Programme

Timezone: all times in the programme are CEST

Registration Payment Deadline: 19 July 2026

  • Invited Talks are marked in bold
  • Highlighted Talks are denoted in blue
  • Remote speakers are denoted by an asterisk (*)
  • Length of the Talks:
    • Invited and Highlighted Talks: 25 + 5 minutes for Q&A
    • Contributed Talks: 17 + 3 minutes for Q&A

Program Overview

Day 1 - Tuesday, Sep. 1
  Setting the Stage  | Chair, Richard McDermid
09:00 Welcome and overview, by Richard McDermid
09:10 Exploiting the next generation of high angular resolution ESO facilities Joël Vernet
09:40 MAVIS: Program, instrument description, expected performance François Rigaut
10:00 The MICADO Integral Field Unit Guillaume Bourdarot
10:20 MAVIS Synergies with VLTI Antoine Mérand
10:40 coffee/tea-break
  Stars and Planets  | Chair, Laura Magrini
11:10 Exploring the synergies between ELT instruments for the characterization of Proxima b Sophia Vaughan
11:40 VLT, VLTI, and ELT synergies in the observation of young giant exoplanets Mathis Houllé
12:10 Adapting the YOSO Gaussian Motion Filter for Direct Exoplanet Imaging Nitya Pandey
12:30 lunch break
  Stars and Planets  | Chair, Silvia Martocchia
14:00 Discs Across Stellar Evolution: High-Angular Resolution Views from Birth to Death Devika Kamath*
14:30 High Angular Resolution observations of Protoplanetary disks in isolation and in irradiated environments Carlo F. Manara
14:50 Giant planet formation Davide Fedele
15:10 Tracking Embedded Companions and Accretion Kinematics in Substructured Planet-Forming Disks Hala Alqubelat
15:30 coffee/tea-break
  Stars and Planets  | Chair, Marco Gullieuszik
16:00 Integral-field spectroscopy of Orion proplyds: unveiling jets, winds, and chemistry in externally irradiated disks Konstantinos Bouvis
16:20 TBD Kateryna Andrych
16:40 Stellar feedback and resolved stellar populations in the era of high angular resolution astronomy Anna McLeod
17:10 How Do Stars Enrich Galaxies? Opportunities for High-Strehl Spectroscopy Kathryn Grasha
17:40 end
Day 2 - Wednesday, Sep. 2
  Star Clusters  | Chair, Max Häberle
09:00 Resolving Stellar Populations in Star Clusters in the Era of Next-Generation High Angular Resolution ESO facilities Silvia Martocchia
09:30 Star clusters across cosmic time: the MAVIS perspective Laura Magrini
09:50 Disentangling Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters with MORFEO-MICADO@ELT to Unveil Their Origins David Pérez-Millán
10:10 Getting to know the stellar clusters in NGC 1569 Bjarki Björgvinsson
10:30 coffee/tea-break
  Star Clusters  | Chair, Francesco Belfiore
11:00 Star clusters as engines to galaxy evolution in the era of next-generation high-angular resolution capabilities at ESO Angela Adamo
11:30 Observing star forming regions at cosmic noon Marco Gullieuszik
12:00 Probing galaxy substructures and clump properties with MICADO+MORFEO at the ELT Letizia Scaloni
12:20 Assessing the Impact of Adaptive Optics Performance on ELT Observations of High-Redshift Star-Forming Clumps Alessio Taranto
12:40 lunch break
  Star Clusters  | Chair, François Rigaut
14:00 Synergy between the high angular resolution from ground and space facilities: completeness of the star cluster census in M31 Valentin Ivanov
  Resolving galaxies: stellar populations  | Chair, François Rigaut
14:20 Resolved Stellar Population Studies with Next-Generation High Angular Resolution Facilities Francesca Annibali
14:50 The stellar populations of galaxies in the milli-arcsecond resolution era Ignacio Martin Navarro
15:10 Resolved Stellar Populations in Virgo cluster galaxies with the ELT Sophie Penger
15:30 coffee/tea-break
16:10 General Discussion (Richard McDermid, Eline Tolstoy, Laura Magrini, Carlo F. Manara, Davide Fedele)
17:00 end
19:00 Workshop Dinner at ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre
Day 3 - Thursday, Sep. 3
  AGN & BH  | Chair, Ric Davies
09:00 omega Centauri and the missing link in black hole evolution Nadine Neumayer
09:30 Astrometric studies of the centers of globular clusters: State-of-the-art and future studies with MAVIS and MICADO Max Häberle
10:50 Dual AGN and the path to massive black hole mergers: preparing for the MAVIS/MICADO/ANDES era Filippo Mannucci
10:20 coffee/tea-break
  AGN & BH  | Chair, Giovanni Cresci
11:00 AGN outflow and feeding Giacomo Venturi
11:20 AGN with Gravity+ Sarah Pappert
11:40 A chemo-dynamical view of the vicinity of massive black holes Sabine Thater
  Resolving galaxies: ISM and kinematics  | Chair, Claudia Lagos
12:00 Resolving the Feedback with High Resolution IFS Deanne B. Fisher
12:30 lunch break
  Resolving galaxies: ISM and kinematics  | Chair, Claudia Lagos
14:00 Revealing the Origins of Globular Clusters: Connecting the Dots from High Redshift to the Local Universe with MAVIS Stephanie Monty*
14:30 Resolving feedback in massive galaxies across cosmic time Rebecca Davies
15:00 Where micro and macro meet: Spatially resolved environmental effects at cosmic noon Tadayuki Kodama
15:20 coffee/tea-break
  Resolving galaxies: ISM and kinematics  | Chair, Kathryn Grasha
16:00 Galaxy evolution in high definition Trevor Mendel
16:30 Orbital Dynamics at z~0.3 with High-Resolution MAVIS simulations Amit Deokar
16:50 General Discussion (Giovann Cresci, Ric Davies, Filippo Mannucci, Deanne Fisher, Eros Vanzella)
17:30 end
Day 4 - Friday, Sep. 4
  Resolving galaxies: stellar populations  | Chair, Trevor Mendel  
09:00 Reading the fingerprints of galaxy evolution: connecting gas flows, stellar dynamics and star formation Claudia Lagos
09:30 Mocking ELT Observations of Early Star-Forming Galaxies with Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations Mahsa Kohandel
  High-z | Chair, Trevor Mendel
09:50 Beyond JWST: Exploring early galaxy and black hole growth with HARMONI on the ELT Jim Dunlop
10:20 ScopeSim: Apple-to-Apples Simulations Across MAVIS, MICADO, and METIS Kieran Leschinski
10:40 coffee/tea-break
  High-z | Chair, Rebecca Davies
11:10 Cosmic lenses with extreme AO falicities (xAO): resolving early-Universe star formation down to parsec scales Eros Vanzella
11:40 Using MAVIS to probe proximity zones of high-z quasars Emma Ryan-Weber
12:10 PSF reconstruction with TipTop Lisa-Marie Mazzolo*
12:30 Do we need PSF information to get top-quality results from AO instruments? The scientific evaluation of MICADO PSF-R Matteo Simioni
12:50 Conference closing remarks and next steps (SOC)
13:00 lunch break
14:30

HANDS ON SESSION: Simulation Tools and PSF modeling, TipTop and ScopeSim

Tip-Top, Lisa-Marie Mazzolo* [Eridanus Auditorium]

ScopeSim, Kieran Leschinski [Room: Tucana (A.2.02)]
15:30 end

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