Name: Nordic-Baltic Astronomy Days 2026
Start: 2026-05-26T08:00:00+03:00
End: 2026-05-29T13:00:00+03:00
Location: Radisson Blu Marina Palace Hotel

Nordic-Baltic Astronomy Days 2026

from Tuesday, May 26, 2026 (8:00 AM) to Friday, May 29, 2026 (1:00 PM)

Monday, May 25, 2026
Tuesday, May 26, 2026

8:00 AM Registration

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Welcome
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Pouya Kouch (University of Turku)
9:15 AM Nordic / Baltic Research Entities
9:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

9:15 AM The Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics at the University of Oslo - Luc Rouppe van der Voort

9:27 AM NSP FOTONIKA-LV - centre of excellence in photinics sciences and space research - Arnolds Ubelis (National Science Platform FOTONIKA-LV at the University of Latvia)

9:39 AM IDA: Opportunities in Danish Astrophysics - Hans Kjeldsen (Instrument Centre for Danish Astrophysics, Aarhus University, Denmark) Mai Korsbæk (Instrument Centre for Danish Astrophysics)

9:51 AM Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA) - Petri Väisänen (University of Turku)

10:03 AM Nordic Optical Telescope - Petri Väisänen (University of Turku)
10:30 AM Coffee / Posters

10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO)
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

10:45 AM Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA - Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm University)

11:23 AM SKAO: One Observatory, Two telescopes, Three sites - Thijs Geurts
12:00 PM Rapid (100 sec) Poster Talks
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

12:00 PM Onsala Space Observatory as a Multi-Facility Hub for Radio Astronomy User Support and Data Analysis - Daniel Tafoya (Onsala Space Observatory)

12:01 PM The Nordic ARC node support for ALMA users - Sabine König (Chalmers University of Technology, Onsala Space Observatory)

12:02 PM An Overview of the Astronomical Facilities of the Canary Islands - Julia Martikainen (Nordic Optical Telescope)

12:03 PM La Palma Quantum Interferometer - Joonas Viuho (NBI, NOT)

12:04 PM From Archive to Discovery: Enabling New Science with the NOT Data - Sergio Armas (Nordic Optical Telescope - Aarhus Universitet)

12:05 PM BLAST, the Binocular Large Area Survey Telescope - Michael I. Andersen (DAWN Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

12:06 PM New and upgraded observing facilities at Tartu Observatory - Tõnis Eenmäe

12:07 PM Tracing Early Oxygen Enrichment with Metal-Poor stars with VLT-UVES - Heitor Ernandes (CAMK - PAN)

12:08 PM A new method for observationally constraining cosmic ray diffusion in nearby galaxies - Alice Knutas (Chalmers University of Technology)
12:15 PM Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM 26-A1: Instrumentation
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

1:15 PM Multi-messenger and multi-use of Nordic Optical Telescope - Tapio Pursimo (nordic optical Telescope)

1:30 PM Observing capabilities of the NOT - Julia Martikainen (Nordic Optical Telescope)

1:45 PM The NOT Transient Explorer (NTE) - Johan Fynbo (Niels Bohr Institute)

2:00 PM NOT - Back to the future - Joonas Viuho (NBI, NOT)
26-B1: Compact objects
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

1:15 PM Signatures of concealed super-Eddington accretion - Varpu Ahlberg (University of Turku)

1:30 PM Ruling out "twin star" equation of state - Sofia Blomqvist (University of Helsinki)

1:45 PM The origin of X-ray polarization in the soft state of Cygnus X-1: hybrid Comptonization scenario - Anastasiia Bocharova (University of Turku)

2:00 PM Relativistic Outflows and r-Process Nucleosynthesis from Magnetar Giant Flares - Jakub Cehula (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu)
26-C1: Cosmology
1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

1:15 PM Cosmological N-body simulations in trivial and non-trivial topological manifolds with StePS - Gabor Racz (University of Helsinki)

1:30 PM Determining Cosmic Enviroments from Galaxy Properties - Zoe Rhiannon Jones (Tartu Observatory)

1:45 PM Modelling the thermal and kinetic Sunyaev–Zel'dovich effects in HalfDome simulations - Kristers Nagainis (Institute of Astronomy, University of Latvia)

2:00 PM Physical interpretation of the IGM parameters of the 21-cm power spectrum from cosmic reionization - Ivelin Georgiev (Stockholm University)
2:15 PM Coffee / Posters

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM
2:45 PM 26-A2: Instrumentation
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

2:45 PM Metsähovi Compact Array - Finland's new radio interferometer - Derek McKay (Aalto University)

3:00 PM Searching for accretion bursts from young stellar objects with the Metsähovi Compact Array - Jakobus Vorster (University of Helsinki)

3:15 PM Metsähovi radio telescope Digital Backend for new triple-band receiver - Bela Dixit (Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University)

3:30 PM From SKA data to you: the SKA Regional Center Network - Kelley Michelle Hess (Onsala Space Observatory/Chalmers University)
26-B2: Planets
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

2:45 PM Constraining the interior characteristics of near-Earth asteroids with telescopic surveys, population models, space missions, and laboratory experiments - Mikael Granvik (University of Helsinki, Finland / Luleå University of Technology, Sweden)

3:00 PM Observing the building blocks of the Solar System with the Nordic Optical Telescope - Grigori Fedorets (FINCA)

3:15 PM Compositional properties of near-Earth binary asteroid (163693) Atira from Nordic observatories - Eric MacLennan (Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias)

3:30 PM Predictions for the Apophis 2029 Earth Close Approach from DEM Simulations - Joseph DeMartini (University of Helsinki)
26-C2: Interstellar medium + Milky Way
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

2:45 PM The supernova efficiency to drive HI turbulence in nearby dwarf and spiral galaxies on the main sequence - Lauri Sassali

3:00 PM Untangling Interstellar Extinction of Galactic Cepheids - Wilma Kiviaho (Paris Observatory)

3:15 PM Local enhancement of dust grain alignment near embedded protostars - Siddharth Kumar (Chalmers university of technology)

3:30 PM Constraining the Ionization Mechanisms of Diffuse Gas in Low-SFR Galaxies - Riku-Petteri Rautio (University of Oulu)
3:45 PM Coffee / Posters

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
4:15 PM 26-A3: Instrumentation
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:15 PM Research in Baldone Observatory - Ilgmars Eglitis (University of Latvia, ESTF, Institute of Astronomy)

4:30 PM 4MOST progress towards first science results - Ross Church (Astrophysics division, Lund University)

4:45 PM Hard X-ray polarization results from XL-Calibur 2024 flight: Crab and Cyg X-1 - Varun Varun (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

5:00 PM The EASST Network and BHTOM Platform for Coordinated Microlensing Studies - Marius Maskoliūnas (Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy. Vilnius university)

5:15 PM Presenting PyLongslit – a new manual pipeline for long-slit spectroscopy - Kostas Valeckas (Nordic Optical Telescope, Copenhagen University)
26-B3: Planets
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

4:15 PM Tracing the imprints of external irradiation on protoplanetary disks - Mari-Liis Aru (Imperial College London)

4:30 PM Searching for other Earths - Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden)

4:45 PM Are Stars Eating Burning Marshmallows? Insights into Hot Jupiter Systems - Alexandra Lehtmets (University of Tartu, Tartu Observatory)

5:00 PM Towards a homogeneous sample of M-dwarf properties and abundances for the PLATO mission - Nikki Miller (Uppsala University)

5:15 PM Characterizing the HD 110067 system of resonant exoplanets - Marylyn Rosenqvist
26-C3: Cosmology + Outreach
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

4:15 PM The challenge of the largest structures in the Universe - Maret Einasto (Tartu Observatory, Tartu University)

4:30 PM From image position to extended image modeling in the era of JWST: next-generation strong lens mass models of galaxy clusters - Stefan Schuldt (FINCA)

4:45 PM J-PAS&FLAMINGO: Tracing Cosmic Voids and Void Galaxies in the Gravitational Landscape of Photometric Surveys - Jad Mansour (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu)

5:00 PM Brightest group and cluster galaxies as indicators of relaxation - Kelly Kelder (University of Tartu; University of Turku)

5:15 PM The Stars Belong to Everyone! Communicating Astronomy in Finland - Anne Liljeström (Ursa Astronomical Association)
6:30 PM Bus (Turku → Tuorla)

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Excursion

7:00 PM - 8:45 PM

8:45 PM Bus (Tuorla → Turku)

8:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Wednesday, May 27, 2026

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM European Space Agency (ESA)
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview of the European Space Agency (ESA) and its Science Programme - Gaitee Hussain

9:38 AM ESA Science Highlights and Engagement Opportunities - Nora Lützgendorf
10:15 AM Coffee / Posters

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM European Space Agency (ESA)
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

10:45 AM Gaia Mission - Timo Prusti

11:23 AM The GaiaNIR mission and the hidden regions of our Galaxy - David Hobbs
12:00 PM Rapid (100 sec) Poster Talks
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

12:00 PM Scanning strategy optimization for next generation CMB experiments - Synne Sigstad Jørgensen (University of Oslo)

12:01 PM Blazar magnetic fields from launch to termination - Talvikki Hovatta (University of Turku)

12:02 PM Now you see me, now you don't: A new angle on black hole accretion - Marianne Vestergaard (Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen)

12:03 PM A Fast Framework for Robust Decomposition of Quasar Spectra - Liam de Búrca (University of Copenhagen)

12:04 PM Constraints on circumstellar matter in hydrogen-rich superluminous supernovae - Tuomas Kangas (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku)

12:05 PM Late-time evolution of the interacting stripped-envelope supernova 2017dio - Christina Humina (University of Turku)

12:06 PM Non-Monotonic Effects of Earth-Departure Inclincation in Low-Energy Lunar Transfer Optimisation using ESA MIDAS-SALTO for the Máni Mission - Buyanbileg Amarsanaa (University of Southern Denmark / SDU-Galaxy)

12:07 PM The C12/C13 ratio of cool giants as an evolutionary stage indicator - Smaragda Vidali

12:08 PM Dust and ice in CONs IC 860 & NGC 4418: Diagnostics with JWST - Gustav Olander
12:15 PM Conference photo

12:15 PM - 12:20 PM

12:20 PM Lunch

12:20 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM 27-A1: Stars
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

1:15 PM Studies of star-forming filamentary clouds - Mika Juvela

1:30 PM FEAST: A NIRSpec/MOS survey of emerging young star clusters in NGC 628 - Helena Faustino Vieira (Stockholm University)

1:45 PM The emerging timescale of young star clusters in local galaxies - Alex Pedrini (Stockholm University)

2:00 PM Metal-poor stars as witnesses for the first steps of the Milky Way assembly history - Anastasiia Plotnikova (Lund University)

2:15 PM From Carbon to Ytterbium: Infrared Chemistry of Open Clusters Across the Milky Way Disc - Shilpa Bijavara Seshashayana (Malmö University)
27-B1: Compact objects
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

1:15 PM Spider Pulsars and Neutron Star Astrophysics in Norway - Manuel Linares

1:30 PM SpiderCat: A Catalogue of Compact Binary Millisecond Pulsars - Karri Koljonen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

1:45 PM The power of the dark side - weighing massive neutron stars in spiders - Jordan Simpson (NTNU)

2:00 PM Pair Discharges and Radio Emission from Pulsar Magnetospheres - Joonas Nättilä (University of Helsinki)

2:15 PM Waves in ultra-magnetized plasmas - Ville-Vertti Linho (University of Helsinki)
27-C1: Planets
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

1:15 PM Polarimetric Radar Backscatter Roughness Metrics over the Lunar Surface - Anne Virkki (University of Helsinki)

1:30 PM Scattering, absorption, and emission of light by the Mercury regolith - Karri Muinonen (University of Helsinki, Department of Physics)

1:45 PM Surface Characterization of Jovian Moons via Radiative Transfer–Coherent Backscattering Modeling - Ari Leppälä (University of Helsinki)

2:00 PM Modelling scattering matrices for asteroid regolith using machine learning - Meri Kolehmainen (University of Helsinki)

2:15 PM Deriving asteroid surface properties using light scattering simulations and laboratory measurements - Mikko Vuori (University of Helsinki)
2:30 PM Coffee / Posters

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM 27-A2: Stars
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

3:00 PM Twinkle twinkle little star, can I know how old you are? - Emelie Sandved (Uppsala University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Division of Astronomy and Space Physics)

3:15 PM Search for stellar remnant candidates using microlensing events from Gaia - Uliana Pylypenko (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO (FINCA); University of Turku)

3:30 PM Characterization of White Dwarfs with Noisy Spectra - Sicheng Yu

3:45 PM Evolutionary status of WZ Sge - Paula Kvist (University of Oulu)

4:00 PM System parameters and long-term evolution of the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova V627 Pegasi - Veera Vuolteenaho (University of Oulu)
27-B2: AGN
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

3:00 PM Radiation Transport Simulations of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions from Star-Disk Collisions - Indrek Vurm (University of Tartu)

3:15 PM Sundman and the final parsec problem - Mauri Valtonen (University of Turku)

3:30 PM Understanding Jet Formation through Changing-look Phenomena with VLBI - Gregory Walsh (Niels Bohr Institute)

3:45 PM Quasar Tomography: Mapping the physical structure of AGN - Vito Tuhtan (Copenhagen University, DARK research center)

4:00 PM Echo Mapping of Accretion Flows around Supermassive Black Holes - Roberta Vieliute (University of St Andrews)
27-C2: Galaxies
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

3:00 PM Galaxy Unsupervised Learning classification combining UMAP and clustering algorithms - Luis Suelves (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu)

3:15 PM eSCALE: Mapping galaxy groups at low redshift with S-PLUS and eROSITA surveys - Lia Doubrawa (Universiy of Helsinki)

3:30 PM Stellar cores live long and prosper in cuspy dark matter halos - Jenni Häkkinen (University of Helsinki)

3:45 PM Milky Way analogue galaxies in the J-PAS sky survey - Teet Kuutma (Tartu Observatory of the University of Tartu)

4:00 PM Age and metallicity dependency in measuring distances of early-type galaxies using planetary nebula luminosity function (PNLF) with VLT-MUSE - Azlizan Adhyaqsa Soemitro (Leibniz-Intitut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))
4:15 PM Coffee / Posters

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM 27-A3: Stars
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:45 PM Mapping stellar active regions based on photometry - Mikko Tuomi (University of Helsinki)

5:00 PM Looking Inside Stars: Asteroseismology of Solar-Type Stars - Hans Kjeldsen (Instrument Centre for Danish Astrophysics, Aarhus University, Denmark)

5:15 PM Towards a unified observational view of cool-star magnetism - Oleg Kochukhov (Uppsala University)

5:30 PM Magnetic activity biases in asteroseismic inferences: challenges for stellar age diagnostics in the PLATO era - Jérôme Bétrisey (Uppsala University)

5:45 PM Testing the reliability of magnetic field strength measurements for M dwarfs - Irene Amateis (Uppsala University)

6:00 PM Starspots on eclipsing giant stars - Andras Haris (University of Helsinki)
27-B3: AGN
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

4:45 PM Describing the ultra fast very-high-energy gamma-ray flare of IC 310 with relativistic reconnection models - Jenni Jormanainen (University of Turku)

5:00 PM Magnetic Field Structure of AGN Jet with ALMA Polarimetry - Mikael Turkki (FINCA, University of Turku)

5:15 PM Estimating the Magnetic Field Strengths in 25 AGN Jets Using Core-Shift Measurements - Joonas Suortti (Aalto University)

5:30 PM Resolving a nuclear disk and molecular outflows in the compact obscured nucleus IRAS 17578-0400 - Olena Torbaniuk (Space, Earth and Environment Department, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)

5:45 PM AGN-Driven Outflow Scaling Relations: Robust Mass-Outflow-Rate Measurements from Simulations - Milda Valytė

6:00 PM Low-redshift quasar host galaxy star formation and morphology - Maria Stone (University of Turku)
27-C3: Compact objects
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

4:45 PM Pair Discharges in Millisecond-Pulsar and White-Dwarf Magnetospheres - Tuomo Salmi (University of Helsinki)

5:00 PM Strong-field quantum electrodynamics in magnetar magnetospheres - Olavi Kiuru (University of Helsinki)

5:15 PM Probing the geometry of black hole binaries with X-ray polarimetry - Vadzim Krautsou (University of Turku)

5:30 PM X-ray polarimetry of weakly magnetized neutron stars - Anna Bobrikova (University of Turku)

5:45 PM First detection of X-ray polarization from the long-period X-ray pulsar 4U 1954+319 - Alexander Salganik (University of Turku)

6:00 PM Energy-dependent polarization properties in X-ray pulsars probed by IXPE - Sofia Forsblom (University of Turku)
6:30 PM Public lecture (in Finnish)
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Room: Studio
Contributions

6:30 PM Aurinkokunnan historia asteroidien ja komeettojen kertomana - Mikael Granvik (University of Helsinki, Luleå University of Technology)
Thursday, May 28, 2026

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM European Southern Observatory (ESO)
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

9:00 AM Overview of the European Southern Observatory (ESO), its Science and Future - Jarle Brinchmann

9:38 AM Enabling Groundbreaking Science: Current and Future Instrumentation at ESO - Heidi Korhonen
10:15 AM Coffee / Posters

10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
10:45 AM European Southern Observatory (ESO)
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

10:45 AM Focus on ALMA - Carlos De Breuck (ESO)

11:23 AM Precision High-Energy Astrophysics with CTAO: Status and Multi-Messenger Synergies with ESO - Michele Doro (University of Padova)
12:00 PM Rapid (100 sec) Poster Talks
12:00 PM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

12:00 PM Evolved Planetary Systems - Alexander Mustill (Lund University)

12:01 PM Multiple Populations in Globular Clusters: A manual re-analysis of APOGEE spectra - Jess Kocher (Malmö University)

12:02 PM Near-infrared spectroscopic variability of post-AGB stars - Karlis Pukitis (University of Latvia)

12:03 PM Planet - Star correlations extended for 18 Hot Stars in the Ariel Mission Candidate Sample - Heleri Ramler (University of Tartu)

12:04 PM The history of C, N, and O in the Galaxy - Šarūnas Mikolaitis (Vilnius University)

12:05 PM High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Hot Subdwarfs with VUES: Benchmarking Gaia XP and LAMOST Classifications - Vladas Šatas (Vilnius University)

12:06 PM Detectability of deuterium in spectra of A-type stars - Veronika Mitrokhina (Tartu Observatory of the University of Tartu)

12:07 PM Measuring Solar Oscillations using High-Precision Temperature Variations from SONG Spectra - Roar Holmberg (Nordic Optical Telescope and Aarhus University)

12:08 PM Revisiting the [Y/Mg]–age relation with NLTE abundances and TESS asteroseismic ages - Carlos Viscasillas Vázquez (Vilnius University)

12:09 PM Propeller effect in action: Unveiling quenched accretion in the transient X-ray pulsar 4U 0115+63 - Hua Xiao (University of Turku)
12:15 PM Lunch

12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
1:15 PM 28-A1: Galaxies
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

1:15 PM Kinematics and Globular Clusters of the Dwarf Irregular Galaxy VCC 1249 - Tuomas Hämäläinen (FINCA & University of Turku)

1:30 PM JWST/NIRCam Close-Up of the Gravitational Dance Between Two Dwarf Galaxies - Giacomo Bortolini (Stockholm University)

1:45 PM The Diffuse Neutral Circum-Galactic Medium around High-z Dusty Galaxies - Kirsty Butler (Chalmers University of Technology)

2:00 PM Could the alpha-bimodality observed in the Milky Way be a natural consequence of inside-out disc growth driven by hierarchical accretion? - María Benito Castaño

2:15 PM A MUSE Investigation into the Birth and Death of Massive Stars in (Ultra-) Luminous Infrared Galaxies ((U)LIRGs) - Suman Sahu (University of Turku)
28-B1: AGN
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

1:15 PM The Astroparticle Physics European Consortium (APPEC) and the Astrophysics Centre for Multi-messenger studies in Europe (ACME) - Antoine Kouchner (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

1:30 PM Are AGN jets emitting high-energy neutrinos? - Pouya Kouch (University of Turku)

1:45 PM Long-term optical variability of blazars - Folkert Wierda (Turku University)

2:00 PM On the hunt for peaked source-like narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies - Irene Varglund

2:15 PM Understanding the structure and variability of AGN - Scott Hagen (IFPU / SISSA / INAF-OATs)
28-C1: Stars
1:15 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

1:15 PM Measuring Distances to Yellow Super‑ and Hypergiants in the Milky Way - Anni Kasikov (University of Tartu)

1:30 PM Photometric and spectroscopic variability of the BSG rhoLeo - Vitalii Checha (Tartu Observatory)

1:45 PM Infra-red Nebulae around Symbiotic Binaries - Havva Bostan (University of Tartu)

2:00 PM Unveiling binary populations of hot subdwarfs with Gaia spectra and machine learning - Markus Ambrosch (Vilnius University)

2:15 PM Time dependent synthetic observables of 3D models of AGB stars and dusty winds - Joachim Wiegert (Uppsala university)
2:30 PM Coffee / Posters

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
3:00 PM 28-A2: Galaxies
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

3:00 PM Modeling Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies and Massive Quiescents - Pablo Araya Araya (Cosmic Dawn Center)

3:15 PM Characterising the impact of the environment on starburst galaxies in over-dense environments - Miranda Kiran Husted Andersen (The Thecnical University of Denmark)

3:30 PM May the force be accurate: Towards better orbital models of galaxies - Till Sawala (University of Helsinki)

3:45 PM COSMOS-Web: Estimating Physical Parameters of Galaxies Using Self-Organizing Maps - Fatemeh Abedini

4:00 PM Modelling the mergers and gravitational wave recoils of supermassive black holes - Peter Johansson (University of Helsinki)
28-B2: AGN
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

3:00 PM Shocks, polarisation, and high-energy emission: Probing black hole jets from VLBI to IXPE - Georgios Filippos Paraschos (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO)

3:15 PM 3C273 at the Highest Resolution - Britton Jeter (Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO)

3:30 PM Variable and non-variable blazars at very high energies; comparison of fractional variability and SED peak properties - Emma Johtela (University of Turku)

3:45 PM Cold gas feels the shove, not the heat: how the M-sigma relation emerges in multiphase bulges - Matas Tartėnas (Center for Physical Sciences and Technology)

4:00 PM Tracing the hot gas budget at the outskirts of galaxy groups with eROSITA - Hossam Khalil (University of Helsinki)
28-C2: Planets
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

3:00 PM Asteroid photometric and polarimetric phase curve modelling - Hanna Pentikäinen (University of Helsinki)

3:15 PM Imaging simulation tool for small solar system objects - Antti Penttilä (University of Helsinki)

3:30 PM Asteroid mass estimation based on mutual encounters in the Gaia era - Elo Tuominen (University of Helsinki)

3:45 PM Extreme Negative Polarisation of New Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS - Zuri Gray (University of Helsinki)

4:00 PM Debiasing The Legacy Survey of Space and Time for Solar System Objects - Rosemary Dorsey (University of Helsinki)
4:15 PM Coffee / Posters

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM 28-A3: Galaxies
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room A
Contributions

4:45 PM Zooming into relic galaxies with MUSE: the case of J1447-0149 - Johanna Hartke (University of Turku)

5:00 PM How stellar population gradients shape dynamical supermassive black hole masses in massive early-type galaxies - Avinash Chaturvedi (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics)

5:15 PM Schwarzschild Dynamical Models with Multiple Stellar Population Constraints - Markus Anetjärvi

5:30 PM Simulating the evolution of high-redshift massive galaxies into quiescent z~2 red nuggets - Max Mattero (University of Helsinki)

5:45 PM The effect of black hole seeding on the central and wandering black hole populations - Atte Keitaanranta (University of Helsinki)

6:00 PM Examining infrared echoes of recent optical tidal disruption events with NOT and WISE - Venla Kangas (University of Turku)
28-B3: Miscellaneous
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room B
Contributions

4:45 PM Quasi-Normal Modes of Black Holes in EsGB Gravity - Håvard Skåli (Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo)

5:00 PM The Escape Problem of Fast Radio Bursts: Strong Electromagnetic Waves and Fractals - Ethan van Woerkom (University of Helsinki)

5:15 PM Optical polarization of the neutron X-ray binary Sco X-1 - Alejandra Diaz Teodori

5:30 PM Detection of Ellerman Bombs in SST observations - Rebecca Nguyen (University of Oslo)

5:45 PM Dynamical Sculpting of Planet Populations in Crowded Environments - Mika Kontiainen (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

6:00 PM Photometric modeling of the regolith in the Reiner Gamma and Mare Ingenii lunar swirls - Vesa Björn (University of Helsinki)
28-C3: Supernovae
4:45 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room C
Contributions

4:45 PM Characterisation of Type Ibn SNe using Zwicky Transient Facility data - Anjasha Gangopadhyay (Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden)

5:00 PM Unveiling oxygen-rich supernova remnants - Timo Kravtsov (University of Turku)

5:15 PM H-poor interaction in stripped-envelope supernovae: The three-peaked light curve of SN 2021efd - Niko Pyykkinen (University of Turku, Nordic Optical Telescope)

5:30 PM Exploring Two Long-Lived Energetic Type II Supernovae Without Interaction Signatures - Claudia Skoglund (Stockholm University)

5:45 PM The undetectable fraction of core-collapse supernovae in luminous infrared galaxies - Iikka Mäntynen (University of Turku)

6:00 PM Linking Core-Collapse Supernova Rates to Cosmic Star Formation - Christian Vassallo (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku)
7:00 PM Social dinner

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Friday, May 29, 2026

8:30 AM Registration

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM IceCube + KM3NeT
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

9:00 AM The IceCube Neutrino Observatory: from the Nordics to the South Pole - Erin O'Sullivan

9:38 AM KM3NeT: Status and Recent Results - Damien DORNIC (CPPM)
10:15 AM Closing

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room A+B

10:30 AM Coffee / Posters

10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Väisälä Prize for the best Finnish PhD thesis
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Room: Room A+B
Contributions

11:00 AM Announcement of the Väisälä Prize winner

11:10 AM Science talk by the Väisälä Prize winner
11:45 AM FAS Annual Meeting [FAS members only]

11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room A+B

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