Name: Introducing ULTRASAT to the German community
Start: 2025-04-28T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-29T18:00:00+02:00
Location: HU Berlin

Introducing ULTRASAT to the German community

from Monday 28 April 2025 (09:00) to Tuesday 29 April 2025 (18:00)

Monday 28 April 2025

09:30 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 0'101
10:00
10:00 - 11:25
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

10:00 Welcome - Marek Kowalski (Z_NA (Neutrinoastronomie / Kosmologie))

10:10 ULTRASAT project & science - Eli Waxman

10:35 ULTRASAT camera - David Berge (DESY and Humboldt-University Berlin) Merlin Barschke (Z_GA (Gammaastronomie))

10:55 Fast ejecta in Neutron star mergers - Stephan Rosswog (UHH)
11:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:50
Room: Room 0'101
11:50
11:50 - 13:41
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

12:00 Nucleosynthesis in fast binary neutron star merger ejecta - Lukas Schnabel

12:20 Multi-messenger emission from AGN-assisted black hole mergers - Imre Bartos

12:45 Tell-tale electromagnetic signatures of massive black hole binaries - Luke Krauth (University of Amsterdam)

13:05 GW sources: the next ten years - Samaya Nissanke
13:41 Lunch (Selfpayment)
Lunch (Selfpayment)
13:41 - 15:00
15:00 Block 1
Block 1
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

15:00 The role of stellar UV radiation in shaping exoplanet properties and fate - Jean Michel Desert

15:30 Investigating atmospheric O2 and O3 responses in rocky (exo)planets - John Lee Grenfell (DLR) Juan Caprera
16:00 Group picture @ Trudelturm / Coffee Break
Group picture @ Trudelturm / Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Room 0'101
17:00 Block 2
Block 2
17:00 - 18:05
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

17:00 Modelling and Bayesian Analysis of Binary Neutron Star Models - Tim Dietrich (Nikhef (Dutch National Institute for Subatomic Physics))

17:30 Efficient Bayesian analysis of kilonovae and GRB afterglows with fiesta - Hauke Köhn

17:50 Predictions for the ultraviolet fingerprint of a binary neutron star merger from ab initio simulations - Michael Müller
18:15 Social Dinner (Self-payment basis)
Social Dinner (Self-payment basis)
18:15 - 21:00
Tuesday 29 April 2025
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

09:05 Search for counterparts of high-energy neutrinos & optical polarization - Anna Frankowiak

09:35 From Infrared to UV: Rate to TDE-like objects (TBC) - Jannis David Necker (Z_ICE (IceCube+NG))

09:55 TIGRE Rapid response - Felix Teutloff

10:15 Destroying stars: Transient electromagnetic- and gravitational-wave signatures - Pau Amaro Seoane
10:45 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Room 0'101
11:15
11:15 - 12:25
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

11:15 Explosions of massive stars: Connecting optical/UV and gamma-ray astronomy - Sylvia J. Zhu (Z_HESS (High Energy Steroscopic System))

11:45 Towards future multi-messenger detections of core-collapse supernovae harbouring choked jets: the role of ULTRASAT - Angela Zegarelli (Ruhr University Bochum)

12:05 Transient classification with machine learning - Alice Townsend (Z_ICE (IceCube+NG))
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 0'101
Contributions

14:00 Resolving Cosmology through UV observations of Transients - Jakob Nordin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

14:30 Discussion time about needs and opportunities