32nd Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics

20 Apr 2026, 09:00 → 25 Apr 2026, 09:20 Europe/Kyiv

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The annual Open Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics aims to allow young scientists to communicate and present their scientific work. The young scientist is a bachelor/master / Ph.D. student and young researchers who are involved in research in one of the following fields:

Fields:

• Atmospheric studies and space geophysics
• Solar physics and heliosphere
• Solar System & extrasolar planets
• Stellar astrophysics and interstellar medium
• Extragalactic astrophysics and cosmology
• High energy astrophysics
• Data collection and analysis
• Positional astronomy

 

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Working language: English

During the Conference, each young participant should present an oral talk(12 minutes) or a short talk (with a short presentation of about 5 minutes). Besides students' reports, invited lectures are planned. 

 

Registration: closed

Monday 20 April

09:00 Official opening

1 New perspectives onto the Universe in the era of multimessenger astronomy

Speaker: Samaya Nissanke (German Centre for Astrophysics; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron; University of Potsdam, Germany)

2 Dark matter and the rotation curves of spiral galaxies: a study of UGCA 442, NGC 3198 and NGC 2841

Speaker: Mohammad Ayaz (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, India)

3 Multiple Einstein rings and complex image formation in toroidal gravitational lenses

Speaker: Denys Ilchenko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

4 The network analysis of the cosmic web as a tool to constrain cosmology and cosmic magnetism

Speaker: Anton Rudakovskyi (University of Bologna, Italy)

5 Magnification bias in CMB lensing tomography

Speaker: Nicola Principi Cavaterra (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

6 Renormalization of the gauge-field energy density during inflation in the kinetic coupling model

Speaker: Andrii Naidenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

7 Inflation in a power-law modified gravity theories

Speaker: Bohdan Hovorukha (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

11:40 Coffee break

8 Looking for Hubble constant with CORN - chronometers of relic nature

Speaker: Krzysztof Lisiecki (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

9 Investigation of beckreaction effect in inhomogenius cosmology

Speaker: Mykyta Bilodid (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

10 Einstein equations for polar perturbations of relativistic spherically-symmetric configurations with scalar field

Speaker: Bohdan Vakhnyuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

11 On causal structure of spacetime singularities and their observable signatures

Speaker: Jahnvi Mistry (Charotar University of Science and Technology, Anand, India)

12 Probing EMRs with the Schwarzchild-AdS black holes with a cloud of strings and quintessence for periodic orbits and gravitational inspirals

Speaker: Bhaskar Singh Rawat (Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, India)

13 The dynamical characterization of spinning particles around a short-hair black hole

Speaker: Lalita Jangir (Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, India)

14 Why the Universe is not random: void dynamics in the large scale Universe

Speaker: Atufa Vora (Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore, India)

15 Migration and stalling dynamics of blanets in Kerr spacetimes

Speaker: Shreesham Pandey (Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, India)

16 Tidal disruption events around Schwarzschild and Kerr black holes: a complete theoretical and mathematical treatment from fundamentals to frontiers

Speaker: Shreesham Pandey (Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi, India)

Tuesday 21 April

17 Frontiers in atmospheric science

Speaker: Andrew Klekociuk (Adelaide University, Australia)

18 The analysis of vortex strength and circulation parameter in Antarctica in 1979-2025

Speaker: Diana Zazubyk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

19 Distinguishing types of total ozone annual cycle: global analysis

Speaker: Diana Zazubyk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

20 Latitudinal distribution and climate classification of precipitable water vapor based on AERONET data

Speaker: Oleksandra Bilous (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

21 Impact of aerosols on the reverse electrode effect at the Earth’s surface

Speaker: Xuhui Gao (Jilin University, Changchun, China)

22 Transforming empirical geophysical models into neural network surrogates

Speaker: Volodymyr Kashyn (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

23 Ohmic energization of ions during magnetic reconnection in Earth’s magnetosphere

Speaker: Bohdan Petrenko (Space Research Institute of the NASU, Ukraine)

24 Comparing plasma and magnetic field measurements from ACE, WIND and ADITYA-L1: a case study

Speaker: Achsah Cibi (National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research, India)

25 Modeling of physical processes in the formation of lower hybrid cavities in the Earth’s ionosphere

Speaker: Oleksandr Mylka (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

26 Global ionospheric response to the May 2024 G5 geomagnetic superstorm: a multi-parameter analysis of TEC variability during solar cycle 25

Speaker: Ege Eraydin (Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Türkiye)

11:30 Coffee break

27 Multi-fluid solar chromosphere

Speaker: Elena Khomenko (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Spain)

28 Reconstruction of annual solar irradiance over three millennia

Speaker: Duresa Temaj (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany)

29 Relationship between Ca ii K contrast and solar surface magnetic field near the solar limb

Speaker: Ajay Kumar Yadav (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany)

30 Tracing closed coronal magnetic loops with J- and U-type solar radio bursts

Speaker: Jaskirat Singh (University of Potsdam, Germany)

31 Diagnostics of CME core and coronal plasma parameters using decameter radio spikes

Speaker: Uliana Pavlichenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

32 High-frequency solar oscillations and their excitation sources

Speaker: Vadym Maiurov (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

33 Forbush decreases and solar activity: a statistical study based on neutron monitor data

Speaker: Barbara Góra-Gálik (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

34 Source to eruption analysis of an X class flare erupted on 4 Jan 2025

Speaker: Akash Shirke (University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India)

35 Influence of solar wind parameters and coronal mass ejections on cosmic ray intensity during solar cycle 24

Speaker: Ramdas Mars (Raja Shankar Shah University, Chhindwara, India)

36 The influence of geomagnetic modulation on ground-based registration of high-energy solar particles

Speaker: Oleksandr Mylka (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

37 Registration of unusual Type IIIb like bursts with the restored GURT antenna array

Speaker: Uliana Pavlichenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

38 Study of particle signatures and CME-CME interaction during the 11-12th Nov 2025 event

Speaker: Harsh Bhati (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, Delhi, India)

Wednesday 22 April

39 The Ever-Changing Sky

Speaker: Milena Ratajczak (Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw, Poland)

40 Evolutionary and pulsational modeling of RR Lyrae stars

Speaker: Balázs Zoltán Kertész (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

41 Revealing the variability of Antares: pulsation modes and a long secondary period

Speaker: Klára Lelkes (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

42 Determining the masses of BL Her variable stars through direct light curve modelling

Speaker: Alexandra Grósz (Konkoly Observatory, Budapest, Hungary)

43 Local standard of rest estimation using open clusters in solar neighbourhood

Speaker: Seval Taşdemir (Istanbul University, Türkiye)

44 Asteroseismology of RGB and AGB stars in 47 Tucanae using TESS data

Speaker: Zsóka Horváth (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

45 New variable stars found in TESS Sectors 77, 79, and 86

Speaker: Mariia Yatsiuk (Clear Skies Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine)

46 Period analysis of three eclipsing binary stars using TESS data

Speaker: Inna Semyriako (Clear Skies Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine)

47 Study of properties of novalike variables SW Sextantis type based on photometric observations from the TESS mission

Speaker: Mateusz Motyliński (Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland)

48 Photometric study of AM CVn systems using BHTOM

Speaker: Barbara Joachimczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University Toruń, Poland)

13:00 Coffee break

49 Hot spot manifestation in eclipsing dwarf nova Z Chamaeleontis

Speaker: Bartosz Kirpluk (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)

50 A dynamical portrait of the low-α disk in kinematic and action space using LAMOST subgiant stars

Speaker: Furkan Akbaba (Istanbul University, Türkiye)

51 JCMT surveying filaments in nearby gas clouds (JCMT-SURFING): unveiling the velocitycoherent filaments and dense cores in the Serpens South Molecular Cloud

Speaker: Satyajeet Moharana (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, Daejeon, South Korea)

52 ATOMS-QUARKS survey: inflow and infall in massive protocluster G318.049+00.086: evidence of competitive accretion

Speaker: Shivani Gupta (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India)

53 Optical and infrared view of Gum 31: a Gaia-Spitzer photometric approach

Speaker: A. A. Renjithmon (Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, India)

54 Influence of non-ideal physical processes on the structure of interstellar wind bubbles: a numerical study with the PLUTO code

Speaker: Andrii Pozdieiev (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

55 Inferring superbubble formation from star cluster dynamics in NGC 628

Speaker: Kalju Jake Nekvasil (University of Tartu, Estonia)

15:15 Coffee break

56 Theory of magneto-inertial modes on a rotating sphere: a simplified model

Speaker: Muneeb Mushtaq (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany)

57 Shape, orientation of velocity ellipsoids and Galactic vertex using giants and subgiants from Gaia DR3

Speaker: Artem Dmytrenko (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

58 Adaptive PINNs for molecular cloud fragmentation

Speaker: Tirthankar De (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India)

59 Stepwise shifts in Kozai cycles of equal mass hierarchical triples

Speaker: Wei Hao (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)

60 Estimating flare temperatures from multicolor photometry

Speaker: Dorottya Elekes (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

61 Optical infrared excess in cataclysmic variables across the period gap

Speaker: Remziye Canbay (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Türkiye)

62 Photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable Gaia23bcv during the 2025 Superoutburst

Speaker: Dariia Rusanova (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

63 Using BHTom facility for cataclysmic variables detection

Speaker: Diana Zazubyk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

64 Photometric and spectral variability of the Be/X-ray binaries 1H1936+541 and 1H2202+501

Speaker: Mykhailo Solomakha (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

65 HD 155358: a metal-poor star’s quest for a home in the Milky Way

Speaker: Deniz Cennet Çınar (Istanbul University, Türkiye)

66 Revisiting basel open clusters with Gaia DR3

Speaker: Talar Yontan (Istanbul University, Türkiye)

67 Detailed chemical analysis of an evolved binary star with planets using Gemini/MAROON-X spectra

Speaker: Camila Zuloaga (Astronomical Observatory of Córdoba, Argentina)

68 Chemical and dynamical analysis of Milky Way bulge globular clusters - Part 1

Speaker: Mihan Çalışkan (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Türkiye)

69 Chemical and dynamical clues to the origin of Milky Way bulge globular clusters - Part 2

Speaker: Ceyda Maltaş (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Türkiye)

70 Chemical and dynamical analysis of Milky Way bulge globular clusters - Part 3

Speaker: Sedat Kamaç (Akdeniz University, Antalya, Türkiye)

Thursday 23 April

71 The mechnanisms controlling the fertility and corpulence of dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Gary Mamon (Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France)

72 Decoding superbubble feedback

Speaker: Aikaterini Niovi Triantafyllaki (University of Tartu, Estonia)

73 Milky Way analogs and Milky Way near twins: selection criteria

Speaker: Oleksandr Kukhar (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

74 Milky Way galaxy-analogs and isolated galaxies with bars: environmental density in the Local Volume

Speaker: Olena Kompaniiets (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

75 NGC 3521 as the Milky Way near twin: spectral energy distribution from UV to radio decameter ranges

Speaker: Olena Pastoven (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

76 SED modelling of dwarf galaxies during the reionization epoch based on IllustrisTNG50-1 simulations

Speaker: Serhii Chudyk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

77 Testing the reliability of popular H ii region oxygen-abundance calibrations in dwarf galaxies using multicomponent photoionization modelling

Speaker: Denys Shelestiuk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

78 Building from a break-up: non-classical dwarf galaxies at the extremities and tidal bridge in Guitar galaxy Arp 105

Speaker: Jyoti Prakash (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India)

12:30 Coffee break

79 Clustering analysis of low surface brightness galaxies in the Dark Energy Survey

Speaker: Henry Willems (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

80 Deep learning discovery of polar ring galaxies in SDSS using synthetic training data

Speaker: Oleksandr Hetmantsev (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

81 Dust attenuation: a crucial component of future LSST data analysis

Speaker: Patryk Matera (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland)

82 The optical-infrared luminosity relation for quasars: the role of contaminations

Speaker: Mateusz Rałowski (University of Florence, Italy)

83 Optical-to-mid-infrared reverberation in the isolated NLSy1 galaxy Mrk 493

Speaker: Inna Izviekova (Main Astronomical Observatory of the NASU, Ukraine)

84 Modeling of non-stationary accretion for Active Galactic Nuclei

Speaker: Artem Holovashchenko (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

85 Formation of a global m = 1 mode in a self-gravitating torus

Speaker: Serhii Skolota (Institute of Radio Astronomy of NASU, Kharkiv, Ukraine)

86 Automating RFI flagging using machine learning

Speaker: Mosima Masipa (University of the Western Cape, South Africa)

87 Transmission function of the intergalactic medium for distant sources

Speaker: Anguohao Yang (Jilin University, Changchun, China)

15:15 Coffee break

88 Extragalactic accelerators and gamma-ray astronomy

Speaker: Gernot Maier (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, Zeuthen, Germany)

89 Search for cosmic ray PeVatrons: gamma-ray emission from the magnetar SGR1900+14 region

Speaker: Anastasiia Sokareva (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

90 Modeling the gamma-ray emission from the magnetar SGR 1900+14 sky region

Speaker: Vlad Nikitchenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

91 Type Ia supernovae in the Coma cluster

Speaker: Ágoston Horti-Dávid (HUN-REN Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary)

92 Signatures of quark matter in neutron star systems: a multi-messenger approach

Speaker: Suhani Suhani (Hindu College, University of Delhi, India)

93 Database-accelerated photoionization modeling of H ii regions and planetary nebulae

Speaker: Oleksii Kovalchuk (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

94 Fast diffuse ionizing radiation transfer calculations with the DiffRay code

Speaker: Mykhailo Berikashvili (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

95 Morphological classification of galaxies using SDSS database images and machine learning algorithms

Speaker: Yuliia Syvak (Lviv Physics and Mathematics Lyceum, Ukraine)

96 Luminosity- and spectral index-dependent composite spectra for Lyα-forest studies in quasar spectra

Speaker: Daryna Provolovska (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

97 Weighing the Abyss: estimating Black Hole masses through multi-component spectral fitting

Speaker: Heta Patel (Savitribai Phule Pune University, India)

98 Photometry and orbital analysis of the OJ 287 system

Speaker: Roksana Kazarova (Lyceum ‘Kebeta Online’, Ukraine)

99 Multiwavelength spectral and temporal analysis of VHE Blazar 1ES 1959+650: tracing emission mechanisms across flux states

Speaker: Anjum Peer (Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India)

100 Probing the origin of X-ray flares in the low-hard state of GRS 1915+105 using AstroSat and NuSTAR

Speaker: Shahzada Akhter (Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, India)

101 Analysis and simulation of glitch phenomenon in pulsars J0835-4510 (Vela) and J1016-5857

Speaker: Maksym Smetanskyi (Lyceum ‘Naukova Zmina’, Kyiv, Ukraine)

102 Optical variability of blazars

Speaker: Varduhi Mkrtchyan (Byurakan Astrophysical Observatorym Armenia)

Friday 24 April

103 Advances in space and telescopic lunar studies: methods and results

Speaker: Vadym Kaydash (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

104 Automated observation system for artificial celestial object tracking

Speaker: Liubomyr Shpyrka (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine)

105 Rotational properties of the largest asteroid families

Speaker: Kateryna Solovian (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

106 Search for signatures of space weathering among families of asteroids of different taxonomic types

Speaker: Oleksandr Khromiuk (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

107 Photometric study of asteroids with unusually high albedo in primitive asteroid families

Speaker: Danylo Yerokhin (V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine)

108 Photometric characterization of potentially hazardous asteroid 2025 FA22: rotation period, shape, and taxonomy

Speaker: Arushi Nath (Monitor My Planet, Canada)

109 Monte-Carlo model of comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS)

Speaker: Arsenii Kasianchuk (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

110 Comprehensive analysis of comet plasma tail disconnection events and their relation to sunspots and the magnetic field

Speaker: Kateryna Husarova (Gymnasium ‘Kyivska Rus’)

111 Monitoring of moving objects with an All-Sky Camera at the Observatory on Pip Ivan Mountain

Speaker: Iryna Kamin (Vasyl Stefanyk Caprathian National University, IvanoFrankivsk, Ukraine)

112 Origin of selected hot population objects in the Kuiper Belt

Speaker: Hanna Okhotko (Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine)

12:30 Coffee break

113 Beyond planets: simulating exocomet transits in high-precision photometry

Speaker: Nóra Takács (HUN-REN Research Centre, Budapest, Hungary)

114 Detecting exocomet activity in β Pictoris with a statistical light-curve analysis

Speaker: Denys Karakuts (Main Astronomical Observatory of NASU, Ukraine)

115 Photoevaporation in 1D protoplanetary disk models

Speaker: Anna Császár (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

116 Linking metal pollution and Ca ii line asymmetry in white dwarfs through disc hydrodynamics

Speaker: Viktória Fröhlich (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary)

117 Photoevaporating exoplanets: how do stellar coronal abundances affect atmospheric escape?

Speaker: Martiño Balboa-Costa (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam,Germany)

118 Is the ‘Steam World’ scenario for GJ 9827 d consistent with planetary evolution models?

Speaker: Imre Kisvárdai (University of Groningen, Netherlands)

14:30 Coffee break

119 Bridging the gap: ground-based photometric follow-up of long-period exoplanets in the quest for exomoons

Speaker: Anastasiia Nahurna (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

120 Spectral analysis and atmospheric retrieval of terrestrial exoplanets and mini-Neptunes using the TauREx 3 framework

Speaker: Mariia Lobodenko (Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine)

121 True spin-orbit obliquity distribution: Data-driven confirmation of no clustering of misaligned planets

Speaker: Alessandro Matteo Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)

122 Mean-motion resonances and stability in planetary and exoplanet systems

Speaker: Ruqiyah Aslam (Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India)

123 Hands-on stellar and planetary astrophysics learning through PACS e-Lab

Speaker: Sofiia Lys (National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’, Institute of Aerospace Technologies, Ukraine)

124 Comparative analysis of the Solar system and extrasolar planetary systems

Speaker: Ningthoujam Dipak Singh (Kristu Jayanti University, Bengaluru, India)

125 Comparison of transiting exoplanets radii estimated by using transit depth and time intervals methods

Speaker: Vladyslav Andrukhiv (Richelieu Science Lyceum, Odesa, Ukraine)

126 Gravity darkening in exoplanetary transits

Speaker: Rishabh Jain (University College London, UK)

127 Detection of water in exoplanet atmospheres and the study of the dependence of the intensity of its spectral features on the physical parameters and types of exoplanets

Speaker: Polina Khadzhynova (Technical Lyceum of Dnipro District, Ukraine)

16:35 Official closure