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  Monday, 16 November
9:00 - 9:15 Welcome and opening remarks
Theme 1 – IMBHs, Black-Hole Seeds and Occupation Fractions
09:15-09:45 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
10:15-10:45 Mar Mezcua (Invited) MaNGA AGN in Dwarf Galaxies
10:50-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-11:45 Antti Rantala (Invited) Black Hole Growth in Nuclear Star Clusters
11:50–12:10 Marcelo Vergara Very Massive Star and Black Hole Formation in Dense Star Clusters through Stellar Collisions
12:15–12:35 Filippo Simonato Building Up an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole: The Role of Stellar Collisions
12:40-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–14:20 Paula Sánchez-Sáez Probing Intermediate-Mass Black Holes through Nuclear Transients and Persistent Variability
14:40–15:00 Paula Cáceres Burgos Intermediate Mass Black Hole Candidates from Optical Variability
15:05–15:25 Renuka Pechetti Bridging Simulations and Observations: IMBHs in the Milky Way's and M31's Most Massive Clusters
15:30–15:50 Isabella Carlton Constraining the Mass of the IMBH in Omega Centauri with Fast-Star Modeling
15:55-16:25 Coffee break
16:25-16:45 Stefano Torniamenti Seeding Galactic Nuclei with Intermediate-Mass Black Holes via Star Cluster Migration
16:50–17:10 Dominik Schleicher Origin of Supermassive Black Holes: Collision-Based and Gas-Based Channels
17:15–17:35 Anna Ferre-Mateu Bridging the Gap: Unveiling IMBHs and SMBHs through the Lens of Local Compact Galaxies
17:40–18:00 Jorge Saavedra Learning the Evolution of Massive Objects in Star Clusters
18:05-20:00 Welcome cocktail at ESO premises
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  
10:50-11:20 Coffee break  
11:20-11:50 Mélina Poulain (Invited) Insights from HST Observations of Nuclear Star Clusters in 41 Dwarf Galaxies  
11:55–12:45 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 Santiago Bernal Characterization of variability-selected AGN candidates in low-stellar-mass galaxies  
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) NSC formation at highest redshifts  
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
10:50-11:20 Coffee break
11:20-11:40 Ivanna Escala The Making of a Compact Elliptical: Kinematical Evidence for Tidal Stripping in M32
11:45-12:05 Rebecca Mayes Characterising Stripped Nuclei in Milky-Way-Mass Haloes
12:10-12:30 Stefano Souza The Omega Dwarf: Reconstructing the Stripped Host of Omega Centauri
12:35-12:55 Peter Smith A Global Dynamical Model of Omega Centauri
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:10 Poster Pop-ups 
15:10-16:40 Round Tables: The Next Decade of Galaxy Nuclei Science. Topics selected by audience voting
16:40 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 Karamveer Kaur Elevated Rates of Tidal Disruption Events in Active Galactic Nuclei
10:55-11:20 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
12:45-14:10 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 Beatriz Agís González AT2025abcr: Polarimetry of an Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Event Candidate Possibly within an IMBH
16:25–16:45 Macarena Cádiz Ansky: A Reawakening Low-Mass Nuclear Black Hole Caught Between a TDE and a Nascent AGN
16:50–17:10 Igor Chilingarian Rapidly Accreting Local IMBHs: Rare Episodes of Intense Accretion or Late Seeding?
17:15–17:35 Zhilong Wang A Stellar-Dynamical Mass Measurement of the Black Hole in PGC 12557
  Conference Dinner- Mestizo Restaurant
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 Franz Bauer Constraints on Local Little Red Dots
09:50–10:10 Cristiano Ugolini More Than a Sidekick: Secondary Black Holes in Hierarchical Mergers
10:15–10:35 Elena Dalla Bontà Supermassive Black Holes and Nuclear Star Clusters across Active and Quiescent Galaxy Nuclei
10:40-11:00 Neil Nagar Demographic Studies of Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope and its Upgrades
11:05-11:35 Coffee break
11:35–13:00 Closing Discussion & Panel - The Next Decade of Galaxy Nuclei Science
13:00 Conference Close