Programme Overview

Symposia (may include blocks during lunch)

•  S1 : Gaia: The (TWO) Billion Star Galaxy Census: Anticipating the Leap in Understanding of Planets, Stars, the Milky Way with Gaia DR4
•  S2 : XRISM and friends: the sharpest view of the X-ray Universe
•  S3 : Young Stars and Clusters
•  S4 : Setting the stage for planet formation: the importance of the environment for the evolution of protoplanetary discs
•  S5 : Binary Stellar Interactions and Their Outcomes
•  S6 : The future of visible/infrared High-Angular Resolution Astronomy in Europe
•  S7 : Novel probes for dark matter on galactic scales
•  S8 : Cosmic Chemical Enrichment: A tale of stars and galaxies
•  S9 : Stellar Ages Across the Cosmos: Unveiling the Chronology of the Universe
•  S10 : Science with gravitational lensing in the multi space-telescope era: new prospects and opportunities
•  S11 : European astronomy: science vision beyond 2040
•  S12 : Understanding and Interpreting Massive Black Holes in the Early Universe
•  S13 : Globular Clusters: Exploring Multiple Stellar Populations at the Frontier of Spectroscopy, Photometry, and Dynamics
•  S14 : New Frontiers in Characterising Gas-Giant Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs
•  S15 : The changing macrocosm of astroinformatics : big data, artificial intelligence, statistical inference, challenges, and more

Special Sessions (may include blocks during lunch)

•  SS1 : PLATO's Prospects in Exoplanet and Stellar Science
•  SS2 : A space telescope to rule them all: results from Euclid's first 50 square degrees and challenges ahead
•  SS3 : The chemistry of planet formation
•  SS4 : The future of terrestrial exoplanet characterization
•  SS5 : The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: a European pathway from First Look to data flows
•  SS6 : A panoptic view of the solar neighborhood: new insights into the nearest ISM laboratory.
•  SS7 : WST: the Wide-field spectroscopic facility.
•  SS8 : Astrochemical Horizons: From Galaxies to Comets
•  SS9 : Massive Stars and their Diverse Transients
•  SS10 : Metals and dust enrichment across cosmic epochs: models and observations
•  SS11 : JWST Data Pipeline
•  SS12 : The Future of Scientific Publishing: Strategies and Challenges for Astronomy
•  SS13 : Highly magnetised neutron stars under the spotlight
•  SS14 : Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast X-ray Transients in the SVOM and Einstein Probe Era
•  SS15 : Timing, spectroscopic, and polarimetric properties of weakly magnetized neutron stars
•  SS16 : A new picture of galaxy evolution from Cosmic Dawn to Cosmic Noon: after the first years of JWST operation and towards the ELT
•  SS17 : The Galactic Center: Multiscale and Multiphysics Evolution through Multiwavelength Observations
•  SS18 : The rise and fall of dust in SNRs, in AGB stars and in the ISM
•  SS19 : Galaxies and ICM across the protocluster to cluster transition
•  SS20 : Polarimetry of young stellar objects: instrumentation, observations and models
•  SS21 : Stellar magnetism and its effects on the planetary environment: from solar-like stars to ultracool dwarfs
•  SS22 : Modelling the first billion years
•  SS23 : The very high energy view on massive stellar ecosystems
•  SS24 : Compact binary millisecond pulsars and the growing spider web
•  SS25 : Overfed Giants: Early Universe and Observational Cosmology with the ELTs
•  SS26 : Quasar spectroscopy dissecting the Reionization epoch: XQR-30 and beyond
•  SS27 : Unleashing the Power: Linking the Small and the Large in Multi-phase AGN Outflows
•  SS28 : The Outer Solar System in its Stellar Environment - in Large Surveys Area
•  SS29 : Accretion Bursts in Protostars: Illuminating the Path of Star Formation
•  SS30 : A Multi-scale Perspective on Stellar Feedback in the Context of Galaxy Evolution
•  SS31 : Numerical models of extreme stellar explosions: bridging the gap between the central engine and the emission region
•  SS32 : Probing the dynamics of galactic nuclei with nuclear transients.
•  SS33 : A bright future for UV astronomy
•  SS34 : XMXS 2025: Extreme Matter in Extreme Stars
•  SS35 : Cracking Cosmic Collisions: Cutting-Edge Tools to study galaxy mergers
•  SS36 : From giants to dwarfs: unveiling stellar and AGN feedback in the first 3 Gyr of the Universe
•  SS37 : A multi-wavelength journey through the realm of high-mass X-ray binaries the missing link to compact mergers
•  SS38 : A bright future for Far-Infrared Astrophysics in Europe
•  SS39 : The magnetised Universe from galaxies to cosmic voids in the SKA & CTAO era
•  SS40 : Gamma-ray astronomy breakthroughs: New insights in the extreme universe
•  SS41 : Urgent Atomic and Molecular Data Needs for Astronomy and Astrophysics
•  SS42 : Kilonovae: What do we know and what else can observations of kilonovae tell us?
•  SS43 : Novae: From Accretion to Post-Eruption Phenomena
•  SS44 : The HRMOS instrument: very high spectral resolution combined with multi-object capabilities
•  SS45 : Early Career Astronomers and their supporters
•  SS46 : Is balancing mental health, care and research work possible in Astronomy and Space Science?
•  SS47 : Beyond awareness: Reducing the carbon footprint of European astronomy
•  SS48 : European-African collaboration for the construction and support of existing and future African astronomical facilities
•  SS49 : European Forum of Astronomical Communities
•  SS50 : Cancelled
•  SS51 : An Intersectional Approach to EDI Strategies
•  SS52 : The Legacy of the IAU-GA 2024 for Africa-Europe Collaborations in Astronomy
•  SS53 : Dust, Gas and Planets in Debris Disk Systems

Lunch Sessions (single-block session during lunch)

•  LS1 : The ESA Science programme
•  LS2 : The ESA Space Science Archives
•  LS3 : The SKA Observatory: preparing the community for SKA science
•  LS4 : Engaging the European public with the wonder of upcoming solar eclipses
•  LS5 : Getting the most out of ESO data: a hands-on session on the ESO Science Archive and data processing tools
•  LS6 : The ALMA 2030 Wideband Sensitivity Upgrade: status update
•  LS7 : Your science with the VLTI: easier than you think!
•  LS8 : Reimagining Astronomy Education in Europe
•  LS9 : Astronomy on Tap Europe Lunch Session
•  LS10 : Classical Astronomical Observatories and UNESCO World Heritage

Please refer to the dedicated pages on Plenary Lectures

• Opening ceremony (Mon 11:00)
• EAS General Assembly (Wed 12:00)
• Closing ceremony (Fri 12:30)

• EAS Council meeting 1 (Mon 13:15–14:45)
• EAS Council meeting and ASTRONET (Tue 13:15–14:45)
• EAS Affiliated Societies: business lunch (Wed 13:15–14:45)
• EAS Council meeting 2 (Thu 13:15–14:45)