Programme

Timezone: all times in the programme are CET

Registration Deadline: 05 November 2025

Program Overview (preliminary)

* Denotes Remote Speaker

Presentations include interruptions/discussions

Day 1 - Monday Dec. 15, Carl von Siemens Foundation

Host: Kevin Heng (LMU-Munich)

talks are 30+15 minutes
08:30 Arrival and coffee/tea
09:00 Welcome and overview, by Kevin Heng (LMU-Munich)
09:15 The Future of UV Astronomy (including HWO) Kevin France (Colorado, U.S.A.)
10:00 coffee/tea-break
10:30 High-Resolution UV Spectroscopy of the Interstellar Medium Annalisa De Cia (ESO, Germany)
11:15 The Theon and BavariAE Mission Concepts Frank Grupp (LMU-Munich, Germany)
12:00 lunch break
13:30 Integral Field and Multi-band Spectroscopy for the Next
Generation – from SmallSats to HWO		 Brian Fleming (Colorado, U.S.A)
14:15 coffee/tea-break
15:00 UV Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs Boris Gaensicke (Warwick, U.K.)
15:45 Overview of UV Astronomy in Japan Masahiro Ikoma (NAOJ, Japan)
16:30 General Discussion
17:00 Free time in the Carl von Siemens Foundation
18:00 Arrival for Carl von Siemens Foundation Lecture
18:30 Shri Kulkarni’s Carl von Siemens Foundation Lecture
19:30 business dinner   (and time to mingle with guests)
20:00 Q&A for the lecture (time limit for Q&A is flexible)

Day 2 - Tuesday Dec. 16, ESO, Eridanus Auditorium

Host: Annalisa De Cia (ESO)

talks are 25+5 minutes
08:30 Arrival and coffee/tea
09:00 The Stellar UV Environment of Exoplanets Kevin France (Colorado, U.S.A.)
09:30 High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Hot Jupiters Jens Hoeijmakers (Lund University, Sweden)
10:00 coffee/tea-break
11:00 UV Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Escape from Exoplanets Antonija Oklopcic* (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
11:30 High-resolution UV Spectroscopy of the Baryon Cycle Celine Peroux (ESO, Germany)
12:00 lunch break
13:30 The Danish STEP Mission Simon Albrecht (Aarhus, Denmark)
14:00 Winds and Accretion in Young Stars and Protoplanetary
Disks: the UV View		 Carlo Manara (ESO, Germany)
14:30 UV Spectroscopy of Compact White Dwarf Binaries Anna Francesca Pala (ESO, Germany)
15:00 coffee/tea-break
15:30 The Importance of High-Resolution UV Spectroscopy for the
Lightestand Heaviest Chemical Elements		 Francesca Primas (ESO, Germany)
16:00 The Importance of UV Spectroscopy for Understanding
Neutron-Capture Nucleosynthesis Processes		 Norbert Christlieb (ZAH, Germany)
16:30 Reflected Light from Exoplanets Kevin Heng (LMU-Munich, Germany)

Day 3 - Wednesday Dec. 17, Carl von Siemens Foundation

Host: Kevin Heng (LMU-Munich)

talks are 30+15 minutes
08:30 Arrival and coffee/tea
09:15 The Exosphere of Earth: Hydrogen and Helium Shri Kulkarni (Caltech, U.S.A.)
10:00 The Pollux instrument for HWO: a high-resolution spectrograph
from the far-UV to the near-IR		 Luca Fossati (IWF Graz, Austria)
10:45 coffee/tea-break
11:30 Prometheus: a mission concept for characterising populations
of stars to understand planetary environments 		 Billy Edwards (SRON, Netherlands)
12:15 Disturbance-Free Payload and Picometre Metrology Jeremy Drake (Astrophysics Chief
Scientist, Lockheed Martin, Palo Alto, U.S.A.)
12:00 lunch break
13:00 The Japanese LAPYUTA FUV Telescope and JAXA’s
Potential Contribution to HWO 		 Shingo Kameda (Rikkyo University, Japan)
13:45 CUBES: the Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph at the VLT Andreas Quirrenbach (University of Heidelberg, Germany)
14:30 coffee/tea-break
15:00 General Discussion

Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) delivers a colloquium at the Munich Observatory (Scheinerstrasse 1) on 18 December (Thursday) from 09:30 onwards.  Write to Kevin Heng if you are interested in attending.

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