Name: Netherlands Astronomers' Conference 2024
Start: 2024-05-13T07:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-15T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Zuiderduin

Netherlands Astronomers' Conference 2024

from Monday, May 13, 2024 (7:30 AM) to Wednesday, May 15, 2024 (3:30 PM)

Monday, May 13, 2024

10:00 AM Check-in and registration
Check-in and registration
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Room: Lounge

11:30 AM Lunch
Lunch
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Lounge
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

1:00 PM Opening by Nathalie Degenaar, Mitchel Stoop & Peter Barthel

1:15 PM Invited "meet-new-staff": Internal fractionation of atmospheric volatiles on molten exoplanets - Tim Lichtenberg

1:30 PM Tidal disruption events’ constraints on the origin of massive black holes - Anna Balaudo

1:45 PM A NICER View of the Nearest and Brightest Millisecond Pulsar: PSR J0437−4715 - Devarshi Choudhury

2:00 PM Perceptions of the societal responsibility of astronomers in the context of the Africa Millimeter Telescope - Maaike Pierik

2:15 PM Euclid in space! - Koen Kuijken
2:30 PM Coffee + Poster session
Coffee + Poster session
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lounge
3:00 PM
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

3:00 PM Invited "meet-new-staff": Radio detection of high energy cosmic particles - Katharine Mulrey

3:15 PM Mass loss from massive stars as function of metallicity - Frank Backs

3:30 PM Dutch astronomy during the climate crisis - Violette Impelizzeri

3:45 PM Spectral Stacking of MHONGOOSE Data - Searching for Neutral Hydrogen Clouds in the Cosmic Web - Simone Veronese

4:00 PM The MeerKAT single-pulse census of the pulsar population: What do 1.6 million pulsar pulses tell us? - Xiaoxi Song

4:15 PM Invited "meet-new-staff": Teaching astronomy - Marcel van Daalen
4:30 PM KNA/RNAS Kees de Jager Prize Ceremony
KNA/RNAS Kees de Jager Prize Ceremony
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room

5:00 PM Conference Photo
Conference Photo
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM

5:30 PM Free time
Free time
5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: Restaurant

8:00 PM

8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room

9:00 PM Free time - Bar open
Free time - Bar open
9:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Room: Pub O'Donnell's
Tuesday, May 14, 2024

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Restaurant
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

9:00 AM Disruptions in galactic nuclei from chaotic orbits - Zephyr Penoyre

9:15 AM Hypervelocity star observations constrain the Galactic Centre - Sill Verberne

9:30 AM Identifying the most metal-poor stars in the APOGEE survey - Martin Montelius

9:45 AM NGC 5253: Peering into the massive star formation chemical enrichment at pc scales. - Brigitte Pruijt

10:00 AM Dust: using simulations to understand the evolution in observations - Stefan van der Giessen
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room 558
Contributions

9:00 AM Recalibrating our search for diverse exo-worlds - Mariam Haidar

9:15 AM Milli-arcsecond imaging with VLTI/Asgard - Denis Defrere

9:30 AM Radiative Window in Jupiter's Atmosphere? - Louis Siebenaler

9:45 AM Retrieving the Sulfur Chemistry of Irradiated Exoplanets - Wiebe de Gruijter

10:00 AM Forming equal-mass planetary binaries via pebble accretion - Tom Konijn
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Room 559
Contributions

9:00 AM The Event Horizon Telescope and Africa Millimetre Telescope: Current status and future plans - Michael Janssen

9:15 AM Prospects for measuring high-energy cosmic rays at SKA-Low - Arthur Corstanje

9:30 AM Evolution of AGN feedback in the galaxy group Nest 200047 over cosmic time - Anwesh Majumder

9:45 AM Tidal Disruption Events: energy dissipation from spaghettified stars - Paola Martire

10:00 AM Pulsar J1906+0746 at FAST: a unique exploration of radio-pulsar beam maps - Yuyang Wang
10:15 AM Coffee + Poster session
Coffee + Poster session
10:15 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Lounge
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

10:45 AM The remarkable NGC 4781 MHONGOOSE triplet - Dane Kleiner

11:00 AM Complex organic molecules in the turbulent circumnuclear disc of a young radio galaxy - Suma Murthy

11:15 AM JWST/MIRI imaging in the CEERS and MEGA surveys - Guang Yang

11:30 AM Unraveling the formation and evolution of massive quiescent galaxies at z = 1-3 with JWST - Martje Slob

11:45 AM The large-scale structure around the Fornax-Eridanus Complex - Maria Angela Raj
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 558
Contributions

10:45 AM The MIRI mid-INfrared Disk Survey - Inga Kamp

11:00 AM A planetary nebula with "freckles". The case of NGC 4361 as dissected with MUSE. - Ana Monreal Ibero

11:15 AM The wind properties of low metallicity massive stars - Ciaran Furey

11:30 AM Understanding cold dense gas ratios in the outer galaxy with SHAP - Gijs Vermarien

11:45 AM The WISCI project: Exploring dust properties in the nearby diffuse interstellar medium - Sascha Zeegers
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room 559
Contributions

10:45 AM Exploring the nature of unusual GRB 210704A - Danielle Pieterse

11:00 AM The unique white dwarf pulsar J1912-4410 - Patrick Woudt

11:15 AM Uncovering the diversity of fast radio bursts - Ziggy Pleunis

11:30 AM Stable tertiary mass transfer in hierarchical triple stars - Floris Kummer

11:45 AM X-ray diagnostics of Cassiopeia A’s “Green Monster” - Manan Agarwal
12:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Restaurant
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

1:30 PM Invited "meet-new-staff": XRISM early results and scientific impacts - Liyi Gu

1:45 PM Witnessing radiatively-driven ionised outflows in active galactic nuclei - Anna Juranova

2:00 PM The properties of pre-main sequence stars in the massive Galactic star formation region NGC 3603 with JWST NIRSpec. - Ciaran Rogers

2:15 PM Weighing Herbig disks: Obtaining gas and dust masses of Herbig disks using millimeter interferometer observations - Lucas Stapper

2:30 PM Results and recommendations from the work climate survey - Ilse van Bemmel
3:00 PM Coffee + Poster session
Coffee + Poster session
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Lounge
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 559
Contributions

3:30 PM Futureproof Astronomy Communication - Joanna Holt Marieke Baan

3:45 PM Astronomy Communication
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

3:30 PM ECR speaker: Stefania Giodini

3:50 PM ECR speaker: Marcel Haas

4:10 PM ECR speaker: Ilse van Bemmel

4:30 PM Informal Chat
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: Room 558
Contributions

3:30 PM NWO Astronomy Round Table Updates - Sera Markoff

4:00 PM SKA Construction and Development of the Regional Centre in the Netherlands - Joseph Callingham

4:15 PM Raad van de Astronomie / NL Astronomy Council; Update - Carsten Dominik
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room

6:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Room: The Ritz

8:00 PM Social events
Social events
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: The Ritz / Bowling / Pub O'Donnell's

10:00 PM Free time - Bar open
Free time - Bar open
10:00 PM - 12:00 AM
Room: Pub O'Donnell's
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

7:30 AM Breakfast
Breakfast
7:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: Restaurant
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

9:00 AM Invited "meet-new-staff": The first inroads into the low-frequency gravitational wave spectrum - Aditya Parthasarathy

9:15 AM Unveiling the structure of the Jhelum stream with ant colony-inspired computation - Petra Awad

9:30 AM Search for a spectral cut-off and periodic signal from a radio brown dwarf binary - Timothy Wing Hei Yiu

9:45 AM A periodic radio transient found with LOFAR - Iris de Ruiter

10:00 AM Invited "meet-new-staff": The need for ab initio and laboratory simulations in exoplanet science - Kaustubh Hakim
10:15 AM

10:15 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Lamoraal-room

10:30 AM Coffee + Poster session
Coffee + Poster session
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Lounge
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room
Contributions

11:00 AM Invited "meet-new-staff": The polydisperse nature of Planet Formation - Sijme-Jan Paardekooper

11:15 AM GRMHD simulations of accreting neutron stars - Pushpita Das

11:30 AM Dynamics of disk galaxies: what causes the spirals? - Sven de Rijcke

11:45 AM Mg abundance of the globular cluster NGC2419 using WEAVE - Mariya Nizovkina

12:00 PM Dust destruction by supernova blast waves in a turbulent interstellar medium - Tassilo Scheffler

12:15 PM Invited "meet-new-staff": Unveiling the photochemical evolution of carbonaceous molecules: experimental and theoretical studies. - Alessandra Candian
12:30 PM Closing remarks by Nathalie Degenaar, Mitchel Stoop & Ralph Wijers
Closing remarks by Nathalie Degenaar, Mitchel Stoop & Ralph Wijers
12:30 PM - 12:40 PM
Room: Lamoraal-room

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Restaurant

1:30 PM Meeting adjourn
Meeting adjourn
1:30 PM - 3:30 PM