Name: LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-06-08T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-12T13:00:00+01:00
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LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026

from Monday, June 8, 2026 (2:00 PM) to Friday, June 12, 2026 (1:00 PM)

Monday, June 8, 2026
2:00 PM Session 1: Surveys and Methods
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT - Frits Sweijen (Durham University)

2:30 PM From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1 - Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)

2:50 PM LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - Roland Timmerman (Durham University)

3:10 PM LoTSS DR3 - Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Session 2: Surveys and Methods II: Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys - Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)

4:20 PM The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release - Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)
4:40 PM Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR): Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
4:40 PM - 5:50 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields - Emilio Ceccotti (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

5:10 PM 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)

5:30 PM Can processing techniques for LOFAR EoR science be used for other science cases? - André Offringa (ASTRON)
5:50 PM Welcome Reception
Welcome Reception
5:50 PM - 7:20 PM
Tuesday, June 9, 2026
9:00 AM Session 4: Observatory I
9:00 AM - 10:25 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome - Violette Impellizzeri

9:05 AM Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory - Michiel van Haarlem (LOFAR ERIC)

9:25 AM Science Operations with LOFAR2.0 - Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)

9:40 AM Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities - Wim van Cappellen

9:55 AM Developing the LOFAR2.0 data service capabilities - John Swinbank (ASTRON)

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

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

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

11:30 AM Lightning Talks - Commissioning Results

12:10 PM Discussion
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 6: Observatory II
2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update - Mick Veldhuis (ASTRON)

2:20 PM Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low - George Heald (SKA Observatory)
2:40 PM Session 7: Magnetized Universe
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths - Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

3:10 PM From Young to Restarted: The Largest Sample of Peaked-Spectrum Sources from LoTSS DR3 - Anupama Mohanan (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Session 7: Magnetized Universe
4:00 PM - 4:40 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR - Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)

4:20 PM Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR - Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)
4:40 PM Session 8: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I
4:40 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:40 PM Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR - Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)

5:10 PM Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution - Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
9:00 AM Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective - Leah Morabito (Durham University)

9:20 AM Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields - Giulia Lusetti (Open University)

9:40 AM Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe - John McKean (University of Pretoria)

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

11:00 AM 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 AM Session 10: Exoplanets
11:20 AM - 12:10 PM
Contributions

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

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

12:10 PM The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients - Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium - Francesco Iraci

2:30 PM Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time. - Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)

3:00 PM Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS - Sylvain Ranguin
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients - Kate Kelley (Anton Pannekoek Institute)

4:20 PM Emission configurations of single-pulses at low-frequency - Mark Brionne

4:40 PM Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR - Pauline Noé (Université d'Orléans, LPC2E)
5:00 PM Session 14: Stars & Interstellar Medium
5:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

5:00 PM The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next? - Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)
7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Thursday, June 11, 2026
9:00 AM Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges - Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)

9:30 AM LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review - Cees Bassa (ASTRON)

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

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

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

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

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

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

12:40 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

2:30 PM A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics - Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

2:50 PM LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection - Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN)

3:10 PM Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare - Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM LOFAR observations of lightning propagation - Marten Lourens (ASTRON)
4:30 PM Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
4:30 PM - 5:40 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives - Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)

5:00 PM Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky - Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)

5:20 PM Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky Survey - Koushika Sri Lakshmi srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)
Friday, June 12, 2026
9:00 AM Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities - Nadia Biava (INAF - IRA)

9:20 AM The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters - Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)

9:40 AM The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319 - Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)

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

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

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

11:50 AM 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 PM Closing Remarks and Ending

12:10 PM - 12:30 PM

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