Watts:
NICER and its view of neutron stars

12:00  Mara Salvato:
eROSITA insights on the hot and energetic Universe

12:30-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:45 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

RadioSky - The Southern Radio-Sky: Results & Opportunites (SFG 1030 / virtual RadioSky)

14:00  Arshia Maria Jacob:
Molecular absorption spectroscopy in the Southern Galactic plane: Synergies between FIR and radio wavelengths

14:21  Enrique Macias:
ALMA: science and capabilities

14:42  Jinglan Zheng:
SKA synergies: LoTSS DR2 cosmology results

15:03  Dr Gulay Gurkan:
On the pathway to the SKA: Exciting science with the deep and wide-field ASKAP survey of the GAMA23 field

15:24  Mario Santos:
MeerKLASS, the MeerKAT Large Area Synoptic Survey

Outreach - Public Outreach in der Astronomie (SFG 1020 / virtual Outreach)

14:00  Begrüßung und Vorstellungsrunde

14:20  Tim Florian Horn:
Das zentrale Projekt UniverseOnTour im Wissenschaftsjahr 2023

14:40  Diskussion und Vorstellung von Skizzen zum Wissenschaftsjahr 2023 "Unser Universum"

15:25  Björn Voss:
Preparing for the 100th anniversary of the planetariums

eROSITA - eROSITA Science (SFG 0140 / virtual eROSITA)

14:00  Nicola Locatelli:
The Milky Way hot circumgalactic medium as seen by eROSITA

14:12  Johannes Buchner:
Active Galactic Nuclei studies with eROSITA

14:32  Zhu Liu:
Tidal Disruption Events detected by eROSITA

14:44  Iuliia Grotova:
An ultra-soft nuclear transient in a FRII radio galaxy discovered with eROSITA

14:56  Steven Hämmerich:
The eROSITA blazar sky

15:08  Tanya Urrutia:
Searching for Luminous Obscured Quasars with eROSITA

15:20  Comparat:
The cosmic web of X-ray AGN

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

Diversity - Diversity and Inclusion in Astronomy and Astrophysics (SFG 1020 / virtual Diversity)

16:00  Jake Noel-Storr:
Astronomy for Equity and Inclusion: Globally to Locally

16:20  Rolf Danner :
Supporting the whole self of sexual-orientation and gender minorities

16:40  K. Azalee Bostroem:
Evidence-Based Hiring Practices that Promote Excellence and Diversity

17:00  Erdal Tekin:
Social Background as diversity dimension in German education system

17:20  Frossie Economou:
Science platforms as a tool for democratizing data access

17:40  Leonard Burtscher:
Astronomy and the climate crisis

16:15-18:00 Splinter Sessions (in parallel)

eROSITA - eROSITA Science (SFG 0140 / virtual eROSITA)

16:15  Michael Yeung:
The Soft X-Ray Foreground as Revealed by Sight Lines to the Darkest X-Ray Shadows

16:27  A. Veronica:
The eROSITA view of the Abell 3391/95 field: Cluster Outskirts and Filaments

16:39  Ang Liu:
Studying galaxy clusters with eROSITA

16:59  I-Non Chiu:
Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clusters and Groups in the eROSITA Final Equatorial Depth Survey

17:11  Matthias Klein:
Enabling the first eROSITA based cluster cosmology through systematic analysis of optical imaging surveys

17:23  R. Seppi:
Detecting clusters of galaxies and active galactic nuclei in an eROSITA all-sky survey digital twin

17:35  Thomas Reiprich:
Nearby galaxy clusters and warm-hot gas filaments as seen by the eROSITA All-Sky Survey

RadioSky - The Southern Radio-Sky: Results & Opportunites (SFG 1030 / virtual RadioSky)

16:15  Benjamin L. Schmitt:
The Next Generation Cosmic Microwave Background Experiment – CMB-S4

16:36  Ancor Damas Segovia:
Imaging science with the MPIfR MeerKAT Galactic​ Plane Survey (MMGPS)

16:57  Fabian Jankowski:
Implications from the first MeerTRAP Fast Radio Burst sample discovered with the MeerKAT telescope

17:18  Shalini Sengupta:
Science results : MPIfR-MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (MMGPS) for Pulsars at L-Band.

17:39  Kristof Rozgonyi:
Asynchronous on-the-fly (OTF) mosaic imaging with MeerKAT

19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner