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LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026

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Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, D02 PN40, Ireland
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LOFAR Dublin Meeting 2026

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.

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  • Monday 8 June
    • Session 1: Surveys and Methods

      Chair: Francesco de Gasperin

      • 1
        Pushing the fringe: towards a high-resolution sky survey with the ILT
        Speaker: Frits Sweijen (Durham University)
      • 2
        From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1
        Speaker: Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)
      • 3
        LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey
        Speaker: Roland Timmerman (Durham University)
      • 4
        LoTSS DR3
        Speaker: Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session 2: Surveys and Methods II

      Chair: Roland Timmerman

      • 5
        A hierarchical counts-in-cells model incorporating halo occupation scatter for radio surveys
        Speaker: Morteza Pashapour-Ahmadabadi (University Bielefeld)
      • 6
        The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second data release
        Speaker: Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)
    • Session 3: Epoch of Reionization (EoR): Epoch of Reionization (EoR)

      Chair: Roland Timmerman

      • 7
        Updates from the LOFAR-EoR Project: Results from the NCP and 3C196 fields
        Speaker: Emilio Ceccotti (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
      • 8
        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)
      • 9
        Can processing techniques for LOFAR EoR science be used for other science cases?
        Speaker: André Offringa (ASTRON)
    • 17:50
      Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday 9 June
    • Session 4: Observatory I

      Chair: Observatory

      • 10
        Welcome
        Speaker: Violette Impellizzeri
      • 11
        Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
        Speaker: Michiel van Haarlem (LOFAR ERIC)
      • 12
        Science Operations with LOFAR2.0
        Speaker: Roberto Pizzo (ASTRON)
      • 13
        Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities
        Speaker: Wim van Cappellen
      • 14
        Developing the LOFAR2.0 data service capabilities
        Speaker: John Swinbank (ASTRON)
      • 15
        Enhancing the LOFAR2.0 capabilities - LENSS
        Speaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)
    • 10:25
      Coffee Break
    • Session 5: Commissioning the LOFAR2.0 Observatory

      Chair: E. Orru

      • 16
        LOFAR2.0 commissioning
        Speaker: Michiel Brentjens (ASTRON)
      • 17
        LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines
        Speaker: Marco Iacobelli (ASTRON)
      • 18
        Lightning Talks - Commissioning Results
      • 19
        Discussion
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Session 6: Observatory II

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • 20
        Improvements in ASTRON’s Visibility Processing Software: a Community Update
        Speaker: Mick Veldhuis (ASTRON)
      • 21
        Progress on Construction and Science Commissioning of SKA-Low
        Speaker: George Heald (SKA Observatory)
    • Session 7: Magnetized Universe

      Chair: Florent Mertens

      • 22
        The LOFAR RM Grid: a precision view of cosmic magnetism at metre wavelengths
        Speaker: Shane O'Sullivan (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
      • 23
        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
      Coffee Break
    • Session 7: Magnetized Universe

      Chair: Florent Mertens

      • 24
        Searching for Extended Radio Emission from Cosmic Filaments with LOFAR
        Speaker: Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)
      • 25
        Constraining cosmic filament magnetism with LOFAR
        Speaker: Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)
    • Session 8: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part I

      Chair: Katarzyna Małek

      • 26
        Recent developments on giant radio galaxies and radio-AGN with LOFAR
        Speaker: Dr Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)
      • 27
        Polarisation imaging at metre wavelengths with sub-arcsecond resolution
        Speaker: Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)
  • Wednesday 10 June
    • Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II

      Chair: Katarzyna Małek

      • 28
        The hidden AGN population: a novel LOFAR perspective
        Speaker: Leah Morabito (Durham University)
      • 29
        Galaxy-Scale Jets In the LOFAR-VLBI Deep Fields
        Speaker: Giulia Lusetti (Open University)
      • 30
        Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe
        Speaker: John McKean (University of Pretoria)
      • 31
        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
      Coffee Break
    • Session 9: Deep Fields & AGNs — Part II

      Chair: Katarzyna Małek

      • 32
        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)
    • Session 10: Exoplanets

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • 33
        Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime
        Speaker: Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)
      • 34
        A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2
        Speaker: Henrik Edler (ASTRON)
    • Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I

      Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens

      • 35
        The key to unlocking the origin of long-period transients
        Speaker: Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
    • 12:30
      Lunch
    • Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I

      Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens

      • 36
        Pulsar Timing with LOFAR: Probing the Interstellar Medium
        Speaker: Francesco Iraci
      • 37
        Fast transient searches with LOFAR: From archives to real-time.
        Speaker: Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)
      • 38
        Searching for Radio Transients in LoTSS
        Speaker: Sylvain Ranguin
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II

      Chair: Caterina Tiburzi

      • 39
        AARTFAAC 2.0: Searching for the Rarest Radio Transients
        Speaker: Kate Kelley (Anton Pannekoek Institute)
      • 40
        Emission configurations of single-pulses at low-frequency
        Speaker: Mark Brionne
      • 41
        Study of the Interstellar Medium through Low-Frequency Radio Observation of Pulsar using LOFAR and NenuFAR
        Speaker: Pauline Noé (Université d'Orléans, LPC2E)
    • Session 14: Stars & Interstellar Medium

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • 42
        The Galactic interstellar medium seen by LOFAR: what have we learned and what comes next?
        Speaker: Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)
    • 19:00
      Conference Dinner

      Dining Hall, Front Square of Trinity College Dublin

  • Thursday 11 June
    • Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • 43
        Unintended electromagnetic radiation from LEO satellites: observations, impact, and regulatory challenges
        Speaker: Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)
      • 44
        LOFAR 2.0 commissioning a full journey review
        Speaker: Cees Bassa (ASTRON)
      • 45
        The Polarization Calibration scheme for LOFAR Beamformed Data
        Speaker: Caterina Tiburzi (INAF-OAC)
    • 10:20
      Coffee Break
    • Session 15: Instrumentation, Calibration & RFI Management

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • 46
        LOTAAS Flatielding and the path to real-time transient searches with EuroFlash
        Speaker: Dirk Kuiper (University of Amsterdam)
    • Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather

      Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca

      • 47
        Solar Observations with LOFAR
        Speaker: Soham Dey (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)
      • 48
        First Observation and Interpretation of Solar Radio Spike Repeating Burst Pairs
        Speaker: Suli Ma (National Space Science Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
      • 49
        Resolving spatial and temporal shock structures using high-resolution radio observations of the Sun
        Speaker: Diana Morosan (University of Turku)
      • 50
        Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm
        Speaker: Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)
    • 12:30
      Conference Photo
    • 12:40
      Lunch
    • Session 16/17: Solar, Ionosphere & Space Weather

      Chair: Miroslav Barta and Pietro Zucca

      • 51
        Multi-Instrument View of Ionospheric Turbulence
        Speaker: Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)
      • 52
        A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics
        Speaker: Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
      • 53
        LOFAR as a Component of a Passive Radar System for LEO Object Detection
        Speaker: Hanna Rothkaehl (CBK PAN)
      • 54
        Evolution of coronal radio wave scattering during an M class solar flare
        Speaker: Christian Vocks (Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP))
    • 15:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning

      Chair: Pietro Zucca

    • Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters

      Chair: Chris Riseley

      • 56
        Galaxy clusters with LOFAR: recent results and new perspectives
        Speaker: Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)
      • 57
        Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky
        Speaker: Dr Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)
      • 58
        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
    • Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters

      Chair: Chris Riseley

      • 59
        Investigating the filamentary emission of radio phoenixes and characterising their peculiarities
        Speaker: Dr Nadia Biava (INAF - IRA)
      • 60
        The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters
        Speaker: Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)
      • 61
        The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319
        Speaker: Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)
      • 62
        Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR
        Speaker: Alessandro Ignesti (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))
    • 10:30
      Coffee Break
    • Session 21: Nearby Galaxies

      Chair: Katarzyna Małek

      • 63
        Star formation, galactic winds, and magnetic fields in nearby galaxies as probed with LOFAR
        Speaker: Volker Heesen (Universität Hamburg)
      • 64
        Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies
        Speaker: Pascal Vennedey (AIRUB)
      • 65
        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))
    • Closing Remarks and Ending