Annual Assembly 2025

The annual assembly 2025 will take place as a three-day meeting on 12 – 14 March 2025 in Würzburg.

Impressions from annual assembly 2024,
Credit: Patrick Günther

The meeting is the annual gathering of all members and associated researchers of our research unit as well as of selected experts external to the research unit. Participants will have the opportunity to present their research topics, their numerical, computational or analytical techniques, their barriers and obstacles to progress, current difficulties and immediate problems as well as their near-future goals. There will also be ample space to discuss conceptual models, recent findings up to now, as well as to plan future starting points of research. We will gain insight about different approaches, about solution finding and we will especially plan future collaborations and potential synergies and enrich our colleagues’ work with fruitful hints.

To empower scientists belonging to under-represented groups of the society and to advance towards equality in academia, a workshop on equality, diversity and inclusion will take place during sessions spread over the annual assembly. The workshop will be conceived by the research unit’s equality committee as well as by external experts. This in-depth workshop will take place both in plenum rounds, in interactive sessions as well as in smaller, relaxed rounds.

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The galaxy cluster PSZRX G181.53+21.43 emits diffuse radio emission, as detected in data from the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey DR2. The left- and right-hand side panels show sky maps of the galaxy cluster at 144 MHz with the yellow line depicting the 3 sigma X-ray contour line, while the centre panel displays the Sloan Digital Sky Survey map with the LOFAR contours. At the outskirts of the cluster, three diffuse radio sources (labelled A, B and C) are detected. Source A is identified with a radio relic, revealing the presence of ultra-relativistic electrons gyrating in a large-scale magnetic field. Sources B and C are attributed with a wide-angle tailed radio galaxy and a Fanaroff-Riley class I radio galaxy, respectively, and are associated with galaxy mergers during the evolution of the host cluster. The interrelations of galaxy clusters and AGN in them are studied in projects 6 and 7 and will also be discussed in the annual assembly. Credit: “Diffuse radio emission from non-Planck galaxy clusters in the LoTSS-DR2 fields”, D. Hoang, M. Brüggen, et al., 2022, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 665, 60

Preliminary list of participants:
Ainara Saiz Pérez, Univ. Würzburg
Alexey Nekrasov, Remeis Observatory and Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
Anne-Kathrin Baczko, Univ. Gothenburg
Atreya Acharyya, Syddansk Universitet
Biagina Boccardi, MPIfR Bonn
Bhargav Vaidya, IIT Indore
Christian Fendt, MPIfA Heidelberg
Christian Fromm, Univ. Würzburg
Christoph Pfrommer, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Christoph Wendel, Univ. Würzburg
Daniela Dorner, Univ. Würzburg
Duy Hoang, Univ. Hamburg
Eduardo Ros, MPIfR Bonn
Etienne Bonnassieux, Univ. Würzburg
Gaëtan Fichet de Clairfontaine, Univ. de València
Hrishikesh Digambar Shetgaonkar, Univ. Würzburg
Jörn Wilms, Remeis Observatory
Karl Mannheim, Univ. Würzburg
Kiara Hervella Seoane, Univ. de València
Léna Jlassi, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Luca Ricci, Univ. Würzburg
Manel Perucho Pla, Univ. de València
Marcus Brüggen, Univ. Hamburg
Matthias Kadler, Univ. Würzburg
Meenakshi, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Michael Janssen, Radboud Univ.
Michael Zacharias, LSW Univ. Heidelberg
Paola Grandi, INAF-OAS Bologna
Patrick Günther, Univ. Würzburg
Rainer Weinberger, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Ravi Pratap Dubey, MPIfA Heidelberg
Sara Buson, Univ. Würzburg
Sarah Wagner, Univ. Würzburg
Thomas Dauser, Remeis Observatory and Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg
Vieri Bartolini, MPIfR Bonn

Preliminary programme of the assembly:

Wednesday, 12 March 2025:

09:00 – 10:00:

Arrival, orientation, welcoming

10:00 – 12:30:

PI-intern discussion round and hackathon for non-PI scientists

12:30 – 14:00:

Lunch time

14:00 – 14:15:

Opening by Matthias Kadler

14:15 – 15:15:

Session 1 – Presentations with Q&A

15:15 – 16:00:

Silencium time – 45 minutes for power working

16:00 – 16:45:

Coffee break

16:45 – 17:45:

Session 2 – Presentations with Q&A

17:45 – 18:15:

Break

18:15 – 19:00:

Departure for restaurant

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19:00 – open end:

Dinner at restaurant

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Thursday, 13 March 2025:

09:30 – 10:30:

Session 3 – Presentations with Q&A

10:30 – 10:40:

Taking of conference picture

10:40 – 12:00:

Session 4 – EDI workshop

12:00 – 13:30:

Lunch time

13:30 – 15:30:

Time for flexible discussion rounds (e.g. synergy-group meetings)

15:30 – 16:15:

Coffee break

16:15 – 17:15:

Session 5 – Presentations with Q&A

17:15 – 18:00:

Silencium time – 45 minutes for power working

18:00 – 18:30:

Break

18:30 – 19:00:

Departure for restaurant

tba

19:00 – open end:

Dinner at restaurant

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Friday, 14 March 2025:

09:30 – 11:00:

Session 6 – EDI workshop

11:00 – 11:45:

Coffee break

11:45 – 12:45:

Session 7 – Presentations with Q&A

12:45 – 13:30:

Silencium time – 45 minutes for power working

13:30 – 14:30:

Lunch time

14:30 – 15:30:

Time for flexible discussion rounds (e.g. synergy-group meetings)

15:30 – 17:00:

PI-intern discussion round and hackathon for non-PI scientists

17:00:

Farewell and departure

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