LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026

8 Jun 2026, 14:00 → 12 Jun 2026, 13:00 Europe/Dublin

The LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026 will take place in The Hamilton Building at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, from 8–12 June 2026, hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS).

The meeting will bring together members of the LOFAR community for a programme of scientific presentations and discussions highlighting recent results and developments across the collaboration.

Monday 8 June

14:00 → 15:30 Session 1: Surveys and Methods

Chair: Francesco de Gasperin

14:00 Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT

Speaker: Frits Sweijen (Durham University)

14:30 From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1

Speaker: Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)

14:50 LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey

Speaker: Roland Timmerman (Durham University)

15:10 LoTSS DR3

Speaker: Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:40 Session 2: Surveys and Methods II

Chair: Roland Timmerman

16:00 A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys

Speaker: Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)

16:20 The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release

Speaker: Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)

16:40 → 17:50 Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR): Epoch of Reionization (EoR)

Chair: Roland Timmerman

16:40 Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields

Speaker: 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

Speaker: 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?

Speaker: André Offringa (ASTRON)

17:50 → 19:20 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 9 June

09:00 → 10:25 Session 4: Observatory I

Chair: Observatory

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Violette Impellizzeri

09:05 Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory

Speaker: Michiel van Haarlem (LOFAR ERIC)

09:25 Science Operations with LOFAR2.0

Speaker: Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)

09:40 Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities

Speaker: Wim van Cappellen

09:55 Developing the LOFAR2.0 data service capabilities

Speaker: John Swinbank (ASTRON)

10:10 Enhancing the LOFAR2.0 capabilities - LENSS

Speaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)

10:25 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Session 5: Commissioning the LOFAR2.0 Observatory

Chair: E. Orru

11:00 LOFAR2.0 commissioning

Speaker: Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON)

11:15 LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines

Speaker: Marco Iacobelli (ASTRON)

11:30 Lightning Talks - Commissioning Results

12:10 Discussion

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:40 Session 6: Observatory II

Chair: Pietro Zucca

14:00 Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update

Speaker: Mick Veldhuis (ASTRON)

14:20 Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low

Speaker: George Heald (SKA Observatory)

14:40 → 15:30 Session 7: Magnetized Universe

Chair: Florent Mertens

14:40 The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths

Speaker: Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

15:10 From Young to Restarted: The Largest Sample of Peaked-Spectrum Sources from LoTSS DR3

Speaker: Anupama Mohanan (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland)

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:40 Session 7: Magnetized Universe

Chair: Florent Mertens

16:00 Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR

Speaker: Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)

16:20 Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR

Speaker: Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)

16:40 → 17:30 Session 8: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I

Chair: Katarzyna Małek

16:40 Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR

Speaker: Dr Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)

17:10 Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution

Speaker: Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)

Wednesday 10 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II

Chair: Katarzyna Małek

09:00 The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective

Speaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)

09:20 Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields

Speaker: Giulia Lusetti (Open University)

09:40 Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 11:20 Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II

Chair: Katarzyna Małek

11:00 Tracing a radio jet from sub-kiloparsec to hundreds of kiloparsecs in a giant radio galaxy using LOFAR and LOFAR-VLBI

Speaker: Sagar Sethi (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)

11:20 → 12:10 Session 10: Exoplanets

Chair: Pietro Zucca

11:20 Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime

Speaker: Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)

11:50 A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2

Speaker: Henrik Edler (ASTRON)

12:10 → 12:30 Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I

Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens

12:10 The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients

Speaker: Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I

Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens

14:00 Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium

Speaker: Francesco Iraci

14:30 Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time.

Speaker: Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)

15:00 Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS

Speaker: Sylvain Ranguin

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II

Chair: Caterina Tiburzi

16:00 AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients

Speaker: Kate Kelley (Anton Pannekoek Institute)

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

Speaker: Mark Brionne

16:40 Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR

Speaker: Pauline Noé (Université d'Orléans, LPC2E)

17:00 → 17:30 Session 14: Stars & Interstellar Medium

Chair: Pietro Zucca

17:00 The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next?

Speaker: Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)

19:00 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

Dining Hall, Front Square of Trinity College Dublin

Thursday 11 June

09:00 → 10:20 Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management

Chair: Pietro Zucca

09:00 Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges

Speaker: Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)

09:30 LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review

Speaker: Cees Bassa (ASTRON)

10:00 The Polarization Calibration scheme for LOFAR Beamformed Data

Speaker: Caterina Tiburzi (INAF-OAC)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 11:10 Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management

Chair: Pietro Zucca

10:50 LOTAAS Flatielding and the path to real-time transient searches with EuroFlash

Speaker: Dirk Kuiper (University of Amsterdam)

11:10 → 12:40 Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather

Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca

11:10 Solar Observations with LOFAR

Speaker: Soham Dey (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)

11:40 First Observation and Interpretation of Solar Radio Spike Repeating Burst Pairs

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Diana Morosan (University of Turku)

12:20 Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm

Speaker: Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)

12:30 → 12:40 Conference Photo

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:30 Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather

Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca

14:00 Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence

Speaker: Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

14:30 A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics

Speaker: Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)

14:50 LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection

Speaker: Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN)

15:10 Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare

Speaker: Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 16:30 Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning

Chair: Pietro Zucca

16:00 LOFAR observations of lightning propagation

Speaker: Marten Lourens (ASTRON)

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16:30 → 17:40 Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters

Chair: Chris Riseley

16:30 Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives

Speaker: Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)

17:00 Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky

Speaker: Dr Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)

17:20 Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky Survey

Speaker: Koushika Sri Lakshmi srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)

Friday 12 June

09:00 → 10:30 Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters

Chair: Chris Riseley

09:00 Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities

Speaker: Dr Nadia Biava (INAF - IRA)

09:20 The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters

Speaker: Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)

09:40 The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319

Speaker: Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)

10:00 Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR

Speaker: Alessandro Ignesti (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:10 Session 21: Nearby Galaxies

Chair: Katarzyna Małek

11:00 Star formation, galactic winds, and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies as probed with LOFAR

Speaker: Volker Heesen (Universität Hamburg)

11:30 Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies

Speaker: Pascal Vennedey (AIRUB)

11:50 The LOFAR2.0 perspective of nearby star-forming galaxies, laboratories of magnetic fields and cosmic ray transport

Speaker: Michael Stein (Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute (AIRUB))

12:10 → 12:30 Closing Remarks and Ending