Name: LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-06-08T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-12T13:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

Monday, 8 June 2026
14:00 Session 1: Surveys and Methods
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT - Frits Sweijen (Durham University)

14:30 From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1 - Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)

14:50 LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - Roland Timmerman (Durham University)

15:10 LoTSS DR3 - Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 2: Surveys and Methods II: Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
16:00 - 16:40
Contributions

16:00 A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys - Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)

16:20 The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release - Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)
16:40 Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR): Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
16:40 - 17:50
Contributions

16:40 Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields - Emilio Ceccotti (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

17:10 Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Cross-correlations with Ionized Gas Traced by Thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect - Ayodeji Ibitoye (Department of physics, guangdong technion - israel institute of technology, shantou, guangdong 515063, p.r. china)

17:30 Can processing techniques for LOFAR EoR science be used for other science cases? - André Offringa (ASTRON)
17:50 Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
17:50 - 19:20
Tuesday, 9 June 2026
09:00 Session 4: Observatory I
09:00 - 10:25
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Violette Impellizzeri

09:05 Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory - Michiel van Haarlem (LOFAR ERIC)

09:25 Science Operations with LOFAR2.0 - Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)

09:40 Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities - Wim van Cappellen

09:55 Developing the LOFAR2.0 data service capabilities - John Swinbank (ASTRON)

10:10 Enhancing the LOFAR2.0 capabilities - LENSS - Leah Morabito (Durham University)
10:25 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:25 - 11:00
11:00 Session 5: Commissioning the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 LOFAR2.0 commissioning - Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON)

11:15 LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines - Marco Iacobelli (ASTRON)

11:30 Lightning Talks - Commissioning Results

12:10 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session 6: Observatory II
14:00 - 14:40
Contributions

14:00 Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update - Mick Veldhuis (ASTRON)

14:20 Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low - George Heald (SKA Observatory)
14:40 Session 7: Magnetized Universe
14:40 - 15:30
Contributions

14:40 The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths - Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:10 From Young to Restarted: The Largest Sample of Peaked-Spectrum Sources from LoTSS DR3 - Anupama Mohanan (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 7: Magnetized Universe
16:00 - 16:40
Contributions

16:00 Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR - Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)

16:20 Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR - Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)
16:40 Session 8: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I
16:40 - 17:30
Contributions

16:40 Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR - Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)

17:10 Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution - Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
09:00 Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective - Leah Morabito (Durham University)

09:20 Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields - Giulia Lusetti (Open University)

09:40 Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe - John McKean (University of Pretoria)

10:10 The LBA view of the ELAIS-N1 field: The deepest wide-field observations at 50 MHz with LOFAR - Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
11:00 - 11:20
Contributions

11:00 Tracing a radio jet from sub-kiloparsec to hundreds of kiloparsecs in a giant radio galaxy using LOFAR and LOFAR-VLBI - Sagar Sethi (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)
11:20 Session 10: Exoplanets
11:20 - 12:10
Contributions

11:20 Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime - Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)

11:50 A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2 - Henrik Edler (ASTRON)
12:10 Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
12:10 - 12:30
Contributions

12:10 The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients - Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium - Francesco Iraci

14:30 Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time. - Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)

15:00 Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS - Sylvain Ranguin
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients - Kate Kelley (Anton Pannekoek Institute)

16:20 Emission configurations of single-pulses at low-frequency - Mark Brionne

16:40 Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR - Pauline Noé (Université d'Orléans, LPC2E)
17:00 Session 14: Stars & Interstellar Medium
17:00 - 17:30
Contributions

17:00 The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next? - Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)
19:00 Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
19:00 - 21:30
Thursday, 11 June 2026
09:00 Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
09:00 - 10:20
Contributions

09:00 Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges - Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)

09:30 LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review - Cees Bassa (ASTRON)

10:00 The Polarization Calibration scheme for LOFAR Beamformed Data - Caterina Tiburzi (INAF-OAC)
10:20 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 - 10:50
10:50 Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
10:50 - 11:10
Contributions

10:50 LOTAAS Flatielding and the path to real-time transient searches with EuroFlash - Dirk Kuiper (University of Amsterdam)
11:10 Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
11:10 - 12:40
Contributions

11:10 Solar Observations with LOFAR - Soham Dey (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)

11:40 First Observation and Interpretation of Solar Radio Spike Repeating Burst Pairs - Suli Ma (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

12:00 Resolving spatial and temporal shock structures using high-resolution radio observations of the Sun - Diana Morosan (University of Turku)

12:20 Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm - Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)
12:30 Conference Photo
Conference Photo
12:30 - 12:40

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:00
14:00 Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

14:30 A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics - Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

14:50 LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection - Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN)

15:10 Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare - Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning
16:00 - 16:30
Contributions

16:00 LOFAR observations of lightning propagation - Marten Lourens (ASTRON)
16:30 Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
16:30 - 17:40
Contributions

16:30 Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives - Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)

17:00 Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky - Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)

17:20 Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky Survey - Koushika Sri Lakshmi srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)
Friday, 12 June 2026
09:00 Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities - Nadia Biava (INAF - IRA)

09:20 The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters - Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)

09:40 The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319 - Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)

10:00 Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR - Alessandro Ignesti (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 Session 21: Nearby Galaxies
11:00 - 12:10
Contributions

11:00 Star formation, galactic winds, and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies as probed with LOFAR - Volker Heesen (Universität Hamburg)

11:30 Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies - Pascal Vennedey (AIRUB)

11:50 The LOFAR2.0 perspective of nearby star-forming galaxies, laboratories of magnetic fields and cosmic ray transport - Michael Stein (Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute (AIRUB))
12:10 Closing Remarks and Ending

12:10 - 12:30