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
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 
11:10 Exploring the synergies between ELT instruments for the characterization of Proxima b Sophia Vaughan
11:40 TBD Mathis Houllé
12:10 Adapting the YOSO Gaussian Motion Filter for Direct Exoplanet Imaging Nitya Pandey
12:30 lunch break
14:00 TBD 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
16:00 Integral-field spectroscopy of Orion proplyds: unveiling jets, winds, and chemistry in externally irradiated disks Konstantinos Bouvis
16:20 Stellar feedback and resolved stellar populations in the era of high angular resolution astronomy Anna McLeod
17:20 How Do Stars Enrich Galaxies? Opportunities for High-Strehl Spectroscopy Kathryn Grasha
17:40 Ground-based high-angular-resolution photometry for the extragalactic distance scale Richard Anderson
Day 2 - Wednesday, Sep. 2
  Star Clusters
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 Exploring Millisecond Pulsar companions in globular clusters with MORFEO+MICADO at the ELT Greta Ettorre
10:30 coffee/tea-break
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 Massive stellar clusters with ELT Emanuele Dalessandro
12:20 Assessing the Impact of Adaptive Optics Performance on ELT Observations of High-Redshift Star-Forming Clumps Alessio Taranto
12:40 lunch break
14:00 Synergy between the high angular resolution from ground and space facilities: completeness of the star cluster census in M31 Valentin Ivanov
14:20 Probing galaxy substructures and clump properties with MICADO+MORFEO at the ELT Letizia Scaloni
  Resolving galaxies: stellar populations
14:40 Resolved Stellar Population Studies with Next-Generation High Angular Resolution Facilities Francesca Annibali
15:20 The stellar populations of galaxies in the milli-arcsecond resolution era Ignacio Martin Navarro
15:40 coffee/tea-break
16:10 Getting to know the stellar clusters in NGC 1569 Bjarki Björgvinsson
16:30 Resolved Stellar Populations in Virgo cluster galaxies with the ELT Sophie Penger
16:50 General Discussion
Day 3 - Thursday, Sep. 3
  AGN & BH
09:00 omega Centauri and the missing link in black hole evolution Nadine Neumayer
09:30 TBD Stephanie Monty
10:00 Astrometric studies of the centers of globular clusters: State-of-the-art and future studies with MAVIS and MICADO Max Häberle
10:20 Peering into Crowded Stellar Systems: From Current Adaptive-Optics Integral-Field Spectroscopy to the ELT Era Silvia Leanza
10:40 coffee/tea-break
11:10 TBD Filippo Mannucci
11:40 AGN outflow and feeding Giacomo Venturi
12:00 AGN with Gravity+ Sarah Pappert
12:20 A chemo-dynamical view of the vicinity of massive black holes Sabine Thater
12:40 lunch break
14:00 ML selecton seyfert Uzay Aydın
  Resolving galaxies: ISM and kinematics
14:20 Resolving the Feedback with High Resolution IFS Deanne B. Fisher
14:50 Resolving feedback in massive galaxies across cosmic time Rebecca Davies
15:20 Where micro and macro meet: Spatially resolved environmental effects at cosmic noon Tadayuki Kodama
15:30 coffee/tea-break
16:10 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
Day 4 - Friday, Sep. 4
09:00 TBD Claudia Lagos
09:30 Mocking ELT Observations of Early Star-Forming Galaxies with Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations Mahsa Kohandel
  High-z
09:50 Beyond JWST: Exploring early galaxy and black hole growth with HARMONI on the ELT Jim Dunlop
10:20 Do we need PSF information to get top-quality results from AO instruments? The scientific evaluation of MICADO PSF-R Matteo Simioni
10:40 coffee/tea-break
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
12:00 ScopeSim: Apple-to-Apples Simulations Across MAVIS, MICADO, and METIS Kieran Leschinski
12:20 Egyptian Large Optical Telescope (ELOT), Challenges and Hopes Yosry Azzam (*)
12:40 lunch break
14:30 HANDS ON SESSION: Simulation Tools and PSF reconstruction

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