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Announcements of Upcoming Meetings
Notice that this list is not meant to be all-inclusive, but concentrates
on meetings of potential interest to X-ray, gamma-ray, cosmic-ray, and
gravitational astrophysicists. The HEASARC also maintains a list of upcoming
high-energy astrophysics summer schools, a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics meetings, as well as a list of on-line proceedings
of high-energy astrophysics summer schools.
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Other Sources of Information on Upcoming
Meetings
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List of International Astronomy meetings maintained by the Canadian
Astronomy Data Center
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Space Calendar
2024 Nov 13 - 15:
Focus week on primordial black holes 2024
2024 Nov 18 - 22:
eROSITA - Science and Data Analysis School
School
2024 Nov 18 - 21:
Probing the Genesis of Supermassive Black Holes: Emerging Perspectives from JWST and Expectation toward New Wide-Field Survey Observations
2024 Nov 20 - 22:
JSI2024: The Formation and Early Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
2024 Dec 03 - 06:
25 Years of Science with Chandra
2024 Dec 10 - 12:
MAXI 15 Year Workshop for the Time Domain Astronomy
2025 Jan 27 - 31:
Saas Fee Course 2025: Galaxies and Black Holes in the First Billion Years as seen with the JWST
2025 Feb 03 - 05:
The 3rd XRISM Community Workshop
2025 Mar 11 - 13:
Transients from Space Workshop
2025 Mar 24 - 28:
Celebrating 20 years of Swift Discoveries
2025 Apr 01 - 04:
An extraordinary journey into the Transient Sky: from restless progenitor stars to explosive multi-messenger signals.
2025 Apr 07 - 11:
First Galaxies - the building blocks of galaxies across
cosmic time
2025 Jul 14 - 18:
24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation and 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves
2024 Oct 22 - 25:
Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys Workshop
2025 Jan 6 - 10:
2025 Submillimeter Array Inteferometry School
High Energy Astrophysics
meetings
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Focus week on primordial black holes 2024
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Nov 13 - 15
- Meeting Location: Kavli IPMU, Chiba, Japan
The workshop will focus on the production, astrophysical effects, and
ongoing search for primordial black holes, which can account for all
or part of dark matter and whose existence could have important
astrophysical consequences. The subject has a strong overlap with
scientific programs at Kavli IPMU, as it engages particle physicists,
astrophysicists, and cosmologists, building on synergy of the
multidisciplinary institute.
Invited Speakers:
Bernard Carr (Queen Mary, U. of London); Marcos Flores (ENS, Paris);
Juan Garcia-Bellido (U of Madrid); Sarah Geller (UCSC); Anne Green
(Nottingham University); Florian Kuhnel (U of Munchen); Sachiko
Kuroyanagi (U of Madrid); Theodoros Papanikolaou (SSM, Naples);
Zachary Picker (UCLA); Pi Shi (ITP, CAS); Sunao Sugiyama (U. Penn)
Organizing committee:
Misao Sasaki (Kavli IPMU)Masahiro Takada (Kavli IPMU); Masahiro Kawasaki
(University of Tokyo); Alexander Kusenko (UCLA and Kavli IPMU)
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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Probing the Genesis of
Supermassive Black Holes: Emerging Perspectives from JWST and
Expectation toward New Wide-Field Survey Observations
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Nov 18 - 21
- Meeting Location: Kavli IPMU, Chiba, Japan
- Registration Deadline: 2024 Oct 18
The past few decades have seen a rapid increase in the number of
supermassive black holes (SMBHs) discovered in the first billion
years of the universe, thanks to ground-based wide-field surveys
such as SDSS, Pan-Starrs1, DES, and HSC. These efforts have provided
evidence that billion-solar-mass SMBHs existed in the early
universe, challenging our understanding of the formation channels
and early growth history of BH seeds.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has opened up new parameter
spaces, revealing high-redshift analogs of Seyfert galaxies and
resolving the starlight of quasar host galaxies. Anchored by these
initial results, it is expected that a full census of SMBHs and host
galaxies will be explored in the coming years, possibly reaching the
seed BH mass range.
In this one-week conference, we propose to bring together experts from
JWST and next-generation survey facilities such as Euclid, LSST, and
Japan's Prime Focus Spectrograph to highlight ongoing efforts and
future prospects for this research area.
This conference capitalizes
on the unique research diversity of Kavli IPMU and the worldwide
network of Kavli research institutes in astronomy and
astrophysics.
The key topics of this conference are as follows:
- Discovery of high-redshift AGN at the observational frontiers
- Next-generation wide-field surveys and multi-wavelength facilities
- The role of obscuration in early SMBH growth
- The host galaxy and its large-scale environment
- Theoretical interpretation of early JWST results
- AGN as a transitional phase from starburst to quiescence
This conference is paired with another IPMU conference "Focus week on
primordial blackholes 2024", which happens one week earlier (13-15
November, 2024). More details and registration information can be
found here
(registration due 6 November 2024)
These two conferences are independently organized, but we aim to foster interaction between these two closely related fields. Participants are encouraged to join both conferences.
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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25 Years of Science with Chandra
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Dec 3 - 6
- Meeting Location: Boston, MA, USA
- Abstract Deadline: 2024 Sep 5
- Registration Deadline: 2024 Oct 25
- Late Registration and Poster Submission Deadline: 2024 Nov 8
This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the launch of
the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the two and a half decades of
science that have ensued. Chandra has been revolutionary for
astronomy with its unprecedented and unparalleled sub-arcsecond
angular resolution, its superb sensitivity to faint sources, and its
high-resolution spectroscopy. This symposium will highlight and
celebrate the discoveries made by Chandra, the unique capabilities
of the mission, and the potential discoveries still
remaining. Sessions topics will include:
- X-ray diagnostics of cosmic evolution
- The X-ray view of stellar evolution
- Exploring the cosmos with sky surveys, with a focus on the Chandra Source Catalog
- The sub-arcsecond revolution in X-ray astronomy
- Chandra synergies with current and future multi-wavelength missions
Check meeting
website for updated information or email to chandra25-symposium
[AT] cfa [DOT] harvard [DOT] edu.
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MAXI 15 Year Workshop for the Time Domain Astronomy
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Dec 10 - 12
- Meeting Location: Tokyo, Japan
- Registration deadline (those who need VISA): 2024 Aug 31
- Registration deadline: 2024 Sep 30
We are happy to announce to hold
the MAXI 15 Year Workshop for the Time Domain Astronomy
on December 10-12, 2024, at Nihon university, Tokyo Japan
to celebrate the 15 years of successful operation of MAXI, or Monitor
of All-sky X-ray Image, an X-ray all-sky monitor onboard the
Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station.
In 1997, we organized the First MAXI Workshop at RIKEN entitled "All-Sky X-ray Observations of the Next Decade". From then, it took more than a decade for MAXI to start observing on orbit.Two decades later, time-domain astronomy is playing in the central arena of studies in the physics of the Universe, with MAXI watching the variable X-ray sky since August 15, 2009.
Currently, wide-sky discovery engines, like Swift, Fermi, EP and MAXI, provide the astrophysical transients to follow. Ground based facilities, such as ZTF and ATLAS, are also finding cornucopia of new sources to explore, augmented by recent additions of observatories for non-electromagnetic messengers, namely, gravitational waves and neutrinos.
For follow-up observations of these transients, telescopes with flexible scheduling capabilities are becoming more important. In space, telescopes on Swift, NuSTAR, NICER, and HXMT have been aggressively following transients. Automatic follow-up system on ISS, OHMAN, has been functioning. Small satellites such as GECAM and cubesats such as NinjaSat have been taking their unique roles. On the ground, small to medium sized telescopes such as GOTO are found to be very useful for these studies. Big observatories, both ground- or space-based, remain important in cases where sensitivities or high resolution are essential. Ground large quick telescope such as VLT/X-shooter, and GTC/ORISIS+ are very effective. Chandra with high positional resolution, XRISM with high energy resolution and IXPE and Polix with polarimeters are on orbit.
MAXI has been uniformly scanning the entire sky for the 15 years, and has been regularly reporting the discoveries to Astronomers Telegram and GCN; detections of outbursts of new or previously known X-ray sources including discoveries of 14 new galactic black holes binaries such as MAXI J1535-571, and MAXI J1820+070, a hundred of gamma-ray bursts, tens of giant stellar flares, and a couple of very rare phenomena, namely the relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57 and ultra luminous soft X-ray nova MAXI J0158-744. The accumulated scan data are processed to generate the 3MAXI catalogs of X-ray sources with 896 entries.
In this workshop, we hope to review the scientific results triggered by the MAXI observations. The topics include physics of high energy astrophysical sources, their emission, accretion, and outflow processes, in particular, those of black holes, neutron stars, and active stars. We also hope that this workshop will facilitate new research collaborations for the coming decade between theorists and observers at all wavelengths.
Invited speakers
- Jamie Kennea (Swift, USA)
- Sean Pike (NuSTAR, USA)
- Lian Tao (HXMT, China)
- Roger Romani (IXPE, Italy)
- Weimin Yuan (Einstein Probe, China)
- Bishwajit Paul (Polix, India)
- Jean-Luc Atteia (SVOM, France)
- Makoto Tashiro (XRISM, JAXA)
- Anna Ho (ZTF, USA)
- Keith Gendreau(TBD) (NICER, USA)
Invited guest:
Koichi Wakata (astronaut, who mounted MAXI to JEM in orbit)
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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The 3rd XRISM Community Workshop
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Feb 03 - 05
- Meeting Location: College Park, Maryland, USA
- Registration deadline: 2024 Dec 12
- Registration (for virtual participation) deadline: 2025 Jan 31
The primary objective of this workshop is to discuss data analysis techniques and prepare the astronomical community for the upcoming Cycle 2 General Observer (GO) Call for Proposals for XRISM. This workshop will consist of talks and hands-on sessions with experts from the XRISM team that will cover XRISM data analysis techniques and software, with the goal of maximizing the use of the unique high resolution spectroscopic and imaging data provided by XRISM.
The workshop will primarily focus on the scientific data analysis of
XRISM observations, but will also cover techniques and software
relevant to Cycle 2 proposals.
There is no registration fee for this workshop; however,
registration is required. Please fill out the registration form by December 12, 2024 for in-person participation. The registration for virtual participation will remain open until Jan 31st, 2025.
For space reasons, in-person attendance at the meeting is limited to 60 participants. If more than 60 participants have registered by December 12, then participation will be determined by a lottery. We will send a notification email by December 19 to those who register for in-person participation. If a space becomes available, there will be a waiting list for those who are not registered for in-person participation. If the demand for online participation is high, we may have to cap the number for practical reasons.
Registration for in-person attendees will include coffee breaks (with light refreshments).
Limited travel support is available for those who would otherwise not be able to attend; see the registration form for details.
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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Transients from Space Workshop
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Mar 11 - 13
- Meeting Location: Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Abstract Deadline: 2024 Nov 01
- Registration Deadline: 2025 Feb 07
Save the Date! We are pleased to announce that the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) will host a workshop on transients and time-domain astronomy titled "Transients From Space" (TFS) on March 11-13, 2025 at STScI in Baltimore, MD.
Transient science is entering an exciting new era of discovery. The 2020 Decadal Survey named Time Domain Astronomy (TDA) as a top priority, and NASA's Physics of the Cosmos (PCOS) program has prioritized Time Domain And Multi-Messenger (TDAMM) astrophysics. New discoveries will be greatly impacted by space-based telescopes, including, but not limited to, HST, JWST, Swift, Fermi, TESS, Euclid, UVEX, ULTRASAT, LISA, and Roman. These telescopes probe new phase space in time, wavelength, and redshift, thereby opening up new sub-fields. This STScI workshop will explore novel research made possible by these telescopes and discuss how the community can optimize scientific output in the future. It will feature invited talks, contributed talks, posters, discussion panels, and fun social activities.
Our key objectives aim to:
- Highlight and build off successful science driven by space telescope data and policies;
- Uncover regions of overlap among telescopes and discuss opportunities for cross-mission synergies;
- Identify community needs for research and collaboration, particularly in the upcoming era of big data;
- Optimize future space-based observations for the entire community.
Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
- Early-Time Observations: SNe Ia, Fast Transients, Shock Breakout
- High-Energy Transients: GRBs, GW
- Progenitors: pre-explosion variability, stellar evolution
- Infrared Transients: dust, SNRs, echoes, TDEs, AGN
- High-z Transients: Lensed SNe, extreme explosions (SLSNe, PISNe), TDEs, AGN
- Survey Science: Euclid, Roman, UVEX, Big Data
- Theory of explosive transients and compact objects
Attendance: The workshop will be a hybrid event (in-person and virtual). To maximize engagement, in-person attendance is encouraged for all participants, especially speakers.
Co-Chairs
Ori Fox (STScI), Armin Rest (STScI), Suvi Gezari (STScI), Lou Strolger (STScI)
SOC Members
Jennifer Andrews (Gemini Observatory), Ori Fox (STScI; Chair), Suvi Gezari (STScI; Co-Chair), Isobel Hook (Lancaster University), Rebekah Hounsell (GSFC), Patrick Kelly (University of Minnesota), Takashi Moriya (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Robert Quimby (San Diego State University), Armin Rest (STScI; Co-Chair), Lou Strolger (STScI; Co-Chair), Tea Temim (Princeton), Yossef Zenati (JHU/STScI)
LOC Members
Ori Fox, Suvi Gezari, Sherita Hanna, Victory Ramnarine, Armin Rest, Shemiah Smith, Lou Strolger
Confirmed Invited Speakers
Federica Bianco (Delaware/Rubin), Azalee Bostroem (Arizona), Maria Teresa Botticella (INAF), Brad Cenko (Goddard), Wenlei Chen (OK State), Kishalay De (Columbia University/CCA/Flatiron Institute), Maria Drout (Toronto), Saurabh Jha (Rutgers), Josefin Larsson (KTH), Julie McEnery (Goddard), Brian Metzger (Columbia University/CCA/Flatiron Institute), Jeremy Perkins (Goddard), Justin Pierel (STScI), Ben Rose (Baylor), Melissa Shahbandeh (STScI), Nao Suzuki (LBL), Qinan Wang (MIT), Yuhan Yao (Berkeley)
Please visit our webpage for details, including upcoming deadlines.
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Celebrating 20 years of Swift Discoveries
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Mar 24 - 28
- Meeting Location: Florence, Italy
- Abstract Deadline: TBA
- Registration Deadline: TBA
- Late Registration and Poster Submission Deadline: TBA
When the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was launched on November 20, 2004, its prime objective was to chase Gamma-Ray Bursts. Since then, the mission has far exceeded its original scientific goals. Swift discovered the first afterglows and host galaxies of short-hard GRBs, and a growing sample of events from the local Universe to the epoch of reionization, providing arcsecond positions, light curves, and spectra for more than 1,500 events.
Over time, Swift has become an unequalled Target of Opportunity machine for the astronomical community, thanks to a unique combination of sensitive instrumentation and operational flexibility that provides unprecedented observational capabilities: rapid response coupled with multi-wavelength monitoring of any class of transient/variable object.
After almost 20 years of operations, we think it a fitting occasion to revisit Swift's achievements and to put our mission in the context of the rapidly evolving fields of time-domain and multi-messenger astrophysics. Therefore, we are organizing the meeting "Celebrating 20 years of Swift Discoveries", to be held on March 24-28, 2025, in Florence, Italy, at the Firenze Fiera conference center.
Please mark your calendar to save the date!
Please visit our webpage for details, including upcoming deadlines.
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An extraordinary journey into the Transient Sky: from restless progenitor stars to explosive multi-messenger signals
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Apr 01 - 04
- Meeting Location: Padova, Italy
- Abstract submission and Registration opens: 2024 Oct 21
- Abstract submission closes: 2024 Dec 15
- Abstract selection: 2025 Feb 1
- Registration closes: 2025 Mar 1
A conference in honour of Enrico Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle,
Laura Greggio, Massimo Turatto
We are delighted to announce the conference: "An extraordinary journey
into the Transient Sky: from restless progenitor stars to explosive
multi-messenger signals. A conference in honour of Enrico
Cappellaro, Massimo Della Valle, Laura Greggio and Massimo Turatto",
which will be held from 1st to 4th April 2025, in Padua (Italy).
Supernovae play a key role in various issues in modern astronomy and
cosmology. Current surveys have given an enormous boost to the study
of transients and supernovae in particular, and it is essential to
discuss the state-of-the-art before entering a golden age of the
study of the transient Universe. Thanks to the synoptic surveys that
will monitor every night the entire visible sky, from optical to
radio, and the new-generation instrumentation that will make it
possible to observe all the messengers associated with supernova
explosions, from photons to neutrinos, from high-energy particles to
gravitational waves, it will finally be possible to have both a
statistically significant sample of events and a very detailed
overview of individual events.
The study of supernovae in the Italian scientific community began in
the 1960s with the work of Leonida Rosino and Roberto Barbon and
subsequently received a great impulse thanks to Enrico Cappellaro,
Massimo Della Valle, Laura Greggio and Massimo Turatto, who studied
in Padua in the same years. With this international conference, we
intend to celebrate their retirement by recalling their important
contribution to the study of supernovae and discussing the still
open challenges that we are ready to take up.
Reviewing the trajectory of our honorees, we will touch on topics such
as the progenitors of supernovae, the search for supernovae and their
rates, the supernova class zoo, supernovae in connection with
gamma-ray bursts, and supernova observations in the age of
multi-messenger Astronomy.
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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First Galaxies - the building blocks of galaxies across cosmic time
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Apr 07 - 11
- Meeting Location: Oxford, UK
- Abstract submission opens: 2024 October 18
- Abstract submission closes: 2024 December 20
- Registration closes: 2025 Mar 1
The unparalleled near-infrared capabilities of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) allow us to study distant galaxies in remarkable detail. This has ushered in a new era of galaxy evolution studies. With new knowledge of the properties of the stars, gas and dust that make up these early galaxies, we can now start to gain insights into the physical processes driving the assembly of the earliest galaxies, and how they evolve into their lower redshift descendants.
This conference will be an opportunity to highlight recent observational and theoretical results shedding new light on the detailed properties of the stellar populations and interstellar medium (ISM) of galaxies through the early phases of cosmic history. It will also serve as a forum for discussing how new JWST results are transforming our understanding of the formation and evolution of galaxies from early times through to the present day.
Scientific Focus:
- Nature of stellar populations in distant galaxies
- Properties of the interstellar medium across redshifts
- Chemical enrichment and build-up of dust across cosmic time
- Spatially resolved studies of galaxies and their environments
- Impact of galaxies on cosmic reionization
- How can simulations and theory help interpret the latest observations
- Feedback and regulating galaxy growth
SOC:
Rebecca Bowler (Manchester);
Andy Bunker (Oxford, co-chair);
Alex Cameron (Oxford, co-chair);
Emma Curtis-Lake (Hertfordshire);
Richard Ellis (UCL);
Laura Pentericci (INAF-Rome);
Aayush Saxena (Oxford, co-chair);
Stephen Wilkins (Sussex)
LOC:
Kit Boyett;
Andy Bunker;
Alex Cameron;
Leanne O'Donnell;
Gareth Jones;
Aayush Saxena
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
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24th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation and 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves
- Meeting Dates: 2025 Jul 14 - 18
- Meeting Location: Glasgow, UK
- Abstract Deadline: 2025 Mar 21
- Early Registration Deadline: 2025 May 9
- Registration Deadline: 2025 Jun 29
The International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation is
organised every three years under the guidance of the International
Society on General Relativity and Gravitation. It is the principal
international meeting for scientists working in all areas of
relativity and gravitation.
The Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves is organised
every two years under the guidance of the Gravitational Wave
International Committee. It is the principal international meeting
for scientists working in all areas of gravitational-wave science.
In 2025, the 24th International Conference on General Relativity and
Gravitation (GR24) and the 16th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on
Gravitational Waves (Amaldi16) will be held together as a joint
meeting, bringing together experts from across classical and quantum
gravity, mathematical and applied relativity, gravitational-wave
instrumentation and data-analysis, and multimessenger astronomy.
The GR24-Amaldi Meeting will be held as a primarily in-person event
at the Scottish Event Campus, Glasgow. Online resources will be made
freely available after the event. Meeting organisation is led by the
Institute for Gravitational Research at the University of Glasgow
and the Institute of Physics.
For additional questions, please see the conference website.
Other Selected Astronomy, Physics and Space Science
meetings
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Accurate Flux Calibration in the Era of Space Astronomy and All-Sky Surveys Workshop
- Meeting Dates: 2024 Oct 22 - 25
- Meeting Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
- Abstract Deadline: 2024 May 31
- Registration Deadline: 2024 Sep 19
Advances in space telescope technology and all-sky surveys are driving the need for more precise and accurate flux calibration across the observable spectrum. The Space Telescope Science Institute is hosting a workshop in October 2024 to evaluate the current state of flux calibration for both ground-based and space observatories.
Workshop Objectives:
- Identify issues affecting cross-mission calibration and their impact on the Hubble, Webb, and Roman Space Telescopes as well as surveys like Gaia and Rubin.
- Improve the consistency of flux calibration across the electromagnetic spectrum, with an emphasis on the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared.
- Address the limiting factors for calibration between ground-based and space observatories.
- Improve and assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of the models used for different classes of standards.
Workshop Significance: STScI last hosted a calibration workshop over a decade ago. A workshop planned for March, 2020, did not take place due to the pandemic. With new telescopes, new technologies, and new scientific requirements, the need has grown for the astronomy community to meet, assess the current state of the art, and develop new collaborations to improve our current flux calibration.
For additional questions, please see the conference
website.
Selected Astronomy-related Technology (e.g.,
Instrumentation) Meetings
Selected Astronomy-related Physics, Computational,
Data Analysis, Software or Statistics Meetings
Selected Space Science-related Education and Public
Outreach Meetings
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