The schedule below is frequently updated. Once finalized, a PDF version of it will be available.
Monday 18 May 2026
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Feedback, Turbulence, and the ISM Lifecycle |
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| 08:50 - 09:00 | Thomas Bisbas | Welcome to OS2026! |
| 09:00 - 09:25 | Steffi Walch-Gassner (I) | Driving the ISM lifecycle |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Oerd Xhemollari | Dense Gas Tracers as Temporal and Structural Evolution Markers of Molecular Clouds |
| 09:40 - 09:55 | Tamara Koletic | How Spiral Arms Filaments and Star Clusters are Related in a Simulated NGC 628 Galaxy |
| 09:55 - 10:10 | Yuri Nishimura | Why molecular lines trace star formation differently A unified view of density and chemistry from clouds to galaxies |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Nicolas Peschken | Modelling outflows above the Milky Way Center |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Cloud Evolution and Star Formation | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Aayush Gautam | Dynamical Evolution During Star Cluster Formation Crowding Multiplicity and Disk Dispersal |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Daisei Abe | The Origin of Hub Filament Systems Radiation MHD Simulations toward Understanding Massive Star Formation |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Zoe Faes | Bridging the scales from global galactic dynamics to local star formation |
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11:45 - 12:00 |
Guillaume Vigoureux | The Role of Radiative Supernova Remnants in the Ionization of the Galactic ISM |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Julia Roman-Duval (I) | Revealing the Cosmic Build up of Interstellar Dust with HST and JWST The Nearby Low Metallicity Universe as a Laboratory |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Poster presentations Lennart Böhm, Timothy Faerber, James Garland, Katharina Immer, Emma Jarvis, Cheryl Lau, Esan Mouli Ghosh, Peter Schilke, Sengupta Dhrubojyoti, Masato Kobayashi, Natalie Lam, Adarsh Ranjan, Maria Jimena Rodriguez, Georgina Sampson Olalde, Patra Sudeshna |
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| 12:45 - 16:00 | Lunch break | Beach time | |
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Low-Metallicity and Dust Evolution |
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16:00 - 16:15 |
Agata Karska | The outer Galaxy as a template of low metallicity environments |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Leo Belloir | Constraints on the efficiency of the photoelectric heating in a molecular ridge of the metal poor LMC |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Clarke Esmerian | Modeling Cosmic Dust Evolution Atom by Atom in a Multiphase ISM |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Nick Andreadis | The evolution of dust attenuation curves in the COLIBRE simulations |
| 17:00 - 17:25 | Christoph Federrath (I) | The Link Between Turbulence and Star Formation |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | Coffee break | |
| Dusty Environments and Chemical Enrichment | ||
| 18:00 - 18:15 | Alexia Anguera Ganzalez | Chemical and Physical Evolution of Dense Gas in an IRDC Non LTE Chemistry and Feedback in G14.225 0.506 |
| 18:15 - 18:30 | Varsha Kulkarni | Probing the Evolution of Interstellar Gas Metals and Dust Over Billions of Years |
| 18:30- 18:45 | Ryota Ikeda | A census of distant dusty star forming galaxies from kpc to sub kpc scales using ALMA and JWST |
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Siddharth Kumar | Local enhancement of grain alignment near embedded protostars in the DR21 Ridge |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Yuki Isobe | Tracing Early Chemical Enrichment in the Era of Ever Growing JWST Data |
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Poster presentations |
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| 21:00 - 23:00 | Welcome reception | Intelligent Computing Journal Booth | |
Tuesday 19 May 2026
| Gaseous Environments Across Cosmic Epochs I Chair: Kathryn Grasha |
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| 09:00 - 09:25 | Emanuelle Daddi (I) | The ebullient ISM of early quiescent galaxies |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Elisa Cataldi | Tracing the Chemical Evolution of the High Redshift Interstellar Medium |
| 09:40 - 09:55 | Leonardo Clarke | Emission line Diagnostics at z greater than 2 A Probe of the Ionizing Spectrum and alpha Enhancement Beyond Cosmic Noon |
| 09:55 - 10:10 | Souradeep Bhattacharya | Probing chemical enrichment in star forming galaxies from direct O Ar and N abundances |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Robert Pascalau | Dissecting The Alchemist NIRSpec IFU Reveals Turbulent Gas Inflows in a Complex Merger System at z 10.17 |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Gaseous Environments Across Cosmic Epochs II | ||
| 11:00 - 11:25 | Alex Cameron (I) | Evolution of the ionized ISM across cosmic time |
| 11:25 - 11:50 | Jiayi Sun (I) | Resolved Star Formation in Extreme Environments in the Local Universe |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Yao Yao | Metallicity Calibrations for High Redshift Galaxies from Cosmological Simulations and Photoionization Modeling for the JWST Era |
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12:05 - 12:20 |
Dominik Riechers | Toward True Molecular Complexity in the Interstellar Medium at Early Cosmic Epochs |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Poster presentations Ebihara Sho, Pablo Arriagada Torres, Thomas Herard-Demanche, Sean Linden, Emma Lundqvist, Luka Matijevic, Tomonari Michiyama, Utsav Siwakoti, Raghav Arora, Leonard Kaiser, Yang Meng-Zhe (x2), Divya Mishra, Daniel Seifried, Rowan Smith, Reagan Stanton, David Whitworth |
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| 12:40 - 16:00 | Lunch break | Beach time | |
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Extreme ISM Environments |
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16:00 - 16:25 |
Linda Tacconi (I) | Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Star Formation and Dynamics I |
| 16:25 - 16:50 | Reinhard Genzel (I) | Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: Star Formation and Dynamics II |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Frank Bigiel | mm line ratios as probes of dense gas fractions and star formation efficiencies across local galaxies |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Ina Galic | Probing Molecular Gas and Star Formation at Cloud Scales in M51 with NOEMA and JWST |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | Blakesley Burkhart | The Closest and Furthest Molecular Clouds Revealed via H2 Fluorescent Emission |
| 17:35 - 18:05 | Coffee break | |
| Star Formation and ISM Across Environments | ||
| 18:05 - 18:20 | Neven Tomicic | Star formation and properties of ionized gas at the galactic outskirts and in gas stripped galaxies |
| 18:20- 18:45 | Jerome Pety (I) | Astrophysics meet data science for the study of Giant Molecular Clouds |
| 18:45 - 19:00 | Jonathan Tan | Frontiers of Massive Star Formation |
| 19:00 - 19:15 | Ashley Barnes | ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey ACES Survey Overview and First Results |
| 19:15 - 19:30 | Qing Liu | Mapping the Diffuse ISM with Deep Wide field Optical Imaging |
Wednesday 20 May 2026
Free day - Excursions - Mt Olympus hike
Thursday 21 May 2026
| Role of Magnetic Fields in shaping the ISM Chair: Daniel Seifried |
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| 09:00 - 09:25 | Kathrin Pattle (I) | Interstellar Magnetic Fields From Star Formation to Galaxy Evolution |
| 09:25 - 09:40 | Aris Tristis | Ambipolar diffusion and the mass to flux ratio in turbulent collapsing clouds |
| 09:40 - 09:55 | Gina Panopoulou | Towards a 3D view of the magnetized ISM in the Solar neighborhood |
| 09:55 - 10:10 | Theotokis Georgatos | The influence of magnetic fields in Cloud Cloud Collisions |
| 10:10 - 10:25 | Szu-Ting Chen | The Magnetic Field in Star Forming Regions of the Perseus Molecular Cloud |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Cosmic Rays, Astrochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Nick Indriolo | Mapping the Cosmic Ray Ionization Rate in the Solar Neighborhood |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Theodoros Topkaras | Cosmic ray investigation with KOSMA-τ |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Shmuel Bialy | Cold Clouds as Cosmic Ray Detectors |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Emma Weiss Nielsen | Complex organic molecules and cosmic ray ionisation rate towards the massive protostar Cepheus A HW2 |
| 12:00 - 12:25 | Brett McGuire (I) | AstroAMASE Leveraging Machine Learned Chemical Intuition for Molecular Assignment and Discovery |
| 12:25 - 12:45 | Poster presentations Anna Dignan, Emma Nigou, Nikolaus Sulzenauer, Ben Wakefield, Reiji Arai, Katarzyna Dutkowska, Abubakar Fadul, Christine Greif, Akash Gupta, Hans Christian Poosch, Ameya Uday Nagdeo, Victoria Williamson, Birka Zimmermanm, Kathryn Grasha, Thomas Bisbas (x2) |
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| 12:45 - 16:00 | Lunch beak | Beach time | |
| AI-Driven Astrochemistry and the Multiphase ISM Chair: Christine Greif |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | David Robinson | Emulating non equilibrium chemical networks with machine learning |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Caterina Bracci | Machine Learning Insights into the Structure and Properties of Ionized Nebulae |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Donghui Quan | ChemiVerse Construction and Modeling of Interstellar Chemical Reaction Networks for Intelligent Astrochemical Exploration |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Tianwei Zhang | Spectuner-D1: Efficient spectral line fitting of interstellar molecules using deep reinforcement learning |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Shivan Khullar | Bridging the scales hyper Lagrangian refinement in RMHD star formation simulations embedded in galactic environments |
| 17:15 - 19:30 | Poster session | |
| 19:30 - 23:00 | Conference dinner | Greek "Glenti" | Poster Awards Ceremony |
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Friday 22 May 2026
| Multi-Scale Structure and ISM Dynamics Chair: Masato Kobayashi |
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| 09:00 - 09:15 | Juan Diego Soler | The physical conditions of local star formation as revealed by neutral atomic hydrogen HI and 3D dust |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Shih-Ping Lai | Reconstructing the Layered Magnetic Field in Orion KL Velocity Resolved CO 3-2 Polarization from the Goldreich Kylafis Effect with ALMA |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Bin Jia | Physical and Chemical Conditions of Molecular Gas in NGC 1068 The nuclear feedback in the circumnuclear disk and starburst ring |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Jocabed Martinez Lopez | Molecular gas and outflows in galaxies from cosmic noon to the present day |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Lewis Miller | Turbulence is not the same everywhere mapping how galaxies stir their gas |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Bo Peng | FLAMES Comprehensive View of Far Infrared Fine Structure Lines with New Answers and New Questions |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| Local Universe and Star Formation Diagnostics | ||
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Cosima Eibensteiner | Star Formation Scaling Relations in the Local Group from the Local Group L-Band Survey LGLBS |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Samuel Crowe | Widespread Star Formation and Ionized Gas Filamentation in Sgr C |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Shusuke Utsumi | A Theoretical Prediction of Naked First Cores An Observationally Accessible Pathway to Brown Dwarfs |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Konstantinos Kostaros | New GR tests using spectral line radiation backgrounds |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Jonathan Shelest | T|3D Presenting The First 3D Temperature Map Of Our Galaxy |
| 12:15 - 16:00 | Lunch break | Beach time | |
| Multiphase ISM in Starbursts and AGN Chair: Theodoros Topkaras |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Mathilde Bouvier | Sulphur bearing species probe stellar feedback processes in the starburst galaxy NGC 253 |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Yuze Zhang | Combining Radiative Transfer and Kinematics Models for AGN Molecular Outflows |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Lara Pantoni | MICONIC The impact of AGN feedback on the nuclear multiphase ISM of Centaurus A revealed by JWST MIRI MRS |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Jaiden Peltonen | Bridging the Gap in the New Era of Star Formation |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | General Discussion - Final Remarks | Thomas Bisbas & Kathryn Grasha | |