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LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026
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Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, D02 PN40, Ireland
Description
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.
Contact
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Session 1: Surveys and Methods
Chair: Francesco de Gasperin
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Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT 30mSpeaker: Frits Sweijen (Durham University)
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From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1 20mSpeaker: Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)
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LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey 20mSpeaker: Roland Timmerman (Durham University)
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LoTSS DR3 20mSpeaker: Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 2: Surveys and Methods II
Chair: Roland Timmerman
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A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys 20mSpeaker: Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)
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The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release 20mSpeaker: Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)
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Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR): Epoch of Reionization (EoR)
Chair: Roland Timmerman
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Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields 30mSpeaker: Emilio Ceccotti (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
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Cosmology from LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Data Release 2: Cross-correlations with Ionized Gas Traced by Thermal Sunyaev Zel’dovich effect 20mSpeaker: Ayodeji Ibitoye (Department of physics, guangdong technion - israel institute of technology, shantou, guangdong 515063, p.r. china)
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Can processing techniques for LOFAR EoR science be used for other science cases? 20mSpeaker: André Offringa (ASTRON)
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Welcome Reception 1h 30m
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Session 4: Observatory I
Chair: Observatory
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Welcome 5mSpeaker: Violette Impellizzeri
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Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory 20mSpeaker: Michiel van Haarlem (LOFAR ERIC)
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Science Operations with LOFAR2.0 15mSpeaker: Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)
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Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities 15mSpeaker: Wim van Cappellen
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Developing the LOFAR2.0 data service capabilities 15mSpeaker: John Swinbank (ASTRON)
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Enhancing the LOFAR2.0 capabilities - LENSS 15mSpeaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)
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Coffee Break 35m
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Session 5: Commissioning the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
Chair: E. Orru
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LOFAR2.0 commissioning 15mSpeaker: Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON)
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LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines 15mSpeaker: Marco Iacobelli (ASTRON)
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Lightning Talks - Commissioning Results 40m
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Discussion 20m
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Session 6: Observatory II
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update 20mSpeaker: Mick Veldhuis (ASTRON)
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Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low 20mSpeaker: George Heald (SKA Observatory)
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Session 7: Magnetized Universe
Chair: Florent Mertens
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The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths 30mSpeaker: Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
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From Young to Restarted: The Largest Sample of Peaked-Spectrum Sources from LoTSS DR3 20mSpeaker: Anupama Mohanan (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 7: Magnetized Universe
Chair: Florent Mertens
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Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)
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Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)
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Session 8: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I
Chair: Katarzyna Małek
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Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR 30mSpeaker: Dr Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)
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Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution 20mSpeaker: Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)
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Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
Chair: Katarzyna Małek
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The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective 20mSpeaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)
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Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields 20mSpeaker: Giulia Lusetti (Open University)
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Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe 30mSpeaker: John McKean (University of Pretoria)
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The LBA view of the ELAIS-N1 field: The deepest wide-field observations at 50 MHz with LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II
Chair: Katarzyna Małek
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Tracing a radio jet from sub-kiloparsec to hundreds of kiloparsecs in a giant radio galaxy using LOFAR and LOFAR-VLBI 20mSpeaker: Sagar Sethi (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland)
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Session 10: Exoplanets
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime 30mSpeaker: Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)
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A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2 20mSpeaker: Henrik Edler (ASTRON)
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Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens
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The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients 20mSpeaker: Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
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Lunch 1h 30m
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Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I
Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens
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Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium 30mSpeaker: Francesco Iraci
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Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time. 30mSpeaker: Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)
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Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS 20mSpeaker: Sylvain Ranguin
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II
Chair: Caterina Tiburzi
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AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients 20mSpeaker: Kate Kelley (Anton Pannekoek Institute)
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Emission configurations of single-pulses at low-frequency 20mSpeaker: Mark Brionne
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Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR 20mSpeaker: Pauline Noé (Université d'Orléans, LPC2E)
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Session 14: Stars & Interstellar Medium
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next? 30mSpeaker: Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)
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Conference Dinner 2h 30m
Dining Hall, Front Square of Trinity College Dublin
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Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges 30mSpeaker: Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)
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LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review 30mSpeaker: Cees Bassa (ASTRON)
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The Polarization Calibration scheme for LOFAR Beamformed Data 20mSpeaker: Caterina Tiburzi (INAF-OAC)
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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LOTAAS Flatielding and the path to real-time transient searches with EuroFlash 20mSpeaker: Dirk Kuiper (University of Amsterdam)
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Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca
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Solar Observations with LOFAR 30mSpeaker: Soham Dey (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)
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First Observation and Interpretation of Solar Radio Spike Repeating Burst Pairs 20mSpeaker: Suli Ma (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
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Resolving spatial and temporal shock structures using high-resolution radio observations of the Sun 20mSpeaker: Diana Morosan (University of Turku)
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Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm 20mSpeaker: Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)
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Conference Photo 10m
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Lunch 1h 20m
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Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather
Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca
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Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence 30mSpeaker: Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)
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A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics 20mSpeaker: Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
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LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection 20mSpeaker: Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN)
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Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare 20mSpeaker: Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning
Chair: Pietro Zucca
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LOFAR observations of lightning propagation 30mSpeaker: Marten Lourens (ASTRON)
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Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
Chair: Chris Riseley
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Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives 30mSpeaker: Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)
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Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky 20mSpeaker: Dr Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)
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Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky Survey 20mSpeaker: Koushika Sri Lakshmi srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)
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Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters
Chair: Chris Riseley
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Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities 20mSpeaker: Dr Nadia Biava (INAF - IRA)
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The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters 20mSpeaker: Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)
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The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319 20mSpeaker: Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)
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Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR 20mSpeaker: Alessandro Ignesti (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))
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Coffee Break 30m
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Session 21: Nearby Galaxies
Chair: Katarzyna Małek
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Star formation, galactic winds, and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies as probed with LOFAR 30mSpeaker: Volker Heesen (Universität Hamburg)
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Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies 20mSpeaker: Pascal Vennedey (AIRUB)
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The LOFAR2.0 perspective of nearby star-forming galaxies, laboratories of magnetic fields and cosmic ray transport 20mSpeaker: Michael Stein (Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Astronomical Institute (AIRUB))
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Closing Remarks and Ending
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