Name: National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) 2025
Start: 2025-07-07T08:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-07-11T18:55:00+01:00
Location: Teaching and Learning Centre (TLC)

Monday 7 July 2025

08:00 Registration and set up
Registration and set up
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 The impact of feedback on the distribution of baryons within and beyond haloes - Daniele Sorini (Durham University)

09:28 Emission line diagnostics in H II regions: a non-equilibrium perspective - Yuankang Liu (Durham University)

09:39 Feedback in dusty elliptical galaxies - Michał Michałowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

09:50 The role of star formation-driven outflows in the baryon cycle - Bronwyn Reichardt Chu (Durham University)

10:01 Relaxation timescales of stellar-gas misalignments in the EAGLE simulation - Maximilian Baker (Cardiff University)

10:12 Observations of cooling flows in nearby elliptical galaxies and the fate of cooled gas - Lucy Ivey (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 PEBBLeS in Protoplanetary Discs - Jane Greaves (Cardiff University)

09:08 Understanding the evolution of dust near and far using the Colibre suite of simulations - Aswin Payyoor Vijayan (University of Sussex)

09:16 Magnetic fields in the interstellar medium: current achievements and future perspectives - Kate Pattle (University College London)

09:24 Simulating dust production, growth and destruction in the ISM on a cosmological scale - Alice Ferreira (University of Hertfordshire)

09:32 Disentangling the [CII] deficit: an ALMA survey of [CII] and [NII]205 in z~4.5 SMGs - Julie Wardlow (Lancaster University)

09:40 Dust-obscured star-formation history back to z ≃ 7 revealed by ALMA and JWST PRIMER

09:48 Dust in the Universe, and what AtLAST can tell us about it. - Pamela Klaassen (UK Astronomy Technology Centre)

10:02 The Probe far-infrared Mission for Astrophysics PRIMA - Seb Oliver (University of Sussex)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The MUSE Mission - Lyndsay Fletcher (University of Glasgow)

09:17 Probing pre-flare dynamics with the short-wavelength camera onboard the EUV High-throughput Spectroscopic Telescope on SOLAR-C - James McKevitt (UCL)

09:34 New diagnostics for the chromosphere using emission lines from neutral carbon observed by EUVST - Roger Dufresne

09:48 Observations of Chromospheric Condensation in the Si III 1206 Å line - Luke Majury Ryan Milligan (Queen's University Belfast)

10:02 Flare lines in MUSE/EUVST - Giulio Del Zanna (University of Cambridge)

10:16 How different thermal transport mechanisms influence thermodynamic cycle of solar flares - Sergey Belov (University of Warwick)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 Basis Function Expansions: Quantifying The Things That DREAMS Are Made Of

09:19 Probing the role of chaos in galaxy evolution with PECCARY and basis function expansions - Soley Hyman (University of Arizona)

09:33 Basis function theory in galactic dynamics and beyond

09:47 Time-dependent linear response theory via the matrix method

10:01 Dynamics of the perturbed outer Milky Way halo with basis function expansions

10:15 The effect of the MW–LMC interaction on stellar stream populations - Richard Brooks (University College London)

10:20 The distortion of the Tucana IV by the recent close passage of the Large Magellanic Cloud - Aliaksandra Senkevich (University Of Surrey)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 STRAUSS: Sonification Tools and Resources for Analysis using Sound Synthesis

09:10 The Tactile Universe: Communicating gravitational wave astronomy through touch and sound

09:20 Using sound to expand the accessibility of solar eclipses with LightSound - Soley Hyman (University of Arizona)

09:30 Beyond the Visual: the Importance of sensory Practical Wisdom for Astrophysicists and Instrument Scientists

09:40 On the Basis of Sound: Sonifying Galaxy Images

09:50 Safe Space: Developing multisensory resources for disabled children

10:00 Astronify: An Open-Source Python Package to Sonify Lightcurves and Spectra

10:10 A Universe of Sound: Processing NASA Data into Sonifications to Explore Participant Response
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The COSMOS-Web Lens Survey (COWLS): Discovery of >100 high redshift strong lenses in contiguous JWST imaging

09:15 Line-of-sight shear: progress and challenges

09:30 Probing Dark Matter Substructures with Free-Form Modelling: A Case Study of the `Jackpot' Strong Lens - Xiaoyue Cao (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)

09:45 Super-Concentration or Unaccounted Light? Unveiling the True Nature of the Subhalo in SDSSJ0946+1006

10:00 Detecting subhalos with very steep inner-density profiles using strong gravitational lensing

10:15 Group-Scale Lenses with JWST: Probing Magnified High-Redshift Galaxies And Extending Cosmological Distance Measurements - Niek Wielders
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 Use of solid fused silica metalon as a wavelength calibrator for high-resolution optical EXOhSPEC spectrograph - Supriyo Ghosh (University of Hertfordshire)

09:20 Lessons learned from WEAVE - Gavin Dalton (University of Oxford/RALSpace)

09:35 The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Revolutionizing Modern Astronomy - Fawada Qaiser (Durham University)

09:50 Applications of CMB receiver technology - Mark McCulloch (The University of Manchester)

10:05 Insight on forecasting techniques from their application to the solar wind - Pauline Simon (Department of Physics and Astronomy, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Opening Ceremony
Opening Ceremony
11:00 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:20 The tumultuous life of early galaxies: bursty star formation and the build-up of disks - Sandro Tacchella (Kavli Institute for Cosmology, University of Cambridge)
12:45 IOP Drinks Reception
IOP Drinks Reception
12:45 - 14:15

Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15

13:15

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

14:00 Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
14:00 - 14:15

14:15 Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
14:15 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:18 Modified IGM Enrichment as a Constraint on the Mass-Loading of Outflows from Low-mass Galaxies - Christopher Rowe (Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University)

14:29 The MUSE Ultra-Deep Field: Tracing the baryon cycle through low-mass galaxies since cosmic noon - Alexander Beckett (Space Telescope Science Institute)

14:40 The Role of Magnetic Fields in the Ram Pressure Stripping of Satellite Galaxies in the Circumgalactic Medium - Thomas Rintoul (Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd)

14:51 Simulating the multiphase CGM: turbulence, cloud kinematics and observational signatures - Rajsekhar Mohapatra (Princeton University)

15:02 The cool CGM mapping of individual galaxies - Huanian Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

15:13 MgII Absorbers in the CGM of Post-Starburst Galaxies - Zoe Harvey (University of St Andrews)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 Mitigating Reflectance: Simulating the Orbital Dependence of Satellite Brightness

14:26 A mitigation tool to forecast satellite passes and brightness for optical telescopes worldwide

14:32 Mitigating Satellite Light Pollution with Vantablack Coatings: A Collaborative Approach to Protecting Astronomy

14:38 Satellite constellations and radio astronomy - clarifications on regulatory status of radio astronomy and current mitigations

14:44 ESA’s dark and quiet skies requirements and technology developments

14:50 IAU CPS: Improving our understanding of satellite constellations and engagement with industry

15:03 Part 2 Panel (audience Q&A): Will Space Deliver all it’s Earth-Born Promises?
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Dyablo: A New General-Purpose GPU-Accelerated Hydrodynamical Code for Astrophysics

14:25 ExoSim 2: a flexible framework for next-generation simulation of astronomical observations - Lorenzo Mugnai (Cardiff University)

14:35 Astronomical Radiative Transfer and Video Games: a Match Made in the Sun - Christopher Osborne (University of Glasgow)

14:45 Synthesizer: Forward modelling with everything but the kitchen sink

14:55 Odisseo - Optimized Differentiable Integrator for Stellar Systems Evolution of Orbit

15:05 jf1uids - differentiable (magneto)hydrodynamics for astrophysics in JAX

15:15 Optimizing Response Time in Robotic Telescope Scheduling Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

15:25 ExaGRyPE: Numerical Relativity Solvers Based upon the Hyperbolic PDEs Solver Engine ExaHyPE - Han Zhang (durham university)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 MHD wave heating in the complex solar atmosphere - Ineke De Moortel (University of St Andrews)

14:34 Total Power and Low-energy Cut-off Time Evolution of Solar Flare Accelerated Electrons Using X-Ray Observations and Warm-Target Model

14:42 An outflow equilibrium model for the solar corona - Anthony Yeates (Durham University)

14:50 Magnetohydrodynamic Wave Modelling in the Solar Atmosphere and their Observational Consequences - Anmol Kumar (University of St Andrews)

14:58 Connection between fundamental processes and large-scale heliospheric structure from Parker Solar Probe’s prime mission

15:17 Switchback generation from the evolution of Torsional Alfvén waves

15:25 Investigating the dynamic sources of fast solar wind from low-latitude coronal holes

15:33 Probing Solar Turbulence Through Angular Broadening of Radio Sources with MeerKAT
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 What fraction of star formation occurs in clusters...and why do we care?

14:45 The Imprint of Clustered Star Formation on the Kinematics of Young Stars in the Solar Neighbourhood

14:57 What Time Can Tell Us About Space: A Study of Variability in Young Stellar Objects

15:09 A Multi cadence Study Of The Variable Stars In Tr 37: Accretion Stability, Inner Disk Properties And Activity

15:21 Statistical Theory of Three-Body Interactions in Clusters - Barry Ginat (University of Oxford)

15:33 The Long-Term Evolution and Dissolution of Young Stellar Clusters
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 The roadmap to 100,000 strong lenses with Euclid

14:35 Constraining Dark Substructures Beyond the Diffraction Limit with Cluster Lens

14:50 Empirical dark matter halo profiles

15:05 The era of simulation-based inference for gravitational lensing

15:20 High resolution dark matter cartography with JWST: Overdensity properties studied through their weak lensing signal
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 The Broadband View of the Bare Seyfert PG1426+015: Relativistic Reflection, the Soft Excess and the Importance of Oxygen

14:30 Constraining black hole spin in PG 1535+547 amidst complex multi-layered absorption

14:40 Beyond Reverberation: The Complex Nature of AGN Variability Revealed in Fairall 9

14:50 Measurements of the X-ray Luminosity Function of AGN at $z=4-10$

15:00 The wind properties of the X-ray selected SDSS-V quasar sample

15:10 Flipping the switch: what can we learn from the MIR emission of changing-look AGN? - Claire Greenwell (Durham University)

15:20 Dust in the Wind: extended dust in the circumnuclear regions of AGN as tracers of feedback
15:45 Coffee Break and Cakes for Good (charity cake-bake sale)
Coffee Break and Cakes for Good (charity cake-bake sale)
15:45 - 16:15

Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
15:45 - 16:15

16:15 Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
16:15 - 17:45
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Insights into coronal Alfvénic waves from DKIST

16:40 Investigating Chromospheric Waves and Flows in a Giant Spiral Structure using SST CRISP. - Yash Saneshwar (Northumbria University)

16:52 Identification of Nonlinear Damping of Transverse Loop Oscillations by KHI-induced Turbulence

17:04 Fine Structuring and Driving Mechanisms of Propagating Slow Waves in Coronal Fan Structures

17:16 Uniturbulence and Alfven wave solar model

17:28 MHD Simulations of Cool Loop Formation and Kink Oscillation Dynamics in the Solar Atmosphere
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:17 The UKRI-STFC IRIS Research Infrastructure and Relevance to Astronomy

16:32 Developing the UK SKA Regional Centre

16:47 IRIS resources used at Cambridge for Gaia and PLATO data processing

17:03 Euclid UK Science on IRIS

17:17 The COSMA supercomputer for computational cosmology

17:32 AI Research Resource (AIRR) status and update
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Vera C. Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time - Federica Bianco (Vera C. Rubin Observatory)

16:35 Introduction to LSST:UK and UK involvement in Rubin/LSST - Bob Mann (LSST:UK)

16:45 Introduction to early science with Rubin/LSST - Graham Smith (LSST:UK)

17:00 Lasair: the UK Broker for Rubin Alerts - Roy Williams (University of Edinburgh)

17:15 The ComCam Campaign and Data Preview 1 - James Mullaney (The University of Sheffield)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 The evolving view of the Galaxy through stellar clusters

16:40 Spatial Properties of the NGC628 star cluster population

16:52 Star Clusters module in the Auriga Galaxy Simulations

17:04 Investigating high-z star clusters with LYRA

17:16 The Globular Clusters that Built the proto-Milky Way

17:28 Fewer Companions in the Crowd: The Low Close Binary Fraction in Globular Clusters from Gaia RVS
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:25 Stars as cosmic scales: measuring stellar mass with microlensed supernovae

16:40 Gravitationally lensed stars and the stellar initial mass function at z~1 galaxies - Sung Kei Li (The University of Hong Kong)

16:55 Quasi-periodic lensed light curves of stars by supermassive black hole binaries

17:10 Residual test to search for microlensing signatures in strongly lensed gravitational wave signals - Eungwang Seo (University of Glasgow)

17:25 The Magnified Waltz: Simulating Light Curves of Binary Stars Passing through Micro-Caustics in Strong Lensing Galaxy Clusters - Wenwen Zheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Purple Mountain Observatory)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Are dusty QSOs in a blow-out phase? - Vicky Fawcett (Newcastle University)

16:25 Radio-AGN across the galaxy population: implications for fuelling and feedback

16:35 The broad relationship between X-ray and radio luminosities for AGN

16:45 Simulated radio observations as a probe of fuelling and flickering in AGN jets

16:55 AGN jets and wings: unravelling the mystery of cross-shaped X-ray emission - Tom Higginson (University of Bristol)

17:05 Unveiling AGN Outflows: A High Resolution Morphological Study with LOFAR-VLBI

17:15 Comparing radio-loud Swift/BAT AGN with their radio-quiet counterparts - Maitrayee Gupta (Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

17:25 Evidence to the jet powering mechanism in SDSS quasars from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Star formation and feedback on cloud scales in different galactic environments

16:40 Emission line diagnostics in H II regions: a non-equilibrium perspective - Yuankang Liu (Durham University)

16:55 Explaining the FUV--Hα SFR dichotomy in the M101 Group via HII region leakage

17:10 The impact of different star formation models on galaxy evolution across cosmic time

17:25 Magnetic Fields at the Heart of a ULIRG: Arp220
18:00 NAM Football
NAM Football
18:00 - 21:00

Pre-public talk event activities
Pre-public talk event activities
18:00 - 19:30
19:30
19:30 - 21:00
Contributions

19:30 Supernovae, Advanced Telescopes and the Search for Dark Energy - Isobel Hook (Lancaster University)
Tuesday 8 July 2025

08:00 Registration and set up
Registration and set up
08:00 - 09:00

09:00 Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
09:00 - 10:30
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The Pacific Ocean neutrino experiment: new developments and physics case - Beatrice Crudele (UCL)

09:15 The Trinity PeV Neutrino Observatory

09:30 Unraveling Neutrino Properties with Neutrino Telescopes

09:45 Tau Neutrino Measurement Using the Track Sample in IceCube - Teppei Katori (King's College London)

10:00 Calibrating Molecular Cloud Density Tracers using Neutrino emission from the Galactic Centre

10:15 High-energy neutrino measurement at Super-Kamiokande and Hyper-Kamiokande - Nahid Bhuiyan (King's College London)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Space Traffic Control - Are we just going round and round in circles, or can we achieve escape velocity?

09:15 Including Optical Astronomy in Space Sustainability Assessments

09:30 Demonstration of a Portable Satellite Tracking System using Optical Parallax Measurements

09:45 Innovating for Infinity: Sustainable Technologies in Space

10:00 The need to measure the mm sized dust flux in Low Earth Orbit.

10:15 RSO recovery through blind stacking – Current results and future goals - Benjamin Cooke (University of Warwick)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:01 Flare evaporation, condensations, and ribbons

09:13 On the reliability of Local Correlation Tracking for inferring photospheric vortex flows in high-resolution observations

09:25 Energy Fluxes in Reduced Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence

09:37 Determining distribution functions for collisionless current sheet equilibria: Analytical approach

09:49 Characterizing Flare-Associated Electrons with HXR Warm-Target and DEM Diagnostics

10:01 The Evolution of Secondary Mixed-Mode Instabilities beneath a Rayleigh-Taylor Unstable Prominence

10:13 Improved atomic modelling for UV radiative transfer calculations
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 How the Large-Scale Environment Impacts Galaxy Evolution: Feedback, Quenching, and Cosmic-Web Effects

09:30 Local Group Analogs in a cosmological context: Relating the velocity structure to the cosmic web - Kai Wang (Durham University)

09:43 Probing baryonic feedback and cosmology with patchy screening in the FLAMINGO simulations.

09:56 The galaxy-environment connection revealed by constrained simulations

10:09 Identifying backsplash galaxies using machine learning - Roan Haggar (University of Waterloo)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Dust in shocks: The missing link in AGN feedback

09:10 The link between circumnuclear molecular gas reservoirs, millimetre continua and active galactic nucleus fuelling

09:20 Evidence for universal gas depletion in a sample of 41 luminous Type 1 quasars at 𝑧 ∼ 2 - Stephen Molyneux (The University of Southampton)

09:30 Stellar populations of quasar host galaxies with Mean Field ICA - Sahyadri Krishna (University of St Andrews)

09:40 The alignment of galaxies and AGN jets in the cosmic web environment

09:50 Dissecting a Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=4.7: The Role of AGN Feedback in Quenching Star Formation and Shaping Galaxy Kinematics - Robert Pascalau (KICC, University of Cambridge)

10:00 Host galaxy physical properties of Euclid Q1 AGN
09:00 - 10:30
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES): ALMA's multi-scale view of the CMZ

09:20 What controls the star formation in Cloud E/F with ACES?

09:35 Isolating the Central Molecular Zone using Fourier Filtering Techniques

09:50 Magnetic fields in star-forming regions: recent results from the JCMT BISTRO Survey

10:05 BISTRO: Magnetic Fields Regulate Star Formation in the Western CMZ
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
10:30 - 12:45

11:00 Annoucements
Annoucements
11:00 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:20 Modelling Galaxies - James Binney (University of Oxford)

12:05 Calculations of molecular spectra for astronomy - Jonathan Tennyson (University College London)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15

Meet the Editor (RAS)
Meet the Editor (RAS)
12:45 - 14:15

Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
12:45 - 14:15

13:15

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

14:15 Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
14:15 - 15:45
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Probing Jet Composition in Extreme Mass Ratio Black Hole Binaries through Periodic Emission Signatures

14:29 Unveiling the PeVatron: Neutrinos as Probes of High Energy Cosmic Ray Origins in the Galactic Centre - Beatrice Crudele (UCL)

14:41 Neutrino as a new tool to characterise the Milky Way Centre - Paul Chong Wa Lai (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London)

14:53 Probing the physics of cosmic ray transport in the multi-phase interstellar medium - Hayden Ping Hei Ng (ECAP/UCL)

15:05 An empirical microphysical determination of cosmic ray transport in the Gould’s Belt - Szu-Ting Chen (NTHU, ECAP)

15:15 Galactic Scale Bubbles in Galaxies - Beyond the Standard Leptonic Scenario

15:25 Discovering Axion-like particles using Multi-band observations of Galaxy clusters - Harsh Mehta (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:16 Cool and hot emission disambiguation in (E)UV instrument passbands

14:28 Constraining the Potential Field Source Surface Distance Using Coronal Tomography - Leigh Davis (Aberystwyth University)

14:40 Solar Active Region Nesting: Impact on Magnetic Activity and Coronal Structure

14:52 Deep Learning study into sunspot evolution for use in flare forecasting.

15:04 Impact of time-dependent WSA boundaries on solar wind properties in the heliosphere - Chaitanya Sishtla (Queen Mary University of London)

15:16 Quantifying what is lost in magnetic field modelling when using synoptic magnetograms - Jonah Klowss (University of St Andrews)

15:28 Non-LTE Radiative Models of Coronal Condensations at Extreme Resolution - Christopher Osborne (University of Glasgow)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 Keep Listening and Carry On: Breakthrough Listen in the UK

14:35 The opportunities and challenges of using near-infrared high-resolution spectroscopy to detect atmospheric technosignature gases in exoplanets - Mitchell Yzer (University of Oxford)

14:45 Stellar transients, space weather and SETI with the SKA

14:55 Phosphine in Venus’ Clouds - local biosignature experiences

15:05 Examining Airport Civilian and Military Radar Leakage as a Detectable Marker for Extraterrestrial Civilizations

15:15 Micron Scale Technosignatures: How Examination of the Lunar Regolith may Constrain the Number of Past Technological Civilisations in the Galaxy - Lewis Pinault (SETI Institute, UCL/Birkbeck Centre for Planetary Sciences)

15:25 Anomaly Detection in Green Bank Telescope SETI Data Using Deep Autoencoder Latent Spaces - Kai Mulcock (Imperial College London)

15:35 Technosignature Science Programs with the Allen Telescope Array
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:25 The LSST-NIR Fusion Pipeline: Advancing Multiwavelength Astronomy with Rubin LSST and VISTA - Elham Saremi (University of Southampton)

14:35 The LSST AGN Science Collaboration and Its Early Science Plans - William Brandt (Penn State University)

14:45 Dark matter science with Rubin LSST: weak lensing and stellar streams - Keir Rogers (Imperial College London)

14:55 Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Preparing for LSST with Deep Survey Fields - Natalia Stylianou (University of Oxford)

15:05 Enhance LSST Cosmological Cosntraints Using Data-Augmented Redshift Calibration and Variational-AutoEncoder Marginalisation

15:15 The Effects of Template Generation in Year 1 of LSST

15:25 Forecasting Cosmological Constraints from LSST Strong Lenses: A Multi-Probe Hierarchical Approach
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 The Role of Filaments in Galaxy Evolution

14:45 A 15 Mpc rotating galaxy filament

14:58 Evidence that pre-processing in filaments drives the anisotropic quenching of satellite galaxies in massive clusters - Harry Stephenson (Lancaster University)

15:11 Exploring how galaxy colour depends on local environment measures and geometric environment

15:24 The CAVITY project: tracing the evolution of galaxies in cosmic voids through IFS
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: developments in fibre positioning technology

14:30 Calibration, characterisation and contrast measurements with a prototype twisted image slicer for ELT-PCS R&D. - Ryan Griffiths (University of Oxford)

14:45 Two Photon Polmerisation for astronomy

15:00 A lobster eye telescope for the Jovian system - Natasha Carr (University of Leicester)

15:15 An Affordable and Easily Programmable Homodyne Readout System for Readout and Characterisation of Prototype MKIDs (Microwave Kinetic Inductance Detectors) for UVOIR Astronomy and Astrophysics - Colm Bracken (Maynooth University)

15:30 SPT-SLIM: First light and spectral calibration
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Protostellar jets and their effects on the surrounding ISM

14:30 Bridging the scales from global galactic dynamics to local star formation

14:45 Resolving spiral arms, clumps and bulges in Cosmic Noon Galaxies with JWST and ALMA

15:00 How star formation-driven galaxy-scale outflows regulate star formation

15:15 Environmental quenching of star formation: the case of the Fornax cluster
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15

Moon Palace open to conference attendees
Moon Palace open to conference attendees
15:45 - 16:00

17:00 Coach to Newcastle - departure
Coach to Newcastle - departure
17:00 - 17:30

17:45 Coach to Newcastle - arrival
Coach to Newcastle - arrival
17:45 - 18:15

18:15 NAM 2025 dinner - drinks reception
NAM 2025 dinner - drinks reception
18:15 - 19:00

19:00 NAM 2025 dinner & awards
NAM 2025 dinner & awards
19:00 - 22:30

22:30 Coach back to Durham
Coach back to Durham
22:30 - 23:15
Wednesday 9 July 2025

08:00 Registration and set up
Registration and set up
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 HARMONI on the Extremely Large Telescope - James S. Dunlop (University of Edinburgh)

09:20 The METIS instrument for the ELT - ALISTAIR GLASSE (UK Astronomy Technology Centre)

09:35 MICADO: overview and status of the ELT first light imager and spectrograph - Ric Davies (MPE)

09:50 Observing young stars with METIS - Aurora Sicilia-Aguilar (University of Dundee)

10:05 Airglow Characterisation for ELT-era Observations - Jay Stephan (UK Astronomy Technology Centre)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 R&D activities at Oxford for the ELT-PCS integral field spectrograph. - Ryan Griffiths (University of Oxford)

09:35 Exoplanet Spectroscopy and Planetary System Architectures with VLTI/BIFROST - Stefan Kraus (University of Exeter)

09:50 The SCALES slenslit: a novel integral field unit concept for Exoplanet characterisations built in Durham University - Cyril Bourgenot (Durham University)

10:05 Decoding Machine Learning for Spectroscopic Atmospheric Characterisation - Jools Clarke (UCL)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 JADES census of Type 1 AGN: characterising spectral features and host galaxies of faint black holes across cosmic time - Ignas Juodžbalis (University of Cambridge)

09:10 A distinct type of intrinsically narrow-line AGN in dense gas cocoons at high redshift

09:20 A striking signature of shocks in compact red quasars?

09:30 Constraining AGN tori at cosmic noon using high-resolution JWST imaging and simultaneous SED fitting

09:40 The role of AGN feedback in z~7 galaxies with JWST/NIRSpec

09:50 Role of AGN in galaxy evolution in z~3-11 in JADES deep spectroscopy

10:00 The FLARES view of early AGN - Aswin Payyoor Vijayan (University of Sussex)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 XMM-Newton catalogues and data products after 25 years of observations

09:20 Uncovering Hidden Extragalactic Flares and Dips from the Chandra Archive with Machine Learning

09:32 Galactic Correlates of Supermassive Black Hole Growth from 25 Years of Chandra and XMM-Newton Cosmic Surveys - William Brandt (Penn State University)

09:44 Streamlining Galaxy Cluster X-ray Measurements with XGA and DAXA

09:56 The INTEGRAL Science Legacy Archive Unveiled

10:08 NewAthena – the next decade of X-ray observation
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 A Photometric Approach to Type Ia Science - Nikolaos Shiamtanis (University of Southampton)

09:15 Understanding kilonovae using radiative transfer simulations

09:30 Probing for Magnetars with Late-Time, Multi-Wavelength Observations of SLSNe

09:45 Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient

10:00 A study on late time UV-emission in core collapse supernovae and its use on uncovering peculiar transients
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Placing Solar Activity and Rotation in the Context of Other Sun-like Stars

09:20 Modelling Time-Dependent Turbulent Electron Acceleration and Transport in Solar Flares via the Fokker–Planck Equation

09:32 Fermi-LAT analysis of solar flare events

09:44 Sun-as-a-star flare observations with high-resolution telescopes - Alex Pietrow (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik)

09:56 Quantifying the Relationship Between the Magnetic Complexity of an Active Region and its Associated Quantity of Cool Material in the Corona.

10:08 Doppler Dimming and Brightening Effects in Solar (and Stellar) Prominences - Aaron W. Peat (University of Wrocław)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 Probing chemical enrichment in star-forming galaxies using oxygen and argon abundances - Souradeep Bhattacharya (University of Hertfordshire)

09:25 Measuring chemical enrichment over cosmic time with the JWST EXCELS survey and DESI - Dirk Scholte (University of Edinburgh)

09:37 Constraining the Chemical Enrichment Pathways of Galaxies in the early Universe with JWST

09:49 Chemodynamical simulations of dust formation in the distant Universe - Alice Ferreira (University of Hertfordshire)

10:01 Bursty star formation and the chemical enrichment of high-redshift galaxies

10:13 Dusty star-bursting galaxy at the Epoch of Reionisation with NIRSpec/IFS and ALMA

10:19 Chemical Enrichment in Nebulae of High-redshift Galaxies.
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Annoucements
Annoucements
11:00 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:20 JWST as a New Voyager for the Giant Planets - Leigh N. Fletcher (University of Leicester)

12:05 The environmental dependence of star and planet formation over cosmic time - Steven Longmore (Liverpool John Moores University)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15

13:15

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00
14:15
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 UK Space Agency Programmes for Supporting Space Science and Exploration

14:30 Opportunities and interfaces with the European Space Agency

14:45 Beyond CCDs: CMOS image sensors for soft X-ray astronomy

14:55 The M-MATISSE mission: Mars Magnetosphere ATmosphere Ionosphere and Space weather SciencE. An ESA Medium class (M7) candidate in Phase-A.

15:05 DREAM: A CubeSat Mission Concept for Probing Electron-Scale Energisation Processes

15:15 The Short-wavelength Camera for SOLAR-C EUVST - Sarah Matthews (UCL)

15:25 Space qualifying the Image Slicer Technology for EUV applications

15:35 Re-creating total solar eclipses in Space. The Moon-Enabled Sun Occultation Mission concept MESOM
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:18 Isaac Physics & STEM SMART: Securing a diverse and inclusive future for physics and astronomy

14:30 Evidence-based EDI: advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in outreach; learnings from the International Astronomical Youth Camp

14:42 A Case for Change: Inclusive Science Education through the Surrey Physics Academy

14:54 EquiTea at JBCA

15:06 Inclusive Pedagogy as an EDI initiative - a case study from the University of St Andrews - Rita Tojeiro (University of St Andrews)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 Studying the solar-stellar connection through helio- and asteroseismology

14:40 A Predictive Model for Solar and Stellar Irradiances: From the Sun to Exoplanetary Applications

14:53 Sun-as-a-star analysis of simulated solar flares - Jie Hong (Stockholm University)

15:06 Sun-as-a-star Analysis of the X1.6 Flare on 2023 August 5: Dynamics of Postflare Loops in Spatially Integrated Observational Data

15:19 Mitigation of radial velocity response to granulation by decorrelating with line shift and depth variations supported by MURaM simulations of the photosphere

15:32 Differential rotation of solar $\alpha$-sunspots and an extrapolation to other stars - Emily Lößnitz (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 The local void solution to the Hubble tension

14:33 Tests of distance duality - Implications for the Hubble Tension

14:51 A pathway to the Hubble constant via cosmic chronometry and machine learning with the GAMA survey

15:09 A Bayesian analysis of anisotropies in the redshift--distance relationship of clusters

15:27 A joint calibration of the distance ladder, the local velocity field, and inference of the Hubble constant
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Detecting the Universe’s structure with the SKAO precursor MeerKAT in cross-correlation with galaxy surveys

14:27 Prospects of a statistical detection of the 21-cm forest and its potential to constrain the thermal state of the neutral IGM during reionization

14:39 Non-thermal Radio Filaments in the Galactic Plane

14:51 RFI protection of the SKAO

15:03 A striking signature of shocks in compact red quasars?

15:15 LOFAR studies of radio-loud AGN: insights into the SKA era

15:27 Strap on your Boötes: The Journey to Achieve Widefield Sub-arcsecond Resolution with LOFAR
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 The Search for ECLEs in DESI's Early Data Release - Peter Clark (University of Southampton)

14:30 AT2019cmw: A highly luminous, cooling featureless-TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy

14:45 A tidal disruption event that turned off

15:00 Exploring the properties of TDE host galaxies

15:15 Preparing for the LSST Tidal Wave: Machine-Learned Simulated Photometry
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes for early chemical enrichment - Anke Ardern-Arentsen (Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge)

14:35 Chemical Evolution Near and Far: tracing abundance patterns of C and N

14:47 Needles in Haystacks: Searching for Extremely Metal-poor Galaxies in the Local Universe

14:59 Detailed chemical composition of the globular cluster Sextans A GC-1 on the outskirts of the Local Group - Anastasia Gvozdenko (CEA, Durham University)

15:11 The competing effects of recent and long-term star formation histories on oxygen, nitrogen, and stellar metallicities

15:23 Unraveling the Drivers of Gas-Phase Metallicity in Local Galaxies

15:29 Latent Space Clustering to Explore the Milky Way’s Chemical Substructure
15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 The ESA Comet Interceptor mission

16:30 The ARRAKIHS mission

16:45 CosmoCube: Probing the Cosmic Dark Ages with a Miniature Radiometer in Lunar Orbit

16:55 1. SuperASTRO: an innovative super-spectral small satellite for advanced low-cost astronomy

17:05 ROARS: Revealing Orbital and Atmospheric Responses to Solar activity

17:15 UK-ODESSI: A Low-Cost, Low-Earth Orbit, In-Orbit Pathfinder for UK Space Weather Instrumentation

17:25 VERVE - a proposal for an ESA mini-Fast mission to Venus

17:35 LIRIS – A small satellite concept to provide high resolution maps of water on the Moon.
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:20 Disentangling stellar and planetary signatures at high resolution

16:40 An ultracool bridge to exoplanet magnetic fields

16:53 Tackling Supergranulation in Earth-Twin Surveys using the HARPS-N Solar Data

17:06 Revealing PLATO’s planet discovery potential across stellar types

17:19 Investigating Star-Planet Compositional Ties for Systems with Host Stars of Varying Composition

17:32 Small exoplanets and their host stars: from Kepler and TESS to PLATO - Vincent Van Eylen (UCL)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Bar-driven fuelling of AGN - Izzy Garland (Masaryk University)

16:30 Decoding imprints of bars and AGN in the AMR of the Auriga galaxies.

16:45 What makes the bar go round: Drivers of bar pattern speed in cosmological simulations.

17:00 Swooping in on the drivers of the spin-age relation using barred galaxies from COLIBRE

17:15 Bars in TNG50 - slowdown and formation of double bars - Marcin Semczuk (Universitat de Barcelona)

17:30 The stellar bar - dark matter halo connection in cosmological simulations
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:25 The C-Band All-Sky Northern Survey (C-BASS N)

16:40 QUIJOTE views of our Galaxy

16:55 The LiteBIRD space mission and the Galactic foreground challenge

17:10 The Simons Observatory: constraining primordial B-modes

17:25 The C-Band All-Sky Survey (C-BASS): Diffuse Component Separation of the Temperature Sky - Gabriel Amancio Hoerning (The University of Manchester)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Multiwavelength views on the mass distribution of galaxy clusters

16:25 First look into the shapes of ICL with Euclid Q1

16:35 Energetics of the intracluster stars and dark matter - Joseph Butler (University of Nottingham)

16:45 The dawn of intracluster light in proto-clusters

16:55 How well do simulations resolve stellar stripping processes in galaxy clusters? - Garreth Martin (University of Nottingham)

17:05 The Main Progenitor Galaxies of Intracluster Light Stars - Harley Brown (University of Nottingham)

17:15 Modelling globular clusters in TNG50: predictions from dwarfs to giant galaxies

17:25 Intracluster Light as a Probe for Dark Matter: Exploring SIDM and CDM with C-EAGLE Sim
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Optimising Follow-Up of Gravitationally Lensed Supernovae Discovered with Rubin-LSST - Erin Hayes (Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge)

16:30 Lensed Type IIn Supernovae with LSST: How Ultraviolet Suppression Shapes Detection Rates - Andrés Ponte Pérez (University of Birmingham)

16:45 The early-time light curves of type II and type IIb supernovae from the ATLAS survey

17:00 Shock Interaction Powering Late-Time Supernova Evolution: Tracing the Mass-Loss History of Massive Stars

17:15 Unveiling the complex mass loss of the transitional IIn SN 2024cld - Tom Killestein (University of Warwick)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Galactic Chemical Evolution with Hybrid Stars – From Structural Assumptions to Yields - Alexander Hackett (CEICO - FZÚ-AVČR - The Physical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences)

16:35 Black Holes to Pair Instability Supernovae from Stellar Evolution - Ethan Winch (Armagh Observatory and Planetarium)

16:47 Environmental Dependence of the Mass–Metallicity Relation in Cosmological Hydrodynamical Simulations - Kai Wang (Durham University)

16:59 The evolution of dust and metals in galaxies back to z~9 from a simulation perspective

17:11 Exploring the impact of different star formation scenarios on high-redshift spectroscopic observables with MEGATRON

17:23 On the Observability of Population III stars in the MEGATRON Simulation

17:29 An exact method for pairing stars to form binary systems
18:00 OCW artwork unveiling
OCW artwork unveiling
18:00 - 19:15

19:30 Social Event: Board games
Social Event: Board games
19:30 - 21:00
Thursday 10 July 2025

08:00 Registration and set up
Registration and set up
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 RAS Demographics and Research Interests Survey

09:20 The Path to Expertise: Trajectories of Talented Women in Astronomy

09:35 Report on the EAS 2025 Session “An Intersectional Approach to EDI Strategies” - Izzy Garland (Masaryk University)

09:50 P-Star: Powering Astronomy in Pakistan
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Anomaly detection techniques for transient detection in the era of the SKA

09:12 VLA broad-band monitoring of the flux-ratio anomalous lens system B2045+265 as a probe for dark matter

09:24 Finding Complex Radio Sources in the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey using Self-Organising Maps

09:36 On-The-Fly Mapping of the MeerKLASS Survey

09:48 Radio-AGN across the galaxy population: implications for fuelling and feedback

10:00 Role of environment in the jet powering mechanism of radio quasars - insights from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey (LoTSS)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The Solar Atmospheric Modelling Suite: First Steps and Future Plans

09:15 Operating the Largest Submm Single Dish Facility in the World - Mark Booth (UK ATC)

09:20 Tools for the Future: Solar Physics Missions beyond Solar Orbiter - Sarah Matthews (UCL)

09:35 SIRIUS - Stellar & ISM Research via In-orbit Ultraviolet Spectroscopy

09:40 Designing DiRAC-4: Supercomputing for computational cosmology

09:45 ESO and its Office for Science in Chile

09:50 High resolution X-ray spectroscopy: XRISM as a pathfinder for newAthena - chris done (university of durham)

10:05 The (Uncertain) Future of Atomic Data for Astrophysics

10:15 Atomic data for astrophysics and their benchmarking
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 Distribution-function models for binary-rich ultrafaint galaxies

09:19 Determining the extent of baryon-induced dark matter core creation: a first direct look at gravitational potential fluctuations - Claudia Muni (Durham University)

09:33 Dark Subhaloes in dwarf spheroidal galaxies

09:47 A detailed characterisation of low-mass dark matter subhalo tidal tracks via numerical simulations

10:01 The structural diversity of simulated and observed low-mass galaxy analogues - Garreth Martin (University of Nottingham)

10:15 A Local Dwarf Galaxy Search and High-z Analogs
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Engaging the public: getting to work

09:15 The Wynyard Planetarium: A 100% volunteer-operated outreach facility in the North East

09:30 The Jodcast: Opening Doors to Cutting-Edge Astrophysics

09:45 Discs, Stars, Nebulae and...Aliens? A 3D Exploration of Spiral Galaxies!

10:00 Astronomy through the Herschels: Inspiring Inclusion through Science and Storytelling
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Reconnection between the interplanetary magnetic field and closed magnetotail structures - Robert Fear (University of Southampton)

09:16 Multispacecraft Observations of Reconnection Topologies and Their Role in the Turbulent Energy Cascade

09:32 Identifying Magnetic Reconnection to Assess its Role in Collisionless Turbulent Plasmas using the Unsupervised Machine Learning TICC Algorithm

09:48 Estimating the Contribution from Small-Scale Terms in the Generalised Ohm’s Law to the total Electric field.

10:04 On field line slippage rates in the solar corona
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Invited Talk by Carol Watts, STFC UKRI: Astronomy opportunities with international science facilities, and facilitating academic and industry engagement

09:10 Invited Talk: "The UK Space Agency and Astronomy"
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00 Annoucements
Annoucements
11:00 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:20 Solar Particle Acceleration and Transport - Hamish Reid (University College London)

12:05 LGBTQIA+ inclusion in astronomy - Claire Davies (University of Exeter)
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15

13:15

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

14:15 STFC community session*
STFC community session*
14:15 - 15:45

15:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
16:15
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Discovery of the largest radio jet at z ~ 5 in the radio-loud quasar J1601+3102 - Frits Sweijen (Durham University)

16:27 The alignment of galaxies and AGN jets in the cosmic web environment probed with LOFAR

16:39 Probing M Dwarf Magnetism with e-MERLIN and VLA: A Step Toward the SKA Era

16:51 MIGHTEE-HI: The radial acceleration relation with resolved stellar mass measurements over 1 Gyr - Andreea Varasteanu (Oxford University)

17:03 Mapping Faraday Rotation in Large Radio Galaxies from POSSUM - Sam Venables (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, University of Manchester)

17:15 Looking Beyond Linear Scales with HI Intensity Mapping

17:27 Why are the radio sources missing in the Fornax cluster? - Alvina Yee Lian On (National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Tsing Hua University)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Automated Bar and Spiral Arm Segmentation using Deep Learning - Ashley Spindler (University of Hertfordshire)

16:30 Tracing galaxy morphology and evolution with autoencoders

16:45 MUSE view of gas inflows in nearby galaxies: Connections to Nuclear Activity and Central Morphology

17:00 Effects of bar to the dynamics in the Galactic disc

17:15 Stellar Populations in Galactic Bars with Machine Learning - Elizaveta Sazonova (University of Waterloo)

17:30 A stellar mass-dependent phase transition in disc galaxies
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Multi-Peaked Non-Thermal Light Curves from Magnetar-Powered Gamma-Ray Bursts

16:28 EP250108a/SN 2025kg : the kangaroo’s first hop and its implications for gamma-ray bursts and fast X-ray transients

16:41 Exploring low-luminosity afterglows - automated optical follow-up of Swift GRBs with Palomar-60 inch telescope

16:54 Direct emission and absorption line metallicities of a GRB host at z=4.28 using JWST/NIRSpec

17:07 Unveiling the Secrets of Gamma-Ray Bursts: A Spectro-Polarimetric Journey into Prompt Emission Mechanisms

17:21 Extended emission of merger GRBs from high latitude emission and time propagation effects.

17:34 Probing the axial symmetry of gamma-ray burst jets using afterglow polarimetry
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 LYRA: Intrinsic stellar distributions in the faintest dwarf galaxies - Joaquin Sureda (Durham University)

16:29 Dwarf galaxies in the UNIONS survey - Nick Heesters (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL))

16:43 The morphological mix of dwarf galaxies in the nearby Universe using ultra-deep optical imaging in the COSMOS field

16:57 Dwarf Galaxy Growth Across the Cosmic Web

17:11 THE ORIGIN OF THE PLATEAU IN THE STELLAR MASS METALLICITY RELATIONSHIP

17:25 Distribution Functions of Low-Mass Star-Forming Galaxies - Sakircan Beyazit (Liverpool John Moores University)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:15 Theory and observation of plasmoid-modulated magnetic reconnection

16:31 The Thermodynamics of Naturally Heated Coronal Null Points

16:47 Oscillatory Reconnection: A Comparison with Steady-State Solutions

17:03 Automatic Detection of Fine Structures in Solar Flare Ribbons

17:19 Investigating the Effects of Atmospheric Stratification on Coronal Active Region Field Modelling
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:20 The Evolution of MOSAIC - Gavin Dalton (University of Oxford/RALSpace)

16:35 ANDES: From Exoplanets to Fundamental Physics with High Resolution Spectroscopy - Vinooja Thurairethinam (UK Astronomy Technology Centre)

16:50 On-sky validation of SPRINT: the ELT approach for tracking alignment within adaptive optics systems - Ben Buky (STFC - UK Astronomy Technology Centre)

17:05 Stars lensed by the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky Way: predictions for future telescopes - Michał Michałowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan)

17:20 Observing with MOSAIC and its wide-field AO system - Tim Morris (Durham University)
16:15 - 17:45
Contributions

16:20 Energetic Electron Observations During BepiColombo’s Mercury Flybys - Liam Edwards (University of Helsinki)

16:34 Detecting and Measuring Transverse Aeolian Ridges (TARs) on Mars using Deep Learning.

16:58 Characterisation of planetesimals using white dwarfs

17:12 The Fluvial History of Noachis Terra, Mars

17:26 JCMT-Venus: Tracking Key Atmospheric Species in Venus’ Mesosphere
18:00 3-min to inspire: competition
3-min to inspire: competition
18:00 - 19:15
19:30
19:30 - 21:00
Contributions

19:30 The Supermassive Podcast live – black hole special - Rebecca Smethurst (University of Oxford) Izzie Clarke Robert Massey (Royal Astronomical Society / University of Sussex)
Social Event: Quiz
Social Event: Quiz
19:30 - 21:00
Friday 11 July 2025

08:00 Registration and set up
Registration and set up
08:00 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Exploring the non-equilibrium interstellar medium of population III galaxies in MEGATRON

09:15 Burst, quench, repeat: unveiling the evolution of high-redshift galaxies with the THESAN-ZOOM simulations

09:30 The First Light And Reionisation Epoch Simulations: high redshift galaxy evolution in the large volume, high fidelity regime

09:45 Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations with variable initial mass functions

10:00 Testing galaxy formation models with the stellar mass-halo mass relations for star-forming and quiescent galaxies - Kai Wang (Durham University)

10:15 The contribution of "orphan" galaxies to the ultrafaint population of MW satellites
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 The accretion-outflow connection in accreting binaries: 5 key physics challenges

09:20 State-of-the-Art Simulations of Line-Driven Accretion Disk Winds

09:30 Optical Outbursts in Intermediate Polars

09:40 Upper Limits on Radio Emissions from AM CVn-type Stars - Anwesha Sahu (University of Warwick)

09:50 Cataclysmic variables that splutter - Keith Inight (University of Warwick)

10:00 Search of sub-stellar companions of White Dwarfs with X-ray observations

10:10 Accretion Disk Dynamics and Mode Switching in the Transitional Millisecond Pulsar J1023+0038 - Pengyue Sun (the University of Manchester)
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The Illusion of Diversity(?): Exploring the Dynamical State of Gas Discs in Dwarf Galaxies with COLIBRE

09:14 The fate of Milky Way satellites: the role of halo assembly history and the dependence on subgrid physics

09:28 Observational evidence of star cluster migration and merger in dwarf galaxies - Oliver Müller (EPFL & University of Cambridge)

09:42 Globular Clusters as Probes of Galaxy Evolution: Insights from Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Using ground-based IFUs to constrain cometary activity drivers

09:10 Probing Cometary Extended Sources from VLT/MUSE - Brian Murphy (University of Edinburgh)

09:20 Tracking Cometary Rotation and Morphology with Narrowband Imaging

09:30 Kalliope: Discovery of the first metallic asteroid family

09:40 Search for ancient asteroid families in the pristine zone - Ullas Bhat (University of Leicester)

09:50 Asteroid contact binaries in optical and radar observations - Richard Cannon (University of Edinburgh)

10:00 The Galactic Interstellar Object Population in the LSST

10:10 Characterising Comets in the LSST Era: Preparing for Comet Interceptor
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 From experience to evidence: Making the case for meaningful interaction across art and science

09:15 Sensing the Universe: Visualisations in Cosmology

09:30 Bioart in space: Ontological existential dimension of the biocentered experience of space

09:40 Earth, a Cosmic Spectacle

09:56 Listening to the Universe: Harnessing Sound for Inclusive Astronomy Communication - Rose Shepherd (Newcastle University)

10:10 Bridging the Cosmos: Fostering Equity and Inclusion through Art and Creativity in Astronomy Research

10:20 Accessibility in Communicating Science

10:25 Elevate Your Slides: The Power of Artistic Vision in Scientific Presentations
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 WEAVE/StePS-Euclid synergy and first Euclid emission line maps

09:11 Weak lensing cosmic shear measurement in the era of Euclid

09:22 The active galaxies of Euclid - Sotiria Fotopoulou

09:33 A first census of dwarf galaxies and tidal features in Euclid Q1

09:44 Discovery of bright z=7 galaxies in UltraVISTA and Euclid COSMOS

09:55 Searching for strong lenses in Q1 with Machine Learning

10:06 The FornaX XMM Heritage Programme

10:17 Probing Ultracool Atmospheres with ATMO2020 and Euclid Spectrophotometry
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:05 The Gaia Mission: Science, Status and Upcoming Data Releases

09:20 Gaia data access facilities - Nigel Hambly (University of Edinburgh)

09:35 Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus merger induced thick and thin disc transition revealed by APOGEE and Gaia - Natsuki Funakoshi (MSSL, UCL)

09:48 The disturbance(s) of the outer Milky Way disc - Paul McMillan (University of Leicester)

10:01 Signatures of bar-driven radial migration in the Milky Way disc

10:14 Distribution Function-based dynamical modelling of stellar systems - Eugene Vasiliev (University of Surrey)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:05 The "carbon footprint" of astronomy and astrophysics - Beatriz Mingo (University of Hertfordshire)

11:50 Diversity and Inclusion: why they are essential - Mike Lockwood (University of Reading)
12:30 Closing ceremony
Closing ceremony
12:30 - 12:45

12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 14:15

13:15

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00

13:15 - 14:00
14:15
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 The FLARES view of early AGN - Aswin Payyoor Vijayan (University of Sussex)

14:30 Dwarf Galaxy Growth Across the Cosmic Web

14:45 Introducing the Kiara Simulations

15:00 Understanding the role of mergers and assembly history in shaping MW-like galaxies with `genetically modified' simulations: the dependence on subgrid physics

15:15 Unveiling the kinematics of galaxies during the Epoch of Reionisation with the THESAN-Zoom simulations

15:30 Atomic gas in galaxies in the Colibre simulations
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 Characterisation of a white dwarf with transiting debris in the habitable zone

14:30 Uncovering hidden white dwarf binary populations using Gaia and Galex - James Garbutt (University of Sheffield)

14:40 A different perspective: how the choice of disc model affects the interpretation of polluted white dwarfs

14:50 White dwarfs in DESI DR1

15:00 Overly Luminous Type Ia Supernovae from Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Highly Magnetised White Dwarfs - Alexander Hackett (CEICO - FZÚ-AVČR - The Physical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences & Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)

15:10 The discovery of new eclipsing white dwarf binary systems from NGTS

15:20 Investigating the origin of the lowest-mass white dwarf stars

15:30 Long term spectral monitoring of a small sample of white dwarfs
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:20 A New Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Source Candidate in Centaurus A - Amy Knight (Durham University)

14:30 Distinguishing between Accretion Precession Models in NGC5907 ULX with Phase Coherence Analysis - Nabil Brice (University of Hertfordshire)

14:40 The very high X-ray polarisation of accreting black hole IGRJ17091-3624 in the hard state

14:50 Are jets from stellar mass black holes as fast as those from supermassive black holes?

15:00 Spectral-Timing Analysis of Swift J1727.8-1613 Using Insigh-HXMT Observations

15:10 The changing face of UV emission: Tracing MAXI J1820+070 across a state transition

15:20 The Quiet Majority: Photometric Signatures of Non-Accreting Compact Objects in Luminous Binaries

15:30 Phased accretion and a dynamically-truncated eccentric circumbinary disc cavity in a pre-main-sequence binary system
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Finding and applying for jobs - Beatriz Mingo (University of Hertfordshire)

14:35 Writing Research Proposals - Francesca Fragkoudi (Durham University)

14:55 Postdoc Interviews - Sownak Bose (Durham University)
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:25 Modelling spacecraft disposal onto the lunar surface - Vincent Eke (Durham University)

14:40 SMART-1 end of life: lessons learnt from a lunar impact ending

15:10 Regulating lunar-based activities without rigorous evidence: the case of disposing of spacecrafts on the moon’s surface at their end of their working life
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 From Glass to Galaxies: Entangled Visions - How Art Shapes Our Understanding of the Universe

14:25 Sounds of Space Project: An Art-Science Collaboration

14:35 Exoplanets in Science Fiction

14:45 An Early Universe

14:55 THE FINAL FUTURE: A study of human impact on near-Earth and terrestrial environments, considering our complex future on Earth and elsewhere.

15:05 Space for Everyone - Communicating Space Science Creatively

15:20 The rise of STEAM

15:30 Incorporating arts in astronomy research and outreach at the International Astronomical Youth Camp

15:40 Teaching Astronomy with Visual Art, Poetry and Storytellling
14:15 - 15:45
Contributions

14:15 Modelling the Milky Way structure: impact on stellar and gaseous dynamics

14:28 Milky Way - Sagittarius like interactions in the TNG50 cosmological simulation - Marcin Semczuk (Universitat de Barcelona)

14:41 Inferring properties of the Milky Way and LMC using Simulation-Based Inference - Richard Brooks (University College London)

14:54 The role of equilibrium dynamical models in understanding the formation histories of the Milky Way and its analogues - Payel Das (University of Surrey)

15:07 Dynamical streams in the local stellar halo

15:20 Deep learning approaches to detecting dark matter in stellar streams - Keir Rogers (Imperial College London)
15:45 Fin
Fin
15:45 - 16:00