Invited talks (25+5 min)
Contributed talks (12+3 min)
Poster flash talks (~1 min)
Monday, 18.5:
Session 1: New facilities, brokers and surveys
09:00 – Emille Ishida (invited): LSST brokers and novel methods in big data analysis
09:30 – Héloïse Stevance (contributed): Transient recommendation systems in the era of LSST: How do we delegate decision making without FOMO (fear of missing out)?
09:45 – Massimo della Valle (contributed): SOXS: A Dedicated Spectroscopic Engine for the Transient Sky
10:00 – Marianna Dafčíková (contributed): Routine observations of gamma-ray transients by nanosatellites: the story of GRBAlpha and VZLUSAT-2
10:15 – Beth Garton (contributed): The Development and Design of a Novel Spectrograph for the NRT
10:30 BREAK
Session 2: New facilities, brokers and surveys
11:00 – Armin Rest (invited): The High-z Transient Universe with JWST
11:30 – Ori Fox (contributed): Explosive Transients and the High-z Universe with the Roman Space Telescope
11:45 – Thomas Wevers (contributed): An observatory network for time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy
12:00 – Federica Bianco (contributed): Rent or Build? Weighing the Custom Build Against the Strategic Adaptation of AI models for transient astronomy
12:15 – Alice Curtin (contributed): Introducing Telescopes and Transient Science Through Game-Based Learning
12:30 – Poster flash talks
12:45 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3: Multimessenger astronomy and kilonovae
13:45 – Irene Tamborra (invited): Messengers from core-collapse supernovae
14:15 – Thomas Killestein (contributed): Kilonova Seekers: Inviting the Public on a Journey of Real-time Scientific Discovery
14:30 – Jillian Rastinejad (contributed): The Current and Future Landscape of Observing Electromagnetic Counterparts to Neutron Star Mergers
14:45 – Aayush Arya (contributed): Conclusive Evidence for Strontium in the Kilonova AT2017gfo with Non-LTE Radiative Transfer
15:00 – Seiji Toshikage (contributed): Optical Transient Counterpart Search for High-energy Neutrino Events
15:15 – Poster flash talks
15:30 BREAK
Session 4: Multimessenger astronomy and kilonovae
16:00 – Masaomi Tanaka (invited): Decoding Light Curves and Spectra of Kilonovae
16:30 – Blanka Világos (contributed): Kilonova spectral modelling in 3D NLTE with ExTraSS
16:45 – James Gillanders (contributed): Identifying heavy element signatures in the spectra of neutron star mergers
17:00 – Kanthanakorn Noysena (contributed): Early-Time Optical Filtering of Candidates for Gravitational Wave Counterparts
17:15-17:30 – Quentin Pognan (contributed): Observational signatures of kilonovae arising from neutron star mergers with a magnetar remnant
EVENING – WELCOME RECEPTION (TBD)
Tuesday, 19.5:
Session 1: Fast radio bursts
09:00 – Benito Marcote (invited): Observations of Fast Radio Bursts
09:30 – Stuart Ryder (contributed): The CRAFT survey of Fast Radio Bursts and their Host Galaxies
09:45 – Yuxin Dong (contributed): Searching for Supernovae and Optical Transients Associated with Fast Radio Bursts
10:00 – Alice Curtin (contributed): The Largest Search for Coincident FRBs & GRBs using CHIME/FRB
10:15 BREAK
Session 2: Gamma-ray bursts and X-ray transients
10:45 – Kuntal Misra (invited): Insights from co-ordinated multi-wavelength observations of Gamma Ray Bursts
11:15 – Genevieve Schroeder (contributed): Where Are All of the Off-Axis GRBs? A Late-Time Radio Campaign of Ic Broad Line Supernovae
11:30 – Susanna Vergani (contributed): The SVOM mission: first results on GRB science
11:45 – Antonio Martin-Carrillo (contributed): GRB 250702B: A Unique Extragalactic Transient in a dusty, massive galaxy at z=1.036
12:00 – James Leung (contributed): Breaking the radio frontier for gamma-ray burst afterglow studies in the ngVLA/SKA era
12:15 – Asaf Pe’er (contributed): On the origin of plateau phase in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)
12:30 – Poster flash talks
12:45 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3: Gamma-ray bursts and X-ray transients
13:45 – Weimin Yuan (invited): Exploring transients in the X-ray universe with Einstein Probe
14:15 – Lili Michelle Roman Aguilar (contributed): Studying the power sources of GRB/XRF-SNe using hydrodynamical models
14:30 – Laura Cotter (contributed): Probing a New Subclass of Low-Luminosity GRB-SN Transients: Insights from EP250304a/SN 2025fhm
14:45 – Amar Aryan (contributed): Optical Insights to the Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transients from Lulin Observatory: A New Class or Just Faint GRBs?
15:00 – Andrew Levan (contributed): JWST insights into gamma-ray burst progenitors across cosmic time
15:15 – Poster flash talks
15:30 BREAK
Session 4: Core-collapse and high-z supernovae
16:00 – Joe Anderson (invited): The host environments of extra-galactic transients
16:30 – Wynn Jacobson-Galán (contributed): Flash Ultraviolet Spectroscopy: Exploring the UV Diversity of Young Core-Collapse Supernovae with HST STIS
16:45 – Eiichi Egami (contributed): The JADES Extended Transient Survey (JETS)
17:00 – Christian Vassallo (contributed): Core-collapse supernovae as probes of cosmic star formation history
17:15-17:30 – David Coulter (contributed): Spectroscopic confirmation of a gravitationally lensed supernova 1 billion years after the Big Bang
Wednesday, 20.5:
Session 1: Core-collapse supernovae
09:00 – Samaporn Tinyanont (invited): Polarization and infrared studies of core-collapse supernovae
09:30 – Melissa Shahbandeh (contributed): A Life Story Told in Snapshots: JWST Observations Tracing Dust Evolution in Core-Collapse Supernovae
09:45 – Florian Kirchschlager (contributed): Dust destruction in supernova remnants and the ISM
10:00 – Stan Barmentloo (contributed): Spectral Modeling in the JWST Era: Insights from Mid-Infrared Supernova Spectra
10:15 – Ryuichiro Akaho (contributed): Boltzmann Neutrino Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Core-collapse Supernovae
10:30 – Melina Bersten (contributed): Core-Collapse Supernova Progenitors from Light Curves and Stellar-Evolution Models
10:45 BREAK
Session 2: Thermonuclear supernovae
11:15 – Kate Maguire (invited): Future prospects on Type Ia supernova studies
11:45 – Jack Tweddle (contributed): TITAN DR1: 5000 Spectroscopic Type Ia Supernovae in the Nearby Universe
12:00 – Alice Townsend (contributed): Discovering strongly lensed supernovae: from ZTF to LSST
12:15 – Poster flash talks
12:45 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3: Thermonuclear supernovae
13:45 – Stéphane Blondin (contributed): New optical-infrared radiative-transfer models for Type Ia supernovae at nebular times
14:00 – Taiga Sasaoka (contributed): Constraining the nature of an “intermediate” Type Iax SN 2025qe through its early-phase properties
14:15 – Christa Gall (contributed): The Origin of Extreme Na I D Absorption in Type Ia Supernova Environments
14:30 – Lindsey Kwok (contributed): The Earliest JWST Mid-Infrared Spectra of a Type Ia Supernova: SN 2025rbs
14:45-15:00 – Jeena S. K. (contributed): Clear Signature of Thermonuclear Explosions in the Early Galaxy
EVENING – PUBLIC LECTURE (TBD)
Thursday, 21.5:
Session 1: Tidal disruption events and other nuclear transients
09:00 – Iair Arcavi (invited): Observations of tidal disruption events and other nuclear transients
09:30 – Megan Newsome (contributed): Cause or Effect? The Circumnuclear Environments of TDE Hosts
09:45 – Paarmita Pandey (contributed): Unraveling the Nature of the Nuclear Transient AT2020adpi
10:00 – Sara Faris (contributed): Is AT 2019ehz a TDE in an SMBH Binary?
10:15 – Thomas Reynolds (contributed): JWST and NOT observations of the IR echoes of optical TDEs
10:30 BREAK
Session 2: Tidal disruption events and other nuclear transients
11:00 – Brenna Mockler (invited): New insights on tidal disruption event simulations
11:30 – Jin-hong Chen (contributed): Diverse Emission Patterns from Precessing Super-Eddington Disks Formed in Tidal Disruption Events
11:45 – Karri Koljonen (contributed): Optical Polarimetry of TDEs with the Nordic Optical Telescope
12:00 – Yannis Liodakis (contributed): Radio Polarization Studies of Tidal Disruption Events with the Effelsberg 100m Telescope
12:15 – Pavan Vynatheya (contributed): Asymmetrical supernovae triggered by the tidal disruptions of white dwarfs
12:30 – Poster flash talks
12:45 LUNCH BREAK
Session 3: Progenitor stars
13:45 – Eva Laplace (invited): The remarkable diversity of supernovae from massive binary stars
14:15 – Avishai Gilkis (contributed): These Are the Stars You Should Be Looking for: Hot Progenitors of Black Holes
14:30 – Charles Kilpatrick (contributed): The massive progenitor stars to core-collapse supernovae: connections to mass loss, dust production, and binary evolution
14:45 – Jenny Su (contributed): Bridging Observations and Theory: A Population-wide Study on Progenitors and any Companions of Stripped-Envelope Supernova with HST
15:00 – Akihiro Suzuki (contributed): Radial pulsation runaway in massive red supergiants in late evolutionary stage and implications to hydrogen-rich supernovae
15:15 – Poster flash talks
15:30 BREAK
Session 4: Low-luminosity transients and eruptions
16:00 – Nadejda Blagorodnova (invited): Exploring stellar evolution with Luminous Red Novae and Gap Transients
16:30 – Ondrej Pejcha (contributed): Two-Dimensional Radiation-Hydrodynamic Simulations of Luminous Red Novae
16:45 – Zhuo Chen (contributed): From Common Envelope Evolution to Luminous Red Novae
17:00 – Seán Brennan (contributed): Precursor Emission in Interacting Supernovae: Rates, Identification, and Physical Origins
17:15-17:30 -Emma Beasor (contributed): Watching Stars Disappear: Lessons from a Decade of Failed SN Searches
Friday, 22.5 (Viking Glory – note that all times are in Finnish time):
07:15 – CHECK-IN OPENS; CHECK-IN MUST BE COMPLETED BY 08:15
08:45 – DEPARTURE
Session 1: Superluminous and extreme supernovae
09:45 – Janet Ting-wan Chen (invited): Superluminous Supernovae Across Cosmic Time: Opportunities with Future Facilities
10:15 – Stefan Taubenberger (contributed): SN Winny: insights from the first strongly lensed superluminous supernova
10:30 – Steve Schulze (contributed): Pair-Instability Supernovae in the Era of Next-Generation Surveys: Observational + Theoretical Challenges and Pathways
10:45 – Hannah Wichern (contributed): A curious superluminous supernova in a passive galaxy
11:00 – Sebastian Gomez (contributed): An Ultra-Stripped Core-Collapse Supernova Masquerading as a Superluminous Transient
11:15 – Andrea Ercolino (contributed): Models of Supernovae interacting with their binary companions
11:30 BREAK AND FREE TIME
12:30 LUNCH AND FREE TIME
Session 2: Interacting supernovae
14:30 – Daichi Hiramatsu (invited): Hydrogen-rich supernovae interacting with circumstellar medium
15:00 – Keiichi Maeda (contributed): Periodicity found in SN Ic-CSM 2022esa: Wolf-Rayet binary progenitor?
15:15 – Axel Mendez Llorca (contributed): Photometric indicators of early interaction in Type II Supernovae
15:30 -Soham Mandal (contributed): One Explosion, Many Supernovae: How Binary Interaction Creates the Illusion of Multiple SN Types
15:45 – Annika Deutsch (contributed): Late-Stage Multiwavelength Monitoring of SN 2018ivc: Binarity as a Mechanism for Mass-Loss in High Mass Stars
16:00 – Timo Kravtsov (contributed): Environments of type Ibn SNe: evidence of a strong WR component
16:15 BREAK
Session 3: Fast transients
16:45 – Anna Ho (invited): The population of luminous fast and blue optical transients
17:15 – Daniel Kasen (invited): Physical Modeling of Fast Blue Optical Transients
17:45 – Daniel Perley (contributed): The Ultraluminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient AT2024wpp
18:00 – Rahul Jayaraman (contributed): Joint analysis of ZTF and TESS data: Constraints on early-time shock-cooling emission and late-time flaring
18:15 – Conference summary and concluding remarks by Brian Schmidt
18:45 FREE TIME
19:55 ARRIVAL IN STOCKHOLM for those who wish to disembark
21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER