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  Monday, 16 November
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and opening remarks
Theme 1 – IMBHs, Black-Hole Seeds and Occupation Fractions
9:15-9:45 Amy Reines (Invited) Dwarf Galaxies and the Smallest Supermassive Black Holes
09:50–10:10     Matías Liempi Modeling SMBH Seed Growth via Globular Cluster Migration and Enhanced NSC Gas Inflows
10:15–10:35 Stefano Torniamenti Seeding Galactic Nuclei with Intermediate-Mass Black Holes via Star Cluster Migration
10:40–11:00 Dominik Schleicher Origin of Supermassive Black Holes: Collision-Based and Gas-Based Channels
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:00 Antti Rantala (Invited) Black Hole Growth in Nuclear Star Clusters
12:05–12:25 Marcelo Vergara Very Massive Star and Black Hole Formation in Dense Star Clusters through Stellar Collisions
12:30–12:50 Filippo Simonato Building Up an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole: The Role of Stellar Collisions
12:50-14:20 Lunch Break
14:20–14:40 Paula Sánchez-Sáez Probing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes through Nuclear Transients and Persistent Variability
14:45–15:05 Paula Cáceres Burgos Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidates from Optical Variability
15:10–15:30 Renuka Pechetti Bridging Simulations and Observations: IMBHs in the Milky Way's and M31's Most Massive Clusters
15:35–15:55 Isabella Carlton Constraining the Mass of the IMBH in Omega Centauri with Fast-Star Modeling
15:55-16:25 Coffee break
16:25–16:55 Mar Mezcua (Invited) MaNGA AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
17:00–17:20 Anna Ferre-Mateu Bridging the Gap: Unveiling IMBHs and SMBHs through the Lens of Local Compact Galaxies
17:25–17:45 Jorge Saavedra Learning the Evolution of Massive Objects in Star Clusters
18:00 End of the day
Tuesday, 17 November  
Theme 2 – Nuclear Star Clusters  
09:00–09:30  Francesca Pinna (Invited) The Formation of Nuclear Star Clusters in the Context of Galaxy Evolution  
09:35–09:55 Johan Knapen Confirmation of Nuclear Star Cluster Formation in a Dwarf-Dwarf Merger  
10:00–10:20 Natalia Lahén To Sink or Not to Sink  
10:25–10:45 Nils Hoyer Numerical Exploration of Nuclear Star Cluster Formation Mechanisms  
10:45-11:15 Coffee break  
11:15-11:45 Mélina Poulain (Invited) Insights from HST Observations of Nuclear Star Clusters in 41 Dwarf Galaxies  
11:45–12:45 Scientific Speed Dating  
12:45–14:15 Lunch Break  
14:15–14:35 Rubén Sánchez-Janssen The Three-Dimensional Shapes of Nuclear Star Clusters  
14:40–15:00 Aleksandra Sharonova Off-Centred Nuclear Star Clusters in Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies of the Coma Cluster  
15:05–15:25 Florent Renaud The Diversity of Galactic and Intergalactic Influences on the Assembly of Galactic Centers  
15:30–15:50 Eduardo Machado-Pereira Nuclear Stellar Clusters in M101 and its Satellites  
15:55–16:25 Coffee break  
16:25–16:45 Anil Seth Omega Centauri's Formation: Ages and Abundances Reflect a Complex History  
16:50–17:20 Angela Adamo (Invited) TBD  
17:25–17:55 Justin Read (Invited) The Emergence of Dense Stellar Systems  
18:00 End of the day  
Wednesday, 18 November
Theme 3 – Stripped Galactic Nuclei and UCDs
9:00-9:30 Maximilian Häberle (Invited) Omega Centauri – The Closest Galactic Nucleus
09:35-09:55 Felipe Lohman Connecting UCDs to the Population of Disrupted Nucleated Dwarf Galaxies
10:00-10:20 Marco Mirabile Dense Stellar Systems in Ultra-Diffuse Galaxies
10:25-10:45 Yaël Moussouni Looking at Globular Clusters in Galaxy Clusters at Redshift 0.4 with JWST
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:35 Ivanna Escala The Making of a Compact Elliptical: Kinematical Evidence for Tidal Stripping in M32
11:40-12:00 Rebecca Mayes Characterising Stripped Nuclei in Milky-Way-Mass Haloes
12:05-12:25 Stefano Souza The Omega Dwarf: Reconstructing the Stripped Host of Omega Centauri
12:30-12:50 Peter Smith A Global Dynamical Model of Omega Centauri
12:50-14:20 Lunch Break
14:20-15:00 Poster Pop-ups 
15:00-16:30 Round Tables: The Next Decade of Galaxy Nuclei Science. Topics selected by audience voting
16:30 End of the day
Thursday, 19 November
Theme 4 – Black Holes in Quiescent and Active Nuclei
09:30-10:00 Dieter Lutz (Invited) The Nuclei of Galaxies with GRAVITY+
10:05-10:25 Davor Krajnović The Role of the Supermassive Black Holes in Recovering the Dynamical Complexity of Massive Galaxies
10:30-10:50 Zhilong Wang A Stellar-Dynamical Mass Measurement of the Black Hole in PGC 12557
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20–11:40 Carlos Carneiro Unveiling a 36 Billion Solar Mass Black Hole at the Heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe Gravitational Lens
11:45–12:05 Antoine Dumont First Implementation of KinMS to JWST/NIRSpec Data for Measuring SMBH
12:10–12:40 Francisco Nogueras-Lara (Invited) Exploring the Milky Way's Centre
12:40-14:10 Lunch Break
14:10–14:30 Yvette Cendes Exploring the Radio Landscape of Tidal Disruption Events
14:30–15:30 Poster Pop-Ups II
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:20 Karamveer Kaur Elevated Rates of Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei
16:25–16:45 Beatriz Agís González AT2025abcr: Polarimetry of an Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Event Candidate Possibly within an IMBH
16:50–17:10 Macarena Cádiz Ansky: A Reawakening Low-Mass Nuclear Black Hole Caught Between a TDE and a Nascent AGN
17:15–17:35 Igor Chilingarian Rapidly Accreting Local IMBHs: Rare Episodes of Intense Accretion or Late Seeding?
  Conference Dinner- ESO Vitacura Premises
18:00–19:00  Cocktail Reception
19:00–22:00  Conference Dinner
Friday, 20 November
Theme 5 – Looking Ahead: The Next Decades of Galaxy Nuclei Science
09:00–09:20 Karina Voggel Detecting Stripped Nuclei and Ultra-Compact Dwarfs with Euclid
09:25–09:45 Pablo Pérez-González Are We Witnessing the Rise of Galaxy Nuclei in Little Red Dots?
09:50–10:10 Franz Bauer Constraints on Local Little Red Dots
10:15–10:35 Cristiano Ugolini More Than a Sidekick: Secondary Black Holes in Hierarchical Mergers
10:35-11:05 Coffee break
11:05–11:25 Elena Dalla Bontà Supermassive Black Holes and Nuclear Star Clusters across Active and Quiescent Galaxy Nuclei
11:30–11:50 Neil Nagar Demographic Studies of Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope and its Upgrades
11:55–13:00 Closing Discussion & Panel - The Next Decade of Galaxy Nuclei Science
13:00 Conference Close