Thursday 12 December

World Forum The Hague

09:30    Registration, welcome coffee

10:00 - Opening & introduction

• NOVA@25: An introduction - Looking back & looking forward  |  Scott Trager
• The NOVA model - our science & instrumentation project cycle  |  Michiel Rodenhuis

10:30 - The Nature of Compact Objects

• Imaging Black Holes with the Event Horizon Telescope - past, present and future  |  Heino Falcke
• Mapping neutron stars – inside and out  |  Anna Watts
• The complex galactic centre stellar dynamics and the multi-messenger transients it produces  |  Elena Maria Rossi
• Gamma rays from dark matter spikes in intermediate mass black holes  |  Manuela Vecchi
• Future prospects for X-ray studies of black holes  |  Phil Uttley

12:00 Lunch

13:00 - NOVA instrumentation and the link with industry  |  Ramon Navarro

13:30 - Our Solar System in Context

• Advances in our understanding of planet formation from spatially resolved disk observations  |  Carsten Dominik
• Next steps in planet formation studies  |  Nienke van der Marel
• Chemical characterization of ingredients for planet formation around young stars  | Aditya Arabhavi
• Exoplanet search programs of NOVA and the move into the characterization era  |  Michiel Min
• The dawn of rocky exoplanet characterisation  |  Tim Lichtenberg
• Magnetic winds and plasma seas: interactions in star-planet systems  |  Ekaterina Ilin

15:00 Coffee/tea

15:30 - Galaxies Through Cosmic Time

• Galaxy evolution at infrared wavelengths  |  Karina Caputi
• Elemental insights into massive galaxy formation  |  Mariska Kriek
• Discovery of a dynamically cold disc galaxy at z=7.31  |  Lucie Rowland
• The circumgalactic medium of Milky Way-like galaxies  |  Filippo Fraternali

16:45 - End of symposium day 1

 

Evening program - Omniversum

17:30 - Walking dinner

19:00 - NOVA 25 Omniversum show

Featuring:

• The transient universe with BlackGEM  |  Steven Bloemen
• Euclid uncovering the dark side of the universe  | Koen Kuijken
• Discoveries by JWST-MIRI  |  Ewine van Dishoeck
• Building METIS & MICADO  |  Bernhard Brandl & Eline Tolstoy

20:30 - Drinks

21:30 - End

Friday 13 December

World Forum The Hague

9:00 - The Dark Side of the Universe

• KiDS and Euclid  |  Koen Kuijken
• The FLAMINGO simulations of large-scale structure and galaxy clusters  |  Joop Schaye

9:45 - The NOVA Information Center - Science communication & outreach  |  Marieke Baan

10:15 Coffee/tea

10:45 - The Molecular Universe

• Insights into astrochemistry in the Milky Way and beyond from recent missions and future outlook  |  Serena Viti
• Building up molecular complexity from atoms to complex organics  |  Ko-Ju Chuang
• The aromatic cosmos: exploring carbon chemistry in space  |  Alessandra Candian

11:30 - New Results in Transient Astrophysics 

• GWs, binary black holes and multi-messenger astrophysics  |  Gijs Nelemans & Andrew Levan
  

12:00 Lunch

13:00 - New Results in Transient Astrophysics (continued)

• Extreme transients – connecting observations and theory  |  Philipp Mösta
• Zooming in on fast radio burst in space & time   |  Jason Hessels
• Fast radio follow-up of GRBs and the search for coherent radio transients  |  Antonia Rowlinson
• Time domain astronomy: towards a real-time experience  |  Paul Groot

14:00 - Star Formation Near and Far 

• The formation, evolution and fate of massive stars in the Local Group and beyond  |  Lex Kaper
• Massive stars at low metallicity  |  Sarah Brands
• Simulating stellar clusters: to the stars and beyond  |  Maite Wilhelm

14:45 Coffee/tea

15:15 - Unveiling the Milky Way's History 

• The rise of Galactic archaeology: 25 years and going strong  |  Amina Helmi
• How typical is the Milky Way? Stellar population studies beyond our Galaxy  |  Søren Larsen

16:00 - Closing remarks  |  Scott Trager & Michiel Rodenhuis

16:15   Drinks

17:00 - End