The goal of this Symposium is to highlight the bright future of UV Astronomy, with the STIS and COS onboard HST remaining currently the most powerful instruments, and the AstroSat mission providing capabilities.Two breakthrough missions are to be launched in the near future. The UltraSat mission is devoted to bright impulsive events in the UV domain and set for a launch in 2027, while UVEX has been recently selected for a launch in 2030 by NASA and plan to provide unprecedented capabilities in the UV domain by performing deep surveys and relatively high resolution spectroscopy simultaneously in both the NUV and FUV domains. The international Habitable Worlds Observatory will completely revolutionise the field later on in the future, with a launch currently expected in 2040. Since UV observations are of primary importance for several astrophysical domains, our aim is to prepare the broad community of European astronomers interested in UV to imagine the science questions that will be addressed tomorrow with these new missions, and support the establishment of an UVEX European Support Center which set-up is starting in 2025.

Programme

• Upcoming UV missions and their legacy data sets
• Interstellar medium, star formation, and (binary) stellar physics
• Probing the explosive and transient Universe in UV
• Galaxy evolution in UV, from local galaxies to the distant Universe

Invited speakers

To be confirmed

• Prof. Fiona Harrison (Caltech)
• Prof. Ana Gomez de Castro (Madrid)
• Prof. Paul Crowther (Sheffield)
• Prof. Kevin France (Boulder)
• Prof. Maria Drout (Toronto)
• Prof. Kanak Saha (IUCAA, Pune, India)

Scientific organisers

• Anne Verhamme (University of Geneva)
• Hugues Sana (KU Leuven)
• Ylva Götberg (Institute of Science and technology Austria (ISTA))
• Marc Audard (University of Geneva)
• Julia Bodensteiner (University of Amsterdam)
• Boris Gaensicke (Warwick University)

Contact

anne.verhamme @ unige.ch