NAC 2017 Programme

Talks

Please note that unless otherwise specified, talks are 12 min + 3 min for questions. Invited talks are 30 mins, including questions.


Posters

Posters should be a maximum of A0 size format, in either portrait or landscape orientation.


The programme is also available as a pdf file

The list of posters can be found here


Monday 22nd May            

Time

Slot

Name

Title

11:00

 

 

Welcome to NAC 2017

11:05

 

 

Plenary Session 1 Chair: Marijke Haverkorn

 

11:05

Gerry Gilmore

Gaia: mapping a billion stars

 

11:35

Freek Roelofs

Expanding the Event Horizon Telescope into Africa and space

 

11:50

Arjen van Vliet

Cosmogenic gamma-rays and neutrinos constrain UHECR source models

 

12:05

Betsey Adams

The edges of galaxy formation as revealed by neutral hydrogen surveys

 

12:20

Andrei Igoshev

The velocity anisotropy in an ensemble of millisecond radio pulsars

 

 

 

 

12:35

 

 

Lunch in the restaurant

 

 

 

 

13:30

 

 

Plenary Session 2 Chair: Gijs Nelemans

 

13:30

Elena Rossi

 

 

14:00

Jess Broderick

MANTIS: The Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Transient and Intensity-Mapping System

 

14:15

Conny Aerts

Asteroseismology at the service of Astrophysics

 

14:45

Christiaan Brinkerink

NCLE: a fast track towards space-based low-frequency radio astronomy

 

15:00

Riley Connors

Disentangling the physical mechanisms at play in sub-Eddington black hole accretion

 

15:15

Kristhell Lopez

Near Infrared Counterparts of ULXs

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

Plenary Session 3 Chair: Søren Larsen

 

16:00

Patricia Schmidt

Gravitational Waves: The Sound of Spacetime

 

16:30

Nadia Murillo

Multiple protostellar systems: Coevality and structure

 

16:45

Marie Van de Sande

Determining the effect of a non-uniform AGB outflow on its chemistry

 

17:00

Emma Storm

Building better models of the gamma-ray sky with SkyFACT

 

17:15

Vincent Van Eylen

Dynamics of small Kepler planets

 

17:30

Jörg Hörandel

Tracing the highest-energy particles in the Universe: Radio detection of cosmic rays

 

 

 

 

17:45

 

Poster Session and Drinks Reception

 

18:45

 

 

Live Cooking buffet in the restaurant

 

 

 

 

19:45

 

 

Town Hall roundtable discussion: ASTRON (Carole Jackson), SRON (Frank Helmich), NOVA (Wilfried Boland), and NWO (Mark de Graef, Ronald Stark). And Ard Hartsuijker.

 

 

 

 

20:30

 

 

Evening talk by Prof. Asli Ozyurek in the main auditorium, on relations between cognition, language, communication, and development.

 

 

 

Tuesday 23rd May           

Time

Slot

Name

Title

08:00

 

 

Welcome in the foyer

09:00

 

 

Plenary Session 4 Chair: Jean-Michel Désert

 

09:00

Anna Scaife

Giants, Relics & DRAGNS: A Modern Radio Mythology

 

09:30

Ross Burns

Massive star formation using maser VLBI

 

09:45

Michael Maseda

JWST science is (really) just around the corner

 

10:00

Jacob Arcangeli

Climate of Hot Jupiters: spectroscopic phase-curve of the exoplanet WASP-18b with HST

 

 

 

 

10:15

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

10:45

 

 

Plenary Session 5 Chair: Sera Markoff

 

10:45

Catherine Heymans

 

 

11:15

Maarten Breddels

A billion stars in the Jupyter Notebook

 

11:30

Francis Halzen

IceCube: High Energy Neutrinos and Multimessenger Astronomy

 

12:00

Payaswini Saikia

1.4 GHz FIRST Radio flux on the Optical Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity

 

 

 

 

12:15

 

 

Conference photo (gather at reception)

12:30

 

 

Lunch in the restaurant

 

 

 

 

13:45

 

 

4 Parallel Sessions, 15-min talks, programme below

 

 

 

 

18:30

 

 

Conference Dinner.

20:15

 

 

Space Music by Arthur Jeffes, lead musician of the Penguin Café and Sundog.

 

 

 

 

20:45

 

 

Pub Quiz

 

 

 

Wednesday 24th May       

Time

Slot

Name

Title

08:00

 

 

Welcome in the foyer

09:00

 

 

Plenary Session 6 Chair: David Nichols

 

09:00

Carsten Dominik

High contrast observations of protoplanetary disks

 

09:30

Joseph Callingham

Dying young and frustrated? A low radio frequency view of young radio galaxies

 

09:45

Stefano Rapisarda

Propagating fluctuations in black hole X-ray binaries

 

10:00

Ramon Navarro

Overview of optical and infrared instrumentation in The Netherlands

 

10:15

Cole Johnston

Probing Massive Star Formation

 

 

 

 

10:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

11:00

 

 

Plenary Session 7 Chair: Onno Pols

 

11:00

Frans Snik

Looking up to the skies with our feet firm on the ground; societal applications of astronomy

 

11:30

Marjorie Decleir

The variation of the dust attenuation curve in the nearby Universe

 

11:45

Thomas Wevers

Black hole mass measurements of tidal disruption event host galaxies

 

12:00

Pratika Dayal

The first billion years of galaxy formation in cold and warm dark matter cosmologies

 

 

 

 

12:30

 

 

Poster Prize

 

 

 

 

12:35

 

 

Lunch in the restaurant

 

 

 

 

13:30

 

 

Plenary Session 8 Chair: Monika Moscibrodzka

 

13:30

Jason Hessels

Fast Radio Bursts: A look back at the first decade of a new transient phenomenon

 

13:55

Zsolt Paragi

Fast Radio Burst 121102 localization with the EVN

 

14:15

Kateryna Frantseva

Delivery of organics to Mars through asteroid and comet impacts

 

14:30

Nastasha Wijers

UV line absorption around galaxy groups and clusters using the EAGLE simulations

 

14:45

María Claudia Ramírez Tannus

A lack of massive short period binaries in M17

 

15:00

Denise Keller

The VLA view on the clumpy molecular shells of CW Leo

 

15:15

Peter Roelfsema

SPICA - a cryogenic infrared space telescope proposed for ESA/M5

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

Plenary Session 9 Chair: Cornelia Müller

 

16:00

Daniel Montofre

Design of an Optical Beam Combiner for Dual Band Observation with ALMA

 

16:15

Felicia Krauss

Dynamic SEDs of southern blazars

 

16:30

Ester Aranzana

High frequency optical variability properties of the largest AGN sample observed with Kepler/K2

 

16:45

Martha Irene Saladino

Wind mass transfer in binaries and its effect on orbital evolution

 

 

 

 

17:00

 

 

End of NAC 2017

 

 

Parallel Sessions on Tuesday

 

Public Engagement with Astronomy & Space Sciences in the Netherlands

Time

Slot

Name

Title

13:45

 

 

Public Engagement Parallel Session 4 Chair: Pedro Russo

 

13:45

Introduction by Session Chair

 

 

14:00

Claudia Mignone

Space down-to-earth: science communication activities at ESA

 

14:15

Marieke Baan

NOVA Information Center activities

 

14:30

Ilse van Bemmel

Communicating from JIVE: a unique case for a broad audience

 

14:45

Jorge Rivero-Gonzalez

Astronomy Pre-tertiary Education at Leiden Observatory: Beyond Universe Awareness

 

15:00

Sera Markoff

Think globally, act locally: "Altair", an outreach pilot in "de buurt" of UvA Science Park

 

15:15

Ard Hartsuijker

The Dwingeloo Radio Telescope for Education and Public Outreach

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

Public Engagement Parallel Session 2 Chair: Pedro Russo

 

16:00

Peter Barthel & Marlies van de Weijgaert

Vision on public education and outreach from Groningen

 

16:15

Lucas Ellerbroek

Astronomy Storytelling

 

16:30-17:45

Discussions: Astronomy Education & Public Engagement in the Netherlands

 

 

 

 

NOVA Network 1: Formation and Evolution of Galaxies: from high redshift to the present

Time

Slot

Name

Title

13:45

 

 

NOVA NW1 Parallel Session 1 Chair: Henk Hoekstra

 

13:45

Introduction by NW1 chairs

 

 

14:00

Leo Burtscher

The multi-scale, multi-wavelength view of obscuration in local AGNs

 

14:15

Pratik Dabhade

LoTSS of GRGs

 

14:30

Christos Georgiou

Shapes of galaxies in multiple broad-band filters

 

14:45

Francesco Santoro

Probing the efficiency of the AGN feedback in young radio-loud sources: the case of PKS1934-63

 

15:00

Filippo Maccagni

Atomic and molecular absorption lines trace THE Fuelling of radio AGN

 

15:15

Soumyajit Mandal

LOFAR observations of the Lockman Hole field and the merging galaxy cluster ABELL 1914

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

NOVA NW1 Parallel Session 2 Chair: Henk Hoekstra

 

16:00

Davide Massari

The power of teaming up HST and Gaia: proper motions for distant star clusters and dwarf galaxies

 

16:15

Christopher Barber

The Effect of a Variable IMF on Galaxy Properties in the EAGLE Simulations

 

16:30

Manolis Papastergis

Are the small-scale cosmological challenges of LCDM resolved?

 

16:45

Enrico Petrillo

Finding strong lenses with convolutional neural networks

 

17:00

Robert Schulz

The parsec-scale outflow of neutral hydrogen gas in the radio galaxy 3C236

 

17:15

Aleksandar Shulevski

Giant radio galaxies in the LOFAR two meter sky survey

 

17:30

Aayush Saxena

Modelling the luminosities and sizes of radio sources: radio luminosity function at redshift 6

 

17:45

Georgi Kokotanekov

AGN Feedback in Galaxy Clusters at Low Radio Frequencies

 

 

 

NOVA Network 2: Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planetary Systems

Time

Slot

Name

Title

13:45

 

 

NOVA NW2 Parallel Session 1 Chair: Ignas Snellen

 

13:45

Introduction by NW2 chairs

 

 

14:00

Kamen Todorov

Spectroscopy of Exoplanet Atmospheres

 

14:15

Santiago Torres

Dynamics of the Oort Cloud in the Gaia Era i: Close Encounters

 

14:30

Michael Wilby

Developing the vAPP-cMWS: A hybrid optic for high-contrast imaging of circumstellar environments

 

14:45

Gabor Orosz

Water fountains and the shaping of planetary nebulae using maser VLBI

 

15:00

Cornelia Pabst

Velocity-resolved [CII] mapping of the Orion Molecular Cloud

 

15:15

Ana Escorza

To Ba or not to Ba: observational constraints to the formation and evolution of Barium stars

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

NOVA NW2 Parallel Session 2 Chair: Ignas Snellen

 

16:00

Aaron Greenwood

Brown dwarf protoplanetary discs: disc chemistry and prospects of planet formation

 

16:15

Sierk van Terwisga

The ALMA Lupus disks survey: CN rings in two disks

 

16:30

Stephanie Heikamp

Deconvolution of polarimetric datasets of simulated and observed circumstellar disks

 

16:45

Eleonora Zari

Mapping young stellar populations towards Orion with Gaia DR1

 

17:00

Rajeev Manick

The evolutionary nature of RV Tauri stars with a disc

 

17:15

Glenn-Michael Oomen

Exploring the orbital diversity of post-AGB binaries

 

17:30

May Gade Pedersen

Unraveling the internal mixing processes of the chemical factories of the Universe

 

17:45

Christian Rab

The chemistry of episodic accretion. 2D radiation thermo-chemical models of the post-burst phase

 

 

NOVA Network 3: The Astrophysics of Black Holes, Neutron Stars, and White Dwarfs

Time

Slot

Name

Title

13:45

 

 

NOVA NW3 Parallel Session 1 Chair: Anna Watts

 

13:45

Introduction by NW3 chairs

 

 

14:00

Liam Connor

Searching for FRBs with ALERT

 

14:15

Jordy Davelaar

The effects of accelerated particles on the radiative properties of accreting black holes

 

14:30

Martijn de Vries

Thermal and Non-thermal X-ray Emission in the Environment of the Powerful Radio Galaxy Cygnus A

 

14:45

Laura Driessen

LOFAR studies of G54.1+0.3 - a close cousin of the Crab

 

15:00

Daniele Michilli

The physical processes behind Fast Radio Bursts

 

 

 

 

 

15:15

Alicia Rouco Escorial

The ambiguous low luminosity plateau phase in the Be/X-ray transient 4U 0115+63

 

 

 

 

15:30

 

 

Coffee break and poster session

 

 

 

 

16:00

 

 

NOVA NW3 Parallel Session 2 Chair: Anna Watts

 

16:00

Nina Gusinskaia

Conquering systematics for a precision pulsar test of Einstein's equivalence principle

 

16:15

Michael Janssen

A data reduction pipeline for the Event Horizon Telescope

 

16:30

Matthew Liska

GRMHD simulations of (ultra) thin accretion disks

 

16:45

Casper Hesp

Three-dimensional Simulations of Tilted Black Hole Accretion: Jets, Alignment and Precession

 

17:00

Thomas Bronzwaer

RAPTOR: A Public Code for Time-dependent Radiative Transfer in Arbitrary Spacetimes

 

17:15

Marisa Brienza

The story of the restarted radio galaxy B2 0258+35

 

17:30

Yanan Wang

The reflection spectrum of the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1636-53

 

17:45

Klim Mikhailov

PSR J1614-2318: an aligned millisecond pulsar that accreted inefficiently?