LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026 programme
FINAL PROGRAM
Monday
Session 1: Surveys and Methods
14:00–15:30
- 14:00–14:30 — Invited: Frits Sweijen (UK)
Title: Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT. - 14:30–14:50 — Bonny Barkus
Title: From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1 - 14:50–15:10 — Roland Timmerman
Title: LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - 15:10–15:30 — Martin Hardcastle
Title: LoTSS DR3
15:30–16:00 — Coffee
Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
- 16:00–16:20 — Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi
Title: A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys - 16:20–16:40 — Francesco de Gasperin
Title: The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release
Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
16:40–17:50
- 16:40–17:10 — Invited: Emilio Ceccotti (INAF, Italy)
Title: Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields - 17:10–17:30 — Ayodeji Ibitoye
Title: Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Cross-correlations with Ionized Gas Traced by Thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect - 17:30–17:50 — Andre Offringa
Title: Can processing techniques for LOFAR EoR science be used for other science cases?
Tuesday
Session 3: Observatory I
09:00–10:25
- 09:00–09:05 — V. Impellizzeri - Welcome
- 09:05–09:25 — M. van Haarlem
Title: Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory - 09:25–09:40 — R. Pizzo
Title: Science Operations with LOFAR2.0 - 09:40–09:55 — W. van Cappellen
Title: Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities - 09:55–10:10 — J. Swinbank
Title: Developing the LOFAR2.0 data services capabilities - 10:10–10:25 — L. Morabito
Title: Enhancing the LOFAR2.0 capabilities - LENSS
10:25–11:00 — Coffee
Session 4: Commissioning the LOFAR2.0 Observatory — Chair E. Orru'
11:00–12:30
- 11:00–11:15 — M. Brentjens
Title: LOFAR2.0 commissioning - 11:15–11:30 — M. Iacobelli
Title: LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines - 11:30–12:10 — Commissioners
Title: Lightning talks - commissioning results - 12:10–12:30 — Discussion
12:30–14:00 — Lunch
Session 5
14:00–14:20
- 14:00–14:20 — Mick Veldhuis
Title: Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update - 14:20–14:40 — George Heald
Title: Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low
Session 6: Magnetized Universe
14:40–15:30 and 16:00–16:30
- 14:40–15:10 — Invited: Shane O’Sullivan
Title: The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths - 15:10–15:30 — Reinout van Weeren
Title: Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution
15:30–16:00 — Coffee
- 16:00–16:20 — Duy Hoang
Title: Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR - 16:20–16:40 — Mousumi Mahato
Title: Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR
Session 7: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I
16:40–17:30
- 16:40–17:10 — Invited: Pratik Dabhade (Poland)
Title: Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR - 17:10–17:30 — Anupama Mohanan
Title: From Young to Restarted: The Largest Sample of Peaked-Spectrum Sources from LoTSS DR3
Wednesday
Session 7: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
09:00–10:30
- 09:00–09:20 — Leah Morabito
Title: The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective - 09:20–09:40 — Giulia Lusetti
Title: Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields - 09:40–10:10 — John McKean
Title: Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe - 10:10–10:30 — Jort Boxelaar
Title: The LBA view of the ELAIS-N1 field: The deepest wide-field observations at 50 MHz with LOFAR
10:30–11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00–11:20 — Sagar Sethi
Title: Tracing a radio jet from sub-kiloparsec to hundreds of kiloparsecs in a giant radio galaxy using LOFAR and LOFAR-VLBI
Session 8: Exoplanets
11:20–12:30
- 11:20–11:50 — Invited: Cristina Cordun (ASTRON)
Title: Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime - 11:50–12:10 — Henrik Edler
Title: A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2
Session 14: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
12:10–12:30
- 12:10–12:30 — Sanne Bloot
Title: The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients
12:30–14:00 — Lunch
Session 14: Transients & Pulsars — Part I (cont.)
14:00–16:00
- 14:00–14:30 — Invited — Pulsars: Francesco Iraci
Title: Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium - 14:30–15:00 — Invited — Transient Surveys: Reshma Anna Thomas
Title: Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time. - 15:00–15:20 — Sylvain Ranguin
Title: Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS - 15:20–15:40 — Kate Kelley
Title: AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients - 15:40–16:00 — Mark Brionne
Title: Emission configurations of single-pulses at low-frequency
16:00–16:30 — Coffee
Session 15: Transients & Pulsars — Part II
16:30–16:50
- 16:30–16:50 — Pauline Noé
Title: Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR
Session 11: Stars & Interstellar Medium
17:00–17:30
- 17:00–17:30 — Invited: Andrea Bracco
Title: The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next?
Thursday
Session 12: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
09:00–11:20
- 09:00–09:30 — Invited: Emma Van der Wateren (ASTRON)
Title: Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges - 09:30–10:00 — Invited: Cees Bassa (ASTRON)
Title: LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review - 10:00–10:20 — Caterina Tiburzi
Title: The Polarization Calibration scheme for LOFAR Beamformed Data
10:20–10:50 — Coffee
- 10:50–11:10 — Dirk Kuiper
Title: LOTAAS Flatielding and the path to real-time transient searches with EuroFlash
Session 9: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
11:10–12:30
- 11:10–11:40 — Invited talk — Solar: Soham Dey (NCRA/ASTRON)
Title: Solar Observations with LOFAR - 11:40–12:00 — Suli Ma
Title: First Observation and Interpretation of Solar Radio Spike Repeating Burst Pairs - 12:00–12:20 — Diana Morosan
Title: Resolving spatial and temporal shock structures using high-resolution radio observations of the Sun - 12:20–12:40 — Daniel Clarkson
Title: Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm
12:40–14:00 — Lunch
Session 10: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather (continued)
14:00–15:30
- 14:00–14:30 — Invited talk — Ionosphere: Dorota (CBK, Poland)
Title: Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence - 14:30–14:50 — Rebecca Ghidoni
Title: A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics - 14:50–15:10 — Hanna Rothkaehl
Title: LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection - 15:10–15:30 — Christian Vocks
Title: Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare
15:30–16:00 — Coffee
Session 16: Cosmic Rays & Lightning
16:00–16:30
- 16:00–16:30 — Invited: Marten Lourens (ASTRON)
Title: LOFAR observations of lightning propagation
Session 13: Galaxy Clusters
16:30–17:40
- 16:30–17:00 — Invited: Chiara Stuardi (INAF, Italy)
Title: Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives - 17:00–17:20 — Christian Groeneveld
Title: Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky - 17:20–17:40 — Koushika Sri Lakshmi Srikanth
Title: Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky Survey
Friday
Session 13: Galaxy Clusters (cont.)
- 09:00–09:20 — Nadia Biava
Title: Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities - 09:20–09:40 — Matteo Cianfaglione
Title: The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters - 09:40–10:00 — Alexander Drabent
Title: The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319 - 10:00–10:20 — Alessandro Ignesti
Title: Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR
10:30–11:00 — Coffee
Session 3: Nearby Galaxies
11:00–12:30
- 11:00–11:30 — Invited: Volker Heesen (Germany)
Title: Star formation, galactic winds, and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies as probed with LOFAR - 11:30–11:50 — Pascal Vennedey
Title: Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies -
11:50–12:10 — Michael Stein
Title: The LOFAR2.0 perspective of nearby star-forming galaxies, laboratories of magnetic fields and cosmic ray transport -
12:10–12:30 — Closing Remarks and ending
POSTERS
- Forecasting the detectability of cosmic web filaments: mock observations with LOFAR 2.0 and SKA-LOW — Maicol Della Chiesa
- Frequency dependence of pulsar pulse component separation over a wide frequency range — Kristaps Veitners
- Numerical simulations of diffuse radio emission in cluster outskirts: turbulent particle reacceleration in a radio bridge — Kosuke Nishiwaki
- Exploring the Low-Frequency Radio Sky with LOFAR: Surveys of Compact and Faint Radio Sources — Aleksandra Wołowska
- Formation of plasma structures in the ionosphere by the sources placed above, around and below the ionosphere: modelling and radio observations — Yuriy Rapoport
- Segmentation of Solar Radio Bursts Using I-LOFAR and IDOLS — Herman le Roux
- Probing particle acceleration during the Spring 2025 Solar Orbiter perihelion using I-LOFAR. — Catherine Cuddy
- Studying the Extreme Neutron Star Population with I-LOFAR — Charlie Ashe
- LOFTS: A LOw Frequency pulsar, FRB and Technosignature Survey — Evan Keane
- A Coronal Jet Associated with Type II Radio Burst: Multi-Instrument Imaging of Solar Event on 6 October 2025 — Mohamed Nedal
- Characterising the response of an International LOFAR Station — Letizia Vincetti
- Observations of solar radio bursts of types II and III using CALLISTO and LOFAR — Bartosz Dąbrowski
- Analysis of the periodicity of ionospheric scintillation in the spectra of pulsars observed with PL612 LOFAR station — Leszek Błaszkiewicz
- Spectral bridges in type II solar radio bursts — Artem Koval
- Decoding the sources of pulsar radiation: radio wave polarization before the escape — Jan Benáček
- Spectropolarimetric analysis of a sample of powerful jets in nearby galaxy groups with MeerKAT — Yifei Gong
Extra 9 poster slots still available. If your talk is not on the program and you are interested in submitting a poster instead, please email zucca@astron.nl