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    LOFAR Annual Meeting 2026

    → Europe/Dublin
    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.

    Contact
    • 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)
          LAM2026_Sweijen.pdf
        • 2
          From Radio Sources to Optical Counterparts: LoTSS DR3 and Euclid DR1
          Speaker: Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)
          BBarkusLAM2026.pdf
        • 3
          LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey
          Speaker: Roland Timmerman (Durham University)
          RTimmerman_LoTSSHR.pdf
        • 4
          LoTSS DR3
          Speaker: Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
          hardcastle-lam-dublin.pdf
      • 15:30
        Coffee Break
      • Session 2: Surveys and Methods II

        Chair: Roland Timmerman

      • 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)
          ceccotti_LOFAR2026.pdf
        • 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)
          LOFAR-meeting-2026 Offringa v2.pdf
      • 17:50
        Welcome Reception
    • Tuesday 9 June
    • 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)
          LOFAR_meeting_2026_Lusetti.pdf
        • 30
          Gravitational lensing with the ILT: A new probe of dark matter, cosmology and the high redshift Universe
          Speaker: John McKean (University of Pretoria)
          mckean-lofar.pdf
        • 31
          The LBA view of the ELAIS-N1 field: The deepest wide-field observations at 50 MHz with LOFAR
          Speaker: Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)
          LOFAR_meeting_2026_Boxelaar.pdf
      • 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)
          Sagar_Sethi_LFM_2026.pdf
      • Session 10: Exoplanets

        Chair: Pietro Zucca

        • 33
          Radio Emission from Stars and Exoplanets: Pushing Toward the Decameter Regime
          Speaker: Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)
          LFM_invited_cordun.pdf
        • 34
          A census of circularly polarized sources at tens of MHz with V-LoLSS DR2
          Speaker: Henrik Edler (ASTRON)
          Edler_VLOLSS.pdf
      • 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)
          Sanne_Bloot_LFM_2026.pdf
      • 12:30
        Lunch
      • Session 11/12: Transients & Pulsars — Part I

        Chair: Pietro Zucca and Florent Mertens

      • 15:30
        Coffee Break
      • Session 13: Transients & Pulsars — Part II

        Chair: Caterina Tiburzi

      • 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)
          LAM26_Bracco.pdf
      • 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)
          EmmavanderWateren_UEMR_LAM26.pdf
        • 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)
          LAM_Caterina.pdf
      • 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)
          Dirk-Kuiper-Flatfielding.pdf
      • 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)
          DianaMorosan-session16-17.pptx
        • 50
          Frequency-time-resolved Imaging Spectroscopy of Fine Structures in a Solar Radio Noise Storm
          Speaker: Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)
          DClarkson_LOFAR_Meeting.pdf
      • 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)
          2026-06-11_14.00_DPSKUP.pdf
        • 52
          A Long-Term LOFAR Survey of Ionospheric Morphology and Dynamics
          Speaker: Rebecca Ghidoni (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia)
          LAM_Presentation_Ghidoni.pdf
        • 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))
          Vocks_LOFAR2026.pdf
      • 15:30
        Coffee Break
      • Session 18: Cosmic Rays & Lightning

        Chair: Pietro Zucca

      • Session 19/20: Galaxy Clusters

        Chair: Chris Riseley

    • 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)
          Biava_LOFAR26.pdf
        • 60
          The emerging complexity of multi-component radio halos in galaxy clusters
          Speaker: Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)
          Cianfaglione_LOFARAnnualMeeting2026.pdf
        • 61
          The complexity of cluster turbulence: the filamentary radio halo in Abell 2319
          Speaker: Alexander Drabent (Thüringer Landessternwarte)
          Drabent_A2319_Dublin2026.pdf
        • 62
          Leading the Next Generation of Studies of Coma Cluster Galaxies with LOFAR
          Speaker: Alessandro Ignesti (Astronomický ústav Akademie věd České republiky (ASU))
          IGNESTI.pdf
      • 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)
          heesen_dublin.pdf
        • 64
          Turning the radio dial on star formation in dwarf galaxies
          Speaker: Pascal Vennedey (AIRUB)
          Turning the radio dial Vennedey.pdf
        • 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))
          2026_LOFAR_mstein.pptx
      • Closing Remarks and Ending